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by system＠TMESIS.COM

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes: >Well, if I wanted then, even easier is to just set a version limit on=20 >the files. :-) Both your solution (version limits) and the periodic batch job purge will not stop the unnecessary log file I/O, and both add to disk I/O and file system activity. If this is a known problem with V5.1 and it's fixed in V5.3, I'd suggest that you obtain that patch/version/eco and install it. I, personally, loathe solutions to problems that elicit other problems or increase resource loads. FYI, eventually, your version limit solution will require intervention as you inevitably crash and burn when you hit ;32,767. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

10 years, 4 months

VMS question

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes: >On 2015-08-10 15:23, Johnny Billquist wrote: >> On 2015-08-10 15:18, Dave McGuire wrote: >>> Where the TCP/IP logs go depends on which TCP/IP implementation you're >>> running. Many system logs go to SYSTEM's home directory, >>> sys$sysroot:[sysgmgr]. If you do a "purge *.log" there, that's a quick >>> way to free up some space in an emergency. You're losing log data that >>> way, of course, so it's a last resort, but it could get you up and >>> running. >> >> The standard TCPIP from DEC. I forgot to say that it's running OVMS 7.3. >> >> $ tcpip >> TCPIP> sho ver >> >> Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS VAX Version V5.1 >> on a VAX 7000-720 running OpenVMS V7.3 >> >> TCPIP> > >Doh! I was just pointed to >https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/xNVuDTj2X-E, which >tells me that this is a known problem in V5.1 of TCPIP, which are fixed >in V5.3. Anyone knows where I could find V5.3? I've probably got it here. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

10 years, 4 months

Anyone heard from .... ?

by fcoffey＠misernet.net

Hey all: Has anyone heard from Sampsa (Laine) lately? All of my connections to him are "down" and after a good amount of time I sent him an email, and received no response, but didn't receive a bounce. Hopefully it isn't too bad a form to post this to the HECNet list, but I figured most folks here would be the likely candidates to have heard from him. Fred

10 years, 4 months

Anyone have the OpenVMS 8.3 for Alpha SPL Q3 CY2008?

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Jim Carpenter <jim at deitygraveyard.com> writes: >Does anyone here happen to have that SPL? I have it but my CD 5 >(AXPBINSEP085) has a scratch on the label side. I can only read about >the first half. ( >https://s3.amazonaws.com/jim02762/DEC/VMS/8.3/bad_SPL/AXPBINSEP085_short.img >) > >Of course a newer SPL would work too. ;) I'd like to use OpenVMS 8.4 >but will I have problems using such an old SPL with it? I'm certain I do. Send me a private email about it, and I'll pull it out of my archives and make an image of it for you. I have to pickup my kid sister at the airport today and deliver her to my mom's house, so I wouldn't be able to do this until tomorrow. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

10 years, 4 months

Anyone have the OpenVMS 8.3 for Alpha SPL Q3 CY2008?

by jim＠deitygraveyard.com

Does anyone here happen to have that SPL? I have it but my CD 5 (AXPBINSEP085) has a scratch on the label side. I can only read about the first half. ( https://s3.amazonaws.com/jim02762/DEC/VMS/8.3/bad_SPL/AXPBINSEP085_short.img ) Of course a newer SPL would work too. ;) I'd like to use OpenVMS 8.4 but will I have problems using such an old SPL with it? Jim

10 years, 4 months

RSX question

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hey folks. Can anyone tell me offhand how to map the I/O page into a task's address space under RSX-11M in Macro-11? Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

10 years, 4 months

SG1

by drb＠msu.edu

Seems like our link to SG1 has been down for weeks. I don't recall seeing anything on list. Anybody know what's up? Or perhaps I should ask if I need to do some local troubleshooting. :) De

10 years, 5 months

old problem with 11/34 solved

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hey folks. Remember when I was losing my mind trying to get my PDP-11/34 up and running RSX-11M just before VCF-East in April, and it kept crashing during sysgen? Well...it turns out that my FP11-A board was flaky. It failed some of its tests in XXDP. Then I ran some XXDP tests on the processor itself, and it failed in a couple of places in the MMU tests. That explains why it ran RT11 just fine, but not a more demanding-on-the-MMU OS like RSX. So I replaced the FP11-A with one that passes its tests (no time to troubleshoot it right now, and I have a few spares) and was about to start working on the CPU, when I decided to re-run the MMU tests. Now the MMU checks out fine. I put the originally flaky FP11-A board back, and the MMU tests fail again...so somehow this FP11-A is wreaking havoc with the MMU. So now the machine is about midway through phase II of sysgen, running great, and seems to be rock solid. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

10 years, 5 months

STSC APL*PLUS System for VAX VMS User's & Reference Manual

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Kind reader I have two manuals labelled STSC APL*PLUS System for VAX VMS: User's Manual and Reference Manual which were sent to me a number of years ago as paper copies - I now have the ability to easily scan these into PDF format. Would these be of interest to anyone? There is a PC version archived here http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/apl_archives/apl/apl-plus/ that might benefit from the additional documentation. I've contacted Lee about this. I am interested if anyone has any history of this software (there are some general references out there about the STSC Mainframe and later PC versions) - and indeed if the software survived at all. Was VAX/VMS APL based on this version? Regards, Mark.

10 years, 5 months

RSX question

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hey folks, can anyone here (Johnny maybe?) tell me if there's a programmatic way to tell if a PDP-11/70 has an FP11-C installed, from within RSX11M-Plus? Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

10 years, 5 months

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