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From: boehme@unvax.union.edu (Eric M. Boehm)
Subject: How do I mount a floppy disk - novice or FAQ question
Keywords: floppy, filesystem mount
Reply-To: Eric.Boehm@union.edu
Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:22:56 GMT

I know this is a novice question but my experience is with SunOS, BSD
and Ultrix. I can't seem to mount a floppy disk. I have formatted the
diskette and created a filesystem. When I try to mount the disk I get
complaints about unable to determine log device or unable to mount
device.

Volume groups seem to apply only to hard disk (at least that's all I
can determine from InfoExplorer). I can't find examples of mounting
floppy diskettes.

This is an RS/6000 running AIX 3.1


-- 
Eric M. Boehm
Eric.Boehm@union.edu
BOEHME@UNION.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: sycheng@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Hsiao-Yang Cheng)
Subject: system timezone problem
Reply-To: sycheng@csie.nctu.edu.tw
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, Chiao Tung U., Taiwan, ROC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:12:56 GMT


  Hi :

    Our OS is AIX 3.2.2. Our timezone should be T16-8. But we can only set
  correct time in GMT timezone. If we set timezone to T16-8 (or others), the
  result of the "date" always shows the timezone "T  ", which doesn't exist
  in the TIMEZONEs list. 

    The system time is very important to me. If you know this problem, please
  e-mail to me.

    Thanks in advance.

--
System Manager of Computer Center          |     Sincerely Yours
Computer Science & Information Engineering | Cheng, Hsiao-Yang (    )  
National Chiao Tung University             | sycheng@csie.nctu.edu.tw
Taiwan, Republic of China                  | sycheng@csunix.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: chown() symbolic links?
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:08:57 GMT


In article <1992Nov9.173049.3912@ednor.bbc.com> nsd@ednor.bbc.com (Nick
Duffek) writes:
>
> Does anybody know how to chown() symbolic links on AIX?

AIX follows POSIX behavior, which does not allow you to.  I find this
annoying.


I just hope they don't POSIXify <censored>.

-- 
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 /\ \   PGP public key available on request.  MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted.
Scheme  White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mmrw@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (Rick Williams)
Subject: Re: *xterm function key translations
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:52:08 GMT
Organization: Flinders University

In article <1992Nov9.202847.10351@newstand.syr.edu> kcameron@erc.cat.syr.edu (Ken Cameron) writes:
>I am trying to create a *xterm (real xterm or aixterm) that will use
>my own set of escape codes for the function keys. This needs to work
>only in the one window I configured as the other windows will be doing
>normal AIX stuff. I've tries the use of xrm and translations but
>haven't figured it out yet. If someone has a solution please email/post
>so I can get this working. Basicly I am trying to have a VT100 window
>with vt100 keys (but its on a remote system) so I can't alter the
>remote termcap (since it's not Unix).
>Thanx,
>
>-- 
>-ken cameron. SkyDiver: Zoo-602, A-8596, D-11839. Skier.
>Employer: Computer Task Group.  /cny UNIX Users Group Director.
>Disclamer: "I said it, when I said it, so what! Now is different!"
>Internet: kcameron@erc.cat.syr.edu


Use the -name option of aixterm to give the application a new name:-
		aixterm -name ESQR .... &

Then set up bindings in the .Xdefaults file as per this example
 (Case and punctuation are VERY important):-

ESQR*Translations:	#override \
<Key>Num_Lock:		string("OP") \n\
<Key>KP_Divide:		string("OQ") \n\
<Key>KP_Multiply:	string("OR") \n\
<Key>KP_Subtract:	string("OS") \n\
<Key>Home:		string("h") \n\
<Key>End:		string("e") \n\
<Key>Insert:		string("i") \n\
<Key>Delete:		string("") \n\
Ctrl<Key>Prior:		string("u") \n\
Ctrl<Key>Next:		string("d") \n\
<Key>Prior:		string("") \n\
<Key>Next:		string("") \n\
Shift<Key>Tab:		string("b") \n\
Ctrl<Key>Right:		string("") \n\
Ctrl<Key>Left:		string("")


Note also that  Modifier<Key>Blah must be specified BEFORE <Key>Blah
for both to work.

