1 INFO-VAX	Mon, 06 Mar 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 129       Contents:5 Re: Can you change the Ethernet Address of a DE500??? 5 Re: Can you change the Ethernet Address of a DE500???  Re: HP's ITRC forum for VMS  Re: HP's ITRC forum for VMS ( Loading Alpha-VMS from a VAX served CD ? Restore problems Re: Restore problems Re: Restore problems Re: TCPIP configuration  Re: TCPIP configuration  Re: TCPIP configuration   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:58:53 -0800 % From: Crabs <IHateSpam@SpamSucks.com> > Subject: Re: Can you change the Ethernet Address of a DE500???0 Message-ID: <LpGdnTgO_rdzqZbZRVn-uA@comcast.com>   Jonathan Boswell wrote: < > "William Webb" <william.w.webb@gmail.com> wrote in messageE > news:8660a3a10603031014p182e756aod5a017ca41bbc21d@mail.gmail.com... < > There was a thread about this almost exactly one year ago: >  > <  > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/browse_frm/thread/5ba9cc947a08358/51a24b0b2e4a68e4?q=DECnet+change+hardware+address&rnum=3#51a24b0b2e4a68e4 >  > J > Just to update that thread, I downloaded the referenced SROM programmingF > toolkit from Intel, but never got it to work on my DE500 for reasonsM > unknown.  Hearing of my strain and pain, Tom Crabtree generously offered to N > reprogram my DE500 himself.  He did so, and it has been working perfectly inN > an Alphastation 255 using the new MAC address ever since.  Thanks again Tom! >  >   G You are quite welcome Jonathan.  Glad to hear that it's up and working.    TomC   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:05:47 -0800 % From: Crabs <IHateSpam@SpamSucks.com> > Subject: Re: Can you change the Ethernet Address of a DE500???: Message-ID: <fKidnbCON5cRq5bZnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@comcast.com>   BRANDON, JOHN M wrote:  I > Can you change the Ethernet Address of the DE500 card from the console?  >  > If not at the O/S level? >  Yes.. Here's a link to the SROM programming utility: http://tinyurl.com/r52x6  G Download this file to a windows box with the DE500 card installed, and  F extract the files on a bootable Win98/ME floppy.  Boot to the floppy,  then follow instructions.   
 Good luck!   TomC   ------------------------------  # Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:21:55 GMT # From: Beach Runner <bob@nospam.com> $ Subject: Re: HP's ITRC forum for VMS; Message-ID: <nVNOf.57596$Fw6.10228@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>    Steven M. Schweda wrote:  5 > From: "Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com>  > 8 >>Is the ITRC forum off the air? (Can read but not post) >  > G >    It is not, in my opinion, a very reliable system, whatever it runs I > on.  I'd estimate that about 10% of the times I try to use it, it spews I > an error page, fails to show items posted since a few weeks ago, and so  > on.  >  >  >>Should it be run with VMS? >  > G >    Something better would be better.  I can't say if the problems are I > with the underlying data base(s), the application layer, or the OS, but H > it's not impressed me favorably with its reliability and availability. > C >    If I were paying real money for support through the thing, I'd  > complain.  > J > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 6 >    Steven M. Schweda               (+1) 651-699-98185 >    382 South Warwick Street        sms@antinode-org  >    Saint Paul  MN  55105-2547   = I've never had a problem with it, and I've earned a few hats.    ------------------------------  * Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:26:04 -0600 (CST)* From: sms@antinode.org (Steven M. Schweda)$ Subject: Re: HP's ITRC forum for VMS2 Message-ID: <06030522260443_20331674@antinode.org>  # From: Beach Runner <bob@nospam.com>   ? > I've never had a problem with it, and I've earned a few hats.   F    Keep trying.  I find the less that I look at the points jive there,F the happier I stay.  A fellow who posts an answer (whether it's wrong,C misleading, or useless) for almost every question will collect more H points than I will.  (And does.)  Some people do seem to get all excited about them, though.   H ------------------------------------------------------------------------  4    Steven M. Schweda               (+1) 651-699-98183    382 South Warwick Street        sms@antinode-org     Saint Paul  MN  55105-2547    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:59:24 -0500 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> 1 Subject: Loading Alpha-VMS from a VAX served CD ? , Message-ID: <440BCFB6.F67A49C2@teksavvy.com>  D If one gets a CD-less Alpha, is it possible to setup an Alpha system3 disk on a VAX from which the alpha could MOP boot ?   G This way, the naked Alpha could join the cluster and then access the CD ) contents and install VMS on its own disk.   C Or is the Alpha Installation CD only usable when the Alpha node has  booted from it ?   ------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 2006 12:30:28 -0800  From: tomarsin2015@comcast.net Subject: Restore problems B Message-ID: <1141590628.794466.70340@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>  G I have a 2 tape backup that I need to restore. The problem is the first F tape gives me parity errors and I get the opcom quit or continue. If IG response with continue it comes back with the parity error. The files I G need are on the 2nd tape. Is there anyway to restore files from the 2nd  tape without the first tape??  thanks phillip    ------------------------------   Date: 5 Mar 2006 15:19:56 -0800 $ From: "AEF" <spamsink2001@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Restore problems A Message-ID: <1141600796.011316.6510@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>    tomarsin2015@comcast.net wrote: I > I have a 2 tape backup that I need to restore. The problem is the first H > tape gives me parity errors and I get the opcom quit or continue. If II > response with continue it comes back with the parity error. The files I I > need are on the 2nd tape. Is there anyway to restore files from the 2nd  > tape without the first tape??  > thanks	 > phillip    Yes.   MOUNT/FOREIGN the second tape.  