HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: HELP- problem in /debug directory
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 08:27:02 GMT

In <1992Jul29.053332.19788@cognet.ucla.edu> Dr. Peter Markiewicz <peterm@inherit.mbi.ucla.edu> writes:

| 1. We have a personal iris recently upgraded to Irix 4.01. For some
| reason, very large binary files have been appearing in the /debug 
| directory. They have names like 03312, 03313, etc., and range up
| to several megabytes in size. It is like an image of the operating system
| is being dumped. For example, If one types su while logged in as root or
| severa times in a row, a file is created in the /debug directory about a
| half-megabyte in size. 

See 'man debug'

| 2. These files are owned by the system, so they can't be removed.

That would be equivalent to killing programs, if we ever allowed
it.

| 3. I would appreciate any comments on:
|           -What's causing the files to be created
|           -How do I get rid of them
|           -How can I prevent them from being made in the future.

rmdir /debug will keep the pseudo-filesystem from being mounted
at system boot, umount /debug will umount it, mount -t dbg /debug /debug
remounts it.  The debuggers need it mounted.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SCSI Disk Problem? (1.6 MB Seagate) [ with SCSI error info ]
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:44:44 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <nkf21lc@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>In <1992Jul22.122215.14420@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
>
>| In article <njj76k8@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
>| >In <1992Jul22.022754.10599@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
>| >
>| >You almost certainly don't have the drive jumpered to not spinup
>| >until a startunit cmd is received. 

As usual, your advice was right on -- simply jumpering it correctly
solved all the problems. The Seagate 1.6 GB works absolutely fine
in the Indigo.

The problem with the SCSI tape seems to be unrelated -- the tape
just happened to get bad at the same time we installed the new
disk drive. Oh well...

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"Is this the party to   |  David M. Senseman  (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
 whom I am speaking?"   |  Brain Research Laboratory
          --Ernestine   |  The University of Texas at San Antonio
From: SUTPHINWB@npt.nusc.navy.mil (SUTPHIN WILLIAM B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Named Help
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:35:20 GMT

Here's what I'd like to do:

I have about 30 PI's on a local net that is bridged to a larger net that
contains a gateway to the Internet.  I'd like to use named to resolve
the DNS notation names people find (like sgi.com) and also to maintain
the names for the local net.

I'd like to stay independent of the network I'm bridged to because its
a hassle to get added to or updated to the name data base (very little
central management).

Question:

Can I create my own little domain?  Say I have a class B net number
like 135.79.  Would I pick on local station to be a master named
server for this net?  How do I give this master priority over other
named servers that might be on the 135.79 net?  Will it interfere
with other named masters (or slaves)?

Thanks for the Info in Advance
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
Subject: Re: sendmail and timed problems.
Organization: BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories, AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:54:07 GMT

vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:

>Why not?  Don't you use frozen configuration files, so that the
>slowness of configmail matters only when your reboot the system,
>which should happen unusually rarely on a cnetral mail host?

You are of course correct (Robert also pointed this out to me privately). Our
current central mail host is an Apollo which doesn't support frozen config
files ... hopefully this is going to change real-soon :) I'd kinda forgotten
all about them.

>Robert has suffered some little nagging about the slowness of
>configmail.  Recent versions are much better, but there is
>still room for improvement.

Given that your sendmail *is* IDA compliant, it is probably worthwhile
providing documentation on how to use the m4/Sendmail.mc table driven scheme
that Neil Rickert provides with his IDA version.

Robert says this _should_ work ..... I'll just have to run some tests.

As an aside, we did not get a copy of the IRIX Network Administraton
Guide which apparently has further documentation on configuring SGI's
sendmail. Should we have?? First I'd even heard of it was with my mail
flurry with Robert early this morning,

	ian
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From: gandalf@vision.auc.dk (Lars Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Writing MS-DOS floppies from SGI's
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:52:36 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: Laboratory of Image Analysis, University of Aalborg

Hi fellow netters,

We have a number of PI's and Indigi/Indigo/Indigoes/whatever at our
lab and have a 3.5in floppy drive attached via. SCSI to some of those.
A number of our students use PC's at home and would like to be able to
write MS-DOS format disks on these drives, thus enabling them to
exchange files easily.

We also have a number of SUN machines for which there is a package
called mtools which does the job nicely, does anyone know if something
similar exists for SGI's ?

