Q: I understand that
doing ABORTJOB on the Apache job is a "bad thing". How should I stop
the Apache job?
A: Ted Ashton and Donna
Garverick replied:
xeq sh.hpbin.sys
"-c 'kill `cat /APACHEFW/PUB/logs/httpd.pid`'"
Note that the Apache job
creates the file httpd.pid, which simply contains the PID for the Apache root
process.
Q: How do I delete a
database?
A: A number of people
jumped all over this one:
Sign on as the creator
of the database in the group where the database resides. Then use the PURGE
command of DBUTIL.PUB.SYS.
Q: I've got a 9x7 system
in production that's going to be exchanged with/for a 9x8. The current system
has a DTC connected to it and the new box needs that information added to it.
While I realize that I could painfully (risking numerous errors) type
everything in by hand, I was wondering if there is a better way? I should add
that the current system is running 5.5 and the replacement box is running 6.5.
A: John Burke, Denis
St-Amand and Bill Titus replied:
Simply copy (or restore)
nmconfig.pub.sys from the old system (you may want to rename it while working
on it), run nmmgrver on it to "convert" to 6.5 format and then change
any other information particular to the 9x8 (NIC path, nodename, etc). Use this
to replace nmconfig on your 9x8. This will preserve all your DTC
configurations.
Q: We had to restore
several of the standard MPE POSIX directories and files, such as the POSIX
directories under /BIND. The restore was done with ";CREATE=PATH".
This appears to have created the POSIX directories (paths) with default
permissions. This appears to be wrong.
Does anyone know of a
way to get the POSIX directories distributed with MPE back to their correct
permissions without messing up everything else? This is MPE 6.0 PP2.
A: Goetz Neumann
replied:
ITRC document
MPEKBRC00002551 shows how you can do that based on the 'tar' container which is
on your OS releases' FOS tape.
Q: How do I set up
anonymous FTP on my HP 3000?
A: Michael Berkowitz,
Jerome Leproux and James Hofmeister replied;
See either the MPE/iX
6.0 Communicator or the latest version of Installing and Managing HP ARPA File
Transfer, both of which should be available at docs.hp.com for the full
explanation. Basically it just involves creating an FTPGUEST account with a
user named USER. The anonymous FTP user is prevented from using the site
command or accessing anything outside the /FTPGUEST/PUB directory path.
Q: Does anyone know if
support for the VA7400 is out yet or planned for release?
A: Donna Garverick
replied:
As far as I know,
VA7400s will never be supported for MPE. The VA7100 is, however, supported once
you're running MPE/iX 7.0 using a scsi-to-fibre router.
Steve Macsisak added
that MPE/iX 7.5 would support native fibre connections to the VA7100, but did
not supply any speculation as to eventual support for the VA7400.
Q: I'm not familiar with
the HP 3000 at all. I'm the network manager. But I'd like to start monitoring a
HP 3000 with SNMP for things like CPU util \ jobs running or whatever other
cool stat I can SNMP grab from this box. The problem I have is I can't find the
MIBs for it anywhere on HP's site.
A: Andreas Schmidt
replied:
First of all, I do not
recommend the use of SNMP on the HP e3000, for performance but also security
reasons. SNMP is not the securest protocol, as you know.
Nevertheless, some
hints:
·
In the group
NET.SYS you will find the SNMPUDC. This should be set in any case for
MANAGER.SYS or on system level.
·
Having set this, a
SNMPCONTROL STATUS will show you the status of the SNMP subsystem.
·
SNMPCONTROL START /
STOP are self-explaining.
·
The MIBs specific
for MPE can be found in the document "HP SNMP/XL User's Guide" which
is available on the HP Instant Information CD but also on
http://www.docs.hp.com/.
[Editor's note: see
Andreas' posting in the HP3000-L archives for an example command file to check
the current MIstate and get the current cpu utilization.]
Elizabeth Thayer added
that the MIBS are also in the file MPEIXMIB.NET.SYS and that there is a recent
security patch for SNMP.
Q: I am puzzled! I have
six jobs that always run simultaneously with each other, though that's not a
requirement. I run them every six weeks. Running together they finish in about
20 minutes. Yesterday they never finished. Glance says 'other IO' as a wait
state, and no CPU usage.
A: Ken Hirsch replied
(the questioner later confirmed this was correct):
I bet that you are doing
something like ECHO Done >>*X (Where X is a message file that is full.)
Q: Is it possible to
download a PowerPatch "tape" from the ITRC?
