HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: franco@fx.com (Frank Minjarez)
Subject: Re: Ethernet/TCP/IP Config
Organization: FXD/Telerate, Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:05:39 GMT

bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian ) writes:

>In <1992Oct1.164608.1622@novell.com> mcollins@db.novell.com (Marty Collins) writes:

>>iain@ee.ryerson.ca (Iain Campbell) writes:
>>: Pardon a novice AIX sysadmin, but,
>>: 
>>: I am trying to get an RS6000 model 220 up on a Sun net.  Trouble is
>>: I can't get the ethernet port/TCP/IP to work.  I have tried setting the
>>: port up both from smit and by editing the rc scripts.  

>>I would suggest using smit at most times over hacking on the rc script, at
>>least with AIX.

>amen. you can *not* trust the contents of *any* of the normal files.
>aix ignores them. it uses the odm for configuration.

>bill pociengel

Definitely use SMIT.  Make sure you have the right cable type (ie, use
bnc for thin-net and dix for the other stuff)..etc.  You should also
change the default broadcast address on the IBM to whatever the Suns are using
because Suns and IBMs default to different values.  You can't change it
with smit -- eeek so use "chdev -l en0 -a broadcast=<broadcast_address>"
Additionally, you can use "lsattr -l en0 -E" to see all the attributes
of your ethernet interface.  "ifconfig en0" will show you them in a
different format. 

--f
From: kaltef@theo-physik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Roland Kaltefleiter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX is buggy - A myth?
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:15:52 GMT
Distribution: cau
Organization: Inst.f.Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Kiel, Germany

In <1992Oct14.171849.18462@ncar.ucar.edu> pack@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) writes:

>The Oct 13, 1992 issue of "Midrange Systems" has an amusing article
>in the RS Review insert called "The Lore of AIX" wherein they supposedly
>explode certain myths about AIX.  This rag is certainly high on political
>content and low on technical competence.  Perhaps the following quote
>belongs more in comp.unix.aix.humor.funny:

>  "Despite the success of the RS/6000, some prospects wonder if IBM's
>  UNIX operating system is unstable.  The kernel of truth that often
>  underlies some rumors is that the initial release of AIX had problems.
>  According to Kolbo [Tom Kolbo, president of Emphasys Software], an
>  update two months after the initial release fixed all the known problems,
>  and none have been encountered since."

Well, Kolbo may have never been working on an AIX RS/6000 System.
I got one from IBM for testing for the last 4 weeks. There was the newest 
release of AIX. 
In the first 15 minutes I encountered about 12 bugs, 3 of them where
that serious, that I needed to reboot the machine after ceach of the 3 bugs,
using the big yellow button at the frontpanel (RESET).

Have fun, Roland

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** empfiehlt, aber wir empfehlen SunOS !!
** Denn ein gut installiertes und stabiles UNIX hat seine Vorteile.
From: tld5032@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Terry Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Console output to a window?
Summary: Console output to X-window on RS/6000
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:32:51 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services=



In article <1992Oct07.011755.113090@watson.ibm.com> gerth@watson.ibm.com. writes
>> In article <mfh.718389721@math.chalmers.se> mfh@math.chalmers.se (Martin Hansson)
>> writes:
>> >Is there a way to redirect console output to a window whilst running X?
>> >The C flag doesn't seem to work for xterm and I havn't seen anything for the
>> >aixterm.
>> >
>> The 'swcons' command temporarily switches the system console such that
>> if from inside either "aixterm" or "xterm", you issue:
>>     swcons `tty`
>> the console output should be redirected there.
>> 
>> I can't answer the obvious next question - Why doesn't the AIX port
>> of "xterm" just do this when it sees "-C"?

It can also be started from the .xinitrc file by opening a window and 
running the following script in it (-e option).
###########################
#!/bin/ksh
swcons /tmp/console_log &
tail -f /tmp/console_log
exit
###########################

Of course the file "/tmp/console_log" can be any file name desired.



Take care

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Subject: Comp.Unix.Aix Digest, Volume 5, Number 15
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From: favre@medsun.unige.ch (favre)
Subject: xrn for aix
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:01:08 GMT

I'm trying to install xrn6-17 on my IBM RS/6000 320 running AIX 3.2.1
(I've compiled it with the OSF/Motif libraries).
The compilation was fine, and I've put the XRn file in my app-defaults
directory.
When I try to run xrn, it produces a segmentation fault and
a coredump.

What is wrong?
Does somebody success to compile it on AIX 3.2.x?


