[HECnet] RSTS/E started emitting "?EVTLOG (BLDNIC) -- %Integer error" messages

[Supratim Sanyal]

Yeah man hardcore it ! :)


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Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet


> On Nov 10, 2021, at 5:24 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Nov 10, 2021, at 5:11 PM, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net> wrote:
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>>> On 11/10/21 9:25 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
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>>> I see what's going on.
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>>> You have the original Evtlog.  That time stamp is from the logger, not FAL (it generates the event but the OS puts on the timestamp and evtlog processes it).  The 2034 date is what evtlog as shipped would do.  The patched version I created fixes it for dates after 2003.  But the fix is incomplete, it fails to handle Julian halfdate values with the upper bit set.
>> Thanks Paul, understood. I realized it's the logger after sending the email. I will patch RST101 with Tony's copy on DINGO. Thanks Tony too for hosting it. Anyway looks like it is limited to logger messages, RSTS/E itself happily stays on air.
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>> Off-topic - Paul, do you think DECnet/Python might be made to have a unique feature whereby I could do something like this from OpenVMS 7.3:
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>> MC NCP TELL PYRTR SHOW PAULSCOOLPING KARMA
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>> and get back
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>> Paul's Cool Ping Summary as of 10-NOV-2021 21:40:56
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>>    Node           State      Circuit     Next node
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>> 31.2 (KARMA)       Reachable  VDE-31      31.1023 (IMPRTR)
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>> or in the format CISCO repond:
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>> IMPRTR>ping decnet karma
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>> Type escape sequence to abort.
>> Sending 5, 100-byte DECnet echos to atg 0 area.node 31.2, timeout is 5 seconds:
>> !!!!!
>> Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 12/24/44 ms
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> It's tricky.  Naturally there isn't a standard NCP request, or NICE encoding for one, to ask for a Cisco DECNet ping message to be sent.  It would be easy enough to add such a thing as a system-specific operation.  But system specific operations are known only to that implementation.  There isn't any way to ask a VMS NCP to send a RSTS-specific operation request (such as "show objects"), nor any way to send a PyDECnet-specific operation.
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> It would be possible to come up with a crazy kludge to do this, for example a rule that a "loop node" command where the loop data length is 4242 means send a ping instead.
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>    paul
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