Rick Williams,
M.I.S. Unit
The Flinders University of South Australia.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Subject: Re: RS6000 almost stops with heavy disk access.
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:38:06 GMT

In article <199211171808.AA15477@cc.ysu.edu>, JOAOLSD@vm1.sdi.uam.es (Joao Luis Silva Damas) writes:
|> Hi,
|> we have two rs6000 (a 320H and 340) being used by different kinds of users.
|> Some of them do large molecular calculations which create HUGE (600-700 MB) tem
|> porary files for the molecular integrals. When their program begins writing the
|> se huge files and then reading them as needed, our machines almost stop and oth
|> er users are almost unable to use the system. The slowness means 30-60 sec to l
|> ogon, 1 minute for X windows to create a new window, a long time for even an ls
|> , etc. Most other users do a lot of editing so they actually need better respon
|> se time from the machine.
|> Is there anyway to correct this situation (besides killing those huge calculati
|> ons, of course)?
|> Thanks for your answers,
|>                       Joao Damas

Run those processes at a fixed priority of 126 or slightly smaller;
with dynamic priorities and your situtation, the niceness scale is
inadequate.
-- 
Konrad Haedener                             Phone: +41 31 65 42 25
Institute for Physical Chemistry            FAX:   +41 31 65 39 94
University of Berne
Switzerland                                 haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: op@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Olaf  Pors)
Subject: Re: How do I mount a floppy disk - novice or FAQ question
Keywords: floppy, filesystem mount
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:06:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.022256.20691@unvax.union.edu> Eric.Boehm@union.edu writes:
>I know this is a novice question but my experience is with SunOS, BSD
>and Ultrix. I can't seem to mount a floppy disk. I have formatted the
>diskette and created a filesystem. When I try to mount the disk I get
>complaints about unable to determine log device or unable to mount
>device.
>

  This is hot off the press from one of our IBM representatives.
I've tried it, and it works.

 SCENARIO/EXPLANATION:
 A need has been voiced by some customers to build file systems
 on a floppy diskette.  They would like steps to build it and
 mount it from the RISC System/6000 diskette drive.

 SOLUTION:

        You can build a filesystem on a floppy and mount it, however
     the filesystem will be read only.  The reason that the filesystem
     will be read only is because AIX Version 3.1.5 cannot create a
     journal log on a diskette.  The intended use is for temporary
     access to the read only data.  The diskette file system must be
     unmounted after use and during system backup procedures or
     errors could occur.

      To make the read only filesystem on a floppy:

      1. Make a subdirectory on an existing filesystem on the hardfile,
         and place all of the files that the diskette will contain into
         this  subdirectory.

      2. Enter the following command to create a prototype file
         containing  information about the new filesystem,
         in the example  /directory_structure is the pathname
         of the subdirectory created in step 1, and proto_filename
         is the name of the prototype file that will be created.

         proto /directory_structure > proto_filename

      3. Place your floppy disk into the drive and format it.

      4. Edit the prototype file and replace the first line with the
         following:

           <noboot> 0 0

      5. Enter the following command to make the filesystem on your
         floppy:

           mkfs -p proto_filename -V jfs /dev/fd0

      6. Create the directory upon which you will mount the floppy
         based filesystem, or you can use the /mnt directory.  Enter
         the following command to mount the filesystem:

           mount -r -V jfs /dev/fd0 /your_mount_point

      7. To unmount the filesystem, use the command:

            umount /dev/fd0

       The fact that the filesystem is read-only may be a problem
       but if you are going to use it for utility programs and other
       data that does not change much, it still may be useful.  If you
       need to change the data, you can copy the directory from the
       floppy into another directory, make your modifications, and
       remake the filesystem using this procedure.



Olaf Pors
Academic Computing Center
University of Virginia
op@Virginia.EDU
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From: putnam@grits.msc.cornell.edu (Albert M. Putnam)
Subject: Mouse,Tablet Reboot 
Keywords: Mouse Tablet
Reply-To: putnam@msc.cornell.edu
Organization: Materials Science Center
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:57:24 GMT

If you accidentally pull out your mouse cable or tablet cable,
is there a way SHORT OF REBOOTING to re-establish communications
to these devices.
I only want replies if soemone has actually done it.

