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From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Subject: Re: process numbers
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:07:20 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Uwe Geuder) writes:
>In nearly all Unixes I've seen so far process numbers are assigned
>consecutively. Thereby process numbers give an indication of the
>process creation rate, which is an interesting factor of system
>utilization. However, in AIX (at least in 3.2, but I think it holds

My understanding is that it was done for security reasons.  Any casual
user can figure out if system activity is high by forking a process and
looking at the current pid of that process, even if they don't have
permissions to execute 'ps.'

On some super secret military machine this would allow Joe-user to
figure out when all the missiles were being launched, (since that
no doubt requires forking lots of processes.)

That's the (ir)rational behind that one, or so the rumour goes.

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From: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: IBM named vs. BIND in netstat
Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:20:06 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


	Under AIX 3.1.5, when I do a netstat -r with the BIND 4.8.1 named
active, the command prints the header line and basically goes off into
never-never land, but if I use the IBM named, it works perfectly. Has
anyone else using the BIND nameserver under AIX seen such behavior or
can anyone suggest a fix for this problem?

								-Craig
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How to statically link on AIX 3.2?
Date: 29 Dec 92 19:21:22 GMT
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <37275@sophia.inria.fr> mallet@gaia.inria.fr (Lionel Mallet) writes:
>Anyone has a trick to do the equivalent of -Bstatic on Sun?

xlc -bnso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp -liconv -bnodelcsect 

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jirwin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jay Todd Irwin)
Subject: Slave printing through LOTUS using a WYSE
Summary: Need to Find a way to slave print from a WYSE 50 terminal to a Laserjep
Keywords: LOTUS, SLAVE, PRINT, SHELL SCRIPT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:30:54 GMT

Help!

  I must have this done by Christmas and I'm not sure where to start.  I'm doing
this for the Colorado Buffaloes football Administration and they need it before
they go to the Fiesta Bowl.  Anyhow, Here is some information....

  We've got an RS6000 with some terminals that are emulating Adds Viewpoint.
What we are going to have is a Laserjet printer Plugged into the Aux Port of
the terminal and we want to be able to print from LOTUS for UNIX.  I figure
that this can be done best through a Shell Script that will freeze up the 
terminal and then send the slave print command to the terminal and then send
the print file.

  I'm not sure exactly how to do this (ie.  what escape sequence to send) but
if there is anyone out there who has some experience doing this, a reply would
be much appreciated.

ps: I know this can be done as we have Word Perfect for Unix and It works just
fine with that.  I just don't know how Word Perfect did it.

Thanks in Advance!!
Jay Irwin

jirwin@lancelot.colorado.edu
(303)492-7146
From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: patches to XLC beyond AIX 3.2.3?
Date: 30 Dec 92 05:49:27 GMT
Organization: western geophysical exploration products
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In-reply-to: jacobsen@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov's message of 29 Dec 92 15:59:57 GMT

>>>>> On 29 Dec 92 15:59:57 GMT, jacobsen@bnlls1.nsls.bnl.gov (Chris Jacobsen) said:

	Chris> I'm having some problems with shareable objects written
	Chris> for the CALL_EXTERNAL function of IDL from Research
	Chris> Systems Inc.  In fact, I think I've traced my problems
	Chris> down to some flakiness in the XLC compiler.  Are there
	Chris> any PTFs for it beyond what's in AIX 3.2.3 (August 1992
	Chris> version)?

If you give Support a call, there is a later version of xlc than 1.2

if you do a what on /usr/lpp/xlc/xlcentry, mine is 1.2.0.22
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From: u312011@twncu865.ncu.edu.tw
Subject: Please ignore the '1', Sorry .
Organization: Computer Center, NCU, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:09:00 GMT

Dear All Users :

    Please ignore the subject '1' of that message. It's my test VAX 'post'
 command, but I don't know where it goes. At last I find it's here.

    Sorry for my mistake.

