HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Need help configuring xrn
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:10:29 GMT


I managed to get access to a computer that has USENET, so
I have downloaded and built xrn, problem is I can't get
it to work ... when I enter:

xrn -nntpServer enh.nist.gov

I get ...

connect: Connection refused
giving up ...
Thu Sep 10 08:38:11 1992: Failed to reconnect to the NNTP server (server_init), sleeping...

So I just control C out ... also, no window ever appears,
which makes me wonder if I need to modify config.h (what
modifications are commonly used?? (besides DOMAIN_NAME)).

Installation is as follows:

source: /usr/local/X11/xrn-617
bin: /usr/local/bin/xrn -> /usr/local/bin/X11/xrn
app-defs: /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults/XRn -> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XRn


All help greatly appreciated.

Fred Phelan
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From: heiko@Groucho.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko Schlichting)
Subject: Re: top
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 05:39:45 GMT

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
> fnorman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Farley Norman) writes:
>|   I've been using top to check up on processes on a
>| friends 310 VGX.  But, on my 4D/25, I don't seem
>| to have it.
>
>It is in eoe2.sw.perf, which isn't installed by default (you
>have to explictly install it).

BTW: has someone compiled top in the newer version 3.0 on IRIX successfully?

I like the new features in the newer version of top (seen on EP/IX and
Dell Unix SYS5R4) and I tried to compile the source but I wasn't
successful using IRIX4.05A. Has someone the top-3.0 source for IRIX?

For those of you which needs a pointer to the original source, here is a 
list of German Anonymous FTP-servers (but should be available in the US too):

ftp.ira.uka.de:/systems/unix/top-3.0.tar.Z
ftp.uni-freiburg.de:/misc/top-3.0.tar.Z
ftp.uni-kl.de:/pub/incoming/top-3.0.tar.Z
ftp.uni-koeln.de:/.disk2/misc/top-3.0.tar.Z
ftp.uni-passau.de:/pub/unix/misc/top/top-3.0.tar.Z

Heiko
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From: vamsee@bioiris.tamu.edu (Vamsee Lakamsani)
Subject: multiply defined
Organization: Center for Macromolecular Design, Texas A&M University.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:54:28 GMT


When I use  a shared library I get an error like this,

##########################################################
Warning: workProcInfo: multiply defined
        previous (used) definition from 'abgen.o';
        new (ignored) definition from 'build_option.o'
#########################################################

Is this a typical error due to some well-known beginer's mistake ?
If so, please enlighten me. I am on an Indigo Elan 4.0.2

Thanks

Vamsee

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From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: respawning problem, 4.0.5
Reply-To: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill Silvert)
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:34:40 GMT

Since I installed IRIX 4.0.5 my console has been displaying the message

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.  Check for possible errors.
id:  co "/etc/gl/conslog"

every few minutes.  This basically makes the console window unusable 
and obscures any other messages that might appear there, so it is a
real nuisance.

I imagine that the problem relates to the following line in /etc/inittab:

co:23:respawn:/etc/gl/conslog

but the file /etc/gl/conslog doesn't exist, and even the directory
/etc/gl is absent.  Is this something I should have installed but missed?

I've been in touch with the TAC about this, but we aren't getting anywhere.
They seem to think that it is a modem problem, but since they only call
after 17:00 here when I am getting ready to go home, we haven't had much 
time to work on it.  (The last call was at 18:15 after I had been working
late, and the caller was surprised that I didn't want to hang around and
work on the problem right then.  So he asked when I got in in the morning.
My answer was 09:00 local time, that's 05:00 in California.  He never 
called back!)
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From: stefans@bauv106.bauv.unibw-muenchen.de (Stefan Schwarz)
Subject: f77 dumps core !?
Organization: Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:35:50 GMT

When compiling even a simple FORTRAN-code on my 4D/35 with 4.0.5
f77 dumps core with the following message:
iris:15 > f77 -o f f.f
Fatal error in: /usr/lib/ugen  Signal 10 - core dumped

Any help appreciated,
Stefan
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From: usson@imag.fr (Yves Usson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: IRIX last command and FTP
Date: 7 Sep 92 08:32:58 GMT
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France


  I am installing a ftp anonymous account on
 our Indigo and I would like to get a statistic
 of access to this account. For this I use
 the 'last' command but I cannot obtain the remote
 host names or Internet IDs. I tried the 'last'
 command on other systems (Sun, Gould...) and
 with those I obtain the remote host name.

