1 INFO-VAX	Sat, 30 Dec 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 719       Contents:3 Re: %MAIL-F-CODERR reading a big wastebasket folder ? Re: Accessing an Alpha running DECwindows from a Windows XP box & Re: DECterm special escape sequences ?- Re: Need help with DHCP Client & Name servers - Re: Need help with DHCP Client & Name servers  Re: PWR SWitch om XP1000  F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:28:44 +0100 / From: Paul Sture <paul.sture.nospam@hispeed.ch> < Subject: Re: %MAIL-F-CODERR reading a big wastebasket folderJ Message-ID: <paul.sture.nospam-EFC889.09284330122006@mac.sture.homeip.net>  C In article <1167430906.946856.204060@k21g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, *  "Rich Jordan" <jordan@ccs4vms.com> wrote:  F > Very large mail file (70,000+ blocks) due to purges not happening onH > the monster spam receiver account of all time.  We don't know how many/ > messages are in the wastebasket but its huge.  > B > I set file to that mail file from a priv'd account with sizeable	 > quotas.  > F > "Select wastebasket" just ran for 2 hours (on an unloaded DS15), andG > appeared to be spinning in a tight loop.  We control-y'd out, and got ; > the following messages when we EXITted at the DCL prompt:   C Why use 'SELECT' here? It's probably building an array of RFAs (or  / something similar) for access at a later point.   I 'DIR WASTEBASKET' will get you to that folder without trying to read all   of it.  ; Have you tried the PURGE command? If so, what does that do?   $ In analyzing the file, you might try   $ ANALYZE /RMS /FDL filename  G At the end of the resulting .FDL file, you will probably see some huge   value for  DUPLICATES_PER_SIDR   --  
 Paul Sture   ------------------------------    Date: 30 Dec 2006 02:11:40 -0800& From: "Jeff Campbell" <n8wxs@arrl.net>H Subject: Re: Accessing an Alpha running DECwindows from a Windows XP boxC Message-ID: <1167473500.307572.203300@k21g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>    Gremlin wrote: > Hi All > C > Have upgraded a couple of servers to OpenVMS 8.2 with DECDwindows H > running.  Both Alphas show the DECwindows login on their screens, so I > know it is running locally.  > A > On one WXP machine I have installed Xming and on another I have H > installed eXcursion v3.  I can access a Solaris 10 box using Xming and< > eXcursion via XDMCP - I can't get to either of the Alphas. > G > What I am hoping to get is an Xwindows login screen to the Alphas.  I D > have read through the documentation, which I find detailed but notE > helpful.  For example, should I expect to be presented with a login I > screen in the same way that Solaris does?  Do I have to make a terminal ? > login to both Alphas and then do a set display/create....etc?  >  > Cheers  E I am using Xlaunch to start a session on my PWS600au VMS 7.3-1, TCPIP ! 5.3 ECO 2 from my Windows XP box.   " Xlaunch has 5 configuration pages:   Page 1 - Display Settings   ?    Select single window. Set display number to 0 (or whatever.)    Page 2 - Session Type   "    Select "Open session via XDMCP"   Page 3 - Start Program      Leave everything blank    Page 4 - Additional Parameters  C    Enter "-ac" into the "additional parameters for Xming" text box. 8    "-ac" turns off authentication. (AC is an acronym for    Authentication Control.)    Page 5 -Finish configuration  A    Save the configuration in the Xming home directory and/or your 6    own home directory. Then click the "Finish" button.  C When Xlaunch exits it will start Xming. You should get  a crude (!) D login window from the Alpha. CDE will startup once you're logged in.   HTH,   Jeff   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:34:55 -0500 3 From: "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> / Subject: Re: DECterm special escape sequences ? : Message-ID: <zYGdndtdQb2CGgvYnZ2dnUVZ_vbinZ2d@comcast.com>   Michael Moroney wrote:  1 > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes:  >  >  > K >>>VT100 and the associated ANSI standard are very well documented and easy  >>>to find in public locations.  >>> J >>>What you seek isn't VT100 stuff.  DECterm is based on the VT300 series,J >>>IIRC.  But DECterm has its own extensions, which may not be part of any >>>general standard. >  > K >>Exactly my point.  Digital should have made those extensions more formal  I >>and published them so that anyone using the so called "VT100" standard  L >>would not conflict with DEC's own extensions, which render the VT100 less K >>"standard". The fact that even within Digital, there were conflicts with  ( >>the <ESC>[xx t  is such an indication. >  > N >>You know very well that the VT100 "standard" is really much more than VT100 I >>and includes far more modern features such as advanced video, and even  
 >>colours. >  > M > What you call the 'VT100 "standard"' already _is_ a published, non Digital  % > standard. It's ANSI standard X3.64.   G The ANSI X3.64 standard is a subset of VT100.  DEC added a lot of "DEC   private" escape sequences.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:35:41 +0000 # From: Jeff Campbell <n8wxs@vcn.com> 6 Subject: Re: Need help with DHCP Client & Name servers2 Message-ID: <1167471424_1545@sp6iad.superfeed.net>   David J Dachtera wrote:  > Jeff Campbell wrote: >  >>David J Dachtera wrote:  >>	 >>>[snip] 
 >>>DNS proxy?  >>C >>Well, the Zoom CLI interface has commands for "dnsrelay". I think C >>it is acting as a proxy, mapping the requests and answers between ? >>the DNS servers it knows about and the local nodes making the  >>requests.  >  > I > O.k. I saw the "DNS proxy" terminology in the doc.'s for Motorola's now K > discontinued BR700 Broadband router. Before I had broadband, I used a USR Q > LANmodem which provided similar functionality (local names -> local addresses), Q > and anything it couldn't resolve locally it would send up the line to the ISP's F > nameservers. This was one way to cause a dial-out to occur, in fact.  A Until I finally got DSL 8-) I was using a Netgear RM356 56K Modem @ Router which has a built-in 4 port 10baseT hub. Any non-local IP* address it saw would cause it to dial out.  I It also can be a DHCP server but I never had reason to use that feature.  @ I just checked the manual and it asserts 8-) that the RM356 willE supply up to 2 DNS server addresses to it's clients. So it seems that @ the Zoom ADSL X6 I am using is "broken" by relaying DNS requestsD instead of just supplying 1 or 2 DNS server addresses to each clientE during the DHCP configuration. I don't see the advantage of posing as F *the* name server, since, with NAT, the Zoom still has to map external to internal addresses.   >  >  >>[snip]F >>I don't have access to my ISP's name servers to do any configuration
 >>on them. >  >  > Neither have I.  >  > ? >>What I am doing is running the TCPIP BIND server for my local G >>net and letting it ask the root servers directly. 8-) The PCs use the I >>DLS router as their DNS server since they are configured with it's DHCP B >>server. They don't try to access the n8wxs_com zone as the TCPIPI >>resolver appearently does, so don't care that the Zoom can't supply it.  >  > N > O.k. I'm going to try using some info from JF and see if I can duplicate hisP > success. I'm o.k. with using home.djesys.com locally for now, but if possible,O > I'd like my local nameserver to be able to access the root servers so I don't Q > need to track any changes in the ISPs nameserver address assignments as sent to $ > the FR314 firewall/router via DHCP  G I've never used Multinet but will ask dumb question anyway. 8-) Can you F add your ISP's DNS server addresses to Multinet's BIND resolver server@ list? I assume it has one, similar to TCPIP's resolver. Then anyD non-local address would automatically get looked up by the resolver,A using one of them. Your ISP's name servers should know about your ; dynamic IP address change long before anyone else does. 8-)    Jeff    Q ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- S http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups K ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:51:03 -0600 3 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net> 6 Subject: Re: Need help with DHCP Client & Name servers0 Message-ID: <459698F7.12969700@spam.comcast.net>   Jeff Campbell wrote: > [snip]I > I've never used Multinet but will ask dumb question anyway. 8-) Can you H > add your ISP's DNS server addresses to Multinet's BIND resolver serverB > list? I assume it has one, similar to TCPIP's resolver. Then anyF > non-local address would automatically get looked up by the resolver,C > using one of them. Your ISP's name servers should know about your = > dynamic IP address change long before anyone else does. 8-)   F Actually, here's the relevant segment of the MULTINET:NAMED.CONF file:   /* **  MULTINET:NAMED.CONF = **  Sample configuration file for a caching-only name server.  */  	 options { :   /* The following are defaults, but shown for examples */   fake-iquery no;    check-names master fail;   check-names slave warn;    check-names response ignore;N   /* DNS queries sent to these DNS servers after the local cache is checked */   forwarders {       68.87.66.196;        68.87.64.196;    }; };  M ...and looking at the FR314's current DHCP info, these forwarder NS addresses I are stale. So, I want to get the direct reference working and remove this  section from NAMED.CONF.   --   David J Dachtera dba DJE Systems  http://www.djesys.com/  & Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page! http://www.djesys.com/vms/market/   ( Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/   " Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/   ) Unofficial OpenVMS Hobbyist Support Page: " http://www.djesys.com/vms/support/   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:21:03 -0800 * From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos-remove.com>! Subject: Re: PWR SWitch om XP1000 ) Message-ID: <op.tldl5djttte90l@hyrrokkin>   > On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:48:06 -0800, johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com  ! <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> wrote:    >  > JF Mezei wrote:  >> H Vlems wrote: I >> > JF, I guess that the behaviour you're describing has nothing to do    >> with the K >> > problems of the XP1000. The VAX/VAXstation 3100 series (as well as the G >> > VAXstation 4000 models) have a power supply that has some built in  >> > intelligence. >>J >> I would have to assume that alphas also have some intelligence in theirE >> power supply. (in fact more so since the "on-off" switch is not as - >> "hardware" as that of the older machines).  >>K >> > button that operates circuitry that connects to the mains. My XP1000   	 >> failed 1 >> > to power up when I pressed the mains switch.  >>L >> On the DS10L, the actual little switch is actually a switch even though   >> it J >> feels like a momentary push-button.  If the XP1000 is the same way, theI >> first time you pressed it, you may have actually turned it "OFF" and    >> then . >> the second time, you may have turned it on. >>K >> And boeyond that switch (On the DS10L at least) is the remote mamagement K >> console which has its own processor that is powered up when the hardware H >> switch is "ON". It controls whether the computer is powered on or not@ >> (POWER ON and POWER OFF commands, as well as the logic that   >> automaticallyC >> shuts off teh coputer when the temperature exceeds a threshold).  >>I >> If there is an RMC on the X1000, knowing if it was functional or not    >> wouldK >> provide a hint on whether it was the power supply that remained "OFF",    >> or D >> whether it was the RMC that decided to not power the CPU back up. > H > If it works anything like an ATX power supply then the "smarts" are onH > the mainboard.  The power supply has a trickle feed which is always onB > whenever the p/s is plugged in.  The mainboard has a small logicC > section which is constantly monitoring the power switch. When the H > switch is closed it triggers the logic to raise a signal to the p/s toE > turn fully on. The logic section also usually senses if the various I > voltages coming from the p/s are within expected values and then either H > allows the system to start booting or tells the p/s to shutdown again. > H > Depending on the design it is possible that repeated voltage spikes orH > outages could easily confuse this circuit and cause the system to hang > in the power off stage.  > E > What I'm wondering is if these systems are not on some sort of UPS? E > The protection factor against surges and multiple power drops alone B > would be worth the cost against risking the damage that could be/ > caused. Even if the storms are just seasonal.   G There may some of that, but I think to smooth out the voltage you would 5 need larger electrolytics which are not evident here.    >  >   John H. 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