HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zhang@dmnds.ms.ornl.gov (Xiaoguang Zhang)
Subject: Re: LEDs flash 223 and 229 when installing new disk.  Any advise?
Reply-To: zhang@dmnds.ms.ornl.gov (Xiaoguang Zhang)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:27:30 GMT

I tried to send e-mail twice and was unsuccessful. So I have to post this.

I have seen the alternating 223 and 229 on LED when I tried to add
an external disk whose SCSI id was not changed and was 0 which conflicted
with one of the internal drives.  How did you connect the new drive? I
would not try to connect a new SCSI device while the machine is on. You
never know what will happen. Hope my info helps.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dhp@secapl.com (David Pfister)
Subject: Compressed SLIP or PPP for AIX?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:44:35 GMT
Organization: Security APL, Inc.

Does anyone know of a version of SLIP or PPP that runs on AIX
that supports Van Jacobson header compression.  The
stock slattach from IBM makes no mention of this feature.

I'd prefer freeware, but if you know of a comercial package
drop me a note.

Thanks,
David Pfister
dhp@farstar.secapl.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
Subject: Re: 220 printing is a dog
Organization: University of Montana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:06:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.111943.4422@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz) writes:
>
>In article <1992Nov19.232014.23938@selway.umt.edu>, mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
>|> I have an RS/6000 220 (AIX 3.2.0) to which I attached a
>|> color postscript printer via the parallel port. When
>|> this thing is sending a job to the printer, it is virtually
>|> dead in the water. Admittedly, color postscript files are
>|> large, but there must be some way of arbitrating things
>|> so that the machine remains in a reasonably useful state
>|> while printing (the 220 has 32MB of memory and a local disk).
>|> 
>|> Any suggestions on how I can try to deal with this?
>|> 
>What about your swap partition? Space enough?

Swap is more than enough (92MB).

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: tim@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Tim Burns)
Subject: essl man pages
Originator: tim@osiris.usi.utah.edu
Reply-To: tim@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Tim Burns)
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UCLA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:41:00 GMT

Excuse me if this is a frequently-spit flame, but there doesn't seem to 
be any discussion of this sort on the comp.unix.aix right now.  I was
disturbed to find out that IBM does not have any "man" pages for ESSL.
This is absolutely inexcusable.  First of all, it would be a relatively 
simple thing to convert the reference manuals to man format.  Second,
since you don't have the source code, you can't look in the comments to find
which parameters to pass to the library.  Other numerical packages, like
LAPACK, for instance, have extensive man pages on each of their subroutines,
AND THEY ARE FREE!  I think that the Kingston people need to wake up and
realize that we are no longer living in the 1950s and that the MVS approach
to scientific computing is completely unacceptable to modern users.

This flame is my own and does not represent my employers opinion.


-- 
  *__T__*     Even the most brilliant scientific discoveries will in time
    _i_       change and perhaps grow obsolete, as new scientific mani-
   */m\*      festations emerge.  But Art is eternal; for it reveals the
              inner landscape which is the soul of man.  --Martha Graham
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 18:42:03 CST
From: <U54954@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: FAQ

Could someone mail it to me too at u54954@uicvm.uic.edu
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:07:31 IST
From: Ephraim Vider <P88036@BARILVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: INed does not display a correct on aixterm after migrating to 3.2.

In article <1992Nov13.140003@posso.ibp.fr>, paul@lpan.jussieu.fr (Paul
INDELICATO p76300) says:
>
>I have just upgraded from AIX 3.1.5 to 3.2.1 (and AIXWindow 1.1 to 1.2)
>on a RS6000 32h
>with an ascii display only. I use an IBM RT 6150 as an X Server
>with the MIT X11.R4. the X server run on the RT, and I have
>aixterm, xdt3, mwm runing on the RS6000.
>I have run that configuration without problems for about a year
>with AIX 3.1.5, but since I upgraded INed does not display correctly:
>the frame arrond the windows that INed create is replaced by "q"
>in the horizontal parts and "x" in vertical parts. I have tried
>most fonts in misc and 75dpi without succes. I even imported
>some fonts from the RS6000 but I still have this very ugly
>display. for exemple the enter box looks like
>x^qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
>xEnter:             x
>xmqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
>
>
>Any suggestion on how this can be corrected?
>

In AIX 3.2 the box characters are taken from the specialxxx fonts.
Either transfer those fonts from the RS/6000 to the RT, or
set term = aixterm-old   which will use the old font scheme.

