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From: chrisp@slc.com (Chris Pinkham)
Subject: choosing shared memory addresses
Organization: Servio Corp, Beaverton Oregon, US
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:40:36 GMT

Say I want to attach to a large shared memory segment, and I need it to be
aligned across some arbitrary page boundary (i.e. the starting address needs
to be a multiple of this arbitrary page size, where the page size will always
be a multiple of the OS page size). How would I go about ensuring that the
address I pick will work? I assume that arbitrarily picking an address would
be a bad idea, and may fail depending on what other data is using that address
space.

What problems would I bump into by rounding an OS nominated address up by
(address % MY_PAGE_SIZE) bytes? Is there a chance that that would screw up
something at the end of the shared memory segment (i.e. if the OS placed the
segment of size s at a, and I want it to be at a+x, how do I know whether
someone else already occupies the space at a+x+s)?

Are there any foolproof tricks out there? Am I being paranoid?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,alt.folklore.computers
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: So You Want To Be A Wizard? (A modest proposal)
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:09:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.142826.22970@vlsi.polymtl.ca> d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens) writes:
>Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@teal.csn.org) wrote:
>: marco@soda.berkeley.edu (Marco Nicosia) writes:
>: 
>: >Don't forget that it also says that you should be able to write UNIX
>: >from scratch...
>: 
>:   Hey... _I_ did.  Most of it, anyway.  Haven't you?  No smiley. See sig.
>: 
>
>The way some of the Unix code looks, reimplementing the whole thing
>is not that bad an idea, maybe I should get to it in my
>lunch break... :-). 

Actually, a lunch break isn't quite enough time for this - it takes
about a year or two to get reasonably workable.  See comp.os.linux. 

		Linus "but I had some help" Torvalds

PS.  Yes, I know a smiley when I see one, but this was just too good to
pass up...
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Dear Wiz Friends,
                  I am working with SCO UNIX on a 486 machine which has
      101 key AT compatible keyboard and very power full (SVGA) video
      monitor used in ANSI mode. I found the key board rate is very slow.

      How to increase the key board ? a rate of roughly 30 characters/second
      will be good enough.

      Any suggession please.

      Basudeb Das
      dasb@tifrvax.bitnet
From: dtb@otto (David Bath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: O Wizards, is there vi w/out shell?
Date: 4 Jan 93 13:48:36 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

>In article <67@nearside.UUCP> shwake@nearside.UUCP (Raymond Shwake) writes:
>>dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>>
>>	I like to set SHELL to /bin/echo; the only point is to invoke
>>	something innocuous.
>>
>>>This doesn't do any good. The user can still type :set shell=/bin/csh
>>>and give himself a shell whenver he wants. The SHELL environment
>>>vaiable is only used to initialize the internal vi shell variable.
>>
>>	Quite true. What I've done is binary patch the "set" string to
>>	include an embedded space (like "s x"). Seems to work.

>Try doing

>	:r !command

>chances are you find that still uses /bin/sh, regardless of your SHELL
>environment.

Listen guys, get elvis (from GNU) or xvi (from SIMTEL::msdos/editors -
a not too bad windowed vi for char terminals), and remove the offending
code, compile and use this.  Then make the REAL vi executable only by
appropriate people.

I did a similar job on kermit, removing ability to delete files, etc, etc
, etc - took a couple of hours.

This is why having sources is so damn handy ?


David T. Bath	Email:dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au	Phone:03-3477511
Global Technology Corporation, 179 Grattan St, CARLTON, VIC, 3153, AUSTRALIA
"Failure to emulate is the best revenge" - Marcus Aurelius

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
From: jeff@BofA.COM (Jeff Tate)
Subject: pstat library failure
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Distribution: ca
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 23:36:52 GMT

Oh great wizards, please tell me how to recover from this problem on SunOS 4.1.2

> pstat
ld.so: __DYNAMIC version 0 not supported

Please e-mail to my unworthy self

Thanx
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
From: groome@oxmyx.lab (J. Andrew Groome)
Subject: trouble with /etc/passwd
Reply-To: groome@oxmyx.lab
Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:12:56 GMT

 
My limited understanding of how the NIS passwd file works led me to believe
that the local passwd file would be read sequentially looking for the desired 
key until a + entry was found, at this point it would look to the NIS maps.
 
I have found that in our network, on a SPARC (slave), if it's ethernet is 
DISconected, I can't login as one of the local users, such as sync.  
Here is an example of what my /etc/passwd looks like:
 
root:XXrTa8L5oqk:0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh
sys:*:2:2::/:/bin/csh
bin:*:3:3::/bin:
sync::1:1::/:/bin/sync
+::0:0:::
 
 
Can anybody tell me why this hangs when I try to login as as one of the users
listed before the line starting with '+' ?  Is this slave trying to do some
type of NIS lookup?
 
Much thanks.

