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From: accapadi@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi)
Subject: Re: Rebooting 520 from kernel debugger
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:43:07 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Dec23.193338.3753@ico.isc.com> timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
>In the course of developing device drivers, I tend to crash the machine.
>I have the kernel debugger activated so that when the kernel panics, it
>drops into the debugger.
>
>Is there a way to reboot the machine by giving a command to the debugger
>rather than having to go downstairs and press the big yellow button?
>
>
>-- 
>Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
>Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect the
>Resource Solutions International | that of anyone else.

There's an option in SMIT (I believe it's System Environments,
Change Operating System Characteristics menu) which will cause the
machine to automatically reboot after a system crash.  If the
debugger is enabled, then typing in "go" or "quit" should also
do the trick after this option is enabled.
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From: michael@hal6000.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE (Michael Staats)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: /usr performance for 220's
Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:47:34 GMT
Organization: Theoretische Physik, Uni-GH-Duisburg, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal6000.uni-duisburg.de

davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis) writes:

>I've found that the default size transmit and receive queues pretty
>much throttles NFS performance (like 50K/s max read rate). Upping them
>to their max (default is 30 for both, max is 150 ) helps a lot - doing
>that we got more like 500K/s max read speed, but write speed is still
>a very low 150K/s. What's odd is that this _wasn't_ happening
>under 3.1.6, we had the default size queues and we were getting
>MUCH higher throughput ( 800K/s on read, 600K/s on writes).

Sounds very good. But how do I set the queue size?
Options rsize and wsize to mount?

Thanks for your help,
Michael
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From: nsysdbj@acs.ncsu.edu (David Joyner)
Subject: Re: Weird Ping Problem -- Hide 'n' Seek?
Organization: North Carolina State University
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:39:45 GMT

Ed Ravin (elr@trintex.uucp) wrote:
: 
: 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...
: 

You probably have a Cisco router in there somewhere and XID polls are
failing.  Call IBM and ask for the PTF containing IX25227.

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From: fisk@cvdv73.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: PCNFSD-2 implementation for AIX?
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:01:26 GMT
Reply-To: fisk@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN


Is there a PCNFSD-2 implementation for AIX V3.2?  If so, how does one go about
acquiring it?

Thanks!  Tom.

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From: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM (Frank Kraemer)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:02:03 CET
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re. Calendar Application
Reply-To: kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM Germany, BO-89 ACIS South
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: Usenet 3.0

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feats@feats.cc.vt.edu feats@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu writes:

>I have an RS/6000 POWERstation 220 running AIX 3.2.  I am looking for an
>X-windows based calendar application.  I need to keep track of important
>dates and meetings.  The only thing I have available now is PROFS on the
>IBM mainframe and that is going away fairly soon.

I'm using an 'IBM internal' tool called 'xdairy' - it's very
rich in function and much more powerful than PROFS. Ask your SE
about it, maybe he can contact the 'owner' and get it for you.


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From: jmmannin@eos.ncsu.edu (James M Manning)
Subject: NetWare printing...
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:31:25 GMT

Has anybody done rs6k to NetWare host printing?
I'm trying to dump to the laser printer of a netware
site and was wondering what I may be doing wrong.
I need to know exactly what the first field in /etc/printcap 
is used for, also.  Is it a local name or the remote name?
also, what should I know about the SMIT set-up that isn't obvious?
thanks for any help (Oh, and it's AIX 3.2.2)
James
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From: omar@malena.crs4.it (Omar G. Stradella)
Subject: Re: Where to get hex or binary file editor?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:37:23 GMT
Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv.Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia

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...
|> 

You can try "xvi" look it up in your favourite archie server.

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From: geuder@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Uwe Geuder)
Subject: process numbers
Organization: IPVR, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:50:12 GMT

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
for other versions/releases, too) process numbers are assigned
somewhat ramdomly.

Example (consecutive commands):


~> ps
   PID    TTY  TIME CMD
 11416  pts/0  0:04 -tcsh 
 12555  pts/0  0:02 ps 
~> ps
   PID    TTY  TIME CMD
 11416  pts/0  0:04 -tcsh 
 12556  pts/0  0:02 ps 
~> ps
   PID    TTY  TIME CMD
 11416  pts/0  0:04 -tcsh 
 12557  pts/0  0:02 ps 
~> date | ps
   PID    TTY  TIME CMD
 10767  pts/0  0:02 ps 
 11416  pts/0  0:04 -tcsh 
~> ps
   PID    TTY  TIME CMD
 10768  pts/0  0:02 ps 
 11416  pts/0  0:04 -tcsh 
~> ps
   PID    TTY  TIME CMD
 10769  pts/0  0:02 ps 
 11416  pts/0  0:04 -tcsh 

Is there any meaning behind process numbers in AIX?

Regards,

Uwe
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From: peter@deepthought.unm.edu (Peter Blemel)
Subject: Is -qextchk incompatable with varargs?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 03:14:18 GMT
Organization: Disorganization

I'm compiling a program that uses varargs. If I compile with -qextchk, the
linker/loader complains that my varargs function is used inconsistantly. I
have prototyped the function, is this not enough?

