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From: brooks@sol.acs.unt.edu (Brooks Thomas Lowell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Sendmail on 3.2.2
Keywords: sendmail.cf
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:03:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: sol.brooks.714279839
Organization: University of North Texas

I would like to configure the sendmail.cf file so that it would omit
the hostname when sending mail. I am pretty sure this is possible but
I haven't been able to figure this out yet. Part of the reason may be 
that I don't know a damn thing about the rewrite rules etc... in the
sendmail.cf file. I only want the mail to show the domain it came from
and not the hostname. 

Any help would be geatly appreciated.

Thanks .... tom
From: snrbru@nluug.nl (R. M. Bruijne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Where are you?
Keywords: PATH, ksh, CWD, prompt
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:30:39 GMT
Reply-To: rb@dasc.nl
Organization: Data Science Nederland BV

Hello,

> Re: article about the current directory in the status line of
>     an aixterm
I think the alias for 'cd' is not the best way to go. When you exit an
rlogin to another machine (where you use the same alias), the status line
is not updated. The same goes for sub shells. Maybe a better idea is to
use PS1 for this purpose. The definition I use is:
     'PS1='^[[?E^[[?02T${PWD}^[[?F'"$PS1"; export PS1'

The three '^[' sequences stand for ESCAPE, which you must enter in vi
using <ctrl>V <ESC>.
The reference '$PS1' is to get the prompt (on the command line) you
defined earlier.

A problem with this definition (AIX 3.2.0 w. many patches) is, that the
path in the status line gets garbled when the path name gets too long.
Anybody an idea why? I did try rather hard to get is fixed...

Hope it is of use to you.

Remco Bruijne
----------------
Disclaimer: I only speak for myself.
From: terry@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (Terry Heidelberg x24154)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Monitor 1.05.1 (was Re: Uptime problem in Aix 3.2)
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:47:55 GMT
Organization: LLNL

In article <JMAKI.92Aug12160253@veivi.hut.fi>, jmaki@veivi.hut.fi (Jussi Maki)
 writes:
|> 
|> I'm sorry, but monitor 1.05.1 will show wrong uptime values when used
|> with AIX version 3.2. This is due the modifications that IBM has made to their
|> system.  If anybody knows the real story of how sysinfo.runque and
|> sysinfo.runocc values (described in /usr/include/sys/sysinfo.h) are
|> handled in aix3.2 versus aix3.1 I would be very glad to know it. Those
|> variables are used to calculate load average values. The documention
|> with include files don't seem to be up to date.
|> 
|> I have tried to modify load average calculations to work with aix3.2
|> but there might still be some bugs with those modifications.  I'll
|> make the beta test version available from
|> ftp.funet.fi:pub/unix/AIX/RS6000/monitor-1.06beta.tar.Z with anonymous
|> ftp. I don't guarantee that it will work since I've been very busy
|> with other projects here.
|> 
|> About that real memory value, I don't know the correct vay to do
|> it in AIX3.?. My way has worked with 300 and 500 series. We don't have
|> any RS/6000 model 220's here so perhaps somebody who has one could
|> try to peek the way to look the real memory value. (Or IBM could
|> tell us the correct way to do it?). If there would be an "AIX
|> Internals manual" life would be lot easier with this.

Or better yet, maybe IBM could take over the maintenance of 'monitor',
include it in the base software, and see to it that it works right on 
each release?     It sure beats the hell out of PS for watching the 
dynamic process behavior of a system.

How do IBM software developers observe the dynamic process behavior of
AIX, anyhow?     By installing a version of 'monitor'?
From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Where are you?
Keywords: PATH, ksh, CWD, prompt
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:31:52 GMT
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Followup-To: <1133@epd74hp.nluug.nl>
Organization: University of Berne

In article <1133@epd74hp.nluug.nl>, snrbru@nluug.nl (R. M. Bruijne) writes:
 [ ... ]
|> Maybe a better idea is to
|> use PS1 for this purpose. The definition I use is:
|>      'PS1='^[[?E^[[?02T${PWD}^[[?F'"$PS1"; export PS1'
 [ ... ]

Besides the problem you mention with a garbled status line, your approach
based on PS1 has the following drawbacks:

o  as your status line grows with increasing cwd depth, the shifting point
   of the command line (displayed as '<' by ksh) moves to the left in parallel;     with a 50 char status line and '$ ' as your prompt, e.g., your command line 
   will be rolled over by ksh already after typing in 11 characters
   (in a 80x25 aixterm).

o  aixterm has to interpret a lot of esc sequences with each PS1 issued;
   even without ever changing directories, you're doing more i/o.

My approach based on aliasing cd does indeed have the drawback of a stale
status line after telnet'ing or rlogin'ing to another host where the same
.kshrc is in effect; you can, however, always update your line by a 'cd .'
I don't know of a way to get around this. The problem with subshells (as long
as they are ksh's) and su's is fixed in the following version (do keep in
mind though, that the whole thing is still a quick shot and not a mature
shell environment; you may still encounter some side effects):
  === cut ===
tty -s
if [ -z "${0#/bin/ksh}" -o -z "${0#-ksh}" -o -z "${0#ksh}" -a $? = 0 ] ; then
   INTERACTIVE=on
else
   INTERACTIVE=off
fi

if [ $INTERACTIVE = "on" ] ; then
   if [ $TERM = aixterm ] ; then
      OPWD=$PWD
      HOST=`uname -n`
      BOLD="\033[1m"
      TSL="\033[?1T"
      FSL="\033[?F"
      EL="\033[K"
      SGR0="\033[0;10m"
      KCUU1="\033[A"
   
      cwd () {
          cd $*
          echo $TSL$EL"You are on "$HOST" in "$BOLD$PWD$SGR0$FSL$KCUU1
      }
      alias cd=cwd
   fi

   if [ $TERM = vt220 ] ; then
   
      cwd () {
          cd $*
          PS1=$PWD"> "
          export PS1
      }
      alias cd=cwd
   fi
fi

if [ $INTERACTIVE = "on" ] ; then
   echo
   cd .
   trap "cd $OPWD" EXIT
fi
  === cut ===
-- 
Konrad Haedener                             Phone: +41 31 65 42 25
Institute for Physical Chemistry            FAX:   +41 31 65 44 99
University of Berne
Switzerland                                 haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
From: hhw0@harvey.gte.com (Hansel Wan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: umount, <defunct>
Keywords: umount <defunct>
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:21:44 GMT

Some questions about AIX3.2:

1. How do you get rid of <defunct> processes?
   I tried the usual kill and kill -9 but they refuse to die.
   They seem to stick around until the next cold boot.

2. How do you check who/what is keeping a harddisk device busy?
   When I tried to unmount a harddisk (/home), it gave me a message
    "DEVICE BUSY", even though I was the only one logged in (as root)
    and other login is disabled and my current working directory is
    not in it.  How do I check what application or daemon is keeping
    it in a busy state?

Thanks in advance for anyone who response.

- Hansel (hhw0@gte.com)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane)
Subject: Re: Dialup SLIP?
Summary: Do it, BUT... 
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:59:24 GMT

Yes, it works to use a dialup modem w/SLIP on the RS-6000, but it is
a real pain - ibm's slip is nearly reaching notorious status.  IBM's
sl;;ip does not support CSLIP (but,then again, most PC's don't either)
and it is a real problem on the RS-6000 side to set up multiple slip
interfaces.  If the RS-6000 is the transmitter and there is another RS-6000
as the receiver (at least in my config) my line goes down after about 4MB
have gone across it.

I run at 19.2 through an AT&T datakit modem - 19.2K straight rate, w/no
compression and my 220 will crash after 4MB have been sent or received
through the interface to a 320H.  Typing, as I am doing now, sends an
INCREDIBLE flury of activity across the line and interactive performance
is TERRIBLE during an ftp, even through I tuned my MTU's way down (but not
too far!).

I have tried a PC to RS-6000 slip at 38400 over a direct in-building 
link and it worked okay, but I didn't try X.  On the 220 <-> 320 setup,
it takes about a minute for info to come up and about three seconds to pull
down a Motif menu (the first time, better after that).

