From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: VAX UNIX problem Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7583 Posted: Wed Jun 9 08:22:30 1982 Received: Thu Jun 10 01:17:29 1982 >From reece@NADC Wed Jun 9 08:23:08 1982 This is really for sdcsvax!philabs!jgc at Berkeley but I don't know how to reach him through ARPA. I would appreciate it if anyone knows the secret. -------------- Jim Constantine, We also run 4.1BSD on two vaxen. (4meg,2RM05,1DMAX,2DZ11). Our system runs fine and stays up almost indefinitely with no hand-holding. Any crashes that we do have tend to be readily explainable. We are runing essentially vanilla 4.1BSD. The above does not imply that we have never had a problem--quite the contrary. However, all serious problems of the nature you describe have always (eventually) been traced to hardware problems--usually intermittent. There are many features on the VAX which are used by either UNIX or VMS but not both and who knows what the diag- nostics use. Has the problem existed since you started running 4.1 or did it start happening suddenly? If you don't get any sympathy from your DEC service people, contact the UNIX group at DEC in New Hampshire. Jim Reece -------