HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 Installation and Performance Reports Wanted
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:44:16 GMT


In article <1992Oct5.122501.621@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>, cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies) writes:
>
>It seems (from a really close read of the documentation) that 4.3
>installs a new version of sendmail and creates a new sendmail.cf for
>you. It would have been nice to have a warning (in large letters :-)
>that the new sendmail.cf may not be quite right...

Your warning is on page 1-7 of the Installation Guide, Table 1-1
"Names of Directories and File to Back Up".  If the installation
procedure itself were do such a warning, it would have print a
warning about EVERY FILE it was going to replace.  While sendmail.cf
may be interesting to you, /.mailrc may just as interesting to some-
one else.

>
>One question: How do I go about tuning my filesystems for the promised
>100% improvement? The manual suggests creating a 1Mb file and reading it
>back (stand alone) whilst varying the parameters. This may be OK on my
>personal system but having a production system down for a while for me
>to play seems a little extreme...

Do you have a spare partition on the production system?  Except
for the size of the buffer cache, which has been tunable since
V4.0 at least, the file system related changes can all be done
with tunefs(8) and don't need a reboot.  The simplest way to get
the improvement is to use the -a option to increase maxcontig.
Of course it may depend on the system and I/O subsystem that
you're using.

>
>-- 
>  Huw Davies           | Huw.Davies@latrobe.edu.au
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Programming LAT under Ultrix
Date: 3 Oct 92 12:50:36 GMT
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Sep30.173525.15454@e3u001.ped.pto.ford.com>, cannell@ed8217.ped.pto.ford.com (Larry Cannell) writes:
|>This is probably something that can't be done but...
|>
|>Is there an API to get ahold of LAT network information?  Specifically, I
|>am looking for a way to get ahold of LAT service announcements.  I would like
|>to use this information to dynamically change my BIND database to implement
|>a pseudo-load balancing scheme for Telnet connections.

The ULTRIX LAT software does not contain this functionality.  But this could
be done using the packet filter.  But that means one needs to know the format
of a service announcement and that is not documented or available from Digital
(unless you are willing to fork lots of $$ for a LAT license).
--
Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
Littleton, MA                               warped views, etc.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.vms
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: news readers for the mac
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:12:38 GMT

mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Mark Van Overbeke) writes:
> Does anyone out there have any pointers to a good newsreader for the
> Mac?

YOu should really be posting to comp.sys.mac.comm instead of here.  In any
case, here are the two which are worthwhile.  Look for them in:

	ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/newswatcher/
	frederik.ruc.dk:/pub/Nuntius/

--
hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Geek for Swarthmore College        :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, US.       Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.                    All Rights Reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: sjg@phsun.ph.kcl.ac.uk (Simon Gornall.)
Subject: strange df results
Organization: King's College London
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 18:23:09 GMT
X-Posted-From: phsun.ph.kcl.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

--------
Anyone know what the following results signify  on typing 'df' in the normal way...

/dev/rz2a                19743   10799    6970    61%   /
/dev/rz2g               294518  220623   44444    83%   /usr
/dev/rz2d                29199   21732    4548    83%   /var
/dev/rz3c              1347765  807227  405762    67%   /usr/local
phwoof:/data            562190    8238  497733     2%   /data
                             0       0       0     0%   
                             0       0       0     0%   

Where is it getting the information for the filesystems with  0 0 0 0 from :-) 
(If we've got extra disks hanging around I want to know about it ....)

This is running on a DEC 5000/133 with Ultrix 4.3 (or 4.2a + all patches).

All help gratefully recieved 

Simon.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.wizards
From: jch@rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
Subject: Re: Inodes in short supply.  Why?
Keywords: inodes,lack,thereof
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:40:06 GMT

Typically, to get the number of inodes up enough you'll need
to reduce the number of cylinders per cylinder group.  We run
with 8 cylinders per cylinder group instead of the normal 16 on
our news disk to get enough inodes.

-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
Digital				<jch@rdg.dec.com>
Reading, England		<...!uknet!wessex!jch>

----------------------------------------------------------------
The opinions expressed herein are my own, not my employers.
From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Automatic spin-up on power-on for an RZ25...
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:56:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd.1992Oct5.195600.4319
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <GOTTLIEB.92Oct5141211@allan.ultra.nyu.edu>, gottlieb@allan.ultra.nyu.edu (Allan Gottlieb) writes:
|>I would love to do the same with the RZ55.  At first glance it looks
|>like there is no such jumper but I am hoping someone's second glance
|>will prove me wrong.

The RZ55 requires the use the rzdisk command under ULTRIX.  Just since it's
usually in an external box, it's easier to modify than a RZ2x drive.