E Then run your usual BACKUP command, except that you can't do an image D restore operation. The exact form of the command you need depends onD whether you want all the files on the 2nd tape or not and whether orG not you want to preserve any existing directory structure and where you ' want to put the files and other things.    AEF    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:40:15 +0100 ( From: Paul Sture <paul.sture@bluewin.ch> Subject: Re: Restore problems + Message-ID: <471b70Fd6sddU1@individual.net>    tomarsin2015@comcast.net wrote: I > I have a 2 tape backup that I need to restore. The problem is the first H > tape gives me parity errors and I get the opcom quit or continue. If II > response with continue it comes back with the parity error. The files I I > need are on the 2nd tape. Is there anyway to restore files from the 2nd  > tape without the first tape??  > thanks	 > phillip  >   B Yes. Simply start your restore from the second tape. You'll get a H message to the effect that it's a continuation tape, but as long as you < are sure the files you want are on that one, you'll be fine.   ------------------------------  * Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 20:45:03 +0000 (UTC)P From: helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply)  Subject: Re: TCPIP configuration$ Message-ID: <dufikf$2lo$1@online.de>  5 In article <440A4569.FC0B8DE9@teksavvy.com>, JF Mezei ' <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes:    1 > Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote: H > > %%%%%%%%%%%%                    5-FEB-2006 21:21:47.59  %%%%%%%%%%%%) > > %MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user ENIEE > > > Failed to deliver local mail to  <eniee@astro.multivax.de>' > > %MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user !AS  > > H > > %%%%%%%%%%%%                    5-FEB-2006 21:21:47.59  %%%%%%%%%%%%) > > %MAIL-E-NOSUCHUSR, no such user ENIEE C > > 550  %TCPIP-E-SMTP_XFAIL, remote transaction failure, yahoo.com  > H > This last one is meaningless. You would have to enable tracing to find > out exactly what Yahoo said.  D Almost all of the bounces mention this "remote transaction failure".  H > > %%%%%%%%%%%%                    5-FEB-2006 21:21:57.87  %%%%%%%%%%%%5 > > %MAIL-E-SENDERR, error sending to user TCPIP$SMTP P > > -MAIL-E-OPENOUT, error opening SYS$SPECIFIC:[000000]TCPIP$SMTP.DIR as outputC > > -RMS-E-PRV, insufficient privilege or file protection violation . > > Failed to deliver local mail to TCPIP$SMTP. > > %MAIL-E-SENDERR, error sending to user !AS > I > DIR/SEC SYS$SPECIFIC:[000000]TCPIP$SMTP.DIR  shoudl reveal the onwer to  > be TCPIP$SMTP.  D TCPIP$SMTP.DIR;1     [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$RSH]            (RWE,RWE,RE,E)  G This is definitely the out-of-the-box configuration and was not set by   hand.   F > Make sure that in authorize, TCPIP$SMTO is a unique UIC and that its. > default directory 0s that directory as well. > ? > Username: TCPIP$SMTP                       Owner:  TCPIP$SMTP R > Account:  TCPIP                            UIC:    [3655,6] ([TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$SM > TP])> > CLI:      DCL                              Tables: DCLTABLES% > Default:  SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]  > LGICMD:   LOGIN    Looks the same here.  8 > > Bug or feature?  Again, protections are the default. > I > They may have been setup worong, or file ownership may have come from a K > different node in the cluster where the UIC for TCPIP$SMTP was different.   = Could be.  I have a common SYSUAF but different system disks.   I > see: http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/index.html there is a page on various  > logical names for SMTP 5.3   Thanks.   J > The template was extracted from the .TLB only during fresh installs, not% > upgrades (or the other way around).   4 OK, that explains it.  I think that's wrong, though.   ------------------------------  * Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:01:04 +0000 (UTC)P From: helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply)  Subject: Re: TCPIP configuration$ Message-ID: <dufjig$4na$1@online.de>  D In article <dufikf$2lo$1@online.de>, helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de3 (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:    B Investigating my TCPIP configuration since the owner of my gatewayF complained that many mails were sent within a short time, it turns outC that these were "no such user" replies to dictionary-attack spams.  - (These then bounced, leading to the orphans.)   H I guess the best thing to do is to turn off the notification.  Although G a good idea when it was developed, it is not suited to a spam-infested  	 internet.   . The owner of my mail gateway asks if mail from? TCPIP$SMTP@MULremoveTIVAX.DE (don't want to generate more spam; F remove the small letters) are mailer-daemon notifications.  I suppose I they are.  He asks me to arrange things such that "mailer daemon" is the  G sender.  Is this a reasonable request?  If so, what is the best way to   do it?     ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:06:52 -0500 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com>   Subject: Re: TCPIP configuration, Message-ID: <440B8B25.A26E5877@teksavvy.com>  / Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote: 0 > The owner of my mail gateway asks if mail fromA > TCPIP$SMTP@MULremoveTIVAX.DE (don't want to generate more spam; G > remove the small letters) are mailer-daemon notifications.  I suppose J > they are.  He asks me to arrange things such that "mailer daemon" is theH > sender.  Is this a reasonable request?  If so, what is the best way to > do it?  * The standard for bounces is "postmaster".   @ If you read the documentation, it does explain how to change it.  9 DEFINE/SYSTYEM  TCPIP$SMTP_POSTMASTER_ALIAS  "postmaster"     C You are essentially suffering a similar problem to Mr SMS.  You get H bounces for messages you didn't set, with the bounce attempting to go to" a non existant user on yor system.   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2006.129 ************************