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[tbox-l] The Full Mailbox Archive

[Simon M. <sim...@uk...>]

Whilst researching my previous post I found that the full mailing list 
archive at 
http://www-124.ibm.com/pipermail/aixtoolbox-list.mbox/aixtoolbox-list.mbox 
has some unquoted "From"s in the text which confuse Mozilla Mail and mybe 
other mail clients. In case anybody wants to fix this, here's an ed-script 
to do it produced with "diff -e".

$ diff -e aixtoolbox-list.mbox.ORIG aixtoolbox-list.mbox
154057c
>From this comment:
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94377c
>From the ssh man page:
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82902c
>From my experince it is not good idea to run nmbd via inetd. It's
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45367c
>From the freetype package.  You can generally use http://rpmfind.net to
.
30961c
>From Spain
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30295c
>From Spain
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12857c
>From the console
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10840c
>From what I can tell from information provided by our product planners is
.

[tbox-l] gcc 2.95.3 source

[Simon M. <sim...@uk...>]

Hi, I'm looking for the source to the gcc 2.95.3 that's on the download 
site in binary form only. I'm looking for it to support a project on 
PalmOS which in turn requires certain tools (known as the prc-tools) which 
are built (in the most general case) by patching gcc 2.95.3 source. So I'd 
be really grateful if someone could point me to the source as it's not on 
the website nor the source CDs that I have found. Many thanks in advance.

[tbox-l] bison package installation

[<lau...@in...>]

Hi,

"lppchk -c" command says
lppchk:  File /usr/bin/yacc could not be located.

Is it possible during "bison package" installation,  AIX deletes
/usr/bin/yacc ?

Thanks,
Laurent

[tbox-l] Apache 1.3.31

[<lau...@in...>]

Hi.

A new Apache version 1.3.31  was released , which fixes error that might be
security related.
I was wondering when this new release might be made available in the AIX
Toolbox ?

Best Regards,
Laurent

[tbox-l] bison 1.875-2

[Hans-Gunther B. <han...@rz...>]

I compiled OpenAFS with this version of bison installed. The compilation 
stopped after a call to bison "bison -y ..." with the error message "broken 
pipe" from bison. The same happens with 1.875-1. bison 1.34-2 works. Any 
ideas?

Gunther
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Re: [tbox-l] AIX 5.2 instead of 5.1?

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

There is binary compatibility in AIX; the 5.1 images (and 4.3.3 images) run
on 5.2 also.  There is nothing gained by building separate images.  As
packages are modified, they are built on 5.1 so that they run on all 5.1
and higher levels of AIX.


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:21:01PM -0500, Mike Eggleston wrote:
> Are there any problems installing the 5.1 rpms, or the older 4.3.3
> rpms, on a 5.2 box? When will the rpms be built with 5.2?
> 
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Re: [tbox-l] apt repository?

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

There are not any plans for an apt repository.

If you are looking for alternative methods of downloading, you might want
to try the "update_tbox" script a try, from the contrib directory.  It 
compares the versions of packages installed on your system with what is
available at the Toolbox FTP site, lists anything not current, and offers
to install them interactively or automatically.  Its main drawback is that it
cannot check/download things from the cryptographic-content site, but that
is only a small subset of the Toolbox images.  The script is at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/contrib/update_tbox

If you have a lot of free space and want to keep a local copy of
everything, there is also the wget --mirror option.  See "info wget" for
information and options for doing that.


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Dan...@jb... wrote:
> 
> 
> My two cents...that would be most helpful.  That's the way other OS's are
> handling software distrubution these days.
> 
> Either from command-line or wrapping it in a GUI.
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> Has there been discussion, a decision maybe, about serving the toolbox
> rpm files in an apt-style repository? I'd like to pull the files that way.
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Re: [tbox-l] apt repository?

[<Dan...@jb...>]

My two cents...that would be most helpful.  That's the way other OS's are
handling software distrubution these days.

Either from command-line or wrapping it in a GUI.




                                                                           
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Has there been discussion, a decision maybe, about serving the toolbox
rpm files in an apt-style repository? I'd like to pull the files that way.

Mike
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[tbox-l] apt repository?

