HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alan@sal.wisc.edu (Alan Watson)
Subject: Re: Kill Session Manager on a Ultrix workstation
Keywords: kill session manager
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison WI
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:15:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.142356@abds9.aberdeen.chevron.com> emjga@aberdeen.chevron.com writes:
>I would like to be able to kill the Session Manager and all its 
>sup-process without having to click on the Session manager window
>and select the quit option.
>
>Currently I have a small script called xsmkill to do this.
>#!/bin/csh
>set x = `ps -aux | grep $USER | grep dxsession | awk '{print $2}'`
>kill -9 $x

You need to filter out the grep (or awk) command from the output of ps,
and it is more gentle to send SIGTERM rather than SIGKILL.

#! /bin/sh
PID=`ps -ax | awk '/dxsession/ && !/awk/ {print $1}'`
kill -TERM $PID
# end-of-file

You only need to grep on $USER if you are running a twin-headed 5000/25.
From: mjr@TIS.COM (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: malloc debugging
Keywords: malloc debug
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:16:55 GMT
Reply-To: mjr@TIS.COM
Distribution: usa
Organization: Trusted Informations Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Dec17.204334.25765@gca.com> boyle@gca.com (David Boyle) writes:
>Can anyone suggest a malloc library that works with Ultrix 4.2 which
>supplies functionality similar to the malloc_debug/malloc_verify routines
>supplies with SunOs?

	I'm not sure what the SunOS stuff does, but I've found "mprof" to
be pretty handy. Among other nice things it gives you a memory allocation
callout that shows where leaks were (and their call tree). It doesn't do
quite as much as Purify does, but then Purify doesn't work on ULTRIX. You
can get mprof from decuac.dec.com, in pub/sources/mprof*

mjr.
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From: lgzanl@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andrew Leason)
Subject: Background
Reply-To: lgzanl@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andrew Leason)
Organization: University of Nottingham, UK
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:17:58 GMT


Dear net,

This should be straight forward. Is there an 
entry for a file such as .Xdefaults which can
display an image file as the background for a
users session. There was recently a posting
giving the resources

*logoFile:
and
*logoFullScreen:

the documentation to which I couldn't find
and so there may be other similar resources.

I'm running on a DECstation 5000/200 with
Ultrix 4.2A.

Thanks
Andy.
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Andrew Leason                       Department of Geography,
                                    University of Nottingham,
e-mail: lgzanl@uk.ac.nott.vax       United Kingdom.

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From: don@grc.genroco.com (Don Woelz)
Subject: VT220 termcap and vi
Organization: GENROCO, Inc.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:55:45 GMT

This question probably reveal my ignorance, but here goes anyway....

Background:
We are running a DECsystem 5000/120 with ULTRIX 4.2A.  We are
running a couple of terminal servers on ethernet to give us a 16
user system.  There are a mixture of DEC VT220 terminals and VT220
clones connected for normal user logins.  The clones all seem to
have a specific <ESCAPE> key that returns the ASCII ESC character.
The DEC VT220 terminals have a key labeled F11(ESC) and no other key
that would indicate an ESC function.  This F11 key does not return
a nomal ASCII ESC, but instead gives a sequence of characters
starting with an ESC.

Problem:
When in vi (or any other program expecting an ESC character) using
one of the DEC VT220 terminals, how do you generate an ESC with a
single keystroke (other than ^[)?  Or is there a way to change the
termcap (or whatever) for the VT220 terminal so that it will deal
properly with the string of characters generated?


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From: rince@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (James Bonfield)
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault when listing all processes 
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:13:16 GMT

In <1992Dec17.085159.7728@imec.be> elsen@imec.be (Marc  Elsen) writes:
y

> 
>  - In VAX Ultrix 4.2 on a 3900 I sometimes (intermittent) get
>  
>    % ps aux
>    Segmentation fault
> 
>   Has anyone seen this before ?

I've seen the problem (and posted it here) before on A Dec5000/240 running
Ultrix 4.2. It's possible to force the problem too. Imagine the following
scenario:

jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& cat a.c
main() {
    vfork();
    pause();
}
jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& ps
  PID TT STAT   TIME COMMAND
[ fairly long process list ommited ]
jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& cc a.c
jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& ./a.out &
[1] 13671
jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& ps
  PID TT STAT   TIME COMMAND
Segmentation fault
jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& kill %1
[1]+  Terminated              ./a.out
jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& ps
  PID TT STAT   TIME COMMAND
[ working process list once more ]
jkb@rutland[home3/jkb]& 

	Unfortunately I do not know of any solution. The problem you have
could easily be the same. If, intermittently, other users create processes of
the same type, and you try to examine their processes using 'ps aux'. I'm not
sure precisely which status the process is in that causes ps to die. There are
other processes (eg pagedaemon) in disk wait (D).