---
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From: kwia4000@wncs.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Manfred Kwiatkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Showmount Problem
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:44:54 GMT
Organization: Tech. Univ. of Berlin, Central Computing Facility
Distribution: world
Reply-To: kwiatkowski@zrz.tu-berlin.de
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In article <1993Jan7.140900.4773@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>, steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler) writes:
|> 
|> >Try deleting /etc/rmtab.
|>
|> Alas, this doesn't affect anything.

True, indeed.
|>
|> According to my Interactive Unix manual, rmtab "is used only to preserve
|> information between crashes and is read only by mountd(1M) when it starts up.
|> The mountd command keeps an in-core table, which it uses to handle requests
|> from programs like showmount(1) and shutdown(1M)."

Restarting mountd does the trick. I tried this one. :-)
No obvious side effects encountered.

--
Manfred Kwiatkowski         kwiatkowski@zrz.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
From: chiawei@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (Plankton)
Subject: Arbitrary precision math lib Wanted !
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:09:22 GMT




Hi !
 
    I am writing a scientific calculator program now.
    I need an arbitrary precision math library used by "bc".
    ( like /usr/lib/lib.b , but contains more functions )
   
    Is there anybody who can tell me where to find it ?
    
    Please send ur opinions by e-mail.

    chiawei@Uz.nthu.edu.tw
From: vw@tessa.rug.ac.be (Vincent Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: MS SMTP-gateway
Date: 5 Jan 93 08:06:50 GMT

On a beautifull day Lars Hornborg wrote to me:
>
> I've asked questions relating to the MS SMTP gateway before. This time I'd
> like to know if anybody has either
>
>
> -  knowledge of an alternative third-party product. Our current status is
>    that we feel we can't comfortably use or recommend it due to the
>    problems mentioned above. I'd very much appreciate advice about alternative
>    products for either SMTP or UUCP, but they MUST work with MS Mail.
>
>
Can you please CC me any answers to this question?

Thank's,

Vincent.


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From: pancamo@blkbox.com (Daniel Pancamo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: UNIX/X-Window Report Tool
Date: 8 Jan 93 05:34:18 GMT


   I'm in need of a report generation tool (unix based) that will
   read ASCII and/or preferably binary data. A X-Window based
   reporting tool similar to the DbaseIV report generator or RR report
   generator would great, however, even a command line tool would suffice. 
   The tool should be able to process large amounts of data. 
   (approx. 150MB) in a short period of time (< 30 min).
   If anyone knows of such a tool please drop me a note
     Thanks
         Dan

    pancamo@blkbox.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Showmount Problem
From: steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler)
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:09:00 EST
Organization: Voice Systems Branch, NASA - Kennedy Space Center


>Try deleting /etc/rmtab.

Alas, this doesn't affect anything.

According to my Interactive Unix manual, rmtab "is used only to preserve 
information between crashes and is read only by mountd(1M) when it starts up.
The mountd command keeps an in-core table, which it uses to handle requests 
from programs like showmount(1) and shutdown(1M)."

The problem appears to lie in clearing the "in-core" table. Deleteing the 
contents of /etc/rmtab has no effect.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Steve

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From: michel@vedge.com (Michel Trudeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Locking a NFS file handle
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:40:12 GMT
Organization: Visual Edge Software Ltd.


	Does anyone knows how to lock an NFS file handle ???

	lockf() and/or fcntl() allways return -1 and set errno to
	ENOLCK (46 which means 'System record lock table was full'
	when trying to lock a NFS file but works fine for local
	file.

Thanks,
Michel
From: seth@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Zippy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Termcap entry
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:42:54 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Apologies if this is an inappropriate question for this newsgroup,
but I'm out of ideas.
I have a (very) old IBM 3101-22 terminal which I would like to use to
connect to my school's computer.  Unfortunately, the closest termcap
entry I can find is for the IBM 3101-10.  This doesn't really do the
trick, since the 22 is not fully compatible with the 10 (this from IBM
themselves).  I've lost the manuals for this machine, IBM no longer
supports it, and I don't think there are any more terminals like this
on campus.

The question:  Does *ANYONE* have a termcap entry for this beast?
Please respond via e-mail to seth@gradient.cis.upenn.edu

Thanks,

Seth Bromberger

Seth Bromberger					seth@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
M.S.E. '93, University of Pennsylvania	  	seth@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
From: m.m.l.kuunders@research.ptt.nl (Martien Kuunders)
Subject: Pc-nfs mount problems.
Originator: martien@caesar
Organization: PTT Research, Dr.Neher Laboratories, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:39:58 GMT

I'm having a problem on a SUN running 4.1.3 with pcnfs users mounting a
cd-rom. If the pc's in question are turned off *without* explicitly
unmounting the cd-rom, it can not be unmounted (error: device busy). pff -a
shows no processes which have a file open on the cd-rom. showmount says that
the pcs still have the cd-rom mounted (and the mtab file says so too).
What can I do to remove the mounts (except removing the cdrom with a bent
paper-clip and rebooting :-)?

