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From:         Thomas Greve <greve@RS1.THCH.UNI-BONN.DE>
Subject:      gnu make 3.62

Hi,

as (almost) allways when i raise my voice, i just tried to build some
program and i experienced some unexpected trouble. This time it is gnu
make and the error i saw was something like:

unresolved references: vfork missing.

If i didn't compile with gcc (2.2.2), there also was an alloca missing
(which gcc has built-in, right?). I compiled with -DPOSIX and every
single module compiled fine except for some warnings like `shift
exceeded range' somewhere and `read called with wrong sort of pointer'
elsewhere. This sound serious -- do i have to look for it?

Where do i find vfork -- or what shall i do instead?

				- Thomas

   greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
   unt145@dbnrhrz1
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:49:07 +0200
From:         lune MARTINEZ Philippe <scos742@LUNE.CCVR.FR>
Subject:      Re
X-To:         Resume@lune.ccvr.fr, a@lune.ccvr.fr, aix-l@pucc.princeton.edu,
              process@lune.ccvr.fr, suspended@lune.ccvr.fr

> If a process is suspended, say by entering ^Z, in a window, is there a
> way to resume the process from a new window?

  You just have to find the process-id of the ksh you suspended (something
like : 'ps -eafl | grep mylogin', and find the 'ksh' process with the T
flag), and to 'kill -19 process-id'. The signal 19 is SIGCONT (Continue
if stopped.). You can see it in 'signal.h'.

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Subject: RE: KSH ALIAS HANDLING IN 3.2

where can i get ptf U402759 ?
                                Cesare.
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:30:00 CST
From:         U312011@TWNCU865.BITNET
Subject:      Error message at installing ImageMagick 2.0 on AIX.

Dear Experts :

      When I install ImageMagick 2.0 on RS6k-540, I get the error message
 like this :
      ( after the line : cc -O -I /usr/include/X11 -o display display.o ... )
 0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected:
                 Symbols in error (followed by references) are
                 dumped to the load map.
 .XWithdrawWindow
 .XReconfigureWMWindow
 .XAllocStandardColormap
 .XAllocClassHint
 .XAllocWMHints
 .XAllocSizeHints
 .XWMGeometry
 .XAllocIconSize
 .XGetRGBColormaps
 .XSetWMProperties
 .XSetWMProtocols
 make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

 Make Quitting.

      Where do I fix something ?

   Thanks in advance !!


   Albert Tseng
   Dpt. of Chemical Eng., NCU, Taiwan.
   u312011@twncu865.ncu.edu.tw            IBM RISC6000-540 with AIX 3.1
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:44:16 +1000
From:         Vicki Jordan <ccvj@MISTY.LATROBE.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: restrictions on exporting file systems?
X-To:         AIX-L@pucc.princeton.edu

>From: John Osudar {708 252-7505} <OSUDAR@cmt.anl.gov>
>Subject:      restrictions on exporting file systems?
>To: Multiple recipients of list AIX-L <AIX-L@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
>Status: R
>
>Are there restrictions on exporting local file systems?  I want to cross mount
>file systems on two RS/6000's (e.g. /u1 which is local on node1 and /u2 which
>is local on node2).  Attempts to mount either file system on the remote node
>produce the messages:
>
>mount: 1831-011 access denied for node2:/u2
>mount: 1831-008 giving up on:
>node2:/u2
>The file access permissions do not allow the specified action.
>
>The whole thing was set up through SMIT, and the mount points were created with
>an ordinary mkdir.  I'm able to mount other remote file systems, but none of
>those are mount points for local file systems, while /u1 and /u2 *are* mount
>points for local file systems.  The documentation only mentions that you cannot
>export the parent directory or a subdirectory of an *exported* directory within
>the same file system; I can't find any mention of other restrictions.
>
>Any ideas what's happening here?  (b.t.w. one of these systems is running AIX
>3.1.5, the other is running AIX 3.2)
>
>					John
>					osudar@cmt.anl.gov
When you say the whole thing was set up through SMIT - I assume you went
through the nfs export on one node and mount (file type nfs) on the
other?

You can do this by hand by editing /etc/exports and the running
/usr/etc/exportfs -a on the exporting node.

We have cross mounts between 3.1 and 3.2 machines.  You will probably
also have to have the fully qualified domain name in /etc/exports.