Do (as root): rzdisk -c ask /dev/rrz?c

and it will eventually ask about the spin up bit...
--
Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
Littleton, MA                               warped views, etc.
From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 for DECstation (RISC) - when?
Date: 2 Oct 92 05:15:11 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

From article <1992Sep22.133259.6051@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, by thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas):
> 
> All the LAT/lpd/tty patches got into V4.3.  But I have no doubt that there
> will be patches for V4.3 as some customer finds a bug.  But I wouldn't mind
> being disapointed.

	What about the patches for pfilt.o and net_common.o ???
-- 
Mark Garrett	Internet:  mark@arvak.une.edu.au	Phone: 	+61 66 20 3859
   University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
From: mla@enea.se (Mats L|fstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Looking for core dumper/stack tracer.
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:52:15 GMT
Reply-To: mla@enea.se (Mats L|fstr|m)
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
Uucp-Path: mcvax!kth!sunic!enea.se!mla


I'm looking for two things, both to be used on DEC/MIPS.

First, I'd like something working like SunOs gcore, i.e. a program
that, given a pid, creates a core dump of a running program, without
disturbing it.

Second, I'd like some source code to put in an application. I want to
be able to create a readable stack trace, preferably on disk.

Anyone out there that have such beauties?

	Thanx in advance!

	mla

Real life: Mats Lofstrom (actualy, there's supposed to be dots above the o's)
Email: mla@enea.se
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: gleeson@rook.dec.com (Sue Gleeson)
Subject: Re: Postscript printing problems to LN03R
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:09:07 GMT


In article <137363@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, neal@ngmvax.nersc.gov (Neal Mackanic) writes...
> 
>Hello,
> 
>	We are seeing intermittent problems with the printing of Postscript
>files to our LN03R from our ULTRIX machine.  Sometimes a file prints, and
>sometimes it doesn't.  Sometimes the header page prints, and sometimes it
>doesn't.  This is very frustrating.
>	We are sending the files from the ULTRIX machine over LAT to a 
>Decserver which has the LN03R connected to it.  After a lot of testing, I 
>believe the problem is in the ULTRIX system.  If anyone has a similar
>configuration, would you please send me a copy of your /etc/printcap entry.
>Maybe we are missing something in our printcap.  If anyone has seen similar
>problems and found solutions, please let me know.  
> 
>			Thanks,
>			Neal Mackanic
>			mackanic@nersc.gov

Neal,                                           

There have been a series of patches issued for lpd, many specifically to
address problems with lat-connected printers.  I suggest you contact your
support person (or Customer Support Center, whichever -- I'm really unclear on
that particlar process!) and get all the patches that have been released to
date.  Hopefully your problem has been fixed.


Sue Gleeson				gleeson@rook.enet.dec.com
PrintServer Systems Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation
Westford, MA
From: seaney@engr.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DEC Dat Drive Capacity
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:06:50 GMT
Organization: Univ of Wisconsin Madison


 
We recently installed a DAT drive sold by Dec -- tz05 I think (It's not if
front of me).  Using a 90m dat tape I dumped 1.3Gig last night.  Our salesman
told us we should be able to dump in the area of 4Gig due to compression
software built into the drive.

The book that comes with the DAT says that using /dev/nrmt0h will automatically
enable the compression software.  Is this true?  What results can we expect
from the drive?

The dump command we used was:
	dump 0nudsf 61000 114880 /dev/nrmt0h /dev/rz2c

BTW -- We are using a DecStation 5000/125 with 4.2a.

Steve
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
Subject: Re: Distribution List for DEC System Adminstrations.
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:11:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.163015.26874@e2big.mko.dec.com>, francus@e2big.mko.dec.com (Yoseff Francus) writes:
>
>No such list exists.

Not true, as has already been pointed out.

>In addition to official system managers many people manage their own
>workstations. So such a list is not very feasible, and would be out of date
>very quickly. 

I'm not sure how a mailing list can be "out of date".  The
decstation-managers mailing list is a rapid-turnaround vehicle for Ultrix
(and maybe OSF/1 someday) administrators to reach a pool of people with
similar expertise who might be able to help them resolve a problem they're
having.  There's no discussion on the list--just questions and summaries of
responses to those questions.

To join the list, send a request to decstation-managers-request@ornl.gov.

-- 
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)           For every Bill Joy there is a Kirk McKusick.
Martin Marietta Energy Systems     For every Bill Gates there is a Richard
Workstation Support                Stallman.                     --Paul Graham
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Mark Van Overbeke)
Subject: lpd stream printing
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:13:52 GMT

Ultrix world!