Or is -qextchk only useful to check programs without varargs?

Peter


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From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: bidirectional modem usage under AIX 3.2?
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:08:24 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

In article <schneck.724948544@Physik.TUMuenchen.DE> schneck@Physik.TUMuenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck) writes:
>Is it possible under AIX to use a modem for dialout *and* dialin? (Not
>at the same time of course, but without messing around with config files
>and/or SMIT every time)

Simply set the TTY to be in 'shared' or 'delayed' mode. In 'delayed' mode
you have to hit a key when dialing in to get the login banner.

>I've looked at the FAQ, but didn't find anything.  Also INFO seraches didn't
>help.

It's there (in info)...

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
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From: zhangd@acf3.NYU.EDU (zhangd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: modem behave abnormal!
Date: 3 Jan 93 23:52:00 GMT
Organization: New York University


Hi, there:

I tried to set up a modem ( for dialin and dialout ) on AIX 3.2 and everything seems easy and OK!
However, I frequently find the connection has some kind of wired behaviors, such as keyin "l"
and got an echo of some other character! while after refresh screen, I got the right output!
some time  I got a line line( 256 characters ) without any line-feed! etc. I double checked
line and modem ( brand new Intel high-speed SatisFaxtion modem running at 2400 bps ) 

Is this a known bug so I have to order an AIX fix for it? 

Thanks.


James Han
From: wacker@ampere.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Klaus Wacker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: NIS and Password Expiration
Date: 31 Dec 92 04:57:51 GMT

Can somebody explain how one can set up a password expiration policy
consistently in a NIS environment?

We have a NIS server and 6 clients. I have set maxage = 13 under
pw_restrictions in /etc/security/login.cfg on all 7 hosts. Suppose I
want to login on client1 with my password expired. I give first my old
password, then I choose a new one. client1 says: Password changed on
server. So far, so good. Now I want to login on client2. I am again
asked to change my password! When asked for the old password, I have
to type the new one and when asked for the new password I can type the
old one.

Things get even worse when I set minage non-zero (when minage is zero,
people can immediately change back to their old password, which
defeats the purpose of having a password expiration policy). In this
case I cannot login to client2 at all - client2 insists I change my
password and the server refuses any changed password.

The only liveable solution I found so far is to set maxage and minage
only on the server, but then people aren't really forced to ever
change their password. Does anybody have a better solution?

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From: bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling)
Subject: Re: Help Using HP Deskjet 550C color printer with RS/6000 AIX 3.2.1
Summary:  A little more info on the problem
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:12:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.192512.20470@news.nd.edu> bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling) writes:
>If anyone has had any luck with the above printer or knows where I might
>get a driver for it, I'd appreciate hearing from you.  Thanks.
>--
>Teresa Selling
>South Bend, IN


I guess I should have said a bit more about the above trouble I'm having.
I need to use the HP Deskjet 550C to do screen dumps.  Currently, I have
only been able to print text.  I have tried using the HP LaserJet drivers
included with AIX, but I only get blank paper back from the printer from
graphics screens.

What I did was to set the printer = to HP LaserJet III.  And configured the
virtual printer likewise.  This failed miserably.  Some sent a short
note saying to set the printer up as "other parallel printer, and to create
a virual printer for it.  But I'm not sure what to set the virtual printer
to...  A walk through of the procedures I might try to get this printer working
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
--
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South Bend, IN
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From: nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane)
Subject: DNS and .rhosts
Summary: adding simple host name, fully qualified - not working, only IP 
Keywords: DNS rhosts hosts.equiv
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:41:04 GMT

I finally got DNS up and running (well, sort of...it dies frequently on
my AIX system) and am now having trouble with .rhosts and /etc/hosts.equiv.
I remember a thread a while back that said you can put in numeric IP
addresses.  However, I don't want to have to do that.  I have tried
these formats and none work:

	hostname
	hostname	username
	hostname.domain.name
	hostname.domain.name	username

In my .rhosts.  The files are owned by individual users and have permissions
of 600, as info says to do.  I CAN make rsh/rlogin/etc. work IF I put
in numeric IP addresses.  My SE has said that even simple hostnames should
work because it should append the default domain to simple host names
in that file.

The System is a 350 running AIX 3.2 - and an odd number of ptf's, though
not up to 3.2.3.  Has anyone run into this before?

Thank you for any information.

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


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From: ajf@rchland.vnet.ibm.com ( Albert J. Fahey)
Subject: Missing subject header
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:48:03 GMT
Reply-To: ajf@euler.fishkill.ibm.com ( Albert J. Fahey)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

Sorry about this.		Test Test

Albert
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From: x41@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Werner Guenther)
Subject: Re: 'rcmd' to AIX System
Organization: University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:57:24 GMT

In article <tkevans.724784400@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com writes:
>SunOS and some other UNIX's have an 'rcmd' command, which does:
>
>rcmd - run a  remote  command  in  the  background,  without
>	 stdin, stdout, stderr.
>
>
>This works well from Sun to Sun, to do things like run xload from
>a remote system and display it on your local one.  Good for people
>who need to watch one or more remote systems load.
>
>When using 'rcmd'  to remotely execute commands on an RS/6000 running
>AIX 3.2.3, however, you get *two* instantiations of your command.
>For example, the following command generates two info displays on
>the local display:
>
>rcmd aixhost info -l techlib
>
>You can kill off one of them, leaving the other working just fine.
>Kinda a bother.

