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From: nevin@apple.com (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Where are you?
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:48:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Aug19.122848.18225@aragorn.unibe.ch>,
haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener) wrote:
>    cwd () {
>        cd $*
>        echo $TSL$EL"You are on "$HOST" in "$BOLD$PWD$SGR0$FSL$KCUU1
>    }
>    alias cd=cwd
> fi
> You will get your hostname and current working directory displayed
> and tracked in the aixterm's status line (and PS1 usually left alone).

Unless you happen to create a subshell in the window, do a couple of cd's
in it, and exit out of it, in which case all bets are off.  It's really
hard to get this one right.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jzwiebel@pgl-devsvr.den.mmc.com (John Zwiebel 303-977-1480 jzwiebel@pgl-devsvr.den.mmc.com)
Subject: Re: FTP, etc running very slowly!
Organization: PAGE @ Martin-Marietta
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:10:32 GMT

The man in charge of the hardware on our RS6000s tells me:

another known problem...  This one is why we way-back-when did the big Ethernet
EPROM changeout...

Which we did at least 6 months ago.  You might want to check the microcode level you have and the EPROMS you're running
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: twyang@cs.uh.edu (Tien-Wan Yang)
Subject: SCSI disk and volume group problems
Keywords: jfs i-nodes filsystem
Organization: Computer Science dept.,  Univ. of Houston (Main Campus)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:48:51 GMT
Expires: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 05:00:00 GMT

Hi, 

In our lab. we have two SCSI disks attached to an RS6000 with AIX 3.2.  Each 
disk has about 2 gigabytes.  Since our lab's main function is seismic data
processing, we need large file system.  The AIX 3.2 README says that when 
a file system size bigger than 800 Mb there might be some problem.  We did 
experience problems when we set a single file system with size about 1.9 Gb.

So I tried to partition the two SCSI disks into 2 volume groups; each volume
group on a single physical volume.  I have the following questions:

  1. What is the major number for a volume group on a SCSI disk?
  2. Should I use the same major number or different major number for 
     different volume group on SCSI disk?
  3. If a volume group has 2 physical volumes, is it reliable to interleave
     a logical volume on these 2 disks?

I already ran into trouble: I specified a volume group on a SCSI disk with
major number 17.  It works.  I specified another volume group with major 
number 19.  It failed.  When I tried to delete this failed volume group, I
failed again and got the following message:

  0516-044 lqueryvg: The write to internal map file failed.  Confirm 
        space is available under the filesystem directory /etc then
        execute varyonvg again.
  0516-882 reducevg: Unable to reduce volume group.

I looked through info but couldn't find any helpful information.  Can someone
help.  Any hint or suggestion will be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Tien-wan Yang       twyang@cs.uh.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: sangster@news.ans.net (Paul Sangster)
Subject: Re: Arc-Info/Arc-View Inquiry
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:08:06 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services - Reston, Va


Greetings,

I am making modifications to the netinet portion of the AIX kernel.
Does anyone know if you have to reboot in order for those changes to
take effect, or is there a shorter way?  It seems like tcp.clean
and then rc.tcpip combination doesn't do it.

Thanx,

Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rick@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
Subject: installp error
Keywords: AIX updates
Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:05:34 GMT

Since my job description now reads:

	Activity			Fraction of time
 Install Updates to AIX 3.2		      100%

I would like to be able to install updates without using SMIT.  For one
thing, this makes it easier to install the fixes to installp which must
be installed before anything else.  For another it allows me to peruse
the log file _while_ the updates are being installed (lately several hours)
to see if anything has failed.

To do this, I have been using the following script:

#!/bin/ksh
installp -qaB -d'/fsys/groo/a/local/src/updates.3.2/updates' '-g' '-c' '-N' '-v' '-X'  bos.obj 03.02.0000.0000.U406852 >install.outa 2>&1
installp -qaB -d'/fsys/groo/a/local/src/updates.3.2/updates' '-g' '-c' '-N' '-v' '-X'  all >install.outb 2>&1


All currently known methods of executing these commands outside
of SMIT cause "who am i" errors when a new boot image is created
(which happens in several of the updates).

The errors are of the form:

who: 0551-012 The process is not attached to a terminal.
        Do not run who am i as a background process.

followed by a 'usage' printout from 'who'.

I get these errors whether or not I background the installp commands.
However, the output claims that the updates have installed successfully.

1) Please tell me whether the updates REALLY installed successfully.

2) Please fix this very annoying problem.

I have submitted this problem as PMR 6x570 but have had no response as yet.

