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From: grund@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.edu (Victor Grund)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: info mounted from remote machine
Date: 15 Aug 92 21:21:34 GMT
Organization: International Business Machines, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

In article <653@teldata.UUCP> joubert@teldata.UUCP (Joubert Berger) writes:

   We have two RS6000 machines.  One has a CD-ROM.  Both were running 3.1.5.
   I use to mount /usr/lpp/info/En_US and everything worked great.  

   Now the second machine is running 3.2 and I when I mount it on 
   /usr/share/info/En_US, man and info do not seem to work.  

   When I use man, I get "No match found in database for <whatever>."

   Any ideas?


If memory serves (it has been awhile since 3.1.5 for me), the
directory structure of /usr/lpp/info changed in 3.2.  Compare for
yourself.  Also, are you running the old CD or the latest one?  You
will see changes to the file structure on the new CD, requiring
changes to your ispaths file.

Victor
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From: ronro@itx.isc.com (Ron Roberts)
Subject: Re: AIX3.2 and uucp/cu across rs232 lines
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:41:51 GMT

losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn) writes:

>>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

While we're on the subject:  does anybody know the IBM part number for
the modem cable for the IBM 10 pin [rectangular] builtin serial port?

I can't seem do find it in the documentation.  

Also: does anybody know the new number for IBM uucp login to technical
support?  The one published in the 3.2 documentation doesn't answer. 
It's an 823 exchange, and IBM has moved to the 838 exchange.

Ron Roberts        Interactive Systems Corp. Tel. (512) 343 0375 Ext. 124
Net. ronro@itx.isc.com   Home uupc: [net]...cs.utexas.edu!dogface!hitex!ronro
"Insufficient privilege.  You might fail."	internet: ronro@itx.isc.com
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From: etse@soda.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Tse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Help! C++ for AIX 3.2!!!!!
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:57:47 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu


Hi,
	Desperately seeking C++ 3.0 or 3.1 compatible compiler on
AIX 3.2, excluding xlC. We are in a danger having to degrade our
system back to AIX 3.1 becasuse we already have ATT C++ 3.0 for
AIX 3.1. Any suggestions?
	We need this info before end of this week if possible.
Thanks.


Eric Tse
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etse@soda.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x
From: tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Subject: Re: Hanging X11R4 server under AIX3.2.1
Organization: Inst.of Theor.Chemistry,Univ.of Vienna,Austria
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:25:48 GMT

nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:
: My 220's Xserver hangs in AIX 3.2.0 quite frequently and seems to be related
: to my network crashing at the same time.  I lose ethernet (cannot ping to IBM
: from another host), I lose my slip (things go out bug don't come back) and
: I lose my loopback - e.g., cannot ping localhost anymore.  After this
: happens (e.g., network goes down), I can either expect X to go within five
: minutes or 888's with "UNKNOWN" problem codes in the error log.  Sometimes
: these crashes are preceeded by tty overruns on my slip line, sometimes
: not.
: 
: I have not tried logging in to another tty and cat'ting garbage to the
: hfs, but I'll try it.
: 
: -Nathan Lane
: Trico Title Company, Santa Barbara, CA

  According to the info I got from Austin (Michael Fail), 220's cannot run
Xserver under
3.2.0 all right (I tried to earlier, and the server was pretty buggy, with
internal representations of fonts destroyed etc.); everything will be
hailed after applying the patches making 3.2.1 out of 3.2.0 (especially
the U402109 patch, concerning 220'ies, and requiring as prerequisite
deep changes in the X11rte - SIC!) all the 220 specific problems disappeared;
now I have only the problems that are general for all rs6000's :-)

  Regards,
								Tom
Xref: sparky comp.unix.aix:8730 gnu.emacs.help:3702
From: lamy@sobeco.com (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: compile.el vs xlf
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:19:10 GMT
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young

When compiling Fortran program under GNU emacs 18.57 (M-x compile), users
report that Fortran error messages are not parsed properly by M-x next-error.
Upon inspection, the error messages produced under the xlf 2.2.109.1 compiler
under AIX 3.2.1 do not include the file name at the beginning, probably
confusing compile.el

xlc has -qsrcmsg options that change the format of the error messages; I see
no such flag for xlf that would allow compile.el to do its job.

