1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 26 Oct 2003	Volume 2003 : Issue 594       Contents: A DCL searchable VMS HOWTO' A good DCL tool to gather FTP log data? ( CSWS_PHP V1.2 installation ... follow-up- LMF licence check has failed. Please help :-) 1 Re: LMF licence check has failed. Please help :-)  Mozilla 1.5 for OpenVMS?2 Re: OpenVMS I64 ISV application count now over 5002 Re: OpenVMS I64 ISV application count now over 500. Re: SHOW QUOTA - strange result with VMS 7.3-1. Re: SHOW QUOTA - strange result with VMS 7.3-1$ TCP/IP doc update: time zone setting< Re: Video "ringing" with PBXGA but not Mach64 or Elsa Gloria Re: VMS Text Files --> Unix ! Re: [TCPware V5.6-2] DST Change ?   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:20:56 +0100 " From: Didier Morandi <no@spam.com># Subject: A DCL searchable VMS HOWTO 4 Message-ID: <3f9b83e9$0$13293$626a54ce@news.free.fr>  H I just documented for myself the time zone change in my HOWTO directory H (actually a cut/paste of my telnet session). Then I thought it could be F interesting to know if there is such DCL searchable base available on  the net.  H I goggled "openvms howto" (because "vms howto" mainly gives pointers to > UNIX to VMS HOWTOs, which is good too :-) and found this site:  D http://www.freddym.org/index.php?inl_srf=yes&cat=howtos&page=openvms  G It may be interesting to build an internet searchable plain text files  I base (to be used with the SEARCH DCL command), if it does not exist yet,   with the following data:  ! the plain text version of the FAQ  our personal HOWTOs " Freddy's HOWTO (and others if any)' the VMS and layered products help files  the VMS doc  ...   - We could add the freeware CDs readme_1st too.  What do you think?   D.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:44:54 +0100 " From: Didier Morandi <no@spam.com>0 Subject: A good DCL tool to gather FTP log data?4 Message-ID: <3f9b8987$0$13273$626a54ce@news.free.fr>  E I'm looking for a DCL tool to gather FTP access and server activity.  
 Files are:  * SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$FTP]TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG0 SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$FTP]TCPIP$FTP_ANONYMOUS.LOG   Or I will write it.  Thanks   D.E Happiness is doing telnet on Sunday morning from your Mac at home to  * your VMS box via fixed ADSL IP address :-)  . As a bonus, here is what I found this morning:  C %TCPIP-I-FTP_NODE, client host name: ANancy-110-1-13-33.w80-11.abo. 
 wanadoo.fr' %TCPIP-I-FTP_USER, user name: anonymous  %TCPIP-I-FTP_OBJ, object: /in/E %TCPIP-I-FTP_CHINFO, TCPIP$FTPC00018: Failed to set default directory 0 %SYSTEM-W-BADIRECTORY, bad directory file formatD %TCPIP-E-FTP_NOBUF, buffer not available to read from control socket   ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:46:48 GMT - From: Mike Rechtman <michael.rechtman@hp.com> 1 Subject: CSWS_PHP V1.2 installation ... follow-up & Message-ID: <3F9BDE57.5E7F1CFB@hp.com>  - Minor nits in the new PHP Installation guide: A     1. on OpenVMS V7.3-1 requires VMS731_UPDATE or VMS731_ACRTL - E     Otherwise installation goes off OK, but Apache V1.2 won't start.  =     This should be mentioned in the "Software Prerequisites." B     2. The Installation guide refers only to a new installation. IA     installed over PHP V1.1, and obviously there was no change to D     HTTPD.CONF. On the other hand changes to PHP.INI were not saved.C     3. Typo: In PHP_CALENDAR.PHP the second occurence of "calendar"  (with G     the quotes) should be "php_calendar" (useful for Hebrew calendar in +     Unicode, if anyone needs an example...)   B     On the plus side: Many thanks for then new OpenVMS extension!!   Mike --  E --------------------------------------------------------------------- E Usual disclaimer: All opinions are mine alone, perhaps not even that. ? Mike Rechtman                            *rechtman@tzora.co.il* F Kibbutz Tzor'a.                          Voice (home): 972-2-9908337  B   "20% of a job takes 80% of the time, the rest takes another 80%"E ---------------------------------------------------------------------  -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----  Version: 3.1: GCM/CS d(-)pu s:+>:- a++ C++ U-- L-- W++ N++ K? w--- V+++$6 PS+ PE-- t 5? X- tv-- b+ DI+ D-- G e++ h--- r+++ y+++@ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------    ------------------------------    Date: 26 Oct 2003 01:12:36 -0800" From: cocacolaeisbaer@gmx.at (joe)6 Subject: LMF licence check has failed. Please help :-)= Message-ID: <d627f19f.0310260112.15ea73ec@posting.google.com>   D I am a beginner in OpenVMS and have installed the hobbyist kit on anC old but good alpha250. I installed it exactly as it is described in B the OpenVMS Hobbyist Guide - The Alpha Kit (.pdf) from openvms.orgD page. After installation the system reboots and I get to a graphicalB login where I try to login with my system account but I always get@ back following error massage box "LMF licence check has failed"./ Have I done anything wrong at the installation? ( Or what can I do to get into the system?4 I really don't know and I hope anybody can help me. 	 mfg - joe    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:47:10 +0100  From: Dirk Munk <munk@home.nl>: Subject: Re: LMF licence check has failed. Please help :-)2 Message-ID: <bngfs1$c7q$1@news4.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>  & Did you get and load the licenses from  , http://www.montagar.com/htbin/ohp_hobreg  ??  ! It seems to me you did not ......       
 joe wrote:F > I am a beginner in OpenVMS and have installed the hobbyist kit on anE > old but good alpha250. I installed it exactly as it is described in D > the OpenVMS Hobbyist Guide - The Alpha Kit (.pdf) from openvms.orgF > page. After installation the system reboots and I get to a graphicalD > login where I try to login with my system account but I always getB > back following error massage box "LMF licence check has failed".1 > Have I done anything wrong at the installation? * > Or what can I do to get into the system?6 > I really don't know and I hope anybody can help me.  > mfg - joe    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:48:02 +0100  From: "B.Eckstein" <eck@ivu.de> ! Subject: Mozilla 1.5 for OpenVMS? - Message-ID: <bngj8n$t1v$1@swifty.westend.com>   C 11 days ago, Mozilla 1.5 has been released and there is no 1.5 for  H OpenVMS. Looks overdue for me. Does anybody know about the next release?   Thanx.   --  G B.Eckstein, eck@ivu.de         Cheap, Fast, Good - pick any two of them 9 Die FAQ zu de.comp.hardware.netzwerke: http://how.to/dchn G Mozilla-Tips: http://mozilla-anleitung.de/ http://www.holgermetzger.de/   D "Auch wenn ich die Funktionsweise dieser Konsole nicht kenne, glaube# ich nicht, dass sie rauchen sollte"    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:26:26 +0100 * From: Paul Sture <nospam@sture.homeip.net>; Subject: Re: OpenVMS I64 ISV application count now over 500 / Message-ID: <3F9B9342.FA44844@sture.homeip.net>    Fred Kleinsorge wrote: > 7 > "Bill Todd" <billtodd@metrocast.net> wrote in message . > news:ididnaDGBNE7owiiU-KYgg@metrocast.net... > > M > > Of course, exactly how you determined that people of like mind constitute M > > only 0.3% of c.o.v.'s readership is somewhat questionable (sort of like a  > > lot of HP's PR). > >  > M > Frankly, it's because I get a stream of complaints via email about you, and N > a stream of emails agreeing with me.  None of the writers hacve any interest; > in writing in this forum to be cut up by your poison pen.  > I > In fact, if 3-4 posters would dissapear - 95% of the true negative spin K > would be gone... leaving those who - while not always happy - want VMS to 
 > succeed.  H And if those 3-4 posters did disappear, I for one might lose the reality& check they constantly provide me with.  H Sorry, but out here at the coalface, dealing directly with end users whoG pay the bills, I need to know what is going on, good and bad, warts and  all.  G To be brutally  honest Fred, you let yourself get too emotional in your C responses, and too often it comes across as simply puerile. You are C after all a publicly visible representative of OpenVMS Engineering. > Please bear that in mind if you  decide to reply to this post.  F There are various versions of the following text out on the web, but I; think this one is pretty appropriate when you talk of folks  "disappearing":   ? "When they came for the Communists, I didn't speak up, because  A I wasn't a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't  ? speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Trade-  : Unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade-? unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak  > up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me, and by - that time there was no one left to speak up."        --  
 Paul Sture   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:57:13 -0500 : From: "VAX devotee \(yeah, I know\)" <ask.here@reply.here>; Subject: Re: OpenVMS I64 ISV application count now over 500 7 Message-ID: <61Tmb.124$Nz5.22832@news20.bellglobal.com>   J It'll be really interesting to see exactly what Mr. Harrison chooses to doL with his life once SUN finally completes its current death-spiral.  He couldL always sell his soul to EDS -- they may be the last on the planet that thinkL Solaris is worth bothering with .... Harrison doesn't have one, and EDS only! wants soul-less employees anyway.   K (btw  'dising' Mr Main places Harrison's name at the top of on my "Dumb Ass  Hall of Fame" nomination list)  K "Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy" <Andrew_No.Harrison_No@nospamn.sun.com> ; wrote in message news:bnas0i$9ik$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com...  