    Albert Tseng
    u312011@twncu865.ncu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hosseino@yu1.yu.edu (Joshua Hosseinof)
Subject: Adding memory to X-station
Organization: Yeshiva University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:34:56 GMT
X-Posted-From: yu1.yu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

We recently upgraded the memory in our RS/6000 and decided that we would
put the old memory into one of our X-stations to speed it up and
have it crash less often.  IBM said that the X-station wouldn't be able
to use any of the memory from the RS/6000.  When we put it in, it would
only recognize the first 1.5 megs of memory, and it would have errors
reading past that first 1.5 megs.  Anybody have any suggestions on
how to get it to recognize more of the memory?  I wasn't actually
involved in the installation, but if anyone who can help me
needs more details, I can find out those details for you.  Thanks in
advance.



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Subject: Re:    help
NntpPostingHost: cdsac
Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:43:42 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA

In article <92358.123359BILMIN@TREARN.BITNET> <BILMIN@TREARN.BITNET> writes:
>Hello .
>
>What is the difference between tar and tar.Z files ?
>
>What is ps.Z file ?

".Z" is a cannonicalized suffix for files run through the 'compress' utility.
To decompress them, just run the 'uncompress' utility on them, and you will
be left with an uncompressed file without the ".Z".

Hope this helps,

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
From: walter@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu (Chris Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Problem debugging g++ compiled code with gdb.
Date: 23 Dec 1992 06:55:58 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cithe502.cithep.caltech.edu
Originator: walter@cithe502.cithep.caltech.edu

Hi Folks,

First off I am running AIX3.2 on an RS6000.

I recently started programming in C++ so I got and installed
g++/libg++.(gcc 2.3.2/libg++ 2.3).  Everything seems to be working
fine.  Of course I soon wanted to debug my programs....  So I went and
got gdb 4.7.  Everything in the make went fine and there were no complaints
during the procedure.

gdb seems to work OK on small C programs compiled with gcc but I am
having problems debugging C++ code compiled(-g of course) with g++.

Here is an example of what happens when I try to load a executable:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
cithe502:wfd > gdb
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
 under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.7, Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(gdb) file monte
Reading symbols from monte...GDB Error: `.bf' not found.
GDB Error: `.bf' not found.
done.
(gdb)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

And here is the same thing for what I thought was a simpler program:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
cithe502:flux > gdb
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
 under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.7, Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(gdb) file flux
Reading symbols from flux...GDB Error: `.bf' not found.
GDB Error: `.bf' not found.

Catastrophe in realloc: invalid storage ptr
IOT trap (core dumped)
cithe502:flux > 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

In addition, the first program, which it allows me to load, starts in the
middle of the routine if I tell it to "break main".  It sets the
breakpoint something like halfway down the routine.

Any suggestions happily accepted!

-Chris Walter
From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Reading/Writing to mac disks.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 10:06:33 PST
Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.com
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5


In article <1992Dec22.235127.6926@samba.oit.unc.edu> (comp.unix.aix), Anu.Kapoor@launchpad.unc.edu (Anu Kapoor) writes:
> I was wondering if there was anything akin to doswrite and read that would
> let my school's RS/6000 350 read/write mac disks? I doubt it but if there
> is please mail me with the info.
> 

It's easier to get your Mac to read and write PC disks. I use Apple's Macintosh
PC Exchange, available from any Apple dealer for about $100 (I think). It's
an init that lets you mount PC disks just like Mac disks, and then automatically
performs name conversions on copies to and from.

  -mel

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dgogates@eberry ()
Subject: Re: Weird Ping Problem -- Hide 'n' Seek?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:09:51 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin
Keywords: tcp ping

In article <1992Dec21.225309.28390@trintex.uucp> elr@trintex.uucp (Ed Ravin) writes:
>I've got the strangest problem trying to communicate between two RS/6000's.
>They're networked to each other via token ring and a couple of bridges.
>
>Let's call these two machines A and B.  Everything was wonderful until one
>day, some connections and configurations were moved around.  I signed on to
>machine A and tried to ping machine B.  No response.  I called up the admin
>of machine B on the phone.  He said, "Let me try pinging you..."  He signs on
>to machine B and pings me.  It works fine.  I then go back to machine A
>and try pinging B again.  Much to my amazement, now it works, but after several
>minutes (haven't nailed down the exact length of time it takes) if I don't
>reference machine B in any way, it fails again.
>
>The admin from B was skeptical, so I came down to his machine and started up
>two X windows.  The first one I left at the regular command prompt, and the
>second one I telnetted to machine A, but via two indirect hops so as not to
>create a direct path between B and A.  From that window, I said "ping B", and
>it hung there, timing out.  I then switched to the local window on B, with
>the sysop watching, and said "ping A".  Immediately, both windows began
>scrolling with successful pings.
>
>Anyone out there have some ideas?  The folks in charge of the token ring
>bridges claim everything works, and that traffic should pass equally in
>both directions.  I've looked through B's routing tables, but I can't find
>anything that explains why locally originated pings would work while remote
>ones go unanswered...

