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From: ccbsc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Brad Cooper)
Subject: Does Etherfind exist for Ultrix?
Summary: Is there an Ultrix version of Etherfind?
Keywords: Etherfind Ultrix
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 03:15:22 GMT

The Etherfind program which allows capture of ethernet
packets and numerous other operations on Sun systems
appears to be a very useful tool.

Does anybody know of an Ultrix version  or alternatively
an equivalent Ultrix program please?

-- 
Regards, Brad Cooper	Internet:ccbsc@marlin.jcu.edu.au
Phone:+61 77 814245     Snail:  Computer Centre, James Cook University,
  Fax:+61 77 796371             Townsville, QLD, Australia 4811.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: marcve@philce.ce.philips.nl (Marc van Endert)
Subject: calcomp 1044 plotter
Summary: installing a calcomp 1044 plotter
Keywords: plotter calcomp-1044 printcap
Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:31:49 GMT

HELP HELP

I'm installing a Calcomp plotter which we have bought second hand. I've some
trouble getting the printcap entry right. The entries I tried are: 

#calc:\
#       :lp=/dev/tty94:sd=/usr/spool/calc:\
#       :ts=FJBO06:op=CALC_3:br#19200:sf:sh:mx#0:\
#       :ms=cs7,parenb,-parodd,-ignpar,ixon,ixoff,-echo:
#

and

calc:\
        :br#2400:\
        :fc#0177777:\
        :fs#023:\
        :lp=/dev/tty94:\
        :mx#0:\
        :op=CALC_3:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/calc:\
        :sf:\
        :sh:\
        :ts=FJBO06:
and
calc2|lp2|calcomp:\
        :af=/usr/adm/calcomp:\
        :br#2400:\
        :ct=lat:\
        :fc#0177777:\
        :fs#023:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/calc2err:\
        :lp=/dev/tty94:\
        :mx#0:\
        :op=CALC_3:\
        :os=:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/calc2:\
        :ts=FJBO06:

but none off them seam to work. The plotter starts plotting for a while. After some
strokkes he stops. 
The host seems to find this out and restarts the plot.

Maybe some of you are more experienced in writing printcap entries and can help me 
with my problem.

One remark:
 the input file is alright. we copied it via the vax to the plotter and see, all went
 fine. I suspect the unix machine adds some information (a linefeed ...) so the
 plotter goes in error. Am i right?

Please answer by mail to:
   marcve@philce.ce.philips.nl

 
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From: sherer@lub001.lamar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Diskquota Usage in ULTRIX
Date: 20 Aug 1992 18:38:59 GMT
Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont

Just wondering if any of you are currently using diskquotas on your ULTRIX
systems. We have a DECsystem 5100 that our students periodically take over as
far as disk space is concerned, and we'd like to limit the amount of disk
space they are using. 

If you are using diskquotas, do you have any kind of information on adding the
quota information at the time of adding the user to the system? We add about
150 users each semester, and using edquota for each user will take some time. I
would like to know if anyone has a shell script that would add a default quota
to the quotas file, and if so, would you be willing to share it with me. I
would greatly appreciate it.

Please be kind in your responses. I am sort of new to NEWS and to ULTRIX, so if
this is the wrong group, you have my apologies.

Thanks in advance...

Kirk Sherer
Lamar University 
SHERER@LUB001.LAMAR.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: schwabl@mognet.aui.dec.com (Wolfgang Schwabl)
Subject: Re: Is "ccr" completely braindead or what?
Keywords: ccr
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:45:06 GMT

Ask your local DEC sales representative to get the 
latest patch of "ccr" for ULTRIX, i.e.

$ ls -l /usr/etc/ccr
-rwsr-xr-x  1 root     system      69632 Feb 19  1992 /usr/etc/ccr

This patch has modified ethernet packet timeouts,
which can be changed with environment variables.


-- 
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||                                   Ziedlergasse 21
||   Tel.  +43 1 86630 2319          A-1230 Wien         Austria/Europe
||   schwabl@spatz.enet.dec.com
From: rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: There have been 243 unsuccessful login attempts on your account
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:18:34 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


Well, if you are not running LAT or DECnet, you can install the
tcp_log utilities (cert is an ftp site for them). That way you can at
least tell if you are being hit from the network (match entries in
lastlog against the connection requests and look for unsucessful
connection), and if you are, then you can tell from which machines the
connections are coming.

If you are running LAT or DECnet, then I think you are SOL. I haven't
found any way of making those things cough up info about every connect
8-(.  This is a large portion of the reason I want to get rid of them
from the machines I administer 8-).