 Is it a bug of Irix 4.0.1 or did I make something wrong?
 Not to mention I tried all the options of 'last' 
 (-a in particular).

 Thanks in advance
From: TKIRKMAN%TINY@msus1.msus.edu (Tom Kirkman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: good books
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:44:38 GMT


The two most useful books I've found are:
Anderson & Anderson "UNIX C Shell Field Guide" Prentice
Nemeth, Snyder & Seebass "UNIX System Administration Handbook" Prentice

Tom Kirkman, St. John's University Collegeville, MN
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From: flanigan@echo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dennis Flanigan)
Subject: dd and mt strange behavior
Organization: NASA GSFC Code 910.1, TRMM Ground Truth
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:00:13 GMT

I notice something strange the other day while using the commands
mt and dd with our SCSI 8mm and 9 track tape drive.

One person was using dd in a c shell script to read files from the
9 track drive.  Another was using dd and mt commands to control an
exabyte 8200 drive.  When every commands were sent the 8mm, the 9 track
drive would STOP reading while the command to the 8mm was being executed
and then continue reading after the command to the 8mm was done.

It this the way it is suppose to work?  

The 8mm has is set to SCSI id 2 and the 9 track (Kennedy 9612) is 
set to SCSI id 6.  The Computer is a 4D35 running IRIX 4.0.4.

Thanks in advance.

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From: beck@ro.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck)
Subject: Re: For Fred Beck, re: PROM password (mail bounces)
Organization: Martin Marietta
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:59:08 GMT

>|  Subject:  Re: Can't load dksc(0,1,0)/unix, no command monitor prompt, help!
>|  
>|  |  Just a quick reply, we received several 4D/35's which had the nvram
>|  |  passwd set at the factory.  Through "trial and error" we (I) found 
>|  |  that it was set to "sgi".  The other 4D/35/25's did not have this
>|  |  "problem".
>|  |  
>|  |       -Fred Beck
>|  
>|  Are you *sure* that they were set at the factory?  I would be
>|  extremely surprised to hear that this had happened.  Did you
>|  get the systems straight from the factory, or through a sales
>|  office?

According to the packing slips (and packaging) "straight from the
factory".  But, like my pappy always says,

	"Only Fools are sure."

So, yah, I guess I'm sure...

But, I might add, that this did not turn out to be much more than
a slight hassle.  I figured out the passwd on the second try.  (The
first try the stupid caps-lock was on.)

I passed this on to the local sales office (Denver) at the time
(bout a year ago) and they, as equally suprised as yourself, said
they would pass it on...

	-ferd
From: jhall@convex.com (Jon Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Trace driver available ??
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:35:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: convex.1992Sep08.153537.18158
Distribution: usa
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


I am writing a device driver for the SGI and am looking for any standard SGI
trace driver utilities. This would be a pseudo-driver which supports an
interface, which allows me to write formatted debug statements to memory,
instead of writing to the console (like cmn_err).

I would like to find something like the strlog call which is supported under
SVR4.

Thanks!! Also please post a response and don't send email.
From: mcdonald@aedc-vax.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: dump parameters for various types of media?
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:35:37 GMT

I was wondering how to set the various parameters in dump for the various
types of media (especially 4mm DAT tapes).

What values should the following be set to:


Blocking Factor
              1/2" tape density 6250 BPI  64 ?
              1/4" cartridge              126 ?
              2.3-Gbyte 8mm               ?
              4mm DAT                     ?

Tape Density
              1/2" tape                   6250 BPI ?
              1/4" cartridge              1000 BPI ?
              2.3-Gbyte 8mm               54000 BPI ?
              4mm DAT                     ?

Length(size) of Tape
              1/2" tape                   2300 - 2400 feet ?
              150-Mbyte 1/4" cartridge    600 feet ?
              2.3-Gbyte 8mm               6000 feet ?
              4mm DAT                     ?

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From: hshamans@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harry T Shamansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Netvis yukes cores on me
Keywords: Netvisualizer, cores, bails
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:37:42 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: The Ohio State University


   Hello world...


   Everytime I fire up netlook on my Indigo (recently upgraded to 4.0.5A)
   as root, it drops cores left and right. All my net stuff is O.K. otherwise
   (i.e. telnet, ftp, sendmail, gateways, routes, etc.). Cores are all I get.
   Same is true for analyzer.