		Eric Favre
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: What is the problem with NFS under AIX?
Organization: The World
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 05:27:14 GMT


From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
>I export my CD read-only (to a Sun), it works fine for a while, then
>all of a sudden it decides that . is unreadable on the Sun side and no
>amount of re-exporting, umounting, re-mounting etc (on both sides)
>will clear this condition up. The CD is fine locally on AIX.

Well, frantic unexporting, commenting it out in /etc/exports,
re-exporting without, uncommenting, unmounting, remounting etc (all
under AIX) seems to eventually make the problem go away (at least for
now.) But I have no idea what the formula is and it's definitely some
kind of annoying bug.

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From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
Subject: Re: What is the equivalent of vhangup() on AIX?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:24:58 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J Watson Research Center

ahmedk@white.toronto.edu (Khalid Ahmed) writes:
>   I'm porting some BSD code to AIX. Could some kind soul please
>   tell me the AIX equivalent of the vhangup system call?

Though they aren't exactly the same, the frevoke/revoke system calls have
the closest functionality to what you're looking for.

		-Lucien

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Subject: Re: RS/6000 CD ROM drive, ISO-9960 standard file format?  Photo CDs.
Reply-To: davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz
Organization: Chem Dept, Uni of Canty, Chch, New Zealand
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 01:02:08 GMT

Lenny Tropiano (lenny@icus.ICUS.COM) wrote:
> Curious, does anyone know if the CDROM drive on the RS/6000 is ISO-9960
> filesystem format standard, ie. cdrfs is ISO-9960 file format

sure is - I've had Walnut Creek CD-ROMs, CorelDraw3 etc all mounted
and readable on it. Works fine - my only complaint is that I wish
cdrfs had an option to mask the version fields, as otherwise
exporting a mounted cd to pc's via NFS is a bit unpleasant


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ets@wrkgrp.COM (Edward T Spire)
Subject: Re: Curses' keypad & NLS
Organization: The Workstation Group
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 16:34:57 GMT

wonga@steam.chem.su.oz.au (Adrian Wong) writes:
: Curses' getch() will return different key-codes depending on whether
: it has been compiled with or without NLS. Just for the sake of consistency 
: and portability which option should I support? Dynamically switching 
: between the two is difficult given it all depends on the values of
: macros....

1.  You don't compile Curses' getch(), you compile a program that
invokes it.  

2.  I doubt that getch() returns different KEY_... values depending upon
how your program was compiled, there's probably something else that
controls what getch() returns, but I never found out what it is.
  
3.  Early on we found that the only way to get it to work was
to #define NLS 1 (looks to us like the early curses.h was broke).
We still have that in our stuff and it works fine.  Without it
(at least in the very early releases of AIX 3.1) the keypad codes
returned by getch() didn't match the KEY_... definitions you got.

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

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From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: PRINTER PROBLEM
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:27:09 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

In article <s913300.718875163@rubicon> s913300@rubicon (Nga Tran) writes:
>	I would appreciate if someone could advice me how to move the print
>	jobs from 1 queue to other queue.

you can't

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From: ahughes@arch386.hyperdesk.com (Arch Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How can I find out which model of RS/6000 am I logged on ??
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:29:59 GMT
Reply-To: arch@hyperdesk.com
Organization: HyperDesk Corporation

In article <BvtFLq.GG3@storcon.uucp>, john@storcon.UUCP (John Hunley) writes:
> In article <1avpk9INNstb@fnnews.fnal.gov>, shah@fnsony.fnal.gov (Hemant Shah) writes:
> |> Suppose I telnet to an RS/6000 system how can I tell whether it is model 320
> |> or model 550 or any other model ??
> |> 
> |> Thanks in advance :-)
> |> -- 
> 
> The command
> 
>     odmget -q"name=sys0 and attribute=modelcode" CuAt
> 
> will return a stanza containing the CPU Model Code (the "value" field, in hex).
> If you're root, you can also use
> 
>     /usr/sbin/bootinfo -m
> 
> to return the same information (in decimal).  As to a translation table for
> these codes, who knows?  (InfoExplorer doesn't, anyway!)  We have 320H and
> 550 models, which return 0x0035 and 0x001c respectively.  Maybe some IBM
> type could supply a complete list?  (or better yet, include that info in
> InfoExplorer!)
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See the man page for "uname".  It contains the following list of hex
model numbers.  (The base conversion is left as an exercise for
interchange between these commands.)

