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From: trevor@trevan.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Syslog problems on Consensys SysV R4
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:56:17 GMT
Organization: Trevan


Syslogd on Consensys SysV rel4 somtimes spawns a whole load of defunct
processes as shown in the example of 'ps -ef' shown below. I start
syslogd with 'nohup syslogd &'. Syslog also seems to send messages to
the terminal which starts it up now and again. I am trying to use
syslog with inn. Please can anyone help.

    root 20475     1  0 16:49:22 ?        0:01 syslogd 
    root 20483 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20198     1  0 14:43:04 console  0:01 /sbin/getty console console 
    root 20489 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20485 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20492 20475  0 16:50:23 ?        0:00 syslogd 
    root 20491 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20486 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20484 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20487 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20488 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20493 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20490 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
    root 20497 20398 33 16:52:39 term/A8  0:00 ps -ef 
    root 20398   394  1 16:17:42 term/A8  0:01 -sh 
    root 20495 20475  0                   0:00 <defunct>
-- 
				regards trevor
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Trevor Harris				UUCP: trevor@trevan.uucp
Trevan Designs Limited
From: jle9162@zeus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: unix sugestions on pc
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:03:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.1OCT199210034608
Distribution: comp
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct1.1221.12889@channel1>, "richard hajinlian" <richard.hajinlian@channel1.com> writes...
>I'm looking for suggestions on which unix OS to use.  Any comments
>will be greatly appreciated.  My hardware consists of:
>386 40mhz cpu, 8m ram, 1gb disk, adaptec 1542b with a ati vga wonder +.
>I'm looking for suggestions on a lan card.
> 
>I wish to learn X windows (motif if possable), TCP/IP sockets (I'll
>get the second machine soon  $$$$ ouch!).  It would be nice if there was
>a c(++) environment also.  And all this (TCP/IP and above software)
>for under $1,000?  Tall order?
> 
>By the way .....snicker....can I use os2 boot mgr to run this stuff?
> 
>Thanks again in advance.
> 
>Rich (I don't know which platform to write my pencil tracking
>      program in) Hajinlian.
>--
>Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA
> 
  The only unix I can think of where you will get all that mentioned above
for under $1000 is Consensys UNIX SVR4. I have a friend thats been using
it for a while with no problems, an excellent product. $795

  Others, like SCO won't give you much for under $1000. (I use SCO...)

I'm not sure about Dell unix, they might have a good price, someone here
can confirm?

Jason.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
Subject: Re: uucp g protocol tuning parameters -- help cutting phone bills!
Organization: :
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 09:18:22 GMT

In article <1992Oct3.072415.19296@weyrich.UUCP>, orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
 
> I have heard that I can possibly improve my uucp [news feed] performance by
> twiddling with the "g protocol" window parameters.  ...
 
> I am very interested in improving my transmission speed for uucp -- I have a
> Hayes Optima that should be capable of at least 960 cps [more with compression],
> but I am only getting about 500 cps out of my [long distance  -- I pay  for
> it!] link to uunet. I get about  900 cps out of a local link.

I'm not doing much better with uunet and PEP on a WorldBlazer.  They had
some kind of problem with a software upgrade with their Sequent turning
out to be incompatible with some of their com gear (if I understood their
representative correctly) and they are putting Sun 400-series (or was
it 600-series?) front ends on everything.  I observe periodic delays in
the packet handling, as though there were delays in bringing large blocks
off disk.  (This is _a_ theory; it is not _the_ theory ...)

I hope they get their problems worked out.  Their business is communication,
and this is hurting it, and their customers.  (Someone listening out there?)
-- 
 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile

 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Unix "Lite" is not so light
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:59:45 GMT

In article <BvKHyL.7Fs@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> >Base system running in 2MB RAM, 40 MB hard disk. Compilers or X in 4 MB.

> You want all of 1992's features to run on 1987 hardware.