This is a real common problem when router and bridges are concerned.  Most likely
the bridge/routes updtes it routes every once in a while by seding out "test" or
"xid" broadcast packets.  When a machine responds the route is added to routers
route tabel.  If no response is heard from a machine for a long time, the route
is dropped.  Early version of the 3.1 and 3.2 token ring device drivers did not
respond correctly to the XID and TEST packets if only TCP/IP were running on it.
Contact you IBM support rep and get the updated token ring device driver.  This should
solv your routing problems.  Also you can have the admin for the router add the route 
as a static route rather than thru a dynamic method.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ingoldsb@cuug.ab.ca (Terry Ingoldsby)
Subject: Does RS6000 Telnet pass LF or CR?
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Summary: Telnet passes LF when CR is typed
Keywords: Telnet, CR/LF, modem
Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:51:25 GMT

Has anyone else run into this weird bug?  We have some modems hooked up to
a terminal server.  You can (from any machine on the network except the
RS6000's) telnet to the terminal server and instruct it to connect you to the
modem.  THen you can do AT command strings to your hearts content.

On the RS6000, however, after the connection is made to the modem AT commands
are ignored because (and the proof was obtained from an RS232 datascope) when
the Return key is pressed on the RS6000 keyboard, the LineFeed character is
actually transmitted.  Unless we change the modem's EOL character (using another
non-AIX system) we can't make the modem recognize the commands.

At first I assumed that a little playing with stty would fix the problem.  We
told stty to disable CR to LF translation (which seemed to work since
everything, even telnet command mode echo'd ^M when the return key was pressed).
Unfortunately, the datascope continued to show that LineFeed was transmitted
when the Carriage Return key was pressed.

It appears that the reason this bug only shows up on the modem is that when
telnet'ing to other UNIX systems, they accept LF as an EOL terminator.

Has anyone run into this?  Is there a fix?

Terry Ingoldsby
The City of Calgary  DPSD/LIS

All opinions are my own!

ingoldsb@ctycal.cuug.ab.ca


Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: cpcahil@vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: memory leak detection
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:19:11 GMT

crgreg@rios1.sdrc.com (Greg Marion) writes:

>I would like to know if anyone has heard of any software that would assist
>developers in detecting when an application allocates memory and does
>not free it. We would have to know which routine/function and maybe
>a range of line numbers that are suspect.

Our SENTINEL Debugging Environment is currently shipping for AIX 3.2 on
RS6000 systems.  SENTINEL performs runtime memory access checking including
access outside of bounds, access to freed areas, memory leaks, access
to uninitialized data areas, etc.  Whenever a problem is found, you are
given a complete stack trace (including function name, file name, and line
number) of where the problem was detected and where the data area was
allocated (if the problem is associated with an error).

Send email if you would like more information.

Conor
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: jeff@wsm.com (Jeff Johnson)
Subject: Deciphering IBM/AIX SCSI Sense data to ANSI SCSI Sense data
Organization: Western Scientific
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:26:10 GMT

[ Article crossposted from comp.periphs.scsi ]
[ Author was Jeff Johnson ]
[ Posted on Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:06:22 GMT ]


Hello,

	Has anyone been able to decipher a correlation between ANSI Spec SCSI
Extended Sense Data and the Sense Data that is returned by IBM's AIX SCSI
Disk drive Diagnostics Routine?

	The data returned by the AIX diagnostics looks like HEX data but
its in a four digit format instead of typical two digit HEX data that
correlates to the Extended Sense Data Format.

	Below is the data from the AIX SCSI Diagnostics utility. If anyone can
find a key to deciphering it or how the data is grouped I'd appreciate it.
The subject drive is a Seagate Elite 1 ST41600N which conforms to ANSI SCSI-2
and Sense Data Format:

>>>START OF AIX SENSE DATA<<<

Detail Data
SENSE DATA
0603 0000 0801 F770 2000 0000 0800 0000 0102 0000 F000 0100 01F7 800A 0000 0000
1700 0080 0007 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 075E 0001 1080

>>>END OF AIX SENSE DATA<<<

If anyone has any ideas on how to read the above data into anything close to 
SCSI Request Sense Data I'd really like to hear it.