  I have been looking around for something to show me how to set up a
printer that sits on a terminal server.  This terminal server does not
understand lpd.  It will though allow a stream lpr connection to a
specific port where the printer is attached.  I want this thing to be
tcp and not lat.  I am able to do it with Multinet on VMS, but I can't
find a way to make Ultrix do it with the printcap entry.  Did I miss
something somewhere?  Any pointers and leads are greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

-- 
Mark Van Overbeke                   Systems Software Programmer
Computing Services                  BITNET:    Mark@UMNMOR.BITNET   (VMS)
University of Minnesota, Morris     INTERNET:  Mark@caa.mrs.umn.edu (VMS) 
Morris, MN   56267           (612) 589-6378    mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Ultrix)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cannell@ed8217.ped.pto.ford.com (Larry Cannell)
Subject: Programming LAT under Ultrix
Organization: Powertrain Electronics, Ford Motor Co.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:35:25 GMT

This is probably something that can't be done but...

Is there an API to get ahold of LAT network information?  Specifically, I
am looking for a way to get ahold of LAT service announcements.  I would like
to use this information to dynamically change my BIND database to implement
a pseudo-load balancing scheme for Telnet connections.

--
Larry Cannell (cannell@ed8200.ped.pto.ford.com)
Powertrain Electronics
Ford Motor Company
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dxterm
Keywords: dxmert problem
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:02:42 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <774@jahangir.UUCP>, wayne@jahangir.UUCP (wayne) writes:

|>      If I 
|>run it as myself it refuses to accept any input whatsoever. If I 
|>run as root it behaves as expected.

dxterm, like xterm, needs to be a setuid root program.  Check the
permission on the executable: it's probably wrong.

					Frank
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 1992 15:15:33 PST
From: Tim Streater   (415) 926-2743 <STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: compose key and ALT key mixup ??

I have a new DECstation 5000/240, and now is the moment to configure it right.
I have installed 4.2C. When I run notepad, I find that instead of doing ALT/O
for open, or ALT/S for save, I do COMPOSE/O or COMPOSE/S. Well this in itself
doesn't bother me too much, but hitting COMPOSE puts the keyboard into compose
mode (whatever that means) and the next two or so characters get eaten. This is
very tedious. What do I have to do to make notepad and anything else use ALT
instead of COMPOSE?

Thx - Tim.
From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 for DECstation (RISC) - when?
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:59:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd.1992Oct6.205954.11344
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <dittrich.718393705@milton>, dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) writes:
|>>Yes they did get included *but* net_common.o has bug which prevents it from
|>>working with DECnet-OSI for ULTRIX.  (actually, any 802.3 packet is dropped).
|>>There is yet another patched version of net_common.o available to fix this.
|>
|>I just want to say "thank you" for letting me know that there is yet
|>another packet filter problem with Ultrix 4.3 BEFORE we upgrade and lose
|>the ability to use CAP *again* (happened from 4.0 to 4.1, from 4.1 to
|>4.2, and looks like it might again from 4.2 to 4.3).  I will just sit and
|>wait for some other poor slob to find out if the edge is in fact still
|>bleeding or not (twice is enough for me).  Not a good situation when
|>there aren't that many folks using CAP with direct Ethertalk Phase II,
|>but I'm tired of being an unknowing beta tester.

|>Perhaps DECs new management will get the message that LAT and DECnet
|>aren't the only protocols that their packet filters should support
|>because DEC isn't the only place we get our software from.  We rely
|>VERY heavily on CAP, Utah DUMP, and POP3 for supporting Macs, and have
|>to keep things running.  An OS upgrade is a bad thing to have to fear.
|>It forces you to live with other bugs, and makes life hell when you
|>switch over;  Really makes you regret having bought someone's hardware
|>sometimes.

Then you should be quite happy.  The packetfilter functionality works just
fine in V4.3 -- except that it breaks application that use DLI for 802 LLC
communications.  It so happens that DECnet-OSI for ULTRIX is one of those
applications.

And by the way, LAT and DECnet don't the packet filter.  LAT uses a direct
ifnet interface as does DECnet Phase IV (ie. DECnet-ULTRIX V4.2 runs just
fine on ULTRIX V4.3) and DLI.  DECnet-OSI for ULTRIX uses a kernel interface
to DLI instead of going through the ifnet interface.

The packet filter uses a "hook" in net_read() and a standard ifnet interface
for output.
--
Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
Littleton, MA                               warped views, etc.
From: robm@ataraxia.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DAT tapes -- where to get?
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:06:14
Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: ataraxia.berkeley.edu

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best place in the Bay Area
to purchase DAT tapes?  They seem to be awfully hard to find.  (I'm
assuming here that audio-quality DAT tapes are not compatible or
recommended for data use.  Any comments on this are also welcome.)