-- 
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From: epeisach@athena.mit.edu (Ezra Peisach)
Subject: Sound board on DECstation 5000/25 (Maxine)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:21:12 GMT


Question: Do you need to order the XMedia kit in order to use the audio
board on the Maxines? There is a pin-out in the hardware manual, but no
indication of software. I looked in the FAQ and found nothing relevant.

Any info would be appreciated.

Feel free to send me mail directly.

	Ezra 
	epeisach@mit.edu
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From: sprute@dsf58a.desy.de (Lars Sprute)
Subject: non secure root login
Organization: DESY, Hamburg, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:24:53 GMT

I would like to login as root via telnet or LAT, but this, as the error message
says, requires a secure terminal. I'd like to circumvent that, but how ?
(My machine isn't that important, so I don't like the constraint of a secure
terminal.)

Thanks,

Lars

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From: gary@resumix.portal.com (Gary M. Lin)
Subject: Re: Modem setup - Ultrix 4.3/DECstation 5000/240
Keywords: modem getty uucp
Organization: Resumix Inc.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 06:10:08 GMT

tpitman@eniac.san.uc.edu (Tom Pitman) writes:

>Hello, We're having a bit of a problem getting a modem set up reliably
>on a DECstation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.3.

No, you're not just dreaming.  Our company, which markets vertical systems,
has horrendous experiences with DEC's and modems.  Part of my support job
involves remote dial-up to customer's sites, making reliable connectivity
critical.

My boss had DEC engineers here to disprove it wasn't ULTRIX's fault.  Eventual-
ly they managed to get a DEC engineer to admit their getty is brain-damaged.


>We have a US Robotics Courier Dual Standard v.32 modem that we are trying
>to hook up to the serial port to provide dial-up & dial-out service.

No difference for Telebits either.  The only guarantee from them was complete
compatibility with DEC modems, not exactly what we want to hear.


>The problem that we're having is that the DTR keeps cycling up and down.
>It generally stays up for about 30 seconds, then down for about 30 seconds.
>(This isn't a huge problem, but for our incoming UUCP feeds, they sometimes
>have to redial up to 10 times to get connected.)

Sometimes you dial-in and get straight connections, other times you repeat the
process endlessly, and DTR disappears mid-connection.  Then getty locks up and
you wait for indeterminable periods of time for it to clear up.  Obviously,
it's ULTRIX, because we use the exact hardware for Suns without a glitch.
This situation is so out of hand, we no longer suggest customers purchase an
ULTRIX-based system.


- Gary M. Lin
Support Engineer, Resumix, Inc.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:8949 comp.unix.misc:4618
From: gshapiro@monkeyboy.WPI.EDU (Gregory Neil Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Ultrix newfs/mkfs -- can't change number of inodes?!
Date: 18 Dec 92 08:31:35
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
NNTP-Posting-Host: monkeyboy.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:00:20 GMT

>>>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:00:20 GMT, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) said:

jbotz> I've been trying to make a filesystem with more inodes (my news
jbotz> partition is chronically short of them), and can't figure out
jbotz> how to make it happen.  I'm running Ultrix 4.2a RISC on a
jbotz> DS3100 and using RZ57s.  'newfs' is supposed to take "-i
jbotz> <bytes/inode", but no matter what I specify it always creates
jbotz> the same number of inodes (4,096 in my experimental 16MB
jbotz> partition.)  I also tried using mkfs directly but no dice...

I just called DEC yesterday on this and they faxed me the solution.
Normally, to create more inodes you have to drop the number of
cylinders per group and decrease inode density:

newfs -n -v -c 8 -i 1024 /dev/rrz2g RZ55

However, trying this won't work on RZ57s and RZ58s since newfs says
you have to use multiples of 16 for the cylinder per group number.
However, they gave me this which doubles the number of inodes:

newfs -n -v -b 4096 -c 8 -i 512 /dev/rz3g RZ58

The same will work for the RZ57 (substitute RZ57 for RZ58).

Greg

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                       Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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From: vsarkela@convex.csc.FI (Vesa S{rkel{)
Subject: Re: Whois(1) command.
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 21:07:17 GMT

In <Bz1tt8.3EC@cda.mrs.umn.edu> naras@cda.mrs.umn.edu (B. Narasimhan) writes:

>I see that I have a man page for whois, but I don't seem
>to have the binary on my path.  Any pointers?

whois is on the unsupported tape...

