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From: ian@uws.EDU.AU (Ian Walsh)
Subject: Re: Anyone using lprps on Ultrix 4.2 with banner printing?
Keywords: lprps banner
Organization: University of Western Sydney
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:44:05 GMT

ian@uws.EDU.AU (Ian Walsh) writes:

>I have been trying to get lprps to work successfully with banner
>printing. At present if I try to get the banner page to work
>I get the banner page of a lot of jobs and some job bodies but
>not many.

>When I don't use banner printing we are having problems as well.
>Accounting seems OK.

>Is anyone using lprps under Ultrix 4.2 successfully?

>Thanks

>Ian Walsh (I.Walsh@st.nepean.uws.edu.au)

I now have lprps working correctly thanks to James Clark
who is the author of the package.

Thankyou James for your work to resolve the problems.

I will be using the accounting features very soon now.

Ian Walsh
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: stuart@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (Stuart Kemp)
Subject: Duplicate PID's!
Organization: James Cook University
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:23:46 GMT

Ok, what gives here? Ultrix 4.2a, DECstation 5000

csh> ps -auwx27597
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT STAT   TIME COMMAND
stuart   27597  0.0  0.0  624   12 p1 IW     0:00 -csh (tcsh-6.02.00)
tim      27597  0.0  0.0   56    0 q9 TW     0:00 tset -I -Q


-SRK

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: awk@flag.ece.cmu.edu (Tony Knaus)
Subject: Re: DEC 2100 - memory config help please...
Organization: ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:27:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.150930.6781@trentu.ca> ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown) writes:
>
>I've just added 4MB to a DECstation 2100.  The self test shows 16MB (the real physical amount).  When the system boots (its a diskless client under ultrix 4.2) I see;
>
>real mem = 16777216
>avail mem = 12529667
>
>Does this mean the system is not utilizing 16MB?  Can I confirm this?
>Thanks in advance...

The first number displays how much memory the  kernel has found -
 16 MB. The second number displays how much memory is available
for user processes. The difference between the two is the amount
memory the used by the kernel.

16777216 - 12529667 = 4247549

Which means that kernel is using just over 4 MB of memory.

-tony

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From: dej@drsrv1.hmi.de (Andreas Schulz-Dieterich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: why do notepad and dxmail allow no input?
Keywords: notepad, dxmail, problem
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:44:16 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

I have problems using some DEC applications (see above). If I start them
they allow me to use the menus using the mouse but it's impossible to
enter text. Trying to do this results in nothing. The key
seems to be the .Xdefaults because colleagues of mine are able to use
the programs. Their .Xdefaults-files differ from mine. Changing the
Window-Manager (dxwm, twm) brought no result.
Hardware: DECstation 5000/120, DECstation 3100 (same problem),
          ULTRIX4.2, X11R4

Thanks in advance, Andreas Schulz-Dieterich
From: dab7w@beech.cs.Virginia.EDU (Duff Browne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: There's dump, but come on, what do you *really* use - eh?
Keywords: HELP! dump backup
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:16:00 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department

A colleague and I have been playing at administering a couple of Ultrix
systems, but we're really much more VMS knowledgeable.  Anyway, we want
to Do The Right Thing(tm) in terms of backups.  So - we have these questions
to toss everyone's way.

It looks like dump is the preferred way to gather partitions onto magnetic 
media.  It also appears that soft links from one partition to another
will not be retained by the process of dump/restore.  Wouldn't it be nice
if it could retain those links, or does it matter all that much.  Why?

It looks like tar makes it a lot easier to restore individual files from the
middle of a tape.  Is this true, or have we just not got our act together?
(Be nice, now).

So, the bottom line is, what should we be using to backup our user and system
files on our DECstations or DECsystem NFS server - tar or dump - and what
problems are we going to run into because of this choice?

Please be gentle.  Thanks!

Duff Browne
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg)
Subject: Re: A major BSD socket bug?
Reply-To: pk@cs.eur.nl
Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:34:05 GMT

In <1992Sep9.053147.411@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> rittle@supra (Loren James Rittle) writes:

>I have reproduced this bug (be it in my code or the BSD OS) under
>both ULTRIX 4.2A and SunOS 4.1.2.  As I don't read any sun groups, I didn't
>know where to crosspost there.  The example below is under 20 lines of code.
>If you are a BSD hacker, please take a look.