  Ephraim
From: blarson@mizar.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Kermit for AIX version 3.2
Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:46:20 -0800
Organization: USC Software Systems, home of TOADS
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu
Keywords: kermit

In article <1992Nov16.220820.17627@mapsut.einstein.com> shmuel@mapsut.einstein.com () writes:
>Does anyone know where to obtain a version of kermit which works with
>aix version 3.2?

I'm running C-Kermit 5a185 with no problem.  5a184 had a bug with the
lock file names.  Grab the latest from watsun.cc.columbia.edu in the
kermit/test directory.  (5a is still officialy in beta, so get your
bug reports in quick if you want them fixed before 5b.)
-- 
Bob Larson (blars)	blarson@usc.edu			usc!blarson
	Hiding differences does not make them go away.
	Accepting differences makes them unimportant.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Re: Good term emulator for DOS PCs
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:06:41 GMT

From article <1992Nov18.210101.4296@muug.mb.ca>, by gordt@muug.mb.ca (Gordon Tulloch):

> connect to RS/6000 boxes?  We've tried Procomm Plus and it's not

I haven't used ProComm since before the "Plus", but I didn't like it then.
I use MSKermit, and GSZ for ZModem transfers, from an Alt-D hotkey.

From SIMTEL:
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.KERMIT>
MSKER311.ZIP  B  186841  911001  MS-Kermit v3.11 comm pgm for IBM-compatibles
MSR31107.PCH  A    1575  911115  Patches 1-7 dated 5 Nov 91 for MS-Kermit v3.11
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.ZMODEM>
GSZ0503.ZIP   B  112454  920504  Graphical version of DSZ X/Y/Zmodem file xfer

	In mskermit.ini:
; These macros are used to call file transfer protocols
; from terminal mode
; glauber@david.wheaton.edu

def TerminalR take download.scr, connect
def TerminalS take upload.scr, connect

set key \2326 \KTerminalS       ; Alt-U = upload
set key \2336 \KTerminalR       ; Alt-D = download

	In download.scr:
run gsz F ha on port 2 rz -r ;receive ZMODEM
pop

	In upload.scr:
ask what {\009  File(s) to upload:\009}
run gsz F ha bo port 2 pB512 sz -mrr \m(what)
pop

-- 
---
Clarence A Dold - dold@unislc.slc.Unisys.COM
               ...pyramid!ctnews!tsmiti!dold
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jm@expert.expert.com (Jane Majkiewicz)
Subject: rs/6000 resolutions
Organization: Computer Publishing Group
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:42:59 GMT


I would like to compile an RS/6000 user "wish list" for the
January issue of RS/Magazine and would be interested in comments.
The list could include such things as needed enhancements,
improvements, new products, etc.


Please forward suggestions to jm@expert.com sometime this
week. Here's your chance to express your viewpoint about
what IBM's new year RS/6000 resolutions should be!

Thanks in advance for responses.

Jane Majkiewicz
Senior Editor
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: esg@pyuxd.uucp (25235-gokhman)
Subject: Re: /tmp Corrupted
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:15:25 GMT
Summary: Programming example of an AIX 3.2 bug related to this problem

In addition to several examples illustrating the typical reason for
this situation to occur: running processes unlinking but not closing
the files, similar simptoms may occur due to the NFS-related  bug
in AIX 3.2. This bug may explain some of the "war stories",
when the misterious loss of space could not be tracked to _running_ processes.
Unfortunately, /tmp is rarely remote, so there are more problems
out there to be explained...

We found that the AIX 3.2 RS6000 implementation of the flock subroutine
is faulty when applied to files mounted accross NFS and causes a remote
filesystem to run out of space.