Sorry for the mostly subjective information.  I have tried one of those new
$699.00 Qume X-terminals over a 9600 modem (running at 19.2K w/compresssion)
to an RS-6K at the other end and it is a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better solution
than the slip (about 10 times as fast) - I now have one as my backup0 unit
in case my 220 's slip goes down (or my wife is working on it :> )!

-Nathan Lane
Trico Title Company, Santa Barbara, CA
nlane@well.sf.ca.us
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Building shared libraries
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:14:31 GMT
Organization: Cable Data (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA

In article <1992Aug12.172310.12440@ryn.mro4.dec.com> rice@rab.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>Could someone explain the exports file format?  Also is there a way around
>not needing it, i.e. exporting anything unresolved.  I haven't found any
>documentation on import/exporting in the info database.

Take a look at the info/man entry for "ld". The format for
Imports/Exports is there, at least on the CD-ROM we have for AIX 3.2.
-- 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
From: abstine@calvin.erc.clarkson.edu (Art Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: traceroute for AIX V3.1.6/3.2.x
Date: 22 Aug 92 23:34:35 GMT
Reply-To: abstine@clarkson.edu
Organization: Clarkson University

Does anyone have traceroute working on AIX? If so, what did you have to
change to make it work? thanks

---
Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U
ABStine@Omnigate.Clarkson.Edu
From: taylor@elc1.astro.ufl.edu (Charlie Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 220 conf'ed for using /usr server
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:25:18 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Florida

In article <1992Aug13.085828.4829@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) writes:
>
>  I'am trying to configure our institute's 220's to use the /usr server, and
>have nice problems with it. (Running 3.2)
>  I am installing the system over network, as we have no tape stations on the
>220's. I used various install images (copied from the original tape, generated
>using mksysb of a running 3.2 system, generated using mksysb of a running 3.2
>with applied 3.2 fixes, with applied patches upgrading the 3.2 to 3.2.1, and
>finaly after applying the patch U401209 and prereq., which should contain
>220 corrections).
>  After copying a bunch of /usr files, the typical dd-command message comes
>(some thousands records in, 0 records out); after that a pax: error message
>comes, that the following files weren't found in the archive:
>		/usr/lib/microcode/8d77.32.52
>		/usr/lib/microcode/8d77.42.52
>		/usr/lib/microcode/8d77.44.52
>As these files are not on the original installation machine, the only thing
>I could do was to require continuation. It tries to generate bos boot file
>and boot image on the disk, which aborts with the error message, that it
>cannot find the file
>		/etc//microcode/8d77.32.04
>This file *is* on the original install machine, but it is of no help,as the
>installation is aborted and there is no boot image on the disk.
>
>  Anyone can help me? 
>  Just a note - according to the manual, I used only the installation image
>bos.obj.*; sure it is enuff???
>
>  I'd be immensely gratefull for any kind of help.
>
>  Thanx,
>							Tom


I just encountered the same problem about three days ago.  IBM software support
gave me a work around which amounts to the following...

1. edit /usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmin.list and change the following file names

  a. /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.32.52  to  /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.32.04
  a. /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.42.52  to  /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.42.02
  a. /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.44.52  to  /usr/lib/microcode/8d77.44.02

2. create a new set of bosboot diskettes (see pages 1-9 of the 3.2 installation
   guide. 

3. boot the intended /usr client with the new diskettes

4. proceed with the /usr client installation


In step two above, you can save yourself some trouble and just remake the
install/maintenance diskette.  The instructions in the install guide are 
correct. To install the /usr client, you only need the bos.obj installation
image which is the 4th file (skip 3) on your 3.2 tape.

BTW, the problem is that the files were misnamed on the tape you got.

Hope this helps.

Charlie Taylor
Department of Astronomy                
211 S.S.R.B                            Phone: (904)-392-0199
Univerisity of Florida                   Fax: (904)-392-5089
Gainesville, FL, 32611                 email: taylor@astro.ufl.edu
From: mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov (Marc W. Mengel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Problem with "vi"
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:33:20 GMT

tim@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Tim Burns) writes:
>Does anyone know of any fixes or updates which would keep "vi" from
>hanging.  I have tried using "aixterm" instead of "xterm", resizing
>the window, all sorts of hacks, and none seem to work.  Does anyone
>know why this is happening?  Is IBM doing anything to fix it?

No fixes, but when my rlogin sessions hang, (which I think is probably
a similar case) I can "kill -STOP" them, and then do a "fg^J" (because
the tty modes are insane I use a control-j) and it wakes back up.

Anyway, maybe this workaround helps somebody see where the bug is (?!?)
-------
Marc Mengel
mengel@fnal.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener)
Subject: Re: Memory for RS/6000 220
Followup-To: <1992Aug17.025251.18580@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
Keywords: memory rs/6000 220
Reply-To: haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Berne
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:26:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.025251.18580@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, ajj@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Andrew J Johnston (netman)) writes:
|> 
|> I am looking for a supplier of memory for my RS/6000 220.
|> Are there any third party suppliers of this around?
|> 
|> Andrew Johnston

First Source International, Inc.
36 Argonaut
Suite 140
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
phone (714) 588-9866
fax   (714) 588-9872

Ask for 8MB SIMMs for IBM PS/2 57SX, 90, 95 & RS/6000 mod 220,
(item IBM8-0130); they sold for $314 the piece as of 07/30/92.
This is a 3rd party product; the modules are a little bit taller
than the original but they fit into the 220 and they work.
-- 
Konrad Haedener                             Phone: +41 31 65 42 25
Institute for Physical Chemistry            FAX:   +41 31 65 44 99
University of Berne
Switzerland                                 haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: allan@uunet!cambex!zeus (Allan Lipka)
Subject: aix3.2.2
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:02:38 GMT
Organization: cambex

I have a friend who a has recently done an upgrade to aix 3.2.2.  He creates a
new volume group with 2K physical partitions.  There are a total of 494 PP's
available on the drive in that VG.  He then tries to create a logical volume 
and he allocates all 494 PP's.  Some how the volume group identifier gets 
overwritten and he has to recreate the VG.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

With aix 3.1.5 you would get a message that there are not enough PP's available
because it needs to create the jfslog. 

Thanks,

     allan
From: rudy@chukran.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Logical Volume Groups
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:46:02 GMT
Reply-To: chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran)
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division

In article <5684@hq.hq.af.mil>, rknowles@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Rick Knowles) writes:
|>    Me and a couple of other guys are about to set up a 530H.  Everything was
|> going fine until we got into an argument on logical volume groups.  Currently
|> we are divided into at least two camps.  One guy wants to have just rootvg,
|> another wants at least two volume groups, and one weenie refused to vote.
|>    Obviously there are pros and cons to both setups.  With one vol grp, we put
|> the entire system on an image backup.  On the other, we have greater control
|> on the location of our data.
|>    Does anybody have any good stories/experiences/suggestions out there?  Are
|> there any pitfalls we need to be aware of?
I strongly vote for the multiple vgs and more specifically a single disk
rootvg.  Reasons?

Backup flexibility.  I backup with mksys (which gets only system data on rootvg)
seldom.  I back up my stuff frequently.  I dont waste time backing up stuff
which doesnt change.  I dont like incremental backups, but thats just me.

Castastrophe odds.  Lose any disk in a multidisk rootvg, and you dont boot.
The more disks in rootvg, the greater the probability of boot catastrophe.

Data placement flexibility. This can buy you performance if your
system is disk I/O bound in just the right way and you know what to move
where.
-- 
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:18:42 MDT
From: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Namesevice on RS/6000....
Reply-To: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)

> >>On 3.2 the port is relatively straight-forward.  Then you will have a
> >>working named...
> >
> >In fact I don't remember having ported anything. Just compile and go
> >(with the BSD options).

What options would those be?  We tried compiling BIND 4.8.3 and it was taking  
alot of work to get the files compilable!  We had to change ALOT of stuff to  
get the syntax right and to get the library references right.  It still isn't  
ported.  Could anyone mail me directions?  You talk of BSD options, do you  
mean -DBSD?

I have received mail and read here that IBM's patches (newest ones) will fix  
the problem.  Can I get an authoritative answer?  Does anyone know for sure?   
We got some patches (5 meg of them) but we haven't applied them yet.  Will  
the newest patches from IBM fix the problem?  ---
Sean Eckton

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From: losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX3.2 and uucp/cu across rs232 lines
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:39:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

>The only outstanding problem related to cu/uucp.  we are connected
>to a 386 running Xenix and cu/uucp back and forth across rs232
>lines(direct, no modems).  the ones coming FROM the 386 are fine, 
>the ones from rs6000 to the 386 give the following error when I cu to it:
>
>$ cu xxxx
>Connected
>
>Lost Carrier
>User defined signal 1

Your cable or null modem/cable is not asserting DCD (carrier detect)
or is not asserting it in what AIX thinks is a timely fashion.

Since you are using direct connect, you might wish to play with setting
CLOCAL in your tty setup.  CLOCAL can tell AIX to ignore modem signals.
(caveat: there goes your flow control!) Or change your cable to "fake" out
the DCD line, tying it to some other signal that you know will change with
it.  A $7.99 rs-232 line monitor (7 LEDS, gosh!) will help lots here.

oz
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard )
Subject: Xstation 120: need reboot to reconnect to font server
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:10:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Can anyone tell me why it is that the Xstation 120 firmware is not smart
enough to reestablish a connection to the font server after the connection
is lost and a new font is needed?

I am currently booting Release 112591 on Version 1.5 roms.  No previous
release of the server code has reconnected either.

There are a couple of possible explanations to this.  One is that the
network connection is lost due to a "keep alive" feature being active
(which to those know what it does know it should be relabled as
"kill me as soon as you can").  Another possibility is that the server
or the machine the server was running on is rebooted.

I leave the terminal for a while (such as overnight) then return and it
can't find any new fonts.  Then after an immediate reboot it has no trouble
finding any fonts, so I know that the server is up and reachable by that
time so I know it didn't really try to reconnect.
-- 
/***********************************************************************\
| Phil Howard  ---  KA9WGN  ---  pdh@netcom.com   |   "The problem with |
| depending on government is that you cannot depend on it" - Tony Brown |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander)
Subject: Re: C routine realloc() seems broken in AIX 3.2.2...
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:28:25 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

In article <LUBKT.92Aug17113728@synergy.CC.Lehigh.EDU> lubkt@synergy.CC.Lehigh.EDU (Binod Taterway) writes:


>FYI - 

>AIX 3.2.2 has broken all my realloc() calls. The code that worked on
>AIX 3.1.8 (and all previous releases) now gives core dump after I
>upgraded AIX. I get -

>	Catastrophe in realloc: invalid storage ptr
>	IOT/Abort trap(coredump)

>B.
>--

>- Binod Taterway                     
>  Sr. User Consultant (LUCC)
>  E-mail: bt00@Lehigh.EDU


The previous malloc was more forgiving about calling free (or realloc)
with a pointer which was not currently allocated.  (That is, either it
didn't really come from malloc, or it had already been freed).  The
message above indicates that malloc has detected such a call.  You
might want to look at your program and see why.  You can alternately
force use of the old malloc - see the documentation.

If on consideration you really believe that the pointer is allocated,
you might file a bug report.  If you are freeing an unallocated
pointer and believe that that ought to work, I'd appreciate a note
explaining the situation.
--


Marc Auslander       (IBM)<marc@marc.watson.ibm.com>      914 784-6699
                     (Internet)<marc@watson.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: daryl@tcomeng.uucp (Daryl Jones)
Subject: RS/6000 Wanted
Organization: Telecomm. Engineering Associates
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 05:14:19 GMT


WANTED:    IBM RS-6000 Model 530, or similar.    Need for personal 
		software development use.  All configurations will
		be considered.

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 Daryl Jones                                  daryl@tcomeng.com
 Telecommunications Engineering Associates    decwrl!tcomeng!daryl
 South San Francisco, California              Phone: (415) 871-4200
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