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From: lapresto@bme.ri.ccf.org (Eric LaPresto)
Subject: How to reset PROM on Decstation?
Organization: Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:17:07 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to *completely* reset the boot prom on a
DECstation 5000/240.  While at the boot prom ( >> ), I typed "setenv
console s", and ever since I haven't had any messages appear on the
workstation's monitor.  First, I don't understand why messages do not
appear, and second, is there a way to reset the boot prom to its
previous/original configuration (i.e. "setenv console *")?

Please email me.  Thanks!

Eric

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mlchu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ming-Li Chu)
Subject: SCSI DISK READ ERROR
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:02:13 GMT

	I got the following error message when I used zero level dump to
backup the /var filesystem of a Decstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.2.

SCSI bus 0: parity error (#1), ID=2
SII 0 regs: scl=11b  slcsr=2  destat=2  cstat=4460 dstat=721b comm=8061
SCSI bus 0: command aborted (#1), ID=2, cmd=0x8
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
DUMP: Disk read error on /dev/rrz2b at block 32976; request: 4096, got: -1
DUMP: Bread(): I/O error
TK50 unit5: harderr, SnsKey= NOT READY
DUMP: TAPE write error on Tape 1


	I am a novice system manager and in charge of two decstation of 
my advisor's lab.     I don't know what the problem is, 
not to mention how to solve it. The tape is ok since I used it to backup
other filesystems later, it worked just fine. I tried the dump procedure
several time, the error messages were the same except the block number of
the Disk read error line. Fsck didn't find any problem in the disk. 
Could some help me out? If it is a disk problem, how can I identify the 
bad block and fix it? 

Thanks a lot.

Ming-Li Chu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University
E-mail: 	chu@cmml.eng.ohio-state.edu
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 4.3 how do you convert .Xdefaults?
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:00:35 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <harris.722202606@drvax3>, harris@drvax3.msfc.nasa.gov (Mitch Harris) writes:

|>I just upgraded to 4.3 and noticed all of my users .Xdefaults files are
|>being ignored.

There isn't any "conversion" that I'm aware of.  Mine worked just fine.
There may be a specific subtle problem with your .Xdefaults files or your
system setup, but without more information, it's impossible to say.

						Frank
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM is really a pseudoterminal??
Keywords: Gak!  Ugh!  Pfui!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:28:50 GMT

smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
}rince@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (James Bonfield) writes:
}>smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
}> >     crw-rw-rw-  1 root     system    21,  42 Nov 11 17:28 /dev/ptyra
}> >     brw-------  1 root     system    21,  42 Jun  9 17:45 /dev/rz5c
}> > WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
}> Things are the same on the system I use - however, note that ptyra is a
}> character device and rz5c is a block device. My guess is that the two do not
}> cause any conflicts. Is this right?
}I did notice that one is a block device and one is a character device.
}However, pff obviously thinks they're equivalent.  Also, while I'm definitely
}no kernel hacker, I *thought* I understood that the major and minor numbers
}are all that the kernel actually uses to identify a device.  Aren't these
}numbers used to index a table of pointers to device driver routines?

Close.  There *are* two such tables "bdevsw[]" and "cdevsw[]" (block/char
device switch) which are indexed by the "major" device number only.
The "minor" number is generally passed to the routine extracted from the
table.  For example:

    error = (*cdevsw[major(u.u_ttyd)].d_ioctl)(u.u_ttyd, cmd, addr, flag);

If this "pff" thing thinks they are the same, it is brain-damaged.

John
-- 
John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Systems Software Engineer
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center  +  Ames, IA  50011  +  515/294-9551
From: opus@pioneer.unm.edu (Colby Kraybill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: automount, how to?
Date: 19 Nov 92 05:11:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Space and Planetary Image Facility


Hello,

I was wondering if anyone out there would help me with getting automount going.
I've gone through the man page several times and it is confusing and ugly at
best.


Anyways, if anyone would please go through a semi-step by step process of how
to, I would be very grateful.

- Colby Kraybill

-- 
Colby Kraybill
Space and Planetary Image Facility
University of New Mexico
opus@pioneer.unm.edu
From: beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Pictures on login screen
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:52:48 GMT
Reply-To: beck@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.


Hi,

as I see there is NEED of having a picture in the root login screen,
so I have to say:
With XUI and without DPS it seems that Xws DONT WANT TO DO IT.
Anything I tried failed, up to installing:
--------------------------------------------

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


main(argc,argv,envp)
int argc;
char **argv, **envp;
{int pid;

 if(pid=fork()) {
  wait(pid);
 }
 else
 {
 execle("/usr/X11R5/bin/xv",
        "xv", "-display", ":0", "-root", "-max", "-quit", (char *)NULL,
        envp);
 };
 argv[0] = "/usr/bin/Xprompter";
 execve("/usr/bin/Xprompter", argv, envp);
};
--------------------------------------------------
as the prompter in the /etc/ttys

The effect was that after a long while the pict appeared, but than Xws
seemed to get immediately restarted. The prompter never appeared.
After commenting out the forking part, it worked (without picture...)