  The machine ID number contains 12 (twelve) characters.  The 12
  (twelve) digit format is organized as follows: xxyyyyyymmss.  For
  the RISC System/6000, xx position is always 00.  The yyyyyy posi-
  tions contain the  unique  ID  number  for the central processing
  unit (cpu) . While  mm represents the model number, and ss is the
  submodel  number (always 00).  Hexadecimal codes  for  RISC  Sys-
  tem/6000 models are:

  Model Number          Model ID

  7012/320              31

  7013/520              30

  7013/530              10

  7013/540              14

  7013/550              1C

  7016/730              10

  7015/930              20

  7015/950              2E

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From: zhang@whbws.ms.ornl.gov (Xiaoguang Zhang)
Subject: Re: Trimarchi drive on RS/6000?
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab
Summary:  Check the SCSI address
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 01:34:41 GMT
X-Posted-From: whbws.ms.ornl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I realized now that the solution is simple: I didn't reset
the dip switches on the Trimarchi so it was conflicting with
the SCSI address of hdisk0. After I reset the switches to
SCSI ID=2, pluged it in and powered on --- and it worked!
It's so simple that you wouldn't believe it.
From: konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How can I find out which model of RS/6000 am I logged on ??
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:54:41 GMT
Organization: IBM AIX Porting Center, Austin

In article <1992Oct9.162533.4128@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.153553.17908@ichips.intel.com> tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~) writes:
>>
>>  Use the uname command. Here is a script to do it.
>>
>>    Cheers,
>>
>>    Tom McConnell
>>
>>#!/bin/csh -f
>># This script determines the machine type for RS/6000's.
>
>I found a few more models in Glen Chalemin's script:
>
>case 11:  Model 540
>case 37:  Model 340
>case 38:  Model 350
>case 41:  Model 220
>case 63:  Model 970

and a couple more...

case 64:  Model 980
case 66:  Model 580

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From: ahughes@arch386.hyperdesk.com (Arch Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: InfoExplorer X Resources
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:10:11 GMT
Reply-To: arch@hyperdesk.com
Organization: HyperDesk Corporation

Hi.  I'm trying to use the InfoExplorer on a 530 from a remote UNIX
machine.  Does anyone know the names of the resources that the X-based
InfoExplorer uses?  My problem is that the pointer cursor is not
displayed in the remote (X11R4) X environment for this particular
client.   I'd like to try setting the cursor to some other character
(shape) or color and see if I can push the links.

Thanks

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From: EJERNIG@avm.cc.fsu.edu (J. Elton Jernigan, CCP, CDP)
Subject: Bootptab contents
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 21:43:46 EDT

Gentlemen,
  It seems to me that some of the tags in the file /etc/bootptab used by
the bootpd daemon are not well documented.  In particular the gw, tc, and
ns tags are not well described anywhere that I can find.  If you have a
working bootptab file, could you please e-mail a copy of me?  You can
any field you feel are a possible security risk.
Thanks,
Elton Jernigan
ejernig@avm.cc.fsu.edu
From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Compiling Andrew on AIX 3.2 - no go!
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:30:25 GMT
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne

In article <Bw1nEv.H2u@well.sf.ca.us>, nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:

[ text deleted ]

|>           -c -m 0444 config/ImakeMacros.d  /doc/ImakeMacros.d
|> sh: -c: not found
|> The error code from the last failed command is 1.
|> 
|> Make Quitting.

[ text deleted ]

|> -Nathan Lane
|> Trico Title Company,k Santa Barbara, CA
|> nlane@well.sf.ca.us
|> 

Looks like

INSTALL = /usr/ucb/install
....
	$(INVOKE_INSTALL) -c -m 0444 config/ImakeMacros.d  /doc/ImakeMacros.d

Either INSTALL is not defined or /usr/ucb/install is not invoked via $(INSTALL)
but via something like $(INSTALL_PRG) with INSTALL_PRG not being defined.

Just a guess,
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From: joern@uni-paderborn.de (Joern Gehring)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX-Windows-ProblemDear Problem-Solvers.
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:24:39 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany

We got a problem with our Program IBM-AIX-WINDOWS-FOR-IBM-DOS.
We use it together with the PC/TCP programs from FTP-Software
on an IBM-AT (i486 / 4MB).
We wanted to use PC/TCPIP (PC-210) together with an 3COM Etherlink 2 (3COM503,
thin cable, 16K memory on card) for the connection to the AIX-Host running
AIX 3.2.
In general the connection works fine. I.e. the connection can be established
and several clients (xclock, xload etc ) can open their windows on the
screen.
But then the server cancles all conections and all the clients get killed.
Typing inet debug after the server had crashed reveales, that the PC/TCP
kernel ran out of buffers.
32 Buffer available, 0 minimum, 0 free now.
The used buffers keep allocated until the next reboot.
Even a ping to the UNIX-Host fails: Out of resources.

