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DECNet Issue - moving the system disk between two VMS boxes

by bqt＠softjar.se

Mark Wickens wrote: OK, So in time honoured tradition I solved the problem pretty much by asking the question. I did a NETCONFIG and a reboot and all is fine again. That said, what you needed to fix was basically just the line and circuit configs. In NCP: SHOW KNOWN LINES SHOW KNOWN CIRCUITS You should see configured something that you don't have, and I think you should also see what you do have, which have not been configured. It's not that tricky to change the configuration parameters yourself. Actually, there is very little you need to do. You basically needs to set the state of the line to running, and the same for the circuit. Then it should work. Put that in the permanent database, so it works right at boot time. Might be that there is one or two parameters on the circuit that you might want to fiddle with, but that would be pretty obvious from just starting to fool around. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

14 years, 6 months

DECNet Issue - moving the system disk between two VMS boxes

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

OK, So in time honoured tradition I solved the problem pretty much by asking the question. I did a NETCONFIG and a reboot and all is fine again. Regards, Mark.

14 years, 6 months

DECNet Issue - moving the system disk between two VMS boxes

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Hi all, The list has been very quiet lately! I've got a problem which hopefully someone can give me some clues on. I think it's due to the fact that I've swapped a system disk between a VAXstation 4000/60 and a VAXstation 4000/90 - and as a result the decnet configuration is not valid. It looks like this is because the network device name is different: $ start/network decnet %SYSGEN-E-NOUNLOAD, driver is not unloadable %SYSGEN-F-DEVACTIVE, device is active %RUN-F-CREPRC, process creation failed -SYSTEM-F-DUPLNAM, duplicate name %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of MOM$SYSTEM has been superseded %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of MOM$SYSTEM_NOSOFTID has been superseded %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of MOM$SYSTEM_SOFTID has been superseded %NCP-W-UNRCMP, Unrecognized component , Line Line = SVA-0 %SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHDEV, no such device available %NCP-W-UNRCMP, Unrecognized component , Circuit Circuit = SVA-0 %NCP-I-NOINFO, No information in database %RUN-F-CREPRC, process creation failed -SYSTEM-F-DUPLNAM, duplicate name Can someone give me some clues as where to look. Cheers, Mark.

14 years, 6 months

CHIMPY / CHIMP swap and update

by sampsa＠mac.com

Gentlemen, I have moved CHIMPY onto the hardware (Alphaserver 4100) that used to run CHIMP - which will eventually be brought up on my other Alphaserver (a mere 800). This means that my main system now has the chunkiest Alpha hardware in my setup, CHIMPY was of course initially installed in an 800 as I simply couldn't use my 4100 in the tiny apartments I lived in at the time. Sampsa

14 years, 7 months

MONK RIP

by jeep＠scshome.net

Zane, What you know as STRGTE:: is actually a P3, 667Mhz running NetBSD 4.0. It is running Johnny's HECnet bridge, Postfix, BIND, ntp (as a server), and SIMH. The SIMH is of course emulating a VAXstation 3900, with 64MB memory, (8) RA90's, (2) RR40's, and (4) terminals (via telnet). The system is also running Multinet. The system is set up to make all of HECnet available from the outside (for mail anyway) under a single domain (declab.net) - more info about this coming shortly. It is actually quite fast! Oh, and btw this is all done with only 128MB of physical memory. Surely a Linux system should be able to run a SIMH instance. You are more than welcome to login and try it out for yourself. Just let me know, and I will create an account for you to play around with. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine Sent: Tue 3/9/2010 10:46 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] MONK RIP I think Steve Davidson is running SIMH on some pretty old hardware, I think a P3 might be able to pull it off. It won't be blazingly fast of course... Sampsa On 9 Mar 2010, at 15:44, Zane H. Healy wrote: The UNIX box that is still running is a Pentium III that is close to 10 years old, and honestly probably on its last legs. I don't think it could handle a VAX instance. I've considered this, and if I do it, it will be using a new Intel Atom board, but I have my doubts on the ability of that class board to handle the load of a SIMH instance. Zane At 9:49 AM +0000 3/9/10, Sampsa Laine wrote: You could always get a SIMH VAX instance running on the UNIX box... Sampsa On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:39, Zane H. Healy wrote: At some point over the past few days MONK lost his power supply. Additionally I wasn't sure what the state of PDXVAX was, as MONK was my primary method of access, and the console wasn't responding so I pulled the plug on PDXVAX and powered off both systems drive arrays. While I have to try to bring MONK back up at some point to recover data (thankfully I have a second XP1000), I don't think I'll be leaving it running 24x7 anymore. I was already thinking about shutting down my servers to save power. Right now my UNIX server is the only one still running, and I'm preparing to copy the data off, and redirect my DNS back to my .Mac account like I had it last Winter while we were house- hunting. I really don't have time to keep my own servers running anymore. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

