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From:         Michael Dahlinger <dahlinge@RZHP9B.GSI.DE>
Subject:      Re: xstation fonts

>
>
> Hello,
> I'm trying to run Spectragraphics PC-Xview for windows on a PS2-model 57sx and
> telneting to a RS6k-model 560 running aixv3.2.2. Aixterm seems to work fine.
> I'm also trying to run SDE/Workbench and I can't get past a problem with the
> fonts and color scheme.
> The Development Manager displays that it can't convert Swiss 742 bold.
> If I try to edit anything, the screen flashes for about a minute and then says
> it could handle a list of colors described as hex values, and that it couldn't
> handle the emergency font Erg14.

I just tried workbench on an RS/6000 and
softbench on an HP 720 ( the same product) on an PS/2 with the PC-XVIEW on DOS
( I do not yet have installed the MS Windows Version) and got no problems with
fonts.

Probably the remark on missing memory is true, I have installed 9M of memory and
8514/A Video Card. With the usual 2 or 4M of memory, I had problems of the same
kind. Now with 9 M these problems did not appear.

Michael Dahlinger

>
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> Systems Progeammer / fledgling Systems Administrator
> Boston College
> Chestnut Hill, MA
> USA
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:32:57 -0330
From:         Jochen Ruhland <jochenr@NEURO.INFORMATIK.UNI-KASSEL.DE>
Subject:      Re: Installing AIX 3.2.1.
              93 10:00 am

Carl Davis :>>
>
>
>  I am trying to install AIX 3.2.1 from an 8mm tape to the Hard disk.
>  I have used the following procedure with no success:
... do a 6a.  Wait for approx 2 minutes until the lights on the
tape say READY
>  7. Inserted the 8mm tape and shut the door.

You may also try to power-up the machine with the inserted tape and
the key already in Maintenance Mode.
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:12:40 EDT
From:         Myrian Coe de Oliveira <myrian@RDC.PUC-RIO.BR>
Subject:      Token-ring adapter

We are installing a small net with 5 machines risc/6000 running aix3.1.5
connected by a MAU.Four of them are 7013-520 with 2 disks of 670Mb and
64 Mb of memory. The last one is a 7013-550 with 6 disks of 400Mb and
128 Mb of memory.The net speed is 16Mbs and the machines are using name
server.Two weeks ago the risc 550 seemed to be "logically" disconnected
from the net.Services like remote login,ftp,telnet and mail didn't work
(even the ping command didn't respond anything!),but the rest of the net
was ok.I ran Problem Determination from SMIT and it reported the following
errors:
error label:tok_adap_chk
error class:H
error type:perm
error description:adapter error
probable causes:adapter hardware
                adapter microcode
failure causes:token-ring adapter

We called IBM's technician, he changed the token-ring adapter but it didn't
work (and he is not sure if it really is a hardware problem).
Has anyone else seen this?
Please reply directly to: myrian@rdc.puc-rio.br (I'm not on this list!)
Thanks!
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:18:03 MEZ
From:         Klaus Kretschel <RZ13@DLRVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Imake
              20 Jan 1993 17:48:19 CST from <hong@TWAIN.NOTIS.COM>

On Wed, 20 Jan 1993 17:48:19 CST Mingde Hong said:
>
>Hi, fellows:
>
>I am compiling an application on AIX 3.2 using imake and
>I got the following messages
>
>"/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/config/Imake.tmpl", line 5.2:
>Unknown preprocessing directive ##.
>
>These messages were caused by the following lines in Imake.tmpl file
>
>/**/#################################################
>/**/# Makefile generated from IMAKE_TEMPLATE and INCLUDE_IMAKEFILE
>/**/# $XConsortium: Imake.tmpl,v 1.77 89/12/18 17:01:37 jim Exp $
>...
>
>How can I fix this problem?
>1) Should I comment out the above lines, or is there a better way?

You cannot comment out these lines, because they are comments. My template
files look the same, and everything works fine.

>2) If I do not need to change Imake.tmpl, Project.tmpl, ..., what did I
>   do wrong?