No, I don't want all of 1992s features. Base system shouldn't include
networking, DOS emulation, support for 30 different previous versions of
UNIX (I wouldn't even cry too hard if you eliminated COFF and SCO support
(though that'd probably hurt sales too much), let alone esoterica such as
286 binaries and Microsoft x.out format), three different IPC technologies
(Sockets, Streams, AND Xenix), etcetera...

What I do want is something that will run on an entry-level box (under
$1000 total system price, including the OS) like the competition.
From: mbm@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Malcolm Mladenovic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Is the jmp_buf array documented on SVR4?
Date: 3 Oct 92 14:04:27 GMT
Organization: UNIX Centre, ICL, Bracknell, UK

In article <1992Oct2.211936.18080@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
>
>  Could someone please post what the 10 values for jmp_buf on an
>i386 SVR4 mean?  IMHO, AT&T should have documented in a comment
>(in setjmp.h) what each integer in the jmp_buf array represents.  
>
>Thanks!

I don't agree (see below), but in any case it isn't hard to find out...

<jekub!mbm> uname -a
UNIX_System_V jekub 4.0 3.0 486/EISA i486
<jekub!mbm> cat x.c
#include <setjmp.h>
 
main()
{
        jmp_buf x;
        setjmp(x);
}
<jekub!mbm> /bin/cc -dn -o x x.c
<jekub!mbm> sdb x
Warning: no -g information in ./x
no process
*setjmp/10i
0x8048144       (setjmp+0:)        movl   0x04(%esp,1),%eax     [...]
0x8048148       (setjmp+4:)        movl   %ebx,0x00(%eax)       [...]
0x804814b       (setjmp+7:)        movl   %esi,0x04(%eax)       [...]
0x804814e       (setjmp+10:)       movl   %edi,0x08(%eax)       [...]
0x8048151       (setjmp+13:)       movl   %ebp,0x0c(%eax)       [...]
0x8048154       (setjmp+16:)       popl   %edx  [ %edx ]
0x8048155       (setjmp+17:)       movl   %esp,0x10(%eax)       [...]
0x8048158       (setjmp+20:)       movl   %edx,0x14(%eax)       [...]
0x804815b       (setjmp+23:)       subl   %eax,%eax     [ %eax, %eax ]
0x804815d       (setjmp+25:)       jmp    *%edx [ *%edx ]
* q
<jekub!mbm> 

Hence the answer is EBX, ESI, EDI, EBP, ESP, PC and the other 4 words
are unused.   This code does not save ECX or EDX (EAX contains the
return value so there is no point in saving it).   [This is the native
libc not the BSD compatibility one.]

Note that it would be unwise to rely on this information since if it is not
specified in the ABI then the details could be changed and any program that
assumed a particular layout would break (even without recompilation if
it were dynamically linked).   There would not even be any requirement that
the layout be the same on two different vendors' implementations...

[I don't have a copy of the ABI to hand.  If it is defined in there then
obviously it is unlikely to change.  It isn't defined in the processor
independent part of the ABI, unsurprisingly.]

>Steve Hite
>shite@sinkhole.unf.edu

-Malcolm
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: av@omega.ssw.de (Andreas Vogel)
Subject: have: u386mon for SVR4
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:55:55 GMT
Organization: Omega Softlab

Hello,

I've done a really quick and dirty port of u386mon to SVR4 (Version 2.40 PL1).
For now I want to know if there is any interest in my port and
if I should make it accessable (currently I don't know where, but
I think Wietse Venema at win.tue.nl will provide some space if I'll
ask).

The current port of u386mon does not provide all features but
the most interesting things shows up.

So, did I reinvented the wheel or should shut up?

