HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: croy@squid.ucsb.edu (Chandra Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: problem writing to a TLZ04 DAT
Keywords: iofail, DAT , TLZ04
Date: 26 Jan 93 03:11:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

Hi,

I'm having trouble writing to a DAT on a TLZ04 drive. dd, cp and tar keep
trying to write, yielding no error messages till one kills the process
out of impatience. dump fails with the error message:

    iofail 5 28674

I have been unable to determine what causes the problem.  Read operations
do not give any trouble. The tape drive head has been cleaned. I would
appreciate any help.

Thanks

-Roy


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From: rsignell@crusty.er.usgs.gov (Richard P. Signell)
Subject: Cheap GKS for DECstations?
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:45:55 GMT

Hoping to save a little legwork here.  I'm looking for the 
cheapest functional GKS package for a DECstation.  Yes, I know
XGKS is free, but it is giving me headaches.

Thanks,
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U.S. Geological Survey     |  (508) 457-2229  |  FAX (508) 457-2310
Quissett Campus            |  " When marriage is outlawed, 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: vaisanen@joyds2.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Vaisanen)
Subject: Re: I installed Motif, can I delete DECwindows?
Reply-To: vaisanen@joyds2.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Vaisanen)
Organization: University of Joensuu, Computer Center
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:01:33 GMT

In article <C1ABHp.8AD@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater) writes:
|>
|>I just upgraded to Ultrix 4.2C, that is I loaded the Motif 1.1.3 subsets. Does
|>this mean that there are now older DECwindows subsets I can delete as they are
|>no longer being used, and if so which ones?
|>

My feeling is that Motif subsets are installed on top of DECwindows subsets.
So deleting DECwindows subsets after installation of Motif subsets would
destroy Motif subsets.  Check with setld -i SUBSETNAME to see which files
each subset really touch.

You should have deinstalled DECwindows subsets before you installed Motif
(no I didn't do that either, but now I have already installed ULTRIX 4.3)

Does anyone have exact information on this matter?


Jarmo

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From: avolio@TIS.COM (Frederick M Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DEC FAXserver?  Anybody used this?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:46:56 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: avolio@tis.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gildor.tis.com

In article <C1EzH4.FF4@news.chalmers.se>, d8arnch@dtek.chalmers.se (Christopher Arnold) writes:
|> I have a quick look at the software, it seems to be very orientated around
|> everex modems. I tried to use a ZyXEL U1496E with no success. Is there anyone
|> out there who have succeded with this? (or any other non everex modem?)

I believe the documentation says it supports only Everex modems.  At
this point.

Fred
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: maklinm@cognos.com (Max Maklin)
Subject: Problems with top from gatekeeper
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:30:12 GMT

I picked up the top program from gatekeeper last week and I am getting some
interesting results on a DEC System 5500.  The problem lies in a large
number of processes starting that I do not see in the usual ps command.

For example, I see this:

...
1053 processes:90 sleeping, 3 running, 943 starting, 5 zombie, 12 stopped
...

Where is all these starting processes coming from.  Is there some other
command I can use to verify this?

Max
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mosedale@fafner.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale)
Subject: Q- fix for 4.2A "Arg list too long." from /bin progs?
Organization: Stanford Yeast Genome Project
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:43:08 GMT

If you use programs from /bin (e.g. ls, chmod, egrep, rm, etc) with a
wildcard in a big directory, they barf with "Arg list too long."

For example:

    hostname 232 >  /bin/ls /big_directory/*
    /bin/ls: Arg list too long.

I thought that perhaps this was simply a problem with the various
programs, so I grabbed the GNU fileutils and compiled them.  Same
problem, same error message.  However, I looked at the GNU sources and
saw no such error message.  

Then, doing a strings on /bin/libc.a shows that here lives the error
message.  So presumably, someone is getting an errno of E2BIG and
doing a perror().

Does anyone know how to tweak the kernel and/or do a binary patch to
libc.a to increase the allowed arglist size?

Thanks,

Dan Mosedale
mosedale@genome.stanford.edu
From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: I installed Motif, can I delete DECwindows?
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:24:53
Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
	<106628@netnews.upenn.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ishtar.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: lau@desci.wharton.upenn.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 16:22:06 GMT

[In response to several postings about how installing the Motif 1.1.3
subset seems to adversely affect the DECwindows subsets....]

People always act so suprised and then run off to their computer and
immediately post to Usenet when something like this happens, when they
_should_ run to the Installation Guide or Release Notes, which
explains exactly this problem.