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From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: setting passwords
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:24:36 GMT
Organization: University of Montana

I'm looking for a relatively painless way to install initial passwords
under AIX 3.2. Single users aren't much a problem, but setting initial
passwords for student class accounts is a pain if forced to use 
pwdadm or passwd <user> for each individual account.  

Has anyone written a program to do this? 

Charlie McGuire
Computer Science Dept.
The University of Montana
mcguire@selway.umt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: marsh@aristo.tau.ac.il (MARSHALL RAPAPORT)
Subject: /var/tmp I/O error
Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:41:01 GMT

Hi,
  Since installing Aix 3.2.2 there's been many problems - but one of the
most serious is the following:
  I get an I/O on /var/tmp when doing vi to a file.  THe only way to resume
working on /var is to reboot the machine.  Everything works fine after
rebooting for a random amount of time and then the problem reoccurs.  It
seemed like a hardware problem - but the IBM technician didn't find anything
when running the diagnostics.  I have the feeling that this might be in
someway a software error.  Has anyone ever had this problem occur?  Please
get back to me if this problem has occurred by you.


                                Regards,
                                Marshall Rapaport
                                email: marsh@aristo.tau.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mt0lamg@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Louis X. Lee)
Subject: Can't configure Xstation-130 on RS6000/550 in AIX3.1.5!
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:49:22 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-3060]: convex1.tcs.tulane.edu


Help needed!

There are serveral xstation 130's connected to an RS6000/550
file server through ethernet in the department. They
all work fine until recently when we want to reconfigure
one of the xstation 130 by using SMIT. SMIT simply
refuses the reconfiguration. The error message is:

Invalid input to "Page PIXMAPS to fixed disk?"

But in fact, all we have changed is the name for the 
xstation. Net-work-type, hardware-address remain
the same, the rest of the options are taken as the default
settings. And we do remember to change the file
/etc/hosts accordingly.

Can anyone out there help us?

Thanks in advance!

Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:9405 comp.sys.novell:7017
From: richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.novell
Subject: NetWare for AIX/6000
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:54:15 GMT
Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA

We are in the midst of trying to make NetWare for the RS/6000 available
for our engineering users (version 1.1.0: beware any version number
ending in "0"!  This is actually IBM's port of NetWare v3.11).

It has the look and feel of an alpha-test quality program, and hasn't
run for more than a few hours in a row without crashing in the last
two weeks.

We're looking for other sites which are running this software, in the
hopes of learning a few tricks to get it to behave properly.  IBM
Defect Support hasn't been helpful yet, largely because our crashes
are happening without any indication of a particular cause.  We're the
first site our SE has installed thus far, so he has to rely on Defect
Support just like us.  (I'm not posting to bash IBM, in this case; the
product is still brand-new and looks quite promising.)

Please send email if you've bought this product and either have discovered
a way of using it successfully or have had the kinds of problems we're
having.  Our goal is to make several large UNIX filesystems available
to Novell users, with 99.9% uptime.

-rich
richb@kronos.com
From: shaggy@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com (David J. Kleikamp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: /var/tmp I/O error
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:10:31 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Aug31.114101.28354@aristo.tau.ac.il> marsh@aristo.tau.ac.il (MARSHALL RAPAPORT) writes:
>Hi,
>  Since installing Aix 3.2.2 there's been many problems - but one of the
>most serious is the following:
>  I get an I/O on /var/tmp when doing vi to a file.  THe only way to resume
>working on /var is to reboot the machine.  Everything works fine after
>rebooting for a random amount of time and then the problem reoccurs.  It
>seemed like a hardware problem - but the IBM technician didn't find anything
>when running the diagnostics.  I have the feeling that this might be in
>someway a software error.  Has anyone ever had this problem occur?  Please
>get back to me if this problem has occurred by you.

This sounds like a problem I have seen once before.  If an I/O error occurs
writing to the jfslog for a filesystem, (the log is usually /dev/hd8), any
subsequent changes to the filesystem (creating, removing, renaming files)
result in an I/O error.  I think you can recover by unmounting the filesystem
and running fsck on it.  Does the errlog indicate any hardware problems?  You
may want to certify the disk containing the jfslog from diagnostics.

Shaggy
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: JFS i-nodes summary
Keywords: jfs i-nodes filsystem
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:18:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.174656.8854@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
	ben@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Ben Pratt) writes:

>	We figure
>	that, given our situation and needs, that is a waste of 55 to 60
>	meg per 2 gig filesystem.  Since we have 8 of them, that means we
>	are losing 440 Megabytes to 480 Megabytes of scratch file space
>	for our applications... Ouch.

