RE: [U2] Broadcasting messages

2007-07-06 Thread John Hester
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Pamela J Robbins > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:27 AM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] Broadcasting messages > > We use SecureCrt as a terminal emulator (VT100). You could t

RE: [U2] UV install - internal vs. external

2007-07-06 Thread John Jenkins
I'd recommend installing UniVerse on a static file system on each server independently. Your data files are on a mountable file system on the RAID or SAN. Safe / robust - and it would avoid some of the issues you may hit with the new UniVerse licensing model in 10.2. Please check whether you need

RE: [U2] OPEN FILENAME TO F.FILENAME ELSE STOP problem in a loop.

2007-07-06 Thread Jerry Banker
No, it looks like he is trying to assign a name to a variable and then using that variable to hold the opened file which is illegal in the language. It may be possible with literal equates but I doubt it. The reason for the data type error is because the variable F.NAME was already defined as the v

RE: [U2] Broadcasting messages

2007-07-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are on a *NIX environment, you can use the "write all" command. Logged on as root, it will send a message to any session. The down side is that it is not very pretty ... but it does get the message through. syntax: write all text text D -or- write all < /text_in_file.da HTH Robert >We

Re: [U2] Broadcasting messages

2007-07-06 Thread bradley . schrag
I know you said you've turned off unix messages, but we use a scripted 'wall' command. You can't specify where it shows up on the screen, but it's always in the bottom few lines. depending on how long the message text is. Brad Schrag InfoLease Development 651-205-3074 RiverBank / EP-MN-BGF The an

Re: [U2] Broadcasting messages

2007-07-06 Thread Pamela J Robbins
We use SecureCrt as a terminal emulator (VT100). Rod Hills wrote: Depends on what you have available. - If your users on on PC's, then you can use windows messaging system - If your users are running a terminal emulator, there are some that allow you to update the title line - If you are run

Re: [U2] OPEN FILENAME TO F.FILENAME ELSE STOP problem in a loop.

2007-07-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hi Dave, I'm not sure what is the purpose of lines 9 and 10 (assigning values to FILE.NAME and F.NAME). F.NAME can be undefined until the OPEN statement places the file descriptor into it. I know you cannot have a MV list

Re: [U2] Tony Jones/WA/QBE/Insurance is out of the office.

2007-07-06 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Sharcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes The US? Metric? Maybe in science but think back to the recent lost satellite that was caused by an error between standard and metric because metric was assumed by everyone except the vendor for a part. If the red on that ima

RE: [U2] Broadcasting messages

2007-07-06 Thread Mark Eastwood
Unix has the "wall" command to send a message to all terminals - but - I don't think you can position/format the message (and it's been many years since I used it). Mark --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials

2007-07-06 Thread Bill Haskett
David: No. I'm using UD instead of UV. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ward Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:15 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials Do you have the AllowNFS flag set or are y

RE: [U2] Broadcasting messages

2007-07-06 Thread Rod Hills
Depends on what you have available. - If your users on on PC's, then you can use windows messaging system - If your users are running a terminal emulator, there are some that allow you to update the title line - If you are running SB+ on top of UV or UD, then you can use the office send message

RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials

2007-07-06 Thread David Ward
Do you have the AllowNFS flag set or are you using uvnet? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:34 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials David: Because a UNC pa

[U2] Broadcasting messages

2007-07-06 Thread Pamela J Robbins
We want to send messages to the users when we need to shut the system down. We tried MESSAGE from Universe, but it displayed the message at the cursor position and doesn't refresh the screen. We've turned off UNIX messages because the users were getting all kinds of messages that were doing t

RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials

2007-07-06 Thread Bill Haskett
David: Because a UNC path doesn't work for me; even when I mapped it like: FTPFILE 001 DIR 002 \\ftpserver\ftproot\mydir 003 D_VOC Colin Alfke suggested I change it to: FTPFILE 001 DIR 002 \\ftpserver\E$\ftproot\mydir 003 D_VOC ...but this doesn't fully work. For instance, an sftp script ru

RE: [U2] UV install - internal vs. external

2007-07-06 Thread David Ward
To be sure, I would take a snapshot of the system before the install, then another after the install and do a diff on the to snaps. That should tell you the story. Like so. cd /;find . -print > /tmp/file_list_b4_uv_install Install Universe cd /;find . -print > /tmp/file_list_after_uv_inst

Re: [U2] Tony Jones/WA/QBE/Insurance is out of the office.

2007-07-06 Thread Moderator
Ron, That response, at least, injected something genuinely technical. END OF THREAD. - Moderator Ron Hutchings wrote: Maybe he should have said he would be out from 14430 to 14435. This is the u2 list after all. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubsc

[U2] OverQuoting, Subscribing, and Other Periodic Messages

2007-07-06 Thread Moderator
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RE: [U2] UV install - internal vs. external

2007-07-06 Thread Mike Pflugfelder
There are files at the root filesystem: /.uvhome /.unishared /.uvdlls The spooler typically installs into: /usr/spool/uv The spooler area could be moved elsewhere if you modify /uvconfig I think that might be it, including the files that start UV (/etc/inittab) or /etc/init.d depending on

[U2] UV install - internal vs. external

2007-07-06 Thread bpaige
As part of our DR configuration, our database is loaded on an external RAID array. We have the ability, should one server crash, to present the disks to other servers and be back up and running. The question has arisen as to whether we should do the same with UV itself. Currently, it is loaded o

RE: [U2] Tony Jones/WA/QBE/Insurance is out of the office.

2007-07-06 Thread Ron Hutchings
Maybe he should have said he would be out from 14430 to 14435. This is the u2 list after all. __ From: "Ron Sharcott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To: Subject: RE: [U2] T

RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials

2007-07-06 Thread David Ward
Why not just replace the drive mapping with a UNC path? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Youngman Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 7:04 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials Ouch !!! I can tell yo

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-06 Thread Jerry Banker
This is one of many reasons to do all reading and writing to the database by using subroutines built on the database. -Original Message- From: Hona, David S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:49 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPA

RE: [U2] UD Phantom Credentials

2007-07-06 Thread Anthony Youngman
Ouch !!! I can tell you WHAT is happening. How you solve it is a policy issue, not a technical issue. Basically, drive mappings are system-wide, not user-related. If you have multiple processes/users all wanting their own unique drive mappings, sorry it's not going to happen! We had this exact p

[U2] RE: U2 Users Digest V1 #1733

2007-07-06 Thread Susan Joslyn
[SJ] Thanks to everyone for the answers about creating files on Universe. I needed the syntax in both flavors (didn't even realize they were different) and now I'm all set. This is such a great list! Susan Joslyn --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please vi

[U2] UD Phantom Credentials

2007-07-06 Thread Bill Haskett
We run a main phantom that spawns off (EXECUTEs) other phantoms based on items in a "service" configuration file. This program wakes up every minute, scans the service file for anything that needs to be run this minute, EXECUTEs a phantom to run the configured command, then goes back to sleep fo

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? {Unclassified}

2007-07-06 Thread Brian Leach
Better still... The U2UG are launching a Wiki "Real Soon Now" (we've already got it on the site, we're getting user feedback on the one we've chosen). There are a couple of annoyances though, so we're not done with the final decision. However An article on different ways of doing backups would