You just need to re-initialize `rcvsize' each time you call recv_from.
Like so:

>#define ERROR(a) do { perror (a); exit (1); } while (0)
>#define SEND(m) if (sendto (s,m,sizeof m,0,&a,sizeof a)==-1) ERROR ("sendto");
>#define RECV rcv.sin_addr.S_un.S_addr = 0; m[0] = '\0'; \
		rcvsize = sizeof rcv; \
>		recvfrom (s, m, sizeof m, 0, &rcv, &rcvsize); \
>		printf ("%d %s\n", rcv.sin_addr.S_un.S_addr, m)

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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: Problem mounting Infoserver disks
Organization: CS
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:22:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.160259.8840@vax.oxford.ac.uk> daveh@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>Hi,
>
>We've got an Infoserver 150 with a CD-ROM drive inside it. We want to be able to
>put CONDIST CDs online. Obviously, VAX CDs have to be available to VAX users,
>and Ultrix CDs to Ultrix users.
>
>There is no problem in mounting the VAX CDs so that they are visible on the
>VAX. What I need to be able to do is mount the Ultrix CDs so that they are
>visible on our Ultrix system, and at present I have absolutely no idea of how to
>do this.

Trivial.  Get your sales dude to sell you the "infoserver client for
Ultrix (RISC/VAX)", install it, bloat your kernel 400-500k, and then prepare
for headache after headache, unless they're ISO9660 CD's which will work
fine...
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 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 14:12:35 GMT
Organization: WINCO
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.2 rlogin somewhat broken
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Organization: WINCO
Keywords: 

In article <60286@mimsy.umd.edu> jsw@umiacs.umd.edu (Jeff Webber) writes:
>I have been investigating this problem.  Its related to the bug
>that causes rlogin to hang when going from an Ultrix machine
>to a fast sparc.  Its due to a kernel bug in the OOB handling

I've noticed it when going to a Cray system here.

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From: malcolmp@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU (malcolmp)
Subject: "Socket leak exists" from named-xfer.
Organization: School of Mathematics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:16:40 GMT

	We're using a DecStation as a secondary name server for our domain and
the named-xfer program on it is producing a series of error messages we can't
work out.  They are usually of the form:

	named_xfer: zone maths.unsw.EDU.AU res_mkquery T_SOA failed.
or
	named_xfer: icmp_ping: socket leak exists

and come in blocks of each message.  We also get "Too many open files" errors,
which I assume is related to the second error.  As far as we can tell, the
primary name server is working correctly although the machine it is on is
rather heavily loaded, so can someone give us pointers to a possible cause?
Thank you.

Setup:
	Secondary:  DecSystem 5000/200, Ultrix 4.2A, used bindsetup(8) to make.
	Primary: Sequent Symmetry, 8 20Mhz 386's, Dynix 3.1.0
	Both use the supplied version of named.

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		School of Mathematics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
From: JIW2@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Mixing Ultrix and VMS queues on LAT
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:32:39 GMT
Organization: Penn State University


 Jaye Mathisen writes:

>Personally, I've had nothing but trouble with LAT printing with
>Ultrix patches/OS upgrades/printcap hacks notwithstanding...

 Interesting.  Do you mean you have had problems printing via
LAT from Ultrix per se, or problems trying to use a VMS print queue
from Ultrix over LAT?

 Although it was a pain in the butt to set up (the
manuals weren't especially clear on this matter), once I got it
working, LAT printing from our DECstation 3100 presented no
problems whatever.  We are printing to a DEC LN03R which is
shared by a VAXstation 3100, and have been using it for about
two years now.  Separate queues for each machine.
What sort of problems have you encountered?

>Muchos better than the braindamaged lpd software DEC supplies that
>can't even take advantage of the features in all the DEC printers.

 Some examples would be appreciated.  If there are features of DEC
printers that can't be accessed via Ultrix, I'd certainly like to
know what they are.

>For anybody wanting to mix queues like this, it seems to be the way
>to go.  It's working great for us, and relieved me of a lot of
>headache of messing with Ultrix LAT mumbo-jumbo.

 What "Ultrix LAT mumbo-jumbo" is it that you have experienced so
many problems with?  I, for one, would like to know what these
problems are, so that I can be aware in advance of any difficulties
I might face in the future.