Good Luck

Vicki Jordan

Vicki Jordan                               ccvj@misty.latrobe.edu.au
Computing Services
La Trobe University
Bundoora Vic 3083 Australia
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Subject: Re: WAIS for RS/6000
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:24:26 GMT
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              28 Aug 1992 07:31:41 -0400 from <chmiel@LEON.ARIAD NE-T.GR>

try archie.ans.net pub/misc/wais. I have not tried this package, but I am
also looking for a wais package and I will probably give this a try. Let
me know if you have any success with this or any other wais.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:20:07 +0200
From:         lune MARTINEZ Philippe <scos742@LUNE.CCVR.FR>
Subject:      Auditing
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  I'm trying to set up auditing process. I have read the RED BOOK ELEMENTS OF
AIX SECURITY. Now, where can I find documentation on what parameters are
 available
and what they mean for the AIX auditing system event parameters.

  For example :
         FILE_Mode = printf "mode: %d"

  This events is specified in the /etc/security/audit/events file for the
'chmod' command. When I look at the output from the 'auditpr' command, it
 reports
a number, but I don't know what that number represents (with a minimum of mind,
we can find the new acces mode !). But where can I find this information ? Are
there other parameters which can be specified for the 'chmod' event such as the
name of the file, the old permissions, the user which is doing the 'chmod', etc
 ?

  How can I get information on other event names for commands and events not
 listed
in the /etc/security/audit/events file ? It's certainly not difficult, for IBM,
 to
establish this list because  the 'audit' command know all of these events. To
 check,
try to add to the events file your own event !

  In term of security, the main thing is to know what we are doing. It's
 difficult
to learn this rule to users, when system's administrators don't do it ....

  If anybody have any experience with the auditing system, I should be glad to
have some feed-back.


  Thanks a lot.




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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:24:00 EDT
From:         "Peter C. Vernam" <pcv1584@MVS.DRAPER.COM>
Subject:      Re: [derek@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk: xxgdb, Xaw,
              Xmu = missing functions]

Derek Jones <derek@aivru.shef.ac.uk> asked:

>I started to build xxgdb on an RS6000, but I'm getting tired .... !
>
>I hand built the Xaw and Xmu stuff from /usr/lpp/mumble....
>but they are missing required functions, (as is Xt 8-( 8-( ).
>
>I spent a couple of hours iteratively patching this by hand but gave
>up at 7PM last night (!).
>
>Has anyone had xxgdb working on an RS6000 under its native X ?
>Alternatively, has anyone got a patched Xt, Xaw, and Xmu with appropriate
>header files?
>
>Or is it just another "can't be done" problem ..... ?

You did not say which version of AIX you are running.  If it is not 3.2,
then you have X11R3.  I'm not familiar with xxgdb, but my guess is that
it requires X11R4 (you also didn't say which required functions were
missing).

>Did anyone have any answers to this they were keeping to themselves??? 8-) .

You might have gotten more replies to your original posting if you had
provided more information (AIX version #, unresolved references, etc.).


Peter Vernam                              Email: vernam@draper.com
Draper Laboratory, Inc.                   Voice: 617-258-2735
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:47:02 +1000
From:         Vicki Jordan <CCVJ@MISTY.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: X114 & 3.1.5
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1992, bob@MOJO.NIEHS.NIH.GOV wrote:

>                                                So given that I'm not
> especially into systems for their own sake & merely like to have the
> stats, database & graphics pgms I use run as fast as possible (& I've
> been very pleased w/ the rs6000 in that regard) is there any real benefit
> other than being up to date w/ regards to installing aix upgrades?

I can only think of two reasons: 1. Upgrades to your 3rd party software
might require 3.2 and 2. IBM will cease support for 3.1.xxxx in Feb 93 (I
think).



Vicki Jordan
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:52:00 EDT
From:         "Peter C. Vernam" <pcv1584@MVS.DRAPER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Shared Libraries lose under AIX 3.1/X11R5
X-To:         williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu, aix-l@pucc.princeton.edu

Kent Williams <williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu> asks:

>OK, Gentle readers, I've spent an hour getting lost in Info Explorer, now
>clue me in:
>
>I've just built X11 R5 on a RS6000 running AIX 3.1, and none of my clients
>want to run because they can't find their shared libraries.
>
>I've tried setting LIBPATH in my shell, to point at /usr/local/lib where
>I've dropped the libraries.  I've tried rebuilding the clients after making
>Makefiles with -DUSE_INSTALLED.  I've dinked and dinked to no avail.
>
>What is the magic incantation to tell the system how to find shared libraries
>if they're not where IBM put them?  Or is it possible to link statically?

The X11R5 build instructions tell you to edit mit/config/site.def, and
change the define for ProjectRoot to be appropriate for your site (mine is
set to /nfs/fs1/pub/aix_3.1/X11R5; this is a very large NFS-mounted volume
that supports many architectures).  Then, after you do "make World" and
"make install", the executables will be in ProjectRoot/bin and the libraries
will be in ProjectRoot/lib (where the executables will look for them).