Main, Kerry wrote:6 >>>Nobody here, aside from Andrew, is negative on VMS.B >>>Everyone here, aside from Andrew, wants VMS to thrive and grow. >>> >>I have no views either way, OpenVMS's presence in the market? >>is currently so tiny that if it were to double it would still  >>be almost invisible. >>' >>OpenVMS inspired BS is another thing.  >>	 >>regards  >>Andrew Harrison  >> >  >  > ROTFL ...  >  > Andrew, Andrew ... > A > Hey, like anyone, you are certainly free to participate here in  > comp.os.vms, but - > C > If OpenVMS worries Sun and you so little, if, as recent newsgroup E > posting analysis by a few readers here is correct, why do you spend J > approx 80%+ of your online posting time in comp.os.vms and not somewhereF > that would be much more to your liking i.e. in Solaris, UNIX or even > architecture newsgroups? >   : Because with the exception of some of the more rabid Linux= newsgroups comp.os.vms contains one of the biggest collection = of BS merchants and as you also know you figure pretty highly  in that collection.     @ > I'll bet you do not see many AIX or OpenVMS posters on SolarisI > newsgroups playing moderator to "correct" the Solaris fud and marketing * > that would inevitablely come up there... >   F No but thats mainly because people on the Solaris/AIX newsgroups don'tG spend most of their time as you Rob, Keith, Fred etc do fudding another G vendor in an apparent attempt to hide the obvious deficiencies of their  platform/vendor.   Regards  Andrew Harrison    ------------------------------  + Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:10:23 +0000 (UTC) 7 From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) 7 Subject: Re: SHOW QUOTA - strange result with VMS 7.3-1 ( Message-ID: <bngo4v$7o5$1@pcls4.std.com>  < Does it display correctly after a $ SET VOL/REBUILD command?     --   -Mike    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:58:05 +0100 $ From: Michael Unger <unger@decus.de>7 Subject: Re: SHOW QUOTA - strange result with VMS 7.3-1 : Message-ID: <bngvhh$1102gq$1@ID-152801.news.uni-berlin.de>  - On 2003-10-26 16:10, "Michael Moroney" wrote:   > > Does it display correctly after a $ SET VOL/REBUILD command?  H I don't know -- I'm just a "standard" user, i.e., only having NETMBX andF TMPMBX privileges; "SET VOLUME" requires control access to the volume.  G PS: At one time I even managed to see "0 blocks used"; should have been  about 1200 blocks.   Michael    --  ; Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. @ Please do *not* send "Security Patch Notifications" or "SecurityA Updates"; this system isn't running a Micro$oft operating system. = And don't annoy me <mailto:postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> please ;-)    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:49:58 +0100 " From: Didier Morandi <no@spam.com>- Subject: TCP/IP doc update: time zone setting ' Message-ID: <3F9B7CA6.2030009@spam.com>   ! The TCP/IP doc should be updated. - I copied openvmsdoc@hp.com with this message.   - Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Management F http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6526/6526pro_023.html#tz_offsets  % 12.5 Operating with Time Zone Offsets   A The operating system's installation procedure provides a command  I procedure that defines a time zone differential (offset) logical name in  C the system logical name table (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE). The procedure is  7 SYS$EXAMPLES:DAYLIGHT_SAVINGS.COM. The logical name is   SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL.  @ To change the time zone differential offset, follow these steps:  3 1.	Make sure the following logical name is defined:    SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL   H This logical name is defined automatically when you install the OpenVMS  operating system.   B 2.	Run the command procedure SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]UTC$CONFIGURE_TDF. ../..   ' DTL02> sh log SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL ;     "SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL" = "7200" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE) , DTL02> @SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]UTC$CONFIGURE_TDF  K        ********************************************************************   I        The procedure SYS$MANAGER:UTC$CONFIGURE_TDF.COM is being executed.   