                                   John Wagner
                            Pennsylvania State University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: scowen@wfpc3.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen)
Subject: Re: xwindows console/tty
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:53:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.071941.12658@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Captain Action Figure (tm)) writes:
|> hello...
|> 
|> i generally use xwindows on a decstation running ultrix.  unfortunately,
|> the -C option for xterm, which redirects console output to a window,
|> does not function.  (the man page specifically says 'this is not supported
|> on all systems')
|> 
|> so, what i'm hoping for is advice/script/program/etc. on how to indicate
|> that console output is to go to a specific window or tty.  i'm hoping
|> for something non-violent, and i can't guarantee a particular name
|> for the window (i.e. it won't always be tty01)

why don't you use the standard xconsole piece of software - if it's not in your
release of X you can get it from export.lcs.mit.edu.  You can run this as part 
of your personal .xsession or the system wide one.

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From: nagrwb@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x
Subject: help - DEC.5000 / twm / .X11Startup
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:06:38 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

On logging in to a DECStation5000/200 I have sitting at my desk at
the moment I would like to automatically:
  kill the DecWindow Manager
  use twm
  set a few friendly X clients
  start-up epoch (which resides on another host) in an iconified state
  have the DEC Session Manager and DECterm console window iconified

I'm a bit of a novice at this sort of thing so here's my .X11Startup file
  
   # Kill the DecWindow Manager
   kill -9 `ps -ax | grep dxwm | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1}'` 
   # Use the Tab Window Manager (is nicer anyway no?)
   twm &
   # Start up any other X clients that are desired.
   xsetroot -bitmap ...
   xbiff ... &
   dxclock ... &
   xload ... &
   xterm -iconic -title elm -e elm &
   xterm ... &
   xrsh otherhost /usr/local/bin/epoch ... & 

which does most of the job. However I don't know how to have the session
manager and console iconified automatically. Also the "xrsh ... epoch" exits
immeadiately. suggestions/help welcomed and yes i know i can set everything
up just as i'd like and then xlock when I'm not around but others need access
to the console.

Richard.
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From: tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie)
Subject: Anyone using mjr's bsd-login for Ultrix?
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 07:36:28 GMT

I would like to use the bsd-login stuff, but when I modified it for
enhanced security and installed it, /dev/tty broke.

Whenever I try to open /dev/tty under this login I get a error like
"/dev/tty: No such device or address"

Does anyone know what could be causing this, and possible fixes?
--
-Tim MacKenzie (tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au)
From: rcbi110@muvms3.bitnet (R. ALAN MONROE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: What would cause Refcnt in netstat to be 0?
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:06:19 GMT
Organization: Marshall University


The subject says it all...

I'm getting tired of this machine's problems...

(Decstation 5000/200, Ult. 4.2a)

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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: blas for linpack etc
Keywords: blas linpack eispack lapack
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:49:13 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.

In article <1992Sep14.132400.12265@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> woodford@fourier.ece.cmu.edu (Paul Woodford) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.082905.29909@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> cally@solar.maths.monash.edu.au (Dr Paul Cally) writes:
>>The underlying linear algebra package used by linpack, eispack, and LAPACK is
>>called blas. Does anyone have a version of this optimized for DECstations?
>>Some manufacturers (eg IBM) actually provide a very fast machine code form
>>with their workstations. Not DEC, I guess?!
>>
>>--- Paul Cally
>
>There is a libblas.a in /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc2.1/libblas.a on Ultrix 4.2a, but
>it doesn't include level 3 blas or double-complex level 2 blas.  Furthermore
>I've tried linking with the routines which are there and they don't seem any
>faster than those that I've compiled myself.  Pretty silly, huh?
>
>If you find any optimized versions out there, please let me know.  If anyone
>from DEC is reading, please give us an optimized blas library.

I am also very interested with optimized version of the libblas.a (all 3
levels) for the DECstations, Ultrix 4.2a.


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From: gel@sys.uea.ac.uk (Gareth Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: dxsession/BIND bug?
Summary: dxsession does not appear to use BIND correctly.
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:51:48 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

I'm experiencing some problems with dxsession and the BIND name service.

We are using prioritised 3 level hostname resolution:
1.  Minimal /etc/hosts file
2.  Yellow Pages to distribute IP for hosts on same sub-net
3.  BIND name service to distribute IP for more distant hosts
I imagine this is a very common configuration at large sites?

I previously had some distant hosts registered within the YP system (level 2)
but due to network reorganisation within the university their IP addresses
are changing (hourly it would seem!)  Since our outdated YP entries were
becoming a liability, I removed them allowing address resolution to be
peformed by BIND (level 3).  This now works fine with ping/rlogin/finger etc.

Several of these distant hosts were previously registered in the Security
menu of dxsession allowing them to act as X clients to my server.  They
disappeared from the list when they were removed from the YP service and
I am unable to register them again.  When I attempt to do so, I get an error
of the form "Not a Registered host name".  Sometimes when I've tried this,
dxsession has crashed unceremoniously logging me out.

When I do address resolution manually using nslookup and then enter the
distant IP address in its raw form into Security it is both accepted and
allows the client to connect.  No problem.

My local DEC Help line say that they get the same behaviour, but have been
unable to suggest a fix or indicate if it will fixed in the next revision.

Is this a well documented bug?? Does anyone have any patches/fixes??
If it cannot be fixed it would seem to be a serious weakness in the
current UWS release!! Any suggestions would be very welcome.

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From: ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown)
Subject: DEC 2100 - memory config help please...
Reply-To: ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown)
Organization: Trent University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:09:30 GMT


I've just added 4MB to a DECstation 2100.  The self test shows 16MB (the real physical amount).  When the system boots (its a diskless client under ultrix 4.2) I see;

real mem = 16777216
avail mem = 12529667

Does this mean the system is not utilizing 16MB?  Can I confirm this?

The workstation is called csdws2.  In /dlclient0/csdws2.root/sys/conf/mips we have a file called CSDWS2 and 'physmem' has been changed (by me) to 16 from 12. I gather that this is the correct file to tweak.  Every other file in this dir is linked to /usr/sys/conf/mips, including the files BINARY and GENERIC but CSDWS2 is not linked.  In /dlenv0/root0.mips/usr/sys/conf/mips I see unlinked BINARY and GENERIC (no diff from the linked files) so I've copied CSDWS2 there. It seems a bit odd to duplicate files...



but I'm reluctant to delete anything which was put up by the original installer (which I have now inherited).

As I'm relatively new to managing Unix/Ultrix, perhaps someone would offer comments and/or suggestions?

Thanks in advance...
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: caroline@topaz.Stanford.EDU (Caroline Lambert)
Subject: 7 SCSI devices unsupported?
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:14:22 GMT

I am told by DEC technical support that although there are 7 SCSI
slots on the single SCSI controller on my DEC5000/240, using only
6 of them is 'supported'. So what dreadful things are going to 
happen to my system if I use all 7? Does anyone else out there have
7 devices on 1 controller?

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Seismic Tomography Project      
Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Subject: Curious DECstation 5000/200 vi behavior
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Barnard College, Columbia U, New York
Originator: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:40:47 GMT
X-Posted-From: avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In vi, saying "w" advances the cursor one word, and in most versions of
vi this works across lines.  On the DECstation, too, it advances across
linefeeds, unless, surprisingly, the line ends with a tab or space.  Then
"w" refuses to go beyond the end of a line.

This is really only a minor annoyance;  still, I found it curious.  On
HP and SGI, "w" always advances across linefeeds.  I don't have access
to other BSD machines (besides the DECstation), so maybe this is a 
BSD-ism, rather than merely a DEC-ism.

	-P.
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From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: There's dump, but come on, what do you *really* use - eh?
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:08:01 GMT
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA

dab7w@beech.cs.Virginia.EDU (Duff Browne) writes:
> soft links from one partition to another
> will not be retained

I assume you mean that the actual file that the symbolic link points to
isn't backed up.  Well, true, though I would consider it a serious bug if it
did that since the symbolic link file itself is data that I want backed up.

> It looks like tar makes it a lot easier to restore individual files from the
> middle of a tape.

How so?  You have to start reading from the beginning of the dump file in
both cases (assuming standard Ultrix dump and tar).

> what problems are we going to run into because of this choice?

Tar doesn't deal with sparse files intelligently though GNU tar might.

You might also take at look at DECnsr.  It's not free, but it looks like a
nice product if you have multiple machines that need to be backed up.

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