Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 01:00:40 +1100 (EDT)
Subject:   No. 34

Date:- 18 April 2001

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:02:10 +1000
From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Trashed WarpCenter

Hi Ian,
This is the sort of stuff I was after.
I want the system to me more robust, not just have a get out of goal
free plan.
I've got threads=512, hmmm...

OK, what got me into strife was I issued a poorly grouped SQL query that
*probably* maxed-out the threads, causing the machine to go into Windoze
mode.

I couldn't telnet in, it would-time out, my telnet welcome screen was
drawing character by character, so I issued:

net admin \\server1 /c c:\os2\setboot /ibd:c

Good old reliable LAN Server, this *did* reboot the box.

Now I'm wondering Ian, does the setboot command not force the closure of
the ini files?

Ian Manners wrote:
> 
> >THREADS= defaults to 62 so watch this. I think Ed said get
> 
> I think threads defaults to 1025 on a clean warp install, best
> to monitor thread usage, see what you use normally, then
> double that figure and set threads = in your config.sys.
> 
> I use 512 on my normal PC, and 1024 on servers, I've never
> been able to use more than 314 threads on my own PC or any
> of my non-websphere servers but with DB2, I'd start at 2048.
> 
> Re your warpcenter problem, sounds like os2sys.ini and os2.ini
> were being written to disk when this happened, when that happens
> theres not much you can do, corrupt is corrupt. You could run
> a cron job to back them up every 24 hours. The other thing that
> has worked for me, especially since about FixPack 11, is I have
> never had a complete freeze, I've always been able to reboot
> by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, this forces the closure of ini files, and
> any program that is WPS aware before rebooting, one one
> occasion, it did take a server about 10 minutes to reboot but
> I waited.
> 
> Cheers
> Ian B Manners

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From: "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:53:49 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Trashed WarpCenter

Hi Daryl

>I couldn't telnet in, it would-time out, my telnet welcome screen was
>drawing character by character, so I issued:
>net admin \\server1 /c c:\os2\setboot /ibd:c
>Good old reliable LAN Server, this *did* reboot the box.
>Now I'm wondering Ian, does the setboot command not force the closure of
>the ini files?

Hmmm, this sounds like a problem I have with Bind v9.1.1 under
OS/2 at the moment, every now and then, Bind releases a
rogue thread that goes to 100%, I can open a command
prompt after about 5 minutes, and type something in, the command
"cd \mptn\etc\named" takes over a minute to appear.
This isnt thread related though, and even via the network, slower
than a puppy run over by a hummer - telnet, or ftp.

Something I assume was to do with my port of BIND to OS/2,
maybe its to do with the network interface, what ver of TCP/IP
etc are you using ?

No messing with config.sys, PRIORITY, Threads ets has resolved
this issue for me yet, I've even used nice to lower named's priority
to 0.

It is an almost classic threads issue though, both yours and my
problem.

No idea about the setboot command, I dont use the LAN server command,
I walk downstairs and press Ctrl-Alt-Del :-)


Cheers
Ian B Manners

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:07:43 +1000
From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Trashed WarpCenter

Hi Ian,
Aren't we up late, <grin>.
My test server is just in the kitchen, but the production one is >1000km
away, that's a long walk...
Everything is via a slow modem so net admin commands & telnet are the
way to go.

Ian Manners wrote:
> 
> Hi Daryl
> 
SNIP
> 
> No idea about the setboot command, I dont use the LAN server command,
> I walk downstairs and press Ctrl-Alt-Del :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Ian B Manners
> 
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From: "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:01:15 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Trashed WarpCenter

Hi Daryl

>Aren't we up late, <grin>.

No :-)
Its only 4am, my deadline for this website is 9am :-(

>My test server is just in the kitchen, but the production one is >1000km
>away, that's a long walk...
>Everything is via a slow modem so net admin commands & telnet are the
>way to go.

Bummer, I cheat, I keep everything under the house, thats one
of the great things about the internet.


Cheers
Ian B Manners

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From: "Steve Edmonds" <steve71atattglobal dot net>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:27:22 +1300 (NZDT)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Email/News clients

Hi Daryl,

I use PMMail as my mailer, best all round mailer I have used
but could see improvements in handling mail in user defined file systems.