Albert Putnam
putnam@msc.cornell.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Can SOMEONE at IBM please help one of your employees...
Organization: The World
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:08:41 GMT


From: VRBASS@ATLVMIC1.VNET.IBM.COM
>It sounds to me like your SE has gone well beyond what is reasonable
>to get your system running for you.  It IS a major bummer that you got
>two lousy tapes, and I won't try to make light of that.
...
>The bottom line is that you should order yourself another tape which
>contains the packages for which YOU paid the licensing fees, and give
>them back their tapes, for which THEY paid the fees (yes, we have to
>pay AT&T and whomever else, just like everyone).

 (etc etc.)

Vance Bass,

Please arrange to come by our offices off hours to do full backups on
our systems, full installs and setup from the new set of tapes you
describe, and full recovery of the disks to their current state.

After three sets of defective tapes it's a little hard for me to have
much confidence that yet another set of tapes will be OK unless they
are tested and proven. I don't need to find this out in a crunch and
by surprise and go through another week of downtime trying to locate a
working set of tapes. While you are here you can pick up the defective
tapes and do what you like with them.

The entire assumption of your note is that my time is far less
valuable than that of IBM employees, and you can make your judgements
discounting my time and trouble. I disagree entirely with this
assessment, perhaps putting in a long weekend here (assuming all goes
well, or possibly a week) will make the matter more understandable to
you.

At any rate, my phone number is in my signature for you to arrange the
service I suggest, you may put up or shut up, as they say.

Color me: Happy with my new big Solbourne server.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

Software Tool & Die    | bzs@world.std.com          | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202        | Login: 617-739-WRLD
From: millert@nordsieck.cs.Colorado.EDU (Todd C. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: FAQ? emacs? PD software list?
Keywords: n
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:30:43 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

I just compile emacs 18.59 under AIX 3.2 and it appears to work just fine,
_unless_ you strip the binary, in which case it says "Fatal error (11)." and
dumps core.  Unstripped it works fine.  Anyone know why?

 - todd
-- 
 Todd C. Miller    millert@cs.Colorado.EDU    Sys/Adm Undergraduate Operations
From: accapadi@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:17:52 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <1992Nov12.195735.7872@ncsu.edu> jmmannin@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES MCCOTTER MANNING) writes:
>
>PLEASE HELP!
>I can't boot off of rootvg, and when I booted off of floppy
>and tried to getrootfs, I get the error that /dev/hd4 needs
>64k of free space, and that I should delete files until I have
>that much free, but without root mounted, I don't know how to get
>to /dev/hd4 (/usr) to delete anything.
>HELP!!!!!
>jmm


Uhh, I wouldn't remove anything yet.  My hunch is that this is a
misleading error message - something that can occur if a "df" of
/dev/hd4 failed.  Try this (can't hurt) :
  - instead of running "getrootfs hdisk0", run "getrootfs hdisk0 sh"
    where you can replace hdisk0 with whatever your boot disk is.

  - This will enter you into a subshell after varying on the rootvg.
    Now, run "fsck" on /, /usr/, /var, /tmp ...
    
  - If fsck didn't find any problems, make sure your filesystems are still
    there.  Try mount the filesystems by hand: 
        mount /dev/hd2 /usr
        echo /usr/*        # do you see all files there?
        mount /dev/hd9var /var
        mount /dev/hd3 /tmp

 Let me know what happens (email is faster than posting) ...

-Matt A.
-- 
Matt Accapadi                            Internet: accapadi@austin.ibm.com
IBM AWD AIX System Performance           VNET:  ACCAPADI at AUSTIN
11400 Burnet Rd. Bld. 906/9632           yaknet: 512-838-3193  Tie 678-3193
Austin, TX 78758-3493                    fax: 512-838-8344
From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX sendmail bug
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:38:48 GMT
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada

mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
>mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
>>The stock sendmail on AIX doesn't appear to honour MX record
>>references when "OK ALL" is used as an option.  Are there any known bugs with
>>MX record handling in AIX sendmail?
>>
>I use OK ALL at AIX 3.2, and my sendmail does use MX records to route
>mail. When I make changes, I run /usr/lib/sendmail -bz to rebuild
>the sendmail frozen config file, then run refresh -s sendmail to 
>rehup sendmail.

