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From: tanner@cerritos.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TSM "No usable service circuits"
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:47:07 GMT
Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA

In article <1992Jul22.132528.1@ptavv.llnl.gov>, oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov writes:
>
> This is one of the real pains of having a different circuit name for different
> Ethernet interfaces. TSM uses the "service circuit" from NCP to know which
> circuit to use for the connection. IF it was set up on a server with a DELQA,
> this is qna-0. On a system with an embedded Ethernet, it's sva-0.
> 
> You can have it one way or the other, but not both.

You should be able to set up to 4 service circuits for a server.

TSM> SET SERVER TSRV02 CIRCUIT BNA-0, QNA-0, SVA-0

-Bruce
-- 
Bruce Tanner        (310) 860-2451 x 596    Tanner@Cerritos.EDU
Cerritos College    Norwalk, CA             cerritos!tanner
From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (713)274-8281)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Am I in SYLOGIN?
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:20:25 GMT
Reply-To: brydon@asl.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX

In article <1992Jul22.113259.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>,
ccdk001@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu writes:
>Anyone know of a simple, fairly fullproof way to determine if an image
>is being run from SYLOGIN.COM or some other known place (step) during
>process creation?
>
>I have an installed privileged application that I want executed during the
>login process, but I don't want users to be able to execute it directly.
>It does "things" based on an assumed state of that process/environment at
>that time particular time.  Allowing users to change their environment
>(logical names, devices, etc.) and then rerunning this image could be
>a problem in some instances.

If you check whether it is running from SYLOGIN.COM or not may be an
inferior test for this type of program.  What if somebody does:

$ @sys$sylogin

after they log in?  Since it is installed and privileged, I would suggest
you do something privileged such as create an identifier and check for the
presence of the identifier as a 'never previously executed' check.
____________________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: mccurdy@bestsd.sdsu.edu (McCurdy M.)
Subject: Remote Tape Facility, DAT drive hooked to MicroVAX ...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: San Diego State University - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:56:00 GMT

We are in a budget "crunch" here and so I am trying to figure out the 
cheapest way to purchase a DAT tape drive(s) for our 6000-320 and MicroVAX 
3100 - not that I wouldn't be anyway :). I want our backups to be quality 
though - I don't want to set up something that I have any doubts about. We 
are currently running with 9 track drives and are up to about 30 6250 bpi 
tapes on full backups.

The cheapest way that I can think of to accomplish this is to purchase a 
DAT drive, hook it up via SCSI on our MicroVAX, and then access it remotely 
from the 6000-320 via a remote tape program. I've heard that Remote Tape 
Facility developed by Touch Technologies may be what we are looking for 
in this scenario.

Is anyone else doing something along these lines? Does this sound like the 
optimum solution? Thanks ...

Mike



Mike McCurdy			Disclaimer:
VAX Systems Management		     "Everything I say may be wrong."	
San Diego State University	..
mccurdy@bestsd.sdsu.edu
From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: CRYPT for VMS?
Summary: See your sales rep about VAX Encryption software
Keywords: VAX Encryption
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:58:29 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
Organisation: Employed by (*NOT* speaker for) DEC, Boxborough, MA, U.S.A.


In article <1992Jul20.165157.26513@av8r.uucp>, mrandall@av8r.uucp (Mark Randall) writes...
> 
>This reminds me of a little question that's been on my mind for a
>while - VMS help shows a utility called ENCRYPT. When examined
>further, help says that it's an optional utility that hasn't been
>installed.
> 
>Does anyone know anything about this?

    The software product name is VAX Encryption, and the latest version is
    V1.2.

>                                      I get the consolidated software
>distribution, but I've never seen this add-on.

    It is under U.S. export control (i.e., it's easy to get IFF you're
    in the U.S. or Canada), so you won't see it on the CDs.  You have to
    special-order it explicitly.

>                                               If it IS out there,
>does it conform to DES or any other well-recognized encryption
>standard?

    VAX Encryption is a software implementation of DES, complete with API.  It
    also has a file authentication function that uses the strong cryptographic
    checksumming potential of DES, so you can use it to check, with high
    confidence, whether files have been munged.

    Contact your DEC sales rep for more information.  Ask for it by name..

>Mark Randall                            Heebidy -
>mrandall@av8r.uucp                  ***** POOF *****

    #ken    :-)}	Jeratol the Chaotic

Coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com	 | All opinions herein contained, stated or implied,
Coar@DECUS.Org		 | are solely those of the author.  And he's fullovem.
Coar@Eisner.DECUS.Org	 | `... it was mine art, ... that made gape the pine 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: linsbin@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Lin shyh bin)
Subject: Q : Using 128 bits on VAX C ?
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:36:50 GMT

Hi, netters :

   I only know it's available to use a 128 bits floating point number on VAX 

FORTRAN (quad precision: REAL*16). And the VAX FORTRAN also support the math 

library functions with a quad precision floating point number , just as 

REAL*16 QSIN(REAL*16), REAL*16 QCOS(REAL*16), ..... etc. But I can't use the 

128 bits floating point number on VAX C, it just allow to using the double 

precison type (64 bits). And it also only support the double precison type of

the math library functions.