Well, I had the same problem. The solution was to change the '/bin/sh'
string in $rshargs in '/bin/ksh' and the problem disappeared.

Hope it helps,
Werner
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From: mguttman@tempest.wbme.jhu.edu (Mike Guttman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Will there be Motif/GL widgets?
Date: 1 Jan 93 21:24:14 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering


Does anyone know if the RS6000 has or will have a
Motif widget which one may treat as a GL window?

(here comes a nyah, nyah...) SGI has it and it works darn well!!

- Mike
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From: ewilson@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eliot Wilson)
Subject: Re: Looking for suggestions for Tape Backup?
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:08:21 GMT

In article <1254@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty) writes:
>
>Happy New Year!!!!! (almost :) ) 
>                   By the time this gets to some it will be a new year
>
>Greetings All,
>
>     We are currently looking to purchase a 8mm backup tape drive for our site.
>I was perusing  through the AIX FAQ for possible suggestions and saw that 
>only IBM's tape drive will work. We are looking to backup about 1.5 Gig on
>Suns and Rs6k. I have to check but I could have sworn that I saw a 8mm 
>advertised for IBM and SUNs is the FAQ correct? Anybody have any suggestions
>or warnings i should know being in the market for 8mm drives. 
>
>                                  Thanx in advance,
>
If your not set on getting an 8mm, IBM sells a 1/4" tape drive which
uses QIC-1000 tapes, and can store upto 1.2MB per cartridge. It has a
300KB/sec data transfer rate, which is 50% faster than the previous 1/4"
tape drive. When it was announced 9/22/92, it's list was about $2800.
Here is some info I found:
                            7207-012
                            --------
Announced                   9/22/92
Capacity (MB)                  1.2
Transfer rate (KB/sec)         300
ECC (Error Correction Code)    Yes
Downward compatibility         Yes
US Price                     $2800
Price/MB                     $2.33
Media (tape cartridge)     IBM 1.2
Media price (US)            $67.95
Media price/MB               $0.06

I'm not sure what factor the higher media price might have, but it sounds like
it might be a lower cost alternative for you. Good luck.
-ELiot

>                                  Ed Geraghty 
>
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From: jum@veeble.han.sub.org (Jens-Uwe Mager)
Subject: Data Link Provider Interface
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 19:24:56 GMT
Organization: veeble Hannover, W-Germany

I just stumbled over the dlpi interface supplied with AIX 3.2. As I have
quite a few network tracing utilities that work with DLPI I though I could
attempt to get them running. The info document is a bit thin on data link
providers, they refer to the specific provider documentation for address
formats. But info does not find anything on the dlpi drivers in /dev/dlpi
(en, et and tr on my system). Does anybody has any more information on
the sap formats used by DL_BIND on these devices? Also I would be interested
if DL_PROMISCON_REQ is supported.


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From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
Subject: S built?
Organization: University of Montana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:50:10 GMT

Has anyone sucessfully compiled the "S" statistics program from ATT
on an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.2?

Thanks.

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From: spider@hercules.kgn.ibm.com (Gregory Scallan)
Subject: Re: GL PTF?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 20:01:29 GMT
Reply-To: spider@hercules.kgn.ibm.com (Gregory Scallan)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY

>     I remember seeing here recently a posting about a PTF to fix
>various problems with the GL software, but didn't save it at the time.
>
>     Could someone please let me know what the PTF was so that I can try and
>get the fix?


PTF U410118 has alot of gl fixes in it to date.  Also, if on a gt4 or
gt4x running GL, you may also want to get the related microcode for
thos adapters, which is in U411244.

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From: agw@dsm.fordham.edu (Art Werschulz)
Subject: layers
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:59:42 GMT

Hi.

I am trying to build the "layers" program on an IBM RS/6000 running
AIX 3.2.2. 

From the manpage ...

          MacLayers provides multi-window capability for a Macintosh
          (greater than 128K) connected to a host UNIX(TM) system with
          sockets support. Each window may be associated with a shell,
          login to a different host, or an individual command.
          Complete facilities are available for controlling the window
          and the associated host processes attached thereto.

          To use MacLayers, you must have the MacLayers vt-100
          terminal emulation program on a Macintosh and the layers
          protocol program installed on your Unix host.

I was able to compile the layers protocol program using bsdcc.
Unfortunately, layers requires /etc/ttys, which doesn't exist on AIX.
Does anybody know how to fix layers so it works under IAX?  Failing
that, any general pointers on where to go next?

Thanks.

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