HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Laser Jet III Further questions
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:52:22 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <106286@bu.edu>, amelcuk@buphy.bu.edu (Andre Melcuk) writes:
|> 
|>    Thank you very much for the two people who helped me. The answer is to get U402104 (the tape (ARGH!!) will contain U402370), install them and use the 'virtual printer' menu in SMIT. The rest works magically. If you then edit the virtual printer to chan|> ge the d flag (d=a), you can print ascii to the same printer. I also changed the column file (cr:: to cr::\4) as per private e-mail advice. I don't know wether it's necessary, but it doesn't hurt anything.
|> 
|>    I'm almost happy, but I have the following small question: Given a III with a PS+ cartridge, can I can print PS + ASCII when th eprinter is in PS mode (hplj3.ps stream) and PCL + ASCII when it is in PCL mode (jplj3.pcl stream).
|> Can I print all three from the same queue?
|> 
|>    Thank you for your answers, past and future
|> 
|>       Andrew Mel'cuk    amelcuk@dirac.clarku.edu
One more thing: the PS queue works fine, but there remains one curious bug. After every job, the ready light blinks and the "Processing data" message is on. The following jobs come out OK, though. Any comments?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew Mel'cuk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject:  AIXSERV
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:12:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

In article <29226@oasys.dt.navy.mil> air4114a@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Carr) writes:
>1.  OK, this is the dumb question of the week from the guy
>who missed the beginning of this thread.
>
>2.  What is AIXSERV?

It is an semi-automated system for submitting and tracking AIX 3.*
software bug reports via Internet email by US customers. Try sending a
note to aixbugs@austin.ibm.com and it should send you some information
and an application for submitting requests.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: chris@uis.com (Chris Howard)
Subject: General TTY buggyness
Summary: We have sporadic but persistent problems with modems and TTYs
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:09:19 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Unix Integration Services
Keywords: TTY modems

We have sporadic but persistent problems with modems and TTYS on
our 530 running 3.2.
About once every two weeks or so I have to drop the TTYS and re-
configure them.  Is the AIX tty scheme really that unreliable?
We had similar experience under 3.1.

When things work, they work right.  But when they go bad,
they go all the way bad.

(Maybe we should be using some other machine for our modem horse.)
-- 
Chris Howard							chris@uis.com
 Unix Integration Services     	Urbandale, Iowa			(515) 254-3074
From: eoq@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Edward Quillen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Unlocking Volume Groups
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:35:34 GMT
Organization: Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Michigan State Univ.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cgpc0008.cvm.msu.edu


Is there any way to unlock a Volume Group?? I'm trying to add a new disk
and somehow I get to a point where I can't do anything because it 
reports that the volume group is locked.
Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks..


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+++ Vet Teaching Hosp.    System Admin.       +++
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: nsysdbj@acs.ncsu.edu (David Joyner)
Subject: Re: Why does xterm not put in a utmp entry?
Organization: North Carolina State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:09:02 GMT

Michael McDaniel (mdm@argus.apple.com) wrote:
: 
: I've compiled up X11R5's version of xterm, I'm using AIX 3.2.x, and
: '+ut' doesn't have any effect - no utmp entries...  I sure wish
: somebody could get this working! :) :) :)
: 

This should be in the FAQ:

When building MIT's xterm, make sure USE_SYSV_UTMP and UTMP are
defined.  Assuming you're not using any other code that wants a BSD
utmp file, this will also cure the problem of 'uptime' and 'w' showing
bogus uptimes.

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From: rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Andrew Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: static data no in the symbol table?
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:34:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YfGptaS00Woi9TznQf
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

It appears that under some circumstances xlc fails to output symbols for
static data.  For example, compiling:

struct classheader {
    long version;
    char *name;
    char *key;
    char *data;
};


static struct classheader atom_classheader = {
    4,
    "atom",
    "atom",
    0x92382,
};

gives:

% nm foo.o
         U ._ptrgl
00000000 d TOC
00000000 d _foo$c$
00000008 d _foo$c$

Anyone know if this is a bug or a feature?  Any workarounds?

Thanks for any info,
-Rob
p.s. sorry if you got a funny looking version before this one...
From: rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle  Wizard of Ozje)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: tcp/ip filtering via software - possible?
Keywords: tcp/ip gate choke login inetd rlogin rcp
Date: 5 Jan 93 08:48:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Oracle Europe

AIXers,

I need to have my RS6000/520h filter all tcp/ip packets (be that ftp,
login, telnet, whatever ...) to provide a 100% secure system inside a busy
network.  I could always build new versions of inetd, rlogin et al. but for
obvious reasons (don't want to be held responsible for bug reports, software
maintenance et al. ;-) I'd rather do it in an official way.  There are a couple of
host and user combinations which require access, and absolutely NOONE else.