Comments are welcome,

-- 
Andreas Vogel                   Bahnhofstr. 13 / D-7300 Esslingen / Germany
				Voice:  +49-711/357613
				E-Mail: av@ssw.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: zdxh0a@trc.amoco.com (Douglas Horn)
Subject: Re: USL's SVR4.2, when?
Originator: zdxh0a@gpss53
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
Distribution: comp.unix.sysv386
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:37:27 GMT


> >At Unix Expo this week, Consensys announced that they were shipping
> >SVR4.2.  Prices ranged from $395 for a base system (OS & X11, 2 users)
> >to $1495 with development system, networking and unlimited user
> >license.

This is correct Consensys is now offering SV4.2. They will be shipping
the product in about 3 or 4 weeks. They are taking orders now. You can
call Jim Barclay at 800-388-1896 or 416-940-2900 (you might have to 
call their 416 number because their 800 number has been very busy).

-- 
/*  Douglas Horn (zdxh0a@trc.amoco.com)     (918)660-3247             

    Helpful hints:   Stop programming before it is too late.  */
From: vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Wangtek or Archive??
Date:  5 Oct 92 22:16:38 GMT

From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
>
>Writing to a DC600A (60MB) tape in a VP2150S produces QIC-120 (120MB) format.

Thanks for this tip! It's useful.

While we are on this topic, does anyone know why I can't get status on the
tape drive when using the "tape status" command. It just returns invalid
argument. It's a Viper 150/250MB drive that is SCSI based. The drive's ID is 2
and otherwise works normally. I'm using SCO Xenix 2.3.2GT.

tape: unable to do 'status' command on '/dev/rct0' : Invalid argument

I'm also unable to perform "tape reset".



Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.windows.x
From: dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror)
Subject: Re: Announcing the availability of XFree86 1.1
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 19:25:51 GMT


Is SCO Unix (3.2.2) Supported?
-- 
NAME   Oz Dror
SMAIL  dror@netcom.com
PHONE  (213) 874-7978  Fax (213) 667-6908
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: edward@locutus.dell.com (Edward Godwin)
Subject: Re: Dell 2.2, xdm, Xmach, /dev/mouse (Re: xrn broken in Dell 2.2?)
Organization: Dell Computer Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:31:39 GMT

In article <19uhv5INN6q5@zeus.dialix.oz.au>, peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm) writes:
|> eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
|> >	I just installed the release 2.2 on one of our Dell machines, and
|> >I was able to get nearly everything working.  I can start up X-Windows, and
|> >everything works fine, but xdm will not start.  I get the following in the
|> >xdm-errors file:
|>                           <snip>
|>  
|> I found this problem a while ago and reported it, but I doubt that a fix
|> is available.

A patch for this problem IS available, and has been for several weeks.
This can  be obtained by calling the Dell UNIX Support Group at the 800
number listed below.

|> 
|> My "workaround"
                                <code deleted> 
|> 
|> 
|> >-Eric
|> 
|> >--
|> >Eric Youngdale
|> >eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
|> -- 
|> Peter Wemm : peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au

-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
Edward Godwin                                     Dell Computer Corporation 
support@dell.com                                     UNIX Product Support
1-800-624-9896                                        FAX (512)338-8780
_______________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: liuwu@acuson.com (Wu Liu)
Subject: Re: Wangtek or Archive??
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:51:35 GMT

>vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason) writes:
>>Maybe you or someone can answer a question for me. I recently bought a 150MB
>>Archive Viper SCSI tape drive, along with a 3M 250MB tape to start off. Inside
>>the tape package was a note stating that using 250MB tapes with some 150MB
>>drives can cause problems down the line. I bought this drive used, and
>>although I don't know how old it is, it seems to work very well. Is this
>>something I need to worry about?