D        This procedure is obsolete and does not produce fully correctA        results in all cases.  To setup all time zone information, ,        please execute the following command:  ,            $ @SYS$MANAGER:UTC$TIME_SETUP.COM  ( %NONAME-E-NOMSG, Message number 00000002   fyi.   D.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:46:01 +0800 , From: Paul Repacholi <prep@prep.synonet.com>E Subject: Re: Video "ringing" with PBXGA but not Mach64 or Elsa Gloria - Message-ID: <87r8100zpi.fsf@prep.synonet.com>   5 Alan Frisbie <Usenet01REMOVE@Flying-Disk.com> writes:   E > Since I did not see this problem on another Alpha with an ATI video E > card, I tried switching to an ATI Mach64 video card and the problem C > went away completely!  Just to complete the test, I also tried an ? > Elsa Gloria Synergy II card and it also worked perfectly.  No C > ringing, even with a cheap cable or going through the KVM switch.   C > What is it about the PBXGA/ZLXp-E2 card that causes this ringing, / > that is not present with the other two cards?   H Very fast edges on the video signals, ie, higher bandwidth video output.F The higher frequencies are more sensitive to impedance mismatches fromG the cables or the DC15 connector. USe a card that cant generate as high D frequencies in the video, and ot will not be as dificult to keep the edges clean.   --  < Paul Repacholi                               1 Crescent Rd.,7 +61 (08) 9257-1001                           Kalamunda. @                                              West Australia 6076* comp.os.vms,- The Older, Grumpier Slashdot. Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.F EPIC, The Architecture of the future, always has been, always will be.   ------------------------------   Date: 26 Oct 2003 10:01:05 GMT2 From: "Dave Weatherall" <djw-nothere@nospam.nohow>$ Subject: Re: VMS Text Files --> Unix5 Message-ID: <DTiotGxQ0bj6-pn2-B9nT5OjdH87P@localhost>   @ On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:30:02 UTC, jjnojack@yahoo.com (JJ) wrote:  	 > Hi All,  > G > I have about 25 gig worth of data that I need to put on a tape from a C > vms system that is readable and useable on an unix system. I have F > tried vmstar and it doesn't write to the tape. The version of VMSTARH > is 3-4.1. VMSTAR will let me however make a huge tar ball on the disk.E > Once I have all the files in a large tarball on the disk, how can I H > transfer it to a dlt device, so that it can be read on an unix system? > " > Any help is greatly appreciated. >  > JJ  @ If this 'text' _is_ text then maybe ZIP might help overcome the B problem of converting RMS counted string records to LF terminated F records. This is in addition to making the voume smaller and making itF a binary transfer from VMS to Unix. Of course, you'd need a compatible UNZIP on your Unix system.   --   Cheers - Dave.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:54:03 +0100 $ From: Michael Unger <unger@decus.de>* Subject: Re: [TCPware V5.6-2] DST Change ?: Message-ID: <bng2nr$10gjuc$1@ID-152801.news.uni-berlin.de>  7 On 2003-10-26 02:17, "Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER" wrote:    > [...]  > L > Sad thing is, that the change should happen in Europe at 3am (back to 2am)C > and not as (I suspect) in US (and UK, EIRE) at 2am (back to 1am).  >  > [...]  >  > should be of course  > f > Rule    M-Eur    1996     DST       1:00  Last Sunday  March 2:00         Last Sunday  October  3:00f > Rule    M-Eur    1981     DST       1:00  Last Sunday  March 2:00         Last Sunday September 3:00f > Rule    M-Eur    1970     DST       1:00  Last Sunday  March 2:00         Last Sunday September 3:00 >  > [...]   E AFAIK the change from "standard time" to "daylight savings time" (and C vice versa) is generally done at the *first* opportunity which does " *not* need to change the date too.  H I.e., from ST to DST at 0:00 UTC and from DST to ST at 1:00 UTC -- which" is consistent with your statement.   Michael    --  ; Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. @ Please do *not* send "Security Patch Notifications" or "SecurityA Updates"; this system isn't running a Micro$oft operating system. = And don't annoy me <mailto:postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> please ;-)    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2003.594 ************************