If a file A is locked and a file B is renamed into A,
the inodes of the old A are not properly reclaimed
if A and B are mounted over NFS. This problem causes
the remote file system to run out of space, e.g. use df command,
while the du and ls -l commands do not show any changes.
The same scenario works fine for local files.

Following example will quickly run the remote filesystem out of
space, while causing no damage if ran locally.

				Ed Gokhman, (908) 699-4785
				esg@pyuxd.cc.bellcore.com



#	include		<stdio.h>
#	include		<fcntl.h>
#	include		<sys/file.h>
#	include		<errno.h>

#	define		ONE_MEG		1000000

main ()
{
 for (;;)
 {
  int try1, try2;
  char one_meg [ONE_MEG];

  if (
      (try2 = open ("try2", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0664)) == -1 ||
       flock (try2, LOCK_EX) == -1                         ||
      (try1 = open ("try1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0664)) == -1 ||
       write (try1, one_meg, ONE_MEG) == -1 		   ||
       close (try1) == -1    				   ||
       rename ("try1", "try2") == -1                       ||
       close (try2) == -1 
     )

  { fprintf (stderr, "Problems...%s\n", strerror(errno)); exit (1); }
 }
}
From: dbehr@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za (Danie Behr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.misc
Subject: osf/1 and mach
Keywords: mach osf/1 operating systems
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:03:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: dos-lan.dbehr.61.722066596
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Pretoria


Can anyone help me with detail about the differences/similarities between 
OSF/1 and Mach.

Thanx
------------------------------------------------
Danie Behr
Dept Computer Science
University Pretoria
RSA
(dbehr@cs.up.ac.za)
Xref: sparky comp.unix.osf.misc:23 comp.unix.bsd:9100
From: hermi@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Harminder Singh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Shared library papers for OSF1
Keywords: OSF1, shared libs, ftp
Date: 20 Nov 92 01:36:46 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View

In article <1992Nov17.154746.10898@rdg.dec.com> franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni) writes:
>|> 	I'm after papers on OSF1 shared libraries. I'm looking at
>|> implementing shared libraries on 386bsd as an experiment (well as a lark)
>|> and am already familiar with the SVR4/SunOS way. Rumour has it that OSF has
>|> an altogether nicer method. Does anybody know where I can ftp some suitable
>|> papers from?
>
>Not a pointer to paper ... but I'd go with memory mapped files.

The 1991 Dallas Winter Usenix Conference proceedings contains a
paper entitled "Program Loading in OSF/1" which we (Larry Allen,
Harminder Singh, Kevin Wallace and Melanie Weaver) presented on
OSF/1 shared libraries.  This describes the shared library scheme
employed in quite some detail.  If you are looking for details of
the implementation you want to get hold of an OSF/1 documentation
set (there is a full chapter on the loader and shared library
internals in one of the books, but you may require an OSF/1 source
licence for that).


-- 
Harminder Singh					Snail mail: Pyramid Technology
Email : hermi@pyramid.com			Mailstop SJ2-2-37,
Voice : (408) 428-7418				3860 N. First Street,
						San Jose, CA 95134.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.misc
From: lcc@security (Lee C. Cooper)
Subject: DCE for the Macintosh?
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:06:11 GMT

Does anybody know if there is a port of DCE that runs
on the Macintosh? Any information that you can offer is greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,

Lee Cooper (lcc@mitre.org)
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730


Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.bsd
From: franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni)
Subject: Re: Shared library papers for OSF1
Keywords: OSF1, shared libs, ftp
Reply-To: franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:47:46 GMT

|> 	I'm after papers on OSF1 shared libraries. I'm looking at
|> implementing shared libraries on 386bsd as an experiment (well as a lark)
|> and am already familiar with the SVR4/SunOS way. Rumour has it that OSF has
|> an altogether nicer method. Does anybody know where I can ftp some suitable
|> papers from?

Not a pointer to paper ... but I'd go with memory mapped files.
From: dbehr@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za (Danie Behr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Osf/1 and Mach
Keywords: osf/1 Mach operating systems
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:04:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: dos-lan.dbehr.62.722066677
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Pretoria

Can any one help me with detail on the differences/similarities between Mach 
and OSF/1.