A: Mark Bixby replied:
In a word,
"no". However, my patchman script essentially allows you to do this,
i.e. download all available patches that you don't already have:
http://www.bixby.org/ftp/pub/mpe/patchman-2.2.sh
or
ftp://ftp.bixby.org/pub/mpe/patchman-2.2.sh
Be sure to upload this
to your e3000 as a POSIX bytestream file.
:HELLO
MANAGER.SYS,INSTALL
:XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS -L
$ /path/to/patchman -d
-e your@email.address
$ exit
:PATCHIX
...etc...
Q: Does anybody know of
an Intrinsic that could be called to determine if a particular job is running
or not? Other suggestions for similar functionality are welcome.
A: Tom Brandt, Pat Shugart,
Stan Sieler and Allen Porter jumped all over this one:
JOBINFO intrinsic. Or,
from the CI, JINFO function.
Q: Does anyone know if
the little flat beige transceivers that HP supplied with older HP3000 network
cards have a standard AUI connector? I spent some time yesterday tracking down
what I thought was a software problem, but it turned out to be the 15-year-old
coax run connecting our 3000s to the network. Can I just replace these with
10BaseT transceivers from Fry's?
A: Jeff Woods replied:
In a word,
"yes".
Q: Does anyone know if
SWAT (Samba Web Admin Toolkit) is included with the latest version of Samba/iX?
A: Lars Appel replied:
Yes, SWAT is included
with Samba 2.0.7 for MPE/iX and later versions.
The SWAT program that
comes with the HP version of Samba 2.0.7 needs to be run in "demo
mode" using the -a option in INETDCNF, so you might want to use INETDSEC
to restrict access to selected client PC's.
The SWAT program that
comes with the non-hp version of Samba 2.0.7 or 2.0.10 or 2.2.3a or 2.2.4 or
2.2.5 can be used without -a and prompts the web user for a valid MPE logon
(user.acct and userpw,acctpw) before granting access to the smb.conf file (in
read or write mode, depending on the user.acct entered).
http://www.editcorp.com/personal/lars_appel/index.html -> Samba
On general note
regarding SWAT, keep in mind that it rewrites the smb.conf file when you save
changes. This will typically remove any comments or special formatting that you
might have done manually.
[Editor's note: for
those of you with SPL programs you may need to convert to C] Q: Does anyone
have a program that would generate a cross-reference listing for SPL? The SPL
manual indicates that such an animal was available, at some point, but I cannot
find it on my system.
A: Duane Percox replied:
The reference in our SPL
manual is that this program was from the CSL. I have CSL reference material
that indicates SPLXREF ca. 1982 produces an SPL identifier cross-reference
listing.
[Editor's note: Another
question potentially useful for migrators.] Q: Now I'm trying to get softkeys
to work on our screen handler running on Linux. It seems that commands do not
get sent to Linux after a softkey is set up. Does anyone know why this might
be? Do HP3000 terminal emulators use some form of proprietary 3000
communication to send the command? I assumed the softkey string would be passed
as if it had been typed on the keyboard but unfortunately this doesn't seem to
be the case. Can a terminal guru enlighten me on how this thing works.
A: (terminal
communications guru) Wirt Atmar replied by pointing to a complete description
of the situation on his web site:
http://aics-research.com/qcterm/manual.html#Using
Basically it boils down to
this. Softkeys as defined in "HP" teminal emulators have three types
of "transmission" mode: Normal, Transmit and Local. In
"local" mode, the key string is executed locally and not transmitted
at all. "Transmit" mode is for communication with MPE/iX and used
special block transfer hand-shaking. To quote from the AICS web site,
"normal mode is the function key mode you'll want to use with most
computer operating systems."
Again, quoting from the
AICS web site: "The user-specified key string is treated exactly as if it
were typed from the keyboard. Of importance, a carriage return is not
automatically transmitted at the end of the string. If you wish to have a
carriage return be a part of the key string, put it into the string
yourself."
Q: Transivers have an
"SQE" switch. Should this be turned "on" or
"off".
A: Goetz Neumann
replied:
SQE should be switched
ON on the transceiver on both the HPe3000 and all the transceivers on your
DTCs. Otherwise, you might see excessive heartbeat loss logging occurring on
the 3000 (or on a DTC manager PC).
Q: I am looking for
HP3000 manuals on the web. Please, could you help me with information on where
they are?
A: Denys Beauchemin and
Lars Appel replied:
Besides
http://docs.hp.com there is also http://docs.hp.com/mpeix/docs5/ with the
latter being older manual versions in some cases, but due to the plain HTML and
GIF structure, they can be fairly browser-friendly (speed).