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:47:34 +1000, Daryl Pilkington wrote:

>Can pull simultaneously from multiple POP accounts.

*PMMail or fetchmail is good for this.

>
>Reply with different personalities, (email address, footer etc).
>
*PMMail or mpack
>
>Has download recovery if the link hiccups.

*Script with fetchmail.

>Has a C, REXX, or the like, programming interface. (I want to automate
>TAX INVOICE emailing).

*For automated sends of all attachments I use mpack. This is excellent and
cross platform. I can easily format emails in perl or rexx and send them
at the click of a button. Our accounts package lets you print an invoice
to file and then call a print command, I call a small script to pick out the
email address and send the invoice with mpack. You could do it on a batch basis.

>Hooks into ODBC, DB2 or some grunt backend I'd run locally like an IMAP
>or LDAP server.

*Could hook into mysql (if the rexx or perl drivers have been ported).

>Can archive mail/news, if it hooked into DB2 that would be sexy :)
*I archive with zip.

>Cross-platform,
*PMMail, mpack, fetchmail, perl all are.

steve
_______________
Steve Edmonds
Steve71atattglobal dot net

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From: "John Angelico" <talldadatkepl dot com dot au>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:13:14 +0900 (EST)
Subject: [os2genau] Fwd: eCS NewsCast: New home for Focus on OS/2 articles

I know it's a repeat of VoiceNews <g> but this is sufficiently important to pass on to everybody.

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au
____________________________________________

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================
>
Hello everyone,

Slightly more than two weeks have passed since I received the email from About informing me that Focus on OS/2 had been 
terminated.  Since I knew it was against About's policy to forward email sent to a cancelled site or Guide, I published a note on 
the web explaining what had happened with the sole intention of preventing you my readers from drawing the wrong conclusion 
from the sudden disappearance of my site.  I didn't want you to think that I had suddenly given up on you, or worse, that I had 
died.  

I was completely unprepared for what happened next.  I was flooded with email expressing appreciation for my site over the past 
three years and concern that the articles I had written would be lost; several were even concerned that the OS/2 world might lose 
me as a contributor.

As you might imagine, having a project in which you have invested 3 years of your life abrupted terminated and taken down has a 
powerful emotional impact.  Your kindness during this time, as well as your support and desire to see my work continue has done 
a great deal to soften this blow.  I thank each of you who has taken the time to write me from the bottom of my heart.

Now for my announcement.  

Two editors contacted me within minutes of my publication of the "Farewell to Focus on OS/2" note.  I am happy to report that I 
have reached mutually satisfactory arrangements with both editors and their respective publications to begin writing for them 
beginning in May.  These publications are "VOICE Newsletter", published by VOICE, and "Extended Attributes", published by 
POSSI, the Phoenix OS/2 Society.  

Initially, at least, I'll aim for an article in every issue of EA--in other words, every other month, and another article in every other 
issue of the VOICE Newsletter.  Every article I write, regardless of where it gets published, will also go online in my personal web 
site, and hopefully on also on Warp Doctor.  (I'll be keeping the copyright of all my articles; in addition both Mark Dodel of the 
VOICE Newsletter and Esther Schindler of EA have generously given me express permission to keep them online.)  More details 
on that later.  These will be added to the Focus on OS/2 articles which I have already started uploading to my personal web site.  

(Eventually I want to accumulate a complete library of my articles online for the benefit of anyone who may find them useful.  
I've tentatively named this library, "Walter's OS/2 Treasury".  I'll publish the URL for my personal web site copy after I've 
cleaned it up a bit more and created a front page for my articles.)  

Finally, I wish I could respond positively to the many generous offers that were made.  However, it quickly became clear that 
wasn't going to be possible.  Let me just express my thanks once again to all who wrote me, and especially to those who found my 
contributions to the OS/2 community worth preserving, and were willing to devote some of their own valuable server resources to 
help make it happen.  This has been a truly humbling experience.


Walter

..................................................
Walter Metcalf
email: walter.os2athome dot com
OS/2 Lives On!
..................................................
Submitted by: Walter Metcalf

===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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From: "Peter Rehfisch" <gillpeteatvic.australis dot com dot au>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:25:02 +1100 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] PCI Network cards

>Does OS/2 (Peer to Peer) networking work - is it only Lantastic
>tht has a problem ?
I'm not sure, as I only have 1 OS/2 machine and 1 DOS machine on the network.