Reply by Email to jeff@wsm.com preferably. If I(WE) manage to figure it out
I'll post the results.

-Jeff Johnson
 Western Scientific
 jeff@wsm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: gekrol@cyf-kr.edu.pl (Andrzej Krol )
Subject: a RS6000 stack frame
Organization: Academic Computer Centre, CYFRONET
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:35:54 GMT


Hello,

I need some information about RS6000 stack frame. I am trying to use
setjmp and longjmp function (or write own ones [_setjmp _longjmp]) and
I'd like to know a mapof typical stack frame, where are pushed stack pointer,
frame pointer, condition register ... etc. on the stack.
Thanx in advance for help.
Please send answer to email address:
          genda@lily.ics.agh.edu.pl

Andrzej Krol
University of Mining & Metallurgy
Institute of Computer Science
Al. Mickiewicza 30
30-059 KRAKOW
POLAND
email: genda@lily.ics.agh.edu.pl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ewilson@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eliot Wilson)
Subject: Re: Hostid on RS/6000
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:41:55 GMT

In article <36950@sophia.inria.fr> amara@delta.inria.fr (Fethi AMARA) writes:
>Hi,
>does the hostid command under AIX 3.1 (or 3.2) on RS/6000 returns a hard
>coded value (same on sparc).
>
>Thanks.
>Fethi.

No. The value can be set by root. Here's text from the man page under AIX 3.2.2

  The hostid command displays the identifier (either a unique host
  name or a numeric argument) of the current  local host as a hexa-
  decimal  number.   This numeric value is expected  to  be  unique
  across all  hosts  and is commonly set to the address of the host
  specified by the InternetAddress or HostName parameter.  The root
  user can set the hostid command by specifying a hexadecimal
  number for the HexNumber, InternetAddress, or HostName parameter.
  The host id is set to the hostname by the /etc/rc.net file.

For a similar constant value under AIX 3.x look at 'uname -m'. 

-ELiot


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From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Adding memory to X-station
Date: 27 Dec 92 21:44:19 GMT
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign

hosseino@yu1.yu.edu (Joshua Hosseinof) writes:

>We recently upgraded the memory in our RS/6000 and decided that we would
>put the old memory into one of our X-stations to speed it up and
>have it crash less often.  IBM said that the X-station wouldn't be able
>to use any of the memory from the RS/6000.  When we put it in, it would
>only recognize the first 1.5 megs of memory, and it would have errors
>reading past that first 1.5 megs.  Anybody have any suggestions on
>how to get it to recognize more of the memory?  

I don't believe that you should expect RS/6000 memory (except model 220)
to be able to work in the Xstation at all.  Perhaps someone would like to
swap with you...

The Xstation and the 220 use the same memory SIMMs used in PS/2's and
(I believe) many other PC's.
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IBM Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: Where to get hex or binary file editor?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:38:07 GMT
Reply-To: chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran)
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division

In article <01050810.l1a7a5@mbeckman.mbeckman.com>, mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman) writes:
|> I need to edit binary data in a file. I'd prefer hex notation, but I'll
|> accept anything. Is there an RS/6000 binary file editor available?
|> I hate to write my own...
I use beav, which was posted to comp.sources.misc in volume 26, issue 37.
This editor has insert/delete capability too. It uses an emacs
editing model.

If you dont need insert delete, you can be by with using adb, which
is the assembler debugger. However, adb is quite difficult to use, as
most asm debuggers should be :-)
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From: amara@delta.inria.fr (Fethi AMARA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Hostid on RS/6000
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:51:46 GMT
Reply-To: amara@delta.inria.fr (Fethi AMARA)
Organization: MALIN Project (MultiAlphabetism and multiLingualism in INformatics)   -- INRIA/Sophia Antipolis

Hi,
does the hostid command under AIX 3.1 (or 3.2) on RS/6000 returns a hard
coded value (same on sparc).

Thanks.
Fethi.
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mail: P.B. 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex / France