[HECnet] VMS question

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-08-11 00:42, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-08-11 00:38, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2015-08-11 00:34, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-10 16:33, Mark Wickens wrote:
>>>> This any good?
>>>>
>>>> simvax::dsa3:[media..patches.openvms_patches.vax.v7_3]dec-vaxvms-tcpip_eco-v0503-184-4.pcsi-dcx_vaxexe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sucked it down. Definitely sounds like it should be the thing.
>>> However, how do I install it. PRODUCT INSTALL do not see it.
>>> If I rename it to end in just .PCSI, PDOCUCT INSTALL is still
>>> unimpressed, and exits with an error.
>>> Is it compressed or encoded somehow? What should I do with it?
>>
>> Never mind. It was an executable which extracts the compressed file
>> included...
>
> And darned... That was just the patches. I need the base V5.3 as well...

Found and installed.

> (Speaking of which, I bet there are other updates and patches I should
> probably also install. How do one check which patches one have
> installed, and how do I find out which ones I should install?)

Still interested in answers to this one.

	Johnny

>
>      Johnny
>
>>
>>      Johnny
>>
>>>
>>>      Johnny
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Mark.
>>>>
>>>> On 10/08/15 15:25, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-08-10 15:23, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>>>> On 2015-08-10 15:18, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>>>>>    Where the TCP/IP logs go depends on which TCP/IP implementation
>>>>>>> you're
>>>>>>> running.  Many system logs go to SYSTEM's home directory,
>>>>>>> sys$sysroot:[sysgmgr].  If you do a "purge *.log" there, that's a
>>>>>>> quick
>>>>>>> way to free up some space in an emergency.  You're losing log data
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> way, of course, so it's a last resort, but it could get you up and
>>>>>>> running.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The standard TCPIP from DEC. I forgot to say that it's running OVMS
>>>>>> 7.3.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ tcpip
>>>>>> TCPIP> sho ver
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS VAX Version V5.1
>>>>>>    on a VAX 7000-720 running OpenVMS V7.3
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TCPIP>
>>>>>
>>>>> Doh! I was just pointed to
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/xNVuDTj2X-E, which
>>>>> tells me that this is a known problem in V5.1 of TCPIP, which are
>>>>> fixed in V5.3. Anyone knows where I could find V5.3?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Johnny
>>>>>
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