INFO-VAX Wed, 05 Dec 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 665 Contents: %TCPIP-E-ROUTEERROR when attempting to remove a dynamic route. DECnet on Mac OS-X ? Re: DECnet on Mac OS-X ? Re: Itanium / Integrity question Re: Job in Canada Re: Latest TCPware DRIVERS patch seems to break inbound DECnet Re: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer Re: validate username/password against UAF using java ? Re: Walk a mile in their thongs Re: Web Based Disk Usage Display Re: Web Based Disk Usage Display ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:33:49 -0800 (PST) From: S3 Subject: %TCPIP-E-ROUTEERROR when attempting to remove a dynamic route. Message-ID: I'm running the following versions of VMS and TCPIP services.... TCPIP> show version DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.0A on a COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 500 MHzP running OpenVMS V7.2-1 These are the routes defined in the dynamic table.... TCPIP> show route DYNAMIC Type Destination Gateway DN 10.0.0.0/ 8 172.16.1.12 AH 10.35.174.0 172.16.1.12 DH 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 AN 172.0.0.0/ 8 172.16.1.102 DN 172.16.0.0/16 172.16.1.22 DH 172.16.1.22 172.16.1.102 AN 172.20.0.0/16 172.16.1.8 DN 172.20.0.0/16 172.16.1.102 AN 172.40.0.0/16 172.20.251.9 DH 172.40.80.4 6.4.0.0 AH 172.40.81.2 6.4.0.0 When I try to remove routes to the 6.4.0.0 gateway, I get this error... TCPIP> set noroute 172.40.80.4 /gateway=6.4.0.0 %TCPIP-E-ROUTEERROR, error accessing routes database (TCPIP$ROUTE) -SYSTEM-F-BADPARAM, bad parameter value Any idea to how to fix this? Thanks. Doug ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:43:37 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: DECnet on Mac OS-X ? Message-ID: <9ef67$4756105c$cef8887a$21598@TEKSAVVY.COM> Anyone know if it is possible to have some task/task DECnet on OS-X so that a unix script on a MAC could access information from a VMS node ? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:50:58 -0600 From: David J Dachtera Subject: Re: DECnet on Mac OS-X ? Message-ID: <47562022.E1368932@spam.comcast.net> JF Mezei wrote: > > Anyone know if it is possible to have some task/task DECnet on OS-X so > that a unix script on a MAC could access information from a VMS node ? MUST it be DECnet? REXEC or RSHELL should work, if the VMS machine is running an IP stack. Use trusted relationships (proxies) to eliminate the need for clear text passwords in scripts and on the wire. David J Dachtera DJE Systems ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:03:04 +0100 From: Michael Unger Subject: Re: Itanium / Integrity question Message-ID: <5rln6kF15b258U3@mid.individual.net> On 2007-12-04 01:11, "Stephen Hoffman" wrote: > [...] > > Conceivably, EFI could be modified to report a subset of disks. You'd > have to ask HP if there are any plans in this area. When last I looked > at the roadmap and the published materials, the plans were for > compatibility with HPIVM for OpenVMS I64 V8.4. (HPIVM is the HP > Integrity Virtual Machine environment that is based on HP-UX.) In the "old days" disk drives had a *real* switch labelled "ONLINE -- OFFLINE" which sort of disconnected the disk from the bus. A similar approach would be to store the "availability" of disk drives (or other peripherals) to an operating system by setting "bits" in NVRAM which would result in devices being "ignored" by the built-in "console" firmware. > [...] Michael -- Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:48:39 -0600 From: David J Dachtera Subject: Re: Job in Canada Message-ID: <47561F97.C05359C@spam.comcast.net> "David Turner, Island Computers" wrote: > > From what some have told me, you may be wasting your time > Sorry for the posting -, just thought I was helping As always, "it depends". How "fresh" was the info you received? It's possible that the person hired a year ago didn't work out (I've worked with a few "prizes" in my day!). David J Dachtera DJE Systems ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:26:39 GMT From: John Santos Subject: Re: Latest TCPware DRIVERS patch seems to break inbound DECnet Message-ID: <3fm5j.2250$UG1.300@trnddc01> adamwilliam@gmail.com wrote: > On Nov 13, 2:12 am, John Santos wrote: > >>Heads-up to all... > > > Have just realised we have the same problem after patch upgrades at > the weekend. Will look into the fix you describe above, but was > wondering if Process have been in touch regarding this issue? I cant > see anything on their site and the patches installed were only > downloaded at the weekend. > > Many thanks! > > Adam From a response from Process on vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.tcpware, it seems they thought it was fixed in V8.1, but I'm 99% sure it was broken there too, and interpret the response I received when I reported the problem to them that they were going to fix it in a new (post V8.1) version of the patch. So I've been waiting for a patch, but Process thought they had already fixed it. Hopefully, they now realize it is still an issue. -- John Santos Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc. 781-861-0670 ext 539 ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 2007 16:01:23 -0600 From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) Subject: Re: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer Message-ID: In article <5rige5F14vl2oU1@mid.individual.net>, billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: > > No, not faked, just a tremendous waste of time and money. You sound like the King of Spain. Perhaps you would be happier had your ancestors stayed in Europe, or where ever. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:16:56 +1100 From: Jim Duff Subject: Re: validate username/password against UAF using java ? Message-ID: <47561829@dnews.tpgi.com.au> Pierre wrote: > On Dec 4, 1:12 am, Bob Gezelter wrote: >> On Dec 3, 5:35 pm, Pierre wrote: >> >>> is it possible to validate a username/password against the UAF using >>> java ? >>> TIA, >>> Pierre. >> Pierre, >> >> Having worked with the API to call C/C++ routines from Java, it is not >> a very large scale project to build the necessary function in C, >> callable from Java as a sharable library to invoke the SYS$ACM and >> other system services, as appropriate. >> >> - Bob Gezelter,http://www.rlgsc.com > > well... I secretly hoped that digi-comp-HP peoples wrote java wrappers > around useful operating system calls such as system services but it > seems that I have to write my own JNI call > > ages ago, I did so on a Windows box. do you have any example in VMS > parlance? > > TIA, > Pierre. > There is a working example in the java development kit. See [JAVA$150.VMS_DEMO]SYSTEM_SERVICE_INVOKE_DEMO.SAV, which is a backup saveset. Jim. -- www.eight-cubed.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:08:03 -0800 From: Malcolm Dunnett Subject: Re: Walk a mile in their thongs Message-ID: <4755EBE3.40400@spammers.are.scum> Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: > > Now, say that : > > 1. There is a server having an SOAP API/interface > out there on the net somewere. It's not your > server and you have no control over it att all. > The only thing you have is the WSDL definition. > > 2. You'd like your VMS server to act as a client > against that API. > Been there. > And if not, is there any easier tool the gSOAP > to use to run against those API's ? I've had a fair bit of luck using the SOAP::Lite stuff in Perl to do that. > I'm currently using gSOAP to read from a SOAP > based API (an online auction site), and it works > just fine. I guess I should take a look at that also then. > > I do agree on one point, it would have been better > if gSOAP would have been part of the official > "WEB Services" offerings from HP for OpenVMS. I too would be quite happy to see HP offer an "official" SOAP toolkit for VMS. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:58:09 -0500 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= Subject: Re: Web Based Disk Usage Display Message-ID: <475605a9$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Ken Robinson wrote: > Inspired by JF's cell phone cluster monitor, I wrote a "quick & dirty" > web based disk usage display using PHP and a little bit of DCL. The > display shows the amount of free space on the disks in both ASCII and > with a bar graph. It is not dynamic (yet). I plan to make it more > dynamic so it will be able to indicate when the amount of free space > on a disk changes. The PHP script needs to be run on a web host that > has TCP connectivity with the VMS nodes that are to be monitored, it > does not have to be run on a VMS web host, but it does run fine on > VMS. The PHP script gets the disk usage from the following DCL > procedure which needs to be set up as a TCP/IP service If the PHP is running on the VMS box then there are simpler ways than a TCP/IP service. Approach 1 ---------- Disk space

Disk space

0) { echo "\n"; } } } } ?>
DiskTotal (MB)Free (MB)
$disk$total$free
Approach 2 ---------- Disk space

Disk space

\n"; } pclose($p); ?>
DiskTotal (blocks)Free (blocks)
$disk$total$free
and $ loop: $ diskname=f$device("*","DISK") $ if diskname .eqs. "" then goto endloop $ if .not. f$getdvi(diskname,"MNT") then goto loop $ free=f$getdvi(diskname,"FREEBLOCKS") $ total=f$getdvi(diskname,"MAXBLOCK") $ write sys$output diskname," ",total," ",free $ goto loop $ endloop: $ exit Arne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:28:55 -0500 From: "Ken Robinson" Subject: Re: Web Based Disk Usage Display Message-ID: <7dd80f60712041828n1f417a63kcb12c5eb920f935@mail.gmail.com> On Dec 4, 2007 8:58 PM, Arne Vajh=F8j wrote: > If the PHP is running on the VMS box then there are simpler > ways than a TCP/IP service. You are assuming that the node running the PHP script is part of a cluster and that all the disks are mounted on all the nodes of the cluster. My script doesn't make those assumptions. It can also be run from any host that is running PHP and has TCP/IP connectivity to the VMS nodes. Ken ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2007.665 ************************