-- John
From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Connecting Modems to DEC Stations
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:59:28 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Aug19.141707.27605@decuac.dec.com> avolio@dco.dec.com writes:
>
>There is information on this in the systems management guide which discusses
>tip and uucp.  You want to install the uucp software subset and
>and run uucpsetup which, I think, will help with setting up the modems.  

It is worth noting that the DEC-supplied UUCP is about as bad as you'll find
anywhere, so if you're planning on using UUCP, you'd be a lot better off if
you started out by building either the Taylor or the 4.3BSD UUCP.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	 tls@panix.COM
  "Oh, you have wounded me!  I have very few prejudices, actually.  The
biggest problem is that I am intolerant of fools.  That is why I have
such a low tolerance level for Libertarians."  -- Jim McMaster
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
Subject: Re: Does Etherfind exist for Ultrix?
Keywords: Etherfind Ultrix
Organization: DEC Western Research
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 01:53:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.031522.5720@marlin.jcu.edu.au> ccbsc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Brad Cooper) writes:
>The Etherfind program which allows capture of ethernet
>packets and numerous other operations on Sun systems
>appears to be a very useful tool.
>
>Does anybody know of an Ultrix version  or alternatively
>an equivalent Ultrix program please?

tcpdump.  Shipped with recent versions of Ultrix, sources available
from various public FTP archives, and (in some people's opinion)
better than Etherfind (tcpdump runs on Suns, too).

-Jeff
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: Fortran for DecStation/Ultrix
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:15:48 GMT

In article <HUDGENS.92Aug17113818@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU> hudgens@SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes:
>
>Anyone else notice that DEC fortran didn't make the CD-ROM (CONDIST)
>distribution?  Nor Motif.  Our salescritter *swore* both would be in
>the August 1992 distribution.  Anyone know *when* these items will
>make the "Ultrix Consolidated Software Distribution"?
>
>JHH
>
>
>--
>Jim Hudgens 			Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
>hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu      
>
I asked this question several months ago and have been told that since
Fortran (and other packages like PHIGS) do not support LMF, there is 
no way to distribute them on CDROM. But the reason why they are not
LMF compliant is because there are so many customers who purchased
these packages a long time ago (before LMF and PAKs existed), that DEC 
has not found a way to locate and distribute PAKs to them!!!! Yes it
sounds bad especially since the same problem with all those VMS users
and applications has been fixed.

Motif 1.1.3 is on the June CDROM, so that problem has been fixed.
(I've heard the August distribution is only an update, so you'll need
to get the June distribution for Motif).

Of course there is at least one other package which is LMF compliant and
is still not on CDROM: DECwrite. In the latest CDROM they have added VUIT, 
so if we get one of these older packages added every other month, I'll be happy.

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: FAL acces _from_ Ultrix (accessing VMS files over DECnet)
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:14:53 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland/NIST


Hello!

We have a bunch VMS systems running various data collection hardware
and a DECsystem/Ultrix4.2 as a hub computer (data storage/analysis).
Currently we access files on the VMS systems by external processess (a
la system("dcp ...");) copying the file to a local disk, and then
reading the file in a normal way. However, I would like to be able to
open/read files directly from my program.

The decnet example directory contains some examples how to hook up to
DECnet, but I couldn't find any details on using the FAL access
protocol. An example program that opens and reads a DECnet file

	VAX1"accnt passwd"::DISK1:[dir]file.dat;1

would suffice to start me up; or, if you believe that I should get a
fishing rod instead of a fish :^) please send me the references to the
manuals containing the FAL stuff.

Thanks very much
--
			przemek klosowski (przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov)
			Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111
			National Institute of Standards and Technology
			Gaithersburg, MD 20899,      USA

			(301) 975 6249
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: w and ps don't agree + Typical UN*X-attitude
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:36:57 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA

trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost) writes:
>       I believe he was referring to awk(1).

Or biff(1), named after a dog that used to hang around the Berkeley labs.

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA.  Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.   All Rights Reserved.
From: hudgens@SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Fortran for DecStation/Ultrix
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:50:06 GMT
	<HUDGENS.92Aug17113818@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU>
	<2A904F44.29359@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
In-reply-to: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 01:15:48 GMT


>In article <2A904F44.29359@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
> In article <HUDGENS.92Aug17113818@sun13.SCRI.FSU.EDU> hudgens@SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens) writes:
> >
> >Anyone else notice that DEC fortran didn't make the CD-ROM (CONDIST)
> >distribution?  Nor Motif.  Our salescritter *swore* both would be in
> >the August 1992 distribution.  Anyone know *when* these items will
> >make the "Ultrix Consolidated Software Distribution"?
> >
> >JHH
>	
>
>   Motif 1.1.3 is on the June CDROM, so that problem has been fixed.
>   (I've heard the August distribution is only an update, so you'll need
>   to get the June distribution for Motif).

