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Archive for July, 2012

Netware Debugger Monitor keystrokes

Posted by Bob Jonkman on 25th July 2012

Photo of a Novell Netware screen

Novell Netware 6.5

I dig out my notebook with the Netware Debugger Monitor instructions and keystrokes whenever I’m called in to work on a new (to me) Novell Netware server. Typically, there’s some kind of problem that needs more SysAdmin powers than those available through the ordinary Netware console screens, and the Netware Debugger Monitor is what gives a Netware System Administrator his superpowers. Sometimes it’s even possible to regain control of a hung server by using the Debugger Monitor. Thought I’d share:

Swap Screens
ALT+ESC
List of screens
CTRL+ESC
Alternate console
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+ESC
Shutdown prompt or the “Hung Console Menu”
CTRL+ALT+ESC
Entering the Netware Debugger Monitor
LSHIFT+RSHIFT+ALT+ESC

  • he — Help on expressions
  • hb — Help on breakpoints
  • h — Help
  • .h — Help on ‘dot’ commands
  • .a — Display abend reason
  • .c — Core Dump
  • .d — Display page entry map for current domain
  • .d address — Display page directory map for current domain
  • .l offset — Display linear address at page map offset
  • .lx — Display page offset and values
  • .m — Display names and addresses of NLMs
  • .p — Display process names and address
  • .p address — Display address as a process control block
  • .r — Display running process control block
  • .s — Display screen names and addresses
  • .s address — Display address as a screen structure
  • .sem — List all semaphores with waiting processes
  • .sem address — Display detailed semaphore inforation at address
  • .t — Toggle ‘Developer Option’ on or off
  • .v — Display version
  • b — Display breakpoints
  • bc number — Clear breakpoint number
  • bca — Clear all breakpoints
  • b= address — Set breakpoint at address
  • br= address — Set read or write breakpoint at address
  • bw= address — Set write breakpoint at address
  • c — Change memory
  • c entrypoint=hexdigits — Change bytes at entrypoint
  • d — Display memory at the current stack pointer
  • d address [length] — Display bytes at address for length bytes
  • dl [+offset] address [length] — Display linked list for length nodes with next node address at offset
  • f flag=value — Change flag to value. Valid flags: CF, AF, ZF, SF, IF, TF, PF, DF, or OF
  • g — Go (back to Operating System)
  • g breakaddress — Go, end at breakaddress
  • i[b|w|d] port — Input Byte, Word, or Doubleword from port
  • o[b|w|d] port=value — Output Byte, Word or Doubleword with value to port
  • n — Display symbol names and NLMs
  • n symbolname value — Create new symbolname with value
  • n-symbolname — Remove symbolname defined with n
  • p — Step through program code, skip calls
  • s or t — Step through program code, enter calls
  • q — Quit to DOS
  • r — Display registers and flags
  • u entrypoint [length] — See assembly code at entrypoint for length bytes
  • v — View screens
  • x — Exchange processor stack frames
  • z expression — Evaluate expression
  • ? entrypoint — Display reference to entrypoint
  • register= entrypoint — Set register to entrypoint. Example: EIP=CSleepUntilInterrupt will interrupt the last NLM called. Valid registers: EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, EBP, EIP, and EFL

See also the Novell Application Note The NetWare Internal Debugger. There’s more good information in the Novell TID 3193476: How to troubleshoot … an abended, unresponsive or crashed server.

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This article was inspired by Debian Administration: The magic sysreq options introduced.

Novell Class by mafketel used under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license.

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System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner

Posted by Bob Jonkman on 10th July 2012

Pictures are up!

300 new servers? By next Tuesday? Sure, no problem!

System Administrators install servers

System Administrator Appreciation Day falls on 27 July this year, a global celebration of System Administrators around the world. To see what System Administrators do, have a look at some of the systems they have to administer.

After the KWLUG meeting in July, Becky asked me where System Administrator Appreciation Day is being held. “It’s a global event”, I said, but Becky was hoping for something a bit more local. So we decided to have a System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner. What better way for System Administrators to celebrate than by treating ourselves to dinner?

If you can read this, thank a System Administrator

System Administrators maintain web sites

So, if you’re a System Administrator, married to one, or good friends come join us!

Friday, 27 July 2012 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
Egg Roll King Restaurant (map)
85 Courtland Avenue East 
Kitchener ON

Your computer ate all your files? I can fix that!

System Administrators make backups

If you’re planning on coming, let me know by e-mail or in the comments by Wednesday 25 July so that I can reserve enough seats and egg rolls for everyone.

–Bob & Becky

Event URL for SysAdminDay Dinner: https://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/2012/07/10/system-administrator-appreciation-day-dinner/

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Charming comment spam

Posted by Bob Jonkman on 6th July 2012

Smoke curls up

Genie in the bottle

This blog may not have many readers who leave comments, but it sure does have a lot of commenters who leave spam! Still, I make sure to go through the list of pending comments in case there’s a real one in there. Today, I came across one comment that was obviously spam, but charming with its fractured English and a punch line I hadn’t heard before:

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A houseman was walking on the beach harmonious day and he bring about a bottle half buried in the sand. He irrefutable to provide it. Stomach was a genie. The genie said,” I resolve agree to you three wishes and three wishes only.” The gentleman prospect there his beginning demand and decided, “I think I be deficient in 1 million dollars transferred to a Swiss bank account. POOF! Next he wished after a Ferrari red in color. POOF! There was the transport sitting in van of him. He asked in search his settled hanker, ” I wish I was irresistible to women.” POOF! He turned into a box of chocolates.

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