------------------------------------------------
Danie Behr
Dept Computer Science
University Pretoria
RSA
(dbehr@cs.up.ac.za)
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: Packet filter in OSF/1 (Mach 2.5)?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: osf/1 Mach packet filter
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:58:01 GMT

In article <56593@dime.cs.umass.edu> nahum@gaia.cs.umass.edu (Erich M. Nahum) writes:
>Quick (and perhaps dumb) question: is Jeff Mogul's packet filter facility,
>present in Ultrix and Mach 3.0, available in OSF/1 (preferably DEC's)?  
>I don't have access to an OSF/1 system, so I can't just go check.
>My guess would be yes, but I don't know for sure.  Any answer
>appreciated; a reference would be even better.

The Ultrix to DEC OSF/1 Migration Guide says that OSF/1 does not support
the packetfilter.  It doesn't say if it will change in the future.


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
Office of Academic Computing         uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
Distributed Computing Support        phone:       (714) 856-6926
From: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] Printing DOCS in /usr/othersrc/share/doc ?
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:23:53 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 90908106@muser

Can anyone tell me how to make printable copies of the documentation in
/usr/othersrc/share/doc (I think from etc distribution). The Makefiles are
broken for the standard 386bsd installation, and I can't work out how to
fix them (they use ditroff, dtbl etc which are not present, and have flags
which troff, tbl etc don't understand).

Thanks,
--
Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: 386BSD: /bin -> /usr/bin reorganization
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:46:04 GMT

In article <DERAADT.92Nov17041728@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>Among a large number of other Sunifications I have made to my 386BSD
>system, I've made this one:
>
>lrwxr-xr-x    1 root            8 Oct 24 21:05 bin@ -> /usr/bin
>

On a slightly different note, I tried to set up a minimal BSD partition
on my 386SX-25 so I could use NFS for the rest.  Try it some time.  Yuck!
The necessary files are scattered in several directories, so you just
can't say "We'll delete this directory and NFS mount it from another
system."  I estimated the space requirements of a minimal system to be
around 10 MB, which is much better than 45 MB (I have an 85 MB drive
on this machine).  Maybe I've been spoiled by (my opinion) better
directory hierarchies.

Something I'd like to point out about the install procedure.  It lets
me enter a partition size as low as 39 MB (or maybe it was 37), but
the installation pukes if I use a partition size less than 45 MB.  OK,
I was bored this weekend, but I actually spent over 12 hours Saturday
trying to determine the smallest partition size I could use. :-)
When the installation instructions say 40 MB, they mean 40 MB for
data.  You have to add another 5 MB for swap.  I don't remember how
clearly that was pointed out in the instructions, but I figured I
should mention it before somebody makes a mistake.

-- 
Jim H.
*
* James L. Henrickson  |  "I don't need a signature, I need a job!"
* ujlh@sunyit.edu      |  BSCS, December 1992
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: glenc@netcom.com (Glen Collins)
Subject: [386bsd] Install source?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:38:44 GMT

Hello!

	I am still  having problems with the install of 386bsd. I have
think I have traced it down to either the Advanced chipset setup or it
will not work with the board I have. Does anyone have the source to
the istall program? I would like to take a look at it. I would like to
get bsd runing on my system, and I just can't beleive that the system
is so damn unstable that i'm having probelms....

my system:
	    80386 33/40
	    AMI bios/ OPTI chipset

Does anyuone have this board that is running 386BSD? And if so, did you have
any problems. Please mail me the source or tell me an FTP site it's avaliable from

Thanks!  Glen Collins    (glenc@netcom.com)
From: ldh@svl.cdc.com (Lawrence D. Hare)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Connection comes up halfway? Why??
Date: 24 Nov 92 00:37:22 GMT
Organization: Control Data Systems
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
X-XXMessage-ID: <A736B92E2E010456@ethelred.svl.cdc.com>
X-XXDate: Mon, 23 Nov 92 16:37:02 GMT

This one is driving me nuts.. If anyone has any idea as to what is going
on I would be really happy. This is the set up.

