1 INFO-VAX	Mon, 07 May 2001	Volume 2001 : Issue 254       Contents:) Re: Error on NFS mount:  "use /TRANSPORT"  Price drop on Alpha's again  SCSSYSTEMID + The Internet, Tru64 and other unix variants / Re: The Internet, Tru64 and other unix variants   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 06:31:44 +0200 . From: Didier Morandi <Didier.Morandi@wcxn.org>2 Subject: Re: Error on NFS mount:  "use /TRANSPORT"( Message-ID: <3AF62530.769787BE@wcxn.org>  1 1. Is it an homogeneous or heterogeneous cluster? H 2. What is the difference in terms of network between the target machine and the others? 4 3. Did you change anything recently on this machine?  > I assume you talk about TCP/IP V5  (not UCX, and all and everyO procedures starting with ucx* should be removed or at least definitely unused).   E This message comes up also when trying to create a DECwindows session H without supplying the way the network flow is to be transported (TCP/IP, UDP, DECnet,...)  G I think you have on this system an ambiguous or missing setup regarding  a TCP/IP component.   E I suggest you stop NFS, then TCP/IP, then restart TCP/IP then restart > NFS then stop TCP/IP again then restart it then come back hereD (rememeber than all TCPIP$CONFIG commands are taken in consideration only when TCP/IP is restarted).    my 2 C<BS>=    D.   "Stanley F. Quayle" wrote: > 0 > TCPIP> MOUNT DNFS0:[EMOM] NFS_EMOM DISK$EMOM -0 > /HOST=192.168.60.3  /PATH="/shares/big/emom" -% > /PROTECTION=(S:RE,O:RE,G:RE,W:RE) -  > /RETRIES=100 /ADF=CREATE > 4 > This works on every system in my cluster, but one: > @ > %TCPIP$DNFSMOUNT-E-NOTRAN, default transport is not found, use > /TRANSPORT > # > This is with UCX 5.0.  Any clues?    --  : The Worldwide Computer-based eXperts Network: www.wcxn.org   ------------------------------  $ Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:34:30 -0400, From: "islandco.com" <dbturner@islandco.com>$ Subject: Price drop on Alpha's again/ Message-ID: <tfbk5hpo7l5gfe@news.supernews.com>   0 We have just dropped prices on our Alpha systems  K If you have purchased a system within the last two weeks (from our specials 4 page) you will be eligible for a free memory upgrade    This applies only to comp.os.vms  ! Thanks all for your patronage !!!    David T    -- We sell Alpha's ! % Want to buy an Alpha or Alpha Parts ?  Go to http://www.islandco.com & Hardware for Alpha VMS, Tru64 & Linux.   Island Computers US Corporation  2700 Gregory Street  Savannah GA 31404  Tel: 912 447 6622  Fax:912 201 0096 sales@islandco.com   ------------------------------  # Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 05:50:21 GMT  From: adroso@home.com (ADR)  Subject: SCSSYSTEMID: Message-ID: <3af63659.191404361@news.jamison1.pa.home.com>  @ I'm installing V7.2 onto a VS 4000 VLC and I've never done a VMSE install before (sorry, I'm a newbie).  Anyway, I'm being prompted for E SCSSYSTEMID.  This isn't part of a cluster or anything, just a system + I'm using at home.  Can I just put in 1025?    ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 21:17:44 GMT  From: Dirk Munk <munk@home.nl>4 Subject: The Internet, Tru64 and other unix variants' Message-ID: <3AF5BF74.81A37DF8@home.nl>   5 I found this quote on http://www.netcraft.com/survey/   G -----------------------------------------------------------------------   F "AltaVista switched OS for its primary website to Linux on March 29th,H forsaking its previous owner's Compaq Tru64 (nee Digital UNIX) OS. Tru64F lost its other major reference website Amazon to Linux last September,H and prior to that Lycos switched to Windows last July. This leaves Tru64H with the Internet Movie Database, an Amazon acquisition, and the Vatican as its most prominent websites.   B Compaq itself used Tru64 from August 2000 to February 2001 for theG www.compaq.com front-end web server, but then reverted back to Windows. > www.digital.com still stands by Tru64, but simply redirects to www.compaq.com.   F The life-signs of the proprietary Unix brands, other than Solaris, areF not good in our Web Server Survey. Is the end of most proprietary Unix flavours nigh?"   G -----------------------------------------------------------------------   F I suspect Compaq's VMS renaissance was partly started because in theirE long term vision they saw the bottom would be falling out of the Unix H market. Only if someone will need the extra possibilities or reliabilityG of a high end Unix in future, he/she will opt for something like Tru64. F All the others will go for the almost free Linux variant of Unix. ThisA leaves the producer of the hardware in the cold, because he can't H develop new hardware and get the costs partly repaid by selling the O.S.E Instead he has to develop Linux stuff for his beautiful new hardware,  and give it away for free.  G Since there is no free variant of VMS, this part of the market is quite F save as long as Compaq can convince existing customers no to change toH Unix/Linux, and get new customers of course. The only thing they have toH for this is to make VMS so good, rich in features, scalable and cheap inG running costs that a well calculating customer will opt for VMS instead  of Unix/Linux.   ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 01:05:34 +0200 ) From: Christof Brass <brass@infopuls.com> 8 Subject: Re: The Internet, Tru64 and other unix variants, Message-ID: <3AF5D8BE.B8063AE5@infopuls.com>   Dirk Munk wrote:   [SNIP]  H > I suspect Compaq's VMS renaissance was partly started because in theirG > long term vision they saw the bottom would be falling out of the Unix J > market. Only if someone will need the extra possibilities or reliabilityI > of a high end Unix in future, he/she will opt for something like Tru64. H > All the others will go for the almost free Linux variant of Unix. ThisC > leaves the producer of the hardware in the cold, because he can't J > develop new hardware and get the costs partly repaid by selling the O.S.G > Instead he has to develop Linux stuff for his beautiful new hardware,  > and give it away for free. > I > Since there is no free variant of VMS, this part of the market is quite H > save as long as Compaq can convince existing customers no to change toJ > Unix/Linux, and get new customers of course. The only thing they have toJ > for this is to make VMS so good, rich in features, scalable and cheap inI > running costs that a well calculating customer will opt for VMS instead  > of Unix/Linux.  	 Brillant. > And not to mix UNIX features into VMS because this would offer? the pure VMS apps to step by step be re-written to be more UNIX 6 like and to end up on UNIX finally. Moreover will this< UNIXication of VMS introduce subtle and heavy problems which will raise the platform costs.5 Branding is the art to remain sufficiently different.  Nobody needs another UNIX.   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2001.254 ************************