What did you really do?

The right way is to use xmkmf, make Makefile or imake with some arguments
to create a Makefile, and this Makefile does no longer contain the /**/.
Thus the # are ordinary comments to cpp, when you afterwards invoke make all,
or make install, or whatever.

Klaus Kretschel
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From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Subject: Re: 9th SLIP NETWORK INTERFACE
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:32:25 GMT

NAD@BRUSPVM.BITNET writes:


>      We have a RS6000 (mod. 530) running aix v3.2 with 64-port serial
>adapter. We have 8 slip interfaces available  and when i try to add one
>more slip interface i receive the following message
>
>0821-510 ifconfig: error calling entry point for /usr/lib/drivers/if_sl: There
>         is a request to a device or address that does not exist.
>
>0821-223 chgif: Cannot get records from CuAt
>
>0821-229 chgif: ifconfig command failed
>
>
>      How can i fix this problem ? Thanks in advance

I regret to have to tell you that the maximum number of SLIP interfaces in AIX 3.2
is hard-coded at 8.  I don't believe that there's any way around it.

If this is something you REALLY need (and it probably is) you might have your IBM 
marketing rep see whether AWSD Austin could quote a price for a specially modified
system (Programming RPQ, in IBMese) which would raise the limit.
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:00:42 EDT
From:         Carl Davis <COMP1035@SLCSL.BITNET>
Subject:      Installing AIX 3.2.1.

 Greetings:  I am new to RISC 6000 and AIX and I know RTFM but we do
 not have all the manuals delivered yet.
 I am trying to install AIX 3.2.1 from an 8mm tape to the Hard disk.
 I have used the following procedure with no success:
 1. Shutdown system.
 2. Turned off the power.
 3. Turned the system key to SECURE.
 4. turned on all attached devices.
 5. turned the system unit power on.
 6. received the '200' code.
 7. Inserted the 8mm tape and shut the door.
 8. turned the system key to 'SERVICE'.
 9. Press the yellow system reset buttom twice.
 10.Selected 'EXIT MAIN MENU AND START SYSTEM BOOT'
 I never receive the 'C31' status nor do I receive the Installation
 and Maintenance menu.
 I do receive a menu asking if I want to run diagnostics.
 Can anyone determine what I have done incorrectly.

   Regards C. Davis       Systems Programmer   St. Lawrence College
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:46:35 MEZ
From:         Klaus Kretschel <RZ13@DLRVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: CUA-like editor for AIX?
              20 Jan 1993 10:37:52 -0600 from <mdceng!kuncej@UUNET.UU.NET>

On Wed, 20 Jan 1993 10:37:52 -0600 <mdceng!kuncej@UUNET.UU.NET> said:
>
>I am going to have enough trouble "porting" these users without also inflicting
>vi on them. Is there a full screen text editor for AIX 3.2 which responds the
>commands they are used to? (Something small, free, and easy to install would
>be nice.)
>
You should consider using GNU's emacs. It's not small, but most flexible,
so I guess you could customize it the way you like, and still have the full
power available for more experienced users. And I suppose many of your users
will soon like its language sensitivity as well as some of its advanced
capabilities, though probably no user will ever be able to use all of them.

You can ftp an AIX version from rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de which I had no
problems to install (though I think it was for AIX 3.1). Only thing that
was a bit difficult was getting non-english keyboards to work, but I don't
think that should bother you.

Klaus Kretschel
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:35:41 -0500
From:         Marco Hernandez <marco@COSN.EDUCOM.EDU>
Subject:      SLIP Drivers for AIX 1.2.1

Greetings:

        I've heard people discuss SLIP on the RISC Platform but does anyone
out there know if there are any SLIP drivers available for the PS/2
platform.  AIX 1.2.1 is the version we are running, soon to be upgraded
to 1.3.  If not SLIP, what about PPP.  I have managed to pick up
drivers for both off the net for SUNOS 4.x.x but have never seen any for
AIX.

Thanks .....

Marco.


