			      Reported Problems
				Monsanto-NQS


			 Academic Computing Services
			 The University of Sheffield


				Stuart Herbert
			 (S.Herbert@Sheffield.ac.uk)


	JISC, as part of its New Technologies Initiative, has funded the
	University of Sheffield to supply and support a freely-available
	batch processing system for UNIX to the UK Higher Educational
	community.


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	Contents
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1	Introduction

1.1	Introduction
1.2	Reporting Bugs

2	Reported Problems - January 1995

2.1	SunOS <-> AIX Routing Failure
2.2	Linux Compilation Failure
2.3	OSF/1 v2.0 Compilation Failure

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1	Introduction
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1.1	Introduction

	This is the formal ``bug-list'' for Monsanto-NQS, based on actual
	reports from the NQS user community.

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1.2	Reporting Bugs

	If you experience problems with Monsanto-NQS, please send a bug
	report to `NQS-Support@mailbase.ac.uk', with the following
	information :

	> Reported By : (Who you are, and who you work for)
	> Contact     : (Preferred email address)
	> Date        : (Today's date)
	>
	> NQS Version : (Which version of NQS are you using?)
	> Platforms   : (Which operating systems are experiencing the problem?)
	>
	> Description : (What is the problem?)
	> Solution    : (Do you have a solution?)

	Our dedicated staf (ie, me) will attempt to get back to you as soon
	as possible.  Normally, if your mail is received before 5pm GMT on a
	weekday, you should received a reply the same day.  Otherwise, I do
	my best to reply by the end of the following weekday.

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2	Reported Problems - January 1995
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2.1	SunOS <-> AIX Routing Failure

	> Reported by : David Hernaiz, University of Barcelona
	> Contact     : <sistemes@probeta.qui.ub.es>
	> Date        : Mon, 9 Jan 95
	>
	> NQS Version : Monsanto-NQS v3.36.0
	> Platforms   : AIX, SunOS 4
	>
	> Description : Requests sent from NQS node on SunOS 4 to NQS
	>	      : node on AIX results in the error message
	>	      : ``Request not to be routed. Request deleted''
	> Solution    : None as yet
	>
	> Comments so far :
	>
	>  Having looked at the logs, NQS is complaining that the pipeclient
	>  process cannot successfully read the nmap database.  I have
	>  traced the error propagation back apparently as far as the
	>  routine ``nmap_get_nam''.
	>
	>  Investigations continuing.

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2.2	Linux Compilation Failure

	> Reported by : Dan Rugotzke
	> Contact     : <rugotzke@nevada.edu>
	> Date        : Mon, 9 Jan 1995
	>
	> NQS Version : Monsanto-NQS v3.36.5
	> Platforms   : Slackware 2.0 distribution of Linux
	>
	> Description : ./src/lpserver.c failed to compile because the
	>	      : header file <sgtty.h> should be <bsd/sgtty.h>.
	> Solution    : None as yet
	>
	> Comments so far :
	>
	>  I have been unable to reproduce this problem.  The Linux Makefile
	>  already tells GCC to look in /usr/include/bsd for BSD header
	>  files.
	>
	>  No further action recommended.  If the problem is reported again,
	>  I'll take another look at it.

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2.3	OSF/1 v2.0 Compilation Failure

	> Reported by : Andrew Cormack
	> Contact     : <scoanc@thor.cf.ac.uk>
	> Date	      : Tue, 10 Jan 1995
	>
	> NQS Version : Monsanto-NQS v3.36.5
	> Platforms   : OSF/1 v2.0
	>
	> Description : Incomplete #if statement in ./lib/shoqbydesc.c
	>             : Massive complaints from the native compile about
	>             : the ANSI prototypes.
	> Solution    : Use Monsanto-NQS v3.36.6 or later
	>
	> Comments so far :
	>
	>  The problem with the #if statement was caused by my HPUX fixes in
	>  v3.36.5, and has been fixed in v3.36.6.
	>
	>  The prototypes one is more serious.  We added ANSI prototypes
	>  using `protoize', which really left quite a mess, imho.  Anyway,
	>  I understand that using the `-std1' switch with cc(1) works 
	>  around this, and I've added this to v3.36.6's Makefile.
	>
	>  Situation is being monitored - hopefully v3.36.6 fixes these
	>  problems.



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