>-- 
>B. Narasimhan                             naras@cda.mrs.umn.edu
>Division of Science and Math.
>The University of Minnesota at Morris
>Morris, MN 56267

Vesa Sarkela                       Keskuslaboratorio Oy
vsarkela@convex.csc.fi   Finnish Pulp & Paper Research Institute
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu (R. Lee Hawkins)
Subject: Changing icon graphics in motif?
Organization: Wellesley College
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:43:49 GMT

Hi all:
I'd like to be able to change the default graphic image on various
xterm windows that I run with the -e option to better reflect the app
that is actually running in them.  We're running Ultrix v4.3 and Motif
v1.1.3.  I've tried things like:

	xterm -xrm '*iconImage: ~lhawkins/test' -e appname

where test is a graphic created by bitmap(1X).  This had no effect
whatsoever.  Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
--Lee
________________________________________________________________________________
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Department of Astronomy     		        lhawkins@lucy.wellesley.edu
Whitin Observatory         		      	    
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mbg@world.std.com (Megan B Gentry)
Subject: Re: non secure root login
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:29:05 GMT


Why not log in using your normal account and then su to root?

					Megan

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
Subject: Re: ultrix 4.2: chgrp/chown problems on an NFS client
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:25:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.160418.1@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca>, rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca writes:
... 
|> we've discovered what appears to be an anomaly with the use of chgrp
|> and/or chown to change the group on a file. this appears to work fine on 
|> a locally-attached disk, but not an NFS client. 

I reported the anomalous behaviour of chgrp to the local CSC some time ago.
Whilst they were reluctant to admit that the behaviour contradicts that
documented in the manpages, they did agree that it didn't seem quite
right. It helped a bit when I pointed out that it all worked as expected
in SunOS.

I was told that it would be passed on to Ultrix Engineering as an SPR.

I would encourage the original poster (and anybody else concerned about it)
to report the bug via official channels. The more people report it, the more
seriously they are likely to take it.
-- 
Martyn Johnson      maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Computer Lab
Cambridge UK
Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:8829 comp.sys.sun.hardware:6191
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: WANTED: format.dat for DEC RZ56 650 Mb SCSI Drv
Date: 11 Dec 92 13:37:02
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: thendara.pa.dec.com
In-reply-to: rfrost@spam.adelaide.edu.au's message of 11 Dec 92 04:15:02 GMT




In article <RFROST.92Dec11144502@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au> rfrost@spam.
adelaide.edu.au (Richard Frost) writes:


>> I wish to connect a DEC RZ56 650 MB SCSI drive to a _SUN_.

>> I would like a format.dat or gemoetry specifications.

>> Thanks.

>> please EMAIL replies to address below.

  
Richard,

  If you contact your local Micropolis distributor they should be able to tell
you what the Sun model number is for the RZ56. I believe that they sell it to
both of our companies. You may want to check on the firmware with them (they
may have a Sun variant of it that they recommend...or they may just use the
same one we do).

  I'll post this back to you by email as well.

I hope that helps.

				Thanx,
				  AJ


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From: chow@cssn07.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow,SSC, (214) 708-6212)
Subject: getnodebyname <-- where is libdnet.a?
Reply-To: chow@cssn07.ssc.gov
Organization: SSCL
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:11:24 GMT

Hi,
   I have a problem of linking a program.
I got a library from the vendor.  And
this library calls getnodebyname().
The vendor said this function should be
in the library called libdnet.a.  I tried
to find it but I couldn't.  Would anyone please
give me a hand on this?

Thanks,
Ivan
From: white@trantor.cs.unc.edu (Brian T. White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Swap area on Dec5000
Date: 18 Dec 92 14:22:06 GMT

Shaheen R Tonse writes:

> A colleague tells me that it is useless to just make new b partitions and 
> expect the system to know that they are available for swap area, unless one 
> somehow re-compiles this information into the kernel. Is this true, and if 
> so, is it "easy" to do?