14 years, 8 months

MONK RIP

by neozeed＠gmail.com

If the idle or throttle work right sure... Otherwise.. yeah it'd kill the poor thing. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: The UNIX box that is still running is a Pentium III that is close to 10 years old, and honestly probably on its last legs. I don't think it could handle a VAX instance. I've considered this, and if I do it, it will be using a new Intel Atom board, but I have my doubts on the ability of that class board to handle the load of a SIMH instance. Zane At 9:49 AM +0000 3/9/10, Sampsa Laine wrote: You could always get a SIMH VAX instance running on the UNIX box... Sampsa On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:39, Zane H. Healy wrote: At some point over the past few days MONK lost his power supply. Additionally I wasn't sure what the state of PDXVAX was, as MONK was my primary method of access, and the console wasn't responding so I pulled the plug on PDXVAX and powered off both systems drive arrays. While I have to try to bring MONK back up at some point to recover data (thankfully I have a second XP1000), I don't think I'll be leaving it running 24x7 anymore. I was already thinking about shutting down my servers to save power. Right now my UNIX server is the only one still running, and I'm preparing to copy the data off, and redirect my DNS back to my .Mac account like I had it last Winter while we were house-hunting. I really don't have time to keep my own servers running anymore. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

14 years, 8 months

MONK RIP

by sampsa＠mac.com

I think Steve Davidson is running SIMH on some pretty old hardware, I think a P3 might be able to pull it off. It won't be blazingly fast of course... Sampsa On 9 Mar 2010, at 15:44, Zane H. Healy wrote: The UNIX box that is still running is a Pentium III that is close to 10 years old, and honestly probably on its last legs. I don't think it could handle a VAX instance. I've considered this, and if I do it, it will be using a new Intel Atom board, but I have my doubts on the ability of that class board to handle the load of a SIMH instance. Zane At 9:49 AM +0000 3/9/10, Sampsa Laine wrote: You could always get a SIMH VAX instance running on the UNIX box... Sampsa On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:39, Zane H. Healy wrote: At some point over the past few days MONK lost his power supply. Additionally I wasn't sure what the state of PDXVAX was, as MONK was my primary method of access, and the console wasn't responding so I pulled the plug on PDXVAX and powered off both systems drive arrays. While I have to try to bring MONK back up at some point to recover data (thankfully I have a second XP1000), I don't think I'll be leaving it running 24x7 anymore. I was already thinking about shutting down my servers to save power. Right now my UNIX server is the only one still running, and I'm preparing to copy the data off, and redirect my DNS back to my .Mac account like I had it last Winter while we were house-hunting. I really don't have time to keep my own servers running anymore. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

14 years, 8 months

MONK RIP

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

The UNIX box that is still running is a Pentium III that is close to 10 years old, and honestly probably on its last legs. I don't think it could handle a VAX instance. I've considered this, and if I do it, it will be using a new Intel Atom board, but I have my doubts on the ability of that class board to handle the load of a SIMH instance. Zane At 9:49 AM +0000 3/9/10, Sampsa Laine wrote: You could always get a SIMH VAX instance running on the UNIX box... Sampsa On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:39, Zane H. Healy wrote: At some point over the past few days MONK lost his power supply. Additionally I wasn't sure what the state of PDXVAX was, as MONK was my primary method of access, and the console wasn't responding so I pulled the plug on PDXVAX and powered off both systems drive arrays. While I have to try to bring MONK back up at some point to recover data (thankfully I have a second XP1000), I don't think I'll be leaving it running 24x7 anymore. I was already thinking about shutting down my servers to save power. Right now my UNIX server is the only one still running, and I'm preparing to copy the data off, and redirect my DNS back to my .Mac account like I had it last Winter while we were house-hunting. I really don't have time to keep my own servers running anymore. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

14 years, 8 months

MONK RIP

by sampsa＠mac.com

You could always get a SIMH VAX instance running on the UNIX box... Sampsa On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:39, Zane H. Healy wrote: At some point over the past few days MONK lost his power supply. Additionally I wasn't sure what the state of PDXVAX was, as MONK was my primary method of access, and the console wasn't responding so I pulled the plug on PDXVAX and powered off both systems drive arrays. While I have to try to bring MONK back up at some point to recover data (thankfully I have a second XP1000), I don't think I'll be leaving it running 24x7 anymore. I was already thinking about shutting down my servers to save power. Right now my UNIX server is the only one still running, and I'm preparing to copy the data off, and redirect my DNS back to my .Mac account like I had it last Winter while we were house-hunting. I really don't have time to keep my own servers running anymore. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

14 years, 8 months

MONK RIP

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At some point over the past few days MONK lost his power supply. Additionally I wasn't sure what the state of PDXVAX was, as MONK was my primary method of access, and the console wasn't responding so I pulled the plug on PDXVAX and powered off both systems drive arrays. While I have to try to bring MONK back up at some point to recover data (thankfully I have a second XP1000), I don't think I'll be leaving it running 24x7 anymore. I was already thinking about shutting down my servers to save power. Right now my UNIX server is the only one still running, and I'm preparing to copy the data off, and redirect my DNS back to my .Mac account like I had it last Winter while we were house-hunting. I really don't have time to keep my own servers running anymore. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

14 years, 8 months

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