I managed to reduce the problem to the case where an MX record exists for
a host, and a user on that host sends mail to another user on the same host.
For local delivery, AIX sendmail ignores MX records and goes straight
to the local mailer.  So the solution is to short-circuit the delivery and
force all deliveries for such hosts to go to some central host by changing
the sendmail.cf to do so.

(The central host would be the one exporting mail directories.)

Is this standard sendmail behaviour, or is this AIX-specific?

-- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | All spelling
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada                        | errors caused
E-mail: mskucherawy@{math,watdragon}.UWaterloo.ca              | by Pnews.
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From: amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: KILL signal
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:51:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

Try kill -STOP  That works in most cases, but at least twice,
the job was actually killed instead of being suspended. I attributed
the demise to pipe conflcits. Anybody have any better ideas?

Andrew Mel'cuk     IBM SE emulator

In article <1992Nov17.154556.7654@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, olevin@random.hwr.arizona.edu (O. Levin) writes:
|> Hi: I'm trying to put a big program running in background
|> in hybernation. I was thinking to use:
|>                     kill -TSTP processid
|> to suspend the job  and
|>                     kill -CONT processid
|> to restart the job
|> 
|> 
|> Oscar L. Levin                     |   LEVINO@ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu  
|> Hydrology and Water Resources Dto. |   RU7@EAGLE.tc.cornell.edu       
|> University of Arizona              |   OLEVIN@random.hwr.arizona.edu  
|> Tucson, Az, 85721.                 |                                 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Subject: Where does the memory go?
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:19:11 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I have an RS/6000 Model 320 running AIX 3.2. There's only four full-time users
on the systems. Until the other day, I had 16MB memory with 48MB page space (I
originally had 32MB page space, but the VMM would occassionally reach out and
kill a process when page space utilization was high!). 16MB of memory is
obviously not enough -- From what I understand now, IBM recommends 16MB as
the minimum. I upgraded to 48MB of memory the other day. When I turned the
system on, I used svmon to check memory and page space use -- All but 5MB of
memory was being used and over 30MB of page space was being used!

Does the system allocate as much memory as it can grab? What kind of memory
requirements should I expect in a production environment with say, 25 users?

-- 
Clay Irving           Personal: clay@panix.com   {...uunet, cmc12}!panix!clay 
New York, New York        Work: clay@garpac.com  {...uupsi3, 4gen}!garpac!clay
--
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mtimm@auk.UWaterloo.ca (Martin Timmerman)
Subject: Re: PTFs on installation servers
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:22:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.123530.39@rcwusr> jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com writes:
>i had gotten into the habit of rolling the various and insundry PTF tapes to
>a common directory on a machine we had setup as an installation server. once
>done i'd then go the various RS/6000s and install all patches with commit,etc.
>my theory was that any PTFs that i had loaded previously would be overwritten
>and the installp would take care of the prerequisite strings. this worked fine
>until they started to recend PTFs. just recently we got a tape with a BUNCH
>of fixes for the 220 and GT1 (bloody thing just didn't work). in doing the
>enmass PTF apply, i ended up with a pile of garbage. reloading the machine and
>applying the PTFs from tape, one tape at a time, the machine works fine.
>how do others apply PTFs to a large population of machines??

With a lot of difficulty.
What I do is use the SMIT panel "Copy Software to Hard Disk for Future
Installation", to copy anything off a PTF tape into a temporary
directory. Then I run a script that simply deletes all those PTFs that
I already have on the installation server, keeping only the new ones
and copying them to my permanent storage.  (My install server now has
704 MB of install images and 469 PTFs.)

I wish IBM would provide a one-line heading for each PTF, because I now
keep track of this information by myself, trying to decide which few
lines of the 200+ lines in the fixinfo file apply to this PTF.