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From: james@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Alfred Monschke)
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Subject: help installing ghostview
Date: 23 Jan 1993 21:54:16 -0600
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I am trying to install ghostview ver. 1.4 on an RS6000 320H running AIX 3.2.2.
I currently have ghostscript 2.5 installed and running.  Ghostview indicates
that it runs with ghostscript 2.4  (possible problem?)

Ghostview runs, at least to the extent that it doesn't crash, or fail to 
respond, but whenever I try to load a post script file, ghostview  pops up
a window that says:

===========================================================================

unrecoverable error: undefined in execute0
operand stack:
  --nostringval--
unrecoverable error, exit code 1

===========================================================================


Does anybody know the cause of this problem?  please e-mail or post 
responses.

Thanks in advance,
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:50:45 EST
From:         Steve Greenfield <FEATS@VTVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Backups

I have to backup my RS/6000 model 220 before a disaster occurs.  I have a
400MB hard drive that is about 85-90% full.  I have only one volume group;
rootvg.  I have 5 filesystems as follows:

     /dev/hd4          4096     /
     /dev/hd2        229376     /usr
     /dev/hd9var       4096     /var
     /dev/hd3          8196     /tmp
     /dev/hd1         57344     /home

I have no tape drive attached to my machine.  I can rdump to a RS/6000 in
the machine room that has an 8mm tape drive /dev/rmt0.  But when you rdump
you can only dump one filesystem at a time.  I would assume that you can
piggyback/stack the filesystems on a tape but I don't know how to set this
up and to use the tape to restore in case of an emergency.

I would like to be able to do a mksysb of my rootvg volume group.  Can I
nfs mount the /dev/rmt0 tape drive from another machine?

Are there any other possibilities that other RS/6000 users have implemented?

If I do backup and a disaster stricks, don't I have to have a booted system
to do restores?

Thanks in advance for your help!



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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:26:54 +0100
From:         Rolf Inge Olsen <Rolf-Inge.Olsen@ITN.TELE.NO>
Subject:      ftp access

I would appreciate hints on how to set up ftp with user-based access
control. Users should not be able to establish ftp-connections to
the user 'root'.

I realize that security probably would be even better setting up
anonymous ftp properly, but until then we want to restrict
the access to normal ftp-connections.

We are running AIX 3.2.2 / 3.2.3 on 53o and 320s.

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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:24:40 CST
From:         "Paul Pratte" <PRATTE@UMSLVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      Upper and Lowercase userids receiving mail

How do you change the sendmail.cf to respect upper and lowercase userids?
Currently they fold all uppers to lowers.  If mail is sent to George
it goes into /var/spool/mail/george  and George can not read it.
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From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
Subject: Re: Q: csh and brackets in a script
Reply-To: seb1525@draper.com
Organization: Draper Laboratory
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:51:00 GMT

In article <AIX-L%93012508472743@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU>,
Hubert Partl <partl@HP01.BOKU.AC.AT> writes:

>If you want $tolower to be evaluated by the shell as a complete
>command (tr with arguments), you have to use eval.
>
>From my head (I did not test it) it should look similar to
>  echo "abcABC" | eval "$tolower"
>or without the double quotes, I don't know...

I tried it on SunOS, and you need the double quotes, but for
some reason SunOS 4.1.1 insists on putting the job in the background
instead of doing the tr, when you include the eval.  If you do

  eval echo "abcABC" "|" "$tolower"

then it works but still puts the whole line in as a background job.

The best fix is to go back to the original script and change the
FIRST line from #!/bin/csh to  #!/bin/sh (and change "set tolower..."
to "tolower=...".

No wonder csh is considered harmful...

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From:         Jochen Ruhland <jochenr@NEURO.INFORMATIK.UNI-KASSEL.DE>
Subject:      IBM C++ Compiler - Comments?

We just got the IBM C++ Compiler for our RS/6000. Before we start
do do serious work with it, are there any known bugs, lost
features or anthing else with it?

Please use e-mail, I'll post a summary of the responses.
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From: wacker@AMPERE.PHYSIK.UNI-DORTMUND.DE (Klaus Wacker)
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Subject: Re: backup methods
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:22:24 GMT
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              Vancouver Community College" at Jan 20, 93 05:33:05 pm

Jim Chivas Vancouver Community College writes:
>
>
> Greetings:
>
> Does anyone have any methods to backup their systems that will let
> someone other than root access to some or all file systems. How can
> I give read access, assuming that is what is required, to someone
> other than root.
>
> I am coming from a system that allows me to setup temporary access
> to all files from the system console. Unix does not have the same
> concept as a system console, only su root users.
>
> Comments?
> Jim
>

I use sudo to achieve the above. I created a user named backup who is
authorized to sudo one shell script, owned and maintained by root,
which contains our standard backup procedure.

Sudo is described in the Nemeth/Snyder/Seebass book. It is available
at various ftp sites. If I remember right, I installed it without too
many difficulties using CC=bsdcc and /usr/ucb/install.

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From:         "J. Scott Hayes" <JSHAYE@TSRV1.TS.WM.EDU>
Subject:      Gopher on RS/6000

We will be installing a gopher server on our RS/6k. Has anyone
experienced any problems doing this?

J. Scott Hayes      jshaye@tsrv1.ts.wm.edu
Technology Support
College of William and Mary

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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:19:34 CET
From:         Michal Kisielewski <kismi@ZTC386A.IF.UJ.EDU.PL>
Subject:      Re: RS6000-Indigo-Xterm
              C.N.B" at Jan 25, 93 8:59 am

>
> Hi:
>         I've an RS6000, an X-Station (IBM-130) and an Indigo (Silicon Graphics
 )
>         I'dont have any trouble in displaying an Aixterm in any of these three
> hosts but when the client is the Indigo and the server the RS-6000 (that is,
> the xterm must appear at the RS-6000 display) the process fail an return the
> message:
>
> Xlib: connection to "150.244.48.53.0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display
>
>
>                         Any idea?

This message usualy appears when client is not autohorized by xhost
command. You probably should run xhost command on RS (see man for details).


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From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Subject: Re: AIX v3.2.3 installation problem (from tape)
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:28:23 GMT

In article <5@frbmaples.win.net> Wayne Maples <cwmaples@frbmaples.win.net> writes:
>>I am trying to install AIX v3.2.3 from tape (4 tapes)
>>on an RS6000 320H, which is running v3.1 currently.
>>I get to the point where the LED displays "200". I then
>>insert the tape, turn the system key to the SERVICE position
>>and then press the restart button twice in rapid succession.
>>But, I do not get the AIX 3.2 INSTALLATION and MAINTENANCE menu
>>- I get the normal system diagnostics for v3.1. What am I doing
>>wrong? Any suggestions will greatly appreciated.

Boot your 3.1 system and check to see that the tape drive is
rmt0 and available, not just defined.

>An LED 200 normally means the system has booted with the key in
>secure mode.  Check your instructions.  Should the install process
>start in Normal mode?

He's doing what the installation manual says to do. Frankly, I
don't bother: I put the tape in, turn the key to service, issue
the shutdown with reboot, and let it rip. Works for me.


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From:         Hubert Partl <partl@HP01.BOKU.AC.AT>
Subject:      vi tutorial

I received and installed and used the VI TUTORIAL by Bob Ware (Colorado
School of Mines). I like it very much and I strongly recommend to install
it on every Unix system. It helps users to learn all essential functions
of vi within less than half an hour and very easily. The (small) shar file
can be ftp'ed from  ftp.mines.colorado.edu  - give it a try!
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From:         "Gerhard Schneider 608-2479 (0721)" <RZ02@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: xstation fonts

I saw a similar problem on an IBM X-station which did not have enough
video memory, so I could only display 16 colours/grey shades but the
software wanted more so it crashed.
I ended up adding more video-memory.

A similar experience happened on a PC with an X-emulator: things
did not work with VGA, but with the 8514 card.

Most likely you need more memory on your video card in your PC

Gerhard