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dnprogs 2.46 for Linux released (NEW FEATURES!)

by christine.caulfield＠googlemail.com

I'm very pleased to announce the new dnprogs release. With not one, not two, but FOUR new programs - you lucky people :-) The first two were contributed by Philipp 'ph3-der-loewe' Schafft and consist of two command-line utilities: dnetstat is a version of netstat for DECnet, it reformats the /proc file output in a more user-friendly manner. dnetcat is a DECnet version of netcat, an invaluable utility for all network nerds. Philipp has offered to update the wiki to show how to use this utility to run SSH over DECnet! And finally, I have also been busy. I have done something I said I'd write years ago and that's an Network Management Listener program. Yes, finally you can go into NCP on a VMS or RSX system (yes, I tested it on RSX, thanks Johnny) and type in "TELL LINUX SHOW ADJACENT NODES". It only supports a subset of commands at the moment, but I will probably add more. It currently will do: SHOW/LIST KNOWN NODES SHOW ADJACENT NODES SHOW EXEC CHAR To make this work you'll need to add a new line to dnetd.conf - see the sample file shipped with the package for the details. There's also a client side version of that, well partly. dncopynodes allows a Linux user to pull a node list off a remote VMS or RSX system and build up a full decnet.conf file. It will fill in the current exec details too so that the file it generates can simply be copied to /etc. WARNING ... DO NOT do 'dncopynodes > /etc/decnet.conf' as it will overwrite the file before it gets a chance to use it to make the initial connection! http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4993&package_id=5032&… -- Chrissie

17 years, 7 months

Upcoming PDXVAX/MONK Outage Notice

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

It looks like I'll be going off-line next weekend, probably either the 6th or 7th. I don't know how long PDXVAX and MONK will be down. I don't even know when I'll be back back on the Internet. We just found out that we're moving yesterday and that we're to move on the 6th and 7th (we thought it was the middle of September). Worse, I'm trying to get our phone and internet access sorted out as I was told this morning that FIOS is the only option (I should be able to get DSL), which means I need a Verizon business line to continue getting the level of service I've had. That will cost over twice what I'm paying now. I suspect this is such short notice that no mater what happens I'm going to be without phone and Internet service for a while. This hasn't been a good day. 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/ |

17 years, 7 months

NOTES installed

by fcoffey＠misernet.dyndns.org

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Zane H. Healy wrote: How long has your node been online? I just updated the list of known nodes on MONK. How about trying again? Perhaps a week or two? I'll reply to my test post and see what happens ... Fred

17 years, 8 months

NOTES installed

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At 8:34 AM -0400 8/28/08, Fred wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Zane H. Healy wrote: Notes> open/nonotebook MONK::TEST It started working once I did this. I don't claim to understand. Also, I just upgraded to "HP Notes T2.6" on MONK. I'm wondering if the upgrade somehow fixed it. It did not seem to. Trust me, I did a lot of testing last night from PDXVAX. Tried the open/nonotebook monk::test - worked! Out of curiousity, I then tried to open an entry I had already added yesterday - that previously showed an error. Worked! That was the result I had from PDXVAX, except I already had all of the notes conferences under my account there. I simply had to do the open/nonotebook monk::test and then everything worked, and the /nonotebook option was no longer needed. The one thing I don't know is what would have happened if I'd used that option when talking to "DEC Notes V2.5" prior to the upgrade. I was able to successfully post into the TEST conference, although my node shows up as decimal, not the actualy node name ... :-/ How long has your node been online? I just updated the list of known nodes on MONK. How about trying again? 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/ |

17 years, 8 months

NOTES installed

by fcoffey＠misernet.dyndns.org

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Zane H. Healy wrote: Notes> open/nonotebook MONK::TEST It started working once I did this. I don't claim to understand. Also, I just upgraded to "HP Notes T2.6" on MONK. I'm wondering if the upgrade somehow fixed it. Tried the open/nonotebook monk::test - worked! Out of curiousity, I then tried to open an entry I had already added yesterday - that previously showed an error. Worked! I was able to successfully post into the TEST conference, although my node shows up as decimal, not the actualy node name ... :-/ Fred

17 years, 8 months

NOTES installed

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Fred, Try this. Notes> open/nonotebook MONK::TEST It started working once I did this. I don't claim to understand. Also, I just upgraded to "HP Notes T2.6" on MONK. 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/ |

17 years, 8 months

NOTES installed

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At 7:12 PM -0700 8/27/08, Zane H. Healy wrote: At 9:25 PM -0400 8/27/08, Fred wrote: Good evening ... Got NOTES installed. However, after adding the couple of conferences I saw at the nodes listing on avanthar:8080/nodes ... (specifically MONK::VMS for starters) trying to open that conference reveals: Notes> Login information invalid at remote node Looks like the owner of MONK doesn't have NOTES set up for "remote" or HECNet access. :( Let me take a look at it, something must be wrong. If anyone has any ideas on this, I'd love to hear them. I've been looking and have been unable to find anything. I had it working so you could read NOTES conferences from PDXVAX, but that gives the same error now. I am able to read them from MONK. I don't see any sign of any management manual either. Of course I have no idea when this last worked... 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/ |

17 years, 8 months

NOTES installed

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At 9:25 PM -0400 8/27/08, Fred wrote: Good evening ... Got NOTES installed. However, after adding the couple of conferences I saw at the nodes listing on avanthar:8080/nodes ... (specifically MONK::VMS for starters) trying to open that conference reveals: Notes> Login information invalid at remote node Looks like the owner of MONK doesn't have NOTES set up for "remote" or HECNet access. :( Let me take a look at it, something must be wrong. 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/ |

17 years, 8 months

NOTES

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At 8:20 PM -0400 8/27/08, Fred wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Bob Armstrong wrote: VAX Notes is on the OpenVMS Freeware CD V7, disk 2 - http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/freeware/ I'm not clear on whether there was ever an Alpha version of Notes... Well, since MONK is a Compaq XP1000/667 I sure hope there is an Alpha version. :^) Found individual packages from the freeware distribution (includes notes for Alpha and a field-test for Alpha and port to IA64.) http://mvb.saic.com/freeware/freewarev70/notes/ Downloading now, installing shortly. :) I believe the IA64 version is due to the OpenVMS development team using Notes. BTW, you can log into PDXVAX and use the Notes client on it. Last I checked no one has really made use of the Notes conferences on MONK other than to post a couple test messages. 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/ |

17 years, 8 months

NOTES installed

by fcoffey＠misernet.dyndns.org

Good evening ... Got NOTES installed. However, after adding the couple of conferences I saw at the nodes listing on avanthar:8080/nodes ... (specifically MONK::VMS for starters) trying to open that conference reveals: Notes> Login information invalid at remote node Looks like the owner of MONK doesn't have NOTES set up for "remote" or HECNet access. :( If nothing else I have my own private install of NOTES now so I don't look like a total idiot when I'm posting on Encompasserve ... ;) The kits from mvb.saic.com do work - I used notes026.a and had to run a "fix backup attributes" DCL routine to straighten out the file attributes, otherwise VMSINSTAL (actually BACKUP) barfed all over. Probably related to transfering it to my laptop first before FTP'ing it to MISER. That's enough beating on the Alpha for one night. :) I really should consider figuring out a way to do an /IMAGE backup on this thing soon, too ... Fred

17 years, 8 months

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