By the way: The X-Server-program is espacialy said to run with FTP-PC/TCP
and I tried the Clarkson-Driver as well as the NDIS-Driver.

Perhaps you know what I did wrong or you know somebody that uses my X-Server
together with PC/TCP from FTP-Software ?

Thanks in advance,

	Joern Gehring.

Keywords:
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ahmedk@white.toronto.edu (Khalid Ahmed)
Subject: What is the equivalent of vhangup() on AIX?
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:50:25 GMT

Hello,

I'm porting some BSD code to AIX. Could some kind soul please
tell me the AIX equivalent of the vhangup system call?
I can't find any references to it in the man pages and
all my compiles have the BSD flag defined as well
as linking to the bsd library.

Thank you very much.

Khalid Ahmed
Computer Science Research Institute
Univerisity of Toronto
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: xlf and cpp
From: ravishan@swan.wesleyan.edu (Ganesan Ravishanker)
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:30:51
Distribution: comp
Organization: Wesleyan University


Hi

We have several fortran programs that use the cpp directives such as 

#include "file"

#ifdef SOMETHING
 ...
 ...
#endif

These things are properly taken care of with the f77 command on our SGI.
However, xlf on the RS6000 complains about it, so we have to go through
and do a /lib/cpp -P prior to running xlf. Is there anyway for me to setup
/etc/xlf.cfg file (or whatever else) such that /lib/cpp -P is executed
prior to compilation automatically? Thanks for any help.


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From: stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger)
Subject: IBM monitor pinout
Keywords: ibm monitor vga
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:53:13 GMT

I'm trying to connect a few multisync monitors to IBM 220 machines (small
System 6000). I found out that the monitor type is given by the way the
cable is made. To be true, they have a few pins shortcut in the 15 PIN db
connector.

IBM does not supply these cables, since their monitors have the correct
cables attached.

How is the monitor type set? Which pins have to be connected.

Which monitor type supports wich resolution (interlaces/non interlaced)?

Any help is welcome. Please e-mail to stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
Subject: Re: Imake??
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 11:22:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.184841.2015@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
>
>In the Xamples there are references to Imake.  However, I  
>can find neither a man page nor an executable for Imake.
>
>Where does it hide?  

If you already have the source tree in /usr/lpp/X11/Xamples you still
need to do a "make World".  It's a pity that IBM considers something
so useful as imake to be an example program.

Dale
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ksh question
From: drb@chmeds.ac.nz ()
Date: 17 Oct 92 16:45:08 +1200
Distribution: comp
Organization: Christchurch School of Medicine
Keywords: login

In article <265@sabus.UUCP> tim@sabus.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes:
>How does /bin/ksh know when it is a login shell?  Ie, how does it know
>to source .profile, /etc/profile?  Does login invoke a special way?

I have a related problem.  Under AIX 3.1, "set -o vi" in /.profile enabled
history recall for root but produced errors from daemons running under bsh
for which this is not a recognised command.  The fix was to put the command
in a ksh-specific file, /.kshinit.  
Under AIX 3.2.2 /.kshinit is ignored.  Infoexplorer has no reference to it,
but does have a reference to .kshrc -- which is also ignored!
Is this a feature or a bug?
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bowman@csrp.tamu.edu (Kenneth P. Bowman)
Subject: Re: FDDI Trouble...
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:01:30 GMT

In article <138249@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, terry@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (Terry
Heidelberg x24154) wrote:
> 
> We have 18 550's connected as a cluster of servers, and we see a similar 
> problem when we try to test a newly-installed FDDI net.   I can't speak to
> the exact hardware hookup, but the essential software scenario is:
>          on A, a "ping B" hangs;
>          on B, a "ping A" works immediately, and
>          on A, as soon as the ping from B arrives, the hung "ping B" starts
>              working!

We have noticed a very similar problem with our 550 on Ethernet.  When we
reboot the 550, it will not ping any other hosts until another host pings
it first.  I don't know if this is a known bug, but it sounds like it is
not unique to the FDDI interface.