I'm not that familiar with LIBPATH.  A search via info_explorer finds only one
hit, in the man page for bsh (the Bourne shell).  SunOS has LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
which is well documented and works fine for what you want (but only on a Sun,
of course :-( ).


Peter Vernam                              Email: vernam@draper.com
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:13:55 -0500
From:         vilberg@WHALE.ST.USM.EDU
Subject:      Help with sendmail.cf?
X-To:         AIX-L@PUCC.princeton.edu

We have a new RS/6000-550 that we are trying to make available here at the
University of Southern Mississippi, but our mail is having some problems.
Particularly troublesome is the fact that (almost) anything sent to a
".com" address gets returned. I am just starting to process the info in
"UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder and Seebass, so I
am guessing that when I run "sendmail -bt" with an address like
"jbill@aol.com" it should be converted to some address up the net from us
through rules 3,1,14,4. It just stays the same. Before I go crazy, could
anyone give me a clue if I am on the right track?

p.s. I am not the system administrator, just the director of academic
computing. Since this is bothering me more than the sys admin, I need to
work on it myself.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:31:41 -0400
From:         "J.CHMIELNIAK-UNI.ATHENS.MED." <chmiel@LEON.ARIADNE-T.GR>
Subject:      WAIS for RS/6000

has somebody has a port of WAIS for RS/6000?
In README file from think.com which distributes the WAIS sources
is said that ans.com keeps the port for RISC, but ans.com does not
allow anonymous FTP.

--
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From:         mail <KFMA000@TAIVM2.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: ksh alias handling in 3.2
              2 Sep 1992 11:34:18 EDT from <VALDIS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>

Please cancel my subscription.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:56:07 +0200
From:         "Rainer W. Gerling" <gerling@FAUPT101.PHYSIK.UNI-ERLANGEN.DE>
Subject:      Auto-logoff after 5 min.

I would like to set up AIX such that after 5 minutes of idle time any
logged in user is automatically logged off. I have not found any
information regarding this in infoexplorer. Does anybody know how to do
that.
Thanks for any help
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:06:47 -0500
From:         Bob Hollebeek <bobh@FRANKEL.HEP.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      pipes with rsh,tar, and dd

We have been trying to implement a multimachine to single remote drive backup
procedure and have run into the following odd problem.  Any suggestions would
be welcome....
tar | dd         produces a good tar tape
tar | rsh remote-machine "dd....     also makes a good tape
rsh tar | dd     seems to put only the first few files on the tape
rsh tar | rsh remote-machine "dd...   has the same problem
I've omitted all the quotes options etc from the above commands, and believe we
 have them all right.  Any idea why the last two fail? Hint this is going to
 /dev/rmt0 which is an 8mm streaming device.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:52:22 BST
From:         Mike Ellwood <MWE@IBM-B.RUTHERFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: stopping busy network adapters (3.1.5)
X-To:         AIX-L@PUCC.BITNET, COMP.UNIX.AIX@CC.YSU.EDU

If one needs to change the parameters of a network adapter/interface,
with smit/chdev, it usually responds that it's busy so you can't.

I know you can use the -P option to commit to the database, then
shutdown and re-ipl, but is there ANY way one can make such
devices unbusy?        (clean and painless way I mean).

Thankyou.
(mwe@ib.ac.rl.uk)

(I know in the case of an Ethernet adapter, one can also 'remove' it
 and start from scratch, which is also a bit drastic, though at
 least saves an IPL; I'm not sure if this works with x.25s.)
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:26:44 -0400
From:         bob@MOJO.NIEHS.NIH.GOV
Subject:      X114 & 3.1.5
X-To:         aix-l%pucc.bitnet@uga.cc.uga.edu

I've been hanging out with AIX 3.1.5 since there seemed to be no pressing
need to go to 3.2 for any potential applications I use & the ones I work
with are happy w/ 3.1.5 & X11r3.  Now one new app I'd like to use wants
X11R4 - Question: is there any reason this can't be installed on top
of 3.1.5 ?  Question 2.  My impression of system "upgrades" under VMS
(admittedly totally different machines) were that each upgrade offered
more "options" - but that the software I used would run ever more slowly
w/ each system upgrade so I've more or less assumed that I'd be trading
options for speed w/ AIX upgrades as well. (in fact I was very annoyed
when I went from 3.1 to 3.1.5 & "aixterm" which had been a very nice little
emulator became very flakey; if anyone has a pre-3.1.5 release of aixterm
around I'd sure like to copy it over!!!).  So given that I'm not
especially into systems for their own sake & merely like to have the
stats, database & graphics pgms I use run as fast as possible (& I've
been very pleased w/ the rs6000 in that regard) is there any real benefit
other than being up to date w/ regards to installing aix upgrades?
curiously yours,
Bob McConnaughey bob@mojo.niehs.nih.gov
"They took their kids in their teenage years
 gave them a god that they could fear.
 said they could kill but not drink beer, & sent them away" G. Parker.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:01:52 PDT
From:         Shinn-Tzong Wu <shinn@SHIN.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU>
Subject:      Died tar process?
              Aug 28, 92 10:21 pm

