Hi,
I sent a message a while back to the 'responsible person' (as stated in the HECnet webpage) but have not received a response so I thought I'd try the list.
Having recently rediscovered the delights of VMS(7.3 VAX architecture), the hobbyist programme and SIMH, etc. etc. I'd like to link into HECnet. Any help appreciated. I can do DDCMP-DMC (over UDP or TCP) or use the SIMH4.x built-in bridge.
Regards,
Keith
Who registered hecnet.org? Anyone around here?
Would you like us to do something with it?
Johnny
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here's a quick hack. Run this detached from a privileged account, and
telnet to port 1234 will cause an immediate halt.
I actually did not run this from a system account; tested that I did get
a %SYSTEM-F-NOPRIV from a regular account.
Possibilities are endless; you might want to listen to private IPs only :)
EXE is at QCOCAL::REMOTE-SHUTDOWN-LISTENER.ZIP or
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kg1vs8zsf2jqn48/remote-shutdown-listener.zip?dl=0
:)
On 6/10/2018 18:20, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
> On 6/10/2018 16:00, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>> I'm not sure if the HECnet list is the best place to ask this, but hopefully it's not too far off topic.
>>
>> Let's say that I want to run a full-time SIMH emulation of a VAX running VMS (because I do). This would be my full-time DECnet presence on my local network, my primary means of moving things between my DECnet-speaking computers and my modern machines, and my full-time HECnet presence if I ever find a good way to have persistent internet access at my rural home. The SIMH emulation would be hosted on a Linux server.
>>
>> It's easy enough to set up the host server to automatically launch a SIMH emulation at boot time, but I don't know yet how to deal with automatically and cleanly shutting down the emulation when the host server needs to shut down. In particular, I'd want to somehow trigger an orderly VMS shutdown when the host server needs to perform an unattended shutdown, such as when the UPS signals a power failure. If there's a way to checkpoint the entire emulation and then restore it later, that might also be a good option, as long as I can prevent corrupting the emulated system's filesystems by suddenly yanking the virtual power plug.
>>
>> Is there any prior art for setting up an unattended SIMH-based VAX/VMS emulation like this?
>>
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I'm not sure if the HECnet list is the best place to ask this, but hopefully it's not too far off topic.
Let's say that I want to run a full-time SIMH emulation of a VAX running VMS (because I do). This would be my full-time DECnet presence on my local network, my primary means of moving things between my DECnet-speaking computers and my modern machines, and my full-time HECnet presence if I ever find a good way to have persistent internet access at my rural home. The SIMH emulation would be hosted on a Linux server.
It's easy enough to set up the host server to automatically launch a SIMH emulation at boot time, but I don't know yet how to deal with automatically and cleanly shutting down the emulation when the host server needs to shut down. In particular, I'd want to somehow trigger an orderly VMS shutdown when the host server needs to perform an unattended shutdown, such as when the UPS signals a power failure. If there's a way to checkpoint the entire emulation and then restore it later, that might also be a good option, as long as I can prevent corrupting the emulated system's filesystems by suddenly yanking the virtual power plug.
Is there any prior art for setting up an unattended SIMH-based VAX/VMS emulation like this?
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Can somebory try to login via Hecnet to RVDSXL
(3.47) please and report the result? There is no
GUEST account on it, as far as I know.
The machine is responding to ping, but telnet and
SSH time out.
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Regards, Rok
Hi folks. I've found something that I'm looking for listed in the
SIGTAPES.SUM file in the rsx freeware CD v2, but I can't find the actual
software anywhere. It's from the European 1984 RSX SIG Tape, Amsterdam.
Maybe I'm being dense but I can't find that stuff anywhere. The
specific software I'm looking for is called CCDRV; if you search for
that in SIGTAPES.SUM it's listed there.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
