The hecnet.eu domain is currently being transferred. When that's
complete I'd like to get the mail11 gateway configured and then I'll
start on a website. When we're all generally happy with the website, it
would be nice if it was hosted elsewhere, however, I'm keen to keep it
on a box connected to hecnet if that's possible - living the dream and
all that, and it will mean that we can provide information about the
network status directly and possibly develop some other cool
applications.
Regards, Mark.
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On 28/10/09 02:48, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 2:38 AM +0000 10/28/09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'm going to order a whole bunch of null-modem cables and wire them
into my DECserver 200 - wire up CHIMPY, CHIMPY and RHESUS through it
that way - I assume it's possible to connect from one serial port on a
DS to another?
I don't know if the DECserver 200 allows you to hook up system consoles.
I know that my 90L+ does not. :-( One problem I see is that you have to
boot the DECserver 200 via MOP if I remember correctly before you can
use it.
Yes, you can use a DS200 for consoles. I used to have one doing just that for quite a few systems.
You can mop boot it from link you know ... search for "mopd"
Chrissie
Guilty, PONDUS is usually the machine that reacts most quickly to
DECserver boot requests...
And yes, you can define a service to do that. I'm already doing it for a
few console ports.
Johnny
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Oh it already boots - no idea where from though :)
As for the system console, can't I just define the port as a LAT service (say CPYCON) and the set host/lat to it?
Sampsa
On 28 Oct 2009, at 02:48, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 2:38 AM +0000 10/28/09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'm going to order a whole bunch of null-modem cables and wire them into my DECserver 200 - wire up CHIMPY, CHIMPY and RHESUS through it that way - I assume it's possible to connect from one serial port on a DS to another?
I don't know if the DECserver 200 allows you to hook up system consoles. I know that my 90L+ does not. :-( One problem I see is that you have to boot the DECserver 200 via MOP if I remember correctly before you can use it.
Zane
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| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
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Oh it already boots - no idea where from though :)
As for the system console, can't I just define the port as a LAT service (say CPYCON) and the set host/lat to it?
Sampsa
On 28 Oct 2009, at 02:48, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 2:38 AM +0000 10/28/09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'm going to order a whole bunch of null-modem cables and wire them into my DECserver 200 - wire up CHIMPY, CHIMPY and RHESUS through it that way - I assume it's possible to connect from one serial port on a DS to another?
I don't know if the DECserver 200 allows you to hook up system consoles. I know that my 90L+ does not. :-( One problem I see is that you have to boot the DECserver 200 via MOP if I remember correctly before you can use it.
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/ |
At 2:38 AM +0000 10/28/09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I'm going to order a whole bunch of null-modem cables and wire them into my DECserver 200 - wire up CHIMPY, CHIMPY and RHESUS through it that way - I assume it's possible to connect from one serial port on a DS to another?
I don't know if the DECserver 200 allows you to hook up system consoles. I know that my 90L+ does not. :-( One problem I see is that you have to boot the DECserver 200 via MOP if I remember correctly before you can use it.
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/ |
I'm going to order a whole bunch of null-modem cables and wire them into my DECserver 200 - wire up CHIMPY, CHIMPY and RHESUS through it that way - I assume it's possible to connect from one serial port on a DS to another?
Sampsa
On 28 Oct 2009, at 02:36, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 2:19 AM +0000 10/28/09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I figured my Keyspan USB-serial adapter had finally given up the ghost so wired a null-modem between CHIMPY and RHESUS - discovered it was the idiotic ginormous-DB25-to-3xDB9-dongle-thing had fallen out of RHESUS, yet again. God that is the stupidest cable I've ever seen.
:-)
Maybe I should post a photo of what I have to do in order to connect a cable to MONK. :-) The weight means I have to have something under it to support it.
Though this morning it was that stupid VT420 that I'm currently using that was giving me fits. There is something not quite right about that particular terminal, and one of these days I'm going to have to dig up a better system console.