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) replies:
>We have an Archive 2150S here and use a combination of 60/150/250
>meg tapes here without any problems

I've been told (but haven't verified one way or the other) that DC6250
tapes cause wear patterns on the head that aren't the same as those
induced by DC6150s.  It's recommended that you stick primarily with
one type of tape or the other, rather than mixing the use of both.
Take this with as many grains of salt as necessary... :-)
-- 
Wu Liu                          Software Engineer, User Interface Group
liuwu@acuson.COM                Acuson
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: root@kilowatt.uucp (Kilowatt admin)
Subject: X11R5 and Diamond SpeedSTAR PLUS
Organization: Kilowatt Computing
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:08:14 GMT


Hello...
	I've just had a strange thing happen. I got X11R5 to use 1024x768i
on a Diamond SpeedSTAR PLUS - one of the new ones using the SpeedSTAR 24
PCBoard, so I think this might work with a 24 also!
	I boot DOS and run VMODE - Diamond's mode/monitor setter. If I set
the monitor to 8514 (I haven't tried this yet with other configs - and don't
know if it would produce any different results anyway), run CSHOW and display
a GIF at 1024x768 and then reboot. When UNIX comes up, I run xinit and
lo and behold the server actually finds the 45Hz value! Along with the other
two 25, and 28, that are basically hardwired into the server.
	I will find out other particulars as to why this works, and how I can
get it to be duplicated. I'll fill you all in when I get anything.
-- 
Kilowatt Computing					Arthur A. Krewat
51 Winnecomac Ave.				yale.edu!admiral!kilowat!krewat
Deer Park, NY 11729					(516) 586-4743
(516) 253-2805						Consensys SVR4
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
From: bent@openage.openage.com (Ben Taylor)
Subject: Strange NFS problem on ISC Unix 3.0
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 13:32:14 GMT
Summary: Only a 1K buffer size works now?
Keywords: NFS Automount Buffer

Well, this is definitely one of the stranger problems I've seen in a while.
Short and sweet - I have a thin-net (RJ-58) network with 2 repeaters, to
handle the office of 20 people.  There is a novell server serving about 10
people, and then our Unix gear.  This consists of a 3B2/600G, a
RISC 3B2/600GR, and a couple of 386's running Interactive 3.0.  We have a
machine which is the server with a 330MB Drive, 16 megs of ram, and is
using a Racal NI6510.  The client machine is a 386/33 with a 130 MB drive,
8 megs of ram and a 3COM 3C503.  Here's the problem.  We had NFS's mounted
/usr/bin/X11, /usr/lib/X11, /usr/catman, and a few other things.  Worked
like a champ, then something happened.  We started getting timeouts from
the server....  Weird stuff.  Well, a little fooling around and I got the
NFS mounts working, but using a 1K buffer size.  We set up a spare 386/20
with a 300Mb drive and it did not have this problem?  Anybody got any
ideas on what could be the problem here?

As a sideline, I'd like to hear from people using an EISA platform for
Interactive Unix 3.0, especailly which network card's you're using...
We've had a machine in house that refuses to work properly...

Ben Taylor
Senior Systems Analyst
Andrulis Research Corporation
bent@openage.com
 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Unix "Lite" is not so light
Date: 3 Oct 1992 02:07:03 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:

>How about ability to exist on an inexpensive MS-DOS peer-to-peer network
>like LAN-tastic or Novell-Lite? I am still looking for a viable alternative
>to Netware 3.x for small work-groups that need to have a "real" computer

How about the PC NFS client options like Sun's PC-NFS.
They let you network your PCs via a Unix "real computer".

There are roughly a dozen products like it in the market right
now :-)  I know of Beame and Whiteside and FTP Software.  There
are several others.