Whoa, nelly.  Damn, color me red.  I had just looked through the "disc
user's guide" at the master index for risc for the motif product.
It's not there.  I didn't really look at the disks, and there was not
anything printed which mentioned the motif disk.  At least I didn't
get anything.  But it's there!  Sorry about that.

Thanks for the correction!

JHH



--
Jim Hudgens 			Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu      
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: sybertz@brsux0.bro.dec.com (Sybertz Marc)
Subject: Re: automating dump on Ultrix MvaxII
Reply-To: sybertz@ketje.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Brussels
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:21:53 GMT


In article <2313.2a94b38c@decus.ch>, klavins@decus.ch (Ed Klavins, Micrognosis Zurich) writes:
>From: klavins@decus.ch (Ed Klavins, Micrognosis Zurich)
>Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
>Subject: automating dump on Ultrix MvaxII
>
>I've a few questions regarding dump:
>
>How do others automate their backups? Does anyone have any useful scripts 
>they'd like to share?
>

You can use the DECnsr product which allows you to automate your backup but
also to automate the backup for the Sun.

Call your local DEC sale's representative and ask for a demo.

Regards,
Marc Sybertz.

+------------------------------------------+
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| Dept : EIS - Unix Service Center         |
| Func : Unix System Management Specialist |
| Mail : sybertz@ketje.enet.dec.com        |
| Loc  : DIGITAL - BRO (Brussels, Belgium) |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: avolio@dco.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Subject: Re: Connecting Modems to DEC Stations
Originator: avolio@gildor.dco.dec.com
Reply-To: avolio@dco.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:17:07 GMT


There is information on this in the systems management guide which discusses
tip and uucp.  You want to install the uucp software subset and
and run uucpsetup which, I think, will help with setting up the modems.  

If it doesn't, th emanual will help as it is fairly easy.  Roughly, you want:

1. /etc/acucap to have information on your modem.

2. /dev/tty?? owned by user uucp and chmod'ed 777

3. entrie(s) for the dial line used in /etc/ttys and the
string "shared" on the line like this:

ttyd0   "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100     on shared modem

You should then be able to tip out the line.  See the tip man pages.  You might
want to edit /etc/remotes and add names of systems you want to dil to with
phone numbers but it is not required.  Just edit that file so that the
port you are using and what it thinks the default is are the same tty
device.

Fred
From: stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Ulitrix 4.2a install on DecStation 5000/240
Summary: partitioning disk, diskless environment construction
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:52:02 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: orchid.ucsc.edu


 I am assisting a group of people who purchased 3 DecStation 5000's using
Ultrix 4.2a- so far I am not impressed by the installation process or
partition changing procedures, plus the diskless client setup.

Anyway can anyone give me a run down on the install process and how much
can I really control during the advanced install? Should I use the system
management menu item after a cd-rom boot, to do the re-partitioning of the
disk?  There seems to be some confusion about how to generate a partition
for dlenv so that 'dms' utility can create what it needs for diskless clients.

Thanks in advance for any comments or help... I am a SunOS expert so I am not
very familiar with the ULTRIX install- but there are similarities, and the
group I am helping are VMS people.



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Subject: Re: Decstation Ultrix single-user mode security hole.
Keywords: DecStation, Ultrix, Security Hole, Help
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 18:50:46 GMT

>	On Decstations running Ultrix 4.1-4.2a is there any way to
>make it so that users can't just hit ^C during the multiuser boot
>process to break into single-user mode?  (and thus get access as root
>on the machine).

	Note that there *are* occasions when you want to be able to
interrupt autoboot. ;)

	One option might be to get a version of init and whack
its interrupt handlers. I used to have a customized version that would
call "/bin/su" instead of "/bin/sh" if a single user shell was requested.
This relies on having a version of "su" that does the right thing if
your password file is hosed. I tried putting "trap" statements in /etc/rc
on my workstation here at home (which doesn't run ULTRIX so I can't say
if it works on ULTRIX) but it didn't work, which kind of surprises
me.

	I don't see sources to init in the net2 tapes, but the 386BSD
kit appears to have one. Unfortunately, I don't know of an FTP server
that keeps an unpacked 386BSD source distribution, or playing with it
might be amusing. Init's a mostly trivial program.