Yes, the Motif subsets are installed on top of the DECwindows subsets,
since they contain "Motif-ized" replacements for the DECwindows
programs.  This is explained on page 1-3 of the Release Notes (in
section 1.1.5, "Subsets and Reinstallation").

Actually reading these notes is left as an exercise for the reader.

-Rob
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From: sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com (Richard Sharpe)
Subject: Re: Mtools on a Personal DECstation?
Keywords: mtools floppy personal decstation
Reply-To: sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com (Richard Sharpe)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32:07 GMT


--
>	Hello.  We've recently installed two Personal DECstation 25s on our
>network.  Our biggest problem was that doconfig didn't work, and they didn't
>give us enough information to gen a kernel that recognized the keyboard or
>mouse (I guess DEC considers these memory wasting features).
>
>	Anyway, the systems are up, but nothing wants to recognize the
>floppy drive.  The devs are gens, but my guess is the kernel doesn't have
>the support features in it.

This is interesting, because I have recently (Nov 92) re-installed about 5 
personal DECstations (mixture of /25s and /33s) under ULTRIX 4.3, and they all
worked and MTools worked without any problems.

You have to use /dev/rfd0c on the personal DECstations, but I set MTools up
to use /dev/floppy and then link /dev/floppy to the appropriate thing on each 
WS, as I like to place MTools binaries in /usr/local/bin and then NFS mount it 
on lots of clients.

Regards
--------
Richard Sharpe,  sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com,  Ph: 61-8-235-7237,  FAX: ...-7299
Digital Equipment Corporation, 139 Frome St, Adelaide 5001, South Australia, OZ
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* other ways!                                                                 *
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: casteels@evs1.uia.ac.be (Paul Casteels)
Subject: NFS (or RPC) problem
Organization: U.I.A.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:50:32 GMT


When trying to mount with NFS I get the following results :

 # showmount -e paul
export list for paul:
/c/paul (everyone)
/c      (everyone)

(this looks ok).

 # mount -t nfs paul:/c /mnt
nfs_mount: paul:/c server not responding: RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential
nfs_mount: access denied for paul:/c

If I give the same mount command from an IBM/AIX machine everything
works fine.

Paul Casteels
University of Antwerp / Dpt Physics
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: Phys. memory info
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:27:20 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.224357.6232@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis) writes:
>
>	(Please excuse my ignorance of Ultrix; I'm used to dealing with VMS.)
>Is there any way to determine how much physical memory is attached to a
>5000/240 without resorting to console mode?  In particular, is there a command
>similar to VMS' SHOW MEMORY command?

All the methods with which I am familiar require read access to
/dev/kmem.  There aren't any unprivileged programs on the distribution
to get that information.  Given these restrictions some things to do
are:

dbx -k /vmunix /dev/mem
(dbx) print physmem

crash
> od physmem

wc -c /dev/mem

sizer(8).  There isn't a strict option for getting the information,
but making a configuration file, will get it.
 
>
>							Thanks,
>							 Mike
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> Internet: davism@KCGL1.eng.ohio-state.edu
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From: ccbjs@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: How do you rename a DMS client?
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:19:20 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

We are trying to change the hostnames and IP addresses of a number of DMS
clients running Ultrix 4.3.

From the FAQ (and experience) we know how to change a client's IP address.

But how do we change it's hostname so that DMS refers to it by that name
also? (I would prefer not to build a new client and then modify all it's
configuration files...) Can we simply rename the /dlclient0/client.root
directory and edit some magic DMS files?
Can anyone suggest a recipe we should follow?

Thanks for your time, I will summarise.
Bevin Steer.
PS I have received only one reply to my "Can we have more than 2 swap
partitions" question...I have not yet had time to investigate and
summarise it....but will do so! :-(
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: john@phobos.sscl.uwo.ca (John Tucker)
Subject: Load average way too high
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:58:23 GMT

I hope some one has some clues on this.

We are running Ultrix 4.2A on a miscellaneous bunch of Decstations 
(3xxx's 5xxx's) and are running into a strange problem.

Every once in a while with no real pattern, the load average (as reported
by w -u) climbs and gets up around 3.50.

There are at most 3 or 4 users logged in at any time, so this seems way too
high. A 'ps -aux' reveals that 'inetd' and 'syslog' are the major 
consumers of %CPU and %MEMORY.

I have checked the /etc/*.conf files and compared them with other unix
systems here and they are similar. Any suggestions??