[Mike E. <mi...@mi...>]

Has there been discussion, a decision maybe, about serving the toolbox
rpm files in an apt-style repository? I'd like to pull the files that way.

Mike

[tbox-l] AIX 5.2 instead of 5.1?

[Mike E. <mi...@mi...>]

Are there any problems installing the 5.1 rpms, or the older 4.3.3
rpms, on a 5.2 box? When will the rpms be built with 5.2?

Mike

Re: [tbox-l] php and apache

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

You can run php with this apache; it is in a separate rpm image.  You can
get it at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/php/php-4.0.6-5.aix4.3.ppc.rpm

And if you want the manual, it is at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/php/php-manual-4.0.6-5.aix4.3.ppc.rpm

This is not a particularly recent version of PHP however, though it should
be ok for most general use.  You can also try building a newer module if you
like, by downloading the source from php.net.


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:14:09PM +0200, olaf weiser wrote:
> Hallo to all,
> 
> does anybody know, if the apache rpm packet on AIX - toolbox cd does 
> support  php   - or what  will I have to do, to make it work ?
> 
> thank's a lot
> 
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Re: [tbox-l] gcc?

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

  I understand this is frustrating (as a developer, it is frustrating for me
as well).

Here is what I know about it: gcc/g++ 3.3.2 is still under review with the IBM
legal team.  Yes, I know it has been for a very long time.  Why does it take so
long?  That's hard to answer without talking about the legal review process,
which I can't do.  The approval can vary considerably depending on non-Toolbox
factors... what other things the same lawyers may be working on
and whether or not such items are given higher priority than updating versions
of Toolbox packages (which is a free "convenience" to users who don't
want to build their own open source but who don't necessarily care about having
the most recent versions).  The reviews are taken extremely seriously.

I know that the latest is now 3.4, not 3.3.2, but because 3.3.2 is in process
and is much newer than what we have today, I don't want to pull the plug on
what they currently have under review.
For what it's worth, gcc is the highest priority Toolbox item for update.
(Well, OpenSSL is right up there also; since gcc is considerably larger,
OpenSSL might clear before it but I really don't know.)
Without having a good time estimate, I can't pass any meaningful estimate
along.

As always (you've heard this before), this is open source that anyone is free
to download and build as needed, if they accept the license terms, and there
are other places to get images pre-built for AIX as well, including Bull (which
I see Remco was about to point out) at www.bullfreeware.com, and UCLA at
http://pdslib4aix.seas.ucla.edu/.  Both have more recent versions of gcc
available.


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:22:07PM +0200, Remco Post wrote:
> Hi
> 
> my collegues are starting to complain that the gcc in the toolbox is
> about as recent as the stone ages, and are wondering if and when a more
> recent version will become available.
> 
> David, any insights?
> 
> -- 
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> 
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Re: [tbox-l] gcc?

[<Dan...@jb...>]

Ahh, you already anticapte my next question about using Bull.

Re: [tbox-l] gcc?

[Remco P. <r....@sa...>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:27:35 -0500
Dan...@jb... wrote:

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> 
> Are you just looking for GCC on AIX?
> 
> 

no, I'm looking for a GCC on aix that fits the current installation,
which I based on the toolbox a few years back under the assumption that
the toolbox would be more up-to-date than the BULL freeware archive.

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> Hi
> 
> my collegues are starting to complain that the gcc in the toolbox is
> about as recent as the stone ages, and are wondering if and when a
> more recent version will become available.
> 
> David, any insights?
> 
> --
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> 3167
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High Performance Computing  Tel. +31 20 592 3000    Fax. +31 20 668 3167

"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the
computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the
computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to
end." -- Douglas Adams

Re: [tbox-l] gcc?

[<Dan...@jb...>]

Are you just looking for GCC on AIX?




                                                                           
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Hi

my collegues are starting to complain that the gcc in the toolbox is
about as recent as the stone ages, and are wondering if and when a more
recent version will become available.

David, any insights?

--
Met vriendelijke groeten,

Remco Post

SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten                      http://www.sara.nl
High Performance Computing  Tel. +31 20 592 3000    Fax. +31 20 668 3167

"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the
computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the
computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to
end." -- Douglas Adams
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[tbox-l] gcc?