Thanks for any info,
-- 
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From: kwia4000@wncs.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Manfred Kwiatkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Showmount Problem
Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:41:04 GMT
Organization: Tech. Univ. of Berlin, Central Computing Facility
Distribution: world
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In article <1993Jan5.141928.4736@titan.ksc.nasa.gov>, steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler) writes:
|> We run a pcnfs deamon on our server to allow DOS clients to print on the 
|> server's laser printer. When the clients "link" their PCs to the server,
|> they are actually mounting to /usr/tmp and /usr/spool/lp/pcnfs. The problem 
|> occurs when the clients "unlink" their PCs. The "showmount" command still
|> shows them as mounted and I haven't found a way to clear the table. Note that
|> everything works correctly when they "link" to the server's disk drive as a
|> remote drive for their PC.
|> 
|> The server is running Interactive Unix v3.2.
|> 
|> Any ideas would be greatly apperciated.
|> 

Try editing /etc/rmtab

Hope this helps...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
From: besp@ellis.uchicago.edu (Anna Pluzhnikov)
Subject: Re: RPC, Sockets and file descriptors
Followup-To: comp.unix.programmer
Reply-To: besp@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:12:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.141906.13294@asf.com> jfm@asf.com (Jim Moore) writes:
>I am looking at using XtAppAddInput in conjunction with RPC.  I need a file
>descriptor for XtAppAddInput.  The documentation on RPC says that you can
>have your own select that waits on your own descriptors, so it must be possible
>to get the descriptor for the RPC socket.  There is a lot of documentation
>to weed through to figure out how to do it.
>
>Question:  Does anyone out there have a C code segment that gets the file
>descriptor of an RPC socket?  If so, could you be so gracious as to send it
>to me?
>
>
Sorry to post here, I am not a wizard :-(

Here are some references to check:

John Bloomer, RPC programming in X applications, 
in "The X Resource", Issue 4, O'Reilly

John Bloomer, Power programming with RPC, O'Reilly, 1992
Chapter 10: RPC Under Windowing Systems.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Showmount Problem
From: steve@vulture.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Schindler)
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:19:27 EST
Organization: Voice Systems Branch, NASA - Kennedy Space Center

We run a pcnfs deamon on our server to allow DOS clients to print on the 
server's laser printer. When the clients "link" their PCs to the server,
they are actually mounting to /usr/tmp and /usr/spool/lp/pcnfs. The problem 
occurs when the clients "unlink" their PCs. The "showmount" command still
shows them as mounted and I haven't found a way to clear the table. Note that
everything works correctly when they "link" to the server's disk drive as a
remote drive for their PC.

The server is running Interactive Unix v3.2.

Any ideas would be greatly apperciated.

Thanks,
Steve 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
From: macbeth@gdwest.gd.com (David Macy-Beckwith)
Subject: Unix Hierarchy
Organization: General Dynamics Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:47:42 GMT

Gentles -

I read a reference to the Unix Hierarchy (user, guru, y'all) some time 
back, but have never seen the Compleat Scroll.  Would someone please 
send me a copy or post same here?

Many thanks.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
From: jmbrown@netcom.com (John M. Brown)
Subject: Internet and 386BSD
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:50:03 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting 386BSD to
talk to a INTERNet provider like NetCom or BARRNET, AlterNET etc.

I am thinking of getting a dedicated INTERNet connection at home
and was wondering what I should watch-out for, besides the norm.
security...... issues

I'll post a summary,


Please send responses to jmbrown

jmbrown@netcom.com

Thanks
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: trouble with /etc/passwd
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:23:23 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1993Jan4.161256.10199@europa.asd.contel.com> groome@oxmyx.lab writes:
>I have found that in our network, on a SPARC (slave), if it's ethernet is 
>DISconected, I can't login as one of the local users, such as sync.  

When you login with NIS enabled, it also looks in the netid.byname NIS map
in order to get your groups.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: pancamo@blkbox.com (Daniel Pancamo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: (none)
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:12:41 GMT


   I'm in need of a report generation tool (unix based) that will
   read ASCII and/or preferably binary data. A X-Window based
   reporting tool similar to the DbaseIV report generator or RR report
   generator would great, however, even a command line tool would suffice. 
   The tool should be able to process large amounts of data. 
   (approx. 150MB) in a short period of time (< 30 min).
   If anyone knows of such a tool please drop me a note
     Thanks
         Dan

    pancamo@blkbox.com
From: pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Revision control by directory tree
Summary: I want all the files under the same version number.
Keywords: sccs rcs cvs directories
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:40:21 GMT
Organization: Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA

I am maintaining libraries of in-house code and I want to place the
files under revision control.  My boxes (AIX 3.[12]) only have sccs.
I have been using sccs for single-file programs, but a library source
is typically spread over many files.  I want all the files to have the
same revision number.  Sccs won't do that.  I don't have large teams of
programmers to manage;  all I need at this point is per-project
revision numbers.

According to the c.u.questions FAQ, RCS has a feature (symbolic names)
that might come close enough to what I want.  I lifted some BSD docs
from uunet but they weren't specific enough.

Surely this is a common problem.  How do you handle it?  Should I
install RCS?  Should I get CVS instead?
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