	Without physical security, you're always going to have a
problem. Anyone who thinks otherwise is in a state of sin. Someone
can very easily walk up to a machine and boot off an external SCSI
disk, for example...

mjr.
From: behe@inasys.UUCP (Bernd Hentig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: pg and echo don't work any more on Ultrix 4.2A, why ?
Date: 21 Aug 92 10:12:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: inasys GmbH, Bonn, Germany

Hello,
we installed DEC Ultrix 4.2A on 2 DECsystems 5000/240 and my default shell
on one system became the ksh :) (korn shell), the other system uses csh :(

If I use pg (e.g. ls|pg) from within the ksh, it just says:
'pg: cannot reopen stdout'.
What is it ? This works from the csh on the other machine, so what the hell ...


The other little thing is: echo does not handle escape sequences (why ?),
even if I use the built-in echo from csh or ksh ('which echo' gives 'echo'
so this must be built in).

Example:

echo '\033[0m' on any Unix flavour I know (even AIX !!!) sends the proper
escape sequence to the terminal (this time it resets the video attributes).

on Ultrix this gives:
'\033[0m'

This is a bug and lots of shell scripts won't run properly under Ultrix.
Perhaps I should use pdksh ? Haven't tried yet, but if anyone says it's easy
to compile, I'll do it.

Bernd
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: welch@cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
Subject: Is the 4.2a sendmail DNS-cognisant?
Originator: welch@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: OSU-LAIR
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:34:45 GMT

I just switched from a Sun to a DECStation 5000/200, and I'm having some 
problems with my mailer which *may* be due to the sendmail not handling
domain-type mail, ie mail to hosts with MX records. Sun provides two 
versions of sendmail, one that deals with MX records and one that doesn't. 
Does the Ultrix version deal with MX records right, and if not, can someone
tell me where I can get sources to one that does?

...arun
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arun Welch
Anzus Consulting
welch@anzus.com (or rather, until I fix this, welch@cis.ohio-state.edu)
From: ip_boss@degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au (Jack Churchill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Need help with routed
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:17:12 +1000
Organization: CSIRO, Exploration Geoscience

In article <Bt5wFx.HpJ@adasoft.ch>, jw@adasoft.ch (Jamie Watson) writes:
> Thanks for the several replies and suggestions I have already received
> on this.  I need to add the following clarification.
> 
> Many of the local nets have more than one router.  I have already
> figured out how to use /etc/route to add a default gateway, but
> this does not solve the most difficult part of the problem.  When
> there is more than one router, on installing a system I start
> routed and look at the resulting routing table.  I then try to
> pick the "best connected" router - that is, the one with the
> most connections to other nets that we need to reach, and I put
> a command in rc.local to enter it as the default net gateway.
> The problem is that the routers themselves go down sometimes,
> and when that happens I need to have routed running to be able
> to dynamically find a new gateway.
> 
> Here is an example of a particularly nasty case.  I have a system,
> call it "goofy", connected to a local net with a lot of routers.
> When I run routed, I see at least five or six different gateways
> in the list.  I pick the best candidate, say "111.22.3.4", and
> add it as a default gateway.  Now, "goofy" needs to talk to
> another of our systems, "dopey", which is on a different net,
> and the gateway I have used as the default doesn't talk to that
> particular net.  When goofy tries, it gets a redirect command
> from the default, telling it (for example), to use 111.22.3.3.
> At this point, goofy *automatically* adds a routing table entry
> for the host "dopey", gateway "111.22.3.3".  If at any time after
> this that gateway goes down, goofy just keeps trying to use the
> same gateway, and I can't reach dopey any more.  I have to either
> wait for it to come back up, or manually delete the entry, at
> which point the next attempt will get another redirect, via some
> other gateway, and it works again.
> 
> Any more suggestions (I hope?)
> 
> jw
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From: hfwpa@usho43.hou281.chevron.com (F.W.Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: DEC Fortran rtl error
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:14:32 GMT
Organization: Chevron


We have been attempting a to link Fortran code compiled with 
DEC Fortran for RISC ULTRIX 3.1 with some Fortran libraries
obtained from another shop. After a successful link the 
following msg comes out ot the Fortran run time library:

forrtl: severe: internal consistency check failure

which the end of it. Does anyone know what this msg means?
-- 
Fred Patrick, Information Technology,  
Chevron Petroleum Technology Co., 
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Houston, Texas 77242-2832           phone:  (713) 596-2647