   Could anyone tell me how to use quad precision type on VAX C ?  Or does it

have another solution to get 128 bits precision on VAX C ?  By the way, the

"/G_FLOATING on compiling" seems useful. How does it work ?

   Thanks for advance !!!

                                                     Sbin Lin
                                         Usenet : u7822044@cc.nctu.edu.tw
                                         Bitnet : 7822044@TWNCTU02 

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: spann@torak.wnp.dec.com (John Spann)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM install over net
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:58:38 GMT

If you cannot access the CD-ROM over the network,  you should be able to copy
the necessary savesets off of the CD-ROM into the SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER]
directory of the other machine and then perform the installation from there. 

John Spann (The SpannMan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: normr@accelr8.com (Norm Rullo)
Subject: How does RMS use the Lock Manager?
Organization: Accelr8 Technology Corporation
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:37:34 GMT
Keywords: RMS, Lock Manager

Can anyone give me some insight on how RMS uses the Lock Manager to
lock files and records.  What I need is resource names, access modes,
etc.  I want to be able to query RMS locks with SYS$GETLKI but I have
not been successful in finding any locks that seem to be used for
file and record locking.

Any help or assistance on where to look would be appreciated.

Thanks
--
Norm Rullo - Senior Systems Analyst
Accelr8 Technology              Email: normr@accelr8.com
303 E. 17th Ave., Suite 108     Phone: (303) 863-8088 
Denver, CO 80203                Fax  : (303) 863-1218
From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Boot-time quotas
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:59:07 GMT
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Distribution: comp
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation

In article <1992Jul30.163902.22460@cco.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.141103.29553@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size) writes:
>>
>>In article <1992Jul29.193857.1822@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>, marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall) writes...
>>>
>>>Where does the system initialization process get its quota values from? I
>>
>>    The STARTUP process is created with an hard-coded list of quota values.
>>    Any quotas no specified will be taken from the PQL_D<mumble> values; and
>>    hard-coded values may be overridden by setting the PQL_M<mumble>
>>    parameters.
>
>Now, to provide an answer to Bob's REAL question:  If you don't want to fiddle
>with the PQL_M* SYSGEN parameters (i.e., you don't want EVERYONE to have the
>huge page file quota that one image needs), why don't you have your startup
>procedure:

Don't you mean the ABILITY to have a large page file quota?  If a user's UAF 
record says his paagefile quota is less than the pql, doesn't he get the uaf 
one?  Isn't the PQL a MAX for user accounts?  Or am I mistaken?  


-- 
Bill Bochnik			| It's hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott
Systems Analyst 		|	and Costello world.
Ciba-Geigy Corporation		| Signed and sealed, they deliver oblivion.
philabs!crpmks!billb		| It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.
Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:12644 comp.sys.dec:4127
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: SCSI 9track tape drives and VMS BACKUP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:05:14 GMT

We have a 3rd party SCSI 9track tape drive (manufactured by M4) 
connected to a VAXstation 4000/VLC. So far we've been reading 
single volume foreign tapes successfully, also writing files using
COPY work fine. However BACKUP causes all kinds of problems. The
most serious one is that if the tape runs out, BACKUP generates a
"tape label processing" error and aborts(, and the tape does not rewind
automatically). We've been talking to the vendor and they now say it's
VMS's fault and that BACKUP will never work with SCSI 9track tape 
drives. Can anyone tell me if this is true or not?!! DEC sells their
own SCSI 9track drive (TS05/TS07). Does anyone know if those drive
work fine with multivolume backups? 

Is there another 3rd party vendor that makes a properly working drive?

Thanks

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
From: yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: S: Fonts change after upgrade to DECwindows/Motif
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  A few days ago I sent a message about little and big fonts change after
upgrading from DECwindows/XUI to DECwindows/Motif. Thanks for all who answered
me; the way to return back to the original behaviour is to add the followinmg
two lines in DECW$TERMINAL_DEFAULT.DAT (lines are broken for clarity):

DECW$TERMINAL.main.terminal.littleFontSetName:
         -DEC-terminal-*-r-*--*-100-100-100-c-*-*-*
DECW$TERMINAL.main.terminal.bigFontSetName:
         -bitstream-terminal-*-r-*--*-140-100-100-c-*-*-*

                                                        __Yehavi:
From: mvbr@se.alcbel.be (Marc Verbruggen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Scanning indexf.sys
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:27:16 GMT
Reply-To: mvbr@se.alcbel.be
Organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone


--
I want to collect statistics on all files on a files-11 system. I can do this
by using DCL lexical functions f$search to select subsequent files and f$file 
to read attributes, but this can take hours to complete. I assume that programs 
using RMS work in a similar way, but also take a long time to complete. 
I think it is more performant to read directly the indexfile block by block 
and select immediately the fileheaders (where I can find all relevant info). 
Is there a program available that does this (preferably in macro) ?
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Alcatel Bell Telephone          fax : 03.240.99.50
F. Wellesplein 1                email : mvbr@se.alcbel.be
B-2018 Antwerp
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"System Manager's Headaches Are Not Cured With Aspirin,
 There Is A Better Way ..."
From: patrick@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How do you set pre-expired passwords with $SETUAI
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:32:48 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

In article <110510@muvms3.bitnet>, boag@muvms3.bitnet (Bob Boag) writes:
> It could be that I just missed it somewhere in the manuals, but I can't seem to 
> find any way to mark a password as pre-expired when using the $SETUAI system
> service.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this with VMS V5.4?
> 
> -- 
> Bob Boag                                BITNET:   boag@marshall
> Senior Software Systems Analyst         Internet: boag@marshall.wvnet.edu
> Marshall University Computer Center     Phone:    (304)696-2624
> Huntington, WV 25755-5320               FAX:      (304)696-3601

The Following code from something I wrote some time ago explains:

         ! Use Quadword With All Bits 1 To Represent Pre-Expired Date

         CASE "PREXP"

             LET DATE_TIME::LOW, DATE_TIME::HIGH=-1%

Hope this helps.
From: dfilip@colornet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How do you set pre-expired passwords with 
Keywords: SYS$SETUAI PASSWORD CHANGE 
Date: 25 Jul 92 01:39:22 GMT
Distribution: world

Carl J Lydick writes :
>In article <1992Jul21.182543.28188@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size) writes:
>>
>>In article <110510@muvms3.bitnet>, boag@muvms3.bitnet (Bob Boag) writes...
>>>It could be that I just missed it somewhere in the manuals, but I can't seem to 
>>>find any way to mark a password as pre-expired when using the $SETUAI system
>>>service.
>>> 
>>>Does anyone know how to do this with VMS V5.4?
>>
>>    Simply put, a pre-expired password is one whose binary representation has
>>    all bits set.  So you can do this by giving UAI$_PWD a quadword with both
>>    longwords containing -1.
>
>This doesn't sound right.  How can it tell whether or not you supply the
>correct password when you log in?  Perhaps you meant to refer to the PWDCHANGE
>field, which isn't accessible via $SETUAI?

This is exactally what he 'means'; a password last changed date of '-1' in
both longwords does indeed mean that the password has been pre-expired.

Unfortunatly, last time I looked, yes, there was no way to update the password
last changed date via $SETUAI. We have an application which changes a users
password, once the application determined the password had expired.
Unfortunatly, simply updating the hashed quadword version of the password
with $SETUAI does NOT update the changed date field. I had to write a
program to update the date in the SYSUAF directly (and dealing with RMS
calls for an indexed file in 'C' is never a joy ... reminds me that C is
NOT a high level language !).

If anyone is interested, let me know and I will post the source.

Regards,

Dave.

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From: randy@rls.UUCP (randy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Summary of responses re: Ethernet monitoring tools
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:38:47 GMT
Organization: The Internet

sfr%wc3101.dnet@INEL.GOV (Steve Schaeffer) writes:
>> I am looking for a software-only solution to monitoring Ethernet traffic for 
>> the purposes of gathering statistics and troubleshooting.
>
> One gentleman suggested looking into the group of boxes typically known
> as "sniffers".  [...] This violates the first requirement that I stated... 
> "software only". 

Sniffers also come in the software only variety.  You supply the PC. It does
not run on any other platform than DOS.  They send free demo diskettes to
run on your PC if you call them.  I forget where I stashed their number, but
if there is enough interest I can look it up.

> Carl Lydick actually sent me Fortran source code of ETHERLOG.  This is a
> rudimentary, but very effective, packet grabber for VMS that actually
> helped me over the weekend find a system that was sending out bad MOP
> packets.  It loops until it has seen 10,000 packets and then gives a
> listing of who was talking to who using what protocol. 

If it's not too big, maybe Carl or yourself could post it. :-)

> The most useful tip came from Kevin Oberman who suggested FTPing
> ETHERMON from gw.syr.ge.com. 

Which version is it?  I had nothing but problems running it.  It would
hang in a variety of circumstances, particularly when changing screens
for different monitoring modes.  Mine came off some ancient DECUS tapes. 