Had anyone found a workaround?

Jean-Francois Lamy                                        |   lamy@sobeco.com
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Sobeco Ernst & Young, Montreal, Canada H2Z 1Y7            |   uunet!sobeco!lamy
From: gonzalod@amex-trs.com (Gonzalo Diethelm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tigetstr and tgoto in AIX 3.2
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:05:57 GMT



Distribution: world

What in heavens are tigetstr and tgoto? It looks like they are functions
defined in curses or termcap or termlib, but I don't seem to find them
anywhere in /lib or /usr/lib. If they don't exist in AIX 3.2, what
would be a reasonable replacement? Thanks and regards.


gonzalod@amexphx.amex-trs.com
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: Namesevice on RS/6000....
Summary: More commentary
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Chicago, IL
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:29:27 GMT
X-Disclaimer:  Material posted in this article is the sole responsibility of
                the poster and does not represent MCSNet or the system owners.

In article <168eqjINNgio@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>In article <1992Aug7.224954.11534@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
>>Get BIND 4.8.3, and load AIX 3.2 if you haven't already.  Making this work
>>on 3.1.5 is NOT fun.
>
>Let me correct you: 4.8.3 works fine on both 3.1 and 3.2 (I'm using the
>3.1 executable on the 3.2 here).

Not "off the net" I don't believe; I tried it, and it didn't work well at
all.  The pertinent problem appears to be a few very old include files.

All fixed in 3.2 however.

>>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).

On 3.2 you are correct.

>>Oh yeah, don't forget to start it directly, NOT from srcmstr.  If you forget
>>this you'll end up with lots of named's (thousands) running and a crashed
>>machine.
>
>Nope. Bind should not do this as it simply won't bind twice to the socket.
>The typical message in the syslog would be:
>
>Aug 10 16:01:01 g1 named[3683]: restarted
>Aug 10 16:01:01 g1 named[3683]: bind(vs, 0.0.0.0[53]): Address already in use

Which you will get repeatedly and forever, as srcmstr tries to spawn another
copy when the first one dies.  Srcmstr is somewhat like init(1) in this
respect :-)

If your machine has the right load characteristics, bind will background 
itself quickly enough that you >will< end up with lots of them running.  
I've had this happen; wasn't fun.

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From: dtaylor@ems.cdc.com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Equivalent of bar for AIX ?
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:04:09 GMT
Reply-To: dtaylor@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Aug12.162529.12480@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>, rahner@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Rahner) writes:
|> e-sink@uiuc.edu (Eric W. Sink) writes:
|> : Is there a program which will let me archive to floppy disk splitting
|> : across volumes ?  On the Sun, I use bar, which is just a tar lookalike
|> : that knows how to split across multiple floppy disks.  Is there a
|> : similar solution for AIX on my RS 6000 model 220 ?
|> 
|> GNU tar will do this on a NeXT, so there's a good chance that it will
|> work on an RS/6000 too.
|> -- 
|> Mark V. Rahner   rahner@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com

Plain old tar on AIX works for me; it asks for a new floppy when the current
one is full.

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Empros Systems International          (612) 553-4717
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From: metaylor@VNET.IBM.COM (Mark E Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Follow-up: Re: Debuging Segmentation Violation Fault
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: metaylor@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM UK Laboratories

Jing Huang writes:
>        However, to my great surprise, it later turned out that nothing was
>wrong with my program. It was the system's library which got corrupted. And
>I did not find this out until someone else took my favorite seat and I was
>forced to use another computer (we have 9 AIX). I would have never suspected
>the system itself and could have spent my whole life (?) in vain.

If you get a crash on one machine but not on another, it's very
probable that there's a bug in your program. The behaviour of the
S/6000 hardware has changed. Early machines will let you dereference NULL
but more recent machines will coredump. Add to that the stricter
behaviour of malloc under AIX 3.2, and it's still likely that you're
seeing delayed effects of your program writing beyond a malloced area.

Mark E Taylor
AIX Solution Engineering Services
IBM UK Laboratories, Hursley, England
From: greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Problem with et0/en0 network devices
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:23:20 GMT
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.

I have a problem with 3 RS/6000's running 3.2:

After a reboot, the networking (TCP/IP) does not work correctly.  The
machines all have 129.49.30.*, and my university owns 129.49.*.*.
After rebooting, they can connect (eg: ping) anything on 129.49.30,
but nothing else.  If I go into SMIT and select
  Communications-->TCP/IP-->Further Config-->Network Interfaces-->
  Network Interface Selection-->Remove a Network Interface
and remove "et0" and then restart TCP/IP, suddenly everything starts
working perfectly.  Every time I reboot, I have to do this.  How can
I fix it!!!

Thanks...

Michael
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From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Namesevice on RS/6000....
Date: 13 Aug 1992 18:50:38 +0200
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr

In article <c1@byu.edu> ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton) writes:
>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?

Okey, here are the options for AIX 3.1, extracted from the Makefile
(in the named subdir):

DEFINES= -DDEBUG -DSTATS -D_IBMESA -D_BSD -D_BSD_INCLUDES
LIBS=	${RES} -lbsd
#LIBC=	/lib/libc.a

(I'm using te mcsun Bind so there might be little differences).
Those options have been extracted, they do not appear as is
in the Makefile.

I don't remember other changes.   Now on 3.2(.0) you might
get one or two complaints about prototypes, just remove them from
the source (or use the no proto option, don't remember its exact
formulation).

-- 
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   "No keyboard, press F1 to continue"
From: snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Vi is still broken.
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:52:28 GMT
Reply-To: snolan@marge.hq.af.mil
Organization: 7th Communications Group

Someone asked:
> We have had problems with vi hanging on systems running 3.2.1.
> We have ordered and applied the "fixes" 

> ix24895 pty device driver (processes hung on output)
> ix24329 posix line discipline (processes hung on input, w/ input available)

> But vi still occasionally hangs. 
> Does anyone else still have this problem.

> By the way, Control-C "unhangs" vi and puts you in command mode.

We have noticed vi and a few other programs hanging when using X.
We found that by increasing the size of the window slightly with the
mouse, most of these problems go away.

Did not know about the Control-C thing, thanks.

ScottD
From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: nfs disc mount
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:31:48 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin

>rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) writes:
>|> Performing the required steps thru  
>|> SMIT and thru NeXT gets me an error on the RS when i want to mount the  
>|> volume tht says something to the order that privileges disallow this  
>|> operation. Anybody have any hints?

this is a configuration problem
either the NEXT doesn't have your hostname in the /etc/exports file
or
it can't resolve your name
or
it can't reverse resolve your address to your name.
-- 

curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt L. Finch) | AIX NFS/NIS Field Quality 
My views are unrelated to those of IBM     |        Austin, TX
 The Deficit is theft from the young by the old.  Literally candy from babies.
From: polk@Metaphor.COM (Ben Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: vanishing processes
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:29:37 GMT
Reply-To: polk@Metaphor.COM (Ben Polk)
Organization: m4

Has anyone seen a problem where processes vanish for no good
reason?

We know about the paging space issues, and have increase our
paging space until it is now only about 40% used, leaving 64MB
or more free.

We used the AIX trace facility to verify that there were no
kill system calls sending signals to the processes that die.

We are currently trying to use the trace facility to determine
if the kernel is sending signals to the dying processes for
some other reason, but the script we are using to stop the
trace when a target process is gone seems to be one of the 
first processes to die.

We are running on a model 350, with 64MB, 128MB of paging space.
We are running Sybase 4.2, and our application that uses a number
of processes communicating through System V IPC facilities.  There
is no other non-AIX software running on the machine.

We have seen both our processes and the Sybase dataserver process
vanish.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Ben Polk
polk@metaphor.com
From: frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com (Frank Feuerbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Two new 220 installs: what can I delete?
Date: 15 Aug 92 21:12:55 GMT
Reply-To: frank@austin.ibm.com
Organization: "Personal Systems Programming, IBM Austin"
Originator: frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com


If you are cramped for space, and don't need on-line documentation, consider not
installing the *.info packages.  As you can see, they are quite large.  Otherwise, you
should look at each package and ask if you really need them.  Look at X11dev, etc.  The
sizes for each of the packages is in some installation manual that was sent (I'm too
lazy to look up which one).  Too bad we don't list the sizes in smit :-<


good luck.


