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From: VRBASS@ATLVMIC1.VNET.IBM.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Clean X exiting!!!
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:27:57 GMT

rader@ssec.wisc.edu (Steve Rader) writes
>Below are kludges of getting clean (normal) exiting from
>that oh-please-please-hang-me-aix-X-server.
>Create a script called endsession or some such to kill off da server...

> ... <brute-force stuff deleted> ...

This really is unnecessarily complicated (I'd call it crude, but it
was the first thing I tried, too :-).

There is only one thing you need to make everything work properly:
follow the earlier suggestion to run X on a virtual terminal rather
than the console.  To do this, simply change the line in your .profile
  /usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit
to read
  open /usr/lpp/X11/bin/xinit && logout

The "open" puts xinit on another virtual terminal (where the usual
signals will work and the server will die when the last child exits).
The "logout" gives you back the login banner on the console, as well
as freeing the console up for console messages, which can make for
interesting reading.  It also prevents circumventing xlock by changing
to the other virtual where you would otherwise still be logged in.

If you're using smit or the "autostart" script to put this stuff into
users' profiles, simply make the changes to the source script in
/etc/security and everyone will get it.

From: Vance R. Bass       AIX Systems Specialist, IBM Technical Services
Internet: vrbass@atlvmic1.vnet.ibm.com            VNET: ATLVMIC1(VRBASS)
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From: jarmolow@samsung.com (Tom Jarmolowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: x11r5 xterm with IBM's r3 x server (font problem)
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:03:37 GMT
Reply-To: jarmolow@samsung.com
Organization: Samsung Software America

When I run an r5 version of xterm using IBM's r3 x server and request
the following font:

	-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1

this is "courier bold 12"

the display is messed up. The position of the characters is off, and there
appears to be extra bits set. Most other fonts work just fine, a few others
also exhibit this behaviour. Anyone know the cause ?

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From: nsysdbj@straylight.acs.ncsu.edu (David Joyner)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS from FTP, Inc.
Organization: North Carolina State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:05:43 GMT

favre (favre@medsun.unige.ch) wrote:
: Hello network!
: 
: I've mounted a NFS partition on my IBM RS/6000 (running
: AIX 3.2.1), and I'm trying to mount it, remotely, from my PC...
: Up to now without success !!
: The PC is running the Interdrive software from FTP, Inc. 
: (version 2.1).
: I've added the name of my PC in the /etc/hosts file and
: configured the NFS on AIX to accept connections from it.
:  
: Do you have any experience concerning the Interdrive from
: FTP, Inc., or, more generally, from other PC-NFS softwares ?
: 
: 	Many thanks,
: 
: 	Eric

I've had no luck with the pcnfsd that comes with AIX.  I have had good
luck with the pcnfsd that comes with the FTP, Inc. package.  You need
to stop the AIX pcnfsd from running out of inetd and then run the good
pcnfsd in the background.

There is one source change that needs to be made:

393,395d392
< #ifdef _AIX
<       mkdir(pathname, dir_mode);      /* ignore the return code */
< #else
397d393
< #endif

I you have problems, let me know and I will put the binary up for ftp.

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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How can I get mksysb use 2 tapes? Do I need diff block size?
Date: 29 Sep 92 04:25:55 GMT
	<1a824rINNjfo@network.ucsd.edu>
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


In article <1a824rINNjfo@network.ucsd.edu> dkf@chem.ucsd.edu (David
Knight French) writes:
>
> Maybe IBM should use pax.  As I recall it allows multiple volumes.  I
> also seem to recall someone mentioning on this newsgroup that AIX tar
> could handle multiple volumes.  So what is mksysb really using???

After having to install 3.2 manually, I can *assure* you that the
installation procedure *already* uses `pax', and handles multiple tapes
just fine.  `mksysb' uses `tar', which should also work.  (It probably
does this because `pax' doesn't have equivalents to the `-d' and `-p'
options.)

If your copy of IBM `tar' isn't handling multiple tapes correctly, it's
a bug.  It works for me, as it's supposed to.

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From: aknowles@expert.expert.com (Anne Knowles)
Subject: PS/2 AIX article
Organization: Computer Publishing Group
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:02:46 GMT

I write for RS/Magazine, a magazine for RS/6000 users, and I am doing a story
on PS/2 AIX. I would like to talk to any PS/2 AIX users out there about
why they are using the operating system and, for users of both PS/2 AIX and
AIX/6000, about the differences between the two. Please email me if
you have any thoughts, comments, etc. Thanks in advance for any help.

Anne Knowles
From: jeff@wsm.com (Jeff Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Booting OSTAPE in AIX v3.2
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:00:43 GMT
Organization: Western Scientific

Hello All,

	I hope someone here can lend a helpful suggestion. I have a Model 530
running AIX 3.2 and a 3rd party Exabyte tape drive. The drive is operating fine
under OSTAPE driver. The drive works fine in tar as well as backup and restore.