We encountered twice died tar process which forbid us to perform
any process on /dev/rmt0.  I tried all option of 'kill' (-9 etc)
but the stubborn process was there forever.  I had to reboot the
whole 520 twice (the last thing I wanted to do) to regain access
to the /dev/rmt0, anyone has suggestion in how to recover from that
kind of error?  Thanks...


Shinn   (shinn@shin.sscnet.ucla.edu)
From: bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig)
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Subject: Re: old (RT) AIX / new AIX with smit question
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:43:57 GMT
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Organization: Oracle Denmark

Article <AIX-L%92082406580349@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU> by CMS2@ETSU.BITNET (Bill Williams) says:
|In some cases it appears that it might be more expedient to modify some
|system files manually -- using vi instead of smit.
I did see the other reply telling that you can do it.  I would, however,
strongly recommend that you don't do it; sooner or later you will have
the ODM out of sync with the various ascii files.  SMIT and the underlying
commands is the way to do things.  When you are experienced with smit, you
can hit F6 to see which command it executes, and you can eventually use
these commands yourself.  Just don't change ascii config files directly--
I'll bet you'll regret it at some point.
-- 
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ORACLE Corporation.	BANG-net: uunet!oracle!bengsig
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:10:58 -0400
From:         "Rob McAteer" <rob@CSI.ON.CA>
Subject:      Re: [derek@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk: xxgdb, Xaw,
              4, 92 11:19 am

> I hand built the Xaw and Xmu stuff from /usr/lpp/mumble....
> but they are missing required functions, (as is Xt 8-( 8-( ).

hmmm... I went to the /usr/lpp/X11/mumble place, read the README
did the make world etc as per the README and except for problems
in my usage of imake, x applications I get off the net and elsewhere
build with little effort.
I have not tried to build xxgdb, but I have built other apps that use
libXaw.a and libXmu.a.  Note the imake config files provided by AIX
don't seem to reference the correct place for libXaw.a (my config files
anyway, I could move libXaw.a to /usr/lib and all would be fine...)

> Has anyone had xxgdb working on an RS6000 under its native X ?
> Alternatively, has anyone got a patched Xt, Xaw, and Xmu with appropriate
> header files?
Is it an include problem you are having, or a link problem (or both)?

> Did anyone have any answers to this they were keeping to themselves??? 8-) .
Hope I've been of some aid, mail me direct if you want to continue this..
=8^)
--
Rob McAteer                                   CAnet: rob@csi.on.ca
Carp Systems International                    Voice: (613) 592-5780
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:13:28 +1000
From:         t.dao@ABN.NLA.GOV.AU
Subject:      POPMAIL for AIX3.1.5
X-To:         AIX-L@PUCC.Princeton.EDU

Could anybody tell me where can I ftp a popmail version that works for
AIX3.1.5. Many thanks in advance.
Tien Dao.
tiendao@abn.nla.gov.au
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:20:32 -0400
From:         Norbert.Conrad@HRZ.UNI-GIESSEN.DBP.DE
Subject:      8 mm tape

Hi out there:
We are running a couple of RS 6000 (AIX 3.2). We want to get a 8 mm tape
drive (possibly 3rd party 5 Gb).
FAQ says we need a 3rd party device driver, too. But that was AIX 3.1.x .
Is AIX 3.2 capable of handling 3rd party 8 mm tapes, maybe even 5 Gb
drives?
Is there a device driver (IBM or 3rd party) that can handle 2.3 Gb and
5 Gb tapes (that is insert an empty tape in the 5 Gb drive and write
in 2.3 Gb format. Some drivers can continue writing a 2.3 Gb tape, but
not start an empty tape in 2.3 Gb format.)?
Any information on vendor claimed "compatibility" to whatsoever that is
not true?

Thanks for your help

Norbert.


______________________________________________________________________________

Norbert Conrad                          norbert.conrad@hrz.uni-giessen.dbp.de
Hochschulrechenzentrum
Uni Giessen
Germany
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