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Changes To Monsanto-NQS 3.36.4

Academic Computing Services , University of Sheffield

Stuart Herbert S.Herbert@Sheffield.ac.uk

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Abstract

The University of Sheffield is supplying, and supporting, Monsanto NQS to UK Higher Educational sites as part of the New Technologies Initiative of JISC. This document contains a summary of changes for each new release of NQS.


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Changes


Introduction

This is a summary of the changes to Monsanto NQS as released by the Univesity of Sheffield.

We are most grateful for the contributions made by other individuals and/or organisations.


Version 3.36.4

Please note that the new, IRIX 6.0 stuff, has not been tested by me, simply because I don't have access to IRIX 6.

This release has successfully compiled and executed on Solaris 2.3 and Linux 1.1.53.

Stuart


IRIX 6.0 Support & ANSI Prototypes

Monsanto-NQS now compiles and runs on SGI's IRIX 6.0 release. As a side effect of this, all code now has ANSI-style declarations. Sites running SunOS 4 must either use `acc' or GNU's `gcc' compiler to compile NQS from now on.

> [ ] HPUX 
> [ ] IRIX 4 
> [ ] IRIX 5 
> [x] IRIX 6 
> [ ] LINUX 
> [ ] OSF/1 
> [ ] SOLARIS 2 
> [x] SUNOS 4 
> [ ] ULTRIX 
Dave Safford (d-safford@tamu.edu)


Processor Set Support

IRIX allows quite a variation in the configuration of its multiple processor hosts using the `pset' command. Support for processor sets is available for IRIX 6.0 right now, thanks to Dave - I'll make it available to IRIX 5 users once I've had the opportunity to test it.

> [ ] HPUX 
> [ ] IRIX 4 
> [ ] IRIX 5 
> [x] IRIX 6 
> [ ] LINUX 
> [ ] OSF/1 
> [ ] SOLARIS 2 
> [ ] SUNOS 4 
> [ ] ULTRIX 
Dave Safford (d-safford@tamu.edu)


qacct(1) Patched

The new `-m' switch of qacct can be used to show when a request was submitted. Temporary files are now created in /usr/adm, rather than /usr/tmp, before renaming.

> [x] HPUX 
> [x] IRIX 4 
> [x] IRIX 5 
> [x] IRIX 6 
> [x] LINUX 
> [x] OSF/1 
> [x] SOLARIS 2 
> [x] SUNOS 4 
> [x] ULTRIX 
John Roman (jrroma@beaker.monsanto.com)


Quota support fixed

The code which examined the file systems quota has been patched.

> [x] HPUX 
> [x] IRIX 4 
> [x] IRIX 5 
> [x] IRIX 6 
> [x] LINUX 
> [x] OSF/1 
> [x] SOLARIS 2 
> [x] SUNOS 4 
> [x ] ULTRIX 
John Roman (jrroma@beaker.monsanto.com)


Version 3.36.3


Bug In qacct(1)

An internal copying error in qacct(1) has been rectified.

> [x] HPUX 
> [x] IRIX 4 
> [x] IRIX 5 
> [x] LINUX 
> [x] OSF/1 
> [x] SOLARIS 2 
> [x] SUNOS 4 
> [x] ULTRIX 
Stuart, thanks to Michael Hamilton (hamiltom@ecnz.co.nz)


Version 3.36.2


New OS Supported : Linux

NQS now compiles and runs on Linux. Tested on Linux 1.1.54 with gcc v2.2.58, although I can't see any reason why it should not work on any standard Slackware distribution running a 1.0.x Linux kernel.

NOTE that because Linux lacks a plock() call, the NQS daemon cannot be locked in memory from qmgr(1m). Otherwise, all the functionality of NQS is available on Linux.

> [ ] HPUX 
> [ ] IRIX 4 
> [ ] IRIX 5 
> [x] LINUX 
> [ ] OSF/1 
> [ ] SOLARIS 2 
> [ ] SUNOS 4 
> [ ] ULTRIX 
Stuart, based on work by Dr. Karsten Steffens (karsten@kshome.ruhr.de)


Version 3.36.1


Compilation Problem

nqs_reqser.c has had two lines of code split into more lines to work around an apparent compiler problem on Solaris 2.3.

> [ ] HPUX 
> [ ] IRIX 4 
> [ ] IRIX 5 
> [ ] OSF/1 
> [x] SOLARIS 2 
> [ ] SUNOS 4 
> [ ] ULTRIX 
Stuart


Compilation Problem

The makefile has been altered to link against libnqs.a and libnmap.a using `-lnqs.a' and `-lnmap.a'.

> [x] HPUX 
> [x] IRIX 4 
> [x] IRIX 5 
> [x] OSF/1 
> [x] SOLARIS 2 
> [x] SUNOS 4 
> [x] ULTRIX 
Stuart


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