In HP-UX (secure tcp/ip option) you can specify specific internet addresses/
or subnets which may or may not make use of services via the inetd.sec file
Is such an option available in AIX 3.2.0???

It'll save me a lot of heartache (not to mention money if I have to buy a router/
gateway just to make this machine secure).

All suggestions considered ... thanks.

--Rob.


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From: russotto@vnet.ibm.com (Matthew T. Russotto)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 09:12:04 EST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Adding SCSI OSDISK
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.1
            <C0GCED.IAu@austin.ibm.com>

In <C0GCED.IAu@austin.ibm.com> Randal C. Swanberg writes:
>
>Well, I can't answer that question, but just in case it is helpful, I can
>translate the sense data.  The above error was due to the disk failing a
>SCSI Start-Unit (spin-up) command with Illegal Request status, which means, it
>didn't like the command and/or command block.  However, the command block
>(starting with 5th byte of sense data) looks fine to me.

Many disks have a jumper which set whether they spin-up on power-on
or only when they receive a SCSI start.  Would an request to spin up
when the disk was already spun up give that result code?

Some disks always spin up on power up, and probably wouldn't like SCSI
start at all... will such disks work with AIX?

How does one learn to translate those sense codes, BTW?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hoberoi@limerick.cbs.umn.edu (Himanshu Oberoi)
Subject: g++ 2.3.3 unresolved/undefined symbols
Reply-To: hoberoi@limerick.cbs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:50:47 GMT

Hi, I have been compiling a program (that works fine on a sun g++ 2.2.1) but
gives the following error on the RS6000:
0706-317 ERROR: Unresolved or undefined symbols detected:
                 Symbols in error (followed by references) are
                 dumped to the load map.
                 The -bloadmap:<filename> option will create a load map.
__ls__FR7ostreamPCc
__ls__FR7ostreamf
collect: /usr/bin/ld returned 8 exit status
gmake: *** [multimead] Error 1

strings tells me that these symbols exist in the .o files. nm is unable
to find these symbols in libg++.a.

AIX 3.2.3 (?) IBM RS6000 550

any pointers ?

himanshu

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: cordes@cs.ua.edu (David Cordes)
Subject: Screen Saver for Consoles
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 17:12:53 GMT

We have a number of RS/6000s running in the CoE, mainly model 320's and 320h's.  These
machines exist in a student lab for general purpose use.  Each is equipped with a 16
inch 5081 monitor.

Our problem is that these machines are turned on (the monitors) in the morning, and remain
on all day.  If a student is not logged in, the little login prompt sits down in the
lower left corner and burns the monitor.  Is there a screen saver / screen blanker that
exists for hft/0 (the console device)? 

We've tried to tell the students to turn the brightness/intensity down and turn them
off at night, but that is proving to be unworkable.

------------------------------
David Cordes
Department of Computer Science
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama  35487

cordes@cs.ua.edu (internet)
dcordes at ua1vm (bitnet)
(205) 348-6363

	"Strange, his job description clearly calls for an illiterate"
From: eoq@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Edward Quillen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: X and AIX 3.2
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:35:44 GMT
Organization: Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Michigan State Univ.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cgpc0008.cvm.msu.edu

We just got a couple of RS/6000s with AIX 3.2 and noticed that X windows
didn't come with 3.2. I heard something about them stopping ditribution 
with version 3.2. Is there a way we can get it free??? 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: swan@austin.ibm.com (Randal C. Swanberg)
Subject: Re: Adding SCSI OSDISK
Originator: swan@swan2.austin.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:57:09 GMT
Organization: IBM


In article <uk19il4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
> In <C0I05H.1A5I@austin.ibm.com> swan@austin.ibm.com (Randal C. Swanberg) writes:
> 
> 
> | In article <19930107.062511.795@almaden.ibm.com>, russotto@vnet.ibm.com (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
> | > 
> | > Many disks have a jumper which set whether they spin-up on power-on
> | > or only when they receive a SCSI start.  Would an request to spin up
> | > when the disk was already spun up give that result code?
> | > 
> | > Some disks always spin up on power up, and probably wouldn't like SCSI
> | > start at all... will such disks work with AIX?
> | 
> | All of the SCSI disks that we have experience with (i.e. IBM Japan 160MB, IBM
> | Havant 857MB, IBM Rochester 320MB, 400MB, 1 GB, MAXTOR 355MB, 670MB, Seagate 1GB,
> | ...and I'm sure there are others) basically no-op a SCSI Start-Unit if the disk
> | is already spun-up.
> | 
> | If a disk will not allow a Start-Unit when already spun-up, then the answer
> | is NO, it won't work with AIX.  The SCSI disk driver issues a Start-Unit command
> | on the first open() to the disk.  Basically I guess the assumption that the AIX
> | SCSI Driver makes is that a)the disk may be spun down and b)if it isn't the 
> | Start-Unit command will be a no-op, not an error.
> 
> But why fail at that point?  The obvious thing to do is to follow
> a startunit (failed or successful!) with a testunitready, and only
> cause a failure if the testunitready says the drive isn't ready...