I made a backup boot tape on it and tried to do a boot restore from it to test
and it would start to go and after a while it would bomb out. I think it got
to the point where enough of the kernel was installed that it realized that
the drive wasnt IBM and then barfed. 

In AIX 3.1 there was a work around for this by editing /usr/bin/blv.proto
and adding the name of the driver definition of the 3rd party tape drive
to the file next to the driver names to load into the kernel of the IBM
drives. Then do a `bosboot -a' and the new bootable kernel would be created
with support for the 3rd party drive in it.

In AIX 3.2 there is no /usr/bin/blv.proto but there is ostape.....

Any Ideas or pointers would be appreciated

Jeff

jeff@wsm.com
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
Date:         Mon, 05 Oct 92 12:31:41 CST
From:         Bill Harvey <HARVEY@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu>
Subject:      Re: AIX and 3270
Newsgroups:   comp.unix.aix

On Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:46:37 GMT, prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) said:

>You can telnet to your RS/6000 from some standard terminal or terminal
>emulator (i.e., one for which there is a terminfo file) and then use
>tn3270 to get to a VM or MVS system.
>Is that what you were asking?

No, but that brings up another question:  Where does that tn3270 that I
can run under AIX come from?  Is that part of the AIX base OS?  A
separate feature?  Is it provided by IBM at all?

But my original question was going the other direction.  Can the telnet
server running under AIX support 3270 datastreams sent from a remote
telnet client?

In other words (I'm running out of ways to rephrase this question :-),
when the TELNET client for VM (for example) tries to connect to a remote
telnet server under AIX (in this case), the VM client will try to
negotiate to send 3270 datastreams to the AIX server.  Will the AIX
server accept or reject that negotiation?  Will the VM client be allowed
to use transparent mode?  Or be forced to use linemode?

Thanks for your time,
Bill
>                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek)
Subject: Re: Problem with PTF numbers on AIX 3.2.[0-2]
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:11:46 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.152929.14401@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> jkennedy@baboon.austin.ibm.com writes:
>
>In answer to this portion of your question, the smit/install/update routines
>do handle identical PTF numbers correctly and it would appear, if indeed
>you do not have bosadt.prof.obj installed, that your subcomponents are not
>out of sync as a result of applying these updates.
>
Thanks for your comments.  I have some confidence, based on this, that
my system is updated correctly.  Your assumption that bosadt.prof.obj
was not installed is not correct.  In fact, both bosadt.lib.obj and
bosadt.prof.obj are installed and committed.  However, your assurance
that identical PTF numbers for separate subcomponents were valid and
that the install/update system handled them correctly caused me to
investigate further.  The PTFs are listed as applied (smit show all
updates to a product) against bosadt.lib.obj.  These PTFs are listed
as superceded by U406877 under bosadt.prof.obj.  I will have to check
whether U406877 was on that tape or was on a previously performed
update, but I expect that the explanation of why these fixes were
not applied to bosadt.prof.obj has to do with the update detecting
the supercede.

Thanks again for your comments.

John D.
From: HARVEY@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (Bill Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RS/6000 manuals ( was: AIX assembly language)
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:17:14 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis

The assembly language manual question seemed so painless, I thought
I'd ask a tougher one:

I've heard a rumor that IBM doesn't provide *any* manuals shipped with the
purchase of AIX/RS6000.  The all have to be ordered (and *purchased*)
separately.  Can anyone confirm or deny that?  That's just so contrary to
IBM's mainframe policies that I find it difficult to believe.  You *always*
get the basic manuals shipped *with* the purchase of the OS.

Also, is there anywhere I could get a list of AIX and RS/6000 manual
titles and order numbers?  (A brief synopsis of what each title is
supposed to cover would be a nice bonus.)  If I really do have to
purchase them all individually, it'd be nice to look them over to try
to get a feel for what I think might be useful.

thanks in advance
Bill Harvey
From: root@cdsac.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: SIGURG PTY
Keywords: SIGURG, pty
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:06:08 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

I'm trying to find out how and why AIX handles SIGURG with a pty socket
connection. We are presently using a terminal server with the Telnet
protocol. T have the pty set to raw mode and I'm trying to catch SIGURG
so that I detect a break key which is supposed to send URGENT data. My
problem is that since i don't have the socket descriptor i can't make
an ioctl call to allow me to catch SIGURG. By trial and error i
discovered that even if i could catch SIGURG i probably wouldn't get it
because either the pty device driver or the kernel is translating it
into a SIGINT. Hitting the break key when connected to a hard tty
asserts the SIGINT signal so this probably ok, i guess. I would just
like know where the translation occurs. Does anyone know who is doing
this (pty dd or kernel). My second question is: How would a process
catch the SIGURG signal on socket connection created by an application
program (i.e., Telnet) when the socket file descriptor is unknown to
it. I used "crash" to verify that all newlly created sockests belong to
process group 0 ( the swappper if I'm not mistaken). Does this mean
that the only time I can catch SIGURG by setting the socket to my
process group is I create that socket?