Let me know by e-mail, and I will summarize
-- 
jtucker@uwo.ca  John Tucker

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students.
From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: gp relocation error???
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:58:04 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

From article <1993Jan20.082939.3884@nic.csu.net>, by sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi):
> I am compiling using c89 on DECstation 3100, using Ultrix 4.3  
> I am trying to link all the libraries, objects files and receive this message..
> gp relocation out-of-range errors have occured and bad object file produced (cor
> rective action must be taken)
> gp relocation out-of-range for small data or bss by,
>            4513 in the positive direction,
>               0 in the negative direction.

	I've had this error with gcc -O2 on ultrix 4.3 maybe some table
is out of wack with the new linker on ultrix 4.3. Any comments ?

ps.
	I of course blaimed gcc2.3.3 maybe it's ultrix ld ?

	Mark :)
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   University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problems with top from gatekeeper
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:35:36
Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com
In-reply-to: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 17:55:19 GMT

that top is mine, and i will apply this patch, and i would like it
if anyone who finds other bugs mails me appropriate context diffs.
--
Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	
Palo Alto, California, USA         	"Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
<vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie		they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul@vix.com>     vixie!paul		your own path, and stay on it."  -me
From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Recommendations for high disk throughput
Date: 28 Jan 1993 03:52:41 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com

john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes in response to a posting from
	joe@grc.genroco.com (Joe Nordman)

	[...A discussion about some assumptions in respect to the
paper about why SCSI is better than IPI for NFS servers...]

>   Not that I doubt any of what was said, but it only seems fair
>   that people know that GENROCO makes IPI controllers for DECs...

	None of that invalidates what Joe said, either. If I recall
the paper, it was based on the observation that high NFS traffic
tends to look fairly random, which defeats IPI's lookahead and
other strategies, therefore, since SCSI disks are cheaper, they
are better. In short: "NFS traffic is a pain no matter what, so
using cheaper disks is a good bet" which is somewhat true, but
doesn't take into account cases where the NFS traffic is bursty,
consisting of clients that do a whole series of sequential reads
or writes - in that case IPI is going to win pretty nicely.

	I'm not sure I'd recommend IPI as *the* way of making
my NFS server faster. In order I'd go with asynchronous NFS
and a UPS (UPS' on servers are a good idea anyhow) or an NVRAM
board if I had money to burn. IPI's going to be a lot better
for database or other applications like imaging than it will
be for NFS. Since the original question was *NOT* about NFS,
but was about how to make news faster, IPI is still a pretty
decent option, not only because of the faster disks, but
because they're nice and big, too(*). There are some amazingly
hot RAID controllers for IPI made by CDC, which can access
some ludicrous amount of storage in the 60Gb range. Enough
for most news feeds unless you carry the aquaria and MUD
groups.

mjr.

(*) You can also do fun still like hot-swap and dual port
IPI disks, which you can only do with SCSI if you like
having your bus hang, crash, and burn.
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                                                 "guns don't die. people do."
From: kismet@trantor.cc.umb.edu (Ted Corning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Tape usage with 'dump'
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:13:33 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Hi,

   I'm trying to back up a single disk to a TZK10 using dump. The drive is an
RZ25 (426MB, with three partitions) and the TZK10 should be able to hold up
to 525MB. I am trying to backup the c partition, which should be the entire
disk (shouldn't it?). But dump asks for another tape very shortly after
starting the dump.

   My feeling is that dump is actually backing up the individual partitions,
and that it wants each partition on its own set of tapes. But I haven't found
this stated anywhere in the documentation. 

   Thanks in advance for any insight into this.

Ted

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From: DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis)
Subject: Phys. memory info
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:43:57 GMT


	(Please excuse my ignorance of Ultrix; I'm used to dealing with VMS.)
Is there any way to determine how much physical memory is attached to a
5000/240 without resorting to console mode?  In particular, is there a command
similar to VMS' SHOW MEMORY command?

							Thanks,
							 Mike
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From: venaas@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Stig Venaas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: dms questions
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:10:30 GMT
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT

I'm thinking of using dms to make two diskless vax-station 3200
boot from a micro-vax.
But, I've never used dms before, and I'm having a few questions.

First, how much space do I need for each of the clients on
the server disk? The server has limited space, and I would
like to use as little as possible.

Secondly, the dms manual says that I need to repartition the
server disk to install dms. Is this really necessary?

Stig
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From: terry@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu (Terry Klarich)
Subject: Archive Python cam_data.c description wanted
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:54:04 GMT


I noticed in the cam_data.c file in the sys/data directory has a
description for an archive viper.  I was wondering if anyone has done
the work of adding one for an archive python.  We have one of these
drives

Terry
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Oklahoma State University Computer Center
Stillwater Oklahoma
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: freeman@violetred.crayola.cs.psu.edu (Art Freeman)
Subject: kterm installation problems
Organization: The Kill-Shot Society
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:39:23 GMT

I am trying to install kterm on a Personal DECstation 5000/33.  Unfortunately, I 
get the following message after I type "make":

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

cd romkan;   make DEFS='-DBSD42 -DTERMCAP'		
cd etc;	     make DEFS='-DBSD42 -DTERMCAP'	
cd conv;     make DEFS='-DBSD42 -DTERMCAP'
`../jlib/libconvkey.a' is up to date.
cd jlib;     make DEFS='-DBSD42 -DTERMCAP'			     GETOPTLIB='../jlib/libgetopt.a'		
cd jserver;  make DEFS='-DBSD42 -DTERMCAP'		 LIB_TERM='-ltermcap'		 GETOPTLIB='../jlib/libgetopt.a'
cd uum;      make DEFS='-DBSD42 -DTERMCAP'		 LIB_TERM='-ltermcap'		 GETOPTLIB='../jlib/libgetopt.a'		 BINDIR=/home/smith.1/freeman/nihongo/bin/Wnn4 LIBDIR=/home/smith.1/freeman/nihongo/lib/wnn
cc -g  -DBSD42 -DTERMCAP -I../include -c termcap.c
ccom: Error: termcap.c, line 227: redeclaration of remove
      char *p,*ob;
      ---^
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any advice would be appreciated.


Art Freeman
From: uqitu09@lshtm.ac.uk (Peter Mantock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Security software for ultrix
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:32:43 GMT
Organization: London School of Hygiene

Could someone please advise me on some heavyweight security software for our
ultrix 4.2 system especailly for protecting data.

Thanks in advance.
From: mcrowley@MtHolyoke.edu (Michael A. Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Load average way too high
Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:29:13 -0500
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
NNTP-Posting-Host: slab.mtholyoke.edu
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Andreas Karrer (karrer@bernina.ethz.ch) wrote:
> john@phobos.sscl.uwo.ca (John Tucker) writes:
> 
> >We are running Ultrix 4.2A on a miscellaneous bunch of Decstations 
> >(3xxx's 5xxx's) and are running into a strange problem.
> 
> >Every once in a while with no real pattern, the load average (as reported
> >by w -u) climbs and gets up around 3.50.
> 
> I have seen this on 4.2a too: apparently the load av counter gets mixed
> up by an integral number every now and then; your "3.50" should
> probably be "0.50".  It usu fixes itself within a day or a half, or by
> a reboot :-(
I have seen this behavior also on a VAX with 4.2 and 5000/240 with 4.2a.
The machines are not acting loaded, so I have assumed that it
was some sort of stuck counter.  However, I have not seen it
fix itself.  Any idea what might be done to increase the chance of
this value getting reset by other than a reboot?

mike
From: d8arnch@dtek.chalmers.se (Christopher Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DEC FAXserver?  Anybody used this?
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:41:28 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University Of Technology

In article <1993Jan22.175452.16807@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> butler@quest.comm.mot.com (Jim Butler) writes:
>
>
>	DEC has FAXserver software available for their RISC box, and before
>I spend any time or money on it and a modem I would like to know...
>
>	2) What FAX modems will work with it, and which ones work
>	   best.
I have a quick look at the software, it seems to be very orientated around
everex modems. I tried to use a ZyXEL U1496E with no success. Is there anyone
out there who have succeded with this? (or any other non everex modem?)


	/chris


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From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Errorlog Buffer Full - what to do?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:45:56 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com

>Errorlog Buffer Full: 44 Missed Errors

	It means that elcsd (the error logger thing that ULTRIX uses
instead of what everyone else uses) is getting more than it can cope
with, or that elcsd has died. Do a "uerf -R | more" to see what was
spewing so many messages at you. Also, you might want to make sure
that /usr/adm/syserr/`hostname` is not eating your whole disk. Elcsd
doesn't have the brains to ever truncate this file so eventually
if your system logs enough errors it will grow larger than the
national debt.

mjr.
-- 
                                                 "guns don't die. people do."
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