55 / 2000 = 2.8%

A loss of less than 3% of space merits an "ouch"?  If you're normally
running at 97% capacity you've got bigger problems than JFS.

Have you investigated the performance of JFS as you approach 100% use?
You may be better off not using the space.  The Berkeley fast file system
reserves 10% in addition to the inode space to prevent performance
degradation, but I rarely hear any complaints about inefficient use of
space.

If you can get down to a small number of files of nearly constant size,
you should not use JFS and instead use an unformatted disk partition
(/dev/something).  This will have better performance and allow you to use
more space.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
From: KIM@buevm1.vnet.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: LVM Question. How to get Vg_Id from VG Name?
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:49:19 GMT
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:43:04 ARG

in Message-ID <Aug.25.17.11.23.1992.17815@gauss.rutgers.edu>
manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu (Rajesh Malhotra) writes:

>Fellow AIXers,
>
>    How do I get information on a volume group using the
>volume group name? All the routines viz. lvm_queryvg, lvm_varyoffvg,
>lvm_varyonvg need the Vg_id. Waht routine would give me a Vg_id,
>given a Volume Group Name?
>
>    I am sure there has to be a way to query the Vg_id using the
>volume group name (guess lvaryoffvg uses it).
>
>    I would appreciate any responses/ideas on this matter.

Execute getlvodm -v VG_NAME       (i.e. getlvodm -v rootvg)

>Raj.

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From: deroest@daffy.cac.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Vi is still broken.
Date: 24 Aug 92 01:53:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug24.015348.6179
Organization: University of Washington, C&C


  Like everyone else, we have applied the posixdd and ptydd fixes.  If anything,
it has made the problem worse.  We see sessions hang with rlogin, telnet, xterm,
and aixterm.  Per Bob Shairs note concerning csh, I have gotten hung up from
ksh on the console.  Resizing the window, cat'ing a file to the pty, and the
STOP sig and restart seem to work in most cases.  We have an apar open, but I
don't know the status ( I'm supposed to be on vacation ).  We are getting close
to turning a bibliographic database server running on a 560 on to the campus
and the Internet.  These work arounds won't do for the average folk.  This needs
fixing post haste!

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jhardin@data.tamu.edu (James Hardin)
Subject: More on aXe 
Keywords: aXe
Reply-To: jhardin@data.tamu.edu (James Hardin)
Organization: Department of Statistics, TAMU
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:51:27 GMT

  I asked earlier for some help on getting aXe compiled under 
aix 3.2.1 and several people wrote and told me to comment out the
line: #define R5 and to try again. One person suggested that 
after he had done that the program compiled, but core dumped on
invocation. Well, that is what is happening to me. The program
has a segmentation fault in the 

  CopyShowMenuChildren()

routine in the AxeEditor.c file. I get the same result regardless of 
the compiler/flags I use in the makefile. Someone else suggested to 
me that I needed to get the X11R5 versions of the Porthole.c/h and use
them instead. I went and got them, but they are no different than 
what came with the package. I appreciate everyone who took the time 
to respond to my initial plea for help and hope that someone can take
me over this last little bug.

  Thanks again to all who took the time to write.

 Regards,

  James


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From: ckennedy@sleepy.helios.nd.edu (chris kennedy)
Subject: Re: HELP: how to kill a stopped 'tar' job?
Keywords: 8mm Tape RS/6000
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:17:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.114705.10989@mic.ucla.edu> shinn@agsm.ucla.edu (Shinn-Tzong Wu) writes:
>Hi, we had problem in killing a stopped 'tar' job, no matter what kind 
>of parameters we put, the process was still there and no one can access
>the /dev/rmt0 because the previous process still existed.  I have done
>twice the most stupidest way - reboot the whole 520 - just to regan access
>the /dev/rmt0.  Would anyone tell me how to kill (-9 won't work) that 
>runaway process?  Thanks...
>
>
I would also appreciate any advice on how to regain a tape drive when a job 
is killed.  So far the only thing that I have been able to get to work is to
reboot the machine and since we have two tape drives that are both used heavily
this is sometime difficult to schedule.  Another, possibly related problem, 
which I have not had but several of the other people who worl on our machine 
have had is that the x-windows display will freeze up when you execute ctl-
alt-backspace.  Ususally what happens is that ps says that the job is dead but
the keyboard and mouse don't respond and the screen still has the x-window 
stuff on it.  I would appreciate any help I could get with either one of these 
problems.

CHris
From: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3.2 BSD Line discipline...
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:19:48 GMT
Organization: IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin

In article <92210.105840JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (John Grover) writes:
>Here we go again...
>
>I have this set of programs written to use bsd line discipline. The easiest
>way out for me was to  issue stty disp bsd in a shell script before running
>the programs and then stty disp posix afterwards. Now that I've "upgraded"
>to 3.2, after I issue the command, nothing I type is echoed to the screen,
>and carriage returns don't seem to work. Line feeds do, so if I issue
>something like ls -l, the output stair steps down the screen.
>
>This seems to happen when I come in (via telnet) as a vt100 or vt220,
>but not when I telnet in as an ibm6154. I've tried all sorts of stty
>settings, but nothing seems to do the trick.
>
>Any clues? Hints?

I put a huge disclaimer in the "stty add bsd" example of the stty command
in InfoExploder.  Most things on AIX 3.2 do NOT know how to talk to a bsd
discipline.  Some bsd functionality was smashed into the posix (default)
line discipline.  Have you tried to use your programs "as is" ?  I know
cbreak is broken, I looked at the code about a year ago when someone on
this newsgroup reported it...I sent him a note off-line telling him to
call it in and even supplying the text for what needed to be fixed...he
never did.  (Before someone jumps down my throat, saying I should have 
fixed cbreak anyway, for a time in Austin we were operating in a mode 
where internally reported problems had to be "stop ship" in order to be
allowed to fix them...BUT, if a customer reported it I could have fixed 
it).

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From: gark@iscp.bellcore.com (Mark Gallion)
Subject: Re: Our srcmstr is all screwed up!
Organization: Bellcore
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 19:35:03 GMT

In article <syscrc.714767154@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
|> Somehow, on our Modle 320 running AIX 3.2, we have two srcmstr processes
|> running.  There used to be only one.  Also, the "lssrc -a" command times out
|> and gives the following message:
|> 
|>    0513-056 Timeout waiting for command response.
|> 
|> We can't figure it out what's the problem?
|> (thanks ahead of time.)
|> 
|> -- 
|> ===========================================================================
|> Randy Carpenter            rcarpent@gsu.edu    $ mkdir matter; cat > matter
|> Georgia State University   (404) 651-2648      ksh: matter: cannot create  
|> Wells Computer Center                          $

Do you have an HFT console or are you using the serial port (with
possibly nothing plugged in)?

We found a problem that when there's NO console device on the
system a child srcmstr hangs when trying to write to the console.  We
had quite a few systems with no console except when needed and
were finding this quite often.  The fix is not in 3.2.1 or 3.2.2.

There's a fixid for this - U403042 in bos.obj (APAR IX23653).

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gark@iscp.bellcore.com
From: joubert@teldata.UUCP (Joubert Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Help with slip
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:16:15 GMT
Organization: Advance Financial Corporation / Teldate Computer Industries, Inc.

I need some help getting slip to work properly.  First the setup:

Server:  RS6000. I set the port to 38400.  I am using a ViVa 9600 baud modem
	 V.32/V.42/V.42bis  (Made by Computer Peripherals, Inc.)

Client:  Wollongong TCP/IP.  I am using the slip driver.  This one also has
	 a ViVa 9600 baud modem.

And now the problem:  When I telnet from the client to the server everything 
		      works fine.  I can ping the server, ftp, and telnet.

		      But when I telnet to the machine I get a slight delay
		      between when I type a character and when it shows up 
		      on the screen.  This is very annoying (sp??).  

                      If I connect the two machines with a direct serial cable,
		      I don't have this problem.  So it looks like to has
		      to be something with the modems.  But what???

Any one have an experience with a setup like this?  Any insight would greatly 
be appreciated.

			      Joubert

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From: jer@stiatl.salestech.com (John Ramspott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: ONC RPC on RS/6000 version?
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:50:31 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.


 Hello Netters,

 I was wondering which version of Sun RPC comes with AIX 3.2. I know
 that Sun has had their new TI RPC out for some time. The InfoHider
 documentation doesn't even mention that it is Sun RPC, so I am not
 suprised that it doesn't tell me what version it is. (I'm sure
 there is a copyright notice somewhere, it just bothers me that IBM
 just calls it RPC since these days there are so many flavors).

 Is the Netwise RPCTOOL available for the RS/6000? What other
 advantages does the new ONC (or Sun) RPC have other than the
 Transport layer Independence?

 -- John E. Ramspott
 Software Engineer
 Sales Technologies, Inc.
 jer@salestech.com
 --- I suppose my title makes it obvious that I do not speak for STI ---

-- 
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