Thanks in advance, 
Frank McMurray.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:10115 comp.protocols.ppp:791
From: dfr@ioc.co.uk (Doug Rabson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: PPP
Date: 23 Sep 92 18:19:55 GMT
Organization: Intelligent Office Company Ltd.

Has anyone ported any of the public domain variants of PPP to the IBM
rs6000 under AIX 3.2 yet?  I have been using IBM's version of slip but
it tends to make my 220 crash when transferring huge files (>2M).

Are there any known problems with IBM's slip?  Any fixes?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: fsck of /dev/hd9var
From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:59:17 GMT
 m.com> <MURAI.92Oct5194950@godzilla.rd.yahata.enicom.nsc.co.jp>
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

murai@rd.yahata.enicom.nsc.co.jp (Toshifumi Murai) writes:

>When I shutdown in normal mode, display message following.
>message => Unmounted the file systems...
>message	=> umount: 0506-349 Cannot unmount /dev/hd9var: A device
>message	=> is already mounted or cannot be unmounted.
>I can't understand why I cannot unmount /var in normal mode.
>Please tell me why we can't unmount /var in normal mode.

Because several processes have files open in, or have their current directory
set to, /var (or /var/tmp etc)
If you type 'fuser /dev/hd9var', you will get the ids of the processes
which are preventing unmounting. Check these against 'ps -ef'. A quick check
reveals sendmail, errdaemon, cron, snmpd & qdaemon on my system.

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From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: fujitsu m2266a feedback?
Keywords: FUJITSU HARDDISK M22665A
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:36:14 GMT
Reply-To: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.

:In article <1992Aug17.181640.1733@fcom.cc.utah.edu> ben@osiris.usi.utah.edu (Ben Pratt) writes:
:>Is anyone out there using the Fujitsu M22665A 5.25 1Gig drives? Any
:>comments about performance and reliability?  We are looking at purchasing
:>several of these drives in the next week or so and it would be nice to
:>hear any horror or gratis tales if they exist...  the FAQ only lists
:>availability, not experiences.  Thanks in advance,

Perhaps this is a little late but I believe they are discontinuing that
drive in the US.  HP has some very good drives but I have no info on
connecting them to RS6000's.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: wimb@bssi.nl (Wim Berkhof)
Subject: size of temporary files created by 'vi'
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:35:44 GMT
Organization: Baan Service b.v.

		
When editing a file using 'vi' a temporary file is opened.
This file is usually in the '/tmp' directory. 

It should be sized zero when no modifications are done to the file.
However it's varies !!


For example:

		# vi wimb ( size 516 )    ---> /tmp/Ex0876 ( size 20480 ) 
		# vi wimb1 ( size 1032 )    ---> /tmp/Ex0925 ( size 0 ) 

			
In my opinion this is a bug !, does anyone have a solution ?


Wim Berkhof, system manager Lights On Computing
wimb@bssi.nl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: mmt@RedBrick.COM (Maxime Taksar)
Subject: Re: File size of 'tmp' files for 'vi'
Keywords: vi aix 
Organization: Red Brick Systems, Los Gatos, CA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:34:42 GMT

In article <BvHuDJ.L5L@bssi.nl>, root@bssi.nl writes:
> When editing a file in 'vi' a temporary file is created in
> the '/tmp'-directory. The name of this file is '/tmp/Ex0< PID vi >'.
> The size of this file should be zero when no modifications are
> done. However file isn't zero allways. For example: when editting a
> small file ( 512 bytes ) a 'tmp' file is created of size 20480 !!!.
> 
> Does anyone is familiar with this problem and/or has a solution ?

Is the 20480 size just what's listed from ls , or is it the
actualy disk usage, as listed by du?

The two are quite different...It would actually make sense for a
program to create a 20480 byte file, but not actually have the system
allocate any disk space for it.
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From: jaime@unicorn.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: making backup copies of tapes
Keywords: tape backup copy
Date: 1 Oct 92 16:47:28 GMT
Reply-To: jaime@austin.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: AIX Technical Support - Austin

> From: stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger)
> Subject: making backup copies of tapes
> 
> How can a tape be copied for backup purpose? dd doesn't work (I tested with
> different block sizes), and I've no idea why.
> 
> --
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> Fax: +(49)8141-95235
> Internet: stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de

Use the 'tcopy' command.  This works well with multi-file tapes.