Yes, it is pretty easy.  Edit /usr/sys/conf/mips/kernelname, changing
the line that looks like

config          vmunix  root on rz0a  swap on rz0b    dumps on rz0b 

to look like this:

config          vmunix  root on rz0a  swap on rz0b and rz1b    dumps on rz0b 


Then execute

	config kernelname
	cd ../../MIPS/kernelname
	make depend
	make
	mv /vmunix /vmunix.old
	mv vmunix /vmunix


You will also have to add a line like this to /etc/fstab:

/dev/rz1b::sw:1:1:ufs::



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From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Ultrix newfs/mkfs -- can't change number of inodes?!
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:46:30 GMT


In article <BzFv8K.JEJ@mtholyoke.edu>, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>
> [ Customer observes the relatively common problem of the -i option
>   of newfs/mkfs not working... ]
>
>Is it me or is it broken?  Could someone lend me a clue, please?  ;-)

Clue: grep MAXIPG /usr/include/ufs/fs.h

Mkfs limits the number of inodes per group this value.  I think there's
a table in one of the file system data strucutres that is affected by
the limit.  The clue help track down the table.

Given the limit, the only way to increase the number of inodes
per file system is to increase the number of cylinder groups
in the file system.  This is a fairly simple exercise of playing
with the geometry.

>--
>Jurgen Botz
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Xws unaligned access fixups in 4.3
Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:55:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nobozo.cs.berkeley.edu

We're also seeing a lot of these.
--
Anything you read here is my opinion and in no way represents the Univ. of Cal.
Jon Forrest WB6EDM	 forrest@postgres.berkeley.edu	 510-643-6764
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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: getnodebyname <-- where is libdnet.a?
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:48:01 GMT

chow@cssn07.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow,SSC, (214) 708-6212) writes:

>Hi,
>   I have a problem of linking a program.
>I got a library from the vendor.  And
>this library calls getnodebyname().
>The vendor said this function should be
>in the library called libdnet.a.  I tried
>to find it but I couldn't.  Would anyone please
>give me a hand on this?


"getnodebyname" is indeed in libdnet.a . Your problem is most likely
that you do not have DECnet installed. "libdnet.a" is a DECnet library.


Charlie
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From: andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: run GOPHERD from rc.local
Date: 12 Dec 1992 03:15:26 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Ezra Peisach (epeisach@athena.mit.edu) wrote:

+ I would add about 5 lines to the program to 
+ 	a) Setuid/gid gohperd - don't let it run as root

	I was under the impression there was an undocumented
optional field that allowed one to specify to inetd who the
process should run as. I know for a fact this works under OSF/1,
but I'm not sure about under Ultrix. Anyway, trying having a
username as the fifth field, and pushing the other back one, and
see if it works.

Cya,
	Andrew.

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From: mccoy@pixar.com (Dan McCoy)
Subject: Re: ANSI C compiler for DECstation Ultrix 4.3
Organization: Pixar - Pt. Richmond, CA USA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:39:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.143551.3464@nic.csu.net> sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes:
>We have a DECstation 3100 with Ultrix 4.3
>I wonder if there is ANSI C compiler for this op. sys/machine
>(either from DEC or somewhere else)

The C++ compiler that DEC sells comes with an ansi C compiler as part
of the package.  It works for me.

There's also gcc.  
It's free, but you have to ftp it and build from source.
(Or get it from a kind soul who's already built it and willing to pass it on.)

Dan McCoy     mccoy@pixar.com
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From: lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu (R. Lee Hawkins)
Subject: Contrib. X clients for Ultrix v4.3/X11R4?
Organization: Wellesley College
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:39:21 GMT

I'm looking for a source of the following contributed xclients that will
compile under Ultrix v4.3/X11R4: 

	xcolors
	xphoon
	xmeter

 The versions in the contrib dir of 
X11R5 give errors like:

	Make:  Don't know how to make /usr/lib/libXext.a.  Stop.

If there is a way around this error, that would be fine too.

Thanks in advance,
--Lee
________________________________________________________________________________
R. Lee Hawkins	 	    			lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu
Department of Astronomy     		        lhawkins@lucy.wellesley.edu
Whitin Observatory         		      	    
Wellesley College				Ph. 617-283-2708
Wellesley, MA 02181				FAX 617-283-3642
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From: nsf@crl.dec.com (Neil Fishman)
Subject: Re: SLIP help?
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:58:26 GMT

I'm not familiar with the Telebit modems, but we've had problems trying to use
modems that compress data to get speeds > 9600 baud.  It seems that the 
compression algorithms that are used channelize the phone line and essentially
become half duplex (which works well when you're trying to send large amounts
of data in one direction).   We observed all sorts of unexpected trouble when
trying to use these higher speeds.  Hope this helps!
-- 
Neil Fishman					Cambridge Research Lab
nsf@crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.