Zane
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| 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/ |
At 2:19 AM +0000 10/28/09, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I figured my Keyspan USB-serial adapter had finally given up the ghost so wired a null-modem between CHIMPY and RHESUS - discovered it was the idiotic ginormous-DB25-to-3xDB9-dongle-thing had fallen out of RHESUS, yet again. God that is the stupidest cable I've ever seen.
:-)
Maybe I should post a photo of what I have to do in order to connect a cable to MONK. :-) The weight means I have to have something under it to support it.
Though this morning it was that stupid VT420 that I'm currently using that was giving me fits. There is something not quite right about that particular terminal, and one of these days I'm going to have to dig up a better system console.
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/ |
Guys,
Heads up again, RHESUS is coming back online as I write this, I'd set the sysboot flags to conversational, can't recall why but oh well. This led to me needing to connect to the console on RHESUS by serial cable, which didn't work from my laptop.
I figured my Keyspan USB-serial adapter had finally given up the ghost so wired a null-modem between CHIMPY and RHESUS - discovered it was the idiotic ginormous-DB25-to-3xDB9-dongle-thing had fallen out of RHESUS, yet again. God that is the stupidest cable I've ever seen.
Sampsa
Just an FYI in case anyone noticed, PDXVAX and MONK were down for about a
half hour this morning as the electric company cut off power while they put
an electronic power meter in place. I think I got everything fully online
before I headed into work.
Zane
On 27/10/09 07:53, Christine Caulfield wrote:
On 26/10/09 22:28, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Chrissie Caulfield
<christine.caulfield at googlemail.com> wrote:
On 26 Oct 2009, at 17:34, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sampsa Laine<sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
I'll take one if you've got spares..
Sampsa
On 26 Oct 2009, at 09:11, Christine Caulfield wrote:
On 26/10/09 08:55, Mark Wickens wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys, just a heads up, had to "reboot" my whole flat - gas
boiler lost
the plot, can't reach the Reset button as it's behind about 2
metric
tons of random crap. Long story short, licked off the electrical
circuit instead - managed to knock out the whole flat. Epic. Fail.
Anyway, the rest of my machines have come up except for RHESUS,
I need
to get into my rack with a serial cable to get it up and am frankly
too hung over to deal with this right now :)
Sampsa
Sounds like the kind of day I had yesterday. The deserver 90TL
through
which my entire vax/alpha/ia64 collection have their consoles routed
has
had an intermittent problem which I attributed to a dodgy power
cable.
Yesterday I bit the bullet and replaced the cable only to have an
epic
fail myself. Not even a power light. At least when I break
decservers
they have the courtesy of giving me a power light. Anyway, my spare
decserver exhibits random and totally undesirable behaviour, so my
collection is effectively offline for the most part until I find a
replacement.
Anyone got a 90TL or 90M going spare?
I've got two 90L+ s and a 90M. I *think* they're spare. To be
honest I'm
clearing out a lot of old computers (mostly but not all DEC) so if
anyone
wants them too I'll list them here ;-)
Chrissie
Hello!
**Elbows Sampsa.**
"What he said."
Same here.
Now now boys, no pushing :-)
Sorry, but Mark asked first about the servers. I just have to find some
packaging now.
Chrissie
Hello!
Then I'll accept any seconds.
What's left is:
HP 9000/C110 (4GB & 2GB disks internal) Linux/HPUX
DEC 3000/300 (2x 1GB disks, one internal, 1 external) DEC Unix/VMS
VAXstation 3100/95 (1gb disk external) VMS
Alpha pws433au (2 4GB disks) Linux/VMS
1 single speed caddy-loading CD reader - unknown marque
1 rrd42 single speed caddy-loading CD reader.
4 CD caddys
Lots of SCSI cables (including, I think, one of those funny-sized ones
that only DEC ever used) and a video cable for the 3000/300
Oh and there's a SPARCstation Ultra5 too ...
Chrissie