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance

Lars F. Knudsen
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+--------------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Lars F. Knudsen, M.Sc. E.E.    | E-mail: gandalf@vision.auc.dk   |
| Laboratory of Image Analysis   | Phone +45 98 15 85 22, ext 4967 |
| Aalborg University,            | Home: +45 98 16 94 74           |
| Fr.Bajers Vej 7                |                                 |
| DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark. |                                 |
+--------------------------------+---------------------------------+
From: lim@cs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: looking for animation/video production software
Date: 29 Jul 92 00:37:01 GMT
Reply-To: lim@cs.umass.edu ()
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst


I'm looking for animation/video production software that would run on a 340GTX
(Irix 4.0.4); something equivalent to the Wavefront Visualizer, for example.
Desirable features include:

* extensive drawing tools (plus text generation),
* special effects (fades, software texture mapping, etc.), 
* ability to import various image/object formats (DXF, GIF, etc.),
* easy-to-use, interactive animation tools,
* interface to video boards and tape decks,
* reliable customer support (upgrades, etc.)

I'd appreciate it if anyone could suggest some products that they've had
experience with, along with information on who to contact.

(We're a university research group working on computer vision and we frequently
need to present our results on video; this usually involves image sequences
with graphics overlays, 3D animation, and charts. We're looking to do some
evaluation at our site and may make a purchase in the next few months.)

Thanks in advance.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             Jonathan Lim          Computer Vision Research Group
           lim@cs.umass.edu    University of Massachusetts at Amherst

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: sendmail and timed problems.
Keywords: sendmail-lost mail-timed-machine not responding
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:34:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.223713.6260@iitmax.iit.edu>, thsspxh@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick HURT) writes:
> ...
> Second problem:
> --------------
> 
> Also found in the SYSLOG file:
> ir260a timed[83]: loop breakage: no reply from ir271a=192.41.245.112 to QUIT
> 
> And a bunch of those! Timed is running with the usual default options:
> -G timelords -P /usr/tmp/.timetrim
> 
> Problem is, ir271a is another machine, but it is never connected to 
> the Ethernet (security). How do I get ir271a out of the group of 
> machines looked at for the time averaging, so that my SYSLOG file is
> no longer flooded with those messages?


That message means a machine claiming to be 192.41.245.112 answered
timed on iri260a once but not again.  It means that it appears that
timed thinks you have a group of time masters on an internet
and that they have not found a strict hierarchy.  

Timed does not make up addresses.  It's not that smart.  Some machine
is using that address on your network.



Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.ocm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: orman@iastate.edu (David L Orman)
Subject: need to surface map 3D data in Explorer
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:37:36 GMT

I have a set of 3D data that I would like to make a surface (contour)
map out of. The data looks like this.
15
1 1 5
1 2 4
1 3 3
1 4 4
1 5 3
2 1 4
2 2 4
2 3 6
2 4 5
2 5 4
3 1 3
3 2 5
3 3 4
3 4 3

Using Raed3DCoords and all of the other Readxxxxx things only create a
1-D lattice.  How Do I get it to read in as a 3D mattice so I can send
it to the other machines?
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: lisp installation problem
Date: 29 Jul 92 04:29:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <28JUL199220210024@sdcc22.ucsd.edu> mmata@ucsd.edu writes:
| We're having problems loading lisp on a XS24.  At first it was asking that
| the c compiler be installed.  The c compiler is now installed, but now
| a message comes up "-l gl unknown library to loader".  I've no idea what
| this is.  The XS24 was upgraded to 4.0.4 from 4.0.2 (4.0.2 was factory
| installed).  The lisp came to us on 1/4" tape and tar format.  The src
| files were put on the disk.  The above message comes up when trying to 
| make the lisp image.
| Thanks in advance for any help,suggestions,tips...

Install gl_x_dev; it has the GL and X libraries in it, among
other things.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Selected Problems
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:17:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: biome.1992Jul23.171727.16236
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

Problems with my machine multiply.  Here are three on which I would
appreciate advice from the net:

1. NFS mounting.  I have a script that mounts various directories from
other machines on my PI.  When I try to mount directories from one of
these machines I now get the following:

/etc/mount -t nfs -o rw,hard,bg,intr cyber:/nve/ief0101/biome /net/cyber0
mount: cyber:/nve/ief0101/biome server not responding: Port mapper failure - Timed out
mount: backgrounding
   /net/cyber0

Is that an error on the machine "cyber" or on my machine?  Since I can
mount directories from another system I suspect "cyber" is at fault, but
it would be nice to have this clarified.  By the way, I can log in on
"cyber" and find the relevant directories.

2. Su logins.  This is a more detailed account of a problme I reported
before.  My .sgisession file contains lines like
	/usr/sbin/winterm -geometry -40+90 -c su - bill
which always worked fine until recently, when the window displays a
warning that the mail is unreadable.  It turns out that the part of the
login sequence that sets MAIL to /usr/mail/$USER does not always
function, so bill's MAIL variable is still /usr/mail/silvert.
(The MAIL variable gets set correctly about 20% of the time.)  Just
"setenv MAIL /usr/mail/bill" fixes it, but what causes this?