I agree, that sounds like a more robust method.  Actually, you could issue the
testunitready first to see if the startunit was even needed. 

You could also ask the same question of the disk implementation: Why fail at that
point?  The obvious thing to do is to see that you are already spun-up and act as
though you successfully completed the startunit.


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From: esulzner@cad669.intel.com (Eric Sulzner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX system process limits
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:04:09 GMT
Organization: Design Technology, INTeL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA

I said that csh gives a "no more processes" message when it gets ENOMEM.
In other words, low paging space.  After I increased paging space, these
messages disappeared.  Someone else said what was attributed to me here.

   Eric Sulzner (esulzner@cad669.intel.com) wrote:
   : 
   :    Finding out how many total processes may run on the system at once
   :    is not trivial. Does anyone understand where this value is stored,
   :    or if calculated, how?
   : 

   I suppose the real limit is 2^17 since that is the size of the AIX 3.2
   process table (if you get that many running, I'd like to see it!).
   However, only the active entries of the process table are pinned in
   the kernel.

   The active process table is defined by the kernel variables proc
   (beginning address) and max_proc (ending address of active table).
   The kernel will pin more memory and extend max_proc as needed.

   I suppose you might get an "out of processes" error if virtual memory
   was low and the kernel could not get enough core to extend the table
   (that's just a guess).

   For more on the subject, check out the article "The Preemptable and
   Pageable AIX Kernel" by Jeff Peek in the August 1992 AIXpert.

   --
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: installation images directory table of contents
From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:58:55 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

len@gibbon.cornell.edu () writes:

>My install server now has 579 program products and updates -- apparently
>this is more than the developers of installp planned for.
>From this menu, my AIX 3.2 install server presents over 2200 lines of
>program product and update information, sorted in essentially random order.
>The order is roughly derived from the order in the table of contents
>file .toc, built by the inutoc command.  Apparently, inutoc reads
>the directory /usr/sys/inst.images in its actual random order and build its
>.toc file in the reverse of the order it finds.

Ever considered dividing them up into subdirectories? And discarding all the
"superceded" ones?

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School of Engineering,    Ph: +64-9-737-999 x8384 /  But we waste time,
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: baron@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Eddie Baron)
Subject: PP size
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:14:52 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

My big hard disk crashed recently on my 320. It is a seagate 1.2 GB
external disk (i have one of those tiny 180MB internal disks). Anyway
I restored from backup and when it came up lo and behold the PP size
was now 2 MB rather than 4 MB. Everything works fine, but du seems to
be off by a factor of 2 (too high) and I haven't tried to install any
updates. Since I will move to 3.2.3 (I'm at approx 3.2.2) in the not
too distant future I wonder if there is any (reasonably simple) way to
reset the PP size back to the expected 4 MB. I should mention that
both the big and little disk had their PP size reset on the restore.
Please respond via mail. Thanks

- ed baron (baron@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: lpc@dickens.com (Luis P Caamano)
Subject: Re: process numbers
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:18:26 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

In article <C0Ly9M.nB6@austin.ibm.com> jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
>
>>>This is actually fairly useful.  When I want to spy on a process with
>>>`crash', it's easy to calculate the index into the process table which
>>>I need for the `u' command.
>>
>>	I always looked at the output from the 'proc' subcommand, then
>>	used the slot number for 'u'.....
>
>Charles is right on this one.
>
>% expr PID / 256
>
>is a LOT easier than wading through hundreds of lines of output from "proc".