> I feel that I now have all the capability I need to keep an eye on
> things here and identify problems when they arise.  Thanks to all
> concerned. 

Sorry I didn't see your orignal post.  I just got some unsolicited mail
from a comany called Bernstein & Associates offering a couple packages
called Network Traffic Advisor (NTA) and Response Time Monitor (RTM).  
Shoulda been called, Response Time Frequency Monitor (RTFM) :-).

Their descriptions came as SPD's.  Kinda nice touch.  They're software
only and run under VMS.  NTA requires only one node and the license is
for a building is $2,500.  Not bad really.  RTM measures terminal
response time.  RTM is site licenses based on VUPS.  Seemed kinda $teep.

Just in case, their address is 3 Dunwoody Park, Suite 103, Atlanta,
Georgia  30338-9819 (404)-392-1488 (404)-671-1618 (fax). 

I am not affiliated with B & A in any way.  Caveat Emptor.

Cheers!

- randy

uucp: randy@rls.uucp
bang: <backbone>!osu-cis!rls!randy
inet: rls!randy@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
disc: Will be President for food.
From: da@xor.cis.Brown.EDU (David Ascher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Q: VAX/VMS optimized BLAS routines?
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:28:19
Organization: Brown University
Reply-To: David_Ascher@Brown.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: xor.cis.brown.edu

I'm looking for fast BLAS routines to use on a VAX 6000 w/ vector
processor.  I thought that they'd be in the math library, but i can't
seem to find anything about BLAS routines in the master index.

Pointers anyone?  Should I just use sciport and compile as optimized
as I can?  Seems like there should be a vax-specific version
somewhere..

thanks for any info

--david ascher
From: RFORSTER@VENUS.GOV.BC.CA ("Russell M. Forster")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: (none)
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:43:14 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
From: jlhall@ferranti.com (Jonathan Luke Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: FORTRAN OPEN on tape MOUNT/FOREIGN, bug or feature?
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:23:54 GMT
Organization: Ferranti Int'l Controls - SCADA Dept.

When using the OPEN statement from a FORTRAN program compiled and
LINKed on a 6000-630 on VMS 5.5 accessing a file on a 3480 tape
mounted using $MOUNT/FOREIGN, I notice that if I specify
RECORDTYPE='FIXED' on the OPEN for write that I have to specify
RECORDTYPE='VARIABLE' on the OPEN for read.

There is no discrepancy between RECORDTYPEs if either the MOUNT is
not FOREIGN and/or the RECORDTYPE is 'VARIABLE' on the write.

It this a bug or a feature?
-- 
Jonathan Luke Hall
                      --  Buy more memory.
From: heinrich@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Am I in SYLOGIN?
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:53:03 -0700
Organization: Brigham Young University

In article <1992Jul22.113259.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>, ccdk001@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu writes:
> Anyone know of a simple, fairly fullproof way to determine if an image
> is being run from SYLOGIN.COM or some other known place (step) during
> process creation?
> 
> I have an installed privileged application that I want executed during the
> login process, but I don't want users to be able to execute it directly.
> It does "things" based on an assumed state of that process/environment at
> that time particular time.  Allowing users to change their environment
> (logical names, devices, etc.) and then rerunning this image could be
> a problem in some instances.
> 
> Grabing the procedure depth/name from the clidata doesn't seem fullproof
> enough.   Checking the imagecount in the process header could work, but
> I dunno..  Patching loginout (again!) is also too messy.    I'd appreciate
> any ideas/strategies.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ++ Dave
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> David Barkelew                  Internet: barkelew@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
> Unix/VMS Services,              UUCP:     ...!ut-emx!utxvms!barkelew
> Computation Center              THEnet:   UTXVMS::BARKELEW
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> Voice: (512)471-3241            FAX:      (512)471-1582
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One little trick you could use, assuming no one else in your organization 
or third party software uses it, is to use the longword in P1 space,
CTL$GL_SITESPEC and load a value in there after the initialization is
complete.  CTL$GL_SITESPEC is an "available for customers" longword that
VMS creates in every process.  The first time your code executes, assuming
it has KERNEL WRITE access, it checks this longword.  If it is zero, the
default, then it writes a value to it.  Subsequent executions of the 
program will fail, since the value is no longer 0.  This longword is
kernel read/executive read, if memory serves me.  (Too tired to open
the IDSM now... sorry).

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Ed Heinrich
The LOKI Group, Inc.
HEINRICH@yvax.byu.EDU
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From: SYSTEM@CLUSTER.POLY-NORTH-LONDON.AC.UK (System Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: EMULEX problems (Extra Info')
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:15:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

By the way, I forgot to mention that somebody suggested going to 5.5-1 to
fix it - I tried that and had no joy with that either (Reinitialised the
server, kicked it etc. etc.)

Please mail me if you need more info ...


Brian.
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