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: edb1@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (edward.benyukhis)
Subject: Re: Destiny vs ODT vs Dell vs ESIX
Keywords: Destiny ODT SCO Dell ESIX
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:04:35 GMT

In article <BvEKyv.LJ4@portal.hq.videocart.com> kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
>In article <philipr.717832924@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades) writes:
>>I read with interest the toing and froing about the pros and 
>>cons of Dell UNIX vs ESIX. We use ODT V1.1 ourselves but I find
>>that I sympathised with comments from supporters of both of the
>>other versions.
>>
>>The question is: If Destiny retails for about US$300 will it not
>>undercut a lot of the debate about bundling/unbundling? I have 
>
>I saw Destiny at Xhibition.
>
>I tried:
>
>cc -s -o test test.c
>
>cc: not found
>
>Does that answer your question?
>
>--
>Karl Denninger 		Inet:  kdenning@hq.videocart.com
>VideOcart Inc.		Voice: (312) 987-5022




I do not know what the pricing structure is going to be like or how it
will be bundled, but I do run an evaluating copy of USL's Destiny
right this minute and the one I have came with ALL utilities, X-win,
Desktop Manager (motif and Open look), the "C" development system,
networking, admin, security and many many more.  Also, Locust
Computing DOS-merge is a real winner on this system.  Works fast enough
on a 486-33 with 16 MB of RAM to be able to enjoy it.


Regards,


Edward Benyukhis
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman)
Subject: Re: Unix "Lite" is not so light
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:41:46 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

In article <2979@news.cerf.net> jde@esix.everex.com (Jeff Ellis) writes:
...
>I am testing SVR4.2 right now and it has all of the features of 4.0.4.
>It has a new version of C and a graphic Debugger to run from the desktop.
>It supports CD filesystems, Token Ring, X11R5,.....
>
>BTW What features are important for you people to buy 4.2? 

    ability to run off-the-shelf DOS/WIN3.1 applications

    price




-- 
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Disclaimer: all opinions are mine.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: Buying SVR4, which one?
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:04:36 GMT

In article <n0aa2t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Rick.Ellis@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>On <Sep 19 11:41> William L. Ricker writes:
>
> WLR> I've contacted ESIC, SCO, and Interactive (SunSoft).  Both SCO and
> WLR> SunSoft don't seem to offer SVR4 products.  I could have sworn though,
> WLR> that before Interactive became SunSoft, that they offered a R4 version.
>
>They did.  We bought and now don't have any support.

Actually, SunSoft will be offering free Solaris 2.0 to those who 
purchased the V4 product, and, by this time may have announced a free
Interactive OS as well. Check with SunSoft at 1-800-346-7111.

-- 
Ed Whittemore   uunet!maxed!ed   ed@maxed.amg.com
American Micro Group, Inc.   201-944-3293
From: mjh@cs.vu.nl (Huisjes MJ)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SLIP/PPP on Interactive 386/ix.
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:44:27 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam

zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik) writes:

} As quoted from <1992Sep28.230339.16737@enea.se> by mla@enea.se (Mats L|fstr|m):

} +---------------
} > 
} > A customer of mine is thinking of using SLIP to connect their
} > 486-based 386/ix (release 2.2(?)) machines to remote networks.
} > However, SLIP doesn't that good a reputation among the network people
} > the customer has talked to.
} > 
} > Therefor I ask you, is the SLIP implementation shiped with 386/ix
} > trustworthy?
} > 

} If it is ISC2.X answer is NO!. Get upgrade to 3.0 or 3.01, and
} then start using SL/IP. It will save you lotsa of hairs.... 

[ Stuff deleted ]

No, It has to do with the version number of the TCP/IP software. If
you have version 1.2, update to 1.3. We have used SL/IP connections
on both ISC ver 2.2 and 3.0 . Getting it to work with the supplied
documentation is not so easy. We have one computer configured as
bridge between 3 networks, which means it has to SL/IP connections
to two other computers (also running ISC) connected by leased telephone
lines. Once up and running it's not all you hoped for. For one performance
is lousy. An other problem is that it is not reliable. No matter what
kind of connection you have (rlogin, rcp , ftp) there is a chance the
connection will 'hang'. In short I'd say : Not usable in a commercial
environment.

-- 
Maarten Huisjes.	mjh@cs.vu.nl (192.31.231.42)
			(..!uunet.uu.net!cs.vu.nl!mjh)