The covert channel is pretty interesting (not being in the cracking-
hacking-spy-security business, I never thought of that one :)

Anyway what I wanted to say is that I thought the new proc number
thing was done for performance.  With the AIX scheme, it's easier
to get to the proc slot in the proc table from the proc number
than using the sequential numbering scheme in classic unix since
in the latter the proc number doesn't have any information about 
the slot. Does it make sense to you?  I might be missing 
something ...  :-}


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From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Prestoserve
Keywords: I/O, disk
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:04:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1993Jan12.150405.26425
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <1irvnlINNhlk@corax.udac.uu.se> larsowe@csd.uu.se (Lars-Owe Ivarsson) writes:

>      Rumor has it that Legato is working on a Prestoserver for the RS/6000.
>I thougt a Prestoserver, as used by Sun and Dec, was a kind of disk-cache.  
>As many operating systems--e.g. AIX and IRIX, unlike SunOS and
>Ultrix--use memory-mapped files, I assumed that the operating system
>would take care of that (given enough memory at least), making a
>prestoserver unnecessary on IBM and SGI systems, or at least not cost
>justified.  Obviously I was wrong on that, so if anybody would please
>explain the Prestoserve concept for me, especially in combination with
>the RS/6000, I would be very grateful.

An NFS client waits for a response from the server saying "ok, I wrote that
packet to disk."  Since disk is slow, and can be heavily loaded down,
the prestoserve has (battery backed up?) ram, and sends the ACK as
soon as it recieves the packet.  

That way, NFS writes are not slowed down by a heavily loaded server,
waiting to write the packet.

Does aix map a file into ram and then not guarantee it is written to
disk until it is close()ed?!?

Adam


Adam Shostack 					adam@das.harvard.edu

What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig.  Or not to have a .sig
at all.  How true that is.
From: trt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Tom Truscott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: malloc(0) fails on AIX ... etc.
Date: 10 Jan 93 22:31:44 GMT
Organization: IBM RTP

> But, think of the threads that would open complaining that "it doesn't error
> when I malloc(0) ... shouldn't it return an error?" ...

I don't think this would happen.  malloc(0) for years has returned a unique
pointer on SunOS, Ultrix, HP-UX, ... and I have yet to see anyone complain.
On the other hand I have seen a never ending stream of complaints
about systems where malloc(0) fails.

The only argument I have *ever* heard for malloc(0) failing is that
it is "required by the SVID".  (Could someone please quote chapter
and verse where it is required, and not merely permitted?)
Does 100% SVID compliance make AIX dead right?

Of course portable programs must defend against malloc() nonsense.
(The correct coding is non-obvious, as previous articles have revealed.)
But this is a poor justification for continuing the AIX malloc behavior!

This thread reminds me of the ancient debate about left-shifting by 0.
In some C implementations (i << n) was undefined when n == 0
since the hardware did not efficiently support it.
There were people who didn't want to see left shift slowed down just
to handle a dubious and rare special case.
After all, this could be handled portably with:
	(n == 0)? i: (i << n)

Tom Truscott
From: tuc@stormking.com (Scott J Ellentuch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Building X11R5
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:32:03 GMT
Organization: The Telecom Security Group

In Alexander Vrenios's own words (And I ">_") :
> 
> We had a similar problem with AIX 3.2 LEX: invalid character
> on the last line. Changing the environment variable LANG=C
> corrected it. (No: we don't know why!)
> 
	For some reason that doesn't work on 3.1.7.  I tried.  All you do
is add "*/" to the end of the first line.

			GO FIGURE!

				Tuc

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: hubert@schwaben.heidelbg.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re:Should /bin/ecs have SUID root???
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:48:48 GMT
Reply-To: zeller@mazvm02.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Germany, AIX Support Germany

> I discovered that the ecs program (a tool for connecting to IBM InfoNet)
> had the permissions set to -r-sr-s---  root  ecs.

This is fixed in apar IX27512.

Bernhard
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: ajf@rchland.vnet.ibm.com ( Albert J. Fahey)
Subject: Re: General TTY buggyness
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:25:03 GMT
Distribution: comp
Reply-To: fahey@fshvmx.vnet.ibm.com ( Albert J. Fahey)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM East Fishkill
Keywords: TTY modems


Are you running them from one of these multiport Async. adapters?
(I assume you are!)  I hade a strange problem with a 930 and an
8-port Async. Card just before it failed.  I had a sporatic problem
with printers.  I'm not sure this is the problem with your stuff
but when this stuff was happening to me I had the same thoughts
you did.

Albert
fahey@fshvmx.vnet.ibm.com

-->> These opinions are mine and not those of IBM!

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: pkim@gagme.chi.il.us (Peter Kim)
Subject: Flashing or rapidly moving cursors
Originator: pkim@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:23:05 GMT

I have a X application with MOTIF runing on AIX 3.2 whose
user interface was created with AIXWindow Interface Composer.
Once in a while, cursors flash on text widgets continually and
there is no way to stop the flashing cursors. 

The dialog consists of a dialog shell, a form, text labels and
fields, and pushbuttons.

Since the problem occurs randomly and without any patterns, I am
having much difficulty in locating the cause. If you can help me
in any way, I would really appreciate.

Thanks.