   On a loaner R4000 I had, though, netvisualizer from the exact same CD ROM
   works fine (the demo was set up w/ 4.0.5D).

   Question is:  Am I alone ?

   any thoughts or laughing will be accepted...

   thanks

   harry shamansy
   hts@hertz.eng.ohio-state.edu
From: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu (Michael M Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Euroweather data
Date: 15 Sep 1992 12:30:36 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <amoss.716554461@shuldig> amoss@huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira) writes:
>A simpler
>approach might be a script ran from cron and looks roughly like:
>
>ftp -i -n cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk << __END_OF_FTP_SCRIPT__
>mget images/*
>quit
>__END_OF_FTP_SCRIPT__
>

I would suggest a little exploring in manual mode
and a bit of selectivity rather than trying to
get everything regularly by cron. There are quite
a few files.  Let's not overload the net and cumulus!
By the way, the gifs are in images/gifs...
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From: cook@bebop.esd.sgi.com (Doug Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: X-events from audio buffer
Date: 11 Sep 92 02:41:09 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <32503@adm.brl.mil>, ross-c@dcs.leeds.ac.uk writes:

> I want to generate an X-event that occurs whenever the audio buffer looks
> like it's about to empty. E.g. I would like to write 880 samples (1/100th
> of a second) and when only 220 are left, the X handler calls a routine of
> mine which writes another 660 (not quite building up to 880 because some
> time has passed....), control is then returned to XtAppMainLoop (or whatever
> it is called) until the buffer empties out to 220 samples again.
> 
> Could someone explain how to do this, or point me in the direction of the
> correct man pages (I had a quick look but couldn't find anything), or ....
> 
> Also, if anyone knows any good ways of handling audio from inside an X-windows
> application .... all hints much appreciated (at the moment I have one X-process
> and one audio process connected by pipes).

If you're using the standard X model of "wait for an event, then
process it," adding audio is fairly straightforward. You can get the
file descriptor associated with the audio port (ALgetfd), and select on
this to determine when an audio buffer needs "servicing." Check the man
page for ALsetfillpoint to see how you can adjust the audio system's
notion of "about to empty." If you need to multiplex audio and X within
a single process, then use both the X server connection file descriptor
and the audio file descriptor in your select call. When the select
returns, figure out which FD is ready, and either process an X event,
or fill your audio buffer some more. Make sure that none of the X calls
you make will block so long that you can't get back to your audio
buffer.

This model will change slightly if you're using Motif. I assume that
there's some way to hand Motif a file descriptor of interest and have
it come back to you when that descriptor is ready. I'm not a Motif 
expert, so I'm sorry I can't tell you how to do this. (Other toolkits
I've used have very straightforward methods for doing this, though;
I doubt it's particularly difficult).

Anyway, I hope this works for you. Good luck.

	-Doug
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: R4000 Indigo Boot Environment Parameters
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:42:41 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1911@celia.UUCP> steve@celia.UUCP (Steve Tyree) writes:


|  We have an R4000 Indigo for evaluation and I have a question concerning
| a couple of boot environmental parameters. They are set as follows.
| 
|  SystemPartition=multi(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)
|  OSLoadPartition=multi(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)
|  OSLoader=sash
| 
|  How would I set these new style parameters to boot fx.IP20 or ide.IP20 
| from the latest CD which supports the R4000 Indigo ? Previously the pro-
| cedure involved the following for CDROM set to unit 4.
| 
|     setenv boot dksc(0,4,8)sashIP12

No, this wasn't correct (it won't work).  I don't know which documentation
you were looking at, or whether it has this right, but the easiest thing
is just:

	dksc(0,4,8)sashIP12

|     boot dksc(0,4,7)/stand/fx.IP12

This will work, provided you have  sash in your volhdr already (always,
except for a brand new (or trashed!) system disk.  If not, try:

	dksc(0,4,8)sashIP12 dksc(0,4,7)stand/fx.IP12

Both of these will work just fine on the r4k.  The long, long
names were part of the ARCS spec, and the old style ones are
still recognized (just not displayed).
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From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Subject: Re: Cant login on console, HELP
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:25:13 GMT

yvent@ntua.gr (Yiannis Ventikos)
writes on comp.sys.sgi:

)I hope this is not a very FAQ, I am new to the IRIX
)world. Here it is: when I try to login on my console
)I cant. I clik the icon, I type in the password (where
)necessary) and after 3-4 seconds I am back to the login
)screen. I cant even login to root. If I telnet to the
)machine everything runs smoothly. I have tried FAILSAFE,
)wont do. I x for reading this. E-mailing is preferable.
)BTW, I think that the little icons with the user names
)are much darker than they were when the system was 
)operational.

I had a similar problem and will explain the problem for the benefit
of anyone who might face this one. Apparently this bug persists on
4.0.5 too as the SGI person Ross Oliver informs me. Thanks Ross.

Nope. I don't think it is a FAQ. 

Try reset(ting) your machine. When the machine boots up, go to the
PROM monitor (by pressing escape), switch to single user mode inside
the PROM monitor (by typing single). Try "mount /dev/usr /usr". If the
message is "Filesystem dirty" or something similar, do an "fsck -y
/dev/usr" and do a manual mount ("mount /dev/usr /usr"). If you see
the filesystem, then everything should be ok and the problem is with a
file in /etc/config. Try outputting the contents of
/etc/config/system.glGammaVal. If there is nothing in the file, echo
1.7 (yes, 1, decimal point, 7) into that file. Do a "shutdown" and
wait for the system to boot up normally.

If it is not ok after all this, you have a different problem on hand.

)* Yiannis Ventikos

Sridhar.
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Crimson disk problems... again...
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 23:09:16 GMT

In <1992Sep11.192957.18643@news.iastate.edu> bryan@pi.eai.iastate.edu (Bryan Manske) writes:


| 
| Actually folks, its been rumored that I'm just trying to build up name
| recognition with the (wonderous) folks at the TAC.  Soon they'll be
| reserving an entire line of call ID numbers just for me.  Or they could
| just shoot me instead. ( :)  rotten little smiley face here for the
| humor impared.)
| 
| Here's the deal.  SYSLOG says things like:
| 
| Sep 10 15:57:22 kovacs unix: dks0d2s7: Unrecoverable device error: Internal controller error,. Block #337704 (341700)
| Sep 10 15:57:22 kovacs unix: dks0d2s7: Unrecoverable device error: Internal controller error,.

Either the disk is hosed, or you have a bad power supply, more likely the
former, particularly if you have the older Wren IV 380 Mbyte full high
drive, which had a rash of similar problems in versions made a couple
of years ago, after they had been in service for a while.

| Sep 10 16:02:46 kovacs unix: dks0d2s10: Unrecoverable device error: Defect list error, ASQ=0x1,.
| 
| ...and...
| 
| Sep 10 19:38:41 kovacs unix: sc0,2,0: cmd=0x2A timeout after 30 sec.  Resetting SCSI bus

These could be related to the first set, or you could have some cabling
problems as well.
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Writing Exabyte/8200 tape format with Exabyte/8500 tape under IRIX
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:39:56 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep9.153522.2773@robcad.uucp> mosh@elvis.uucp ( Moshe Shemesh) writes:
|     According to Exabyte-8500 tape documentation, The Exabyte-8500 tape drive
|     is capable of writing files which the Exabyte-8200 is able to read by
|     issuing the appropriate SCSI command. I was wondering if IRIX 4.0.[1-5] has
|     support for this feature? Can I write files with the 8500 tape and then
|     read them on a 8200 tape? How can this be done?

Yes.  Just use the devices with the .8200 suffix in /dev/rmt.  I think
we got that in 4.0.1, but it may have been as late as 4.0.3.

|     I have inspected /dev/rmt/tps* and noticed that there are device drivers
|     with the 8200 suffix and others with the 8500 suffix. The man page for tps
|     doesn't explain what is the difference between these device drivers (What
|     will happen if I will use the driver with the 8200 suffix with Exabyte-850
|     tape drive? Does the driver with the 8200 suffix support for this feature?

As of 4.0.5, the tps man page does talk about the 8200 and 8500 suffixes.
Note that those devices are created only when an 8500 is detected.
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From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: traceroute
Reply-To: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill Silvert)
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:06:28 GMT

I've been asked why only root can run traceroute on a PI.  It is mode 755,
but only root can access the necessary socket.  Apparently on other
platforms you don't have to be root to run it.  Any answers out there?
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