A Mac application that talks to a specific server on a variety of Unix
platforms. It works fine on everything. Part of this application's
function is to perform file transfers, it uses ftp. This works on ALL
configurations except ONE! What happens on this one is as follows:

The application is connected and happy. It wants to perform a file
transfer so it establishes a connection to the FTP well-known-port using
MacTCP. The connection is created and I go for an ActiveOpen. This
returns mac error -23015 which, translated, means: The connection came up
halfway and then failed.

Why why why WHY!!!!!!!!! If I run other mac applications that use ftp
protocols it works all right. Is there some negotiation going on between
the TCP peers that is failing? Is there something at the UNIX end? Is
there something I should tell someone?

Aaaaaarrrrrgh.

I am posting this to comp.sys.mac.comm, comp.unix.programmer,
comp.unix.admin and comp.unix.bsd. Any and all help is greatly
appreciated.

Thanks
--
Lawrence D. Hare       Control Data - Silicon Valley Operations
Consultant             Voice: (408) 496 4339 - C/N [234] 4339
ldh@svl.cdc.com        Mail: SVLa60  FAX: (408) 496-4106
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: pingo@guug.de (Thomas Meidinger)
Subject: [386BSD] xdm was Re: Disk performance issues, was IDE vs SCS
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:29:15 GMT

peter@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller) writes:

>Hi netters!
>I've XFree86 installed and some applications runnin very good (xtank ... 8*))
>Now I discovered that the first thing all of our local users (on the 
>386bsd system) do a login and IMMEDIATELY start X.
>So I wanted to start the xdm in my rc file (as suggested by the man-pages).
>It comes up with Hostname and Login: ...
>But if I try to log in with my definitely CORRECT password it says
>login incorrect!
>I have crypt installed and everything connected with it (ftp,tn,passwd ...)
>Any suggestions?
try recompiling xdm (you need crypt)
you can get the sources from :
146.107.1.2: pub/xdm

cu,
 Pingo

--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thomas "Pingo" Meidinger               GSF - National Centre for Environmental
                                        Sciences GmbH Muenchen
                                e-mail: pingo@gsf.de
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:57:42 -0500 
From: David Eugene Dwiggins <dd2x@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
Subject: boot block installation, bad sectors

OK, I know how to set up 386bsd using the install program. (yeech.)
I want to use a custom set of partitions.  I have already created the
disklabel, and written it to the disk.

Problem 1:  How do I get the boot block on the disk so the system boots
from the hard drive?  Under Mach, I just use dd.

Problem 2:  I'm using ESDI drives, and 386bsd doesn't seem to notice bad blocks.I do.  It's not fun to watch your file system die.
I have the bad sector locations on paper.

Thanks,

David
From: fish@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kevin Haddock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386bsd, uucp, and uugetty.hayes.
Date: 24 Nov 92 03:05:45 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

Hi, I am trying to set up my 386bsd with a single 2400 hayes modem and
do uucp (polling out), kermit/tip/etc... calling out, and receive
users calling in (i.e. bbs, etc...).  Has anyone done this yet.  There
appear to be a lot of problems like if the com port is not set to 2400
when getty runs the login message and the modem get in an endless loop
of spitting garbage back and forth at each other.  I have a user who
wants to log in at 1200 and when the modem goes 'CONNECT 1200\R\N'
getty takes that as the login name (at 2400 baud) and callls login with
that name.  Login doesn't recognize the breaks so it can switch speeds.

What is the best solution?  Make login recognize the breaks?  I have
tried to write a simple shell script to act as getty but I don't think
the system wants to run a script at this early state.  I am not
up to rewriting getty until I find out if anybody else out there is
doing this.  This must be a very common configuration.  How do you
handle it?  

Please post responses via E-mail and I will post the best solution
(with kudos) to the net.  Remember to reply.  I have asked a few other
questions and had no responses.  I can't believe nobody knew the answers.

Your help is greatly appreciated,

    Kevin Haddock
    fish@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

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