3. Mailbox timing problem.  I use mailbox to alert me of incoming mail.
As of about an hour ago it started misbehaving.  Mail arrives, the flag
goes up;  I read it, close the mailbox, the flag goes down.  Then a
second or so later the flag goes up again, even though no new mail has
arrived.  So the flag is always up now.  Any ideas?

Thanks, Bill
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P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:11700 pnw.forsale:1429
From: pdanset@hardy.u.washington.edu (Paul Danset)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,pnw.forsale,uw.forsale
Subject: Wanted: Used entry-level Indigo
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:32:14 GMT
Reply-To: pdanset@u.washington.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


Subject line says all.  If you are planning to unload a used Indigo
any time soon, please contact me by email.  Being a grad student,
even the 35% educational discount puts a new entry-level configuration
well beyond my reach.  Thanks.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Danset        pdanset@hitl.washington.edu       (pdanset@u.washington.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Subject: Re:  Need help getting GL over net to Macx
Reply-To: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:21:14 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.001916.8553@odin.corp.sgi.com> ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com  
(Dave Ciemiewicz) writes:
> In article <1992Jul22.230358.3686@microunity.com>, jsw@microunity.com (Jeff  
Weinstein) writes:
> 
> I think what would be really useful in this discussion is explanation
> from customers as to how they expect to use GL rendering to X
> terminals.

One thing that would be really useful - being able to run programs like the zip  
editor and edge (though I imagine the easier solution would be to rewrite them  
for X).

Also, though generating complex images in real time including animation may not  
be practical, it would be useful to be able to read showcase documentation
on an X screen (even if the occasional picture may take a long time to render).

I'm not a great X fan but these are a few things I have needed to do.
--
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Real SGI SCSI cables
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 22:54:22 GMT

In <2827@contex.contex.com> frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:

| I am interested in getting SCSI cables from SGI.  I will shut my eyes
| to the cost for right now, as I am interested in getting what I want.
| I also do not care about the cables in the ( few month old ) price
| book I have.
| 
| I know there are at least two useful cables.  First, there is the about
| 4 foot PI to Iris File cable.  This is listed under P5-DG00A as "SCSI
| cable".  Does this have a part number I can order?  Also, is this the

Presumably; the sales folks should be able to get it for you, given
that number.

| same cable listed under P5-T4C3A as "Shielded SCSI cable"?  If not, 

I don't think so.  I think that cable is longer for the predator rack
mount systems, but I won't swear to it.

| does this cable have a number I can order.  Further, there is the about 
| 1 foot Crimson SCSI bus 0 jumper cable ( visible from the front with
| the big door open ) that I have interest in.  Does this have a part
| number I can order?

*Everything* at SGI has part numbers; actually being able to order
it is something else.  These are all issues that your sales folks
should be able to address.

| Even further, whats the part number of the unlisted SCSI cable needed
| for P4-T2R4X?  How long is it, too?

I don't even  know what that is...

| Did I miss any others in the 0-2M range?  What are their part numbers?

I don't think we have any short SCSI cables, other than the one on the
crimson style chassis.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: VME differences between 4D/20 & 4D/35?
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:13:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]

I have a machine here that was recently upgraded from a 4D/20 running 3.3.(2?)
to a 4D/35 running 4.0.1.  It has a Bit3 VME-VME adaptor in it used to
connect to an external VME bus.

Prior to the upgrade things had been running fine.  I'm now experiencing
fairly odd behaviour which might be related to the VME implementation
in the 4D/35.  "Odd behaviour" includes things like write(2) returning -1
_and_ setting errno to -1 (fixed by using memcpy from VME to local buffer
and then writing the local buffer to the socket), SIGBUS on valid VME
addresses in an almost repeatable fashion, etc.

Is there anyone out there who could tell me what (if anything) has changed
in the VME implementation, or could point me to documentation?

NOTE: there's no kernel driver code in question here, the VME adaptor merely
      supplies a window into the remote VME bus via a suitable mmap() call.
      Ordinary user-level code then uses the window to do reads & writes
      of remote memory.  The remote system does NOT access the Iris or pass
      any interrupts to it.

-- 
Scott Townsend,  Sverdrup Technology Inc.  NASA Lewis Research Center Group
fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov
From: wiltzius@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Dave Wiltzius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Mixed-mode problem.
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:52:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

I have an application running on IRIX 4.0.1 that is using mixed-mode
Motif windows.  The problem is that *occasionally* when I create
a pseudocolor window (GLX_RGB=FALSE for the NORMAL buffer) it will
remain Truecolor (as if I set GLX_RGB=TRUE).  This happens more often
just after I log in with a new SGI session.