>Have you upgraded your hub to 100MB?
The problem is the same on a 100M hub, and using the old co-axial cabling with BNC 
connectors.

>What was wrong with the Intel EtherExpress 16?
I'm looking at a hardware upgrade, and may need a PCI network card instead of an 
ISA card.

>Also have you tried using the new card in the DOS workstation
rather than the server to see if the problem "reverses" ?
Yes, same problem. 

I will borrow a different PCI card from someone else in the office over the weekend and 
see if it is a chip/driver issue. Otherwise, I may go down in history as the last ( and first) 
in Oz to use Lantastic/2, and have to move to a Net server.

Thanks for the advice

Peter R

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From: "Paul Smedley" <paulsmedleyatone dot net dot au>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:58:27 +1100
Subject: [os2genau] Fwd: Problem with multiple Network cards

Hi Everyone,
Well I finally got cable internet installed today - WOOHOO! EXCEPT that I'm having a 
problem getting two network cards to co-exist in OS/2.  Of course, both network cards 
work fine in Windows.

My basic problem is that the two network cards are basically identical.  Although one is 
an SMC and one is an Accton, I believe that Accton owns SMC or Vice Versa.  The chip 
on both cards is based around some kind of licensed Realtek 8139 but is marked 
differently - the SMC being marked SMC and the Accton being marked MPX.  However, 
the chip is sufficiently different from the Realtek that the Realtek drivers won't load 
stating that no card can be found.

The Accton drivers trap in doscall1.dll on boot if the SMC and Accton cards are 
present, the SMC drivers bitch about not being about to find the card and talk about 
specifying BUSNO and DEVICENO in protocol.ini.  I did lookup these values using the 
dos setup.exe program supplied with the cards, but this would not help the SMC drivers 
find the card on bootup.

My basic question is - anyone have any success with the above cards or even the 
Realtek cards in quantities greater than 2 in the same machine.  If so, could they 
please email me their protocol.ini.  For instance, I'm unsure as to whether I need to 
specify the Ethernet Address of the card as well as the Device No and Bus No.

I really am stuck here - I'm going to try and get another PCI network card tomorrow so 
that I can get the LAN up and running, but any tips from you helpful people would be 
wonderful.

Thanks in advance.

Paul.

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From: "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:45:23 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Fwd: Problem with multiple Network cards

Hi Paul

>Hi Everyone,
>Well I finally got cable internet installed today - WOOHOO! EXCEPT that I'm having a 
>problem getting two network cards to co-exist in OS/2.  Of course, both network cards 
>work fine in Windows.

Have a look at

http://www.os2site dot com/sw/network/misc/twonics.html

>My basic question is - anyone have any success with the above cards or even the 
>Realtek cards in quantities greater than 2 in the same machine.  If so, could they 
>please email me their protocol.ini.  For instance, I'm unsure as to whether I need to 
>specify the Ethernet Address of the card as well as the Device No and Bus No.

Yes, I have one PC with two generic realtek cards, I think they are 8029's
though.

>I really am stuck here - I'm going to try and get another PCI network card tomorrow so 
>that I can get the LAN up and running, but any tips from you helpful people would be 
>wonderful.

It is easier with PCI, and two different chipset cards :-)


Cheers
Ian B Manners

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:20:50 -0500
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: [os2genau] setboot

Hi Daryl,

.... From the online help - setboot - examples:

setboot /B  shutdown file system buffers and caches and then
restarts the system

Ed.

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:28:54 +1000
From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Problem with multiple Network cards

Hi Paul,
If you're in Sydney & you get stuck, happy to come around & assist:
If I can't get your hardware to work on OS/2:- you're screwed!
I like Coopers Sparkling Ale.

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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:31:26 +1000
From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] setboot

Hi Ed,
Indicating, issueing setboot shouldn't have trashed my WPS:- go figure.

Ed Durrant wrote:
> 
> Hi Daryl,
> 
> ... From the online help - setboot - examples:
> 
> setboot /B  shutdown file system buffers and caches and then
> restarts the system
> 
> Ed.
> 
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