This is for a DEC TLZ04 drive.

Thanks for any suggestions,

-Rob
--
Rob McNicholas     	    Technical & Computing Services, EECS, U.C. Berkeley
robm@ataraxia.berkeley.edu  Voice: 510/642-8633  FAX: 510/643-7846
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Subject: Re: More info for LAT Connections
Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 00:11:56 GMT


In article <senetza.718057447@honte>, senetza@sigma.uleth.ca (Len Senetza) writes:
|>On VMS, our system people can get lots of info about what kind of connection
|>is comeing in.  They can see the type (STAR, LAT, etc.) as well as the port.
|>On Ultrix, I can see the type, but not the port.  Is there anything out there
|>which will show me the port?

lcp -p will show you the server and port of a connected terminal (unless its
used for an application server, then which the port is used for a different
purpose).

The reason why "who" or "w" or "finger" doesn't show the port is that the
utmp/wtmp only have a single 16 byte field to store the remote source in.
(much as the VMS CTL$T_NODENAME P1 field is 6 bytes).  It can't be changed
without breaking everything.  Sigh.  So I had the choice of the server or port
and I felt the server name was more important.
--
Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@lkg.dec.com
DECnet-ULTRIX Development       UUCP:       ...!decwrl!thomas
Digital Equipment Corporation   Disclaimer: This message reflects my own
Littleton, MA                               warped views, etc.
From: mcdonald@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au (Ian McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Lost control of Mail print queue under motif
Date: 6 Oct 92 05:14:04 GMT
Reply-To: mcdonald@sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au (Ian McDonald)
Organization: University of South Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: sacomm.schulz.unisa.edu.au


Dear all,

Under DECwindows, dxmail would allow me to print messages on the
nearest printer if I had the following in my .Xdefaults:

Mail*PrintCommand:              lpr -Pps >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

Since I upgraded to motif 1.1.3 (Ultrix 4.2a) this setting no longer
seems to be noticed - everything is sent to lp.  I haven't been able
to find anything in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults to help.

Can anyone please suggest how I can send a mail message to my ps printer?

Regards,

Ian McDonald
Information Technology Branch
University of South Australia
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 Installation and Performance Reports Wanted
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:02:46 GMT

cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies) writes:

>One question: How do I go about tuning my filesystems for the promised
>100% improvement?

	For most cases, rotdelay=0, maxcontig=8 should do the trick.
Since existing files have already been written out, read speeds won't
be improved, and depending on the free space on the file system,
write thruput may not always just give a flat 100%. There should be
some improvements measurable for NFS as well.

mjr.
-- 
	It is important to focus on writing software that is "adequate."
Having one's software be "good" or even "excellent" is over-rated. If
"good" were necessary or even important, DOS would not be the de facto
standard operating system.                          -notebooks of a heretic
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
Subject: Re: Looking for core dumper/stack tracer.
Organization: DEC Western Research
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 01:25:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.225215.16102@enea.se> mla@enea.se (Mats L|fstr|m) writes:
>First, I'd like something working like SunOs gcore, i.e. a program
>that, given a pid, creates a core dump of a running program, without
>disturbing it.

Actually, "gcore" was a BSD program (as far as I know), not original
with SunOS.  So, I ported it to Ultrix.  No guarantees; I was feeling
my way through the code.

Available via anonymous FTP on gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/gcore.shar

-Jeff
From: dsc@seismo.CSS.GOV (David S. Comay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: top barfs up process list on Ultrix 4.2 +FIX
Keywords: top patch process count bug
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:20:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: seismo.51272
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA


In article <9VWQBC9J@cc.swarthmore.edu>, hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
|> 
|> Latest is 3.0 at eecs.nwu.edu:/pub/top.  Make sure you have the patch to
|> m_ultrix4 from "David S. Comay" <dsc@seismo.CSS.GOV>.

here is the patch eiji mentioned ...

dsc

*** m_ultrix4.c.orig	Sat May 30 13:18:09 1992
--- m_ultrix4.c	Fri Sep 11 17:05:47 1992
***************
*** 424,430 ****
  	 *  status field.  Processes with SSYS set are system
  	 *  processes---these get ignored unless show_sysprocs is set.
  	 */
! 	if (pp->p_stat != 0 &&
  	    (show_system || ((pp->p_type & SSYS) == 0)))
  	{
  	    total_procs++;
--- 424,430 ----
  	 *  status field.  Processes with SSYS set are system
  	 *  processes---these get ignored unless show_sysprocs is set.
  	 */
! 	if (pp->p_stat != 0 && pp->p_stat != SIDL &&
  	    (show_system || ((pp->p_type & SSYS) == 0)))
  	{
  	    total_procs++;
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix