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From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Problems with mail on AIX 3.2
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:20:33 GMT
Reply-To: chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran)
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division

In article <jsantos.721429046@godzilla>, jsantos@godzilla.ma30.bull.com (James Santos) writes:
|> 
|>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
|> bellmail: failed to create lock file /usr/spool/mail/jsantos.lock after 100 tri
|> es
|> 554 <jsantos@holodeck.ma30.bull.com>... unknown mailer error 2
|> 
|> Anyone have any idea why this is happening.  I'm running AIX 3.2 on a
|> RS6000 Model 320H.
First guess is that the filesystem is full. /usr/spool/mail is linked
to /var. See what its free space is.
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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: RS/6000 Processor
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 09:37:04 PST
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
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In article <1992Nov19.015706.19121@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au> (comp.unix.aix), Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> Does anyone have a good reference to RS/6000 assembly language
>  programming?

The entire assembly language programming manual is available on the InfoExplorer
CD.  Choose the "list of manuals" option and the assembler manual is about
two-thirds of the way down the list.

  -mel

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From: shoens@rufus.almaden.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH 6.7.2 for AIX 3.2
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:45:13 GMT
Reply-To: shoens@almaden.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

James R. Hamilton ...

> One thing that I have seen cause inc to slow down is failure of the LAN.

My theory is that inc is trying to figure out what your host name is so
that it can annotate articles that you sent differently.  If it can't
get to the name server, you experience a long delay.
--
Kurt Shoens
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: chukran@cactus.org (Rudy E. Chukran)
Subject: Re: RS6000 almost stops with heavy disk access.
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:01:06 GMT

In article <199211171808.AA15477@cc.ysu.edu> JOAOLSD@vm1.sdi.uam.es (Joao Luis Silva Damas) writes:
>Hi,
>we have two rs6000 (a 320H and 340) being used by different kinds of users.
>Some of them do large molecular calculations which create HUGE (600-700 MB) tem
>porary files for the molecular integrals. When their program begins writing the
>se huge files and then reading them as needed, our machines almost stop and oth
>er users are almost unable to use the system. The slowness means 30-60 sec to l
>ogon, 1 minute for X windows to create a new window, a long time for even an ls
>, etc. Most other users do a lot of editing so they actually need better respon
>se time from the machine.
>Is there anyway to correct this situation (besides killing those huge calculati
>ons, of course)?

Lower the priority of the cruncher programs with nice or renice.

Look into using the I/O write queue length limitation feature. Ther is
a panel in SMIT to do this. However, describing how to do it here is quite
difficult.  Id suggest playing with some nonzero values and see if that helps.
Cant give you more info since Im not in front of my 6000 right now.

Add more memory.

Add faster disks or more disk arms and rearrange the files on those drives.

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From: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Subject: Re: determining if you are in an x-windows session
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:04:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.132809.10942@wap.oau.org> bdixon@wap.oau.org (Bill Dixon) writes:
>Very simply: is there any way to tell whether you are executing a program
>from within an x-windows session, as opposed to an ascii terminal?  The
>TERM environment variable may or may not be set to aixterm.

On some systems your 'tty' device will be different for different access
paths, e.g. console, network, or serial line.  Also, if X has been properly
initialized, the env var DISPLAY will be set to point to your display host.


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From: srao@beany.austin.ibm.com (Satish Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How to redirect outputs from the command "time" into a file?
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:16:04 GMT
Organization: "Personal Systems Programming, IBM Austin"

In article <1992Nov5.023656.1850@cs.tulane.edu> mt0lamg@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Louis X. Lee) writes:
>
>Hello, everyone:
>
>My first question is about saving outputs from the timing command
>"time" into a file. I tried "time a.out > a.time", but it did not
>work. How to capture the outputs into a file? ( I am running
>AIX3.2 on RS/6000 model 550).
 You are using the shell's builtin time command.  Run
 /bin/time a.out 2>a.time , or
 /bin/time a.out 1>a.time 2>&1 
>
>My second related question is about the meanings of the outputs
>from the command "time". I guess "real time" is real time, but what
>is "user time"? What is "system time"? InfoExplorer does not
>provide me with a satisfactory answer.
>
 user time -- Time spent in user mode
 System time -- Time spent in kernel mode

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From: cristy@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Cristy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Saving the GL window to an image file
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:48:17 GMT
Organization: DuPont Central Research & Development

I am looking for source code that will slurp in a GL window on the
RS/6000 and save it in an image file (XWD, PPM, etc).  If you have a
suggestion, please Email cristy@dupont.com.  Thanks in advance.
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From: cwright@mickey.WPI.EDU (Charles R. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Proper use of malloc/calloc/free
Date: 24 Nov 1992 02:53:19 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mickey.wpi.edu


Hi,

Either I am grossly misunderstanding the use of malloc/calloc and
free, or there's something wrong...

I do a lot of numerical programming.  I use the "Numerical Recipes in
C" method of allocating arrays for data, and this has been quite
successful for me.  Recently, folks in our lab got very wary of the
use of malloc, and decided calloc was better.  Apparently, it has to
do with calloc actually needing to access all the elements of the
allocated memory in order to zero them, where malloc simply hands you
a pointer - no other accesses of the memory.  The fear is that malloc
will give you a pointer to memory that may not even be all there...

Well, in the blessed man pages it says that "the free subroutine frees
a block of memory previously allocated by the malloc subroutine."  It
says this for AIX (3.2, RS 6000), and it says something similar on an
Ultrix machine.

Excuse me though, what's the proper way to free memory allocated by
calloc???  I've been using calloc and free together anyway, in spite
of the man page.  But now, I'm noticing (using that great "monitor"
program) that memory use in my large numerical program is a
monotonically increasing function!  So it seems that the calls to free
are no-ops!

Someone please explain.

Thanks a million,

Charles Wright        Research Assistant, Machine Vision Lab, ECE Dept.
cwright@ee.wpi.edu    De facto system manager for an IBM RS-6000
     "To have so many windows on my screen, I lose consciousness"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Subject: Re: print problems with AIX 3.2
NntpPostingHost: cdsac
Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:29:00 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA

In article <1992Nov17.020401.12312@colorado.edu> millert@nordsieck.cs.Colorado.EDU (Todd C. Miller) writes:
>1) printing to a local printers works, but we get a banner page even
>	though /etc/qconfig explicately says not to use banner pages.

This only occured on our systems with a relatively recent PTF. I have
a PMR open into IBM on this, and will post IBM's response, once I get
one...

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: 220 printing is a dog
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:19:43 GMT


In article <1992Nov19.232014.23938@selway.umt.edu>, mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
|> I have an RS/6000 220 (AIX 3.2.0) to which I attached a
|> color postscript printer via the parallel port. When
|> this thing is sending a job to the printer, it is virtually
|> dead in the water. Admittedly, color postscript files are
|> large, but there must be some way of arbitrating things
|> so that the machine remains in a reasonably useful state
|> while printing (the 220 has 32MB of memory and a local disk).
|> 
|> Any suggestions on how I can try to deal with this?
|> 
|>  *************************************************************************
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|> 
What about your swap partition? Space enough?
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From: josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose A. Vela A.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Other Shells available for AIX?
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:43:11 GMT
Organization: I.T.E.S.M. Campus Monterrey



 You also could get it from : mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx in pub/unix/tcsh.aix-3.2

 and it has the little hack (fix) for the hanging processes :)

 Enjoy it

 
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From: fisk@cvdv73.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk)
Subject: x3270 V1.3 IS working on AIX!
Reply-To: fisk@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:10:59 GMT


The problem I was having dealt with the BLOCK mode vs. LINE mode data.  x3270
v1.2 WILL NOT work with LINE mode data.  I was able to pick up the beta version
of x3270 1.3 which now handles the LINE mode data and works wonderfully well!

Tom.
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From: shengj@acf3.nyu.edu (Jonathan J. Sheng)
Subject: Help! Urgent!
Keywords: crash
Organization: New York University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:57:57 GMT

Hi, our ibm540(aix3.1.5) crashed this morning. The machine is stuck with
flashing 888 on LED after 551 in booting process. After retrieving the 
crash code and dump status code according operator guid, we powered off the
machine and rebooted it again and it was stuck at the same point.
The crash code is 300 and dump status code is 0c4 which represent 'data 
storage interrupt from the processor' and 'dump did not complete' according
to ibm manu.
When 551 appears in the booting process, there are some strange sound, which
may signal disk failure. So we run diagnotics, and get following error message:

The SRN 953-112: disgnostic test failed
-100% hdisk1 00-08-00-10 320MB SCSI Disk Drive

Could somebody tell us:
1. How to reboot the machine?
2. After rebooting, what is the first to check?

Jonathan J. Sheng
Theoretical Chemistry, NYU
212-9988439
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From: bguest@ateam.ems.cdc.com (Brandon Guest)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: XL Fortran Run-Time Requirements
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:18:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of Control Data

We are developing several FORTRAN applications for the RS/6000 using
the XL Fortran V2 Compiler.  To execute these applications on a 
workstation which does not have the compiler installed we have been
using the XL Fortran Run-Time stuff.

I have several questions concerning the use of XL Fortran:

1)  Can I statically link the run-time modules in on the machine
	I develop and build these applications so that a Run-Time
	license is not required on the machines I wish to execute them
	on?

2)  Assuming this is possible, can anyone give me an estimate on the
    extra resources which  would be required (e.g. additional
	memory requirements, etc.).

Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.  Email responses
would be preferred.

Thanks!

Brandon
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From: dkf@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Donald French)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: HELP!!!  Our RS6k is dead!
Summary: Flashing 552
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:17:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


Help!!!  I need help getting our RS6k back up.  IBM has been no help
so far, thus I was hoping the net would fill in what IBM can't.  Here's
my story:

Last night we powered down our rs6000 to do a little disk moving.  We
have 2 SCSI channels and wanted to split our disks across them.  Before
I did anything else, I did a mksysb backup (thru smit).  After the backup
I exported the vg (chemvg) which was a 2 disk vg.  I was going to split 
this VG across both SCSI channels and thought this would be safest.  Well
I guess I was wrong because we are now stuck.

To continue, after exporting the VG we shutdown.  I then moved one of the
SCSI disks on scsi0 to scsi1.  I also added a new disk to scsi1.  This left
a configuration of scsi0: rootvg (hdisk0), uservg (hdisk1), chemvg (hdisk2)
		   scsi1: chemvg (hdisk3), scratchvg (hdisk4), ??? (hdisk5)
Or at least this is what I expected when I rebooted.  Well, it wouldn't
reboot!  I finally had to go into MAINT mode where I executed 'getrootfs'
It returned a list of hdisks it new about, saying that hdisk3 was bootable.
Now this should have been hdisk0!

After further examination we discovered that scsi0 was now scsi1 and vise
versa.  We have tried many things from booting the mksysb we made and
restoring rootvg to clear nvram (which we are now running diags on).
We have also done 'getrootfs hdisk3' and tried working with the files
on the rootvg.  getrootfs never does complete properly, but it acts the
same whether we boot from our mksysb or the v3.2.2 install tape.

I would like to point out that we were getting a flashing 517 as the stop
point just before we cleared nvram and tried rebooting, thus receiving
the stuck 552.   For the life of me I can't understand why it wants to 
boot from the network.  But that is now gone.

I remeber hearing something a while back about a script out of defect 
support that allowed one to prune the ODM.  I would like to find it so
I can basically redefine my disks (which according to one of my manuals--
General Concepts and Procedures??-- that the hdisk number should never
change no matter where the disk is moved on the system as long as it has
a PV Id# that is unique or is bootable.  WHat gives?

Sorry for the long message, but I am very frustrated.  I have been here all
night, and when my boss and I tried to get help out of Austin they sent us
to our SE.  What a joke.  Our SE left 5monthes ago.  He was replaced by a nice
lady who is an SE but in the mainframe area.  SHe has admitted tyhat she 
doesn't know AIX, which means we need help.  One local guy did call us back
on his vacation but he suggested a restore and then the ODM prune script,
that is if I can get it out of AUSTIN!

Any help will be much appriciated.

	Dave French
	dkfrench@ucsd
	(619)534-0204
From: procter@remarque.berkeley.edu (Steven Procter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RCS warning for AIX
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:19:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Originator: procter@remarque.berkeley.edu

If you install RCS on an aix machine, put the binaries somewhere other
than /usr/bin.

There is a shell script that is run at boot time, which tries to execute the
program /etc/merge.  It does not use an absolute path name, though, and 
has /usr/bin in its path before /etc.  So, if you install RCS in /usr/bin,
you will get the RCS merge instead of /etc/merge, and from our experience
this is not an acceptible substitution.

								Steven
From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ls problem
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:23:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: selway.1992Nov19.172355.29771
Organization: University of Montana

In article <1992Nov19.155036.2903@spss.com> brent@spss.com (Brent Lambert) writes:
>In article <Bxx8vz.KLq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, clee@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Cassian Lee) writes:
>> 
>> Keyword
>> 
>> I'm running AIX3.2, when I try to enter 'ls -lt|more', about 2 out of 5
>> times, the more command becomes a background process, and i get the following
>> message: 
>> 
>> Background write
>> [6] 20118 20119
>
>I have the same problem but don't have a solution.  I'd like to hear any
>suggestions.  The command I have the problem with is 'history -r | more',
>run by a csh alias.  It occurs with about the same frequency, too.  When I 
>check my active jobs, I see:
>
>The problem appears to be with more, but it may be more complicated.
>Any ideas out there?
>
This is supposedly a bug in csh at AIX 3.2. Call software support.
They sent me a ptf 1X451 to fix the problem. I haven't installed
it yet, so I don't know whether it works.


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From: YOUNG@tattoo.cs.widener.edu (Rob Young)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Zoo for AIX
Date: 23 Nov 92 05:21:10 GMT
Organization: Widener University Department of Computer Science, Chester PA
NNTP-Posting-Host: tattoo.cs.widener.edu
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

Has anyone got Zoo running for AIX?  A co-worker and myself tried getting it
going with several Makefile tweeks, no luck.  If you have been
successful, please e-mail me and I will summarize.  (I am not a frequent
reader of this group).

			Thank you,
				Rob
From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Sysvmm not releasing pages ?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:36:32 +0100
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France

Are there any known problems with 3.2(.0) memory manager not releasing pages.
After 24 days of activity, my 62 Mb swap went full. I killed all I can
specially the memory consuming stuff (inn, named, some over servers).
Stopped also nfs server.

The machine is now nearly idle, and still...

# lsps -a
Page Space  Physical Volume   Volume Group    Size   %Used  Active  Auto  Type
paging00    hdisk1            extvg1          40MB      76     yes   yes    lv
hd6         hdisk0            rootvg          32MB      90     yes   yes    lv

(16 Mb of real memory).

I remember that with 3.1.1 (and a restart every day or so) but its the
first time I get into the same trouble with 3.2 !

Any clues ?

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From: bell@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: print problems with AIX 3.2
Date: 20 Nov 1992 14:45:32 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: asdsun.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Nov20.081706.24108@aragorn.unibe.ch>, haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener) writes:
|> APAR IX29407 (header = never in /etc/qconfig is ignored),
|> included in PTF U407164. As of new, that PTF does not include
|> the fix for qdaemon to stop it doing thousands of syscalls a sec yet.
|> It does solve the banner page problem.

IBM told me today (11/20/92) that PTF U409579 fixes the monster qdaemon
problem. This PTF was just made available yesterday. I'll post a followup after I apply the patch.

-----
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Subject: Re: Compiling Elm 2.3 on RS6000 (AIX 3.2)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:58:01 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Keywords: elm

In <1ei3mtINN77@agate.berkeley.edu> woan@soda.berkeley.edu (Ronald Woan) writes:

>In article <eoq.51.0@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu> eoq@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Edward Quillen) writes:
>>I just tried to compile Elm 2.3 but am getting compiler errors due to the
>>fact that redeclarations of common string macro appear in the code
>>like:
>>  char *strbrk();
>>
>>I get an error message from the cc compiler:
>>"addr_util.c", line 45.0: 1506-041 (S) Parameter list cannot contain 
>>               fewer parameters than required by macro definition.

>You might try a newer elm (general suggestion, nothing to with
>your problem), but give the bsdcc configuration a try from the 
>/usr/lpp/bos/bsdport (bsd something at least) document or look
>for the definition to bypass the macro definitions in string.h 
>file (has some underbars and STR in it).
>

I think that Elm 2.4 for AIX is available from ftp.itc.univie.ac.at:/pub/AIX
 
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