My conclusion is, after startup Xws lets only ONE client in. If this one
doesn't authenticate itself as beeing the Xprompter, the whole thing fails.

OR

The Xprompter recognizes if he gets a "virgin" Xws and if not forces a
restart.. both for some security reasons.

If xprompter runs, he locks the Xws by a GrabServer, so you cannot display
anything then.

So my QUESTION to the X-DPS Gurus:

How can i display a picture in DPS directly to the device resolution ?
In other words, how to use the sreening routines of DPS to get the
image displayed directly, NOT rescaled redithered or what the hell else
PS does normally on Paper ?

Some time ago i read something about PostScript, so I think there is
a way to do it. BUT HOW ??

--
,------------------------+---------------------------------------------.
| Andre' Beck (ABPSoft)  |   TCP/IP-Mail: beck@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de |
| HG R 142               |   VMS        : hermes::beck                 |
+------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|       Windows is the best placebo against MS-DOOF headaches !        |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Subject: Re: Reducing size of X libraries, Ultrix 4.2 - How?
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:33:17 GMT

In article <SIMON.92Nov18132433@liasg2.epfl.ch>, simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) writes:
> In article <1992Nov17.213118.25793@decuac.dec.com>
> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP) writes:
> 
> 	   It just shrinks the disk space requirements for the library
>    - your X programs will continue to be, well, X-ish in size, as long
>    as you continue to run X.
> 
> Small correction: as long as you want to run X on a system without
> shared libraries for X (such as Ultrix).  Yes, I know shared libraries
> are bad, but for the many more or less useful X applications they are
> certainly a win.
> 
> decstation% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     475136 Jul 27 18:13 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
> sparc% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root      40960 Jan 26  1992 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
> 

No arguments from us...  Here is the same off my Alpha OSF system, also not stripped:

% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        46534 Sep 29 11:27 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
% file !$
file /usr/bin/X11/oclock 
/usr/bin/X11/oclock:    COFF format alpha dynamically linked, demand paged executable not stripped - version 9.0
% size !$
size /usr/bin/X11/oclock 
text    data    bss     dec     hex
16384   8192    0       24576   6000

It is, of course, still a win to get rid of local symbols to help link times.

				- Jim

-- 
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Laboratory
From: eaton@pacersoft.com (Mark W. Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DECterm under Ultrix 4.3
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:52:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: Pacer Software, Inc.

I'm having some difficulty getting a DECterm under Ultrix 4.3 to display
properly on my VAXstation 3100 running VMS V5.4-2 and DECwindows.  The
display comes up just fine, but then does something incredibly bizarre by
shrinking a single column/line at a time until it gets (effectively) to
zero.  This didn't start happening until we upgraded to Ultrix 4.3.

I know this sounds weird, but it does happen.  Also, X displays from most
other X clients (such as HP-UX and even SunOS) work just fine.  Any help
would be appreciated.

Mark Eaton
Pacer Software, Inc.
eaton@pacersoft.com
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:8460 comp.unix.admin:6306
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: DECsystem 5500 benchmark
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:06:11 GMT
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



|>In article <1992Nov13.140843.29624@adx.adelphi.edu> zhao@adx.adelphi.edu (Bin Zhao) writes:
|>>Hi there,
|>>	Could anyone please tell me some benchmark results for the 
|>>DECsystem 5500, like MIPS, SpecMarks, and Mflops. Thanks in advance.

In case anyone else has similar questions, you can check out the following
directories on gatekeeper.dec.com:

	pub/DEC/DECinfo/performance-summary
	pub/DEC/DECinfo/infosheet

						Frank
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: An Ultrix novice needs help
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:37:59 GMT


In article <1992Nov19.233449.9481@midway.uchicago.edu>, trgs@quads.uchicago.edu (T. R. Gowrishankar) writes:
>
>We recently replaced VMS 5.5 with Ultrix V4.1 on our VaxStation 3500.  As
>expected, things have not turned out as they ought to be.  I have some
>specific questions, any help will be appreciated.
>
>1. We have a read/write optical disk that is not recognized during boot time,
>   even though we were using it when we had VMS. The disk was refered to as
>   dka0:
>
Let's see...  The VMS DK driver is the SCSI disk class driver.  This
means that the disk is a SCSI disk.  The VAXstation 3500 is a Q-bus
based machine with all I/O stuff on the Q-bus.  That means you must
have some sort of Q-bus SCSI adapter.  The only remotely supported one
on VMS is the KZQSA and that isn't supported by ULTRIX.  If the adapter
is some 3rd party thing, then you need to discuss with them whether a
driver is available for ULTRIX.