[Remco P. <r....@sa...>]

Hi

my collegues are starting to complain that the gcc in the toolbox is
about as recent as the stone ages, and are wondering if and when a more
recent version will become available.

David, any insights?

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten,

Remco Post

SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten                      http://www.sara.nl
High Performance Computing  Tel. +31 20 592 3000    Fax. +31 20 668 3167

"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the
computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the
computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to
end." -- Douglas Adams

[tbox-l] php and apache

[olaf w. <ola...@t-...>]

Hallo to all,

does anybody know, if the apache rpm packet on AIX - toolbox cd does 
support  php   - or what  will I have to do, to make it work ?

thank's a lot

Re: [tbox-l] gdb

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

The source for gdb is compiled from the GNUPro source package.  You can find
GNUPro on that page (for some reason, because of the capitalization, it was
alphabetized at the end of all the g's, but it is there).  Most packages
names do match their source images, but this is an exception.

Because gdb, gcc, g++, and binutils are all built out of the GNUPro source,
the image contains source for all of these in one image. 
They will be separated in future versions, when available.

Running "rpm -bi <packagename>" on an installed package, you can see a line
that tells the name of the "Source RPM", so that helps identify it if the
names don't match.


On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Michael Valley wrote:
> I was trying to download the source for gdb but could not find it availabe in 
> the toolbox.    Did the following:
> 
> 1.  Went to: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html
> 2.  Found gdb(2.9.aix51.020209 (5.2)) and clicked on Source
> 3.  Took me to a page where gdb did not exist.
>      http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/tbxsrc/tbxsrc-p
> 
> Can I get the source from the toolbox?
> 
> 
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[tbox-l] gdb

[Michael V. <va...@ll...>]

I was trying to download the source for gdb but could not find it availabe in 
the toolbox.    Did the following:

1.  Went to: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html
2.  Found gdb(2.9.aix51.020209 (5.2)) and clicked on Source
3.  Took me to a page where gdb did not exist.
     http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/tbxsrc/tbxsrc-p

Can I get the source from the toolbox?


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Re: [tbox-l] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes: phase "unknown"

[Philip K W. <pk...@us...>]

A new version of rsync (2.5.4-3) is now available, which fixes this 
problem with writing to large files. The configure script for rsync 
correctly detects support for mkstemp on AIX 5.1, however the large-file 
enabled mkstemp64 was not added to libc.a until a later release of AIX 
5.1/5.2. I have compiled the rsync RPM so it uses mktemp instead of 
mkstemp, which fixes this problem and allows rsync to correctly copy files 
greater than 2gb in size.

Please let me know if you have any problems with this new RPM. Thanks 
Michael for reporting the problem.

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/rsync/rsync-2.5.4-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm

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Re: [tbox-l] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes: phase "unknown"

[Philip K W. <pk...@us...>]

I can reproduce this problem locally with the latest version of rsync on 
the Toolbox. I am preparing a new image which should resolve the problem.

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Re: [tbox-l] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes: phase "unknown"

[Michael W. <mw...@un...>]

Philip and other IBM folks,

Following up the rsync issue, I have found more useful information.

Problem:
rsync as packaged by IBM can not write beyond 2,147,483,647 bytes.

Proof:

(1) while rsync from a remote box (Solaris 8) to IBM AIX 5.2:

$ /opt/csw/bin/rsync -av --rsh=ssh users01.dbf oracle@zimu:/max-ds1/ora...
...
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken pipe
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(515)

I monitor the temp file:

$ while true; do ls -ls .u*; df -k .; done

Filesystem    1024-blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/lv01         7503872    292200   97%    23225     2% /max-ds1
2097152 -rw-------   1 oracle   dba      2147483647 Jun 15 09:06 .users01.dbf.OS2Oaa

Filesystem    1024-blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/lv01         7503872    292200   97%    23225     2% /max-ds1
ls: 0653-341 The file .u* does not exist.

The write failed exactly at 2,147,483,647 which is 2*1024*1024*1024 - 1.