In the end I don't keep each machine up to date, but simply install the
fixes to fix the reported problems, so every one of the 59 machines I
support has a different level of fixes applied.

And I used to just apply and commit a fix, but now I only apply and
wait at least a month before the commit.

Martin Timmerman, Computing Services, University of Waterloo
From: trung@rubicon.bf.rmit.oz.au (Trung Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AIX PERFORMANCE ...????????/
Date: 20 Nov 92 02:48:43 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: rubicon.bf.rmit.oz.au
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	Hi folks,

	I would appreciate if someone in the net could give me some hints,
	advices about the AIX performance.

	We have had AIX RS6000 running V.3.2.1 with 32Mg memory, 1G hard disk
	running Oracle. It seems Ok for 30 concurrent ORACLE users and we want
	to upgrade to 128Mg memory and 5G hard disk inorder to run the
	Universe software and Pick applications and expect 100 concurrent 
	ORACLE, PICK users. We hope with that configuration the machine will
	be Ok but before to do it we would like to do some bench mark.

	Would someone have the software to do the bench mark or someone have 
	experience about that please let me known it would be appreciated.

	Thank advance,


	trung@rubicon.bf.rmit.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark Coverdill)
Subject: Re: 3270 Problem/Questions
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:30:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.173608.21510@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek) writes:
>In article <1992Nov11.195201.23112@bmw.mayo.edu> fisk@mayo.edu writes:
>>
>>We have run across a couple of problems with the 3270 emulation on AIX.
>>
>>1.  According to the documentation, when you telnet or tn to a system that
>>    requires a 3270, it will use the $HOME/.3270keys.  We have never gotten
>>    this to work...any ideas?
>>
>Note that telnet is an executable in /usr/bin.  Note that tn and tn3270
>are symbolic links in /usr/ucb to the program /usr/bin/telnet.  The
>program does behave differently when invoked by each of the three
>names.  As noted telnet and tn use $HOME/.3270keys.  Note that
>tn3270 does NOT.  Make sure that you are not invoking the command via
>the tn3270 name.  Actually, I once tried to understand all the information
>in the info page for telnet/tn/tn3270 and got myself totally confused.
>I tried some experiments but ran out of time.  Perhaps there is a more
>detailed description with examples somewhere.  Pointers would be
>appreciated.
>

I have spent a number of hours on this problem and here are some tips
that work for me.

If you invoke tn3270 then the /etc/3270.keys file will be read for key
emulations (man pages still say tn3270.keys file but near as I can
tell it no longer exists in 3.2).  Note that this keyboard mapping
file is *NOT* complete.  It is simply a default for the lowest common
denominator (i.e.. the PA keys are missing). Additionally there is no
terminal type checking.  It just assumes that the terminal you invoked
tn3270 on can handle the emulation (not a good assumption).

The best way to get 3270 emulation is to explicitly invoke it on the
command line by typing 'telnet -e 3270 host'. There are two
advantages.  First, the telnet command will check your TERM
environment variable for your terminal type. Second, it will read the
~/.3270keys file or if that is missing then the /etc/map3270 file.
The /etc/map3270 is the template (so you can make global changes) that
you can copy to your local .3270keys file and modify it if you like.
This file is much more complete including color emulation for
protected fields, etc.  You can also modify by terminal type if you
work on multiple terminals.

Through the latter method I have been able to completely redefine the
keyboard on my IBM3151 (emulating an ADDS VP) to make the functions
keys, delete key, clear key, etc behave like their keycaps say they
are supposed too (what a concept, actually having a key do what is
printed on it :-)).






-- 
Mark Coverdill                                 The Ohio State University
Internet: markc+@osu.edu                              Columbus, Ohio
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: fons@nat.vu.nl (Fons Ullings)
Subject: DX for AIX3.2.x
Organization: Fac. Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:34:38 GMT

We have ordered AIX/Visualization Data Explorer/6000 for our
RS6000 machines running AIX3.2.1, but did receive versie 1.0 of DX
which is only usable on under AIX3.1.x ....
Does somebody knows which version we need and if it is already shipping ?!

many thanks in advance for your help

Fons Ullings
Physics Lab, de Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam


email:  fons@nat.vu.nl