Any suggestions?  Thanks much.  Please email since our news service
is flakey.

  Dave Wiltzius
  Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab
  wiltzius@llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: how do I make sendmail use the name server rather than /etc/hosts
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:38:22 GMT

In article <712451466@anthrax.cs.duke.edu>, jwt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Jeffrey W. Tannehill) writes:
> 
> 	Our sendmail.cf seems to work fine for local hosts, or hosts in the
> /etc/hosts file that are in our local domain (cs.duke.edu).  However, 
> if a host in another domain is specified and that host is in the hosts file,
> then the sendmail.cf file drops off the hosts' domain name and replaces it with
> cs.duke.edu .  Apparently this is due to the sequence of ruleset 0 rules
> 
> 	# Canonicalize the host name.  Detect any failures.
> 	R$*<@$+>$*              $:$1<@$[$2$:$2.$Y$]>$3
>  
> 	# If we successfully canonicalize a hostname, but the result contains
> 	# no dots, make it relative to our domain.
> 	R$*<@$->$*              $1<@$2.$D>$3
> 
> Apparently, the first rule takes "bob@physics.phy.duke.edu" and changes it to 
> something like "bob@physics" and the second line then rewrites this as 
> "bob@physics.cs.duke.edu"....


This sounds like the "canonical" name for your machine is "physics".

That is not a FullyQualifiedDomainName.

Things work better if the cannonical name is a FQDN.  I would try
re-arranging your /etc/hosts files so that the first or canonical name
for each IP address is the correct FQDN.

It also sounds like you machine as severe case of split personality
disease if it thinks it is in two different domains, cs.duke.edu and
phy.duke.edu.  That can be made to work, but it is often too
entertaining to be useful.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: SCSI cable length
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 02:58:10 GMT

In <2817@contex.contex.com> brian@garbo.contex.com (Brian Love) writes:
...
| We push the limit on SCSI cable lengths and consequently see a fair number
| of SCSI errors.  We've been trying to nail down as accurately as possible
| what the usable SCSI bus length is.  The January/February issue of Pipeline
| says "On a Personal IRIS or Magnum system, the internal SCSI cables are
| approximately 8 feet long, ..."  (Adding a SCSI Peripheral to an IRIS
| System, pg.  12).  Is this a correct figure?  How long is the SCSI cabling
| inside other boxes, such as an Expansion Cabinet, an Indigo, and a Crimson?

8 feet is worst case, or it may be the sum of a PI and a Personal File
(PI chassis, but just for up to 4 drive modules).  The worst case length
was some of the early PI's at just over 5 feet of cable internally.

| We've also seen bad SCSI cables.  On one of our systems, swapping SCSI
| cables of the same length but different vendor completely solved a
| not-so-intermittent parity error on the SCSI bus.  A cable-tester showed no
| connectivity problems in the bad cable.  Are there any reliable ways to
| tell a good SCSI cable from a bad SCSI cable?

You could use a TDR to do some checking.  Also watch out for the
wrong gauge wires, or not bothering to connect all the ground wires.

Finally, for cables that are twisted pair, the folks doing the SCSI
specs did some testing, and found that certain cable designs (certain
pairs in the center) would work better than others, for reasons that
escape me at the moment.
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: cook@bebop.esd.sgi.com (Doug Cook)
Subject: Re: Need help getting GL over net to Macx
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 03:10:00 GMT


In article <4052@news.duke.edu>, weinhous@roentgen.RadOnc.Duke.EDU writes:
> I also would like to be able to display gl output on an X device. In order
> to get this functionality, I would knowingly give up the interactivity that
> comes with gl on an Iris.
> 
> We need to display (2-D, grey-scale, x-ray-like) images that are computed
> on our Iris on Macs that sit in physician's offices.
> 
> This is a matter of using existing hardware (Macs with MacX). We simply
> can't replace our Macs with Indigos (just to display static 2-D images).

If this is what you need, then you can just take screen snapshots off
of the IRIS (e.g. using snapshot), convert them to an image file format
of your choice (e.g. GIF or Mac format), and use whatever image-file
viewer you have (e.g. xv). From your description, this should
do what you need, and it's pretty straightforward.

	-Doug

Doug Cook  	(cook@sgi.com)		|    "What IS Digital Media?	
Software Engineer, ISD Digital Media 	|    ...another name for graphics."
Silicon Graphics, Inc.			|