>2. I am able to send mail to outside nodes, but am unable to receive mail.
>

What sort error does the person at the other end of the connection
get?  Look in /var/spool/mqueue/syslog for other clues.  #1 cause
that I've seen for this is lack of world write permission on /var/tmp.

>3. How do I add additional systems to the cluster?
>
What's a cluster?  If you're asking about how to setup a VAXcluster
under ULTRIX, the answer is you can't.  At least not all of it.
You can set up systems to use NFS to serve file systems to other
systems, setup YP or BIND to serve things like the hosts files,
group file, password file, etc to the other systems.  The print
queue system can be setup to let a system be the server for a
particular print and have the other systems the data to it for
printing.

>4. How do I set up a printer on a LAT port.  
>
% lprsetup

You'll need to know the name of the terminal server and the port name.  I
think lprsetup(8) is smart enough to ask for them if you tell it the
setup is for LAT.  If not the printcap fields are; op=port-name and
ts=terminal-server.

You'll also want to consult the lcp(8) manual page, particulary the
-g and -h options.

>I could have gone through the Ultrix manuals, you guessed it, we don't have
>any!!
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Gowrishankar
>trgs@quads.uchicago.edu
>ph. (312) 702-6302
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Subject: Re: psroff
Keywords: roff groff
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:55:02 GMT


In article <FV28LPP@math.fu-berlin.de>, beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck) writes:

|>Now I know, groff CAN be compiled on Ultrix. [...]
|>Compile tbl without optimization.
|>Otherwise, cc1plus WILL crash with a segment violation.
|>At this point I remembered, gcc 2.2.2 is still BETA.

I haven't tried this yet, but I believe that this problem has been fixed in
GCC/G++ 2.3.1.

					Frank
From: hunt@shy.umd.edu (Brian Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: printing parity problem
Date: 22 Nov 92 10:28:08 GMT

I've got a minor but annoying problem with printing from my Decstation
5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2A over a serial line (to a Laserjet 3, but
I don't think that's significant).  After I reboot, it seems the
computer defaults to sending characters to the printer with even
parity (whereas I need it to be sending 8-bit characters, i.e. no
parity).  I can fix this by setting the RAW tty mode flag in
/etc/printcap, but that screws up flowcontrol, so then I have to
change it back.  Is there a better way to tell the computer never to
use parity on the printer's tty?

My /etc/printcap is pretty standard (at least the relevant parts),
being cribbed from the file of printcaps at gatekeeper.dec.com; here
it is:

lp|lj|Laserjet:\
	:lp=/dev/tty01:\
	:fc#0177777:\
	:fs#0000303:\
	:xc#0xffff:\
	:xs#0x4800:\
	:br#19200:\
	:mx#0:\
	:pl#66:\
	:pw#80:\
	:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
	:sh:\
	:if=/local/lib/lpdfilters/textf:\
	:xf=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/xf:\
	:df=/usr/loc/bin/dvi -p%D:\
	:uv=4.0:

After rebooting, I have to (when I remember) change the field
":fs#0000303:" to ":fs#0000343", print a short text file, and then
change it back.  Having done so, the computer mysteriously gets things
right (i.e. no parity) until the next reboot.  I'm about to add
something to /etc/rc.local to do the above shuffle automatically, but
I figure there's got to be a solution that doesn't involve multiple
printcaps...

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Brian Hunt
hunt@ipst.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: Ultrix 4.3 "Cache parity error" messages
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:21:53 GMT


benign? relate to the crashes we've been having?

	-George
--
                         George Michaelson
G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au The Prentice Centre      | There's no  market for
                         University of Queensland | hippos in Philadelphia
Phone: +61 7 365 4079    QLD Australia 4072       |          -Bertold Brecht
From: reber@ceres.FCCC.EDU (John Reber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DEC-Motif 1.1.3 & dxmail
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:55:05 GMT
Reply-To: reber@ceres.FCCC.EDU (John Reber)
Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center


--

we upgraded to DEC-Motif 1.1.3... and mail seems to drastically change...

1. the -fn option seems to no longer work...
	no matter what font we specify(specifically we wanted 10x20), it 
	defaults to 6x13

2. the mail editor now appears to be set "nowrap"...previously, mail would 
	wrap automatically at the end of a line...is there a resource to 
	override this???

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Phone:	     (215) 728-3633		7701 Burholme Ave
Fax:	     (215) 728-2513		Philadelphia, PA 19111
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (George Wm Turner)
Subject: man that uses MANPATH : ftp site?
Reply-To: turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (George Wm Turner)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:52:32 GMT



i thought i had seen a posting for a man that would use the MANPATH 
environment variable but am unable to find it. any suggestions welcomed.

 george wm turner   turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu  (812) 855-6911
From: ccs@aber.ac.uk (Christopher "Jd" Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Running SENDMAIL fron INETD ?????
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:05:12 GMT
Organization: University of Wales - Aberystwyth - Prifysgol Cymru

In article <VIXIE.92Nov10111523@cognition.pa.dec.com>
   vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) doodled:

> > Does anyone know how to run sendmail fron inetd rather than a daemon
> > process. 

> Sure.  You put
> 
> smtp	stream	tcp	nowait	/usr/lib/sendmail	sendmail -bs
[...stuff about losing semantics deleted...]
> Running sendmail from inetd is a bad idea.

Not always, one of the approaches suggested in the excellent TCP
wrappers package you can get from CERT is doing this, but using the tcpd
to call it.  It enables you to log connections as well as remote user
names (if you use RFC931 lookups). 

It will also allow/prevent connections from named machines, netmasks,
netgroups over NIS, people spoofing DNS etc etc etc... :-)

Chris
-- 
 Christopher Samuel, c/o Computer Unit, UCW Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, WALES
  RFC: ccs@aber.ac.uk   UUCP: *!mcsun!uknet!aber!ccs   JNT: ccs@uk.ac.aber
          Deddf Iaith Newydd i Gymru | New Language Act for Wales
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: toddc@loki.Stanford.edu (Todd C. Merrill)
Subject: Postscript->text converter?
Keywords: postscript, text, converter
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 05:26:37 GMT

Is there a program that will convert a postscript .ps file into a text
file?  I'd like to save some .ps files without all the formatting
information and save only the text information.  Personal Email
preferred.  Thanks.

						Todd
						toddc@loki.stanford.edu



Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: vkyriak@talos.cc.uch.gr
Subject: Information about DEC NSR-2.0 wanted.
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Crete HELLAS
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:32:37 GMT

Hello,
  Is anyone using the DEC NSR-2.0?
  I would like to know its functionality and if it has any serious problems.

                                                 Thanks,
                                                 Vangelis Kyriakakis
                                                 Computing Center
                                                 University of Crete
                                                 Heraklion, Greece
                                         e-mail: vkyriak@ideon.cc.uch.gr
                                                 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
Subject: Getting tip to work
Organization: OSU-LAIR
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:01:14 GMT

I'm trying to get tip to work on a 5000/200, running Ultrix 4.2a. I've
made the appropriate entry on /etc/remote, I don't have getty running
on the port in /etc/ttys, and I'm not running uucp. When I try and tip
to the port I get the error message "all ports busy". The man pages
say that tip uses the uucp locking protocol, and there aren't any LCK
files in /usr/spool/uucp, or anywhere else on the system that I can find.
Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?

...arun
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arun Welch
Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
welch@cis.ohio-state.edu


Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mike@maria.wustl.edu
Subject:  X11R5 PL 17 source tree for Ultrix 4.3
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 7:57:23 CST
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Is there one available for anonymous FTP?

If so, where?
From: manion@cygnus.fccc.edu (Frank J. Manion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: xv root tile as background for login screen
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:58:15 GMT
Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center
Originator: manion@cygnus


In article <1e3q54INNcen@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au>, andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford) writes:
> Prateek Dwivedi (teek@flight.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> 
> + I have found a few gif files we would like to use, and we view them with
> + xv (which also allows us to use the pictures as backgrounds on our 
> + xterminals.
> + 
> + The problem is that we don't know how to force the picture to be the
> + background for the login screen.  Any ideas?
> 
> 	Well, everyone so far seems to assume you're running xdm - as
> it's quit possible you're not, there's another way of doing it. You can
> tell xprompter to display some arbitrary postscript code rather than
> the default postscript code with the "digital" logo. Well, since you've
> got xv, use its Save feature to save the pic as postscript, then get
> xprompter to display that.
> 	However, I would like to suggest you go to xdm anyway. The
> flexibility and Xauthority stuff makes it all worthwhile.
> 
> Cya,
> 	Andrew.
> 

Well, everyone so far seems to assume you are on the workstation
console. Does anyone know how to change the background if you are on
an X-terminal (without the Display Postscript X-extensions)?
BTW: Dec support claims it's not possible. Does anyone know otherwise?