And the truss -f -p <rsync_pid> shows:

28448:  kread(0, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0".., 19688)   = 16384
28448:  _select(1, 0x2FF205D8, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x2FF205D0) = 1
28448:  kread(0, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0".., 3304)    = 3304
28448:  kwrite(1, "\002\0\00203 ÿ ü\0\0\0\0".., 32768)  = 32767
28448:  kwrite(6, " &\0\0\b w r i t e   f a".., 42)     = 42
28448:  _sigaction(30, 0x2FF21AC0, 0x2FF21AD0)          = 0
28448:  _sigaction(31, 0x2FF21AC0, 0x2FF21AD0)          = 0
28448:  unlink(".users01.dbf.OS2Oaa")                   = 0
28448:  kwrite(6, " ;\0\0\b r s y n c   e r".., 63)     = 63
28448:  kfcntl(1, F_GETFL, 0x00000000)                  = 2
28448:  kfcntl(2, F_GETFL, 0x00000000)                  = 2
28448:  _exit(11)

I would think it should use *write64(). Is kwrite() capable handling
2+GB file?

(2) Could this be the remote rsync problem?

No. Because:

(2.1) rsync 6+GB file to the remote box succeeded as I reported
earlier, which means the remote rsync is capable write 6+GB file.
And this appears that rsync on IBM AIX 5.2 is capable reading
6+GB file.
(2.2) rsync on IBM AIX 5.2 locally also fails. 
(2.3) rsync on remote box to itself succeeded for the same 2+GB file.

Environment:
# oslevel -r
5200-02
# rpm -ql rsync-2.5.4-1
/opt/freeware/bin/rsync
/opt/freeware/doc/rsync-2.5.4
/opt/freeware/doc/rsync-2.5.4/COPYING
/opt/freeware/doc/rsync-2.5.4/README
/opt/freeware/doc/rsync-2.5.4/tech_report.tex
/opt/freeware/man/man1/rsync.1
/opt/freeware/man/man5/rsyncd.conf.5
/usr/bin/rsync

Other info:

- Straightforward compilation for the latest version of rsync 2.6.2
  have the same problem. Modify config.h not to mkstemp() may fix it.

- This problem should be very easy to reproduce.

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Re: [tbox-l] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes: phase "unknown"

[Michael W. <mw...@un...>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:30:28PM -0500, Philip K Warren wrote:
> > The problem is also reported in
> > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457
> > 
> > The problems occurs when both the source and destination are on
> > locally mounted file systems (versus NFS). So the network is not
> > involved here at all.
> 
> Did you try the suggestion in Bug 1457 (using the --temp-dir parameter to 
> specify the temporary file location)?

The suggestion to use temporary file location is based on that
the destination does not have enough space. In my case, the
destination does have enough space. While "rsync" failed,
"tar -cvf ... | tar -xvf ..." succeeded. The reason I prefer
rsync over tar/cp/etc is the ability to rerun the command without
re-copying files which are successfully copied. I think my problem
is different than the one originally reported, although the error
message is the same.

Thanks.

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[tbox-l] ssl-enabled version of wget 1.9 is available

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

An ssl-enabled version of wget is available in the AIX Toolbox on the
"Cryptographic Content" site.  This allows you to run wget on secure
(e.g. "https" format) sites. 

The version remains 1.9, and the non-ssl-enabled version continues to be
available on the primary Toolbox site.  If you don't need to access secure
sites with wget, you can continue using the existing version.
The letters "ssl" are appended to the release number of the ssl-enabled version,
so you will notice that the image is named:  wget-1.9-2ssl.aix5.1.ppc.rpm.

To get to the cryptographic-content site, you must register and actively
accept the license.  Access is free.  The site is available at:
	http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/aixtbx/aixtbx-p
You can find wget at the bottom of the "Web Server Tools" category.
Of course, to use this you must also install the openssl image if you do
not already have it.

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Re: [tbox-l] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes: phase "unknown"

[Philip K W. <pk...@us...>]

> The problem is also reported in
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1457
> 
> The problems occurs when both the source and destination are on
> locally mounted file systems (versus NFS). So the network is not
> involved here at all.

Did you try the suggestion in Bug 1457 (using the --temp-dir parameter to 
specify the temporary file location)?

---
Philip K. Warren
pk...@us...
Phone: 512.838.8924
T/L 678.8924