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AIX Technical Support          
IBM AWD-Austin/2830             
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ldm@texhrc.uucp (Lyle Meier)
Subject: Re: Help! How to do backup on a network?
Organization: Texaco EPTD
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:15:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.191617.29496@cs.tulane.edu> mt0lamg@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Louis X. Lee) writes:
>
>Sorry if this is a FAQ.
>
>While network-installation is possible, can one also
>do network-backup? That is, back up files on one
>RS/6000 machine using tape-drives connected into
>another RS/6000 machine, where the two RS/6000
>machines are on the same ethernet running TCP/IP?
>
>Thanks for your help!
>

There are several approachest that will work. The ibm's have an rdump
program that will work between machines even with suns. In addtition with
gnu-tar 1.11.1 it is possible to build gnutar on a RS6000 and run that
which also provides remote access. A third way we used for user files 
is to export the file systems in question, (user file systems not / or
/usr) with root permission to an other system, in our case an sgi, and
run gnutar there to backup the system.
From: pturner@amb4.ese.ogi.edu (Paul J Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Help needed with SLIP, modem problems
Summary: Can't get modems to work properly
Keywords: Modem, WorldBlazer, SLIP
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:39:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.43711
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Distribution: usa
Organization: Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research
Originator: pturner@amb4.ccalmr.ogi.edu


Hi,

I'm having problems connecting 2 RS6000's via slip with a pair of
Telebit WorldBlazer modems. Perhaps someone who has done this can
give me a couple of pointers. The slip interface looks OK at either 
end, but the modems give me nothing but problems. Could someone
with a working configuration please send me the result of at&v
for both answer and dialup, and whatever else might help. 

Another related problem is that when I enable a getty on the answer,
side, I can't seem to get the modem to hangup - I put 'stty 0' in my 
.logout, but this seems to have no effect. Any clues?

Thanks in advance,

Paul J Turner
pturner@amb4.ccalmr.ogi.edu
From: pky@csd.cri.dk (Peter Kyllesbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.2 assembler double consts gcc.2.2.2
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:57:40 GMT
Organization: Computer Resources International A/S
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

In article  <SDL.92Oct2094407@adagio.austin.ibm.com> sdl@austin.ibm.com Stephen Linam writes:

sdl>I've been able to reproduce this.  gcc inserts '.' (full stop) as the
sdl>radix character.  However, the AIX assembler is "internationalized",
sdl>so that it uses the correct radix character for whatever locale you
sdl>have defined.  If your locale has a different radix character, the '.'
sdl>is not a valid character in a floating-point constant, and thus is
sdl>reported as an error.

sdl>A workaround is to always run gcc (and the subsequent as) with LANG
sdl>set to "C" or "En_US".  Alternatively, you can modify gcc to insert
sdl>the correct radix character according to the locale in effect.

I will now present him with the following:

Senario 1:

LANG=da_DK
( and therefore radix is a <comma> )

Ccode:

static const double pip = 1,0e-4;
main()
{
	double pop2;
	pop2 = pip;
}

Command:
cc pip.c

Result:
"pip.c", line 1.29: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.


Senario 2:

LANG=da_DK
( and therefore radix is a <comma> )
Ccode:

static const double pip = 1.0e-4;
main()
{
	double pop2;
	pop2 = pip;
}

Command:
cc pip.c

Result:
< no errors >


Now according to sdl@adagio.austin.ibm.com, using gcc which will use
the assembler, gcc has to follow the the setting of LANG,
in this case LANG=da_DK and produce the double constant as:
  .double 0d1,00000000000000000000e-04

Now if the input to the assembler has to conform with the rules set by
LANG=da_DK so must input to cc (  or xlc (version 1.02)).

As that does not seem to be the case, either cc or as has to be reported
as having a problem.

Now if IBM insists that defining a constant in assembler language must
follow the rules of an international environment, I then expect to
see a c compiler that in its syntax follows the international rules.

What a mess that would be. People in an international environment working
together on the same project, would have to harmonize there code.

Advise - keep i18n out of language syntax and use it only on data.



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From: rriv@oural.inria.fr (Robert Riviere)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Unbootable mksysb - H E L P !
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:09:23 GMT
Organization: Cermics/Inria-Sophia Antipolis

This is a repost since I got no answer form a previous one.

The problem is :

An AIX  network installation from a smit-generated mksysb fails with the
message :

"The install process has encountered the following error :
getbos : Software installation failed"

This happens after downloading all the files present in the system image 
(tar archive). After this, the machine won't boot any more.

A tar made on the system image on the server works quite right. No file 
corruption.

The machine I wish to install is a 3.2.0 /usr client.

It's amazing to see that system backups you make regularly are NOT usable !

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