Frank
-- 
- Frank Feuerbacher


Disclaimer: I speak only for me!  And I don't even do a good job of that!
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: glebe@namu01.gwdg.de (Thorsten Glebe 28919065)
Subject: Line-editing under 3.2?
Organization: Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:52:00

Dear Reader!

We have with our RS 6000 System some Problems under Version 3.2 with the 
line-editing. If one use under Version 3.1 the set -o emacs command 
it was possible to bind the cursor-keys with the alias shell-command.
Under Version 3.2 the cursor-keys do not have a different sign on the 
screen and so it is not possible to do it in this way. 
Do you know a solution for this problem of the cursor-key-binding?

Kind regards in advance,
                       Thorsten
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From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander)
Subject: Re: Detecting where program text segments come from...
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:30:51 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

The ublock contains the anchor of a chain of loader entries, one for
each file used by the process as program text.  One is for the exec'd
program, others for the shared or private modules (like libc) also
loaded.  Each loader entry contains a pointer to the file table entry
for the file it represents.  (The file table is the global kernel data
structure which is used to represent open files.  The file descriptor
entry in the u-block also points to a file table entry, for example).

The file table entry points to the Vnode for the open file.  From the
Vnode it is possible to determine which mounted file system the file
is in.

As is usual in unix, there is no easy way to determine a "path name"
for the file from this information.  Some computation similar to that
in getcwd() would be needed.  For all but the exec'd program,
the path name used by the loader is recorded in the loader entry.
The full path name of the exec'd program is not recorded in its loader
entry.  (There's no good reason, but the internal interfaces didn't
provide the path name to the loader, and when the recording of path
names was added it was too late to fix it.  Oh well!)  (Of course,
that path name may no longer name the same file.  In fact, the file
may have no name at all, and be waiting for the process to end so it
can be deleted from the file system.)

--


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                     (Internet)<marc@watson.ibm.com>
From: jra@bally.com (john andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: 200 or so processes by a user
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:14:18 GMT
Organization: Bally Systems Division - Reno, NV

just a general inquiry, anyone know of any problems/precautions
involved with a non-root user running about 200 processes manipulating
tty's? we'll be running some 3rd party polling software, 1 process per
tty (approx 200 tty's). my initial idea is that /etc/security limits stuff
(via SMiT, of course ;-) will need to be changed... any experience or
"look-at-this-scar" kinda stories?  

-- 
John Andersson
jra@bally.com
Bally Mfg, Reno NV
From: gonzalod@amex-trs.com (Gonzalo Diethelm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: AFS calls from C code
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:55:25 GMT



Distribution: world

Hello everyone,

This might be a FAQ, or maybe I should RTFM, but in this case
TFM is about 400 pages and I need this done REALLY SOON. So,
here it goes:

Does anybody know how to have AFS-like functionality in your
C code? Pipes or system() is not acceptable. For example,
how would you implement a function like:

int klog(char *username, char *password)
/*
 * Same thing as the Kerberos klog utility.
 */

but without opening a pipe and actually executing the program
in /usr/afs/bin/klog?

What I'm looking for specifically is a way of checking the
AFS information for a user given his/her login id, uid, etc.
The .h files in my /usr/afs/include directory don't even have
ANSI prototypes, and the manuals are VERY long and terse.
I haven't found any examples either. Can anybody lend a hand?
Please answer by e-mail. Thanks in advance and regards.

P.S. Just in case, I'm using AIX 3.2 and AFS 3.2b

gonzalod@amexphx.amex-trs.com
Gonzalo A. Diethelm                 (602)375-8410  home
16220 N 7th St Ap 1314              (602)492-3536  office
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From: ingram@duke.cs.duke.edu (Robert E. Ingram)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Install Server
Summary: Sun4/280 as install server?
Keywords: install, Sun4, 8mm tape, RS6000
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:25:18 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

I need advice on setting up & using an install server. 
Specifically, is it possible to set up a Sun 4/280 to
provide installation service from its 8mm tape drive?

System is an RS6000 running AIX 3.2.2, & is the only AIX
machine in our department.

In the event that this scenario is impossible, i could
use advice on attatching a non-IBM 8mm tape drive to the
RS6000. My SE says that there may be some compatibility
issues, but he was vague (IBMers talking about non-IBM
products usually are ;-)

Thanks to anyone who can help. 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix